Fire Prevention Week Promoted By Chanute Fire Dept And Businesses
Chanute city fire department and local merchants promote Fire Prevention Week starting Sunday with a national and state observance marking the 1871 Chicago fire. State Fire Marshal Arthur Ramey cites 83 Kansas fire deaths and over seven million dollars in property loss last year, urging awareness and home safety practices.
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City Fire Department
Chanute
Chicago
Kansas
Arthur Ramey
Topeka
John Erickson
National Fire Protection Assn
Cargo Plane Crashes On Landing In Kansas City
A four engine DC 6 cargo plane crashed on landing at Municipal Airport in Kansas City. FAA spokesman said there were no injuries.
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Kansas City
Federal Aviation Administration
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha
An electronic brain caused a $19,000 error and a housewife corrected the mistake. The woman was arrested while no action was taken against the computer. The item raises questions about possible discrimination against women in similar cases.
Bandits Loot $1.5 Million Coin Hoard At Miami Estate
Five armed men bound Willis Harrington du Pont and family at his 33 room Coconut Grove mansion near Biscayne Bay. They looted a $1.5 million Russian coin collection, $34,000 in jewelry and cash, and 1,000 silver dollars from a safe. They fled in du Ponts 1967 Cadillac. police recovered a $10,000 bill at the scene.
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Miami
Fla
Willis Harrington du Pont
du Pont
Miren
Victor
Hans Hein
Rose
Huttoe
Five Acre
Baymere
Biscayne Bay
Coconut Grove
Lammot du Pont
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co
Wilmington
Del
Miron K. de Anezola
Bilboa
Spain
Florida
House Ramps Up Pressure for Spending Cuts Before Tax Hike
The House, voting 226 to 173, refused to consider a $3 billion Labor and HEW funding bill, signaling demand for spending cuts before any tax increases. A conference with the Senate will attempt a compromise. The Ways and Means Committee delayed a 10 percent income tax surcharge until $5 billion in cuts are shown.
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Washington
House
Johnson
Senate
Labor Department
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Ways and Means
George Mahon
D-Tex
Appropriations
Mahon
Garner E. Shriver
R-Kan
Verdigiris River navigation plan discussed at Coffeyville hearing
Public hearing in Coffeyville explained an Army Corps of Engineers plan to make the Verdigris navigable upstream from Coffeyville toward Ca toosa to connect Kansas and Oklahoma to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. Three watersheds may be studied with a 150 million dollar cost. final route decision expected by 1970 and final report by 1972.
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Coffeyville
Kan
Verdigris River
Catoosa
Okla
Independence
Arkansas River
Wichita
Grand Neosho
Miami
Oklo
Reich
Kansas-Oklahoma
Mississippi River
Gulf of Mexico
Senate approves antipoverty bill in 4.658 billion extension
The Senate passed a two year extension of the antipoverty program totaling 4.658 billion dollars with a 60 to 21 vote after stripping a 2.8 billion emergency job program. The measure allocates 2.258 billion for current antipoverty programs and 2.4 billion for fiscal 1969 starting July 4, and goes to the House for action. The aid package surpasses the president's request by 198 million.
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Washington
Senate
House
Education and Labor Committee
Office of Economic Opportunity
Johnson
Tax burden too great causes receipts dumped
In El Dorado Kansas Butler County Court House shelves of tax receipts toppled as the tax burden finally proved too heavy. The scene occurred Wednesday morning with tax records spilling onto the floor.
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EL Dorado, Kan
Butler County Court House
Traffic Fatalities Log Highlights 1967 Figures
Topeka Kansas reports a 24 hour period ending 9 am Thursday with two deaths. For October the toll reaches four and for 1967 a total of 484 fatalities, compared with 1966's period of 51. One death was previously unreported.
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Topeka
Kansas
Allies urge halt to bombing in North Vietnam at UN
At the United Nations General Assembly Britain joined allies in calling for a stop to US air raids. NATO partners Denmark Norway Belgium France and Canada led a 23 nation push with broader support from neutrals Latin Americans and Asian African bloc members. British Foreign Secretary George Brown said leaders of North Vietnam have not pledged steps toward peace.
