North Vietnam Hits U S Marines Hard
North Vietnamese troops attacked two U S Marine companies and shelled long range U S artillery south of the demilitarized zone. U S spokesmen cited heavy casualties for a Marine unit and 475 mortar barrages aimed at 175 mm guns. Near the Cambodian border, U S forces reported killing 26 enemy troops in sharp engagements along the coast.
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Saigon
U.S. Arine
Mari A Cay
North
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
U.S
Six Mile Zone
South China Seacoast
Art Center Plan For Kansas State University
A $500,000 art center is planned for the Kansas State University campus. The Kansas State Art Center foundation is led by John Brink as president and John F. Helm as executive director. Seventeen Kansas architects artists and friends of art organize the effort with a spring fundraising drive and seeking grants from foundations and federal sources.
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Manhattan
Kan
Kansas State University
Kansas State Art Center
Kansas
Friends of Art
John Brink
John F. Helm
Reduced Withholding Action to Be Speedy
Kansas Republicans endorsed swift passage of a bill to cut state withholding on the Kansas income tax from 15 to 10 percent of the federal amount. Speaker John Conard said the vote showed near unanimity in support of the Senate-approved measure.
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Topeka
House
Kansas
John Conard
Parking Meter Recovered After Teen Plotted Theft
Police report a meter pulled from Highland near Elm and loaded into a car. Officers found a teen driver and two more teens at a nearby house prying the unit with a hammer and screwdriver. All three were released to families pending further action.
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Highland Near
Elm
Tribune Delivery Warning and Contact Pointer
If the Tribune is not delivered contact the carrier or call after 6 p.m. at HE 1 3400 for reachability. The notice directs customers to report undelivered issues and use the after hours dial number for locating the carrier or arranging service.
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Tribune
George Butler Files For City Commission
George Butler of 408 S. Ashby has filed as a candidate for city commissioner. He is the third candidate to file, joining Herman Fehr and Dean Sutcliffe in the commission race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Butler
S. Ashby
Butler
Commission
Herman Fehr
Dean Sutcliffe
Weather Warms Kansas with Unseasonable Forecast
The Area Forecast predicts fair and warm weather in Kansas for 48 hours. Highs near 70s across the state with lows around 32 to 40, southerly winds and thin cloudiness. February precipitation totaled 0.17 inch, and sunrise is at 6 54 with sunset at 6 15.
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Topeka
Weather Bureau
Kansas
Sweet old woman seeks SIU student pen pal
A classified ad from the Daily Egyptian at Southern Illinois University asks a SIU student to correspond with a sweet elderly woman. She prefers a male resident in a small group housing, about six feet tall with brown eyes and initials JDB, signed His Mother.
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Carbondale, Ill
Daily
Southern Illinois University
Southern Illinois
JDB
Senate kills fair housing bill in Topeka
The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee killed a fair housing bill 8-3. An earlier motion to recommen d passage failed 7-4. The measure would ban racial discrimination in sale or rental of homes and in financing by brokers banks and insurers, with homeowners unaffected.
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Topeka
Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee
Robert Docking
Legislative Council
McDonald Named Head of Kansas State Revenue Dept
James T. McDonald a 47 year old analyst at the University of Kansas Governmental Research Center was named to lead the State Department of Revenue. He succeeds Dr Leonard Axe whose resignation takes effect Tuesday. McDonald will earn 13000 dollars annually while directing tax collection and enforcement.
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Topeka
James T. McDonald
Governmental Research Center
University of Kansas
State Department of Revenue
McDonald
Leonard Axe
Robert Docking
Axe
Docking
Neosho County Juco bonds sold at 3.66 percent bid
The Fourth National Bank and Trust Co of Wichita won a 3000000? No, 300000 issue of Neosho County Junior College general obligation bonds at 3.66 percent. The sale also noted earlier financings totaling 1250000 with initial voter approval of 1550000 in 1965.
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Fourth National Bank and Trust Company of
Wichita
Neosho County
Stern Brothers and Company
Docking turnpike plan targets self liquidating roads
Gov. Docking proposed toll roads only where surveys show self liquidating gains. The plan includes Kansas City to Galena and Wichita to the Oklahoma line with a Tulsa link, plus later Wichita to Hays and Baxter Springs to Wichita.
