Kennedy Urges Public Backing for Tax Reduction Plan
President Kennedy used a national address to press Americans to back the $11 billion tax cut, arguing benefits range from home appliances to a stronger dollar. He warned the bill risks delay and urged quick passage without spending cuts linked to the proposal. House votes next week as Republicans demand spending restraints and equal time responses follow.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
William E. Miller
Miller
New York
Neosho Falls girl sought after bottle note mystery
Neosho Falls acting postmistress seeks Marie Butler, once of Neosho Falls, to relay that a note in a bottle dropped in 1925 into the Neosho River was recovered near Matagorda Island, Texas. The note asked for word on river distance but Marie’s current whereabouts and marital status are unknown.
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Sadie O. West
Marie Butler
Neosho Falls
Neosho River
Marie
Miss Butler
Vida Hartman
West
Sam Saylor
Port Lavaca
Tex
Grand River
Arkansas River
Mississippi River
Gulf of Mexico
New Orleans
Matagorda Island
Texas Coast
Corpus Christi
350 Attend NFO Meet At Armory
About 350 people from up to 100 miles around Chanute attended a Farm City meeting at the National Guard Armory to discuss rural and urban problems. Speakers included Russell Rine, Martin Byrne, and James Young with Glen Halbe moderating. Byrne warned agriculture must balance its use of petroleum, steel, and electricity while stressing farmers as major buyers. Young provided labor and wage context. the panel also tackled race, automation, and parity in farm support.
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Rura
National Guard
Chanute
Russell Rine
National Conference of Christians and Jews
Martin Byrne
Kansas Farmers Union
James Young
Council For Kansas Labor Afl-Cio
Glen Halbe
Rine
Byrne
Young
Canada
Russia
Kansas Wins National High School Driver Education Award
Kansas was announced as the winner of an achievement award in the 16th annual national high school driver education program by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The award requires at least 60 percent of eligible students to complete qualifying courses.
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Washington
Kansas
The
Insurance Institute For Highway Safety
Weather forecast: warm, fair to partly cloudy through Friday
Area forecast notes continued warmth with fair to partly cloudy skies. Tonight will be cool with lows 60 to 65. Daytime highs today reach 89 and 61 for sea level readings, with a 1 p.m. temperature of 89 and humidity around 47 percent.
Weather outlook for Kansas turns partly cloudy Friday
AP reports generally fair weather across Kansas with cooler temperatures in the northwest. Light rain and thundershowers likely in the northwest and extreme north Friday. Highs today 85 to 90, tonight 50s northwest and 60s elsewhere. Wednesday highs 82 to 91, lows 59 to 66.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Northwest
North Central
Wichita
Pittsburg
Goodland
Concordia
Traffic Fatalities Log in Topeka for Sept 27 1963
AP report from Topeka notes Kansas traffic death log for 24 hours ending 9 a m Thursday September 27 1963 shows 0 fatalities. Comparable figure for 1962 was 415.
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Topeka
Kansas
Jury Panel Drawn for Erie District Court Term
ERIE The jury panel for the district court term opening Oct 9 has been drawn listing Chanute and Stark, Rural Parsons, Rural Humboldt, St Paul, and other communities. Jury trials will be set on the opening day of the term.
New EKOGA Officers Chosen for 1963-64
Two Chanute men join the Eastern Kansas Oil & Gas Assn officers for the year as Charles Chauncey becomes secretary and Alan Willis treasurer. Earl Lauder of Emporia remains president with Art Brigham of Iola and Jack Thomas of Independence as vice presidents. The annual meeting at the American Legion hall drew about 250 attendees. Directors were elected from numerous counties, including McKnab and Mendenhall among others.
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Eastern Kansas
OTL & Gas Assn
Chuck Chauncey
Chanute
Art Brigham
Iola
Alan Willis
Earl Lauder
Emporia
Lauder
Brigham
Charles
Chuck) Chauncey
North District
Jack Thomas
Independence
South District
American Legion Hall
W. W
Bill) McKnab
Winfield
McKnab
Marvin Boyer
Allen
Car! Pate
Neosho
George E. Lauder
Greenwood
M. M. Crossfield
Montgomery
Roscoe Mendenhall Jr
Chautauqua
Robert Winterischeib
Coffey
Cowley
Roscoe Mendenhall Sr
Lyon
C. ‘L. Sheedy
Woodson
Albian W. Bailey
Wilson
Roy W. Brecheisen
Anderson
Ed Henry
Elk
Russell Hays
Douglas
Frank Dieter
Marion
W. L. Hartman
Sedgwick
Ralph Helms
Labette
A. H
Bud) Alcock
Crawford
Man Mistakenly Pays Insurance Premium of 900000 Plus
In Denver Edward Fowler Jr. sent a $900,006.71 check for a $6.71 premium. An insurance official agreed to overlook the error after Fowler blamed a faulty check writing machine.
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Denver
Edward Fowler Jr
Pany
Closing Night Draws Sparse Crowd for Black Hills Passion Play
Attendance at Memorial auditorium fell below 500 for the closing performance of the Black Hills Passion Play. The troupe heads to Ada Oklahoma after Spearfish South Dakota, then on to Lake Wales Florida for winter theater.
