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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1962
Page
9
NEW YORK AP A survey on Eastern campuses finds which drinks top student taste lists. More than 70 percent abstain from hard liquor or drink less than two per week. The column also shares quirky notes on fashion pockets and odd historical remedies.
Three inmates from the U S Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth walked away Sunday night. They were serving sentences for various offenses and were not yet in confinement. The escape involved Army prisoner Thomas M. Unrein 19 Kansas City Missouri serving 22 years. William J Reagan 18 Mays Town Pennsylvania serving one year. Carry W Flaharty 20 Ragland Ohio serving two years. Unrein and Flaharty are Army. Reagan is Air Force.
George John Gessner, 25, a former U S Army nuclear weapons maintenance specialist, was released from the U S Disciplinary Barracks and taken to Topeka for arraignment on a charge of passing classified information to the Russians. He was escorted by FBI agents and wore a prison-made suit as photographers watched. He is to appear before U S District Judge Arthur J. Stanley Jr. on the complaint alleging he communicated restricted data to a Soviet representative in Mexico City.
Altoona High School earned a No 1 rating for its one act play Balcony Scene at Independence district tournament. Cast members Ernie Stark Robert Stewart Georgetta Hopson Clara McDaris Mary Barnhart Lee McClellam Mike Peck Mettie Scott and two students Miss McDaris and Sue Ann Weber were rated No 1 in prose interpretation.
A joint plan for manned and unmanned Moon exploration is proposed. The proposal references Kennedy and a letter to the Soviet leader, with discussion of collaboration between the United States and the Soviet Union.
The Star gazer balloon project batting average has dropped to .333 because of a faulty cast iron ring. Balloon No. 3 snapped during an Air Force launch attempt, ripping open as it rose about 100 feet. The 400 foot helium craft was to carry an instrument package to 80 000 feet for heavens photography toward the Pacific. Balloons No. 1 and No. 2 had mixed results prior.
AP records Kansas members' votes on recent roll calls. Senate Morse amendment to abolish capital punishment in the District of Columbia rejected. Carlson and Pearson voted against it. House votes include passage of a civil anti trust documents bill with Breeding Dole Ellsworth Shriver voting for. Avery and McVey not voting. Welfare Pension Plans disclosure act compromise passed 284 108 with Breeding Shriver not voting. Avery Ellsworth for, Dole McVey against. Motion to substitute Republican public assistance bill defeated 155 232 with Avery Dole McVey for. Breeding Ellsworth Shriver not voting.
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