United Fund drive sets 19876.92 goal for Chanute area
The budget committee of Chanute United Fund approves a 19876.92 goal with 1500 contingency and 1000 administration, to fund seven organizations including Red Cross Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. The drive kicks off the week of Oct 23 with advance gifts and ends with residential canvassing the week of Oct 30. Volunteers sought. ward and block captains needed across several wards as 400 to 500 workers expected.
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WU Bee
Venerese” Teee
United Fund Drive
United Fund
Red Cross
Girl Scouts
Boy Scouts
Neosho County
Lewis
Chanute
Drive
John Nation
Nation
Police court bonds and fines rise in September report
The September police summary shows $853 in bonds and fines, nine arrests, and total year-to-date charges at $6,094. Parking meter fines reached $402.25 for the month, with 1,644 meters cited and 12,859 for the year. Traffic arrests rose to 30, and 21 meals were served to prisoners.
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Con
Kennedy to Meet Gromyko Over Berlin Friday
President Kennedy and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko will confer Friday in Washington on the Berlin situation. The White House announced the appointment time and press secretary Pierre Salinger said details on topics were not disclosed. The meeting follows New York talks between Gromyko and Secretary of State Dean Rusk aiming to gauge prospects for East-West negotiations.
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Washington
Kennedy
Andrei Gromyko
Berlin
White House
Pierre Salinger
New York
Gromyko
Dean Rusk
Salinger
Know Your Carrier Don O Connor Tribune Carrier
Don O Connor son of Mr and Mrs Burl O Connor lives at 114 N Lafayette and has been a Tribune carrier since July 5 1960. He is a ninth grader at Royster Junior High and a member of the Youth St Cecilia Music Club. His route runs eight blocks from Lincoln to 8th and includes sections of E 2nd through 8th Streets and evening dealer deliveries.
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Don O'Connor
Burl O'Connor
N. Lafayette
Tribune
Royster Junior High
St. Cecilia
Lincoln
Milk Prices Rise in Kansas City Area
Milk prices in the Kansas City area increased by two cents per quart and four cents per half gallon. Retail half gallons cost 45 cents, while home delivery is 50 cents.
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Kansas City
Ford Peace Sought In High Level Detroit Meeting
UAW President Walter P. Reuther met with Ford Motor Co negotiators in Detroit to push a settlement of the strike that has shut Ford plants nationwide. The talks with Malcolm L. Denise lasted 30 minutes and were followed by recesses for sub committees to work on language. Local issues at key plants remain unsettled while wages and benefits are already agreed.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers
Walter P. Reuther
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Reuther
Malcolm L. Denise
Denise
Soviet Nuclear Test Fires Large Atmospheric Burst
The Soviet Union exploded a large atmospheric nuclear device described by the AEC as on the order of several megatons near Novaya Zemlya. It was the seventeenth Soviet test since resumed testing on Sept. 1, with earlier shots reaching similar yields.
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Washington
Soviet Union
The
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Arctic
Novaya Zemlya
Boy asks about double jeopardy over parental spanking
In Nashville a boy asks if a school whipping followed by a mother’s punishment could lead to double jeopardy. Police clerk Fred Stromatt answers that a mother can discipline him for misbehavior.
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Nashville, Tenn
Fred Stromatt
Nashville Police
Stromatt
Yankees blank Reds 2 0 in World Series opener
Whitey Ford fired a two hit shutout as the Yankees beat the Reds 2 0 in Game 1 of the 1961 World Series at Yankee Stadium Elston Howard and Bill Skowron hit homers for New York Ford improved to 8 0 in World Series play with his third straight Series shutout Reds only two hits came from Eddie Kasko and Wally Post while Roger Maris went 0 4 for the Yankees ahead of Thursdays game featuring Ralph Terry and Joey Jay
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
Whitey Ford
Cincinnati Reds
Elston Howard
Bill Skowron
New York Yankees
Yankee Stadium
Ford
Pittsburgh
O'Toole
Whitey
Howard
Skowron
Eddie Kasko
Wally Post
Cincinnati
Ralph Terry
Yanks
Joey Jay
Reds
Roger Maris
Yankee
Fire alarms wake Tioga Hotel guests in early morning blaze
Occupants of the Tioga Hotel were alerted at 3 a.m. when a fire was found in the manager Mrs. John Odell's sixth floor room. No evacuation was needed. Two mattresses burned and there was damage to bed springs and smoke and water damage. Fire officials kept origin undetermined.
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Tioga
John Odell
Gasoline Truck Destroyed by Fire in Modoc
A gasoline tank truck delivering fuel to Modoc's sole service station exploded and burned, destroying the vehicle and damaging the station and general store. Driver Gary Cutler of Modoc sustained minor injuries as Scott City firemen extinguished the blaze.
