Pay Boost Okayed For Teachers Here
Chanute board approves revised salary schedule boosting teacher pay by about 41 000 overall. Minimum bachelor salary rises to 4 000. Masters to 4 200. top end to 5 400 after eight years. Additional raises for coaches and after school staff. 21 teachers may exceed 300 extra. Four new elementary teachers hired for next year. two resignations accepted.
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Chanute
Board of Education
Chanute Teachers Assn
Supt
Buford Fisher
Fisher
Raymond Bell
Chanute Jaco
Pittsburg State College
Opal Moss
Osawatomie
Mary King
Pittsburg State
Laura Warren
Murray Hill
Betty Campbell
Royster Junior High
Miss Campbell
Emporia State College
Cresenz I. Owens
Grace Boman
Bernice Akers
Howard Jester
Ethel Davidson
Hazel Russell
Cecil Pankratz
Lee Embry
Carl Brenner
Sterner and
McDowell
Chanute Junior College
Dell Reed
Paul Parsons
Royster
Nora Knight
Desks Sought for Centennial Committee Headquarters
The Centennial Committee seeks four desks for the new headquarters at 116 E Main. Co chairmen Mrs Ed Peterson and Jim Lightfoot urge business owners with unused desks to lend them now for use through June. Walter L McVey says he introduced a bill to designate Fort Scott Kansas as a national memorial.
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Ed Peterson
Jim Lightfoot
Centennial Committee
Lightfoot
Walter L. McVey
The
Tribune
Washington Today
U.S
House of Representatives
Secretary of Interior
Fort Scott
Kansas
Ten Dollars Stolen in Break-in at Taxi Office
The ME Summers Taxi Co. office at 302 FE Main was broken into last night with about $10 taken from the money drawer. It was the second break-in reported in 24 hours and one of two in the county. A small Elks Lake building entry yielded two cases of shotgun shells. An elevator at South Mound was entered with $5 or $6 taken. A Hudson oil station window was broken with nothing missing.
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ME. Summers Taxi Co
302
FE. Main
Elks Lake
Elks
South Mound
Sheriff's Office
Hudson Filly
S. Santa Fe
Broadwell Elected President of Rotary
Charles Broadwell was elected president of the Chanute Rotary Club at a board meeting yesterday noon. He moves up from vice president and will take office July 1, replacing retiring president Richard Willis. Floyd Naff becomes vice president and Howard Jester is re-elected secretary-treasurer.
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Charles Broadwell
Chanute
Federal Judge Stays Execution For Andrews
Lowell Lee Andrews youth remains on death row after a federal judge granted a stay to allow a habeas corpus hearing. The March 16 hearing in Kansas City will consider due process claims and attorney access. Gov. Anderson had refused clemency earlier.
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Lansing
Kan
Lowell Lee Andrews
Arthur Stanley
Kansas City
John Anderson
Topeka
Andrews
Stanley
Buford E. Braly
Federal Court Building
Kansas State Prison
Braly
Joseph Satten
Menninger Clinic
Anderson
Justice of the Peace Court
Harry Hayward
Hayward
Richard C. Allen
Washburn University Law School
Three Youths Sentenced for Burglary and Larceny
Willie Ornelas 20 of Kansas City Louie Ornelas 17 Chanute and Terry Pittser 16 Chanute pleaded guilty to second degree burglary and larceny in district court. They were sentenced to terms in the state reformatory Hutchinson with parole hearings to follow. Five tires were taken from Montgomery Ward auto Store on February 4 and later recovered. The sentences run concurrently with minimum five and maximum 10 years for burglary and up to five years for larceny.
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State Reformatory
Hutchinson
Willie Ornelas
Kansas City
Louie Ornelas
Chanute
Terry Pittser
Montgomery Ward
S. Evergreen
Traffic Fatalities in Topeka March 1961-75 Review
Kansas traffic death log reports 24 hour period to 9 am during March shows figures from 1961 to 1975. The comparable 1960 period recorded 67 fatalities.
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Topeka
Kansas
Gas Can Explosion Fatal to Russell Boy
In Russell a five gallon gasoline can exploded injuring two children after they returned from kindergarten. Larry Busch died six hours later from third degree burns over 85 percent of his body. John Dolezal remained in critical condition with burns covering 65 percent.
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Russell Boy
Russell
Larry Busch
Carl Busch
Busch Home
John Dolezal
Wayne Dolezal
Russell Hospital
Church Ransacked but Nothing Missing in Henderson
The Green Valley Baptist Association headquarters in Henderson Kentucky was ransacked on the first locked-doors visit, drawers opened but nothing stolen. In London doctors treat Elizabeth Taylor amid critical pneumonia, with her condition described as improving slightly but still perilous.
