Families recount Typhoon Karen devastation in Guam
Letters from Merle and Minnie Lowmaster in Guam and Lt. William Schultz with his wife to Chanute and Erie families describe near destruction on Guam. They detail flying debris, destroyed homes, water and power cuts, makeshift repairs, and gratitude for surviving the worst typhoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chanute
Erie
Guam
Alice Galbreath
N. Steuben
Merle Lowmaster
Karen
Merle
Ronnie
City Planning Board Now Joins City Governance
The city forms a planning commission after a deadlock resolved by Mayor John Lapham. New appointments to the 11 member board include three-year terms for Bodley Alien and Painter, two-year terms for Fisher Blackston Pate and Thompson, and one-year terms for Briley Graham Butcher Cunningham and rural rep. Effective January 1 with a $2,500 1963 budget line. An organizational meeting is planned next week and a planning conference at the University of Kansas is set for tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Commission
John Lapham
Lapham
Dave Evans
W. J. Althaber
Evans
Althaber
Planning Board
William G. Bodley
Bank of Commerce
Robert N. Alien
The
Home Savings Assn
Dale Painter
First National Bank
Buford Fisher
Marlin Blackston
Investors Diversified Services
Carl Pate
Oil Field Research Laboratories
Wilbur Thompson
Man
Robert L. Briley
H. Craig Graham
Betty Butcher
Young America
O. H. Cunningham
Mid-America Refining Co
Planning Commission
University of Kansas
Walter Poor
Forest
Steuben
Poor
Santa Fe Railrroad
14Th Street
A. R. Hudspeth
6Th Street
Malcolm
Ashby
Hudspeth
Allen and Neosho Counties Vote to End Big Creek Watershed Plan
Allen county voters dissolved the Big Creek watershed district by 195 to 39 with Neosho county tally 100 to 28 to dissolve. Combined 223 to 13 favor continuation. Four years of work on water soil conservation and flood control wiped out as plans for detention dam sites and district reorganization collapse. Odense and Cremona schools served as polling places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen County
Big Creek
Neosho County
Odense School
Cremona School
Weather and civic updates from Topeka AP dispatch
Clouds and fog cover Kansas with little change through Thursday. Highs around 40s, drizzle in the southeast, and a high pressure system blocks cold fronts. Topeka council approves traffic lights at Lincoln Elm, paving bid awarded, Santa Fe rail crossing renewal, and holiday office closure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Central Plains
TB Patients Plan Christmas Gift Sale for Needy Kids
Hundreds of handmade gifts created by tuberculosis hospital patients will be sold at a Chamber of Commerce fundraiser to aid needy children. Items include textiles, leatherwork, and crafts priced 25 cents to 10 dollars with proceeds supporting the hospital recreation program and a truck for the refuse department. The sale runs 1:30 to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday with Rev Paul R Wagner delivering the invocation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chanute
Chamber of Commerce
Kansas
Highway Department
Will Beldren
Hayes
Corider
Merle Kelly Ford
Amics
Paul R. Wagner
Church of God
Parsons State Training School
Winsfield State Hospital
Parsons ‘Children’s School
Wichita Children’s Home
Maude Carpenter
Wichita
Turf
Calif
Erie
Arizona
Southeast Kansas Tuberculosis Hospital
Tribune
Larry Mathews
Southeast Kansas industry drive lauded at Chanute meeting
Mid-America Inc executives outlined the groups impact in southeast Kansas as 123 new industries and 500 jobs were added since its start. Talk emphasized local support, funding needs, and the region's need to attract further industry with community readiness and available buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mid-America, Inc
Southeast Kansas Industrial Development Agency
Hayes
14Th Street
Tions
Mid-America Inc
Kansas
Chambers of Commerce
Hughes
Thete
Howell
Southeast Kan
Com-sans
National Bank
Tioga
Mid-America
United States
Dale Painter
Rees
Pittsburg State College
Forest Howell
Parsons
W. A. Caldwell
Chanute Business and Professional People
Chanute
Mid- America
Tance
Ben
Iaine
Caldwell
United Fund
Missouri convict Walker freed after 14 years
Gov. Dalton released Richard H. Walker who had escaped from the Missouri Penitentiary and lived a clean life in Chetopa, Kansas for 14 years. The brief notes other AP items across Washington Geneva United Nations Lima summarizing Cold War and aviation disaster events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City
Missouri
John M. Dalton
Richard H. Walker
Chetopa
Kan
Missouri Penitentiary
Two Erie Residents Killed In Crash Near Needles California
Two Erie Kansas residents Helen Turf 41 and Richard Peterson 11 died in a one car wreck on U S 66 near Needles Arizona. Driver Arthur Turf 39 and passenger Margie Peterson 16 were injured minor and treated at a Needles hospital. The car burst into flames after leaving the road striking a 6 foot embankment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
Needles
Calif
Kan
Arizona
Helen Irene Turf
Richard G. Peterson
Arthur Turf
Margie Peterson
Arizona Highway Patrol
Turf
Miss Peterson
Oth
Flood of discontent from headwaters washes out Big Creek Wa tershed plans
Local tension rises as concerns from upstream communities derail proposed Big Creek watershed plans. Officials and residents clash over water management, funding, and environmental impact, delaying project milestones and stirring debate across agencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Creek
Living Costs Dip Slightly In October 1962
The Labor Department reports a one-tenth of one percent drop in October living costs, the first decline this year. Lower meat prices helped pull the index to 106.0 percent of the 1957-59 average, with the 1947-49 base at 130.1. Bureau of Labor Statistics official Arnold E. Chase notes possible further small declines in November.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Labor Department
Arnold E. Chase
Bureau of Labor Statistics
160 Attend 4-H Leader Dinner Here
One hundred sixty persons attended the annual 4-H leaders recognition dinner last night at Murray Hill school. The event, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce agriculture committee with Chanute farm service firms, honored club, community and project leaders from Wilson, Woodson, Allen and Neosho counties. County agents introduced leaders. John Gorton and Floyd Potter led ceremonies. Mahlon Morley welcomed attendees. Harold Tarpley directed student vocalists. floral table decorations were awarded. Rev. Le Roy S. Davidson gave the invocation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murray Hill School
Chamber of Commerce Agriculture Committee
Chanute Farm Service
Wilson, Woodson
Allen
Neosho
Chanute Trade
John Gorton
Agriculture Committee
Floyd Potter
Potter
Mahlon Morley
Harold Tarpley
LeRoy S. Davidson
St. Paul Lutheran Church
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William Schultz
Ebur Schultz
Lowmaster
Agana
Schultz
Jim Blessing
Kiene and Bradley
Federal Aviation Agency
R. J. Hayes
State Highway Commission
Lincoln
Elm
State Highway Department
I. Ee
Geneva
Soviet Union
Britain
Kennedy
Anastas I. Mikoyan
Cuba
White House
U.S
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Wilhelmina
Netherlands
Europe
Het Loo Palace
United Nations
N.Y
Anastas J. Mikoyan
Lima
Peru
Needles, Calif
Frank Belhassen
Vera Barth
Caney
Nell Couture
Cha
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