Chanute City Commission splits on pavilion design plan
In a 2 to 1 vote the Chanute city commission retained Jim Blessing to design supervise and write specs for the Central Park pavilion with a nine percent fee of total cost. Bonds of 35000 were approved but total project cost is undecided. Evans opposed citing limited funds and better uses for the money.
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Jim Kensett
Fred Harris
Blessing
Dave Evans
Evans
Kensett
Harris
Debate Limit Set for Voting Rights Bill
The Senate adopted a one hour speaking limit on the voting rights bill with 70 for and 30 against to limit debate. Debate began April 22 and leaders hoped for passage by Wednesday or tonight despite many senators not using their time.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
Traffic Fatalities Log for Topeka May 1965
Kansas traffic death log reports counts for May 1965 with totals of 32 for the 24 hours to 9 am Tuesday and 220 for the year through 1965. One death was a delayed report from Friday night.
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Topeka
Kansas
Mystery jet raid strikes Gia Linh outpost near the 17th Parallel
Jets strafed Gia Linh, five miles from the 17th Parallel, wounding five Vietnamese and destroying a truck. U.S. and Vietnamese officials disagreed on aircraft type, with some saying MIGs, others US fighters, amid ongoing North Vietnamese raids and a large US bombing campaign at the time.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Gia Linh
da Nang
Bose
Nguyen Chanh Thi
Hanoi
North Viet Nam
Vinh
Ruby describes stimulant pill use before Oswald killing
Jack Ruby testified at a sanity hearing that he took about 30 antibiotic pills and other stimulants after awakening on Sunday, November 24, 1963, and feared he would be linked to a conspiracy with Oswald. He said the torment over Kennedy’s death haunted him as attorney Joe Tonahill was removed from his case.
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Dallas
Tex
Jack Ruby
Lee Harvey Oswald
Oswald
Ruby
Kennedy
Joe Tonahill
Tonahill
Louis T. Holland
Montague
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Missing Plane Search Expands Across Missouri
Civil Air Patrol teams interviewed residents overnight in two areas as part of the search for Sgt. Doyle Caudle a 33 year old ROTC instructor from Kansas State University. Caudle reportedly stopped during a rainstorm at Bolivar airport on his flight from Manhattan to McCrory Arkansas. The mission’s information officer Capt Hazel Griffin said the search zones were Aldrich ten miles southwest of Bolivar and the corridor between Halfway and Buffalo east of Bolivar.
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Civil Air Patrol
Doyle Caudle
Kansas State University
Bolivar Airport
Manhattan
McCrory
Ark
Hazel Griffin
Aldrich
Bolivar
Halfway
Buffalo
Body of Youth Found in Sand Pit
Hilary Villarreal a 16 year old Garden City boy was found dead in a sand pit near the site where he disappeared during a fishing trip with two companions. Sheriff Kenneth Wicks said the body surfaced around 10 am after an intensive search of the area. One of the boys with Villarreal reported waking Sunday to find him missing.
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Garden City Kan
Hilary Villarreal
Garden City
Kenneth Wicks
Villarreal
Space Bird Orbits Pegasus 2 Satellite After Saturn 1 Launch
Saturn 1 roared to life at Cape Kennedy in darkness, delivering Pegasus 2 to a 320 to 460 mile high orbit. The 96 foot wingspan satellite deployed wings and transmitted telemetry as observers watched from Antigua via space television.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Space
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
West Indies
Antigua
Atlantic
Weather area forecast and storm totals across Kansas
Weather area forecast calls for considerable cloudiness with scattered afternoon and night thunderstorms through Wednesday and minimal temperature change. Reports from Monday show heavy showers across north central and central Kansas with top totals in Burlingame 2.20 inches and Phillipsburg 2.10 inches, plus Brookville and Lebanon area tornadoes with no reported damage.
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Topeka
Kansas
North Central
Central
WaKeeney
Norton-Phillipsburg
Wichita
Burlingame
Phillipsburg
Libera
Cimarron
Brookville
Lebanon
Esbon
Weather Bureau
Four Miners Trapped as Rescue Resumes at Tennessee Mine
Rescue work restarted at the Cumberland plateau coal mine near Robbins Tennessee for four men believed trapped after a Monday blast. A fifth miner’s body had been found earlier as officials cleared gas and dust with two large fans. Three rescuers were hospitalized after gas exposure. Federal and state inspectors indicated likely fatalities. rescue teams stood by with breathing apparatus as air pockets and gas pockets lingered.
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East Tennessee
Cumberland Plateau
Oneida
Here
Charlie Welch
Highland Telephone Co
Government reverses course on 45 million silver dollars
The government announced it would not mint 45 million silver dollars despite plans to roll the coins from the Denver Mint. Treasury and Congress backed the decision amid coin shortages and dwindling silver stocks, with opposition from Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and House subcommittee members.
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Washington
Denver
Treasury
Johnson
Congress
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Robert A. Wallace
the Treasury
House
Senate
Intercepted Letter Reveals Mother's Programming Shift
A letter suggests changes to summer TV schedules beginning after school ends this week. It mentions new full runs and many reruns as part of the programming update.
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Mothers
Policy guide to limit school tax increases in Kansas districts
The state will tighten policy for districts seeking to exceed the 104 percent cost limit under the foundation program. A three member review board led by Ade Throckmorton will approve exceptions, with capital improvements and unified district costs restricted. An outside accountant may screen appeals before board review as state funding rises to about 40 percent of program costs.
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Topeka
Ade. F. Throckmorton
Bibb
Foundation
Martin Family Heads South for Wheat Harvest to Canada
The Tony Martin family, following the wheat ripening from Oklahoma to Canada, migrate annually for over 20 years. This year they travel with six combines, 11 adults, five children, including one year old twins, as they depart on the long harvest route equipped to harvest around 1600 miles away.
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Clonmel
Kan
Tony Martin
Red River
Oklahoma
Canada
Gene
Martin
Gene Martin
North Dakota
Martin Harvesters
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Edgar Rains
United Brethren
Christchurch
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Springfield, Mo
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Frank Dexter
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