09 May 1964
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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1964
Page
1
Downtown Chanute residents discuss promoting better housing and location for the Safari Museum. Galbraith says move it for accessibility, while Zimmerman and Beal favor keeping or relocating only if beneficial. Some suggest Santa Fe Park as a new home.
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A screaming tornado ripped southeastern Michigan Friday killing at least nine people and injuring hundreds. The storm damaged about 1000 homes in Chesterfield Township and the Pontiac to Chesterfield area, with $4 to $5 million in damage. Gov. Romney joined rescue workers as vaccines were rushed and residents urged to boil water.
In Philadelphia at Aquarama, Duane Estelle Meile and Ralph Klotz Jr. wed 15 feet beneath the surface. The Navy groom wore dress blues and the bride a silken gown as a dolphin swam nearby. The ceremony was conducted by Rev. James L. Lowe with 50 to 100 guests watching from outside the tank.
Industrialist Arthur Vining Davis death leaves a $86,629,282.83 fair market value in Dade County with 381 assets tallied. Executors filed the judgment in court noting most of his fortune goes to charitable trusts, education and science. Davis built Aluminum Co of America into an industrial giant before dying in 1962. His will also left Evelyn Mitchell a million and Journey's End estate to her. No indication if the estimate is erroneous or if holdings declined since.
The Dodge City Marshal's Posse will send 18 members to Dallas on June 24 to represent Kansas in the parade at the national convention of the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
A 16 year old bride Sissy Dawson and 23 year old groom Charles Morrow planned a nude wedding at Sunny Acres Nudist camp in Delray Beach Florida. Miami lawyers and invited guests would attend bare, with a four tier cake and reception under palms. The ceremony was to be conducted by Paul Kwitney and followed by a non Roman holiday style honeymoon.
Evangelist Billy Graham told about 23 000 at Balboa Stadium to show their wives love by giving their life to Christ and rekindle love. He called divorce and broken homes the No 1 social problem in America and urged husbands to be lovers.
From Lawrence High School Kansas students Erik Olin Wright and Philip Pad en placed among the National Science Fair winners in Baltimore. Both were taught by Mrs Margaret McReynolds. Wright's project analyzed twists in a Mobius band and Paden's studied stimulus induced changes in the synaptic complex. Awards were given at a concluding banquet.
Mrs. Melba Hamilton 48 of Fort Worth Texas died when eight cars and two trucks tangled on U S 24 three miles west of Topeka in a dust storm. Donald Jensen 35 of Rossville and Mrs. Lavenna Black 38 of St Marys were injured as gale winds whipped dust, reducing visibility to zero at times and causing multiple collisions among the pileups and wreckage.
John Freeman of Chanute Junior College won the adult division with an untitled oil at the 12th annual Community Arts and Crafts Fair held in Murray Hill school auditorium. Additional awards went to Dr. J. W. Kensett second for Autumn Form and Paul Eck third for an untitled watercolor.
In Topeka area the dust kicked up by a front brought gusts to 60 mph Friday trailing a fatal automobile crash on U S 24. Today calm to 15 mph winds and a forecast of clear to partly cloudy skies. Highs today mid 70s, Sunday 80s, lows 45 to 50 in north and west, 50s elsewhere. Relative humidity 35 percent, barometer 28.99 falling. Area forecast calls for partial cloudiness and little temperature change.
Police arrested Judy Frizzell of Car Junction Missouri yesterday on a charge of shoplifting. She was released on a $25 bond with a hearing set for 3 30 p.m. May 14 in city court. The A P grocery filed the complaint. Police said two cartons of cigarettes and two pounds of coffee were allegedly taken.
An intercepted missive muses on two couples reaching their 50th wedding anniversaries. One marriage is described as wed under water and the other in the nude, prompting reflections on love and longevity in a playful, era voice.
A Chanute post office Saturday window service cutback was canceled, announced today by postmaster Florence Kelley. The earlier plan to reduce Saturday hours is no longer in effect and service will continue as before.
Warren and Leona Dorland managers of the Tioga Hotel and Vivian Sloan Metcalf manager of the Santa Fe Club were arrested on charges of operating an open saloon. Bonds posted set at 350 for the Dorlands and 150 for Metcalf with hearings scheduled in city court May 18 and 20 respectively. County Attorney Pennington filed injunctions against the hotel.
FBI links revolver ownership and insured policy to a man who boarded the plane before it crashed near Concord California. The cockpit voice recorder captured the pilot saying he was shot. investigators probe if other crew were hit as ten CAB teams and FBI forces work at the scene.
In Concord California authorities disclosed that the pilot of a Pacific Air Lines plane involved in a crash had been shot earlier. The revelation points to a chain of coincidences tied to the deadly incident as investigators review flight data and possible motives.
Two men died and five others injured in two crashes five miles northeast of Leavenworth on the Missouri 45 cutoff. Victims were William Tate 21 Tracy Mo and Albert Buckler Platte City Mo. Tate died after a second car driven by George Poer Leavenworth collided with Tate’s wrecked auto. Wanda Lindsay Kansas City seriously hurt. Poer, Ledra Poer 50 John Felix 66 Kathleen Martin 36 all Leavenworth hurt.
Clayton Wells Sr of Chanute was arrested after a highway crash on K39 two miles west of here. He faces charges of leaving the scene of an injury accident driving during suspension of his license and permitting an unlicensed minor to drive. Wells is held at the city jail awaiting hearing or bond. Elmer Dobbs, new business manager of the Southeast Kansas Tuberculosis Hospital, received minor injuries and was cited by the patrol for improper passing.
Kansas traffic death log reports 189 fatalities in the 24 hours to 9 am Saturday for May 16 1964, compared with 157 in the same period of 1963.
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