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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1962
Page
1
U S Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the plan to remove 65,000 so called featherbed positions as unions prepare next moves. Carriers claim 592 million dollars annual saving while unions consider Supreme Court action and possible emergency board review amid looming strikes and broader transportation disruption.
Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastasi Mikoyan arrived in Washington for talks with President Kennedy and U.S. officials on the Cuban crisis and relations. Kennedy aims to learn Khrushchev’s interest in broader U.S.-Soviet improvements, while officials caution on wide gaps despite progress. Mikoyan plans to stay through Friday with lunches and a dinner hosted by U.S. officials.
Mrs. Lillian Barkley of 1723 S Evergreen started correspondence in July with Doris Griffin of Coventry through Letters Abroad, a non profit of People to People. She notes the English card reads Printed in England and keeps politics out for home style exchanges with a Buenos Aires lawyer and others.
Jefferson City Missouri Governor Winston Dalton commuted the remaining sentence of Richard H. Walker 53 who walked out of Missouri Penitentiary in 1940 and now heads toward Chetopa Kansas with $25 a bus ticket and a wife and children there. Walker had been serving a ten year armed robbery sentence but had not been in trouble in Kansas while living there.
In Miami Beach treasure hunters comb the rubble of a demolished oceanfront estate for negotiable money fragments buried during razing. So far only a single $5 bill has been found. The estate belonged to William R. Taradash. manager J Robert Sanderock suspects the late Mrs Taradash hid the cash. The house dates to 1929, the year of the Wall Street crash.
Three Transit Authority workers died when a 66 ton crane toppled 40 feet from an elevated track near Coney Island. The boom buckled while hoisting prefabricated track sections. Victims were George Graves 53 and Carmine de Meo 57 of Brooklyn and Roland Capuano 41 of Brooklyn.
Savonburg school board sues Mrs. Mabel Sage Allen county superintendent over proposed transfer of territory to Elsmore district. District court takes action under advisement for ruling at a later date.
Funeral services set for Lt. Arthur Mick of Tipton Kansas after his Air Force jet training plane crashed near Reece Air Force Base in Lubbock Texas during approach. Investigators have not yet determined the cause as Mick was alone in the aircraft.
The Federal Power Commission reports the average monthly bill for 250 kilowatt hours of residential electricity in Kansas declined from 6.77 to 6.76 dollars over the year. National residential bills rose from 7.45 to 7.48 dollars in the same period, showing Kansas saw a small decrease while the nation climbed.
Richard Widmer of Topeka camps at Scott County courthouse to grab license plate No 1 for 1963 plates in Iowa. He plans to auction the position to the highest bidder, sitting daily in a chair and handing over duties to his wife when at work. He sleeps in his car with a babysitter caring for his two sons as he runs a side business with bids and a fee.
Mrs C G La seter of Atlanta owns a dollar bill that is the same width but about an inch shorter than standard size. She says it was authenticated through the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank but gives no satisfactory explanation of how it happened.
The Pentagon disclosed that a USAF sergeant’s threats to shoot a pistol into a nuclear bomb helped spur tighter human element controls in the nuclear weapon safety system. Officials say none of the incidents could have caused a nuclear explosion. one shot might trigger TNT in the trigger, not the nuclear charge. Other incidents involved missiles without warheads installed.
The Chamber of Commerce education committee unanimously endorsed Kansas Association of Public Junior Colleges plans to reform junior college administration and financing. The proposals seek to lift state funding levels, potentially more than doubling state money for the junior college here, as stated by Dean Dell Reed. Paul Parsons of Royster Junior High chairs the committee.
Mrs. Glenn Jones, 49, wife of a former Kansas state senator, died at Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City Kansas after heart surgery last Tuesday.
A Civil Defense nuclear alert proposal linked to Chanute triggers fears of a population surge in the town. Officials caution public reaction and contingency planning as residents consider possible housing and service demands.
Lowell Lee Andrews, 22, expected to be executed at Lansing tonight for the 1958 murders of his parents and sister. His lawyer lost a habeas corpus bid. a Topeka judge denied relief, with an appeal planned to the Wichita circuit.
Chanute has been designated as one of 50 pilot sites for a Civil Defense pre assigned task plan. The plan focuses on voluntary evacuee care in bombing events with a joint city county meeting planned at the Memorial building.
Kansas public welfare data show the state ranking well below the national average in five programs. Old age assistance aided 105 per 1,000 over 65, 28th nationally. aid to dependent children 26 per 1,000, 42nd. aid to the blind 39 per 1,000, 36th. permanently and total disabled 3.4 per 1,000, 32nd. general assistance 3.9 per 1,000, with national averages higher in each category. Medical care for the aged is not included.
Two people from Earlton were hurt in a county road intersection crash two miles west and a mile south of Earlton at about 8 45 this morning. Fred Kane 51 was treated at Neosho Memorial Hospital Chanute for a cut above the left eye Mrs James A Morris 35 sustained scratches and bruises Undersheriff Lester Marts said Kane drove south as Morris moved west both vehicles a 1962 Ford and a 1956 Chevrolet station wagon were total losses
Topeka traffic death log shows 0 fatalities in the 24 hours to 9 am Thursday. November total 55. Year 1962 total 535, vs 493 in the 1961 comparable period.
The forecast shows a persistent mild pattern across Kansas with no major changes expected through Friday. Temperatures peak in the 50s with nightly lows from 40 to 45 degrees in many areas, while Wednesday highs range from 50 in Goodland to 57 in Dodge City and lows from 35 in Lawrence to 49 in Hill City and Manhattan. Cloudiness and fog linger with light drizzle or trace rain in scattered sections, and Por tory moisture totals remain around .01 inch in Emporia.
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