Kennedy asks Congress for consumer protection package
President Kennedy proposed a jumbo package costing about 10 million dollars annually to safeguard consumers. He urged safer drugs, non irritating beauty products, clearer truth in packaging, broader meat inspections, and new consumer advisory bodies while expanding government outreach and information for shoppers.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
America
Council of Economic Advisers
Consumers’ Advisory Council
Post Office Department
Left Hand Pitch Left Hand Pitch
A sophomore class discusses presidential news conferences and CBS transcripts. Sharon Cutrell writes to CBS and receives a response from Dave Dary detailing how transcripts are prepared and where to obtain them. A local twist follows with mentions of Mrs. Melva Russum and the Moore child Mark missing briefly but found safe at church.
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Sharon Cutrell
H. P. Cutrell
W. 4Th
CBS News
Kennedy
Dave Dary
CBS Washington News Bureau
Dary
Boy and girl sought in Bartlesville kidnapping slaying
The Bartlesville investigation centers on a boy and girl seen near the granary where Kay County authorities say the victim, Bertha Bartholomew, was killed. The 19 month old Leslie Ann led a motorist to her mother's body as investigators search for the couple and possible accomplices.
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Bartlesville, Okla
Bartlesville
Leslie Ann
Toby
Gunzy
Martin
Bartholomews
Kay County
Ralph C. Haynes
Blackwell
Bertha Bartholomew
Haynes
Barthola
Ponca City
Miles
Here
Bartholomew
W. W
Rodgers
Okla
Martini
Forrest Walker
Martin Barthole
Ditch Collapse Kills Kansas Laborer Calvin Lewis
Calvin Lewis a 35 year old laborer died when a six foot ditch cave in buried him to the neck with mud and stones in Kansas City He worked alone and was trapped before a passer by heard moans Fire department rescued him in five minutes but could not revive him He was digging the ditch for a water line into a new Food and Drug Administration building at 10th and Cherry near City Hall.
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Kansas City
Calvin Lewis
Lewis
Food and Drug Administration
10Th and
Cherry
City Hall
Area Road Project Bids Are Opened
Apparent low bids were opened for multiple highway projects around Chanute and Moran Kansas. B & B Industries Inc. of St. Paul bid $13 780 66 on seven projects with several in Neosho Woodson Allen and Anderson counties. Reno Construction Co. of Overland Park led US 59 resurfacing with a total bid of $832 315 84. E. W. Blair Construction Co. topped a Neosho Falls west county bid for grading and a bridge at $64 104 14 while V R Construction Co. of Pittsburg led the surfacing bid at $11 544 21.
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21St
Plummer
Chanute
Moran
Neosho-Wilson County
B & B Industries Inc
Southeast
Southcentral
Kansas St. Paul
Sas
Neosho
Woodson
Allen
Anderson
Reno Construction Co
Overland Park
Garnett
Neosho Falls
Woodson County
E. W. Blair Construction Co
V & R Construction Co
Pittsburg
Meeting on Kansas highway needs draws 150 attendees
About 150 persons attended a public meeting at the Home Savings building to discuss improving the Kansas highway system. The session was the final in a six city series by the Citizens Advisory Committee and aimed to explain the statewide highway study and collect grassroots opinions affecting actions of the 1963 Legislature.
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Kansas
Home Savings Assn
Citizens Advisory Committee
Legislative Council
Finan
Revenue Agents Stir Arkansas Town Into Wariness
IRS says agents were sent to Fordyce Arkansas to assist with tax returns but residents and the Chamber of Commerce report a chilling effect. Dallas County business declined about 50 percent after the visit, with a merchant noting shoppers delaying purchases while awaiting the agents’ actions for 1960 and 1961 returns.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Service
Arkansas
Fordyce
Chamber of Commerce
Dallas
IRS
Weather outlook for Kansas warms after cold snap
TOPEKA AP forecasts fair weather with gradually rising temperatures through Friday after days 10 to 15 degrees below normal. Highs range from about 50 in the west to the 40s elsewhere, with overnight lows 15 to 25. Morning lows spanned 11 at Goodland to 24 at Pittsburg. Wednesday highs were 37 at Topeka to 49 at Russell. Cloudiness varied with no precipitation.
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Topeka
Kansas
Goodland
Pittsburg
Russell
Blood drive falls short of goal by 14 pints
A Neosho County Red Cross bloodmobile visit produced 226 pints toward a 240 pint two day goal, with 234 donors scheduled and 69 drop ins. Four donors reached four or more gallons, and two new area blood program chairmen were named for Thayer and Earlton.
