Friendship Kits Sent Overseas From Neosho County Red Cross
Neosho County chapter volunteers led by Mrs. Alice Robinson gather school and personal hygiene items to assemble friendship kits destined for under developed countries, with most going to Vietnam. Students, teachers, and parents packed kits at the Red Cross office, aiming to fill at least 100 kits using donations from a private organization and school collections.
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American Red Cross
Alice Robinson
Tim
Neosho County
W. 5Th
Vietnam
Red Cross
Robinson
Judy Erikson
Alcott
Mabel Salzman
Hutton
Dr Goddard Quits Post After 20 Years Leads FDA to Move
Washington AP The resignation of Dr James L Goddard Commissioner of Food and Drugs was announced by Welfare Secretary Wilburt J Cohen He will leave the government July 1 to move to Atlanta to join a data processing company He is 45 a career Public Health Service officer and a controversial top official.
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Washington
James L. Goddard
Food and Drugs
Wilburt J. Cohen
Goddard
Food and Drug Administration
Atlanta
Traffic Fatalities Log Reveals May 23 1968 Toll
AP report logs Kansas traffic deaths for the 24 hours to 9 am Tuesday May 23 1968. The tally notes two previously unreported fatalities and compares with the 1967 period showing 209 deaths.
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Topeka
Kansas
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha From Dust Bowl Era
In the dust bowl era of the 1930s the poor people went west in search of jobs and income. Yours.
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Cha
Jobs and Income Demands Made By Poor People
The Poor People's Campaign launches its drive for congressional action with delegations to the House and Senate. About 75 campers from Resurrection City attend House hearings on hunger while ten are sent to a Senate hearing on urban problems and others plan visits to individual lawmakers. The planned walk to JFKs grave in Arlington was apparently postponed.
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Washington
Congressional
House
Senate
Resurrection City
U.S.A
House Hear
Ings
Potomac River
John F. Kennedy
Arlington National Cemetery
Arson Case Underway in Great Bend Hearing
Ahlf testifies he helped burn the Parrish hotel in Great Bend on Oct 8 and received a car plus $650 from Maj. Gen. C. C. Parrish. Kenneth Christenden faces first degree arson. hearings set for Parrish and Ahlf with immunity offered to both. The fire destroyed the 80 year old hotel with about 18 occupants escaping. Parrish’s involvement and gifts to others are alleged.
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Great Bend
Kan
Parrish
C. C
Monte” Parrish
Thomas Ahlf
Kenneth Christenden
Ahif
Christendon
Ahlf
Sharon Patterson
Mrs. Patterson
Missing four calves reported near Earlton
Calves including a roan white faced Guernsey and Holstein were reported missing by Guy Rog ers from a pasture two miles south and one mile west of Earlton. They were last seen around 2 p.m. Saturday.
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Guy Rogers
N. Steuben
Earlton
Johnson seeks 3.9 billion for Vietnam and Korea operations
President Johnson asked Congress for a supplemental appropriation of 3.9 billion to fund military operations in Vietnam and South Korea, boosting defense spending to an estimated 762 billion for the year ending June 30. Of the total, most goes to Vietnam, with 230 million for Korea and 300 million earmarked for unforeseen emergencies. He urged urgent action and noted possible later payouts. Also requested is 791.6 million for current year civilian and military pay increases, on top of 177 million sought in March, all aligned with his January budget. FORECAST: Showers.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Vietnam
South Korea
House
John W. McCormack
Mass
McCormack
Weather notes and frost in Kansas with rain chances
Area forecast calls for cloudy with some warm air through Wednesday. Showers and thunderstorms likely tonight and Wednesday, with a 40 percent chance tonight and 60 percent Wednesday. Another record low of 37 occurred this morning, after a 44 record in 1915. Moderate frost reported in northeast Kansas early today.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Frankfort
Desige City
Garden City
Dodge City
Abilene
Eminence
Jetmore
Burdett
Kinsley
Testimony Starts In Negligence Case In Parsons
Defense testimony began in the district court jury trial of Maria Martinez versus the estate of Michial Wayne Lohse. Martinez seeks the $35,000 statutory maximum plus funeral expenses for the death of her son Horace Martinez. The accident occurred June 3 at Benders Mound west of Parsons, killing five people including the parties. Jury members listed include Kenneth Brown and others from Chanute, Parsons, and Erie.
