Nine indicted in Topeka grand jury case on cost share schemes
Federal grand jury indictments reported from Topeka name Neal W. McCoy Chanute Dale Kaufman Humboldt and seven others for alleged false statements in applying for cost share payments tied to aerial spraying to control shrubs. Clayton H. Pugh Jr. Chanute charged with mail fraud. McCoy and Pugh deny knowledge and say they have not been officially notified.
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Topeka
Associated Press
Chanute
Humboldt
Neal W. McCoy
Dale Kaufman
Howard R. Cole
Oswego
Edson Swearingen
Cherryvale
Charles A. LeMaster
Ottawa
Ernest DeLange
Girard
Bob Johnson
Garland
Marion A. Dempsay
Rantoul
Kaley Blythe
Uniontown
Clayton H. Pugh Jr
McCoy
Pugh
the Tribune
Pioneer Retiring From Air Force Academy
Brig. Gen. Robert F. McDermott dean of faculty at the U S Air Force Academy since 1956 retires on his 48th birthday July 31 to join a San Antonio Texas auto insurance firm. He is the last remaining member of the original staff who organized the school at Denver Lowry AFB in 1954 before the current campus opened near Colorado Springs.
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AIR Force Academy
Colo
Robert F. McDermott
U.S. Air Force Academy
San Antonio, Tex
McDermott
Denver
Lowry Air Force Base
Colorado Springs
Deaths and Funerals in area including Garrison McKinsey Owen
Earl Vincent Garrison 71 of Iola died at Neosho Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. He served in World War I and is survived by his wife Helen Lamb, a son William Eugene Lamb, four grandchildren, and several siblings. Raymond McKinsey 66 died at Labette County Medical Center after four days as a patient. he had been married to Mary Garrison and lived in California before moving to Thayer. Lydia Owen funeral set at 2 pm Monday in Erie with burial in Bethel Cemetery. she was born 1883 and married Alfred Owen in 1911 and later lived in Missouri and Valley Falls before moving to Chanute. Survivors include two sons Elmer and Verne, four grandchildren, and a sister. Burial arrangements and funeral details given for all.
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Earl Vincent Garrison
Earl Vincent Garison
R. 3
Iola
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Owen C. Garrison
Cato
Helen Lamb
Carthage
Ash Grove Cement Company
VFW
Chanute
William Eugene Lamb
Wichita
Glen Garrison
Landers
Calif
Arthur
Gerald Garrison
Raymond McKinsey
Carl Studebaker
Thayer
Chester Henderson
Mattie Banker
North Hollywood
Gibson-Koch Chapel
Edgar Rains
Elmwood Cemetery
Labette County Medical Center
Parsons
Humboldt
Edward McKinsey
Mary Garrison
Erie
California
Humboldt Brick and Tile Company
McKinsey
Thayer Christian Church
James
Paola
Edward
Evelyn Grogan
William
Pioneer
Edgar
Sunnyvale
Bea Whitworth
Chetopa
Thayer Cemetery
Robison
United Methodist Church
Elmer
Verne Owen
Bakersfield
Marie Wegner
Higginsville
Hospital Listing and Friday Admissions at Neosho Memorial
Daily Transcript notes Neosho Memorial Hospital hours 2 to 4 p m and 6 30 to 8 p m. Census shows 68 patients including adults children and two babies. Friday admissions include Mrs Ray Wilson 815 S Evergreen medical Mrs Ruth Cragg 815 W Main medical James Lightfoot 731 S Grant medical Mrs Hazel Siebert 1002 S Malcolm medical. A birth to Mr and Mrs Robert Collins Stark a boy. Dismissals include Brian Burk R 2 Timothy Yockey Humboldt Floyd Ellis Eureka. Admission today Mrs Marion Bailey R 4 medical.
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Neosho
Brian Burk
Timothy Yockey
Humboldt
Floyd Ellis
Eureka
Marion Bailey
Officers Installed By Devoted Mothers
The Devoted Mothers Club held a spring luncheon and officers installation at the Orchid Buffet on Friday afternoon with seventeen members. Mrs. L. W. Bircher was elected president, a cook out for husbands was scheduled for May 25 at Santa Fe Park, and Mrs. David Ports chairs the event. Mrs. Gerald Rowan read poems about mothers, and a gift was given to retiring president Mrs. Bircher. Mrs. Dick Crown won the door prize, with hostesses Mrs. Max Tharp and Mrs. Kenneth Alger.