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Modoc
Kan
Gary Cutler
Scott City
Traffic Fatalities Log For Topeka Area
Kansas traffic death log shows 0 fatalities in the Topeka area for the 24 hours to 9 am Wednesday. For October the count is 2. Comparable 1961 totals stand at 398 versus 366 in 1960.
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Topeka
Kansas
Train Kills Elephant at Melbourne Circus
A three ton elephant named Topsy was struck and killed by a train after she ran onto railway tracks following a circus incident in Melbourne. The locomotive was slightly damaged.
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Melbourne
Australia
Topsy
Weathered Chanute area road sign predated by trio memories
Three Chanute men Rol lie Hydorn Fred Bower and Ralph McMinimy preserve a weathered wooden sign once guiding travelers to Chanute Earlton Vilas and Altoona. The post stands on Hydorns farm kept for authenticity with faded lettering and a tale of frontier travel a century ago.
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Barbara Deane
Chanute
Earlton
Vilas
Altoona
Rollie Hydorn
Fred Bower
Ralph McMinimy
Neosho-Wilson County
Hydorn
McMinimy
Quaker Smith
Wilson-Neosho County
Ralph
Garnett
Colorado Springs
Dave Houston
Bower
Pittsboro
Rollie Hydern
Wilson
Neosho County
N.E
S.E
S.W
Hydora
Tribune
CAP Ground Unit Aids Search for Missing Plane
A Civil Air Patrol unit from Wichita set up ground operations at the airport to assist in locating a missing Cessna 180 flight from Red Oak Iowa to Jasper Texas. Ground teams maintain radio contact with search aircraft and refuel and support missions at the field.
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Civil Air Patrol
Wichita
Red Oak
Iowa
Jasper
Tex
Kansas City
Butler
Central Air Rescue Center
Richards-Gepaur Air Force Base
Here
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Texas
Jackie Bright Hurt In Car Bike Collision
Jackie Bright ten of 1805 West Main sustained minor injuries when a car struck the bicycle he rode near Lincoln school yesterday at about four o clock Police said he was treated at a local doctor’s office Jerilynn Wolgast seventeen of 303 South Larson was the driver of the car involved in the crash at that location A second collision occurred at 5 p m on East Main between cars driven by Bill G Allen and Barbara J Hunt Slight damage was reported to the Allen car At 6 p m Mrs Julia Carter of 318 West First reported a minor collision at Hutton school involving a car owned by Ady Wil ford from 220 North Highland
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Jackie Bright
W. Main
Jerilynn Wolgast
S. Larson
Lincoln School
S. Lafayette
Allen
Julia Carter
W. 1St
Hutton School
Ady Wil ‘Ford
N. Highland
Fire Investigation Continued in Upstairs Storage Fire
Chief of Police Lige Matlock said the investigation into the cause of a fire in an upstairs storage building on South Evergreen Saturday night remains inconclusive and is being continued. A stolen billfold recovered is linked coincidentally to the fire inquiry and was taken at the Parsons swimming pool several weeks ago.
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Lige Matlock
South
Evergreen
Matlock
Parsons
Widows sue government over 1960 Toronto reservoir deaths
Widows of Kenneth Pens and James E. Cottrell sue the federal government in Woodson County district court seeking 25000 each for their husbands deaths at the Toronto reservoir. Authorities say the car entered the water by a gravel road at Toronto Point after nightfall.
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Toronto Reservoir
Woodson County
Yates Center
Faye Pens
Jane Cottrell
Kenneth Pens
James E. Cottrell
Toronto Point
SPA Connection Is Power Source for Municipal Pool
The Kansas Municipal Power Pool weighs interconnecting six pool cities with the Southwestern Power Administration SPA. The plan aims to defer expansion by purchasing capacity from SPA while weighing transmission costs and possible interconnection with high capacity rates. Representatives in 1964 explored 50 000 kw hydro peaking for 1200 hours annually with SPA.
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SPA
Kansas Municipal Power Pool
Burns and McDonnell
Kansas City
Southwestern Power Administration
Lder
U.S. Department of the
Kaw
Nnear Future
Iity
Springfield
Kansas City Power & Light Co
Douglas Wright
Tulsa
Ottawa
Washington, D. C
SPA i
Kenneth Holum
Department
Power and Water
Pleasant Topeka Weather With Warmer Temperatures Ahead
Weather report notes continued sunny mild days with cool nights across Kansas this week. Forecast calls for low tonight 50 55 with Thursday highs in the 60s and no rain expected. The article cites a high pressure system blocking moisture from the south and mentions upcoming infrastructure funding and purchase of a line as part of broader plans.
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Topeka
Kansas
Canada
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Zimmerman
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Rooks County
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Chet Yeager
Colonel Ladd
Pineville
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