Campers Pack Santa Fe Park After State Convention
The fall state convention of the Kansas Campers Association drew about 3,500 people and 1,046 camping units to Santa Fe Park. Most campers left by Monday, leaving the park clean with minor fire damage, injuries, and several curbside incidents. Timmy Fisher and Kathy Bird were treated for injuries. one camper fire caused by a gas tank leak was contained with limited damage.
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Kansas Campers Association, Inc
Santa Fe Park
Chanute
Timmy Ray Fisher
Richard M
Fisher
Kansas City
Kan
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Kathy J. Bird
Hosital
Kathy
Herb Thompson
John Erickson
Hiker survives 200 foot fall on Half Dome
AP report from Yosemite details 20 year old Steve McRee of Lakewood California knocked loose from a fixed steel cable during an electrical storm and tumbling about 200 feet down the back side of Half Dome. He was rescued by helicopter and hospitalized with fractures cuts and bruises. Rangers uncertain if lightning struck the cable or ground near him. In Kansas City AP notes Mississippi gubernatorial candidate Bill Waller nephew John Holmes 18 missing since Aug 28 after selling books for Southwestern Book Co.
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Yosemite, Calif
Half Dome
Yosemite National Park
Steve McRee
Lakewood
Calif
Lew Albert
Kansas City
John Holmes
Mississippi
Bill Waller
Alaska Airlines 727 Crash Leaves Airliner Scattered
Rescue teams recovered 56 bodies and the flight recorders from the rain soaked mountainside where an Alaska Airlines 727 crashed, scattering debris over about 1500 feet in the worst single aircraft disaster in U.S. history.
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Juneau
Alaska
Patrick Wellington
Alaska Public Safety Department
Alaska Airlines
Rock Festival Turns into a Fatal Brawl in California
In Watsonville California a rock festival turned violent as 150 motorcyclists Mexican American youths and surfers fought with knives chains and bottles injuring several and killing a motorcyclist Peter Michael Montero 26 of Long Beach. The clash ended after police and highway patrol sealed the area and the crowd dispersed.
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Watsonville
Calif
Watsonville Community Hospital
Peter Michael Montero
Long Beach
Bruce Miller
Jasper Turco
San Jose
San Francisco
California
Jenner
Priest charged with gambling at Iowa parish picnic
Rev. Ralph J. Ruhland, 50, pastor of Immaculate Conception Church in North Buena Vista, faces a gambling house charge after a picnic raid in Clayton County. Authorities seized over $600 in gambling equipment as wheels of fortune operated and beer was sold. He was released on his own recognizance until arraignment September 17 in Elkader.
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Eleader
Iowa
Immaculate Conception Church
North Buena Vista
Ther Ruhland
Elkader
Pahlas
Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Clayton County
Dubuque
City Sets One Year That Landfill Reforms Take Effect
City Manager Ken Sanborn will implement the landfill reforms within a year after state solid waste engineer Charles Linn advised the plan would gain Board of Health approval if completed in that period. Linn will discuss the details in Chanute Wednesday. The changes address open burning and uncovered garbage to meet state regulations.
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Kenneth Sanborn
Charles Linn
Sanborn
State Board of Health
Linn
Chanute
Gas Bulk Plant Break-In Stolen Gas Reported
The Mobil Oil Bulk Plant at 421 E Pine was broken into during the weekend. Ten percent of its gasoline was stolen, four padlocks were broken, and a tank valve damaged. Police were notified Saturday morning with property damage estimated at $20.
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Mobil
E. Pine
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Rock Festival
An intercepted note plays with ambiguity as it muses on the phrase rock festival and whether it denotes music or a chaotic event where participants hurled items. The remark hints at misreading common terms and the potential for confusion in conversation.
Pilot credited in near-miss crash on German highway
In Hamburg a 32 year old pilot’s skill prevented a larger disaster when a West German charter airliner failed an emergency landing on a superhighway. Of 121 aboard 98 survived. at least 21 killed and 2 missing. 45 injured and 18 hospitalized including Capt. Reinhold Huels with multiple fractures. Luna 18 went into near lunar orbit after a five day flight with trajectory corrections.
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Hamburg
Germany
Reinhold Huels
Moscow
Tass
Moon
Floods Ebb After Severe Oklahoma Downpours
Sunny relief followed weekend rain in northeastern Oklahoma as swollen streams recede. Two deaths are blamed on the downpours and floodwaters. A north Tulsa department store building collapsed due to high winds and water Monday. Official rainfall exceeded seven inches over Sunday and Monday.
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Tulsa
Hickenlooper Dies in New York Find to Be Buried in Iowa
Former Senator Rourke B. Hickenlooper, 75, was found dead Saturday at a Shelter Island, New York home of Henry F. Holthusen. His body will be moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for burial, with death tentatively linked to an abnormal dilation of the aorta.
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Washington
Rourke B. Hickenlooper
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Hickenlooper
Shelter Island
N.Y
Henry F. Holthusen
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Salina
Thompsons
Gerald
Norma Duncan
Hays
M. Drisdell
G. Cordner
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Rangers
Ralph J. Ruhland
John C. Oberhausen
Harold Pahlas
Oberhausen
Ruhland
Richard Turner
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