Gold Fever Grips New Lode Natives of Nome
In Nome Alaska children search the streets under a repaired Front Street walkway for coins lost over years after a concrete path replaced the old boards. In Saigon engineers detonate a booby trapped football rigged with a 105mm shell. Kansas Governor Docking becomes regional commission cochairman at the Ozarks meeting. discussions include a toll road from Kansas City to the Gulf. Bonny the monkey orbits 30 days in space after Delta launch as brain sensors guide future astronaut care.
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Wichita
Kansas
Robert Docking
Ozarks Regional
Stewart
Kansas City
Gulf of Mexico
Canadian DC8 Lands After Engine Failure at Shannon
Happy Landing in Shannon as a chartered DC8 with 260 aboard from London to Toronto suffers a starboard engine burst tearing two holes and blowing off an engine cover. Passengers cheer as RAF escorts guide the jet to Shannon. fuel dumped en route.
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Shannon
Ireland
London
Toronto
Royal Air Force
Iceland
Azores
Viet Cong Threat Prompts Silent US Comment
A Viet Cong radio broadcast warned of "inescapable revenge" for U S prisoner deaths in South Vietnam. It alleged 100 comrades were murdered on June 19 in Tay Ninh City with others beaten, shot, or disappeared from prisons in Saigon and district jails.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Tay Ninh City
Tan Hiep Hoa
Chi Hoa
Tay Ninh
Eight Drownings Reported In Kansas Weekend Incidents
The Associated Press notes eight drownings across Kansas over the weekend. Victims include William H. Morgan and his son William 10 in Augusta area, Harold R. Porter and his son Bruce, plus Wayman Harman, Fred Wordleman, Chester Bliss, Joe Sheldon, and Roger Nelson in various pools, reservoirs, and rivers.
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Associated Press
Kansas
Wichita
Walnut River
Augusta
Wiliam H. Morgan
William
Harold R. Porter
Federal Land Bank of Wichita
Porter
Bruce
Wayman Harman
Cheney Reservoir
Fred M. Wordleman
Dodge City
Chester Bliss
Burrton
Kane
Kanopolis
Joe R. Sheldon
Mulvane
Roger Nelson
Overland Park
Break-in at Neosho Junior College Chemistry Lab
Neosho Junior College officials and police investigated a weekend break-in in the sciences building chemistry lab. A southeast window was broken with a rock, a door storage room hole cut with a hatchet, and three chemicals Mamamide solvent cinnamaldehyde and acetyl chloride taken, though no drug or explosive manufacture links were found.
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Neosho Junior College
Sciences
Russell Kern
Kern
Weather Warning for Kansas and Missouri region tornado watch issued
Area forecast calls for considerable cloudiness with showers and thunderstorms tonight and Tuesday morning, then fair Tuesday afternoon. Temperatures will be a bit cooler Tuesday. Precipitation probability 70 percent tonight, 30 percent Tuesday. Tornado watch from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. CDT covers south central to eastern Kansas, most of Missouri and parts of Oklahoma with threat along a line from 20 miles south of Wichita to Jefferson City. Severe thunderstorms with large hail and damaging winds are forecast.
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Kansas City
Weather Bureau
Kansas
West Central
Missouri
North Central
Oklahoma
Wichita
Kan
Jefferson City
State Role Weighed In Federal System
The Midwestern Governor's Conference opened with Gov. Warren Knowles of Wisconsin arguing that states must reclaim their role in the federal system. He cited decades of federal dominance and preemption of revenue sources, urging a balanced partnership as Kansas Gov. Robert Docking backed block grants under the 1968 crime control act to boost state responsiveness and freedom from rigid guidelines.
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Wichita, Kan
Warren P. Knowles
Wisconsin
Knowles
Robert Docking
Kansas
Docking
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Congress
Air Force delivers rare globulin to sick Omaha girl
A mercy flight from Scott Air Force Base carried immune globulin to Omaha for Susie Sutherlin, a 3 year old with a severe reaction to smallpox vaccine. Doctors reported blistered skin and rash, and said the condition is unusual and the outcome uncertain.
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Omaha, Neb
Strategic Air Command
Scott Air Force Base
Belleville
Ill
Dennis Walsh
Offutt Air Force Base
SAC
Air Force
Omaha
Intercepted Letter References University Break‑in and Vaccine
An intercepted letter notes a college break‑in and comments on the burglar’s care with chemicals. It mentions Dr. Paul Mooring coordinating arrangements at University Hospital and initial contacts to obtain the vaccine.
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Paul Mooring
University Hospital
Tornado Touches Down Near Kirksville Missouri
A tornado struck south of Kirksville injuring at least six as it destroyed 15 mobile homes at Crest Haven Mobile Park and ripped the roof off a newly built home occupied by the Duane Pratte family. The storm moved into Kirksville then eastern Missouri, causing scattered damage and downed trees and lines. Rescue units aided residents in the early morning hours.
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Kirksville
Crest Haven
Duane Pratte
Pratte
Missouri
Weather Bureau
Maryville
Kansas Gas Tax Hike and 1969 Legislation Take Effect
Kansas motorists face a two cent per gallon gas tax increase as many 1969 laws become effective Tuesday. The package includes the new criminal code with abortion provisions, consumer rights on unordered merchandise, expanded school funding, extra highway patrol troopers, private club guest fees removal, fishing provisions for nonresidents, merchant credit rate rules, port authorities, public defender funding, new divorce grounds, real property assessment changes, scuba diving regulation, and a revamped Animal Health Board.
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Topeka
Kansas
Lance Burr
Animal Health Board
Kansas Livestock Sanitary and Brand Commissions
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New Lode
Nome
Alaska
Front Street
U.S. Army
Gov
Dewey Bartlett
E. L. Stewart
Commission
Arkansas
Bonny
Washington
Thailand
Cape Kennedy
Space Agency
Bonn
Benny
Happy Landing
Tribune
Susie
Charles Ginsburg
University of Nebraska Hospital
Susie Sutherlin
Ernest Sutherlin
Colorado
The
Red Cross
Cha
Burr
Kansas Highway Patrol
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