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Henderson
Green Valley Baptist Association
London
Tom
Francis
Elizabeth Taylor
Suzanne Cardozo
Elizabeth Taylor in London Hospital Battle Over Pneumonia
Lord Evans attended the doctors conference as Elizabeth Taylor fights pneumonia at the London Clinic. Her parents Mr and Mrs Francis Taylor stay by her bedside while a six‑doctor medical team reports improvement amid grave overall status. Eddie Fisher remains at her side as a tracheotomy and electronic lung support sustain the actress.
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Lord Evans
Miss Taylor's Hospital
London
Francis Taylor
Miss Taylor
Beauty
Eddie Fisher
Robert Beaver
X15 Rocket Reaches Record Speed in Warmup Flight
Edwards Air Force Base California reports Maj Bob White piloting an X15 to an estimated 2,650 mph in a desert test heats. The craft carried nose heat indicators through color changes as temperatures neared 700 degrees with engine thrust reduced to about two thirds of max.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Air Force
Bob White
Jackie Due Home From Palm Beach Vacation
Mrs. John F. Kennedy is expected to return to the White House on Wednesday after a weeklong vacation with friends in Palm Beach Florida.
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Washington
John F. Kennedy
White House
Palm Beach
Fla
Postal Rate Hike Asked by Postmaster General Day
CHICAGO AP Postmaster General J Edward Day said the department will ask Congress to raise first class mail rates from 4 to 5 cents and airmail rates from 7 to 8 cents.
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Chicago
J. Edward Day
Congress
Primary election set for March 21 for school board seats
Filing for seven candidates includes Bob Ward and Bill Gray Jr joining the race for the school board with others like Dallce Rush Harold R. Williams and Tom Morehead. Unexpired terms and regular terms are in contention with a Friday 5 p.m. deadline.
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Boards of Education
Bob Ward
S. Highland
Bill Gray Jr
S. Tennessee
Ward
Gray
Sunshine Mantle Co
Dallce Rush
Harold R. Williams
H. P. Lehrack
Tom Morehead
W. J. Althaiber
Carl Tribble
Oldest Traveling Salesman Breaks Hip in Fall
Delbert T. Walker, 93, Kansas' oldest active traveling salesman, fell while exiting a car near a Pittsburg printing plant and broke his hip. He is hospitalized as six city commission candidates file for two regular terms.
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Pittsburg
Delbert T. Walker
Kansas
Lell
Tae
Persistence and Wimbledon Glory in Althea Gibson's Path
In a reflective piece Althea Gibson recalls the 1957 Wimbledon win as a milestone for Black athletes, credits coach Sydney Llewellyn for teaching persistence, and emphasizes taking one step at a time to conquer enormity, with the moment deserving broad admiration.
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Althea
Sydney
Fire Department Reports February Loss and Runs
Chanute reports February fire loss at 500 dollars bringing the year total to 1 175 with January at 675. The department made 15 runs last month, two more than February 1960, including Tioga township three and Danville two grass fires three and several other calls.
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Chanute
C. W. Brennan
Tioga
Danville
Wilson County
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Contracts drop for defense work owed to small firms
President Edwards announces a news conference at Edwards Air Force Base not live on radio or television. Sen. Clair Engle says defense contracts to small business have fallen eight percent over the last six years. The event is to be held Wednesday at 3 p.m. EST.
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Washington
President Edwards Air Force Base
Kennedy
Twin brothers attempt suicide at Los Angeles lake
Edgar and Alvin Cohn, 56, moved from New York to Los Angeles seeking new lives. After eight months of unemployment and dwindling savings they tried to drown themselves in a park lake but walked out alive. A police officer rescued them and took them to a mission for food and shelter.
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Los Angeles
Edgar
Alvin Cohn
New York City
Park Lake
Alvin
Union
House GOP approves $373000 in essential items
In Topeka the House Republicans endorsed 373 675 in essential items above Governor Anderson’s budget during a closed caucus. They deferred action on a Wichita University transfer bill awaiting State Affairs hearings and did not discuss tax or mileage changes.
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Topeka
House Republicans
John Anderson
Wichita University
William Mitchell
Hutchinson
Wichita
House State Affairs Committee
Senate
Mitchell
Legislative
Topeka State Hospital
Geary
State Historical Society
Eisenhower
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
House
Khrushchev Invites Thompson to Siberia Meeting
Premier Khrushchev invites U S ambassador Llewellyn Thompson to travel to Siberia for a personal message from President Kennedy. Officials say Thompson will fly Wednesday, likely to Novosibirsk for talks on improving Soviet American relations. This marks the first ambassadorial visit of its kind to meet Khrushchev outside Moscow.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
U.S
Llewellyn Thompson
Siberia
Kennedy
Thompson
Novosibirsk
Richard M. Nixon
United States
Soviet Union
Weather forecast for Kansas turns colder with clearing
The Weather Bureau expects a fast-moving low pressure system across Kansas today bringing showers and thunderstorms followed by much colder air. Rain and sleet were reported in western Kansas with snow and freezing drizzle in the northwest, while southeast Kansas saw early showers. Clearing is forecast tonight with continued cooling tomorrow.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Wamego
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