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Devoted Mothers Club
Santa Fe Park
David Ports
Gerald Rowan
Bircher
Dick Crown
Max Tharp
Kenneth Alger
Modesto Sailor Serves Aboard Navy Swift Boat In Vietnam
Sammy D Huffman son of the late Otis and Mrs Gladys Huffman of Modesto California serves aboard a Navy swift boat in the Vietnam combat zone. The boat operates close to shore with a crew trained for combat and to provide medical aid and protection to locals. Huffman graduated Chanute High School in 1966.
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Sammy D. Huffman
Otis Huffman
Gladys Huffman
Modesto
Calif
Vietnam
Huffman
Chanute High School
Keller Assigned Quality Advisor at Defense Depot Ogden Utah
Capt Tom D Keller USAF is named quality advisor in storage and transportation at Defense Depot Ogden Utah. He is a Chanute native and graduate of Chanute Junior College and Emporia State College with an Associate Arts degree. He and his wife Kay and children Aaron and Anie live on depot grounds. His parents are Mr and Mrs Clem Keller 611 S Kansas. Bill Baker a newspaper distributor reports a missing newspaper rack from in front of the 14th Street Cafe. Mrs Forest Richardson 302 S Larson returns Thursday from a visit with her mother Eva Blair College Springs Iowa.
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Tom D. Keller
USAF
Defense Depot
Ogden
Utah
Chanute
Chanute Junior College
Emporia State College
Emporia
Keller
Kay
Aaron
Anie
Clem Keller
S. Kansas
Forest Richardson
S. Larson
Eva Blair
College Springs
Iowa
Sixty seven attend senior citizens meeting
Sixty seven members and visitors attended the Senior Citizens meeting and covered dish dinner Friday afternoon in the Memorial Building. Rev C Edgar Rains of the United Brethren Church in Christ gave the invocation and spoke after the meal. Visitors included Mrs Wilma Solomon, Mr and Mrs Ed Carpenter, Mrs Ethel Sullivan and Mrs Eunice Campbell, Ottawa. The May 24 gathering will celebrate Mothers Day Fathers Day and birthdays in April May and June.
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Memorial Building
C. Edgar Rains
United Brethren Church In Christ
Rains
Wilma Solomon
Howard
Ed Carpenter
Ethel Sullivan
Eunice Campbell
Ottawa
Delegates Named At American Legion Auxiliary Meeting
Delegates were chosen for the state convention in Kansas City Kansas June 29 and 30 with Mrs Margaret Rausch and others listed as delegates. Alternates were named and a nominating committee appointed. A district convention report followed a covered dish dinner with guest Mrs Zella Luke. Ankara has been the capital of Turkey since 1923 and Bursa was the first Ottoman capital.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Memorial Building
Margaret Rausch
Kenneth Cumings
Fred Heinze
Nelle Stevens
Adah McCune
Kansas City
Kan
Mmes. Rausch
William Bowker
Roy Williams
I. O. Minniear
Dorothy Rauhoff
Daisy Jordan
Iva Jones
Opal Kline
Cumings
Ethel Eaton
Mines
Roscoe Offenbacker
Heinze
Opal
Ankara
Turkey
Social Calendar Highlights Local Club Meetings and Events
May 13 features St. Cecilia Music Club luncheon at Orchid Buffet 1 p.m. and EHU meetings in multiple rooms of Memorial Building. Santa Fe Women’s Federation and Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary events listed. Duplicate Bridge at Home Savings 7:15 p.m. May 14 shows PTA dinner, Ladies of the GAR activities, and several church circles with start times from 7:30 p.m. to 9 a.m. Textile Paint Club in North Malcolm 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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St. Cecilia Music Club
EHU
M. C. Phillips Jr
S. Kansas
First National Bank
Chamber of Commerce
Memorial Building
International
Ameren of Legion Auxiliary
Legion Auxiliary
Santa Fe Women's Federation
Carpenters Hall
Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary
Duplicate Bridge Club
Home Savings
Bible Quiz Questions on Faith and Scripture
A reader quiz lists questions about Barnabas and Pauls dispute over a cousin, James prayers, a city meaning well of oath, a blind patriarch betrayed by his son, and a verse on judging. It notes scoring with four correct or three correct.