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United Nations
N.Y
America
NATO
U.S
North Vietnam
Britain
General Assembly
Middle East
United States
Paul Martin
Atlantic Treaty Organization
Denmark
Norway
Belgium
France
Canada
Brown
It Helps Chanute United Fund donation total
Chanute United Fund reports contributions totaling 22 778 dollars and 9 cents from local residents and businesses, supporting community services. Fund organizers credit broad community support and ongoing fundraising drives for reaching the amount.
Yastrzemski homer gives Red Sox early lead in World Series
Boston and St. Louis play second game as Carl Yastrzemski belts a fourth inning homer to put Boston ahead 1-0 against the Cardinals. Dick Hughes and Jim Lonborg pitched, with no runs or hits by both sides after the fourth. The series stands 1-1 after yesterday's 2-1 Cardinals win.
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Boston
Cardinals
Dick Hughes
St. Louis
Jim Lonborg
BoSox
Tartabull
Maris
Jones
Yastrzemski
Scott
Cepeda
McCarver
Lonborg
Shannon
Trained Persons Needed by Police To Control Crime
Gov. Docking urged recruiting trained personnel for law enforcement at a Kansas Peace Officers Association meeting in Topeka. He announced a bill to require 120 hours of academy training at the O M Wilson Institute, funded by fines and tuition, and called for a statewide crime conference in Wichita November 16-17.
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Topeka
Robert Docking
Kansas Peace Officers Association
Supreme Court
Docking
Kansas
O. M. Wilson Institute
Governor's Committee On Criminal Administration
The
Kansas Bar Association
Wichita
North is Hit Hard in Vietnam War Casualty Report
The U S command announced casualties surpass 100000 with 101034 total including 13643 killed and 86635 wounded as air raids on Haiphong MIG airfields and bridges near the Chinese frontier increase the intensity. Ground fighting reported with 42 guerrillas killed in skirmishes.
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Saigon
U.S
North Vietnam
Haiphong
Demilitarized Zone
Weather report notes high 78 and rain chances
Area forecast calls for partly cloudy mild conditions through Friday with a few showers. Lows tonight mid 60s highs Friday near 80 and a 60 percent chance of precipitation tonight 20 Friday. Heavy showers and thunderstorms hit eastern Kansas as a cold front moved across state with rainfall totals in eastern towns such as Troy 2.09 inches Hanover 1.63 Marysville 1.20 and Axtell 1.15 early today.
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Topeka
Kansas
Troy
Hanover
Marysville
Axtell
Weekend Las Vegas caper tied to Los Angeles error check
Los Angeles investigators report Jaynee Shearer cashed a $19 065 county check issued in error and, with her husband Albert, used part of the funds for a Las Vegas weekend. The couple bought a car, cashed checks, and spent or hid most of the money. only about $5 000 remains recoverable. Shearer faced grand theft charges and was released on bail.
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Los Angeles
Las Vegas
Jaynee Shearer
Atlanta
Montebello
Albert
Nev
J-School Enrollment Climbs at KU William Allen White School
The William Allen White school of journalism at the University of Kansas reports a 38 percent rise in fall enrollment. Journalism majors total 271, up 75 from last year, with 41 juniors in the news editorial sequence, 138 in advertising, 16 graduate and 10 special students. Degrees awarded last year went to 47 men and 21 women.
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Lawrence, Kan
William Allen White
University of Kansas
Salina Golf Course Gets Federal Grant
A $101 750 grant from the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation was announced by Kansas members of Congress for Salina Kansas to build an 18 hole golf course at the old municipal airport.
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Washington
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Salina
Kan
Kansas
Congress
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Sam Barnhart
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Gulf
George A. Reich
Tulsa
Army Corps of Engineers
Arkansas
OEO
Senate Labor
U. S
George Brown
122-Naition Assembly
Chanute United Fund
Drs
James W. Kensett
Dwight E. Blackwood
Brock
Petrocelli
Flood
North
Hanoi
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Shearers
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