Troops Escape Injury in Manhattan Airport Crash
A chartered four engine airliner carrying 64 soldiers and six crew crashed on landing at Manhattan Municipal Airport. All escaped serious injury. Pilot and co pilot treated for cuts and bruises. Several troops and crew hospitalized for shock and fractures. Firefighters faced water shortages as runway and plane burned four hours after the crash.
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Manhattan
Kan
David R. Brown
Sepulveda
Calif
Joe Marlow
Riley County Hospital
Peter Raymen
Long Beach
James R. Jantz
Dorado
Ft. Riley
Camp Irwin
Barstow
4Th Cavalry
Burbank
Robert E. Fraley
Standard Airways
Blue Angels
Navy
Tomb of Unknown An American Shrine
Arlington National Cemetery holds the Tomb of the Unknowns where visitors from presidents to Cub Scouts place wreaths in memory of 480,000 Americans who died in World War I II and the Korean conflict. The first Unknown Soldier was entombed in 1921, with WWII and Korea Unknowns added in 1958 by congressional order after Edward Younger selected the caskets in France.
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Arlington National Cemetery
Potomac
Nation
U.S
Silent Legion
France
Chalons-sur- Marne
Edward F. Younger
Congress
Korea
Area Projects Are Included In Road Jobs
Gov John Anderson approved a $75 million highway program for the new fiscal year. The plan covers 585 miles of state primary and urban routes costing $33.9 million, 131 miles of interstate work at $30.7 million, and 650 miles of county secondary improvements at $10.5 million. Interstate funding is 90 percent federal, 10 percent state. primary and urban projects use 50/50 federal and state or state funds. county secondary uses 50 percent federal and 50 percent county highway tax share. County payments last year totaled $4.93 million.
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Addison H. Meschke
Highway Commission
Meschke
Salina
Wilson
Kansas
Chanute
Allen County
Neosho County
Iola
Wilson County
Fredonia
Altoona
Mrs Pflimlin Visits U S as Federation Leader
Mrs Pierre Pflimlin wife of a former French premier departs for Boston to visit the United States as president of the French Federation of American Women's Clubs Overseas She will be received by the mayors of Boston New York Milwaukee and Kansas City
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Paris
Pierre Pflimlin
Boston
Memorial Day Tragedy on U S 69 Near Pittsburg
Flowers lay along the highway after a fatal crash four miles north of Pittsburg Kansas. Dominick Mariucci 75 of Girard and a badly injured woman believed to be his wife died in a collision with a gravel truck driven by Larry Zerngast 19 of Arma. Investigators suggest the car aimed to visit a cemetery to decorate graves for Memorial Day. Zerngast sustained minor injuries.
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Dominick Mariucci
Girard
Kan
Mariucci
State Park
U. S. 69
Pittsburg
Larry Zerngast
Arma
Zerngast
Office Job To Harding At Erie County Sheriff Office
ERIE Don Harding of Erie R2 a former Neosho County treasurer has been named clerk dispatcher at the county sheriff office effective June 1 Sheriff George Neely announced Harding will replace Mrs Floyd Kelly of Chanute who resigns to become acting postmaster at Chanute The former treasurer served two terms 1955 to 1959 since January he has run a service station at Stark and spent time farming in Grant Township northeast of Erie where he grew up.
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Erie
Don Harding
Erie R. 2
Neosho County
George Neely
Harding
Floyd Kelly
Chanute
Stark
Grant Township
Memorial Day observance in Chanute features services and bike Derby
Memorial Day events in Chanute include a 10 AM Elmwood Cemetery service with a 30 minute high school band concert. The Chanute Cycle Club hosts the second annual Bike Derby from 4 to 6 PM at Royster Stadium with 15 races and participant check in at 3 PM. Local offices and mail will be closed. Tribune not published tomorrow.
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Chanute
Elmwood Cemetery
Chanute Cycle Club
Royster Stadium
the Tribune
Jury verdict favors defendants in crop damage case
In Erie district court yesterday Roy Powers and D&D Aero Spraying Co. were found not liable, ending a suit by Frank Meeks seeking 6010 in actual and punitive damages for alleged 1960 crop damage on 18 acres of melons squash corn and tomatoes from spraying on adjoining land. Costs awarded to the plaintiff. another case Crystal Thompson versus Claude Walker began selection.
