Chanute Promotes Fire Prevention Week Campaign
Chanute merchants join the city in urging residents to observe National Fire Prevention Week starting Sunday. Mayor John Lapham proclaims active participation through hazard inspection and removal, with the fire department and schools emphasized as valuable contributors to the effort.
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Chanute
John Lapham
Tribune
C. W. Brennan
Brennan
United States
Chamber of Commerce
Jucos Role in Kansas Studied for Funding and Policy
Topeka AP says Kansas 14 junior colleges urged a deeper study of their role and financing. Committee weighs tuition and fees but officials warn they represent a small part of the problem. State aid and local funding are debated amid calls to align aid with municipal universities.
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Topeka
Kansas
Education Committee
Kansas Legislative Council
Daisy Strengthens Into Hurricane Aims Toward Bermuda
Hurricane Daisy rapidly intensified overnight to a full hurricane with 100 mph winds and a 350 mile reach. The Weather Bureau placed Daisy about 430 miles southwest of Bermuda with a northeastward course at 17 mph, warning Bermuda to prepare for hurricane winds and heavy rain while the U.S. mainland remains unaffected.
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Miami
Fla
Daisy
Bermuda
Weather Bureau
U.S
U S Charges Soviet Harassment Of Naval Attache
The United States accuses the Soviet Union of detaining and roughing up Cmdr. Raymond D. Smith in Moscow on espionage charges and orders him to leave. Washington rejects Soviet claims of improper conduct and protests diplomatic immunity violation to the Ministry of Defense.
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Washington
United States
Soviet Union
Moscow
State Department
Cmdr
Raymond D. Smith
Smith
Department
U.S
Ministry of Defense
Traffic Safety Check Planned by Farm Bureau Youths
The Neosho county Farm Bureau young people's group will partner with the police department to run a traffic safety check on South Santa Fe tomorrow from 1 to 4 p.m. Officers will identify deficiencies for correction rather than issue citations. If rain prevents it, the check will be canceled. safety chairman Mrs. Shirley Bailey arranged participation.
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Neosho County
Shirley Bailey
Student Loses Bid for Immediate Clemson Admission
Harvey B. Gantt, a Negro student then at Iowa State College, failed to gain an immediate entrance to Clemson College. The U S Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the case could be heard on its merits at an early date and postponed a decision on the preliminary injunction.
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Alexandria
South Carolina
Clemson College
U.S. 4Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Harvey B. Gantt
Iowa State College
Clemson
Biblesta Parade Schedule in Humboldt Tomorrow
The Biblesta program includes a 1:30 p.m. parade route tour by judges and a speaker, a 2:00 p.m. talk by R G LeTourneau on Bible daily living, a 2:30 p.m. parade with 39 units, a 5:00 p.m. free bean feed at the city square, and a 7:00 p.m. bandstand program by Basman Napier of Wichita and Jubilee quartet from Oklahoma City. Parade route runs from West Bridge to Ninth and back to dispersal. Forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies.
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Humboldt
R. G. LeTourneau
Longview
Tex
Eighth and Bridge
City Square
Basman Napier Quartet
Wichita
Jubilee Quartet
Oklahoma City
Congress Passes Postal and Pay Rise Attempted End to Session Delays
Congress moved a compromise bill to raise postal rates by 600 million dollars yearly and boost federal salaries by 1.05 billion annually in two steps. The measure was sent to President Kennedy after a technical delay. Kennedy asked for both the rate increase and a broad salary reform. Senate and House debates over farm aid, peanut facilities, and a self employed pension plan kept adjournment in doubt as leaders predicted Hope so or similar. Conferees settled on a foreign aid bill totaling nearly 3.93 billion, with remaining disputes unresolved.
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Washington
House
Kennedy
Congress
Senate
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Dawson
White House
George A. Smathers
D-Fla
Senate House
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Carl Albert
Oklahoma
Leverett Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Anderson
Saffels
State Bar Association
George Gagel
Highway Department
Temperatures and Forecast for Kansas Weekend Weather
A weather briefing from Topeka reports widespread cloudiness intermittent rain and cool temperatures over the weekend. Rain began in western Kansas and is expected to spread statewide with highs in the 60s west 70s east today and 70s Saturday. Lows tonight in the 50s. Highs Thursday ranged from 75 in Concordia and Olathe to 80 in Pittsburg.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Concordia
Olathe
Pittsburg
Goodland
Wichita
Traffic Fatalities in Topeka for October 1962
Topeka area traffic death log reports 437 fatalities for October 1962 through 9 a.m. Friday. The comparable 1961 period recorded 407 deaths.
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Topeka
Kansas
Boy Scout African Safari Collection at Safari Museum
A 1928 African safari scrapbook collection by Eagle Scouts Osa and Martin Johnson is now on display at the Safari Museum. Donated by David R. Martin Jr. the set includes antelope trophies and newspaper accounts from the trio’s journey with Putnam. The project drew national attention with 200 Scout Councils nominating candidates and a final selection by a committee including Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Putnam.
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Africa
Osa
Martin Johnson
Chanute
Osa Johnson
Dick Douglas
Douglas Oliver
David Martin
Martin
Safari Museum
Tribune
Larry Mathews
Mmuseum
David R. Martin Jr
Boy Scouts of America
Los Angeles
George Palmer Putnam
Venturer
Putseum
Nam
Putnam
Boy Scouts For America
Kenya
Tanganyika
New York Times
Kansas City Star
Minneapolis Journal
David J. Laysman Jr
United States
Pickets Protest Walker Detention at Springfield Medical Center
Pickets marched at the U S Medical Center in Springfield protesting the detention of former Maj. Gen. Edwin A Walker arrested after the Oxford Mississippi riots. Activists from Kansas City and Minnesota urged release, pledging further demonstrations at the federal building and demanding habeas corpus relief.
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Walker
Medical Center
Springfield
U. S. Medical Center
Edwin A. Walker
Oxford
Miss
Paul J. Mason
Wendell
Kansas City
Mason
Kansas City Junior College
Wayne A. Morse
Dallas
Robert Morris
Morris
Gen. Walker
Cir
U.S. Dist
John W. Oliver
Claude F. Clayton
Mississippi
Verbal Debate Between Anderson and Saffels in Prairie Village
Gov John Anderson and Democratic rival Dale Saffels debated in Prairie Village before about 225 people. They discussed conflict of interest, tax policy, and economic development with questions from the audience.
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John Anderson
Dale Saffels
Shawnee Mission League of Women Voters
Anderson
Tax Commission
Donald P. Schnacke
Frank Theis
Theis
Kansas
Schnacke
Kansas Highway Commission
Oil Fever Grips Savonburg As Second Producer Ready
N&B Enterprises completes a second strong producer on the T A Baker farm east of Savonburg and readies a third well for frac Sand frac of the third well is planned for tomorrow The Baker No 1 offset yielded over 300 barrels daily on pump two weeks ago An east offset drilled by Deerfield Oil Corp northeast of the Baker farm was reported dry.
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Savonburg
N&b Enterprises
T. A. Baker Farm
Sandfrac
Baker
Baker No. 1
Deerfield Oil Corp
Baker Farm
Frank Freeto Dies. Kansas Contractor of Note
Frank H. Freeto, 68, founder and president of the Freeto Construction Co., died at his Pittsburg home. The firm, a leading Kansas contractor, recently landed a Turtle Creek Dam project worth about $2 million and is involved in highway work, a married students dormitory and student union at Emporia State, and a municipal hospital in Emporia.
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Pittsburg
Kan
Frank H. Freeto
Kansas
Freeto Construction Co
Turtle Creek
Emporia State
Emporia
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