No Decision On Closing Here For Veterans Day
Chanute business leaders and veterans debated Veterans Day observance after a joint meeting. Veterans urged a general closing to honor Armistice Day tradition, while retailers warned of lost sales and suggested a future retail meeting to consider a community-wide decision. About 30 people attended in Memorial Building, with Elon Randle presiding.
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Veterans Ing
On Retail
Veterans’ Organization
Veterans
Veterans’ Organizations
American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars
American GI Forum
Veterans of World War I
Disabled American Veterans
Bill Morgan
Chanute
Federation Room
Memorial Building
Elon Randle
Chanute Teen Wins UNESCO Trip To Washington and UN
Lynda Hutchison, 15, daughter of Rev and Mrs Ray J Hutchison, 120 N Forest, wins a funded trip as top prize in Neosho County UNESCO testing contest. She will tour Kansas City to join 300 youths, fly to Washington DC for UN briefing and sightseeing in Washington and New York, with a return to Kansas City planned. Her class presents a Baptist symbol necklace as a going away gift.
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Lynda Hutchison
Ray J. Hutchison
N. Forest
Washington, D.C
United Nations
Miss Hutchison
Chanute High School
Neosho County
Unesco
Kansas City
Union Station
Washington, D. C
New York
Lynda
Chanute
Baptist Church
Weather looks cool with scattered showers this weekend
The Weather Bureau reports a cool air flow from the north across Kansas with mostly cloudy skies and chances of brief showers mainly in the east. Highs today range 45 to 55 with 20s to 30s in overnight lows and weekend highs in the 50s.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Garden City
Manhattan
Wamego
Goodland
Dog Wins Legal Defense Over Postal Attack in Italy
In Mondovi Italy a court ruled a dog may bite a postman in defense of its owner. The postman attacked by the dog last October sued for damages but the court dismissed the case on Friday.
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Mondovi
Italy
Johnson Named Galesburg Schools Superintendent for 1962-63
Altoona educator Marvin Johnson is chosen as superintendent of Galesburg schools for the 1962-63 year. He currently teaches physical education and industrial arts and coaches at Altoona High School, and will replace R Darrell Little. Johnson holds a BS from Pittsburg State College 1958 and will finish his MS there this spring. He is active in multiple educators associations and local clubs and plans to move to Galesburg in June.
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Galesburg
Marvin Johnson
Altoona
Johnson
Altoona High School
R. Darrell Little
Pittsburg State College
Atlanta
Wilson County Teachers Assn
Kansas State Teachers Assn
National Education Assn
Assembly of God Church
Woman Tricks Girl Into Charging Gum, Store Manager Says
In Nevada Missouri Fred Sanders, a department store manager, observed a woman and her daughter shopping. As they left he gave the child gum and the girl echoed the woman, “Charge it.”
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Nevada, Mo
Fred Sanders
Whizzer White Named To Supreme Court Seat
Byron R. Whizzer White, former All-America halfback and deputy attorney general, named to the U S Supreme Court to fill the seat of the retiring Justice Charlies E. Whittaker. White, 44, would be the court’s youngest member if confirmed, with Kennedy praising his varied legal and public service background.
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Washington
Byron R
Whizzer
White
Kennedy
Senate
Charlies E. Whittaker
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Supreme Court
Navy
Vinson
Social Science Foundation
University of Denver
University of Colorado
Phi Beta Kappa
Robert F. Kennedy
Whizzer White
Colorado
Pittsburgh Steelers
Oxford
Kennedy Brothers
Joseph P. Kennedy
Court of St. James's
United States
Yale Law School
Detroit Lions
Solomons
Pacific
Fred M. Vinson
Florida twister devastates Milton area injuring dozens
A tornado ripped through a residential section of Milton Florida killing eight and injuring about 40. Rescue teams searched debris for more victims as a funeral home reported the eight bodies and said more were expected. Names of the victims were not yet available.