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ERIE
Roy Powers
Rural Thayer
D&d Aero Spraying Co
Rantoul
Clifford
Marion Dempsey
Frank R. Meeks
Thayer
Powers
Meeks
Crystal Thompson
Claude Walker
Chanute
Rainy Memorial Day Forecast Across Kansas Area
Forecast calls for cloudiness and light rain across Kansas through Memorial Day with a north cold front bringing scattered showers and thunderstorms. Highs reach the 70s, some towns 75 to 86, and lows range from the 50s to the 60s. In Topeka, early estimates show highs around 75 to 80 and nights in the 50s to 60s.
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Topeka
Kansas
Emporia
Chanute
Garden City
Goodland
Wichita
Kennedy invites business leaders to discuss integration
President Kennedy plans a Tuesday White House meeting with about 75 executives from the North and South to address minority access to public facilities. Attorney General Kennedy has been engaging hotel and department store proprietors as civil rights momentum grows with new Supreme Court rulings and university integration moves in Alabama.
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South
Washington
White House
Pierre Salinger
Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Southern
Justice Department
Gro
Supreme Court
Birmingham
Ala
University of Alabama
Robert Kennedy
Ash Grove launches second phase of cement plant
Ash Grove Lime and Portland Cement Co opens phase two of its plant rebuilding to replace processing equipment. Two new kilns will replace seven, expanding to 450 foot length and 12 foot diameter each. Open house set for June 12 to tour a modern, centrally controlled facility designed by MacDonald Engineering.
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Ash Grove Lime & Portland Cement Co
R. M. Cox
Willis
Midwest
Chanute
Peter Kiewit Sons & Co
San Francisco
Willong
Omaha
Neb
Bill Johnson
Kiam L. Williams
At United Air Lines
United
Ash
Grove
Shelbyville, Tenn
Farm Bay
Hunt Named As Chairman Of Red Cross
The Rev. William T. Hunt was named chairman of the Neosho County American Red Cross board at the annual meeting. Milford Hall became vice chairman, with Mrs. Morris Pack as secretary and Mahlon Morley as treasurer. New directors for three-year terms include Hall, Virginia Robison, Bob Williamson, Pack, Jerry Steele, and Rev. Floyd Thus ton. A Chanute bloodmobile visit is planned for June 10–11 with a 120-pint daily quota, hours 1 to 6 15 p.m. June 10 and 8 a.m. to 1 15 p.m. June 11. Erie is not on the schedule.
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William T. Hunt
First Presbyterian Church
Neosho County
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Memorial Building
Milford Hall
Erie
Morris Pack
Mahlon Morley
Hall
Virginia Robison
Thayer
Bob Williamson
Stark
Pack
Jerry Steele
Floyd Thuston
Chanute
Walter Johnstone
Kansas University Medical Center
Kansas City
Mercy Hospital
Fort Scott
Lahette County Medical Center
Parsons
Richard Baker Hospital
Hickory
N.C
Stormont Vail
Topeka
Lesses
Lions Club
Humboldt
Ernest Kepley
HDA
Don Abbueh
George Riker
Lee Montgomery
Danny Brown
al Goodwin
Eugene Conklin
Camp Fellowship
Wichita
Jane Brenner
Shery Ogle
Four-Way Stop Installed In Effingham Hit By Car
Effingham health and safety commissioner Robert Dirks had a four way stop sign placed at the U S Highway 40 and Willow Avenue intersection last week as a safety measure. A motorist ran the sign Tuesday, colliding with Dirks’ car and causing about 100 dollars in damage. Dirks was not hurt.
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Effingham, Ill
Robert Dirks
Plant overhaul to renew facilities by 18 months
Richard Willis plant superintendent said the project will take 18 months to complete and will make all plant facilities new since 1959 except the power house and some storage bins. The first phase was finished in 1959 with new crushing and raw materials storage and six truck bulk-loading silos added to cement storage.
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Willis
Richard Willis
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William C. Bryant
Pfc
John Sturvie
Kenosha, Wis
John J. Adams
Cambria
Sgt. Hill
Washington (Ap
Arlington Times
John Anderson
API
Ig Ae
Ash Grove
MacDonald Engineering Co
Chicago
A M,. Cox
Ash Grove Cement Co
Hunt
Ray Walker
State Department
National Red Cross
Jack van Wickle
Carl Ranabargar
Homes Service
Air Lines
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