Miss Chanute Pageant Needs Contestants With Deadline Near
Prospects for the annual Miss Chanute Pageant grow dim as the JayCees sponsor seek candidates. Only two entries exist with three days left before the Sunday midnight deadline. A minimum of five contestants is required and no new entries are accepted after the deadline.
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Jay- Dees
JayCees
Chanute
Pratt
Atlantic City
N.J
Memorial Building
Ray Christiansen
S. Allen
FTC Report On Gasoline Price Wars
In Kansas City a report to the Federal Trade Commission on gasoline price wars was completed and sent to Washington. FTC attorney Floyd M. Brown declined to release it, saying Washington will decide if a complaint will be filed. The probe, ordered over a month ago, aimed to determine price fixing or price discrimination in gasoline sales.
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Kansas City
Federal Trade Commission
Washington
Floyd M. Brown
FTC
Kennedy Half Dollars Go Fast at Local Banks
Coin demand from collectors has drained shipments of Kennedy half dollars at Chanute banks. Each got 1,000 coins initially. by mid morning few remained despite a two per customer limit. Treasury moves curtail silver dollars as cartwheels drop from mint.
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Chanute
Treasury
Carson City
Nev
Dillon
Daisy Jordan
Bank of Commerce
Weather Warmup Expected Across Kansas Through Friday
AREA FORECAST calls for a generally fair and warmer pattern into Friday with highs 40s today and 50s Friday, lows in the 20s. Kansas temperatures rise after a light wintry blast, with Wednesday highs in the 20s in western towns and 30s east, light snow and minor ice on eastern highways.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Olathe
Lawrence
Pittsburg
Goodland
Northeast Division
Senate Breaks Deadlock on Civil Rights Vote
The Senate voted 67 to 17 to take up the House civil rights bill ending a deadlock since March 9. The move enables a Morse motion to send the bill to the Judiciary Committee for 10 days of hearings. Dirksen signaled support for amendments while Humphrey expected a tabling move to pause debate until after the Easter recess.
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Senate
Washington
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Senate Judiciary Committee
James O. Eastland
D-Miss
Morse
Everett M. Dirksen
Dirksen
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Chamber of Commerce Dinner Set For April 8
Tickets mailed to members today show the annual Cham ber of Commerce dinner will be April 8 at 6 30 p m in St Patrick s gym Reservations with the chamber office by April 3 for the public event speaker will be Jack Lacy director of the Kansas Department of Economic Development Seating aims for a large turnout and attendance allows guests without dinner tickets return unused tickets to the chamber office
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Chamber of Commerce
St. Patrick’s Gym
Chamber
Jack Lacy
Kansas Department of Economic Development
Knights of Columbus
Tre-Ora
St. Patrick’s
Call Brings a Good Fairy Tour of Boy's Dreamland
Paul Earl Cassel a 13 year old from Thousand Oaks California flew to Wichita unannounced to tour Cessna Aircraft. The company greeted him with a full visit including tours of the military division fabrication department a lunch and a flight with a test pilot. He offered to pay his own way and traveled during Easter vacation with his parents consent.
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Call
Wichita
Paul Earl Cassel
Thousand Oaks
Calif
Cessna Aircraft Company
Paul
Wichita Municipal
Cessna
Dwane L. Wallace
Paul C. Cassels
Continental Airlines
Easter Week Services Dot Chanute Churches
Local churches in Chanute plan Good Friday services at First Methodist and other congregations. Union Alliance sponsors a noon to 3 p.m. program with seven 25 minute Word segments featuring multiple pastors and choirs. Other Holy Week events include Maundy Thursday Communion and Easter observances across Zion Lutheran Vilas Bethel Evangelical United Brethren Grace Episcopal St Patrick's. Schools dismiss for Easter. sunrise and afternoon egg hunts scheduled Sunday.
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Union Good
First Methodist Church
Chanute Ministerial Alliance
The
Alliance
Evangelical United Brethren Church
Walter Purcell
William Baldwin
Zion Lutheran Church
Vilas Bethel Lutheran Church
Grace Episcopal Church
Lower Kansas phone rates cut charges today
The Kansas supreme court ruling lowers Southwestern Bell Telephone charges effective immediately in Kansas. Rates for residence one and two party, business lines, extensions, and party lines are reduced by 25 to 75 cents monthly, with some services unchanged. Refunds and details to be worked out with the Corporation Commission. The new rates appear on bills dated March 23, 1964.
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Kansas Supreme Court
A. E. Endres
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Endres
Bell
Kansas Corporation Commission
Topeka
Associated Press
Kansas
R. A. Acker
Southwestern Bell
Corporation Commission
The
Shawnee District Court
Acker
Traffic Fatalities Log for Topeka Area March 25 1964
Topeka reports 24 hour traffic death log through 9 am Thursday March 25 1964. Figures compare 1964 with 1963 totals showing increases and trends in Kansas road fatalities.
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Topeka
Kansas
Harp resigns as KU basketball coach
Lawrence Kansas AP announces Dick Harp resigns as head basketball coach at the University of Kansas effective July 1. Harp, 44, has eight seasons as KU head coach and 21 years with the school as player, assistant, and head coach. Kansas finished last season 13 12 overall and 8 6 in the Big Eight, placing third.
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Harp
K. U. Basketball
Kansas
Forrest C
Phog) Allen
K. U
William Jewell College
Liberty
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Delivers Pleasant Day Note
An intercepted letter addressed to Cha notes a sunny day and lower phone rates, hinting at a cheerful mood and light social exchange. The fragment mentions good ingredients for a pleasant day, suggesting domestic or personal correspondence.
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Missouri
Douglas Dillon
Congress
New York
San Francisco
Lou Lucas
First National Bank
Tribune
Larry Mathews
C of C
First Christian
First Presbyterian
First Methodist
Barbara Hunt
Edna Petterson
Larry McCune
Don Grogan
Duff Wagoner
Jack Mathis
Floyd Thuston
Raymond Owen
Claude Pittenger
E. M. Pearson
Edgar Rains
Ron Bumstead
A. F. Solomonson
LaMoine Waldron
Paul Wagner
Britton Thompson
Teri
Cha
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