Bearded Actor and Lynda Johnson Attend Gay Ball in Los Angeles
Bearded actor George Hamilton and Lynda Bird Johnson dazzled at the Costume Designer's Guild dinner dance in Century Plaza Hotel Los Angeles. Hamilton received best dressed American male entertainer award while Lynda Johnson attended with him amid charity fundraising for National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation.
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Los Angeles
George Hamilton
Lynda Bird Johnson
Hamilton
Abraham Lincoln
Lynda Bird
Magnificent Century Plaza Hotel
National
Barbara Parkins
Fred Astaire
Cary Grant
Gabby Hayes
A Power For TVA
The Tennessee Valley Authority selected atomic power as more economical than coal. It awarded General Electric a 122.7 million contract to build two 1.1 million kilowatt nuclear generators at Browns Ferry near Decatur Alabama. Initial nuclear fuel costs are estimated at 66 million with the first unit expected to operate in 1970.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
Browns Ferry
Tennessee River
Decatur
North
Alabama
TVA
General Electric Co
Aubrey J. Wagner
Caution For Hopes Of Freeway In Tornado City
Topeka officials cautioned residents not to expect a traffic freeway after the June tornado. Mayor Charles Wright warned against building false hope and noted federal funds were not definite. Gov. Avery said funds unlikely and urban renewal money might be the only route if any.
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Topeka
Charles Wright
Washington
Wright
William H. Avery
Avery
Marchers heading to final leg of 100 mile trek
About 100 demonstrators, mostly Negro teenagers, rode in cars to the north edge of Lawton Oklahoma and prepared to walk the final lap of their 100 mile march from Oklahoma City. They planned to pass Elmer Thomas Park and proceed toward a privately owned amusement park that bars Negroes.
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Lawton
Okla
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Elmer Thomas Park
Intercepted Letter Warns Dear Cha About Poison Ivy
An intercepted note to Dear Cha warns readers spending a weekend at a southeast Kansas resort to drive carefully avoid sunburn and beware poison ivy while enjoying the outing with a personal sign-off.
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Kansas
Break-in at Sportsman's Bowl Sees $100 Stolen
Cash from nine coin operated machines valued at about $100 vanished after closing at Sportsman's Bowl 104 N. Allen. Two bowling balls and bags missing. Entry gained by prying front door. Several machines damaged. Police and sheriff investigated.
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N. Allen
Sheriff’s Office
Kansas Traffic Death Log June 1966 Topeka Figures
A report lists Kansas traffic fatalities for the 24 hours ending 9 a.m. Saturday in June 1966. Comparable figures for June 1965 show 268 deaths versus 277 in 1966. The note includes Tribune contact details for readers seeking further information.
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Topeka
Kansas
Raborn resigns as CIA director told by Johnson
President Johnson announced the resignation of Adm William F Raborn as CIA director and named deputy Richard Helms as his successor. The move, disclosed at a prearranged White House news conference, marked a surprise personnel change amid internal CIA unhappiness. Johnson defended continued Vietnam policy and signaled tougher US military action while expressing hope for an honorable peace in Vietnam.
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Washington
Johnson
Adm
William F. Raborn
Central Intelligence Agency
Richard Helms
Oval Office
Raborn
Arizona teacher spots car thief at Kansas City game
Dean L Maughan, a Mesa Arizona teacher in a University of Kansas summer course, saw Frank Moulder who is wanted for grand theft after taking a car in Mesa. Both men were taken to police headquarters and Moulder was jailed awaiting further action.
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Kansas City
Arizona
Municipal Stadium
Mesa
Ariz
Dean L. Maughan
University of Kansas
Maughan
Frank Moulder
Ball Park
Moulder
Long Lunar Night Threatens Surveyor 1 on Moon
Scientists at Jet Propulsion Laboratory worry Surveyor 1 may not survive the two week long lunar night. The night began Tuesday and will run through June 29.
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Pasadena
Calif
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Saigon Buddhist Institute Sealed After Police Killings
In Saigon a crowd of about 150 antigovernment protesters swarmed the Buddhist Institute after a policeman was shot and killed. Troops and riot police were ordered to shoot at fleeing protesters as a girl self immolated in protest and four people were detained including a man in monk robes.
