Chanute Man Wins Personal Injury Verdict Over Auto Crash
Orville Moulton wins a 35 352 verdict plus costs in a Chanute district court case against Charles Midcap over a January 2 1964 traffic collision at 3rd and Highland. Medical testimony linked the crash to a hyperthyroid condition. Moulton sought 52 470 in damages before any reductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orville Moulton
Charles
Fred
3Rd and
Highland
Moulton
Midcap
Chanute
P. L. Forslund
Frank Hotchkiss
Alvin Porter
Norma Johnstone
Frank Haines
Leonard Haas
Lawrence McCoy
Louis Fosha
Area Forecast: Partly cloudy with cooling trend Thursday
TOPEKA AP Temperatures are near normal through Thursday with highs today in the 40s to 50s and lows in the 30s. Partly cloudy skies persist with no precipitation. Readings ranged from the 25 to 34 degree area early morning to 48 at Hutchinson by 8 a.m.
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Kansas
Belleville
Hutchinson
Goodland
Pittsburg
Cloud County votes on juco bond issue
Residents of Cloud County vote in a special election on a 1.5 million bond for a countywide community junior college. A junior college was established in Concordia last February and a previous proposal to make it countywide was approved. Federal state support would cover 40 percent of the cost.
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Cloud County
Concordia, Kan
Concordia
Crosby
Pope
McPherson
Kan
Pepe
U. S
Theodore Richling
Tribune Phone Contact for Carrier Access
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Tribune
Outer Fringe Zoning Discussed in Chanute Meeting
Chanute city planning commission and county attorney Robert Pennington reviewed proposed authority to zone outside city limits. County commissioners may enact a planning board for peripheral zoning with final authority still to be held by the county. A joint Chanute planning commission could act under two hats, issuing city zoning recommendations to the city and peripheral zoning recommendations to the county.
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Chanute
City Planning Commission
Robert Pennington
Chanute Planning Commission
County Commissioners
City Commission
City Planning Board
W. G. Bodley
H. Craig Graham
Dale Painter
Harold Williams
Buford Fisher
Carl Pate
Wilbur Thompson
Robert N. Allen
R. J. Hayes
United Fund Thermometer Update Totals
The United Fund thermometer shows progress with figures listed as $22,460 $20,000 and $17,500. Details on the goal or timeframe are not provided.
United Fund gaps persist as contributions lag year goal
United Fund totals stand at 18 034 with 4 426 still needed to reach the target. Contributions to date number 1 577, well below prior years when more than 2 100 contributors gave, indicating over 500 contributors remain to reach the goal.
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United Fund
Shireman Named Superintendent of New Unified District
John E. Shireman, Erie Kansas district superintendent for four years, was chosen to head a new unified district serving Southeast and McCune high schools and five elementary schools across Cherokee and Crawford counties. A Walnut native, he holds a master's from Pittsburg State College and taught at Girard.
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Cherokee
Kan
John E. Shireman
Erie
Southeast
McCune
Crawford Counties
Shireman
Walnut, Kan
Pittsburg State College
Girard, Kan
U S Cavalry in Ia Drang Battle Shifts North
U S forces pulled back after three days of heavy fighting in the Ia Drang Valley as B 52 bombers pounded nearby hills. A Viet Cong battalion overran Hiep Duc district headquarters near Da Nang leaving destroyed structures and enforced lifeless streets.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Ida Drang River
Hiep Duc
da Nang
US 69 Survey Brings Plans for Freeway Project
A Kansas Highway Commission survey crew works in Bourbon and Linn counties gathering data for a 13.5 mile US 69 improvement. The project starts at US 54 north of Fort Scott and runs to a point north of the Bourbon Linn line, with three stream crossings two railroads interchanges and road separations planned. Survey ends next February.
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Topeka
Kansas Highway Commission
Bourbon
Linn
U. S. 69
Robert D. Hartley
Kansas
Fort Scott
Bourbon-Linn
Hartley
Electrical Shock Fatally Strikes Worker Near Tonganoxie
Darrell G. Buethe 23 of Great Bend construction company was killed by an electrical shock while erecting a water tank east of Tonganoxie. Sheriff Henry Campbell said a cable brushed a power line as Buethe reached for it. his parents reside in Palco.
