Fredonia Teen Wiggans Crowned Chanute Area Junior Miss
Teri Wiggans of Fredonia was crowned Chanute Area Junior Miss at Memorial Auditorium. She also won youth fitness. first runner up Linda Guenther from Midway Altoona took talent honors with a reading from This Property Is Condemned. Miss Sharp and Miss Guenther shared Miss Congeniality.
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Teri Wiggans
Fredonia
Chanute Area
Memorial Auditorium
Miss Wiggans
Tor Wiggans
al Guiot
Linda Guenther
Midway-Altoona
Tennessee Williams
Wiggans
Anne of the
Sheila Sharp
Gunether
Miss Sharp
Miss Guenther
Dale Sharp
Richard Guenther
Benedict
Robin Black
R. 1
Kansas
Miss Black
Campus clash leaves one dead at Wilberforce
In Wilberforce Ohio about 40 students from Wilberforce and Central State University fought after a movie. Mantel Crenshaw 22 was shot in the shoulder and killed. Two other students were injured as deputies faced stones and firebombs during the incident near Shorter Hall.
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Wilberforce, Ohio
Greene County Sheriff's
Wilberforce University
Mantel Crenshaw
Kenton
Wilberforce
Central State University
Shorter Hall
Fatal two car crash near Girard claims Chanute woman
Gladys P. Lowery 65 of Chanute died after a 3:30 p.m. Saturday collision 2.5 miles east of Girard on K57. Three others injured were Denise Heaton 16 Sharon Bennett 15 and Dora Hatch 53 all treated at area hospitals.
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Gladys P. Lowery
Girard
Denise R. Heaton
Sharon L. Bennett
Dora B. Hatch
Leavenworth
Lowery
Mt. Car
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Trick or Treat Note
A playful intercept note notes today’s trick or treaters may lack tricks but are better treated. The line suggests a Halloween greeting and humorous caution about costumes and candy.
Hunter dies after heart attack while hunting near St Paul
Wilford Markham 52 of Walnut died from a heart attack during a hunt at the Neosho Water Fowl Refuge southeast of St Paul. He was with his son Garold when the incident occurred around 4 40 p m. He was pronounced dead at Labette County Medical Center Parsons. Surviving are his wife four sons and three daughters and six grandchildren. Funeral arrangements to be announced by Carson Dick Funeral Home. Reverend Glenn Amden to officiate at Walnut United Methodist Church burial in Walnut Cemetery.
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ST. Paul
Wilford Markham
Walnut
Neosho Water Fowl
Here
David Kern
Labette County Medical Center
Parsons
Kern
Markham
Garold
Wilford Curtis Markham
Fort Scott
Solon Markham
California
Wills Mobil
Marjorie Fuller
Buffalo
Robert
William
John
Patricia Ann Goeller
New York City
Marguerite Wilson
Deana Markham
Doris LoVey Steelle
Huntington Beach
Calif
Walnut United Methodist Church
Walnut Cemetery
Carson-Dick Funeral Home
Glenn Amden
Nixon panel to study mortgage and consumer credit
President Nixon’s new committee on interest and dividends will focus first on mortgage and consumer credit and other rates affecting families while not seeking mandatory controls. Chairman Arthur Burns of the Federal Reserve said voluntary measures are expected, with wage and price policy expected to influence rates, and the panel wary of market distortions from ceilings. The hearings opened as Congress and labor renew clashes over the economic program.
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Arthur F. Burns
Burns
Federal Reserve Board
House Banking Committee
Nixon
House
Congress
Halloween disturbances reported in Chanute over weekend
Two potential Halloween incidents were logged by Chanute police. At 8 p.m. Saturday older children reportedly threw candy bars at younger kids, but officers found no one present. About an hour later firecrackers were heard, with no suspects located.
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Chanute
Northwest wind shifts cool area with showers fading
Weather forecast notes a northwest wind 15 to 25 mph tonight, cooler conditions with showers ending, and cooler Tuesday with partly cloudy skies. Low tonight in the low 40s, high Tuesday in the low 60s, 30 percent then 10 percent chances of precip. Data include October FAA totals at Martin Johnson Airport and year to date rainfall.
