Panters clinch regional title with 90-87 OT win
Neosho County Community Junior College Panthers upset Coffeyville Red Ravens 90-87 in overtime to earn a state playoff berth. Captain Walter Hawkins accepted the trophy as players and fans celebrated on the Chanute floor. Brandon led late rally. Samuel, Parks, Martin, Pierson and Kirkwood supported. Hutchinson’s 89-76 win over Dodge City sets NCCJC up for a best two of three series in Hutchinson with games Saturday and Monday.
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Neosho County Community Junior College
Panthers
Coffeyville
Wendell McMurray
Tribune
Berm Snart
Lyle Rutter
Harold Turner
Mike Samuel
David Ibbetson
Walter Hawkins
Chris Kirkwood
Dave Martin
Joe Parks
Chuck Pierson
Skip Brandon
Coffeyville Red Ravens
Brandon
Panther
Hutchinson
Chanute
Hawkins
Raven
Hope for 21 Salt Miners in Louisiana Shaft Rescue
Two rescue experts descended 1200 feet in a makeshift elevator to reach 21 miners trapped for 30 hours in a salt mine near Calumet Louisiana. They reported some oxygen, a diesel motor running, and a faint red glow suggesting a small fire. The outcome remained uncertain as teams prepared for further down-and-up runs with communication attempts planned.
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Calumet, la
F. Clayton Tonnamaker
Cargill, Inc
Cargill
Weather outlook with mild temperatures and light rain
Area forecast calls for considerable cloudiness and mild air through Friday with occasional light rain. Southerly winds 10 to 20 mph. High Friday near 40. Precipitation prob 30 percent tonight and Friday. In Topeka the Weather Bureau expects unseasonably warm temps with scattered rain across most of the state tonight. Wednesday highs ranged from 66 at Hill City to 43 at Liberal.
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Topeka
Weather Bureau
Hill City
Leavenworth and
Olathe
Liberal
Dodge City
Extradition Demand Grows Over Czech General Defection
Vienna AP reports Czechoslovakia seeks the extradition of Maj. Gen. Jan Sejna who defected to the United States with his son and his son's fiancée. Prague cites a mutual extradition treaty as the basis and notes potential resignations of defense and interior ministers amid army Communist committee pressure. Washington confirms Sejna's defection.
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Vienna
Cechoslovakia
United States
CTK
Foreign Ministry
Czechoslovakia
Washington
Jan Sejna
Sejia
Defense
Interior
Communists
Sejna
Intercepted Letter About Missing 1968 Dog Licenses
Intercepted note from a sender to Cha notes many dogs failing to display their 1968 license tags. The letter cites noncompliance with licensing rules and urges attention to tag display.
Near Record U.S. War Casualties Reported in Vietnam
Saigon AP reports that 542 Americans were killed in the previous week, a near record, with 24 killed in ground fighting and 48 presumed dead in a C123 crash near Khe Sanh. U.S. and Viet Cong losses are tallied, alongside air strikes near Hanoi Haiphong and updated enemy casualty figures.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
U.s.marine Combat
Khe
U.S. Navy
Hanoi
Haiphong
Vietnam
Speed-Up Bills Move Through Kansas Legislature
The Kansas Legislature completed action on measures to accelerate the new session and define emergency powers. Bills sent to Gov. Docking cover early start for members elect, party caucus leadership, and governor lieutenant governor emergency authority. A separate conference agreement would elect the State Board of Education nonpartisanly under a 1966 constitutional amendment. A third proposal would replace capital punishment with a noncommutable life sentence with broadcast coverage allowed for deterrence.
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Topeka
Kansas
Robert Docking
House
Senate
Kansas Senate
State Board of Education
L. Claude Bell
R-Mcdonald
Board of Education
Fatal Crash Near Great Bend Claims Two Drivers
George W. Ross 64 of Scott City died in a two car collision about 2 1/2 miles east of Rush Center on Kansas 96. His wife Margar et Ross 59 endured serious injuries and was hospitalized. The other driver Larry Miller 28 of La Crosse sustained minor injuries. Both vehicles were demolished.
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Great Bend
Kan
George W. Ross
Scott City
Rush Center
Kansas
Ross
Margaret
Larry Miller
la Crosse
Last Run Sunday for Oil Flyer Trains No 47 and 48
Trainmaster Les Lawrence said the Oil Flyer trains No 47 Kansas City to Tulsa and No 48 Tulsa to Kansas City will be discontinued under ICC authorization. No 47 will end Sunday at 3 10 a m in Chanute and No 48 final run will be Saturday at 7 15 p m. Jobs of Chanute workers are affected but local residence remains protected. Trains 211 and 212 the Tulsan will stay in service for at least one year until March 1 1969 under ICC ruling.
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Santa Fe
Oil Flyer
Chanute
Les Lawrence
Interstate Commerce Commission
Kansas City
Tulsa
Lawrence
the Tulsan
ICC
Dr Julia Deming a Freud associate dies at 76
Dr Julia Deming a native of Oswego Kansas and associate of Sigmund Freud while in Vienna in 1931 died at her Philadelphia home at age 76 She was detained by Nazi authorities seven years after her Vienna arrival was released three weeks later and remained in Europe to aid Freud and his daughter Her career included time at Philadelphia General Hospital and the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston.
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Philadelphia
Julia Deming
Sigmund Freud
Deming
Oswego
Kan
Freud
Vienna
Austria
Europe
Philadelphia General Hospital
Massachusetts Mental Health Center
Boston
Neosho County approves lumber tires and chemicals bids
Neosho County Commission accepted bids for lumber to be used as planking at 130.75 per thousand board feet from Johnson and Son of Erie for 30000 feet costing 3922.50. Tires were awarded to Notestine s of Chanute at 5341.19, higher than Hembree Tire Service of Chanute. Chemicals were let to Erie Farm Supply for 180 gallons at 725.40 and Chanute Seed and Grain for 400 pounds at 1380. The board chose low bids but Notestine s bid was selected for quality within spec. All approvals were by unanimous vote. Weather complicates weed control plans targeting Johnson grass with railroads in county cooperation and a new spray unit to be chosen by Jim Landrith.
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ERIE
Neosho County
Johnson and Son of
Notestine’s of
Chanute
Erie Farm Supply
Chanute Seed
Notestine
Hembree Tire Service
Chamute
Jim Landrith
Wichita
Nine Missing Enlisted Men Believed Alive In Capsize Rescue
At Quantico a search team recovered one body from nine Marines and a Navy sailor missing after a training canoe capsized in the Potomac River. Officials said there is a good chance the others are still alive as more than 100 people and helicopters searched the area.
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Quantico
Potomac River
Potomac
Air Station
Coast Guard
Quantico Marine Base
L. E
Richardson
Herbert Harkey
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Wiliam L. Meadows
Sturgis
Edward Holemas
Dilford Holmes
Kentucky
U.S. State Department
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Yours
Statehouse
Kansan
Harkey
Virginia
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