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Red Cross
Howard Winjans
Neosho County
Marvin Seefeldt
Harry Scott
Wilbur Luman
Kenneth Drake
Humboldt
Dick Ashley
Farr Grogan
Leon Spence
Howard Russell
Don Beach
Clifford Erickson
Dick Coulter
Ray Zumalt
Glen Shockey
Judy Greathouse
Ray Garcia
Joe Goben
Dale Anderson
Thayer
Winans
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Area Blood Program
Virgil Taylor
Bargain Daisy Calves Triplets for Tenth Time
Harold Tasker reports Bargain Daisy a Holstein born eight years ago at the Minneapolis sale barn delivered her tenth calf this week. The birth included one single and three sets of twins with the cow also producing 81 pounds of milk in a 24 hour period last year.
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Daisy
Harold Tasker
Tasker
Minneapolis
Parsons Man Charged In Zillah Break-in
IOLA Meredith Lloyd Vance, 47, of Parsons, charged in connection with a March 8 break-in at a Zillah school east of Humboldt. Vance arraigned in county court on second degree burglary and larceny, bond set at $5,000. Taken items include a kitchen mixmaster a portable typewriter and $200.
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Iola
Meredith Lloyd Vance
Parsons
Zillah School
Humboldt
Allen County
Vance
Kansas City Driver Rollie Skinner Found Dead in Car
Kansas City police found Rollie Skinner aged 52 dead in his car after it rammed three parked vehicles near 85th and Troost on a Wednesday night. Investigators noted no skid marks and the death will not be listed as a traffic fatality until the coroner's report is complete. Skinner resided in Martin City near the Kansas line in the southwest corner of Jackson County.
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Kansas City
Rollie Skinner
85Th
Troost
Skinner
Martin City
Kansas Line
Jackson County
Humboldt votes on $400,300 bond for new grade school
Humboldt voters consider a $400,300 bond issue to finance a modern grade school replacing the aging Lincoln and Washington structures. If approved the loan would run 20 years, adding about 2 to 6 mills in annual taxes, with the plan to begin construction this year pending state approval.
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Humboldt
Lincoln
Washington School
Tribune
Larry Mathews
State Board
Ap Washington School
Lincoln School
W. S. Scott
Scott
Burns Fatal in Wichita Home Fire Incident
Thomas V. Wakefield aged 49 died from burns suffered at his Wichita home on Friday after a cigarette allegedly set an overstuffed chair ablaze. Officers reported he was found seated in the chair as flames spread.
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Wichita
Thomas V. Wakefield
$20,000 Damage Suit Filed in Court Here
Alma Pearl Grayson sues Judith A. Greathouse for $20,000 over a traffic collision October 15 1961 at the Plum mer and K39 intersection west of the city. Both residents of Chanute.
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Plummer
Alma Pearl Grayson
Judith A. Greathouse
Chanute
Fire destroys Kansas City warehouse and offices
A quick fire at the Bus Freight Lines terminal northeast of downtown Kansas City destroyed the one story building and six truck trailers. Fire Chief Herbert Hughes said a cigarette started it. Francis Philipp, acting manager, said the blaze began near rolls of house insulation. Estimed loss exceeds 400000 dollars.
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Kansas City
Bus Freight Lines
Herbert Hughes
Francis Philipp
Driver Killed in One-Car Bridge Crash in Kansas City
Larry H. Giles, 30, died when his car struck the Elmwood Avenue bridge center support over Twelfth Street, about 50 blocks east of downtown. Investigators said excessive speed caused the crash and the vehicle caught fire. Giles died of head and chest injuries.
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Kansas City
Larry H. Giles
Elmwood Avenue
Twelfth Street
Giles
Tribune
Cuban refugee physician finds purpose in Kansas TB hospital
Eduardo Campuzano M D a Cuban physician and refugee details escape from Castro regime to the United States joining the Southeast Kansas tuberculosis hospital Chanute in 1961 He notes visa hurdles family sacrifice and hope for Cuba's return to freedom while serving in Tuberculosis care and praising US and Latin American solidarity.
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Southeast Kansas
Chanute
Eduardo Campuzano
M.D
United States
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Hamaking
New Vana
Matan
Threezas
Castro
Campuzano
Miami
Fla
Maternity
University of Miami
Wichita
Com
Kansas
Co-y
Sis
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Cavy
Manhattan
Melva Russum
Ashby
Memorial Building
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Mrs. Russum
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Jack Moore
Steuben
Moore
Oklahoma-Kansas
Bartholomew Home
Bartholemew
Lester Bartholemew
Leonard Coulter
Jimmy
Coulter
Oil Company
Zillah
Matanzas
Chainute
Louis
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