Tear Gas in Time To Save Two Lives
In Springfield Oregon a fugitive ex convict Harry Acree held A. Fawbush and his wife for nine hours. Police released tear gas into the house, Acree shot himself, while the couple escaped with the wife in shock. A similar Eugene incident occurred a week earlier with Harvey Baker.
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Springfield
Ore
A. Springfieldman
Harry Acree
Charles Fawbush
Fawbush
Eugene
Harvey LeRoy Baker
Marvin Keeler
Baker
Keelers
Acree
Fawbush House
Terrence Wilson
Wilson
Pearson Bill Aids Farmers In Residue Dispute
Senator James B. Pearson introduces a permanent indemnity proposal to compensate farmers when crops are condemned for pesticide residues by federal or state authorities. The bill targets conflicts between Agriculture Department and FDA regulations, seeking lasting relief after prior temporary measures lapsed.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Food and Drug Administration
Congress
James B. Pearson
R-Kan
Pearson
Food and Drug Agency
Space Expansion Sought for Kansas Education Agency
Topeka AP The Kansas Department of Education may lease a former auto agency two blocks from the statehouse as space is tight for the expanding department. Adel F Throckmorton said the vacant building would need remodeling. The department already occupies multiple floors in the statehouse and an additional state owned building. Officials have an option that could lead to purchasing the Maconic temple building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Department of Education
Statehouse
Adel F. Throckmorton
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Education Department
Maconic Temple
Maconic
Unemployment rate in Kansas drops as benefits rise
Topeka AP reports Kansas unemployment insured rate fell to 2.2 percent last week from 2.5 percent, with 8,057 people paid $320,103 in unemployment benefits for the period, compared to 3.8 percent a year ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Intercepted Letter About Palm Beach Undersea Lab
An intercepted note from Nute questions whether the undersea laboratory near Palm Beach Florida will discover if Sots were sold during the land boom. The letter examines real estate and scientific research funding in a tense exchange.
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Palm Beach
Florida
Operation Texas Fighting at End Ends Five Day Battle
Five thousand Marines and South Vietnamese troops declared the end of Operation Texas in Quang Ngai Province after five days of fighting that left 1,236 Communists killed or wounded. Allied losses were light, with seven American aircraft reported down and a move to protect the Da Nang harvest under Operation Kings.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Quang Ngai
da Nang
Building Edition Building Edition
Today’s Tribune presents the annual building edition with Section A featuring advertisements from builders suppliers home furnishers appliances financiers landscapers decorators and related trades. It highlights pictures and stories about building to aid planning for construction remodeling and decorating projects.
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Tribune
Mrs Bouray Injured in Main and Lincoln Crash
Felix Bouray, 60, of 1208 Edith, sustained a head injury and bruises after being struck by a left turning 1963 Chevrolet truck at the Main and Lincoln intersection yesterday around 3 10 p m. He was treated after arrival at Neosho Memorial Hospital.
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Felix Bouray
Edith
Lincoln
N. Evergreen
Corbin
Corey Ambulance Service
Bouray
Neosho Memorial Hospital
James O Curtis Released to Neosho County Authorities
James O Curtis of Coffeyville was released to Neosho county authorities by Montgomery county on a petty theft warrant after completing a jail term at Independence. His hearing is set for Monday in Chanute city court. The charge relates to a recent copper wire theft.
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Erie
James O. Curtis
Coffeyville
Neosho County
Montgomery County
Independence
Chanute
Weather warms as last winter burst fades in Kansas
Temperatures rose across Kansas as the wintry outbreak ends. Highs today in the 50s to 60s with strong southerly winds. Lows tonight around 30s. Area forecast calls for fair to partly cloudy conditions tonight and Saturday with a cooler day on Saturday, highs 50 to 55, lows 30 to 35.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Big Year Ahead for Chanute Construction Boom
Chanute faces a strong 1966 building season as permits total 176 976 for 25 projects with five new homes comprising over a third of the cost. Major non residential work includes Self Service Grocery expansion, ambulance building, and a new Special Services Center.
