Chanute Health Complex Seen As Regional Leader
Neosho Memorial Hospital anchors a growing health complex in Chanute, including the SEK Tuberculosis Hospital and three clinics. The 1965 budget tops $600,000 with payroll over $400,000 for 125 staff. total complex payroll likely near $1 million. Census rose from 46.2 to 56.8 daily, with projections near 70 by 1969. Plans include expanded X ray, pediatrics, geriatrics, more doctors, and radiologist partnerships to boost usage. Asset base totals about $1.735 million with $154,000 debt as of Sept. 1964 and pending $270,000 bond additions.
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Neosho Memorial Hospital
Southeast
Kansas
Neosho Memorial
Sektb Hospital
Chanute
Push Health Care By Social Security Plan Gains Support
Washington AP secretary of welfare Celebrezze backs administration efforts in the Senate to approve a Social Security health care plan. He says the revised King-Anderson proposal offers a clear vote on hospital insurance for the aged. Humphrey and Mansfield aides helped shape the new version after late meetings in Washington.
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Washington
Anthony J. Celebrezze
Senate
Celebrezze
King-Anderson
Chanute Public Schools Enroll 2509 Students for 1964-65
A total of 2,509 students enrolled in Chanute public schools for the 1964-65 term, up 88 from the previous year. Superintendent Buford Fisher noted last year at this time enrollment was 2,421, with 2,389 on the first day of 1962, showing a steady rise. Excludes kindergarten.
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Chanute Public Schools
Democrats look for passage of Appalachia development bill
Democratic leaders presented President Johnson with optimism on enacting a billion dollar Appalachia development bill. House Speaker McCormack said the measure would reach the floor Wednesday with full attendance, while Senate Leader Mansfield moved it for Senate consideration after a Social Security bill. The plan targets economic revival in 11 Appalachian states with highway, education, health, water, and timber programs.
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Washington
Johnson
Appalachia
John McCormack
Massachusetts
House
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Appalachian Mountain
Texas
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The
Tribune
Chanute
the Tribune
Weather and Tornado Toll Hits Kansas Counties
Area forecast calls for fair hot and windy weather through Wednesday with highs near 70s nights around 70. Tornadoes in Ellis and Russell counties damaged farms and vehicles. one female passenger injured. Heavy rains caused Gorham to register up to 11 inches. Saline River crested at 23.6 feet north of Russell, 0.5 feet above flood stage.
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Topeka
Ellis
Russell
U. S. 40
Gorham
Waldo
Saline
Lightning Strikes Rural District School Near Chanute
A bolt hit the Rural District No. 44 school during a thundershower. Twenty one students and teacher Mrs Boda Parker were inside. no injuries reported. The fire department inspected the building and students were dismissed. The event occurred one mile south of Chanute. A tree near Meartie Pentzer’s home was struck in the morning storm.
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Boda Parker
Chanute
Meartie A
Traffic Fatalities Log From Topeka Kansas
An AP report outlines Kansas traffic death totals for a 24 hour period ending 9 am Tuesday in August 1962 and September 194 to 411, with a comparative 1963 total of 383. The piece notes Tribune contact details and after hours phone number.
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Topeka
Kansas
Intercepted Letter Warns Wheat As Weapon in War Backlog
An intercepted note to Cha argues that a large wheat backlog could serve as a strategic weapon in the 1970s era, potentially more effective than a massive nuclear stockpile. The letter suggests economic leverage and food security implications, reflecting broader geopolitics of food and weapons.
New Industry Here Will Produce Mops
City re conditions the former municipal waterworks on highway K39 east of town to house a new plant that will manufacture mops and mop handle hardware for industrial and household use. Three men lead the venture Harry Carter Chanute machinist Merle Forslund and Don Hicks.
