Busy District 413 board hammers plans for new Junior High
March meeting covers move into the new Junior High School classrooms next Monday with a pre inspection and Friday acceptance. Board approves contracts for new teachers and a blanket personnel reemployment. Salary increases total about 10 175 and Title I and II reductions affect books and library materials. Discussions include Rural School closure, land purchase, and Billy Graham crusade sponsorship.
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District 413 Board of Education
Jerry Steele
Buford Fisher
Steele
Kansas
Robert Ward
Chanute
Royster Field
Billy Graham
Iola
Erie
Buffalo
Mildred Turner
Junior
Janie Dennis
Special Services
Dessie Aiken
Roosevelt
Ethel Allen
Lincoln
Decia Parker
Rural
Geneva Lockyear
Murray Hill
Ernest Roe
Hutton
Jackie Hilton
Humboldt
William Noland
Cherokee
Charlotte Olson
St. Francis
Neosho County Juco board OKs progress and finances
Neosho County Community Junior College trustees approved progress on the new campus construction including pier adjustments after geologists found missing rock strata. They adopted a $300000 general revenue bond plan, reviewed bond earnings, and authorized use of the fieldhouse by District 413 with land donation. Retirements of Pankratz Penner and Staltz aged staff were approved for extended duties.
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Neosho County
Tion
Jerry Steele
Buford Fisher
C. H. Pankratz
Eden Penner
Martha Staltz
Pankratz
Mystery Deepens Over Climbing Party On Mt McKinley
In Talkeetna Alaska AP reports a garbled radio message from climbers attempting a winter ascent of Mt McKinley provides no detail on injuries or summit. Two climbers were at 10 000 feet with two at base camp 8250 feet and three others unaccounted for. Don Sheldon tried but was turned back by 100 mph winds.
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Talkeetna
Alaska
Mt. McKinley
Don Sheldon
McKinley Park
Wildcat Strike Hits Fisher Body Plant in Mansfield Ohio
Early morning picketing idled a General Motors Fisher Body plant in Mansfield as United Auto Workers officials protested the strike behind a near 200000 worker layoffs tied to a monthold industry shutdown. UAW leaders urged workers to return, while pickets dispersed by midmorning and most production remained halted.
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Mansfield
Ohio
General Motors
United Auto Workers
Tom C. Gibson
Fisher Body
Sweat Priced At 436 Dollars Per Quart In Space Research
Los Angeles AP reports Garrett Ai Research pays $436 per quart for human sweat used to study microorganisms in spacecraft life support. Subjects wear rubber suits on a treadmill for three hours to produce sweat which is captured, cooled, condensed, sterilized, frozen and shipped to space labs. Overweight volunteers are preferred for higher sweat yield.
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Los Angeles
Garrett-Ai-Research
AiResearch
Space Laboratory
Hoffa Taken to Prison for Eight Year Term
James R. Hoffa, president of the Teamsters Union, left Washington around 11 a.m. for the federal prison at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania to begin serving an eight year sentence for jury tampering. He surrendered to U.S. Marshal Luke Moore and was escorted by deputies before being driven to the prison. Hoffa maintained the 1964 conviction was part of a long conspiracy to imprison him.
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Teamsters Union
James R. Hoffa
Washington
Lewisburg
Hoffa
U.S
Luke Moore
Moore
Eight Year Old Boy Struck by Car in School Area
An 8 year old boy was struck by a car near Lincoln school about 3 40 p m yesterday but appears not injured. Donald Allen of 301 N Lafayette was examined at Neosho Memorial Hospital and released. The car was driven by Donald E Hancock of 1203 S Evergreen.
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Lincoln School
Donald Allen
N. Lafayette
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Donald E. Hancock
S. Evergreen
Tribune Contact Lead For Phone Reachability
Help readers reach Tribune by telephone if normal lines fail. Call your carrier and try HE 1 3400 after 6 p m.
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Tribune
Marathon at Humboldt Set for March 25
Humboldt Kansas prepares for the second annual Missouri Valley AAU championship marathon sponsored by the Humboldt Chamber of Commerce and the Humboldt Jaycees. The 13 mile course runs east of Humboldt and back on an asphalt secondary highway. Officials expect a large field including runners who have competed in the Boston Marathon.
