Severe NW Kansas snowstorm impacts roads and schools
A weather bulletin reports heavy wet snow spreading across northwestern Kansas with 8 to 15 inch depths in Cheyenne and Sherman counties and 2 to 3 inches in Colby. Roads are impassable, cars stalled, and school buses warned against operation. Temperatures drop tonight with statewide snow by Wednesday morning.
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Goodland
Kan
Kansas
Goodland Weather Bureau
Cheyenne
Sherman
Bureau
Colby, Kan
Colby
Northwest
Topeka
Weather Bureau
Concordia
Pittsburg
Manhattan
Wichita
Firing Is Silenced But Trial Scheduled
In Sapporo Japan Tatemi and Miharu Nozaki protested artillery noise near their pasture. After cutting communications wires to the gun area the brothers faced trial on charges of destroying government property.
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Sapporo
Japan
Tatemi
Miharu Nozaki
Nozakis
Emergency Surgery For State Senator Ward
State Senator William H. Ward of Marion underwent emergency surgery for appendicitis after feeling ill just before the Senate session. The 63 year old farmer stockman and businessman was rushed to a Topeka hospital and is listed in satisfactory condition.
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Topeka
William H. Ward
Marion
Senate
Ward
Marion County
City Boosts Payments To Humane Society
The city commission approved raising the monthly payment to the Chanute Humane Society for animal control work from 200 to 225 dollars. The change funds ongoing costs and ends use of gas as a disposal method by the city, shifting to humane handling under contract.
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Chanute Humane Lo
Humane
Animal Control Society
Humane Society
Twin Brothers Reunite After Mix Up Outsider Sparks Discovery
Roger D. Brooks of Miami and Anthony J. Milasi of Binghamton meet in New York after a Miami restaurant stranger mistook Brooks for Milasi. Both 6 ft 3 in, 210 and 208 pounds, brown hair blue eyes, size 13 shoes, single, adopted by different families. Mark Frattalone of Boston helped trigger the reunion.
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Brooks
Miami
Milasi
Mildred Brooks
Joseph Milasi
Binghamton
Mark Frattalone
Boston
Miami University
Mi‘lasi
Kansas House Eyes Repealing 21 Age Cigarette Rule
In Topeka the Kansas House tentatively approved a bill to repeal the law banning selling cigarettes to anyone under 21. The measure may be voted final Wednesday. an amendment would remove the minimum age entirely, prompting concerns from Rep. John Oakes about defeating the bill.
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Topeka
Kansas House
Clyde Hill
R-Yates Center
Hill
John Oakes
R-Parsons
Intercepted Letter on Junior Colleges Grows in Interest
A brief intercepted missive notes the rising importance of junior colleges as more people study them, reflecting broad curiosity about their role in education. The casual tone suggests personal correspondence rather than formal policy.
Planning Board to Hear Two Consulting Firms
City planning commission will hear representatives from two consulting engineering firms at the March meeting tomorrow night at 8 in the Memorial Building. They will discuss approaches under the federal 701 program as part of a preliminary consultant study by the planning board. An engineer from a third firm conferred with the commission at the last meeting.
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City Planning Commission
City Commission
Memorial Building
Planning Board
Planning Commission
Teaching Bill On Commies Is Killed
The Senate Education Committee in Topeka rejected a bill requiring 10 hours of instruction on communism and its threat to U S freedoms. Critics urged stronger action while a director of higher education measure drew skepticism from lawmakers.
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Topeka
Senate Education Committee
Glee Smith
R-Larned
U. S
Smith
Laurin Jones
Dodge City
Clyde Reed
Regents
Wichita Votes Today On City Posts And Bond Issue
Wichita voters cast ballots on nine city posts and a proposed 13.5 million dollar school bond issue. The AP reports the election shaped by local races and the bond plan's fate in Wichita, Kansas.
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Wichita, Kan
Wichita
Series of Twisters Kill at Least Four in the Southeast
Widespread flooding and a series of tornadoes struck Tennessee Alabama and Mississippi. Seven were reported missing near Parrottsville Tennessee though later accounted for. In Cullman Alabama two women were killed as homes were destroyed and damage ran into hundreds of thousands. In Mississippi one man died near Starkville and several communities reported storms and dozens of injuries.
