City Commission OKs block paving and zoning changes
The city commission adopted a resolution to pave several blocks including Western between Beech and Cherry and Allen between 7th and 9th. A public hearing preceded the vote and property owners will have 20 days to file protests. The meeting also discussed zoning amendments, a Walnut Street through-street study, and denied Jim Cushman’s beer license renewal. Cushman, 30, resides at 1142 N Evergreen.
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Commission
Tribune
Beech
Cherry
Rutter
Wilson
Allen
Tennessee
Larson
Harold Williams
City Planning Commission
Planning Board
Williams
Lincoln East
Jim Cushman
Rendezvous Tavern
N. Evergreen
Cushman
Evergreen
Zoning Appeal Withdrawn by Lightfoots
Mr and Mrs George Lightfoot withdrew their zoning appeal for a trailer home at 502 West Back of the House. The appeals board accepted the withdrawal at last night’s meeting. The property’s lot size is too small under zoning rules to permit two dwellings.
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George Lightfoot
Beulah Leaves Death Toll Rising In Caribbean After Storm
Beulah killed 18 on Hispaniola and Haitis mountains, ruined crops in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, and displaced thousands as Chloe strengthens far out in the Atlantic. Forecasters say Beulah is fading and Chloe poses no immediate land threat for at least two days.
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Miami
Fla
Beulah
Caribbean
Chloe
Atlantic Ocean
Barahona
Hispaniola
Dominican Republic
Haiti
Jamaica
U.S. Weather Bureau
Bermuda
Arnold Sugg
National Hurricane Center
Two Youths Die In Paola Car Crash
Wayne W. Rone and Robert H. Lucas, both 22, of Paola, were killed when their car skidded off U S 169 at the north edge of Paola and struck a tree. Police said Rone, the driver, apparently swerved to avoid a car emerging from a side road.
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Paola, Kan
Wayne W. Rone
Robert H. Lucas
Paola
U.S. 169
Rone
Intercepted Letter Suggests Bureau Reduction
A correspondence proposes dissolving some state bureaus to end conflicts and duplication of functions rather than creating a new agency. The letter is signed Dear Cha, with closing Yours.
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Cha
Counterfeiting Boom Prompts International Effort
Secret Service official Robert Snow warns that American currency remains the world’s most counterfeited and that forgery now spans credit cards tickets stock bonds driver licenses and even food stamps Americans can spot off set printed notes by creasing the portrait. Illinois Highway Patrol head William Morris notes riots have shifted to guerrilla tactics and introduces RioTro instant banana peel street slicker for riot control.
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Kansas City
U.S. Secret Service
Robert Snow
Secret Service
Snow
William H. Morris
Illinois Highway Patrol
Association
$1 Billion Loan Fund For Slums
President Johnson secured a pledge from life insurance companies to channel about $1 billion in mortgage funds into urban slums. About 348 firms will contribute according to assets, with the money directed mostly to housing programs insured by the Federal Housing Administration.
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Washington
Johnson
Big City
White House
Federal Housing Administration
Gaiety Color Marking Chanute Fiesta At Santa Fe Park
Mexican Fiesta in Chanute features two nights of programs at Santa Fe Park with 7 p.m. starts and post show dances. Coronation of queen Carmen Padilla and processements include Gov. schedule conflict replacement by Dr. Robert Harder. Fiesta marks 50th anniversary with city officials, performers from Parsons Kansas City and Atchison, and memorial tributes to Julio Verdín.
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Santa Fe Park
Park Stage
Memorial Auditorium
National Guard
Carmen Padilla
Chanute
Robert Docking
Robert Harder
Carmen Hernandez
Moline
J. W. Kensett
Henry Watkins
Erie
R. J. Hayes
Parsons
Kansas City
Atchi
Raul Quirarte
Eulalio Garcia
Lucio de la Torre
Frank Martinez
Robert DeLa Torre
John Alonzo
Frank Goben
Jim Taylor
Alonzo
Traffic Fatalities in Kansas Rise in 1967 Log
For 24 hours to 9 a.m. Wednesday September and year totals show 4 deaths. 32 for September. 452 for 1967. Includes two previously unreported fatalities in the log.
