Welding classes relocate to senior high trade building
Adult education welding courses move to the Senior High Trade School and create welding stalls on the ground floor. The program is part of a cooperative upgrading effort with the Kansas State Board for Vocational Education and Neosho County Community College. Al Jones leads the program with Harold Sharp and Charles Rhodes as instructors for two sections meeting twice weekly for seven weeks totaling 42 hours.
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Royster Junior High
Ekstrom United Supply
Kansas State Board For Vocational Education
Neosho County
Lege
Trade School
al Jones
Harold Sharp
Charles Rhodes
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Rhodes
Jones
Television Viewers Protest Blackout by Gemini
New York AP reports three national networks faced heavy protest by telephone after Gemini s blackout of entertainment shows for emergency news. NBC cited 3000+ protest calls, CBS noted complaints about Lost in Space, and ABC stations logged widespread calls from adults and parents alike.
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Gemini
New York
Cigarette taxes rise while Kansas quits smoking pace
Kansans smoke fewer cigarettes but pay higher levies. Since 1963 cigarette sales fell about 17 percent amid cancer fears, cross state tax avoidance, and rising taxes. Officials say many factors influence the drop, including lighter demand in other states.
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Topeka
Kansas
U. S
Postal Clues Lead to St Patrick's Day Card Mystery
A St Patrick's Day card bound for Richard, a seven year old from Chanute visiting relatives, travels through Coffeyville and Chanute. Through a series of clues from local families on routes and a clipped Tribune item, the McKinneys and Davises identify Richard and deliver the card from Coffeyville resident Mrs Roy L McConnell. Two one dollar bills accompany the card.
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Air Force
Okinawa
Chanute
Coffeyville
Bill Slane
Charles Tripp
S. Washington
Tripps
Tripp
The
Tribune
Paul Davis
St. Malcolm, Alc
Richard Mc
St. Patrick's
Roy L. McConnell
Traffic Fatalities Log For Topeka March 1966
Kansas traffic death log shows 24 hours to 9 a m Thursday with 108 fatalities for March 1966 compared to 115 in the comparable 1965 period. Unreported earlier fatality noted.
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Topeka
Kansas
Severe weather watch for Kansas City area issued
A severe weather watch covers parts of North Central Oklahoma, South Central and Southeast Kansas and West Central Missouri. The Weather Bureau warns of possible tornadoes from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. CST today, including the Greater Kansas City area and Cass Bates and Vernon counties in Missouri.
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Kansas City
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Weather Bureau
Cass
Bates
Vernon
Phone Now for Tribune Carrier Contact After Hours
If you cannot reach your Tribune carrier, call HE 1-3400 after 6 p.m. for assistance.
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Tribune
Humboldt to Host 26 Mile AAU Marathon
Humboldt will stage a 26 mile marathon on April 2 sanctioned by the Amateur Athletic Union. Sponsored by the Missouri Valley Road Runners Club, with support from the Humboldt Chamber of Commerce and Humboldt Jaycees, trophies for top five and medals for all finishers are planned. Expected field of 10 to 15 entrants includes local runner Clarence Staley and AAU members from elsewhere. The course runs 13 miles east from the northeast square corner and returns to start. A planning meeting is set in Humboldt tonight.
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Humboldt
Missouri Valley Road Runners Club
Humboldt Chamber of Commerce
Humboldt Jaycees
Lee Murren
Chamber of Commerce
Clarence Staley
Iola
Road Runners Club
AAU
Weather shifts to cooler air with possible heavy showers
Topeka area forecast calls for partly cloudy conditions and scattered thunderstorms with locally severe storms tonight. Winds shift and cooler air arrive, with Friday highs in the 60s and lows tonight in the 50s. Separate report notes a cold front bringing showers across eastern Kansas, potentially heavy in the southeast.
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Kansas
B52 Bombers Hit North Vietnamese Near Saigon
U S Air Force launched a strike with B52 bombers against a North Vietnamese regiment seen in the D Zone jungle about 35 miles north of Saigon. The operation, on its 10th day, left 275 enemy dead in a four hour battle.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S. Air Force
D Zone
Elk City Dam Gates Closed to Start 4406 Acre Lake
Army engineers closed the Elk City dam outlet gates at four miles northwest of Independence Kansas at noon to impound water for a 4406 acre reservoir. The $19 million flood control project began in 1963 and is effective immediately though public use areas are unfinished.
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Independence, Kan
Elk City Dam
Here
Elk River
17Story Bank Building Approved in Topeka
The capitol planning commission approved construction of a 17 story bank building across from the statehouse in Topeka. The approval comes Wednesday and confirms the new high rise project in the capital city.
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Topeka
Capitol Planning Commission
Statehouse
Cleaner City and Safety Ideas From Chanute Suggestions
Public responses to Chamber of Commerce ideas call for a city cleanup week, vacant lot enforcement, junk yard regulation, park improvements, and better traffic safety. Readers propose traffic lights at key intersections, open 7th Street crossing, and brighter street lighting, plus airport improvements and public rest room upgrades.
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Walnut
East Elm
Highland
Main
Forest
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3Rd
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Plummer
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Main Street
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