Four-County Notes Highlight Blizzard Rescue and Local Heroes
Dwight Wallingford recalls a Leon blizzard rescue with Vernie Steele and five women, compares it to Ralph Beeson’s Garden City trip, notes 72 strangers sheltered in Leon, and lists local graduates and highway fatality trends in 1970 71. Also reports Bill Elliott’s sow delivering 25 piglets with 23 surviving.
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Vernie Steele
Kansas
Leon
K96
Steele
Lewis Searses
Lila Mee
Julia Carter
Imelda Adlegren
Gladys Beck
Chanute
Arkansas City
Augusta
Searses
Sears
Ralph ‘“Skinney
Beeson
Garden City
Cleora
Cimarron
Oliver Lindquist
Ruby Marhasen
Lee Weeks
Forrest Koerting
Allen County
Allen
Wilson
Woodson
Connally touts food as best bargain amid rising wholesale prices
Treasury Secretary Connally argues food remains a bargain despite a 2.6 percent February rise in wholesale prices for farm and processed foods. He warns price moves depend on supply and demand while noting unemployment fell to 5.8 percent in February.
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Washington
Treasury
John B. Connally
America
Connally
Nixon
Six Primaries Set In Area Tuesday
Six primary elections will be held in area towns and school districts Tuesday. Humboldt residents vote for mayor from three candidates and two council seats from six. Altoona, Neosho County and nearby districts also hold primaries with multiple candidates for mayor and school board positions. Polls run 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. General elections are April 6.
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Humboldt
Altoona
Neosho County
Board of Education
Altoona-Midway
Ralph Baxley
Fred Hartwig
Baxley
Humboldt High School
Scott O. Mann
Western Auto Store
Iola High School
Baker University
Baldwin
Mann
Carl D. Autry
Autry
Bill Hansen
George Houghton
Community Interdenominational Church
Chanute High School
Houghton
James L. Timmons
del Rey Company
Fredonia
Timmons
Fredonia High School
Timmonses
Erie
Thayer
Galesburg
Old Legion Hall
St. Paul
Fellowship
The
Methodist Church
Stark
J. Robert Townsend
Allien County Planning Board
Townsend
William H. Autry
Arkansas
Glenn L. Doepke
R. Humboldt
Chanute
William D. Ellison
Allen County
Perry
Woodson County
Ellison
Humboldt School Board
Barbara A. Noah
Parent - Teachers Organization
Husband
Weather snapshot and weekend forecast
Today's 10 am high 35 and low 32 with yesterday at 65/37. Forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy Sunday with a teens low and highs in the 30s. Relative humidity 75 percent, barometer 28.99, sunrise 6 47, sunset 6 20. Precipitation measured as Toda inch yesterday .05 inch.
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Toda
Care series on Chanute day care kicks off in Tribune
Jane Blades writes a four part series on whether Chanute provides sufficient day care. The first installment begins Monday in The Tribune.
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Chanute
Jane Blades
the Tribune
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha
A cryptic intercepted note reads Dear Cha stating food is a bargain only when unavailable. The fragment hints at a private communication or spoofed letter with no clear names or context.
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Cha
Claims Supervisor Admits Embezzlement
Charles R. McGhee a 45 year old former claims supervisor for the Farmers Alliance Mutual Insurance Co of McPherson admitted embezzling more than 77000. He pled guilty in district court to two counts of embezzlement and two counts of forgery. Judge Sam Sturm sentenced him to 3 to 10 years on each count to run concurrently and released him on five years probation.
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Mcpherson
Kan
Charles R. McGhee
Farmers Alliance Mutual Insurance Co
McGhee
Sam Sturm
Kansas House to probe western farm labor plight
A resolution will be introduced in the Kansas Legislature to establish joint hearings on the conditions of Mexican American and other farm laborers in western Kansas. Sponsor Rep. Ervin Grant and Rep. Bert Chaney expect hearings in Garden City or Ulysses between April 15 and May 15.
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Topeka
Kansas
Manuel D. Fierro
Kansas Human Needs Corp
House
Ervin Grant
R-El Dorado
Bert Chaney
D-Hutchinson
Health and Public Welfare
Education
Garden City
Ulysses
Grant
Viet forces seize Sepone and disrupt Ho Chi Minh Trail network
South Vietnamese troops with American air and gunship support moved into Sepone in Laos and cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail network around the town. A Vietnamese spokesman reported the operation as part of ongoing border actions amid the Vietnam War.
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Saigon
Sepone
Trans-Alaska pipeline faces new Department and Army Corps criticisms
Washington reports a fresh setback for the proposed trans-Alaska pipeline as the Defense Department voices adverse comments and the Army Corps of Engineers levels sharper criticism.
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Washington
Defense Department
Army Corps of Engineers
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Dwight Wallingford
South Seas
Eldon Penner
N. Western
Forrest Sales
Marquette
Arthur Carlson
Neosho
Lance
NCCJC
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Carlson
Bob
Alvina) Angles
Matt
Arthena) Massoth
Leavenworth
Charles Leroy Carlson
Kansas City
Arthur David Carlson
Bill Elliott
Neodesha
Elliott
Humboldt Cubs
Cherryvale
Tribune
Night
Cub
Cindy Purdom
Didates
Gale Mullen
Kansas State University
Mullen
Pittsburg State
Erie High School
KSU
Marjorie Howard
R. 1
Erie High
Bill Robertson
Neosho County Junior College
Thayer High School
Robertsons
Robertson
Francis E. Grosdidier
St. Paul High School
St. Benedict's College
Atchison
Yours
West Kansas
Catle
Fierro
News Digest
Ft, Benning, Ga
William L. Calley Jr
My Lai
Ankara
Turkey
U.S
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
United Nations, N.Y
U Thant
Israel
Occupied
United
New York
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
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