Cof C Rejects Plan For Local Subscribed Debentures
The Chamber of Commerce said local businessmen rejected a proposed subscription drive by Service Products Co of Kansas City to fund a planned move to Cha nute. The plan required a $20,000 subordinated debenture sale and a $30,000 Small Business Administration loan, with Sobol directing operations and a new power mower muffler project in development.
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Chamber of Commerce
Kansas City
Chamber
Small Business Administration
Service Products Co
Haskell Sobol
Sobol
Chanute
United Fund Second Half Paid Agencies
The second half payment to Chanute's United Fund agencies for 1964-65 totals 10 453 09 and is held in an interest earning bank account. First half was issued Jan 1. 1965-66 quotas include Red Cross United Cerebral Palsy Salvation Army Mental Health Boy Scouts Girl Scouts Kansas Children's League plus expenses and reserve fund totaling 22 460 38. Kick-off drive set for October 25.
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Chanute
United Fund
Bill Young
Board of Education
Young
Red Cross
United Cerebral Palsy
Salvation Army
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Kansas Children's League
Floyd Potter
Career gal gives nine commandments for working women
An intercepted letter to Cha outlines nine working woman commandments with a suggestion a tenth relates to the baby boom. The note, signed Yours, frames workplace conduct and social shifts amid postwar changes.
Full House Backs Continuity Plan For Presidency
The House approved by voice vote a proposed constitutional amendment to ensure continuity in the presidency and vice presidency, detailing disability provisions, transfer of power, and a process for filling the vice presidency upon nomination and confirmation.
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Washington
House
Swift Senate
John F. Kennedy
Congress
Senate
Mothers with Baseball Bats Patrol Franz Park
A group of 30 mothers armed with baseball bats patrolled Franz Park in St. Louis after vandalism surged. Police increased monitoring as park workers replaced damaged swings and counselors reported harassment by a youth group. The effort aims to restore peace in the predominantly white southwest neighborhood.
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ST. Louis
Little Franz Park
Pat Feilner
Franz Park
Man Injured In crash near Chanute
Vic tor F. Petruzzelli of Overland Park was admitted to Neosho Memorial Hospital after his car collided with a semi truck six miles south of Chanute on US 169. He suffered chest pain and the car was a total loss. An ambulance from Thayer aided the injures.
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Overland Park
Victor F. Petruzzelli
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Here
Highway Patrol
Petruzzelli
Chanute
US 169
Thayer
Traffic Fatalities Log in Topeka Sees 54 Deaths in June
Kansas traffic death log shows 54 fatalities for June, 1965 totals reach 289 since January 1, compared with 299 for the comparable 1964 period and 289 for 1965 through Wednesday.
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Topeka
Kansas
Engle Soars 53 Miles High to Earn Astronaut Wings
Kansas native Joe Engle, 32, flew to over 50 miles altitude and 3 477 mph in the X15 to earn astronaut wings. He reached 282 000 feet and described vivid colors above the horizon while testing infrared and ultraviolet measurements. Engle’s flight and recognition underscore U S aerospace milestones.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Joe Engle
Chapman
Kan
Air Force
Engle
San Francisco
Baja
California
Eugene M. Zuckert
United States
Seventh Air Force
Viet Cong Attack Fails To Overpower Saigon Defenses
In Vietnam a large government force near Cheo Reo Pleiku faced a reinforced Viet Cong assault. An infantry unit was surrounded but linked with two airborne battalions from a three unit task force. Command posts faced danger yet radio contact was reestablished and no casualties were reported. Aerial strikes totaled 34 sorties.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
U.S
Cheo Reo
Pleiku
Women are broader than men on average across seating
A Public Health Service survey of almost 7,000 adults ages 18 to 79 finds women average 1.44 inches broader across seating than men. The study, released Tuesday, aims to guide design of equipment for safe and comfortable use in commerce industry military and medical fields.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Weather Today Temperatures and Forecast Highlights
Today at 1 p.m. high and low for this date shown with past records. Area forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with scattered showers or thunderstorms into Thursday. Locally heavy rains tonight and a cooler night with temps around 70. High Thursday near 95.