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Topeka
Kansas
Bi partisan Kansas plan seeks state planning study
In Topeka the Kansas Legislative Council received a bi partisan proposal from Rep Bill Fribley and Rep Jerry Griffith to study state planning services. The goal is to remove conflicting activities and duplication and consider an independent planning and development office. Governor Docking earlier proposed a central planning agency in 1967 but the bill failed. lawmakers urged further study.
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Topeka
Kansas
Robert Docking
Tribune Phone Contact for Carrier Reach
If you cannot reach your Tribune contact, call your carrier. If he is unavailable after hours, dial HE 1-3400 after 6 p.m.
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Tribune
Artillery and Mortar Duels Rage Across DMZ Front
Six Marines killed and 109 wounded in 24 hours of heavy shelling as Con Thien fortress repels an assault by 150 North Vietnamese regulars. B52 bombers drop about 750000 pounds in the DMZ area while jets hit Red positions. A U S Phantom jet is shot down with two crew rescued.
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Saigon
U.S
Demilitarized Line
Vietnam
Con
Demilitarized Zone
Air Force
Tonkin Gulf
Dmz
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Con Thien
Smokers with lung disease harder to quit says physician
Dr Borje Ejrup of New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center reports smokers with asthma bronchitis or emphysema experience an intense urge to smoke described as itching in the bronchial tubes. He notes withdrawal can reduce this craving in a week or two but many heavy smokers miss the sensation. He cites 86 percent success among 154 patients finishing the clinic program with quitting or cutting consumption.
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New York
Borje Ejrup
New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center
Ejrup
Weather shifts to cooler with showers and storms likely
AREA FORECAST calls for cloudy windier cooler conditions with showers and a risk of a few thunderstorms tonight. Thursday remains mostly cloudy with additional showers and cooler temperatures with lows near 60 and highs in the mid 60s.
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Topeka
Kansans
Weather Bureau
Leavenworth
Dodge City
Goodland
Pittsburg
Kansas
Augusta Student Burned at Pep Rally Bonfire
Vic tor Auer, 11, son of former Butler County Sheriff Hobart Auer, suffered first and second degree burns on arms and legs when a bonfire at a high school pep rally in Augusta Kansas was started with gasoline and whipped by wind.
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Augusta
Kan
Victor Auer
Butler County
Hobart Auer
Home of Miss America Signs Planned Across Kansas
The Kansas Highway Commission will install signs on major highways entering Kansas declaring it the home state of Debra Barnes Miss America 1968. Gov. Docking said highway director John Montgomery notified him that Moran signs will change from Home of Miss Kansas to Home of Miss America.
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Topeka
Kansas Highway Commission
Debra Barnes
Robert Docking
John Montgomery
Kansas
Moran
Kan
Chattanooga Fights Return of Civil War Choo Choo
In Chattanooga Tennessee federal authorities and the mayor block the General from moving to Georgia amid a dispute over its rightful home. The engine long tied to local pride faces possible enshrinement in Georgia confronting a history of hanging raiders in 1862.
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Chattanooga, Tenn
Chattanooga
Georgia
L&n
State of Georgia
Kennesaw
America
Moon Surveyor 5 rocket test shows slight movement
Three tiny liquid fuel engines fired from Earth for half a second to test exhaust effects on Surveyor 5. JPL scientists report the $60 million craft moved slightly and dust may have risen on the 19.9 degree slope, with first post test photos showing instrument movement.
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Pasadena
Calif
Lunar
Surveyor 5
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Earth
Moon
Surveyor
Gasoline Hoses Defend Station Attacker Bandits
Two would-be robbers attempted a hold up at a Kansas City service station as Harvey L. Bearce 55 fought them off by pointing a gasoline nozzle spraying the attackers who fled. Bearce received treatment for a head cut.
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Kansas City
Harvey L. Bearce
Bearce
Woman Found Drowned in Cedar Creek
The body of Mrs. Roberta Sparkes of Eudora was found face down in Cedar Creek in Johnson County. Coroner Dr. J Michiae Boles ruled the death a drowning, stating she had been dead less than 24 hours.
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Clathe
Kan
Roberta Sparkes
Eudora
Cedar Creek
Johnson County
J. Michihae Boles
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