Fires and break-in at VC fertilizer plant plus rural fires
Sheriff and Chanute police investigated a break-in at the VC fertilizer plant near Plummer road and two early morning fires south of Earlton. The Knights of Columbus hall and a vacant house burned. losses totaled about 1800 to 2000 dollars. Sheriff's and fire marshal teams probe causes. entry reportedly gained through a south door at the plant.
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Sheriff's Office
Chanute
Here
Knights of Columbus Hall
21St
Plummer Road
Greyhound
Knights
Turkey Creek
Gerald Umbarger
Robern Powers
Johnson Plan To Strengthen East-West Ties
President Johnson outlines a broad policy to improve East West relations. He calls for gradual and balanced reductions of Soviet and U S forces in central Europe while easing trade restraints on hundreds of non strategic items to Eastern Europe and preserving NATO strength.
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New York
Johnson
Europe
United States
U.S
Western Alliance
NATO
The
Times
Western Europe
Atlantic
Drive Against Fire Fire Prevention Week Urges Citizen Action
Fire Prevention Week runs Oct 9 to 15 with Chanute officials urging residents to review home safety steps. The plan includes school visits, drills, films Our Obligation and Fire on the Farm, and tips on disposing trash, checking wiring, avoiding overloads, keeping furnaces clean, storing combustibles, and preventing cigarette or match fires.
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Chicago
American Insurance Assn
United States
Chanute
House Okays Foreign Aid Compromise Bill
The House approved a $2.94 billion foreign aid appropriation by 189 to 89 and sent it to the Senate. The sponsor said the figure is a small portion of the total aid program cost for the year with White House action possible after Senate passage.
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Washington
House
Senate
White House
Bombs Bomb North Viet Nam as Allied Push Tightens
U S B52 bombers pounded North Viet Nam above the demilitarized zone while 25 strikes hit inside. In central coast operations, the 1st Cavalry burned a Viet Cong hamlet near Qui Nhon and claimed 20 enemy killed. South Vietnamese paratroopers clashed with a North Vietnamese regiment near Dong Ha, with about 200 enemy dead.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Demilitarized Zone
U.S
17Th Parallel
U.S. 1St Cavalry
Irving
Qui Nhon
Dong Ha
Weather warm and dry through weekend in Kansas
Area forecast calls for fair to partly cloudy skies and warmer temperatures through Saturday. Lows tonight expected 50 to 55, highs Saturday in the middle 80s. Topeka reports dry, warm conditions with 80s across the state and northwestern lows near 45 to 50.
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Topeka
Weather Bureau Today
Kansas
Enrollment rises at Kansas public junior colleges in 1966
Public junior colleges show a 10 percent enrollment increase in Kansas for fall 1966, totaling 10 720 students up from 9 654 last year. Private two year colleges also gain, with 2 080 students versus 1 997 last year, per Karl M. Wilson, Kansas Public Junior College Association.
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Kansas
Karl M. Wilson
Kansas Public Junior College Association
Wilson
Coffeyville Community Junior College
Denver Housewives Plan Strike Over Food Prices
Denver area women formed Housewives for Lower Food Prices to boycott five major chains Safeway Miller s King Soopers Red Owl and Furrs beginning Oct 17. They say they will shop at independents until chains lower prices citing rising costs and a perceived middleman markup.
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Denver
Colo
Safeway
Miller’s
King Sooper’s
Red Owl
Furrs
Cal Pond
Housewives’ Organization
Food Industry
National Association of Food Chains
Viet Nam
Pond
Erie Plant Sold to Prest Lumber of Memphis
The Harold L. Heaton Mfg Co plant in Erie is sold to Prest Lumber Co of Memphis and becomes effective last Saturday. The Erie plant makes wooden burial boxes pallets surveyor stakes and other wood products and employs 32 people. Robert Prest is president of the Memphis firm and his brother Sam Prest will manage the Erie plant.
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ERIE
Harold L. Heaton Mfg. Co
Prest Lumber Co
Memphis
Heaton
Robert Prest
Sam Prest
Traffic Fatalities Log for Topeka Area
Kansas traffic death log shows 0 deaths in 24 hours to 9 a.m. Friday for October 1966, with 8 in October and 550 for the year, compared to 497 in the comparable 1965 period.
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Topeka
Kansas
Intercepted Letter Over Supermarket Boycott
A short intercepted note hints that housewives planning a supermarket boycott may raise snack costs for husbands, signaling domestic tensions and potential economic impact. The missive is addressed to Cha and closes with a personal sign-off.
Indian Foreign Minister urges end to bombing of North Vietnam
Swaran Singh told the United Nations General Assembly that halting U S bombing of North Vietnam could pave the way for peace talks. He argued ending the bombing would move the parties from the battlefield to negotiations in Hanoi.
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United Nations, N.Y
Swaran Singh
India
U.S
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
Singh
U.N. General Assembly
Chanute Officials Warn Riders Over Motorcycle Safety
Chanute city leaders and Garry Church urged high school riders to curb faulty road behavior amid rising injuries from motor bike traffic. Police Chief Lige Matlock and State Patrolman Marion Cox warned stricter ordinances may come, stressing defensive driving and noise rules while noting measures already taken by other towns.
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Chanute
Kansas
Lige Matlock
Marion Cox
Garry Church
Matlock
Cox
Tribune Phone Contact Prompted for Carrier
The notice directs readers to contact by phone after 6 pm at HE 1 3400 if the Tribune cannot be reached through the usual carrier.
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Tribune
Three Wishes Come True for Cancer Patient Rink
Centreville Michigan AP Larry Rink, 21, an amputee with cancer, has no remaining cancer after a tissue transplant. He started a new job as a stock clerk at H G Wells in Three Rivers and his wife Jeannie gave birth to Tina Ann. Doctors urge caution as cure is not yet proven and follow up will continue.
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Centreville, Mich
Larry Rink
Rink
H. G. Wells & Co
Three Rivers
Jeannie 20
Tina Ann
Ray Houghton
Tina
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Cowley County
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Neosho County
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Central
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Donnelly
Miltonvale Wesleyan
St. John's
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Jay S. Threlkeld
Repre
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End
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Houghton
Roswell Park Memorial Institute
Buffalo, N.Y
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