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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1966
Page
1
A violent 7.6 quake struck Peru's central coast, causing many deaths and mass homelessness. Unofficial tallies report 83 dead in Peru, 1,000 injured, with waves seen across the Pacific toward Hawaii where a tidal alert rang briefly before subsiding.
Buffalo hosts its annual homecoming on Saturday starting with an 11 a.m. parade on school grounds followed by a 9 p.m. dance. Free beans dinner served by church groups, a horse pulling contest at 2 p.m., children races, and a variety talent show at 7 p.m. plus band performances.
The Topeka area forecast shows mostly cloudy conditions tonight and Wednesday with cooler temperatures. Highs near 50 on Wednesday and lows in the mid 30s with local frost possible. Rain and drizzle affected several areas yesterday and today with varying totals reported.
Viet Cong terrorists launched attacks from Saigon to the northern border causing at least eight deaths and 62 injured, including five U.S. servicemen. A train derailed by mines and a grenade incident in a Quang Tri City movie house were among the noted strikes, as U.S. air activity in the region fluctuated with monsoon weather.
Freckles from Our Gang, once earning 500 dollars weekly, now works as a materials supervisor for Bechtel Pacific Corp. on a 70 million dollar iron mine project on Tasmania's west coast. Mike Daniels, age 50, began acting at five and left the screen to pursue steady work.
A Parsons woman Mary Hamilton escaped injury when her 1966 Volkswagen skidded into a ditch and struck a farm fence two miles west of Shaw on a county road. The vehicle valued at $250 belonged to Kent Hamilton of Parsons and fence damage was estimated at $60 by Neosho County sheriffs officers.
Mrs. Mavis Williams Galena city clerk testified for over three hours before the Cherokee County grand jury as other Galena officials appeared. The court action follows a Sept. 20 council vote to fire Williams for cause amid a petition drive seeking investigation of the city's affairs.
An intercepted letter comments on rising food prices and who pays for goods bought with trading stamps, noting housewives exposing the buyers and sellers involved.
City firefighters answered a 1:05 p.m. call to 306 North Malcolm and found a house full of smoke from food burned in a skillet. The Chester Glazier family resides there. No major fire damage was reported.
City clerk announces registration ends at 9 p.m. tonight and does not reopen until after the election. Night registration reduced to five days. area annexes include Wible's Addition, Sunnyside, Crestview, and boundary extension 150 feet south of 14th Street.
President Johnson leaves Honolulu for a 17 day, 29 000 mile journey to six nations including New Zealand Australia Manila and Bangkok with a stop in American Samoa. He cautions against hopeful war or peace formula outcomes and plans to attend the Manila summit. The trip marks his first overseas tour as president and he is greeted by a large Honolulu crowd.
Republican candidate George Cox told Chamber of Commerce members in Neosho county that political power is needed to initiate a four lane highway along the US 1 169 corridor. He argued eastern Kansas holds two thirds of the population but road funds favor the west and urged tolls bonds or higher gas taxes to start construction.
Dr. Vernon J. Rossow of NASA Ames outlines a theory to neutralize tornado electric fields by firing wire-wound projectiles between charged cloud masses. The untested idea envisions a cannon creating a two-mile wire link and a lightning bolt to stop a tornado by disrupting its charged structure.
Two men died and two others were critically injured in a crash near Blair Kansas when a tractor-trailer hit a steer, veered into the eastbound lane, and collided with a camper-equipped pickup. The tractor-trailer overturned and burned. Identified victims were Maurice D. Williams of Omaha Nebraska and Michael Smothers of Muncie Indiana.
Housewives for Lower Prices reports success in boycotts in Denver Phoenix Portland and other areas as stores slice prices on staples. Milk and bread costs drop while chains advertise discounts and stamp free shopping urged by organizers. Indirect pressure leads to broader price fights across independents and chains.
A Taft Hartley court order directs about 6 000 General Electric employees at the Evendale Ohio jet engine plant back to work. President Johnson instructed the court action as urgent for Viet Nam war production. The order, issued in Dayton by Judge Carl A Weinman, ends an 80 day strike and keeps the F4 Phantom’s engines flowing.
Kansas traffic death log records 24 hours to 9 am Tuesday for October 31 with 166 573 as the 1965 comparison period 513.
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