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Memorial Auditorium
Ada
Okla
Spearfish
S.D
Lake Wales
Fla
Carlson Urges Selling Food Stuffs to Soviets
Sen. Frank Carlson urged studying proposals to expand nonstrategic trade with the Soviet bloc including food and other materials. He cited Canada's wheat deal with Russia and urged practical trade policy, while noting export licensing and subsidies affect such moves.
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Carlson
Washington
Canada
Soviet Union
U.S
Frank Carlson
Kansas
Luther Hodges
Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Russia
Cuba
Freeman
Monticello
Iowa
New York Times
Chicago
Board of Trade
Commerce Department
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Hodges
Train Tragedy Near Attica Involves Sand and Speed
Two men were hospitalized in serious condition after a Santa Fe freight train struck a stalled truck on Attica main street. The truck driver Leroy R. Willis, 44, Wichita, said a mechanical wheel failure caused the collapse. Fireman Virgil Baker, 58, Wellington, suffered minor injuries while rescue crews dug out the truck’s occupants. The train was reported to be traveling 78 miles per hour when the collision occurred, stopping about 1,999 feet from impact.
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Attica
Kan
Virgil Baker
Wellington
Floyd L. Snyder
Harper County
Snyder
Leroy R. Willis
Wichita
Purse Stolen From Myers Hardware Reported
Mrs. Henry Myers found her purse taken yesterday from Myers hardware at 215 East Main. Police describe the thief as a short heavyset woman with makeup and a head scarf, dressed in black jeans and a sport shirt. This marks the third theft of its kind this month, following two similar heists earlier on Main Street.
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Henry Myers
Myers Hardware
E. Main
Intercepted Letters Recalled Campaign Slogan Shift
An intercepted letter recalls pre suffrage era hunger with the slogan A Full Dinner Pail, contrasting with Kennedy’s later pledge A New Washing Machine in Every Home, highlighting evolving political messaging.
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Kennedy
Peaceful restart at Parkside High after unrest
Jackson Michigan AP reports Parkside High School reopened with heavy police presence after stones were thrown at officers and about twenty youths of both races were detained. Fifteen officers guarded the new $3 million school as students returned to classrooms. A Black girl urged peers to return to homerooms amid lingering jeers while a nighttime crowd of 100 to 150 adults gathered elsewhere in the city. Principal Kiesel linked tensions to Birmingham race violence and church bombing deaths.
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Parkside High School
Alabama
George Kiesel
Birmingham
Parents Punish Five Wayward Boys in Jail Cell
Five teen age boys aged 15 to 18 charged with breaking and entering and vandalism were whipped by their parents in a Henrico County jail cell after a judge suggested corporal punishment as an alternative to a correctional school sentence.
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Richmond
Henrico County
T. ‘Xinns Jr
Missing Girl's Body Found In Everett Dump
The body of 8 year old Mary d'Albenzio, missing since Wednesday, was found in the Everett dump early today. Police say she was strangled with a shoe string. She was last seen by her mother near her home around 5 p.m. Wednesday.
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Everett
Mass
Mary ‘d’Albenzio
Gromyko offers 18 nation disarmament summit at Moscow
Soviet Foreign Minister Andre Gromyko proposed an 18 nation summit on disarmament to be held before June 30 next year with Moscow as the site. He spoke at the United Nations General Assembly in a speech that stressed limited missile stockpiles and a ban on placing nuclear weapons in orbit, aiming to build trust as President Kennedy prepared his policy address.
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Andre A. Gromyko
Moscow
Gromyko
U.N. General Assembly
West Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Geneva
France
United States
Soviet Union
Kennedy
Two Teens Dead in Nowata Hit-and-Run Mystery
Two Leavenworth teenagers Bradley P McMahon and Bill Lee Pagne both 16 were killed in a likely hit-and-run along U S 169 near Nowata Oklahoma eight hours after police picked them up for hitchhiking. Trooper Jack Plunkett reported no trace of the vehicle and the victims had been wanted for questioning in a car theft and broken gum machine case.
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Nowata, Okla
Leavenworth, Kan
Bradley P
McMahon
Bill Lee Pagne
Nowata General Hospital
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Leavenworth
Jack Plunkett
U.S. 169
Here
Correction clarifies Emporia bakery plant location
A Tribune notice corrects a prior report stating a baking company plant was in Humboldt. The existing plant is in Emporia, and the Humboldt reference was an error.
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Emporia
Tribune
Humboldt
Beware of Brown Spiders Across Wide U.S. Range
The Veterans Administration warns of a highly venomous brown house spider with a violin-shaped mark on its head. A Arkansas research group reports rising bites in Kansas Missouri Arkansas and surrounding states, noting the spider may be more dangerous than the black widow.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
The
Arkansas
Kansas
Gulf Coast
Tennessee
Oklahoma
University of Arkansas Medical Center
Little Rock VA
Missouri
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EKOGA
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H. B. Cobb
Main
Cha
Berthot Construction Co
K39
West City
Larry Mathews
Jackson, Mich
United Nations
N.Y
Nowata
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