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Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
East Tennessee
Parrottsville
North Carolina
Cocke
Tennessee Highway Patrol
Chattanooga
Knoxville
Kingsport
Parrotsville
Jerry Coakley
Starkville
Great Smokies
Russellville
Ala
McMinnville
Tenn
Cullman Area
Geraldine Bowen
Minnie Dunn
J. Frank Manderson
Alabama Civil Defense Director
Colbert
Limestone
Pickens
Walker
Madison
Weather Bureau
Huntsville
Marshall Space Flight Center
Reform
Sherwood and Lewis
Vaiden
Hamilton
Ackerman
W. T. Kelley
Redform
David
Alabama Line
Murfreesboro
Mid- State
Jasper
Georgia Line
Parrrottsville
Kentucky Floods Ravage South East Kentucky Lives Upended
Southeast Kentucky faced its worst flood in history as Beaver Creek and Big Sandy floodwaters displaced thousands from Floyd and Pike counties. About 3,000 evacuated in Floyd, over 1,800 in Harlan, with 12,000 plus from Floyd and Pike counties. One fireman, Hogan Billiter of Pikeville, died when a coal train derailed after a landslide. Rivers rose, towns isolated, and emergency water supplies limited as storms continued.
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Kentucky
Hogan Billiter
Pikeville
Chesapeake & Ohio
Riverside School
Breathitt County
Beaver Creek
Floyd County
Prestonsburg
Harlan County
Floyd
Pike Counties
Big Sandy
Hazard
Kentucky River
Springer Hoskins
Harlan Enterprise
Senate panel backs Sunday alcohol sales curb in Kansas
The Federal and State Affairs Committee voted 6 to 5 to pass a bill restricting Sunday sales in Kansas. Chairman John Murray cast the deciding vote after a 5-5 tie. An attorney general opinion earlier in the meeting suggested parts of the bill could be unconstitutional.
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Topeka
Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee
Kansas
John Murray
Anti Poll Tax Ratification Moves in Kansas House
The Kansas House recommends adopting a resolution to ratify an anti poll tax amendment to the federal constitution with a final vote to come later. Also advanced were bills authorizing Sumner County to levy up to a half mill for recreation at an outside lake park and increasing the Kansas Bureau of Investigation staff by one agent. It also proposes raising county sheriff prisoner escort allowances from 3 to 7 dollars per day.
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Topeka
Kansas House
Senate
Sumner County
Wellington
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Traffic Fatalities Log From Topeka For March 1963
Kansas traffic death log records 24 hours to 9 am Tuesday with 0 fatalities for March. For the comparable 1962 period, 83 deaths were logged.
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Topeka
Kansas
Kansas public junior colleges study Eurich Report role
The Kansas Public Junior College Association released Part 1 of a three part study critiquing the Eurich Report on higher education in Kansas. The commission warns against duplication and calls for concrete action and legislation to define junior college functions and funding. The study notes state wide impact, including implications for budgets and access to college education.
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Kansas Public Junior Colleges
Eurick
Kansas
Kansas Public Junior College Assn
Dell Reed
Chanute Junior College
Commission
Eurich
Chorus of Voices
Board of Regents
Senate panel rejects toll road feasibility study
The Senate Highways Committee rejected a 50 000 study for a Kansas border toll road. The panel approved adding the toll road to a Legislative Council study of new highways while critiquing the Ottawa Emporia link and noting uncertain economics without exclusive four lane status. Senator Theo Sarr defended southeast Kansas needs for interstate quality highways.
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Ottawa
Emporia
Council
Kansas City-Galena
Highway Department
U. S. 69
Legislative Council
Missouri
Kansas
E. A. Strahan
R-Salina
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Ottis B. Autry
Main and
Plummer
2Nd
Westview Nursing Home
John Sherman Jr
Lafayette
Harry Soderquist
Santa Fe Railroad
Santa Fe
Merrill Moore
R. J. Hayes
Gary Haines
Edith
Highland
Haines
Binghamton, N.Y
Roger D. Brooks
Miami, Fla
Anthony J. Milasi
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Cullman County
Hoskins
U.S. 119
Cumberland
Pineville
Barbourville
Williamsburg
Frankfort
Wilson Wyatt
Kennedy
Bert Combs
Senate Group
Reed
Lowell Small
Hutchinson Public Schools
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el Dorado Jaco
Lonnie Wood
Independence Public Schools
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Garden City Jaco
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