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Milton
Fla
Florida
Skunk Rescue Leaves Officer Amused in Louisiana
A Shreveport call reports a skunk with its head in a can. Patrolman B T Lambert freed the animal thinking it was a deodorized pet, only to learn it was not a pet and had not been deodorized.
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Shreveport
B. T. Lambert
Lambert
Oil Refiners Back Import Reductions
The American Petroleum Refiners Association backs legislation to cut imports and revise allocation of imported oil to refiners. The bill, introduced in the House by Rep. Carl Elliott, aims to cut imports by about 180000 barrels daily and shifts from historic quotas to a new formula to aid small independent producers and refiners.
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Washington
American Petroleum Refiners Association
House
Carl Elliott
D-Ala
Arthur A. Steffan
Association of Small Independent Refiners
Steffan
Barley Bill Signed By Kennedy
President Kennedy signed into law a bill allowing farmers to plant barley on land removed from wheat production. The measure was introduced by Sen. Frank Carlson of Kansas.
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Washington
Kennedy
Frank Carlson
Kansas
Tribune Phone Directory Line
The note instructs readers to call their Tribune carrier and, if unreachable, dial HE 1-3400 after 6 p m for assistance.
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Tribune
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton seen clubbing in Rome
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were photographed leaving Brick Top’s in Rome at 3 30 a m after a night out together. Eddie Fisher in New York denied reports of trouble in his marriage to Taylor and insisted the couple’s romance is limited to Marc Antony and Cleopatra.
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Rome
Elizabeth Taylor
Richard Burton
Eddie Fisher
New York
Miss Taylor
Fisher
Burton
Anthony
Ostia Antica
Taylor
Pierre
Marc Antony
Cleopatra
Gracie Square Hospital
Steelworkers approve two year contract in early settlement
The United Steelworkers Union executive board approved a two year pact providing about 10 cents an hour in additional fringe benefits with no immediate pay raise. Wages may be renegotiated after year one as 450000 workers await signed contracts.
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Pittsburgh
Steelworkers Union Executive Board
David J. McDonald
United Steelworkers Union
Kennedy
Arthur J. Goldberg
Steelworkers Union
Chanute Students Take Top Honors at Pittsburg Science Fair
Chanute High School students earned multiple top ratings at the Pittsburg Science Fair. Stephen Gray and Marsha Morton received highly superior notes and will present at the Senior Academy of Science on May 4. Gary Trammell earned highly superior in junior division for a cloud chamber and superior for his paper. Barry Gerken also earned a superior for a physics paper.
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Chanute
Pittsburg
Junior Academy of Science
Trammell
Chanute High School
Barry Gerken
Kelly Kern
Connie Smith
Harold Chase
John Glades
R-Yates
Bill Horton
Diuicil
Sion
Conard
Doyen
Tony Kern
Judy Wilson
Clyde Hill Heads Top House Committee Blow from Conard resignation triggers leadership reshuffle
Representative William Mitchell announced that Rep. John Conard resigned as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Mitchell moved Rep. Clyde Hill to chair, with Rep. Ross Doyen named vice chairman and Rep. John Golden filling the vacancy. The changes follow Conard accepting an administrative aide post to Senator James Pearson.
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Mitchell
Ross Doyen
R-Rice
Hill
John Golden
R-Goodland
Five Men Face Death for Slaying in Arizona Desert
Five Phoenix men, all charged with first degree murder, planned a robbery murder of Samuel L. Resnick a 61 year old Albany jeweler. They admitted binding and strangling him with an 18 foot rope in the desert as part of the scheme to steal jewelry worth more than 5000 dollars. Resnick’s body was found three days later.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Lillian
Resnick
Clemmie Jackson
R. E
Ernest Spurlock
John Henry Lewis Jones
Jesse Tillis
Ralph Edmundson
R. E. Jackson
Tillis
Jones
Spurlock
Desert
Resnnick
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