Gardner Children to Appear in Fall Festival in Kansas City
Four children of Mrs. Ruth Gardner will appear in the outdoors event The Fall Festival of Music and Dancing in Kansas City on Saturday night. Larry Fail of Chanute will sing original songs with guitar. The show is presented by Don Bosco Community Center with Mrs. Gardner directing about 50 youths aged 3 to 18 at the Admiral Motel patio on Admiral Boulevard and the Paseo.
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Ruth Gardner
Chanute
Kansas City
Gardner
Don Bosco
Larry Fail
Harley Nelson
Fred Gardner
Mineral Wells
Tex
Starlight
Esther
John
Jimmy
Yale University
the Starlight
Mary
First modern highway bridge spans Tsang Po in Tibet
The Tsang Po River bridge in Tibet, reported by NCNA, measures 2,190 feet and was built in 130 days. Workers carried the great red banner of Mao Zedong’s thought while studying Chairman Mao’s works as traffic opened August 1.
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Hong Kong
China
Tsang Po River
Tibet
Peking
New China News Agency
NCNA
Mao Tze-tung
Mao
Savonburg Area Visitors Share Sunday Meals
Local families from Savonburg and nearby towns visited for Sunday dinners and weekends. Guests included Johnsons, Millers, Olsons, Parsons, Bennetts, Barsbys, Ericksons, and Alberts, with travel from Iola to Chanute and even Kansas City for events and family gatherings. Several attended the state fair and a baseball game.
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Eva Lindberg
el Dorado
Abe Olson
Iola
Marie Olson
Wendell Parsons
Cheryl
Gerald Bennett
Fred Wilson
Bill Spencer
Julie
Susan
Lawrence
C. M. Barsby
B. Benson
Kansas City
August Erickson
Robert Leadstrom
Maggie Glant
Rhoda Kellerman
Stark
Laura Thomas
Hutchinson
Bob Burdette
Bernice Sievers
Irving Berlin Receives Medal of Merit for This is the Army
On this date in 1945 the Medal of Merit was awarded to composer Irving Berlin for creating and producing the musical revue This is the Army. The history item also recalls postwar European unity talks and Roger Maris milestones.
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Associated Press
Irving Berlin
Konrad Adenauer
Europe
New York Yankee
Roger Maris
Teen-Agers Named Deputy Heads of Seal Drive
Two Kansas teens Polly Pittman El Dorado and Carl Wollard Burden were named deputy honorary chairmen for the 1966 Christmas Seal campaign at the Kansas Tuberculosis and Health Association annual meeting Milburn Stone Doc Adams of Gunsmoke made the appointment and spoke by telephone from Hollywood to 200 volunteers and health workers attending.
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Topeka
Kansas
Kansas Tuberculosis and Health Association
Polly Pittman
el Dorado
Carl Wollard
Burden
Milburn Stone
Doc Adams
Gunsmoke
Hollywood
61st Homer Caps Season for Mets Star at Yankee Stadium
The 27 year old outfielder hit his 61st homer of the season at Yankee Stadium in New York during the Mets final regular season game. A historic season makes him the first league player to surpass 60 homers this year. Meanwhile Secretary of State Dean Rusk concluded talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko without any concrete agreement on discussed subjects.
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Yankee Stadium
New York
Dean Rusk
Andrei Gromyko
Urbana area family events noted in local column
Urbana residents mark anniversaries including Mr. and Mrs. Milo Heilman as they reach their 47th wedding anniversary on Sept. 24 and Oct. 2 for Mr. and Mrs. Leo Fickel. Local visits span Gillett Nordstedt Dunivant and Heilman families with trips to Chanute Kansas City and North Carolina family calls and gatherings.
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Urbana
Milo Heilman
Leo Fickel
Lynnta Swiler
Ernest Gillett
Edith Hummer
Chanute
Harold Heilman
Betty
Ronnie
Heilmans
Nancy
North Carolina
Kansas TB Eradication Effort Seeks Strong State Support
The Kansas Tuberculosis and Health Association will cooperat e with the State Department of Health on an eradication program. In the first seven months of 1966 TB cases rose 39 percent from the previous year, with alarming increases in emphysema and other respiratory diseases. The 1965 respiratory deaths in Kansas reached 2,091, including 41 from tuberculosis, prompting calls for extensive research and education.
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Kansas
Kansas Tuberculosis and Health Association
State Department of Health
Tuberculosis and Health Associations
NYU to Add Two 6-7 Sophomores for Next Basketball Season
NYU announces two 6-foot-7 sophomores will join the team next season, Steve Rennekamp from McKeestock Pennsylvania and Paul Wallahorn transferring from Rhode Island.
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New York University
Steve Rennekamp
McKeestock
Paul Wallahorn
Rhode Island
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