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Tonganoxie
Kan
Darrell G. Buethe
Great Bend
Mission to Mexico shows promise for future Kansan trade missions
Gov. William H. Avery and a 90 member Kansas delegation returned from a Mexico City mission. Avery said the trip generated momentum and proved the value of pursuing out of country trade missions for future trips.
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Topeka
Kansans
William H. Avery
Avery
Mexico City
Cincinnati Reds announce Eckert as new baseball commissioner
Gen William B Eckert a retired Air Force general named commissioner of baseball by President Bill DeWitt. DeWitt in Chicago for club owners meeting. Lee MacPhail named administrative assistant. Eckert succeeds retired Ford Frick.
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Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati Reds
Bill DeWitt
William B. Eckert
Air Force
DeWitt
Chicago
The
Reds
Lee MacPhail
Eckert
Ford Frick
Jet Over Both Poles Lags Behind Schedule
The first round the world flight over both poles arrived in Christchurch six hours late. The Boeing 707 jet had flown from Buenos Aires over the South Pole and continues toward Honolulu with a total elapsed time of 42 hours 26 minutes 26 seconds since leaving Honolulu on Sunday.
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Christchurch
New Zealand
Honolulu
South Pole
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Harry Blackstone, Magician, 82, Dies
Hollywood AP reports famed magician Harry Blackstone died at his home Tuesday night at 82 after a period bedridden with pulmonary edema. The theater world called him the last of the great magicians as his era neared its end.
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Hollywood
Harry Blackstone
Memory Restored After 20 Years Finds His Family
A 39 year old deep sea diver formerly beaten near Craig Cole 20 years ago rediscovered his family in Florida. Robert Sheridan, missing since World War II, recalled an Albany address and found his sister Marjorie Benvento then reunited with his parents in Indian Rocks Beach. He plans to live with them and run a diving company.
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ST. Petersburg
Fila
Sheridan
Craig, Cole
Robert Sher
Albany
Florida
Marjorie Benvento
Fayetteville
N.Y
John Jr
St. Mary’s Seminary
Baltimore
Largo
Lillian Watkins
Indian Rocks Beach
Pope on Stand For Third Day In Own Defense
Duane E. Pope testifies for a third day in the federal case alleging his mental state after graduation led to a triple murder and Big Springs bank robbery. He describes graduation unease, recurring shooting visions, and a plan to kill witnesses.
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Pope
Lincoln
Neb
Duane E. Pope
Federal District Court
Big Springs
Robert B. Crosby
Nebraska
U. S
Theodore Richling
Omaha
FBI
Kansas City
Kansas counties endorse county home rule policy
Kansas county commissioners backed county home rule in a joint meeting with the Kansas Official Council. The resolution urged gradual action toward broad local self determination with limited state controls. Plans were set to form a state association of assessing officers to implement the concept.
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Wichita
Kansas County Commissioners
Commissioners
Kansas Official Council
Kennedy and Rusk Occupy Uneasy Reception in South America
In Chile and Uruguay Sen Robert Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk faced hostile crowds during a tour. About 100 pro Communist students spat on Kennedy at the University of Concepcion while eggs rocks and money were hurled. In Montevideo a 25 year old man spat at Rusk after he laid a wreath at a national hero monument. no injury occurred.
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Concepcion
Chile
Robert F. Kennedy
Dean Rusk
Uruguay
Kennedy
University of Concepcion
New York
Rusk
Montevideo
Jose Artigas
State Department
Richard I. Phillips
500 Attend VFW Dinner
About 500 people from Veterans of Foreign Wars families attended the post 1654 annual Thanksgiving dinner at the post home on 27 W. Main. Turkey was served. The American Legion plans its own Thanksgiving dinner tonight.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Post
W. Main
The
American Legion
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha
A brief item notes intercepted correspondence titled Dear Cha. It comments on memory and longing, contrasting happiness in regain of past memories with the wish of some to forget their history.
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Cha
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Ing
Elmer Robison
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Russ Corbitt
Spencer Brandon
Bob Barnhart
Hanoi
North
Viet Nam
Haiphong
la Drang Valley
U.S. 1St Cavalry
Peter Arnett
Associated Press
Mexico
New Czar Bulletin
Robert Sheridan
San Francisco
Navy
Red Cross
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Albany, N.Y
Reno
Police Department
Los Angeles
Robert S. Crosby
Dennis
VFW
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