Khrushchev cites downed American plane amid summit tensions
In Moscow Khrushchev accuses the United States of aggression over a May 1 incident near the Armenian border. He says a U2 or similar craft was shot down after crossing into Soviet territory, condemns Western attitudes, and warns allies of possible retaliation as summit prospects dim.
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U.S
Khrushchev
United States
Soviet Union
Supreme Soviet
Britain
France
Missing U.S. Weather Plane Sparks Cold War Tensions
State Department reports a single engine weather research plane took off from Adana Turkey with a civilian pilot and has been missing since. Khrushchev claimed a U S military craft was shot down, while officials say oxygen failure may have caused the mission to drift into Soviet air space. Eisenhower ordered an inquiry as Congress reacts with outrage and debate over summit implications in Paris.
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Khrushchev
Eisenhower
Nix
Reon
Washington
State Department
U.S
Nikita Khrushchev
Department
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Soviet Union
Adana
Turkey
White
Russia
National Security Council
James C. Hagerty
Capitol
Congress
Paris
Weather Almanac Forecast Updates From Topeka AP
Mostly cloudy cooler forecast with thundershowers late today through Friday. Severe storms hit Kansas with tornadoes and hail near Ness City Arnold Ness City and Brownell. Heavy rainfall across southeast Kansas with El Dorado 3.47 inches and other towns reporting over 1 inch.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Ness City
Arnold
Brownell
Goodland
McPherson - Marion- Harvey
Butler County
el Dorado
Potwin
Rosalia
Chanute
Cassaday
Eureka
Beaumont
Toronto
Howard
Wichita
Osawatomie
Iola
Fort Scott
Marysville
Dodge City
Ellis
Newton Boy Drowned In Flood-Swollen Creek
Ned Walker aged 14 drowned on Sand Creek in Newton Kansas while playing on a life raft with eight other boys. The raft hit a log jam and he disappeared as the others scrambled onto logs.
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Newton Boy
Newton, Kas
Ned Walker
Newton
Sand Creek
Walker
Guess Again in Cabot Census Gaffe
A Cabot Arkansas census taker met a man who answered Guess after she asked his name. He explained his surname Ray and that his name was Guess. The exchange shows a humorous mix up during routine census work.
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Cabot, Ark
Ray
Guess
46 Union Pacific Freight Cars Jumped Track Near Ottawa
A Missouri Pacific freight train of 119 cars derailed at Lomax siding about 16 miles west of Ottawa. Forty six cars jumped the track tearing up 0.25 miles of main line. traffic hoped to resume today. Cause preliminarily blamed on axle failure three cars behind the locomotive. derailment blocked Kansas City to Colo rado route with detours via Santa Fe and Durand.
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Ottawa
Kan
Missouri Pacific
Lomax Siding
Kansas City
Colorado
D. T. Barksdale
Western
W. G. Landers
Osawatomie
Burns Fatal to Arkansas Youth at Larned Motel
Charles Leroy Brown, 16, of Cincinnati Arkansas, died Wednesday from burns after an explosion at a Larned motel on April 27. Two fellow elevator painters were injured while cleaning paint from their hands with a cleaning fluid when fumes ignited.
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Arkansas
Larned, Kan
Charles Leroy Brown
Cincinnati, Ark
Larned Motel
Traffic Fatalities Log Reports Kansas 1960 vs 1959
Topeka AP reports a 24 hour traffic death tally ending 9 am Thursday showing 4 fatalities. The 1960 figure contrasts with 130 or comparable totals from 1959, illustrating a rise or change in annual totals.
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Topeka
Kansas
Collision Fatal Near Larned in Kansas
Carlton C. Brumbaugh, 59, of Jetmore Kansas, was killed Wednesday in a collision between two trucks eleven miles west of Larned Kansas AP report notes the crash occurred in rural Pawnee County.