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Robert D. Hman
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Pound
Dao Thi Tuyet
Buddhist Institute
Phan Huu Tran
Nguyen Cao Ky
Pleasant Kansas weekend weather with scattered showers
Partly cloudy conditions warm into the weekend with a low near 60 tonight and highs in the 80s Sunday. Scattered thundershowers possible tonight and Sunday, 10 to 20 percent chances. Topeka area notes generally pleasant conditions with light showers possible in western Kansas spreading statewide Sunday.
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COGN
Cbs
Topeka
Kansas
Tech School Policy Plan Aims for Unified Technical Education
A subcommittee was formed at El Dorado to recommend policy and cooperation in technical education. The group brings together six agencies including the Kansas Public Junior College Association Schilling Technical Institute and the state advisory and vocational bodies to promote unified educational effort and broader access to technical training.
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EL Dorado
Kan
Kansas
Kansas Public Junior College Association
The
Junior College Association
Schilling Technical Institute
State Junior College Advisory Committee
Kansas Legislative Council
Office
State Director of Vocational Education
State Vocational Board
Covered Wagon Stalls In Heavy Traffic
A team of horses pulled a covered wagon about 200 miles from Brooks Maine to the outskirts of Boston for Brooks 150th anniversary. Drivers Merle Goff 72 and Herbert Ryan 67 began the 14 day trek from their hometown established in 1816 during Gov. John Brooks administration. The final 15 miles were completed by trucks due to traffic.
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Boston
Brooks
Maine
Merle Goff
Herbert Ryan
Massachusetts
John Brooks
Defense to deploy seven satellites for Viet Nam links
The Defense Department will begin relaying military commands to Viet Nam via seven space satellites 21 000 miles up by late summer. Launch from Cape Kennedy on an Air Force Titan rocket was reported successful with signals timed at 20 25 seconds. Officials expect a Viet Nam receiver terminal by summer end and say the system will handle vital U S defense traffic while remaining jam resistant and coded.
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Washington
Defense Department
Viet Nam
Earth
Defense Communications
Cape Kennedy
Air Force Titan
Air Force
Harold Brown
U. S
Brown
Pentagon
Panther Boosters Are $3 Richer
Neosho Junior College Panther Booster Club gained $3 from Congressman Joe Skubitz after a campus fundraiser. Sophomores Barbara Jacobs and Anne Sale appeared in a Tribune photo selling eggs for the drive, raising $16.80 by sophomores and $18.20 by freshmen. The faculty added $28, bringing the total to $66.
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Panther
Neosho Junior College
Joe Skubitz
the Tribune
Barbara Jacobs
Anne Sale
Miss Jacobs
Congressman Shubitz
All-Out Effort to Solve Space Snags
NASA will intensify Gemini investigations after Gemini 9 shortfalls. Gemini 10 11 12 flights planned with rendezvous targets and space walks to gain essential Apollo data. Cernan and Stafford reported issues including a fogged visor and tether problems.
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Seamans
Navy
James A. Lovell Jr
Air Force
Edwin E. Aldrin Jr
Thomas P. Stafford
Cmdr
Eugene A. Cernan
Car Crashes Result in Failing to Yield Charge
Police cited Ronald Schomaker, 16, of Yates Center R. 1 for failing to yield after a collision at Cherry and Lafayette around 1 25 p m. His 1963 Oldsmobile struck a 1957 Buick driven by James C. Phillips, 18, of 228 W 5th. Damage listed to the Olds right front. A second wreck at 118 E Main involved Irah M Byers, 29, and Clarence Cleaver, 71, with $15 and $50 damage respectively.
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Ronald Schomaker
Yates Center
R. 1
Cherry
Lafayette
Schomaker
James C. Phillips
Irah M. Byers
Clarence Cleaver
E. Main
Byers
Cleaver
Wheelchair Driver Pleads Guilty in Buffalo
Ralph A. Miller, 71, of Providence Rhode Island pleaded guilty to drunkenness and related charges after police said he drove a wheelchair down Main Street causing cars to swerve. Judge Ann T Mikell ordered examination at a hospital after the arrest on Thursday night. The disabled veteran said he was on a bus stopover en route to Detroit.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Ralph A. Miller
Providence
R.I
Miller
Ann T. Mikell
Detroit
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