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Lavina Ross Fowler
Barnabas
Jerusalem
Paul
Jesus
Peter
James
Dan
Colfax WMS Meeting at Thompson Home
Mrs Blanche Thompson hosted the Colfax Baptist Church WMS gathering with Mrs Glen Hanson presiding. Year books were distributed by Mrs Quentin Anderson and Mrs Don Anderson. White Cross chairmen Mrs Myron Cooper and Mrs E M Pearson solicit clothes for the needy. Maxine Stoll dedicated the love gift offering.
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Blanche Thompson
WMS
Colfax Baptist Church
Glen Hanson
Quentin Anderson
Don Anderson
Myron Cooper
E. M. Pearson
White Cross
Maxine Stoll
Don Horton
Mmes
Gordon Erickson
Charles Peay
Tracy Smith
Service Pins Presented By Masons In Wichita
Judge Thomas C. Baum Jr. and Grand Lodge officers attended a Masonry ceremony at the Masonic Temple in Wichita. Vernon L. Defebaugh presented 25 year service emblems to seven of 14 eligibles while nine of eleven 50th anniversary observants received pins from Grand Master Raum. A High School girls trio performed and Rainbow for Girls served refreshments. Joe F. received a 25 year pin.
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Thomas C. Baum Jr
Wichita
Grand Master of
Kansas Masons
Grand Lodge
Masonic Temple
Vernon L. Defebaugh
Cedar Lodge
Raum
Order of Rainbow
Notable 25 and 50 year pins awarded in Chanute ceremony
Chanute residents Balch Legge Neal Munger Pulliam Steinman Thompson and Merle Elston received 25 year pins. absent were Oscar Bell Charles Berry Edwin Cathers Virgil Dillion Forest Koerting Frank Percy Robert Ramage. Those receiving 50 year pins included Clyde Bishop Chester Blackwood Fred Foster John Hargrave Fred Johnson Delmar Keath Leif Nelson R D Johnson. Charles Hawks of Boulder and Cole. Floyd Johnson and Raymond Pierpont earned 50 year pins but were not present. The Chanute Tribune details staff and pricing information.
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Fred R. Foster
John Hargrave
Fred C. Johnson
Delmar Keath
Leif R. Nelson
R. D. Johnson
Chanute
Charles E. Hawks
Boulder
Cole
Floyd L. Johnson
Raymond Pierpont
Beirut's American University Founded in 1866
The American University of Beirut in Lebanon, a leading regional institution, traces its origins to 1866. Damascus, the capital of Syria, hosts approximately 250 mosques, reflecting the region's dense religious sites.
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The
American University of
Beirut
Lebanon
Middle East
Damascus
Capital of
Syria
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Daily Transcript
Gibson- Koch
North Forest
Roy S. Gibson
Clifford L. Gibson
Istanbul
Aleppo
Hotel Tioga
Bill Baker
14Th Street
Bursa
Colfax Wms
Thompson
Southeastansas
Southeast Kansas Area Vocational Technical School
Coffeyville
SeKan Area
Vo-Tech School
Roosevelt Street
Family Shopping
Mala
Hersheys
Pillsbury’s Lemony Chill
Washington
U.S.D.A
Swift
Macau Coe
Hunt
JCE
Coca Cola Ea
Oleo Sale
Tastee Olson
Pillsbury
Bain’s
Bremil
Morton
Olson
Masons
Joe F
Chanute Tribune
Kansas
S. Hind McCreieses
Dwight Wallin
Wayne J. Smith
R. D. Markham
Ben Nicholas Composing
Dorsey Osborn Press
Stereo
Fmn
Allen, Wilson and Woodson
Member
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Caldwell
Santa Fe
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