Khrushchev warns on nuclear subs and disarmament drive
Soviet Premier Khrushchev told 15 000 at Luzhniki Stadium that the United States risks losing military superiority as the Soviet Union expands its undersea fleet with atom powered submarines armed with nuclear missiles. He urged a March April extraordinary session and a 15 nation committee to pursue disarmament, while deeming colonial empires collapsing and the German problem to be resolved by 1961.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Union
Pentagon
Soviet Union
Luzhniki
U.N
General Assembly
Tass
Correction Sheds Light on Griffith Buick Claim
The Oct 11 Fifty Years Ago column corrected C M Griffiths purchased toy tonneau Buick from model 19 to model 10. Griffith, 90, lives at 523 N Highland since 1917 and remains a boilermaker and blacksmith, still driving a 1917 Stearns Knight touring car for work and gas-well cleaning.
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the Tribune
Tribune Files
C. M. Griffith
Griffith
N. Highland
Tribune
Stearns Knight
Cars Damaged In Accidents At City Intersections
Police investigated two non injuring traffic accidents yesterday at the Cherry Santa Fe junction and at Garfield and Chestnut. In the first, Oral L. Ramsey 38 of Fredonia collided with Charles J. Allen 32 of 512 N Evergreen causing $75 damage to the Allen wagon. A second crash involved Christine Berry 15 of 321 S Garfield and James L. Auerbach driver of the Free to Construction Co pickup with $150 damage to each vehicle. A summons was issued to Berry’s father for permitting a minor to drive. Two minor accidents followed with damage to a parked Wells Motor Co car and to a 1960 Mercury. a note bearing a license plate led police to a Fredonia man.
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Cherry-Santa Fe
K39
US 169
Oral L. Ramsey
Fredonia
Charles J. Allen
N. Evergreen
Ramsey
Santa Fe
P. B. Darlington
N. Central
East Main
Wells Motor Co
S. Santa Fe
Nowata Man Indicted By Federal Jury
Jerry W. Clymore of Nowata Oklahoma, 26, was indicted by a federal grand jury on assault charges for stabbing fellow prisoner James Gilliam at Alcatraz on August 27. He is serving a 1957 bank robbery sentence in Cheneyville Louisiana and faces up to 35 more years if convicted. Gilliam suffered serious injuries in the shower room incident.
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San Francisco
Jerry W. Clymore
Nowata
Okla
Alcatraz
Clymore
Cheneyville
James §. Gilliam
Gilliam
Robbery Strikes Kansas City Money Order Collector
A collector for a money order firm was robbed of about $7,000 in cash and non negotiable checks as he left his West 34th Street office. Two men forced him into his car bound and gagged him, then fled to the rear of a furniture store before leaving. Police were notified after he freed himself. An audit will determine the loss.
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Kansas City
Joseph Henry Robison Jr
Kan
West 34Th Street
Robison
Jack Burroughs
Consumer's Money Order Co
Finch Tregoff murder retrial case reaches jury deliberations
Los Angeles AP reports the long deliberation of the Finch and Tregoff murder case in L A County. Jurors, 1 man 11 women, hear evidence on whether Dr. R Bernard Finch and Carole Tregoff killed his wife Barbara Jean Finch in 1959. Prosecutors claim guilt. defense says the death was accidental during a divorce discussion.
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LOS Angeles
Finch-Tregoff
R. Bernard Finch
Carole Tregoff
Langer
Finch
Miss Tregoff
West Covina
Barbara Jean Finch
GOP Dinner Moves Indoor At Armory For Anderson Visit
The Republican Central Committee moved the free chicken and fish dinner from Santa Fe Park to the National Guard Armory due to cold weather. Attendees should bring a covered dish. supper runs 5 40 to 7 30 with Gov candidate John Anderson speaking and local GOP candidates introduced. The Dew Drops high school band provides music.
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Republican Central Committee
John Anderson
Santa Fe Park
National Guard
Robert Allen
GOP
Anderson
Kansas
The
Dew Drops
Treasury affirms gold price at 35 dollars an ounce
The U S Treasury reaffirmed its policy to maintain gold at 35 dollars per troy ounce. It said the United States will continue buying and selling gold with foreign governments and institutions at the established rate, excluding handling charges, to support the dollar’s gold parity.
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Washington
US. Treasury
Treasury
London
United States
Robert Anderson
Federal Reserve Board
Anderson
James Williams Named President of Wichita Bank for Cooperatives
James R. Williams, 45, of Wichita, was named president, succeeding Fred R. Merrifield who retires Oct. 31. Kenneth M. Lyon, 45, also of Wichita, became general agent for the three farm credit banks of Wichita, succeeding Merrifield. The Wichita banks serve 480 farm cooperatives across Kansas Oklahoma Colorado and New Mexico.
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Wichita, Kan
James R. Williams
Wichita
Wichita Bank For Cooperatives
Fred R. Merrifield
Kenneth M. Lyon
ofWichita
Farm Credit Banks
Merrifield
Kansas
Oklahoma
Colorado
New Mexico
Driver Fined For DWI In Thayer Area
Thayer Allison Norton of Saint Maries Idaho was fined 150 dollars in justice court after pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated and transporting an open bottle. Norton was arrested by highway patrol on US 169 two miles south of Thayer and jailed in Erie before release after payment of the fine.
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Thayer
Allison Norton
Saint Maries
Idaho
Justice of the Peace Court
Highway Patrol
Erie
Record Low 25 Degrees Signals Early Freeze Across Area
A 25 degree low set a new early fall record in Topeka with other Kansas cities reporting chilly readings. The Weather Bureau warned of a warming trend Friday then another near freezing night, while motorists stock up on antifreeze amid the approaching winter.
