Docking Campaigns Here In Race for Governor
Democratic nominee Robert Docking promotes a three point platform including tax fairness, constitutional revision, and conflict of interest reforms. He criticizes Governor Avery on education while touring Chanute Girard Pittsburg Fort Scott and Arkansas City with rallies drawing hundreds. Docking, 40, banker and former mayor, cites two party governance and calls for state funds rate boosts and county home rule.
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William H. Avery
Docking
Avery
Arkansas City
George Docking
Fort Scott
Tioga Hotel
Chanute
Girard
Pittsburg
Crawford County
Congress
Union State Bank
University of Kansas
Graduate School of Banking
University of Wisconsin
Mastermind of Brinks Robbery Dies in Prison Quietly
Joseph F. McGinnis who led the 1950 Brinks cash heist died in his Massachusetts State Prison cell at Walpole at age 63. He and seven others were convicted ten years earlier of the largest cash robbery in U.S. history and given life terms. Only about 50000 of the 1219000 stolen remains recovered.
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McGinnis
Massachusetts State Prison
Walpole
Hurricane Inez Moves Toward Mexico After Caribbean Toll
Hurricane Inez, after causing heavy deaths in the Caribbean, crossed the Gulf of Mexico with 110 mph winds toward the Yucatan Peninsula. It was about 260 miles northeast of Merida, moving west-southwest at 10 mph, with Cuba reports of deaths and injuries. The storm threatens northern Yucatan and potential impact on the Mexican mainland.
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New Orleans
Inez
Caribbean
Gulf of Mexico
Yucatan Peninsula
Yucatan
Gulf
Mexico
Minor collisions report two city car accidents yesterday
Roy Ensminger 70 of Chanute and Clyde Pasley 34 of Humboldt collided at Elm and Evergreen around 6 10 p m. Ensminger crossing from north and Pasley driving a Armour Agricultural and Chemical Co Kansas City car. Left front damage about 50 00 and right front about 40 00. A second accident near Senior High involved Jim Stemple parking and bumping Randall Hutchinson with minimal damage to Hutchinson s 1964 Valiant and slight damage to Stemple s 1953 Plymouth.
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Roy Ensminger
Box 45
Chanute
Clyde M. Pasley
Humboldt
Elm
Evergreen
Pasley
Armour Agricultural and Chemical Co
Kansas City
Ensminger
Ford
Armour
Jim Stemple
W. 4Th
Randall Hutchinson
S. Wilson
Senior High
Stemple
Traffic Fatalities Log Shows Oct 1966 Increase
Topeka Kansas traffic death log records 24 hours ending 9 am Thursday for October shows 8 fatalities in 1966 compared with 5 in the same period in 1965. One previously unreported death is included.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Warm and Dry Across Kansas Through Friday
The Area Forecast calls for generally fair and warmer weather through Friday with lows 50 to 55 tonight and highs 75 to 89. In Topeka, dry conditions prevail as temperatures rise into the 70s today. overnight lows ranged from 37 in Topeka to 52 in Dodge City, with Friday’s highs expected in the low 80s and no rainfall reported in the last 24 hours.
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Topeka
Weather Bureau
Kansas
Dodge City
Russell
Hutchinson
Olathe
Bull Elk Breaks Into Flagstaff Wildlife Refuge
A 1,200 pound bull elk forced its way into Flagstaff's Buffalo Park Wildlife Refuge after repeatedly ramming a chain link fence. Ted Babbit of the wildlife committee says the animal appeared uninjured, having broken in the day before the elk sea.
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Flagstaff
Ariz
Flagstaff Wildlife Refuge
Ted Babbit
Buffalo Park
Tribune Phone Contact for Reachable Carrier
The notice directs readers to call their Tribune phone if the carrier is unavailable and provides an after hours contact HE 1 3400 after 6 p.m.