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FAA
Martin Johnson
New Dehi
Bay of Bengal
Indian Subcontinent
Bicycle Licenses For 1972 73 Are Free
Police Chief Lige Matlock announced bicycle licenses for 1972 73 will be available at the start of the year. Licenses are free and provide a record of the owner to aid recovery if a bicycle is lost or stolen.
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NuWa Campers, Inc
National Guard
Santa Fe Park
Mike Mitchell
Oscar Bell
S. Plummer
Charles Lett
Lige Matlock
Rock Throwing Fans Save Man From Lion Pit at Zoo
Sherman Shatwell, 30, fell into a 20-foot lion pit at Mohawk Zoo and was attacked by a young lion. Spectators throwing rocks forced the lions back, allowing keepers to retrieve him. He was treated and released from a hospital.
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Tulsa
Okla
Mohawk Zoo
Coweta
Zoo
Sherman Shatwell
Shatwell
Larry Nunley
Nunley
Thulin
Students Fast to Aid East Pakistani Refugees
Washington AP report notes students in over 700 colleges and 12 000 high schools will fast to raise funds for East Pakistani refugees in India. Donations from lunch savings will support about 9 million refugees who fled East Pakistan. Oxfam America sponsors the effort and highlights its role in international relief across developing regions.
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Washington
India
Cynthia Diggle
Oxfam-America, Inc
East Pakistan
Leftover Treats Mark Halloween in Kansas City
Roy A. Kennedy and wife prepared nearly 100 bags of candy for trick or treating in their Kansas City neighborhood. After 47 years greeting children, no one appeared that Halloween night, leaving the couple to consider sharing leftovers with local children’s centers.
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Kansas City
Roy A. Kennedy
Kennedy
Senate panel Eyes Rebuilding U.S. Foreign Aid Program
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee met amid the ruins of the U.S. foreign aid program and a member said there is general agreement to restore it. Senator Gale W. McGee noted there is no intent to kill the bill outside the closed session.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U.S
Gale W. McGee
D-Wyo
Navy missile damages home of Tennessee judge
A 900 pound non exploding Walleye missile plunged from a Navy plane and demolished the home of a state judge in Strawberry Plains Tennessee. There were no injuries as the weapon tore through three stories before exiting a wall and landing on a patio.
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Strawberry Plains
Tenn
Navy
Amchitka Ruling Lets Appeal Move Forward
A federal judge denied environmentalists' bid to halt the Amchitka underground nuclear test set for this week. Judge George L. Hart Jr. allowed an immediate appeal and let protesters pursue higher court action.
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Washington
Amchitka Island
Alaska
U.S
George L. Hart Jr
Buffalo Radio War of the Worlds Triggers Nervous Calls
BUFFALO NY AP Despite advance billing WKBW aired a localized War of the Worlds Halloween program that sparked a flood of calls to media and police. Buffalo police said reaction was nervousness rather than mass panic as eight calls came into the Erie County sheriff's office.
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Buffalo
N.Y
WKBW
Orson Welles
Earth
Erie County Sheriff's Office
Phasing Out SAIGON: 1,335 U.S. troops withdrawn
Thirteen more U.S. Army units totaling 1,335 men were phased out of combat as withdrawal from Vietnam continued. U.S. troop strength dropped to 196,790 last week. Melvin Laird is en route to Saigon with a broad Nixon plan outline to speed disengagement of ground forces.
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Saigon
Vietnam
U.S
Melvin R. Laird
Nixon
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Iola
Mike Kennedy
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Crenshaw
Rembert Stokes
Wilber
Dayton
Greene County Memorial Hospital
Cha
Hunter
Tribune
Consumer Credit
Committee On
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Neosho County Junior College
Leonard Morrison
Keith
Tom
Jim Davis
Mickey Thulin
Oxfam
Diggle
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Vern Miller
Barton County
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