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Topeka
Robert Docking
Administration
Terry Scanlon
State Department of Administration
House Roads and Highways Committee
Scanlon
Kansas City
Galena
Wichita
Hays
Baxter Springs
Ralph Skoog
Benefit Hike Urged In Social Security
President Johnson seeks major Social Security boosts aimed at lifting about five million elderly people out of poverty. Gardner told Congress the plan includes at least a 15 percent rise in retirement payments, with larger increases for the lowest incomes, benefiting roughly 1.5 billion in cash benefits for those over 65 below the poverty line.
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Washington
Johnson
Welfare
John W. Gardner
Congress
Gardner
House
Ways and Means Committee
Ramsey Clark named attorney general spark for court vacancy
Washington AP Ramsey Clark is named attorney general prompting a Supreme Court vacancy as Justice Tom C Clark plans to retire by midyear to avoid conflicts. The younger Clark faces Senate quick approval with strong backing from three senators led by Edward Kennedy.
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Washington
Ramsey Clark
Johnson
Supreme Court
Clark
Tom C. Clark
Senate
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Harry S. Truman
Nicholas Katzenbach
Senate Judiciary Committee
Committee
Turnpike Backed Near Governor's Hometown Ark City
Fifty years after county fathers faced accused road building, the governor now backs a turnpike near his hometown Ark City. The note references political shift and local infrastructure plans tied to Ark City and state leadership.
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Ark City
Portland State students paint crosswalk. officials sought lights
About 50 PSU students painted a crosswalk across Broadway near their dormitory in downtown Portland. Ron Campbell, dormitory president, said he and others asked city traffic engineers for three months to install lights and a crosswalk. Commissioner Bowes warned someone at the school would be in trouble soon.
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Portland
Ore
Portland State College
Ron Campbell
William Bowes
Public Works
Driver Charged After Collision Near Walnut and Evergreen
Police charged Francis Plucknett, patient at Southeast Kansas Tuberculosis Hospital, with leaving the scene after his car damaged Eddie Chapman's vehicle at 410 N. Steuben near Walnut and Evergreen last night. Officers traced the license and identified the involved car through its plate.
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Francis Plucknett
Southeast Kansas
Walnut
Evergreen
Plucknett
Eddie Chapman
N. Steuben
Traffic Fatalities Log For Topeka March 1967 Toll
Kansas traffic death log summarizes fatalities for a 24 hour period ending 9 am Wednesday in Topeka. The report compares March fatalities with prior years 1966 and 1967, noting a change from the 86 deaths recorded in 1966.
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Topeka
Kansas
Army Medic Refuses Food to Protest War Policies
Tacoma. A 22-year-old Army medic PFC Robert Levy of Kansas City began a total fast Monday in protest of military violence. Levy, Orthodox Jewish, said he would starve rather than serve in the Army, continuing as of Tuesday in great pain and refusing all liquids or food at Ft Lewis. He enlisted 18 months ago for three years and extended to attend a clinical specialist school.
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Tacoma
Wash
William L. Hanson
Robert Levy
Kansas City
Levy
Army
Medical Corps
Ft. Lewis
Neosho county offers final days for free chest X rays
The Kansas State Board of Health mobile unit concludes a weeklong survey in Neosho county at the Memorial building tonight and tomorrow. X rays reported total 3634 with Chanute leading at 2356. other towns, Stark 152 Erie 500 St. Paul 296 Galesburg 157 Thayer 173. The program, funded by Christmas Seal funds, seeks TB and disease detection.
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Neosho County
Kansas State Board of Health
Memorial Building
D. A. Finney
Chanute
Stark
Erie
St. Paul
Galesburg
Thayer
Don Sailors
Clark Flem
State Highway Building
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Kathy Ferguson
Sam Barnhart
Chanute High School
Kathy
Reva Ferguson
S. Central
U. S
Zone C
Junction City
Kansas State
His
Fair Housing
U. S. Treasury
Norman E. Gaar
Shawnee Mission
Treasury
Gaar
Juco
Commerce Trust Company of
College
Joe F. Balch
Board of Education
Balch
City National Bank and Trust Company
Commerce Trust Company
George K. Baum and Company
Oklahoma
Tulsa
Arkansas City
Kansas Highway Authority
Kansas Highway Commission
Dal. W. Whitaker
Hutchinson
Kansas City - Galena
Wichita- Baxter Springs
Wichita- Hays
House Parks and Memorials Committee
Manuel Perez
Wellington
National Campers and Hikers Association
Lynn Burris
Kansas Park Authority
George Bell
No Bell
the Treasury
Stanley S. Surrey
Justice Clark
High Court
William
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Ing, Louise Carter
Georgia Younger
Kenneth George
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