Alcorn Back in Business Under Chanute Manufacturing
Chanute Manufacturing Co. resumes operations after reorganization of Alcorn Combustion Co. under Chapter 11 receivership. M. L. Chandler, chairman, said the U S District Court approved the plan on August 9, making Chanute the parent and restarting production in Chanute.
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Chanute Manufacturing Co
Alcorn Corp
M. L. Chandler
Chandler
Alcorn Combustion Co
New York
Ganization
U.S. District Court
Chanute
Topless Arrests Test Kansas City Dancers and Clubs
Eight test arrests target topless dancers and club managers in Kansas City Kansas as lawmakers weigh liquor by the drink and a court definition of lewd behavior. Mayor Walsh argues the action pressures legalization while courts define lewd conduct. Chandler reports Chanute Manufacturing Co back in business with 45 hires, now 65 in the area, and plans to hire 107 total with a focus on heat transfer device fabrication and a Becco subsidiary in Houston.
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Kansas City, Kan
Kansas City
Kan
Kansasislature
Richard F. Walsh
Kansas
Walsh
Chandler
Chndler
Chanute Manufacturing Co
Chanute
Chanute Manufacturing
Becco, Inc
Houston
Tex
Becco
Wheat Farmers Not Bitter
Kansas wheat growers react to large sales to the Soviet Union and China. Farmers like Oliver Brown and John Armstrong weigh harvest timing and personal judgment as prices rise from $1.25 to around $2 a bushel. About half the 1972 crop still sits in bins.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Soviet Union
China
Oliver Brown
Brown
John Armstrong
Muscotah
Farm Bureau
Armstrong
Ross-Keas Oil Co Hopes To Bring Oil From Sand
Chanute based Ross-Keas Oil Co. partners Kenneth Keas and Bud Ross bought rights to Purdy Sisson’s rocket injection system to recover up to 60 percent of remaining oil from sand. The two machines include a large air compressor and a high temperature rocket engine using jet fuel and a water jacket. Four wells will test the method over several months to determine practicality.
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Chanute
Ross-Keas Oil Co
Kenneth Keas
Pertner
Intercepted Letter Questions Genghis Khan on Vietnam Withdrawal
A brief intercepted letter asks where Genghis Khan stands on immediate withdrawal from Vietnam. The inquiry is dated in a cryptic, informal tone resembling a diplomatic memo.
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Genghis Khan
Vietnam
McGovern Attacks Nutty Polls and Critics in Columbus
Senator George McGovern dismissed recent public opinion polls as nutty and ludicrous while denouncing conservative newspaper columnists as lousy and propagandistic. He proposed two Social Security boosts for widows and higher outside income limits for pensioners. He also faulted Nixon for limited news conferences and said the press clobbers him.
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Columbus
Ohio
George McGovern
Nixon
Dr. Gallup
Harris
Genghis Khan
McGovern
Carbondale
Ill
White House
Governors Stay Lockes In Comfort At State Fair Inn
Crossed Up Hutchinson Kansas AP weary couple sought lodging but no room at the Key to America Inn as reservations had vanished. A secretary said records were missing after a hotel name change from Hilton Inn. The issue was resolved and Gov Robert Docking and his wife reported a longer than usual stay in a comfortable suite at the state fair.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Key To America Inn
Hilton Inn
Key To America
Kansas
Robert Docking
Rooney Leads Three Incumbents In Primaries Across States
Three Democratic incumbents led by Brooklyn's John J. Rooney won primaries in Massachusetts Washington and a rerun in New York. Rooney defeated former Rep Allard K Lowenstein by 2415 votes in the rerun of the June 20 primary after court-ordered changes. Louise Day Hicks won renomination for a second term in Boston's 9th District and six term Rep Julia Butler Hansen beat a challenger in Washington's 3rd District.
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Associated Press
Brooklyn
John J. Rooney
Massachusetts
Washington
New York
Rooney
Allard K. Lowenstein
Louise Day Hicks
Boston
Julia Butler Hansen
Pindling’s PLP sweeps Bahamas election for independence mandate
The Progressive Liberal Party won at least 27 of 38 seats in Nassau defeating a dissident coalition and the United Bahamian Party. Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling says the victory is a clear mandate to press ahead with independence from Britain by July 10, 1973.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Lyndon O. Pindling
Progressive Liberal Party
United Bahamian Party
House of Assembly
Pindling
Britain
Senate votes to let states use highway funds for rail projects
The Senate approved diverting part of a two-year $1.6 billion urban-highway fund to rail transit. By a 48-26 vote, the measure attached to an $18 billion highways transit package passed 77-0 and moves to the House.
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Washington
Senate
Edmund S. Muskie
John Sherman Cooper
House
Ellsberg and Russo sue over alleged wiretapping in Pentagon Papers case
Dr Daniel Ellsberg Anthony Russo and 17 lawyers allege illegal electronic eavesdropping and sue the government for 1 million dollars. Their trial is postponed pending a Supreme Court ruling on a bid to hear the defense challenge to the wiretaps.
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Los Angeles
Daniel Ellsberg
Anthony Russo
U.S. Supreme Court
Agnew Suggests Wiretap Raid Plan For Political Gain
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew floated a personal theory that someone set up a wiretapping raid on Democratic headquarters and then tipped authorities to embarrass the Republican party. He offered the idea while denying evidence, noting his campaign style shifts between old controversy and new method.
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ST. Louis
Spiro T. Agnew
Democratic
Republican Party
Agnew
Explosions and fire along Syrian-Israeli cease fire lines
At dawn Arab gunners in Syria fired on the Golan Heights as Israeli forces in South Lebanon responded. No casualties were reported. Abba Eban warned that terrorists will face consequences after a parcel bombs attack in London killed an Israeli agricultural attaché.
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Syria
Golan Heights
Lebanon
London
Abba Eban
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