VC Knocked Out In Savage Fighting
In central Viet Nam near the coast ten miles north of Bong Son and 280 miles northeast of Saigon, a reinforced Communist battalion was said to be annihilated over two days of savage fighting in Operation Davy Crockett. U S forces reported 416 enemy dead, with 332 killed Thursday and Friday by the 1st Cavalry and 84 more by Vietnamese troops. Also noted were rail bridge damage near Hanoi and B52 strikes near the Cambodian border. Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky said he would remain in office for at least a year.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Viet Nam
Bong Son
South China Sea
Nguyen Cao Ky
U.S. Air Force
Bac Giang
Hanoi
China
Air Force
U.S. 1St Infantry Division
Kansas Members Vote on Space Noise Study and Appropriation
AP reports Kansas Republicans participated in three roll calls. On a 90 to 271 vote to earmark 20 million of a space agency bill for aircraft noise study, Dole Ellsworth Mize Shriver Shubitz opposed and Ellsworth did not vote on the motion 271. In a 143 to 236 vote against a 5 percent cut in the Labor and Welfare appropriation, Dole Ellsworth Mize Shriver Skubitz voted for the motion. The final passage of the 10.5 billion Labor and Welfare bill saw Dole Ellsworth Mize Shriver Skubitz voting for the measure.
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Washington
Kansas
House of Representatives
Wydler
R-N. Y
Dole
Mize
Shriver
Shubitz
Ellsworth
Lowest Price For Liquor Law Upheld
The Kansas Supreme Court upheld a 1961 law requiring liquor manufacturers to sell to Kansas distributors at the lowest price charged elsewhere in the United States. The ruling ends a five year legal battle and reverses a Shawnee County District Court decision. The minimum price provision for Kansas distributors remains in effect, while the lowest price clause has not yet taken effect due to the challenge.
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Topeka
Kansas Supreme Court
Kansas
United States
Shawnee County
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Weather Warning
The first grand weekend weatherwise for sometime will find the highways swarming with motorists. Be alert and drive carefully.
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Cha
Jolt Stock Market Sheds Record Loss After GM News
The week long stock downturn tied the May 1962 drop as the Dow fell 30.85 to 902.83 amid volatile trading. A late GM decision to resume plants steadied losses, but the AP average dropped to 331.8, its lowest since last August. Analysts linked officials' anti inflation talk to market uncertainty.
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New York
General Motors
Dow
Associated Press
Pork Purchases Set to Rise by Defense Department
The Defense Department and Agriculture Department announced a reversal of a prior order to cut hog and pork purchases. Prices had fallen since January, prompting a plan to increase pork purchases for feeding troops, with timing not specified.
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Washington
Defense Department
Robert S. McNamara
Orville L. Freeman
Continental
United States
Armed Services
Pentagon
No Fingerprints For Draft Tests Washington Ap
The Selective Service said draft deferment test takers will not be fingerprinted. Earlier officials had planned fingerprinting to ensure only eligible persons take the exams used by local boards to determine draft classifications.
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Washington
The
Selective Service
Top Spellers in Kansas Gather for 13th All-Kansas Bee
Spellers from 92 Kansas counties competed today in the 13th annual all-Kansas spelling bee sponsored by the Topeka Daily Capital. The event drew students from across the state to vie for top honors.
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Torntka
Kansas Counties
Topeka
Six Pigs Killed at Larry Fox Farm in Walnut
Six head of sixty pound shoats were killed last night at the Larry Fox farm in Walnut. Three other pigs were badly injured in what sheriff's deputies say may have been a wild animal or dog pack attack.
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Erie
Larry Fox
Walnut
Sheriff's Office
Unseasonably warm in Kansas with modest cooling on Sunday
Area forecast calls for fair and warm conditions tonight then partly cloudy and warm Sunday. Lows near 60 tonight with highs 85 to 90 Sunday, while northern Kansas is expected to see a 5 to 10 degree drop. TOPEKA AP reports temperatures today surged across the state before a moderation ahead.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Help Needed To Find Arm
WOLVERHAMPTON England AP Jack Cook a 64 year old messenger seeks help tracing a lost arm missing since November. He sent his artificial arm to the Ministry of Health for repairs but received a false leg instead, belonging to another man named Jack Cook in Coventry. He has been promised a replacement arm if the old one cannot be found.
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Wolverhampton
England
Jack Cook
Cook
The
Ministry of Health
Coventry
Stolen Ford Found Empty After Theft Near Byers
A 1952 Ford owned by Jim Huss of the Byers rock crusher was stolen Thursday night from a Byers parking area. Huss reported the loss at 11:15 a.m. yesterday. The car was found about 30 minutes later on Lafayette north of Churchill. the tank and crankcase were dry but the motor still ran.
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Jim Huss
Byers Rock Crusher
Huss
Lafayette
Churchill, Inc
Libel Suit Filed by Sen Dodd Against Pearson and Anderson
Sen Thomas J Dodd files a $5 million conspiracy and libel suit in U S District Court alleging mis conduct by columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson For the first time the case centers on accusations that Dodd was unfit to be a senator tied to foreign interests involved in improper campaign fund use The Senate Ethics Committee will review the charges and set hearings with dates to be announced Pearson says the suit enables subpoenas and vows a thorough defense also noting IRS probe over whether diner gifts were campaign funds or tax free gifts from 1961 1963 and 1965 figures.