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Humboldt, Kan
Humboldt Chamber of Commerce
The
Humboldt Jaycees
Humboldt
Docking Recommends Funds for Vet Building at KSU
Gov. Docking proposes $110,000 from the general revenue fund to prepare final plans and specifications for the first wing of a new veterinary science building at Kansas State University and two additions to the existing veterinary hospital. The request is sent in a letter to Senate and House Ways and Means chairs and the budget director.
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Joe F. Balch
Topeka
Robert Docking
Kansas State University
Docking
Senate
House
Ways and Means
General Revenue Fund
Veterinary Hospital
Train collision injures over 100 in Boston snowstorm
In Boston a elevated train struck a waiting train at a station during a heavy snowstorm injuring more than 100. Most injuries were minor with 55 taken to Massachusetts General Hospital and 41 to Boston City Hospital. Ambulances and witnesses described chaotic scenes as brakes failed to stop the impact.
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Boston
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston City
Cold Front Sweeps Kansas With Snowfall Sighted
A late winter cold blast moves through Kansas triggering Weather Bureau cold wave warnings for today and tonight. Low temps range from 7 at Goodland to 29 at Pittsburg with light snow in the northwest. Clearing expected to spread across the state by evening as colder air lingers.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Goodland
Pittsburg
UFO Sighting Reported Near Olpe and Emporia
The Stevenson family of Olpe reported seeing an unidentified flying object between 8 and 8:30 p.m. Monday NE of Olpe, a description matching earlier reports from Emporia police and local witnesses. The object, seen by Peggy Stevenson and others, appeared circular then cone shaped with reddish orange and blue green lights before vanishing. Sheriff Duncan was notified.
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Emporia
Kan
Delbert Stevenson
Olpe
Youth Held in double murder of two 14 year olds in Rockford
Rockford authorities charged 17 year old John Wesley Williams Jr. with murder for the execution style killings of cousins Ronald Johnson and Wayne Mullendere, both 14, at Levings Park. A rifle with a homemade silencer was recovered at Williams home, while a pistol linked to his father is still missing. Williams had earlier been acquitted of a prior sniper wound case.
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Rockford, Ill
Rockford
John Wesley Williams Jr
Williams
Herbert Brown
Ronald Johnson
Wayne Mullendere
Levings Park
Nick Licari
Linda
Winnebago County
John Ghent
Circuit Court
Oil Firms Fined for Price Fixing in Asphalt Sales
Nine oil companies pleaded no contest to conspiring to fix asphalt prices sold to Kansas. They were fined a total of 280000 dollars, with 30 days to pay. Individual officers avoided prison terms as only firms were indicted. Largest fines were 40000 dollars for American Oil Co. and Phillips Petroleum Co. Wilshire Oil Co. pled not guilty and faces trial in May.
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Kansas City
Kan
Kansas
American Oil Co
Chicago
Phillips Petroleum Co
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Mobile Oil Corp
New York
Skelly Oil Co
Tulsa
American Petrofina of
Texas
Dallas
Apco Oil Corp
Oklahoma City
Farm Land Industries Inc
Consumers Cooperative Association
Wilshire Oil Co. of
U.S. District Court
Arthur J. Stanley
Shelling Near DMZ Harms Marines as 500 Rounds Hit Camp Carroll
Communist mortars pounded Camp Carroll, south of the DMZ, firing 500 shells in three attacks. Six Marines died and 15 were wounded, while U S 175 mm guns remained undamaged. U S spokesmen counted 14 Americans killed and 44 wounded over two days with 61 enemy dead. Ground clashes continued as Marine and Cavalry units engaged Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces.
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Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
U.S
Camp Carrol
North Vietnam
U.S. 1St Cavalry
Binh Dinh
Winter Storm Sweeps East with Heavy Snow and Flooding
The Associated Press reports a major winter storm delivering up to seven inches of snow in six hours across the East. Flooding from heavy rainfall displaced hundreds in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Virginia, with one death and two missing.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Virginia
Alabama
Boston
Bedford
Mass
Peterborough
N.H
Albany
N.Y
Scranton
Allentown
Weather Bureau
New York State
New England
Panhandle
Williamson
Ohio Valley
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha
An intercepted letter to Cha mentions a March lamb turning lionish suggesting a playful or coded message. The fragmentary text hints at a seasonal or symbolic shift without clear context or names beyond Cha.
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Cha
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J. Walter Green
Robert Stanley
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