Parade Big Hit At Jaycee Fall Festival Parade
Thirteen bands 21 floats and many units formed a larger than usual Jaycee Fall Festival parade along Main Street Saturday. The energizing weather drew thousands as the 1:30 p m start lasted about 50 minutes. Highlights included a $200 team pull won by Joe Blaine of Erie and the Chanute Saddle Club rodeo. Float prizes went to Girl Scout Troop 166 Hutton School Neosho Community Junior College with $35 $30 $25 awards. Dignitaries rode in cars and Saddle Club riders totaled around 75.
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Tribune
Bud Roberts
Jaycees
Main Street
Joe Blaine
Erie
Chanute Saddle Club
City Park
Hutton School
Neosho Community Junior College
Safari
Gordon Inman
Cole Leverenz
M. J. Martin
Humboldt Biblesta
Christ
Humboldt Christian Church
Biblesta
Herod and the
Wisemen
Walther League of Zion Lutheran Church of Chanute
Humboldt
Uniontown
Altoona
Midway
Buffalo
Stark
Galesburg
Thayer
Colony
Parsons Junior High School
Chanute High School
Chanute Junior High
Neosho County
Saddle Club
Martha McCoy
Lisa Hartman
Miss Chanute
Rachel de la Torre
Jeannie Hardin
Daniel Ado-Mensa Brown
Ghana
Africa
Ron Hasting
Board Is Named To Study Strikes At GE Plants
NEW YORK AP President Johnson created a Taft-Hartley board to probe widespread strikes at General Electric plants across six states. The walkouts idled over 30,000 of 125,000 unionized workers despite a new national contract. The board will first review the Evendale Ohio jet engine plant walkout, with broader plant actions involving IVE and other unions across Massachusetts, New York, Indiana, and beyond.
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New York
Johnson
Taft-Hartley Board
General Electric Co
Afl-Cio International Union of Electrical Workers
Presidential Board of Inquiry
Evendale
Ohio
Viet Nam
Massachusetts
Indiana
IVE
Intercepted Letter Hints at Peace Bomb Reference
An intercepted missive to Cha. hints at hope the President will strike with a peace bomb. The brief note ends with a sign off Yours, suggesting a political or diplomatic communication context.
Johnson signs bill boosting bank deposit insurance to 15000
President Johnson signed a bill raising federal insurance on deposits at banks and savings and loan associations to 15000 dollars. The increase is effective immediately but not retroactive and applies to claims arising after the signing. He signed the bill Sunday night before departing on a Far Eastern trip.
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Washington
Johnson
Fire damages drying oven at H. K. Porter plant
Fire crews responded to a blaze in a new drying oven at the H. K. Porter Company Aero-Duct plant Saturday evening. Damaged materials were reported, but the oven remained largely unharmed after a 20 minute standby. Earlier, at 6:35 p.m., firemen were dispatched to 123 E. Main for a bucket of paint burning in a trash container.
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H. K. Porter Company
E. Main
Traffic Fatalities Log Reports October 28 1966
Kansas traffic death log covers 48 hours to 9 am Monday in October 1966. The report records 570 fatalities for the period, up from 512 in the comparable 1965 period, and notes one previously unreported fatality.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather records and Kansas forecast note cool front
Area forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies with light rain tonight and tomorrow. Temperatures ranged from 47 at Wichita to 27 at Goodland with three inches of snow on the ground. early Sunday saw a record frost at 29 degrees. A cool front will move rapidly across Kansas with little temperature change.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Wichita
Goodland
Farm Tour Tomorrow Sponsored by Chanute Chamber
The annual business men's farm tour will depart from Main and Highland at 2 p.m. and travel to farms west and north of Chanute with no definite stop designations. A dinner at Perry School follows at 6 p.m. Reservations are available at the Chamber office.
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Perry School
Agriculture Committee
Chanute Area
NRB
Chanute
Groves
Floyd Potter
Seven Die In Kansas Weekend Traffic Crash Toll
Seven persons were killed in Kansas traffic accidents over the weekend. Most deaths stemmed from car train collisions. Virginia Rife, 20, of rural Hutchinson, died when her car hit a train at a crossing in east Hutchinson Saturday afternoon.