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K39
Harry Carter
Chanut Machinist
W. 4Th
Merle Forslund
Don Hicks
Forslund
Hicks
Burlington Mig. Co
Chanute
Peace Corps couple praise aid by building homes in Peru
Chester Wiggins and his wife Barbara return from a 20 month Peace Corps assignment in Arequipa Peru. They say they made more friends than aid and describe life in barriadas with scarce water and sanitation. They helped install 500 water tanks 300 new homes and a school nursery while living among 55 volunteers. They plan a new venture Fibrac Inc to reuse old waterworks facilities for a factory expected to start in six weeks employing 12 to 15 people.
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San Bruno
Calif
Peace Corps
Chester Wiggins
Barbara
Arequipa
Wiggins
Miami
Okla
Fibrac, Inc
Chamber of Commerce New Industry Committee
Ken Caldwell
Appreciation Night By Neosho 4-H'ers
Neosho County 4-H Clubs stage an appreciation picnic for sponsors at the National Guard Armory in Chanute tonight at 6 30 p m. County agricultural agent Fred De Lano says 4-H families provide the meal and the event gives 4-H'ers a chance to thank sponsors who supported their programs during the past year.
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Neosho County
National Guard
Chanute
Fred DeLano
Thayer Homecoming Fair Opens With Parade And Rodeo Fun
Plans for the Thayer Homecoming Picnic and Fair at McLachlen Park kick off Thursday with a Shodeo at 7 30 pm and run three days. Calf roping pole bending barrel and flag races highlight activities along with agriculture and livestock exhibits and a carnival. The parade on Friday features the Nursery Rhymes theme and prizes for winners while a free watermelon feed follows the parade. A 3 hour band concert by the Parsons Municipal Band opens Friday activities, then team pulling. Saturday features a Kid s Rodeo and an amateur hour finale at 7 30 pm.
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Thayer
McLachlen Park
Kansas
The
Thayer Saddle Club
Thayer Chamber of Commerce
Thayer Fair Association
Parsons Municipal
Katy
Inter-State Fair Opens in Coffeyville 1964
The Inter-State Fair began in Coffeyville with 642 animals and 700 exhibits housed. Livestock judging starts tomorrow and runs through Saturday, with judging in other divisions also tomorrow. The Inter-State rodeo starts Thursday night and continues nightly through Sunday.
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Coffeyville
Kan
Speculation on Chrysler UAW talks ends with denial
DETROIT AP speculation that a Labor Day deal between the United Auto Workers and Chrysler Corp. was near intensified after UAW President Walter P. Reuther warned that a strike could occur if Chrysler moves only minimally. Reuther rejected the Johnson Labor Day visit as a factor and asserted production workers must gain equity amid record auto industry profits.
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United Auto Workers Union
Chrysler Corp
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Reuther
Johnson
Detroit
Chrysler
Reither
General Motors
Ford
Enrollments Reported at St. Patrick’s School
Enrollment at St Patrick’s junior high and grade school reached 273 on opening day for the 1964 65 term. The junior high had 93 students and the grade school 180, according to school officials.
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St. Patrick's
Colossal Famine by 1970s Warns Scientist Economist
CHICAGO AP A world famine threatening hundreds of millions or billions of people looms, warned Dr. Raymond Ewell vice president for research SUNY Buffalo. He said Asia Africa and South America face famine by the 1970s and beyond unless the United States and Europe provide massive fertilizer aid. He urged birth control as the long term fix, noting immediate steps are urgent. He predicted famine would reach India Pakistan and China in the early 1970s, then other regions by 1980, as populations grow about one billion with stagnant food output.
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Chicago
Raymond Ewell
State University of New York At Buffalo
Asia
Africa
South America
American Chemical Society
Ewell
United States
Europe
India
Pakistan
China
Indonesia
Iran
Turkey
Egypt
Latin America
Dr. Ewell
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Neosho Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees
County Commissioners
U. S
Hubert H. Humphrey
Mansfield
Supt. L. H. Petit
Chanute Junior College
Albert Gore
D-Tenn
Russell B. Long
D-La
Sass Biopeia Cne
Cha
Yours
Judy Perkins
Judy
Robert W. Perkins
Chanute High School Student Council
Stormont Vail
Russ Corbitt
Barriada
Barriadas
Peru
Carter
Neosho
St. Pat’s
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