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Washington
Thomas J. Dodd
Drew Pearson
Jack Anderson
U.S. District Court
Dodd
Connecticut Democrat
Klein
Pearson
Senate Ethics Committee
Senate
Johnson
Hubert H. Humphrey
Internal Revenue Service
Anderson
Allen Is Losing Fight on Cancer
Robert Allen a 29 year old Tucson insurance executive is in terminal condition at St. Josephs Hospital after an experimental cancer tissue exchange. Doctors say the pelvic osteogenic sarcoma has spread and time is limited. The patient remains conscious and hopes to beat the cancer despite the death of his exchange partner Harry Griffith.
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Tucson, Ariz
Robert Allen
Tucson
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Allen
Harry T. Griffith
Flourtown
Griffith
Buffalo, N.Y
University of Illinois
Miss Chanute 1965 Nicki McGuire in Miss USA bid
Nicki McGuire, Miss Chanute 1965, is among 31 finalists in the Miss Kansas Pageant at Overland Park. The winner advances to Miss USA finals in Miami Beach with all expenses paid, including round trip passage and a chaperone.
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Nicki
Miami Beach
Fla
Nicki McGuire
Chanute
Miss McGuire
J. M. McGuire
W. 4Th
Overland Park
Brookridge Country Club
Kansas City
Miami
Miss Chanute Represented In Ottawa Pageant Event
Miss Chanute 1963 Martha McCoy left Chanute at noon with Mr and Mrs Sutcliffe Sydney Naughton Moyer to attend the Miss America Parade in Ottawa at 2 30 PM. Transportation by Ranz Motor Co. Debbie Bryant of Kansas leads the Miss America parade before the Miss Ottawa Pageant tonight.
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Ron Sutcliffe
Sydney Naughton Moyer
Chanute
Anonymous Donor Gives $5,000 to Missouri Synod
An unnamed donor mailed a $5,000 cash gift in old twenty dollar bills to the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church in St. Louis. The donor, who said he saved the money for 25 years, asked the funds be used for foreign mission work. International treasurer Milton Carpenter said the gift will support a special Nigeria mission project.
Pittsburg Man Killed Working Near Dighton
Henry Brown 53 of Pittsburg Kansas, a lineman for Plains Electric Engineering Co., died after touching a high voltage power line while atop a pole on a construction project near Dighton. Police and company officials investigated the fatal incident.
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Dighton, Kan
Henry Brown
Pittsburg
Kan
The
Plains Electric Engineering Co
Brown
Dighton
Time extended for Zimmer appeal in Johnson abduction case
Shawnee County Atty says disclosure of Gladys Johnson involvement in multiple abduction cases irrelevant to William Frederick Zimmer’s kidnapping and murder conviction. Zimmer seeks extra time to explore possible links to a 1962 Seward County rape case involving Charles Kemp and to secure a new trial for Kemp.
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Topeka
Shawnee County
Robert D. Hecht
Gladys Johnson
William Frederick Zimmer
Zimmer
Johnson
Seward County
Charles Kemp
Henry E. Hermann
Kan
Kemp
Hermann
Pomeroy
Supreme Court Takes Juco Tuition Case for Original Jurisdiction
The Supreme Court has assumed original jurisdiction in a case over the 1965 community junior college law requiring counties to pay tuition for residents who attend junior colleges in other counties. Oral arguments are set for the week of June 6. The test case was filed by Atty. Gen. Robert C. Londerholm with Rawlings County as defendants. He says 52 counties have refused to pay all or part of the bills, while officials dispute the law’s constitutionality and claim lack of funds.
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Topeka
Kansas Supreme Court
James R. James
Supreme Court
Atty
Robert C. Londerholm
Rawlings County
Londerholm
Coffeyville Woman Killed in U S 166 Crash
Susie Lucille Glidewell, 73, of Coffeyville, died Friday in an auto collision four miles east of Coffeyville on U S 166. The crash involved Floyd M. Hey of Coffeyville driving the Hey car crossing the highway and Dr. Luis A. Toro of Fort Supply Oklahoma driving another car. Hey Toro and three members of Toro's family were injured but not seriously.
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Coffeyville
Kan
Susie Lucille Glidewell
Here
U.S. 166
Glidewell
Floyd M. Hey
Highway Patrol
Luis A. Toro
Fort Supply
Okla
Hey
Toro
Traffic Fatalities Log From Topeka County 1965 66
The Topeka Kansas traffic death log records 24 hour figures from 9 a m Saturday May 5 1966 showing 192 deaths in 1965 and 203 deaths in 1965.
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Topeka
Kansas
Students End 3 Day Fast at William Jewell College
Four teen students and Professor Edgar Chasteen ended a three day fast at Liberty Missouri. The group aimed to raise awareness on world population and hunger issues. Six withdrew after 48 hours and total weight loss was reported at about 80 pounds. Funds saved on meals were donated to the Greater Kansas City Planned Parenthood Association.
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Liberty, Mo
William Jewell College
Edgar Chasteen
Fessor
Dr. Chasteen
Greater
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