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Tribune
Allied Forces Capture 66 Viet Cong in Central Coast Surrender
Allied troops encircled a fragmented Viet Cong unit on the central coast and forced a mass surrender of 66, raising total prisoners to about 300 in five days. The operation Irving coastal drive yielded nearly 550 enemy killed and featured Marine actions near the DMZ with light casualties but some Marine deaths from friendly fire.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Qui Nhon
Demilitarized Zone
Rusk Holds Talks on Vietnam Peace Efforts at UN
Secretary of State Dean Rusk conferred with Iron Curtain foreign ministers on Vietnam peace talks but no clear shift in North Viet Nam's stance emerged. Vaclav David, Janos Peter, and Corneliu Manescu participated in discussions as U Thant resumed active involvement to move war talks from the battlefield to negotiation.
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United Nations
N.Y
Dean Rusk
North
Viet Nam
Rusk
Vaclav David
Czechoslovakia
Jozef Lenart
Hanoi
David
North Viet Nam
Corneliu Manescu
Romania
U.S
U.N
U Thant
Thant
Andrei A. Gromyko
Algeria
Cambodia
United Arab Republic
Fall Festival and Holiday Plans Discussed by Chamber Committee
The chamber retail committee discussed Jaycee Fall Festival next week and Turkey Day events. A Festival Fever sale runs 6 to 8 30 p m on Thursday with a 8 to 9 30 p m free street program on Main between Lincoln and Highland.
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Chamber of Commerce Retail Committee
Lincoln
Highland
Charles Winfrey III
Johnson Plans Big Asian Tour On Manila Trip
President Johnson expands his Manila conference trip into a broad Asian tour with stops in New Zealand Australia Thailand Malaysia South Korea and the Philippines. Officials in several nations announced the plans and a 1 p.m. CST news conference was set to confirm.
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Johnson
Manila
Washington
New Zealand
Australia
Thailand
Malaysia
South Korea
Philippines
Keith J. Holyoake
Wellington
Harold Holt
Holyoake
Viet Nam
Kuala Lumpur
Wartorn
South Viet Nam
Seoul
Chung Hee Park
White House
Six Month Sentence For D C Williams
D C Williams a Chanute resident formerly of Oklahoma pleaded guilty in probate court to contributing to the delinquency of minors and received six months in county jail. He was with two Chanute boys who were found with whiskey after a train incident on September 27 in Independence and were returned as runaways. Police arrested Williams two days later.
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D. C Williams
Chanute
Oklahoma
Williams
Independence
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha
Washington datelines will be scarce during the latter part of this month with both Congress and the President away from the capital.
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Washington
Congress
Oxygen Tank Truck Blast Triggers Massive Riverfront Fire
A liquid oxygen tank truck exploded at a shipyard near New Orleans, starting a series of blasts and a large Mississippi Riverfront fire. No deaths or injuries reported. three fire trucks and Navy assets battled flames across a three-block area near the Westwego wharf used by Avondale shipyards. Driver Meade L. Willis, 49, reported missing but survived.
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New Orleans
Mississippi River
Westwego Wharf
Avondale Shipyards
Meade L. Willis
Adams Ranch Tour Seeks More Participants
The Chanute Area Chamber of Commerce agriculture committee needs at least 9 more participants for the Adams Ranch tour in Foraker Oklahoma. Departure is 8 a.m. Tuesday from the Memorial building, with 18 to 20 total capacity. The $8 fee covers overnight lodging and four ranch meals. reservations through the chamber office.
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Bill Johnson
Foraker
Okla
Agriculture Committee
The
Chanute Area
Chamber
Memorial Building
Chanute
Ag Committee
Ron Poor
John Gorton
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Larry Smith
St. Paul
Neosho County
Keith Wright
Boston
Joseph F. McGinnis
Cuba
Havana
Haiti
Bull Elk
Janos Peter
Hungary
South
D. C. Williams
Midway
Marydan McGaugh
Marva Runer
Pat Black
Lois Erickson
Tween Midway Jets
Galesburg Pirates
Cha
Adams Ranch
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