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Chanute
Audrey Gant
Bob Gant
Tribune
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Associated Press
Topeka
Manhattan
Lawrence
Emporia
Garden City
Russell
Goodland
Little Old Man Finds Shelter For Cats Near Loop
Petro Hanna Alasik, 70, lived four years beneath a Wacker Drive loading dock in a cubicle with cement-bag bedding and two cats. He earned a dollar weekly cleaning a parking lot but was told to move, while the cats may stay.
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Wacker Drive
Michigan Avenue
Petro Hanna Alasik
Alasik
Beer and pretzel nation warned by WCTU official
Mrs. Glenn C. Hays, Washington representative of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, told about 300 Oklahoma WCTU members at their annual convention that the nation is becoming a beer and pretzels society in morals and action. She urged a consistent standard to protect youth from drinking and crime related to minors.
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Enid
Okla
Christian Temperance
Glenn C. Hays
Ransom
Kas
Washington
WCTU
Oklahoma
Hays
Burial Electrification Admin Funds Pioneer Telephone Project
The agency will lend 688000 dollars to Pioneer Telephone Association of Ulysses Kansas to upgrade service for 708 subscribers and begin service for 605 in Finney Grant Haskell Kearney and Seward counties.
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Washington
Burial Electrification Administration
Pioneer Telephone Association
Ulysses
Kan
Finney, Grant
Haskell
Kearney
Seward
Two Obscure Men Ousted From Portland Deportation Move
Immigr ation service prepared to deport William Mackie a lifelong Portland resident born in Finland and Hamish MacKay a Canadian immigrant who joined early 1930s depression era groups. They lost a Supreme Court fight 5 to 4 over McCarran Act challenges and seek injunctions to halt removals to Finland and Canada.
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Portland
Ore
Immigration Service
William Mackie
Finland
Hamish MacKay
Canada
Mackie
MacKay
McCarran
U.S. Supreme Court
Federal District Court
U S Ambassador to Cuba Recalled for Extended Talks
The State Department recalls Ambassador Philip W. Bonsal from Havana for extended consultations after an embargo on about 200 million dollars of U S products. Officials say the move leaves Havana representation in a lower ranking diplomat for weeks, not a break in relations.
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Washington
State Department
Philip W. Bonsal
Cuba
United States
Bonsal
Havana
U.S
Fidel Castro
Nixon Proposes Excise Tax Cut in 12 Point Plan
Vice President Richard Nixon unveiled a 12 point program to speed economic growth. He urged tax reform including lower personal and corporate rates and broader excises, and proposed creation of a National Economic Council on par with the National Security Council to coordinate government economic efforts.
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New York
Richard M. Nixon
National Economic Council
National Security Council
Nixon
National Association of Business Economists
Poland urges UN to curb foreign bases and nuclear weapons
At the United Nations General Assembly, Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki pressed the plan to halt new foreign military bases and rocket sites in other nations. He urged nonnuclear states to avoid accepting or developing weapons and called for a central European disarmed zone without nuclear arms or rockets. The appeal comes amid Soviet boycott threats and U.S. accusations that Communists use arms talks for propaganda.
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United Nations, N.Y
Poland
United Nations
General Assembly
Adam Rapacki
Rapacki
Europe
U.S
Traffic Fatalities in Topeka Log Shows October 1960 Figures
Topeka traffic fatality log records 24 hours to 9 am Thursday with October 29 showing higher totals than the comparable period in 1959. The figures reflect a 1960 tally and note day-by-day counts for the ongoing period.
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Topeka
Kansas
Demonstrators Behind Bars in Atlanta Sit-In
MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr and 35 demonstrators were jailed in Atlanta after being arrested for trespass during a sit-in at Rich’s Department Store lunch counters. Fifty-one Negroes and one White person were taken into custody for refusing to leave private property. King vowed to stay jailed if needed and said the protests would continue until action was taken.
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Atlanta
Martin Luther King Jr
Lonnie C. King
King
Committee On Appeal For Human Rights
Rich
James Webb
M. L. King
Montgomery
Ala
Lodge to Deliver Major Foreign Policy Speech on TV
Henry Cabot Lodge will speak tonight in a nationally televised foreign policy address on ABC-TV at 9 30 p m Eastern. The Republican vice presidential candidate said the talk would be a hot one after a day of prep with aides, arguing the U2 incident stance was not illegal.
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Minneapolis
Kennedy Aims To Force TV Debates In 1960 Race
Sen. John F. Kennedy accused Vice President Richard Nixon of one sided debate tactics and refused to answer on television with 70 million viewers watching. He issued a written reply to Nixon’s white paper, saying Nixon repeated false statements and distortions. Kennedy noted possible two hour debates and criticized Nixon for relying on printed responses. He argued the 1953-59 average economic growth was 2.3 percent versus Nixon’s 6.9 percent claim.
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New York
John F. Kennedy
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Kennedy
United States
Joint Economic Committee of Congress
Grand champion stocker steers fetch $61 at American Royal
The grand champion load of stocker and feeder steers sold for $61 per cwt. It consisted of 20 Herefords owned by J. B. Lamont of Orchard Colorado and purchased by Lundhill Brothers of Archibald Ohio. Over 7,000 animals were offered, with notable prices including a $45 cwt reserve for Shorthorns and $500 per hundred for top Angus.
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Kansas City
J. B. Lamont
Orchard
Colo
Lundhill Brothers
Archibald
Ohio
Julius Peterson
Elbert
Ludbills
Helzer Brothers
Barnard
Wertheimer Cattle Co
Galesburg
Ill
Barry Brothers
Laverne, Okla
Harry Shanks
Kearney
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Armory
James Williams
Bank For Cooperatives
Chicago
Rea
William C. Douglas
Douglas
Sday
Lodge
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