Hotel Guests Robbed Of Cash and Jewelry
Thieves robbed guests at a Chase hotel while they slept early Wednesday night taking 445 dollars in cash and jewelry worth 1740 dollars. Among the victims were Bobby Gene Smith and Joe Koppe of the Philadelphia Phillies in town for a Cardinals game. Carroll McMillen of Kansas City reported 160 dollars in cash a 900 dollar diamond ring a 700 dollar diamond watch and a 40 dollar ring stolen.
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ST. Louis
Chase
Bobby Gene Smith
Joe Koppe
Philadelphia Phillies
St. Louis Cardinals
Smith
Koppe
Carroll McMillen
Kansas City
Kan
Army Duffel Casts Doubt in Hatchcock Mystery
Nine years after Pvt. Edsel Hatchcock was buried in Missouri, a sealed Army duffel containing his personal effects was found at an Indianapolis bus station. His parents, grieving yet hopeful, wonder if he might still be alive or an amnesia victim.
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Campbell
George Hatchcock
Korea
Indianapolis
Missouri
Pvt
Edsel Hatchcock
Clarion
Hatchcock
Mother and Daughter Die in Rural Hutchinson Crash
A mother Beverly Graber, 30, and her five year old daughter Nancy were killed when their car skidded on rain slick K96 near Hutchinson. The vehicle overturned onto railroad tracks and a Santa Fe passenger train struck it moments later.
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Hutchinson
Kas
State Highway Patrol
Santa Fe
Beverly Graber
Nancy
2-day Farm Home Show Opens At Armory This Weekend
The National Guard Armory hosts a two day Farm and Home Show starting tomorrow with 35 local businesses and 40 plus exhibits. Free entertainment includes clown and dog acts plus music. Visitors can register at the JayCee booth for nightly cash prizes.
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Cal
JayCee Booth
Gorton
Sherman-Williams
Thomas Elec
Police Course Completed by 13 Officers in 10 Week Training
Final session of a 40 hour police training school conducted by the highway patrol over 10 weeks was held last night. Certificates were awarded to all 12 city police and Merle Zimmerman of Humboldt. Mayor Dalice Rush presented certificates as City Manager R. J. Hayes and Capt. Tom Glasscock spoke on training and inter agency cooperation.
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Highway Patrol
Police Department
Merle Zimmerman
Humboldt Force
Dalice Rush
R. J. Hayes
Tom Glasscock
Hayes
Glasscock
Allen Rush
Chanute
Rush
Driver Don Sage Pleads Guilty on DWI Charge Tulsa
Tulsa driver Don W Sage was arrested by the highway patrol on DWI and failing to dim lights. He pleaded guilty in city court and was fined 135 dollars plus 5 dollars in court costs.
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Don W. Sage
Tulsa
Highway Patrol
Tribune Phone Hotline and After Hours Contact
Instructions urge readers to reach Tribune via their carrier and to call 700 after 6 p.m. for urgent contact when the primary line is unreachable.
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Tribune
Gasoline mystery halts work on Manhattan terminal project
In New York City for 15 days about 500 gallons of gasoline leak underground near the Port Authority Bus Terminal expansion on West 40th Street. Engineers cannot sink the foundation deeper while fuel flows into two 18 foot deep excavations raising fire hazards and safety efforts around the site.
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NEW York
Manhattan
West 40Th Street
Ninth Avenue
Port of New York Authority
William Bannister
Severe Weather Forecast Issued For Oklahoma Kansas Missouri
The weather bureau warned of scattered severe thunderstorms today from 1:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. across northeastern Oklahoma, north-central Oklahoma, extreme south central Kansas, southeastern Kansas, and parts of southwestern Missouri. Large hail and a tornado risk were possible along a line from Enid Oklahoma to southeast of Butler Missouri.
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Kansas City
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Enid
Okla
Butler
Weather Bureau
Three of Family Found Shot to Death in Wichita
Police report three members of the Rutledge family were found shot dead in their home, including Ronald Rutledge, his wife, and their eight year old daughter Cathy. A shotgun lay beside Ronald, and a note suggesting a family decision to dispose of property was found on the scene.
