List of accounts paid August 1968 Chanute County Ledger
Neosho County Clerk Virgil Lowe certifies the August 1968 accounts list paid Sept 1. The document itemizes numerous electrical board payments, salaries, supplies, services, and various county fund expenditures totaling 49 107.46 across Election Road General Levee Health Bindweed funds, with signatures and official seal.
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Mae Claus
Grace French
Velma Ogden
Mildredderson
Ethel Green
Swans Grocery
Ted Kyle
Marie
Mary Demiler
Hours & Me
Paiss Peterson
Audra Earnhardt
Wayne B. Gibson Jr
Charles A. Ritz
Virgil Lowe
Irwin Diediker
John R. Eggen
Joe Ermey
Hurley Heaton
Harry Kennedy
Harold Lambertson
Labor
Charles Norris
Ivan Shafer
F. A. Johnson
Joel van Meter
Labor & Expense
George W. Wright
George Bartholomew
Wm. G. Neely
Alma Meyer
Electrd
Herman Bonine
Chanute Tribune
Wm. S. Hill
Ruth Heilman
Edwin Lamb
Alfred Holding
N. G. Madl
Tom R. Duling
Donald R. Viti
Charles Collins
Paul C. Tate
Orum Adams
L. E. Bean
Junior Currie
Jerry Collins
James W. Landrith
Willard Allen
Pat HE
Joe Cragg
August B. Coerlin
Howard Franklin
L. H. Franklin
Chester Herod
Horace Jones
Robert Lamb
James Sunday
Charles Miller
George McGown
Melvin McGown
John Owen
Don Harding Co. Treas
Colonial Life & Accident Ins
Blue Cross Blue Shield
B.M.A
Minnesota Mining & Mfg. Co
Wentz Equipment Co
Watkins Inc
the General Mach. & Supply Co
Sinclair Pipeline Co
Welborn Sales Co
G. A. Ringle Dist
Denison Welding
Leland Trout
Joe Smith Oil Co
Galesburg Oil Co
Montgomery Ward
Salzman & John Co
Standard Oil Co
Harry Byers & Sons Inc
Blood Oj! Co
Startling Supply Co
Western Drilling Tool & Supply Co
Eee Tire Service, Inc
Erie Municipal Light & Water
Sohigro Service Co
Strange Tractor & Impl. Co
Ewen Motor Co
Neo
Farmers Co-op. Assn
John W. Bebbington
Rock
Harris & Hall Imp. Co
Johnson & Son Inc
the Erie Record
Ricketts Chev, Co
Western Auto Assoc. Store
Ricketts Rexall Drugs
Southwestern Bell Telephone
Wright & Dunham
Giefer Service
Sunflower Garage
Funkhouser Machinery Co
National Engineering Co
Elec. Power & Light Co
George E. Neely
Chanute City Police
Kenneth Stroup
Ray Atkins
Bill Yockey
Ruby Harris
Communications Service
Or & Labor
Chappy’s
Labor & Motor
Demler Pontiac
Johnson & Son, