Bold bush pilot loses arm but flies for help
A 28 year old bush pilot Brian Steed of South Porcupine Ontario had his right arm hacked off by a whirling propeller while disembarking at Green Water Lake. He climbed back into his seaplane and flew 15 miles to Lake Shebanawan for a subsequent flight to Fort Arthur for treatment. The accident occurred last Saturday but was only reported Monday night.
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Port Arthur
Ont
Brian Steed
South Porcupine
International Nickel Co. of Canada Ltd
Green Water Lake
Here
Steed
Lake Shebanawan
Fort Arthur
Fugitive Kin Search for Man in Oklahoma Hills
Brothers and cousins of missing Chickasaw man Log Factor 43 hunt through rattlesnake country in southern Oklahoma with his frail 4 year old son. Factor faces a murder warrant in his wife Juanita 31's death. He has one artificial leg and epileptic seizures.
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Tishomingo
Okla
Oklahoma
Log Factor
Donald
Factor
Juanita
Plane lands on highway car in Bagley incident
Herbert Pooch 63 explains damage to his car after a small air plane piloted by George Fletcher 35 landed on a highway near Bagley Minnesota. Fletcher said engine trouble forced the landing. Both men escaped injury.
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Bagley
Minn
Herbert Pooch
Here
George Fletcher
Pooch
Army Can Send Reservists to War
The Supreme Court opened its 1968-69 term with a ruling allowing the Army to mobilize 256 reservists for Vietnam. The 113 from Ft. Meade and 143 from Ft. Lee were mobilized under a 1966 law and claimed their contracts required a war or national emergency declaration. The 8 to 1 decision lifts the blocking order, enabling appeals while in the war zone. Separately, a California National Guard suit over a May call to active duty proceeds, and Wallace seeks a presidential ballot path in Ohio and nationwide.
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Supreme Court
Vietnam
Ft. Meade
Ft. Lee
Douglas
California
al Guard
Tacoma
Wash
Pueblo
Engineers and County Dads Meet At State Highway Building
Commissioners and engineers from 17 southeast Kansas counties met at the State Highway Commission building. About 50 people attended. Morning sessions were joint then split. no action resulted. Afternoon speakers included Paul Newcomb, Glen Coulter, and Louis Lybecker with a round table discussion followed by a buffet dinner.
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Kansas
State Highway Commission
Paul Newcomb
Glen Coulter
Kansas Engineering Society
Louis Lybecker
Topeka
Bureau of Roads
Country Club
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha in Chanute Health Week
Health improvement week in Chanute highlights a state Xray unit visit for residents to check health. The Red Cross bloodmobile will operate Wednesday and Thursday inviting local contribution to public health.
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Chanute
Red Cross
Israel seeks direct talks with Arabs on peace at U.N.
Foreign Minister Abba Eban outlines Israel’s position on Middle East peace at the United Nations General Assembly. He favors direct talks with Arab governments and cautions against acrimonious debate. Both sides support Gunnar Jarring’s continued peacemaking to resolve 1967 war issues.
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Abba Eban
Israel
Middle East
U.N. General Assembly
Eban
United Nations
U. N
Gunnar V. Jarring
Jarring
U.N
Three Presidential Candidates Comment on Foreign Policy
The Associated Press reports Democrat Hubert Humphrey pledges to be a peace president and favors annual US Soviet summit talks. Republican Richard Nixon vows a Vietnam settlement based on honor and generosity but not to appease hawks. George Wallace says nuclear warfare in Vietnam is off the table and favors negotiation. Nixon and Wallace spoke at editor meetings in Washington while Wallace gave a National Press Club speech.
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Associated Press
Hubert H. Humphrey
United States
Richard M. Nixon
Vietnam
George C. Wallace
Washington
Nixon
Wallace
United Press International
National Press Club
U S Forces Battle North Vietnamese Near Saigon
American ground and air units fought along the northwesterly approaches to Saigon killing 147 enemy troops in a two day clash. U S casualties were 8 dead and 13 wounded. Allied sweeps uncovered hundreds of tons of war materiel, stocks hidden near Saigon and up to the demilitarized zone.
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Saigon
U.S
101St
North Vietnamese Army Regiment
Long
Demilitarized Zone
81 Per Cent Wheat Acres Are Seeded
TOPEKA AP The Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service said 81 per cent of the state's anticipated wheat acreage had been seeded by the end of last week. Emergent stands were mostly good except for thin areas in some dry western regions. Sixty seven per cent of winter barley seeded versus 48 per cent last year and an average of 63 per cent. Sorghum grain harvest at 14 per cent, corn at 21 per cent versus last year and average 22 per cent.
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Topeka
Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Board Approves Fleet Insurance For Rolling Stock
Unified School District 413 board approves a fleet vehicular insurance policy for eight buses five pickup trucks two cars and one tractor with United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co at 1550 per year through Ebur Schultz Agency. Other bids were higher and the board keeps the current insurer.
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Sam Barnhart
Board of Education of
Unified School District 413
United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co
Ebur Schultz
Iowa Mutual
Schultz
Western Casualty and Surity Co
Edwin Rideau Associated Agencies
Great American Insurance Co
C. W. Greene
Area Forecast: Showers and Thunderstorms with Cold Front
The Weather Bureau forecast showers or thunderstorms tonight with local heavy rainfall likely. Showers end by Wednesday morning with clearing and cooler afternoon conditions. Tonight lows 50 to 55, Wednesday highs 60 to 65, rain chances 80 percent tonight and 40 percent Wednesday. Winds 25 to 40 mph ahead of a cold front moving east across central Kansas.
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Topeka
Weather Bureau
Kansas
Apollo 7 three man crew trains for Friday launch
Apollo 7 astronauts Schirra Eisele and Cunningham tested in a spacecraft simulator as NASA announced Apollo 8 would roll to a new launch pad for December. Officials hailed the Saturn 1B booster as exceptionally safe and ready for flight to orbit the earth, testing all systems for a possible moon mission.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Navy
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Air Force
Donn F. Eisele
Walter Cunningham
The
National Aeronautics and Space Administra
Tion
George E. Mueller
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Schirra
Brooklyn Bridge
U.S
Globe
Cunningham
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