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Kansas
Associated Press
Virginia Rife
Hutchinson
East Hutchinson
Maynard Sloan
Jetmore
Kan
Topeka
Daniel Leon Helt
Della Brown
Rt. 6
Fatal Ammunition Truck Blast Rocks Alton
A Pilshaw Explosives Co. truck unloading 7000 pounds of ammunition exploded in downtown Alton. Merle Olive, owner of Merle's Bait Shop, and Harry Braga, 40, of Kansas City, were found dead. The blast damaged the bait shop and set four nearby homes ablaze. Leonard Summers of Kansas City, the truck driver, was shaken. postman Charles Cannedy was treated for debris injuries. Cause under investigation.
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Alton, Ul
Alton
Pilshaw Explosives Co., Inc
Kansas City
Merle
Broadway St
Merle Olive
Harry Braga
Leonard Summers
Charles Cannedy
Olive
Braga
Mekong Delta flotilla sunk and Saigon terror hits
South Vietnamese militiamen, U S gunship helicopters and river craft destroyed 121 Viet Cong sampans, killed 147 enemy soldiers, and captured 17 in Kien Tuong Province. 11 wounded or killed by a claymore near a U S billet shook Saigon as Ky hinted at Johnson’s visit after Manila talks. Air missions to North Vietnam fell to 97 due to rain.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Mekong
South Vietnam
Ese
Kien Tuong
Nguyen Cao Ky
Manila
Central Highlands
Johnson
Sampan
Kien Phong
President Johnson Heads for Pacific Peace Mission
President Johnson departed from Dulles for a 25,000 mile swing through the Far East with aim to advance peace and human progress. He warned no wand can magic the trip and called it a hopeful mission visiting Honolulu New Zealand Australia Malaysia the Philippines Thailand South Korea and a Manila conference on Viet Nam combatting Communist aggression.
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Washington
Johnson
Far East
New Zealand
Australia
Malaysia
The
Philippines
Thailand
South Korea
Manila Conference of Nations
South Viet Nam
Cox to Speak at Chanute Chamber Meeting
George Cox, Republican candidate for state representative from Neosho County, will address the Chanute Area Chamber of Commerce at 8 p.m. in the Chamber office tonight. He will share his views on state issues, following incumbent Henry Watkins, the Democratic candidate, who spoke at the previous session.
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George Cox
Neosho County
Chanute Area
Henry Watkins
Chamber
Housewives Plan Boycott to Lower Prices
Denver area housewives stage a boycott of five major grocery chains to press lower food prices. The effort has drawn political support from Democrats and a push for federal and state investigations. Chain responses include price reductions, store closures, and policy changes as reactions vary.
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Denver
Colo
Colorado
Esther Peterson
Better Business Bureau
Housewives For
Roy H. McVicker
D-Colp
R D Churchill Dies at 68 Local Industrialist
R D Churchill 68 Chanute industrialist died Sunday at Neosho Memorial Hospital after an extended illness. He founded Churchill Pumping Units Inc and East Side Machine Works, chaired the firm since 1950, and served as Chanute mayor in 1955 before ill health. Survivors include four children, wife Frances, and other relatives. Funeral set at First Christian Church with a Masonic graveside service.
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R. D. Churchill
Chanute
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Churchill
Churchill Pumping Units, Inc
W. Cherry
East Side
S. Ashby
S. Tennessee
Rolland Delos Churchill
Parsons
First Christian Church
Cedar Lodge
AF & AM
Hulda Parker Chapter Oes
Chanute Commandery
Mirza Shrine
Pittsburg
The
Elks Lodge
Frances Struthhart
Jack Churchill
W. 5Th
Jean Locker
Iola
Jerry Churchill
W. Elm
Jim
Janice) Killion
Salina
Ted Churchill
S. Washington
Maude Bond Churchill
Kansas City
Bert Sutton
Memorial Park Cemetery
Gibson- Koch Chapel
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Hutton
Ence
Dean Sutcliffe
National Jaycee
George McCune Jr
Chanute Jaycee
Chanute Vfw
American Legion
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Henry Chiles
Ernest Furnas
Coyville
Edna
Independence
Crawford County
Schenectady
N.Y
Auburn
Utica
Pittsfield
Mass
IUE
Ashland
United Electrical Workers
Fort Wayne
Ind
Cha
Yours
Pilshaw
de Soto
Gladstone
Charles Ronald Massingill
Massingill
Ulysses
Roy King
Alice
Dodge City
Kings
Mrs
Leroy Black
North Viet Nam
Pacific
Dulles International Airport
Honolulu
Congress
White House
Miller’s
Farr’s
King Soopers
Red Owl
Safeway
Paul West
John A. Love
Mrs. West
McLeod Hutson
Miller's Super Markets
Hutson
King Soopers and Safeway
James A. Watson
Minneapolis
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