Stormy Kansas weather brings showers and damage reports
Stormy weather buffeted Kansas overnight and again today with more showers expected through Thursday. A frontal system lingered in the central plains as temperatures cooled slightly. Rain and hail with winds were reported in Beloit Atchison Kansas City Topeka and Rossville with tree damage in Topeka Ellis and Leavenworth.
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Topeka
Kansas
Central Plains
Beloit
Atchison
Kansas City
Rossville
Ellis and
Leavenworth
Living Cost Index Rises Again in May Across U S
The Labor Department reports a three-tenths of a percent rise in May, taking the consumer price index to 109.6 a new peak. Food costs, especially meat and vegetables, drive the gain with weather and supply factors noted. About 194,000 workers tied to the index will see pay increases based on the May rise.
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Washington
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Summer Band Concert Set at Central Park Glen Peak
The first of five summer band concerts begins tomorrow at 7 30 p m at Central Park Glen Peak directed by the summer bands chief. The junior high band will play marches spirituals popular and semi popular tunes with a children's chorus as an added feature. Terrye Lassman leads the community singing. Future concerts include Adult band on July 5 15 and 29 at 8 p m and a Grade school junior high band event on July 22 at 7 30 p m.
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Central Park
Glen Peak
Terrye Lassman
Bigger Baby Boom Is on the Way
The National Education Association reports a coming surge of births from the postwar era and projects 4.5 million births this year and up to 5.2 million by 1970. The NEA warns of more classrooms, teachers, and taxes as more children begin schooling, with continued classroom shortages and longer school years.
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New York
U.S. Census Bureau
United States
Census Bureau
NEA
Nine Commandments for Women in Business Advice
Miss Jo Foxworth outlined nine ethics for women pursuing executive roles at the Advertising Federation of America convention. The rules urge effort, restraint in speech, propriety, supportive leadership, humility after success, careful language, and separating office life from personal conduct.
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Boston
Jo Foxworth
Advertising Federation of America
Advertising Women of
New York
Calkins and Holden
Break-in at Burlington Mfg Co Loots Cigarettes and Cash
Burlington Mfg Co plant at 111 West 3rd reported break-in at 7 a.m. by plant manager Don Hampton. A cigarette machine was pried open and cash and cigarettes stolen. A plant office window was broken but no office contents were taken. Entry gained via drain pipe and an upstairs window.
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Burlington Mfg. Co
W. 3Rd
Don Hampton
Labette OKs Jaco Plan Enlarge Labette County Junior College
Voters in Labette County approved expanding the district to a county wide basis by 4390 to 452. Parsons Junior College, operating as a city college for 42 years, would have faced changes if the proposal failed. The Parsons School District lacked enough assessed valuation to meet the new state law requirements for a Kansas junior college system with increased state aid.
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Parsons, Kan
Labette County
Parsons Junior College
Parsons School
Kansas
Stock Market Surges Ahead on brisk trading
In New York the stock market advanced after a volatile session. Brokers cited more buying by institutions and funds while small investors remained cautious. By noon the Dow traded up 13.50 to 864.90 and the AP 60-stock average rose 3.6 to 315.5.
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New York
Associated Press
Topeka Man Die in North of City Two-Truck Crash
An AP report states Topeka resident Robert M. Boye, 32, died Tuesday from injuries in a two-truck collision ten miles north of Topeka. He was pinned in his pickup and died before hospital arrival.
Candy Like Cracker Balls Spark Explosive Danger
In the United States authorities are seizing cracker balls tiny pellets that explode when bitten. The brightly colored pellets about three eighths of an inch in diameter resemble candy and have caused at least one child’s death and nine oral injuries nationwide.
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New York
Massachu
Setts
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Murray Hill
Eddie
David German
S. Larson
Thelma Manning
John Guffey
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Dickinson County
Marvin Poland
Geary County
University of Kansas
Ray E. Lawrence
Prairie Village
Viet Cong
Johnny
Miss Foxworth
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