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Wichita
Ronald Rutledge
Cathy
Mas
Rip Reeves
Reeves
Police Investigate Non Injury Traffic Crash at 509 West 3rd
Police examined a non injury two vehicle crash at 509 W 3rd about 3 50 p m involving Tom Breiner sixteen of 209 Ss Kansas and Bonita Reno twenty nine of 16 W Pine Breiner passed as Reno turned Breiner 1957 Ford fender damage twenty dollars Reno 1956 Ford fender damage fifty dollars two other minor accidents were reported one driver Norma J Gildart at 812 W 4th struck a parking meter post Olive Opal Cline backing from a space on West Main scraped a car but caused no damage
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Tom Breiner
Kansas
Bonita Marie Reno
W. Pine
Breiner
Ford
Reno
Norma J. Gildart
W. 4Th
Olive Opal Cline
West Main
Doolan Sentenced To Life In Prison
Lawrence AP Ed ward Junior Doolan 33 year old ex convict sentenced to life in prison for the hammer slaying of Maud Smith 68 in her Lawrence home January 26 He pled guilty to first degree murder and was to be taken to Lansing State Prison.
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Lawrence
Kas
Edward Junior Doolan
Maud Smith
Doolan
Frank Gray
Lansing
Youth Trapped In 35 Foot Well In Burlington Ohio
Rescue teams from Ohio and West Virginia struggle to free 17 year old Luther Payne trapped in a 35 foot dry well behind his parents home. Shifting soil and collapsing walls hinder digging as onlookers crowd the scene.
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Ironton, Ohio
Ohio
West Virginia
Burlington
Luther Payne
Z. T. Earls
Hunting‘ton Fire Department
Minor Payne
Luther
Missing fishermen feared after Fall River Lake search begins
Fall River Lake near Chanute is the scene as volunteers and law enforcement, including a Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent, conduct a 2 p.m. search for Kenneth Pens and James Cottrell who disappeared after leaving to fish Saturday. The car and possible boat activity are being checked as hopes dim.
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Fall River
Chanute
Kenneth Pens
James Cottrell
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Sheriff's Office and
Highway Patrol
Jeff Coots
Pens
Cottrell
Matlock
Here
Paul Lansdowne
Corps of Engineers
Kenneth Keas
Grand Lake
Ralph Heaton Jr
Vic Robison
National Guard
Bob Fullerton
Police Department
Neosho River
Area Lakes
Osceola
Neosho
Robison
Cantrell
Severy
Death Takes Keith Richey prominent Erie businessman
Eldon Keith Richey 40 died at Mercy Hospital in Parsons after years of kidney illness. He headed Richey Drug Store, born Feb 26 1920 in Altamont, KU alumnus, WWII veteran and civic leader. Survived by wife Rita and two sons, with funeral Sunday at Federated Church and burial in East Hill Cemetery.
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Erie
Eldon Keith Richey
Mercy Hospital
Pasons
Richey Drug Store
Mr. Richey
Altamont
Earl J
Wintress Richey
Erie High School
Parsons Junior College
University of Kansas
Lawrence
Phi Kappa Psi
Federated Church
Masonic Lodge Order of the Eastern Star
American Legion
Chamber of Commerce
Neosho County
Rita Eileen Sample
Stephen Thomas
Scot Douglas
Marion
Montgomery
Ala
Ronald K
Chicago
Leland
J. M. Torrence
East Hill Cemetery
Erie Funeral Home
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Lincoln White
Llewellyn Thompson
Osage City
Durand
Geneseo
Wasser
Jim Gough
J. D. Gough
W. Elm
Jim Roberts
J. A. Roberts
W. 6Th
Pam Gray
William Gray Jr
Tennessee
Sharon Cooper
Phillip Cooper
W. Main
Gough
John Gorton
Chambers of Commerce
JayCees
Francis G. Carey
Fall River Lake
Lige Matlock
Death
Keith Richey
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