Kennedy Urges Billion Dollar Recreation Land Purchases
President Kennedy urged Congress to create a land conservation fund with 800 million to 1 billion dollars over eight years to acquire recreational areas nationwide. Funds would come from park user fees, motorboat tax rebates, and surplus land sales, with Treasury advances up to 500 million. Conferences, matching grants, and open space aid were also proposed.
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13 Year Program To Remake Kansas U Campus
A 13 year plan from the University of Kansas planning council aims to remake the Lawrence campus to support 21 000 students by 1975. The plan includes Fraser Hall replacement ten new buildings four additions renovations and space consolidation. Funding must come from the Kansas Legislature and the Board of Regents approval before starting. first step is Fraser Hall replacement in 1963.
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Kimball Area Community Haps Include Church Dinner and Visits
Kimball area notes report Mrs Bud Marnell and family hosting a church supper in Kimball with Erie guests and area families. Many residents and visitors shared weekend visits, Sunday dinners, and church activities at Kimball EUB and nearby towns. 4 H Club members practiced during 4 H week, and local students took tests in Erie while attending Fertilizer Conference events.
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Willard Allen
Ethel Owen
Ronald Olson
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Kimball
Bud Marnell
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Ternoon
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Paul Cook
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Valed
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George Adolfs
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Juanita Allen
Darrel Hull
Lonnie Ott
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Sky Cruisers Like Cars on Roads Predict Sky Travel
In congressional testimony on Wednesday astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. foresaw future space travel where people cruise the skies as they drive cars today. He noted spacecraft far more powerful than Friendship 7 will be needed, allowing a spaceman to steer by curiosity and move between orbits like a sky automobile. He added that man will take his rightful place in space.
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Globe
Former Patrolman Completes Sentence in Chariton
Former highway patrolman Robert H. Wilke, 31, to be released Friday after a 60 day term for a hoax claim of kidnapping. He admitted spending the weekend in a Sioux City motel with Nancy Grubbs, 49, of Chariton. Charges of embezzlement were reduced to neglect of duty. Grubbs served 60 days for malicious injury to state property. Wilke now works at a Chariton grain elevator.
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Iowa
Robert H. Wilke
Wilke
Sioux City
Nancy Grubbs
Plant Pays 450 Workers With $2 Bills for Anniversary
Frankfort Kentucky executives of Union Underwear Co plan to pay 450 employees Friday with $2 bills to mark the companys 30th anniversary. Plant manager Joseph Medalie says the gesture shows how an industry benefits the local economy as the $2 bills circulate into stores.
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Frankfort, Ky
Joseph Medalie
Union Underwear Co
Wynn ing smile at Sox spring training hints at milestone
Early Wynn, a 42 year old Chicago White Sox pitcher, smiles while displaying his knuckleball at the Sox spring training camp in Sarasota Florida. He owns 292 victories and hopes to reach 300 this season.
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Rusk Invites 2000 Editors to Foreign Policy Briefing
Secretary of State Dean Rusk has invited 2,000 American editors and TV radio broadcasters to a two day foreign policy briefing in which President Kennedy will participate. The conference opens March 26 with officials announcing the event.
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