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Maria Martinez
Michial Wayne Lohse
Ralph Debler
Guy Rush
Wayne Beech
Ronald Fowler
Charles Bohlander
Chanute
Clarence Hamilton
Lloyd Dulaney
Ralph Bowers
Thaper
Joe Volmer
Rural Parsons
Charles Bishop
Erie
Powers to aid Paris in Vietnam peace talks
Ambassador Harriman met with Charles de Gaulle at the Elysee amid rising expectations that Britain France and the Soviet Union may assist in Vietnam peace efforts. Hanoi's Xuan Thuy signaled readiness to discuss a settlement if bombing ends. Talks between Harriman and Thuy resume Wednesday as diplomats seek a broader role for external powers.
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Paris
W. Averell Harriman
Charles de Gaulle
North Vietnam
United States
Elysee Palace
Harriman
U.S
de Gaulle
Xuan Thuy
Thuy
Hanoi
Vietnam
Britain
Michael Stewart
Moscow
Andrei Gromyko
Red China
Peking
Heaviest Shelling In War by Reds Near Hue
North Vietnamese forces fired 500 mortars and 100 pound rockets at four U S headquarters near Hue in one of the heaviest coordinated shellings. The assault killed 8 U S soldiers and 21 enemy, wounded 51, with light material damage. Viet Cong shelled three provincial capitals and two allied airfields, causing at least 65 allied casualties. General Westmoreland noted rising war intensity and linked the actions to peace talks, while U S forces launched operations to seek out enemy personnel and equipment around Hue and Quang Tri City.
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Saigon
Hue
Mekong
Paris
Westmoreland
Quang Tri City
U.S
Camp Eagle
U.S. 11St Airborne Division
Screaming Eagles
Evens
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry Division
Phu Bai
Camp Evans
Johnson cites bad mouthing the country at charity event
President Johnson, speaking to Arthritis Foundation patrons in New York, used the phrase bad mouthing our country twice. He left for Washington after the address and did not tie the remarks to the campaign, though he criticized some unnamed individuals for tearing the nation down.
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Washington
Johnson
New York
Youth held in two cafe break-ins at Main Street
Charles Richard Fry a 19 year old manhattan hotel resident is held in the city jail after break ins at the Busy B Cafe 10 W Main and the West Main Cafe 21 W Main. Officers Record and Aikins recovered items from Fry including a suitcase of tobacco money and a sawed off shotgun.
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Charles Richard Fry
Manhattan Hotel
City Jail
W. Main
West Main
Sgt
C. J. Record
Ray Aikins
Police Department
Fry
West Main Cafe
Aikins
Record
Main
Lowe Announces Re election Bid for Neosho County Clerk
Virgil Lowe of Chanute declared his candidacy for re election to the Neosho county clerk post subject to the August Republican primary. He is completing his third term in office.
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Virgil Lowe
Chanute
Neosho County
Chanute Chamber Directors Approve Meetings and broadcasts plan
Chanute area chamber of commerce directors approved two actions last night. Jack Groves, chamber manager, was authorized to attend a Wichita spring meeting of Commerce Executives and lead a KCCE session on membership and scholarship programs. The board also backed a public information broadcasts plan with the local radio station.
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Chanute Area Chamber of Commerce
Jack Groves
Meeting of Commerce
Wichita
Groves
KCCE
Chamber Institute
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Capitol Hill
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Chicago
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Jackson
Nguyen Thanh le
France
Soviet Union
Reds
U.S. Air Cavalry Division
William C. Westmoreland
The
Arthritis Foundation
Larry Truster
Santa Fe Railroad
Kansas City
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Fred Harris
Industrial Committee
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Washington, D. C
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James W. Kensett
Frank Carlson
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