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Chanute
Self Service
N. Steuben
Neosho Junior College
W. 14Th
Royster Junior High School
Alcorn Combustion Company
Island Highland
Chanute Lumber Company
Veteran’s of Foreign Wars
Elks Lodge
Main and
Central
Moorman
S. Steuben
S. Ashby
Churchill
Shining Shoes by a Vassar Girl Stirs Hartford Noise
Sally Petrauskas a Hartford native and Vassar sophomore spends a spring break shining shoes on Asylum Street to earn pocket money. She says antifeminist reactions and curious glances accompany her unusual job while she rides out a $50 two week goal amid slim earnings and hazards.
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Sally
Vassar
Hartford
Asylum Street
Poughkeepsie, N.Y
Peo
House Halves Two Domestic Spending Programs in 1966 Bill
The House Appropriations Committee cut a $2.564 billion domestic spending bill affecting rent subsidies and the Teachers Corps. Johnson sought 30 million for rent subsidies and 13.2 million for the Teachers Corps. the panel set 12 million and 10 million respectively, with most funds for the fiscal year ending June 30.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Capitol Hill
Johnson
Tee
Traffic Fatalities Log Update from Topeka
Topeka AP reports Kansas traffic death log numbers for the 24 hours to 9 am Friday showing 37 fatalities for March 1966 versus 122 for comparable 1965 period and 125 for the 1965 period.
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Topeka
Kansas
Woman Delivers Septuplets in Brussels Clinic
A Brussels Edith Cavell Clinic birth produced seven babies with five stillborn and two dying shortly after birth, hospital sources said. The event occurred on Wednesday, marking a rare multiple birth in Belgium.
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Brussels
Belgium
Edith Cavell
Undersea Classroom Planned Off Palm Beach for Florida Atlantic
Florida Atlantic University will deploy a 14 by 8 foot undersea laboratory 30 feet below the surface about 50 feet deep off Palm Beach. A two man Perry submarine will transport students to the dry entry port for lessons as the first U S undersea lab.
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Boca Raton
Fla
Florida Atlantic University
Atlantic
Palm Beach
United States
John H. Perry Jr
Florida
Kenneth Williams
University At
Perry Submarine Builders, Inc
Perry
Florida Atlantic
Ocean Engineering
Edwin Link
Pioneer Underwater Explorer
Ocean Systems, Inc
New York
Cubmarine
U.S. Navy
Spain
Mt Eiger Conquered by Mixed Alpine Team
Four Germans and a Briton scaled Mt Eiger via the north wall ice route in Switzerland, the first time alpinism history records such a direct ascent. They completed the final leg to 13036 feet amid howling winds and 40 below zero temperatures, leaving only 5 climbers from the original 13.
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Kleine Scheidegg
Switzerland
Mt. Eiger
Wall
Time capsule buried at White Bluff Elementary
In Savannah Georgia the 1966 sixth grade class buried a time capsule including comic books a portable television and a skateboard. The vault is to be opened in 2066 with a marble marker noting the event.
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Savannah
White Bluff
Margaret Sadler
Testimony Details Hansen Will Aims To Shield Estate
In Phillipsburg Kansas Salina accountant Ralph Reitz testified that Dane Hansen wanted a charitable foundation to shield his 8.7 million estate from taxes. The will creates a 1 million family trust with most assets to a foundation while nephew George Hansen Jr challenges the document as unduly influenced.
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Phillipsburg, Kan
Salina
Dane G. Hansen
Ralph Reitz
Hansen
Reitz
Logan, Kan
Phillips County
George T. Hansen Jr
Salt Lake City
Utah
James W. Baird
Logan
Oscar F. Belin
Wichita
Baird
Joseph Alioto
Dane Hansen
Norton
Kan
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Yours
Nute
Texas
U.S. Air Force
Navy
North Viet Nam
Air Force
Neosho
Russ Corbitt
Central Park Pavilion
Berthot Construction Company
Steffen Dairy Food Company
W. Main
Ku-Ku Hamburger
G. J. McGee
W. 2Nd
L. H. Kensinger
S. Larson
Dennis C. Mills
S. Tennessee
A. R. Hudspeth
S. Plummer
Wayne Burghart
S. Allen
Elks Building
Hartford, Conn
Sally Petrauskas
Teachers Corps
Sea
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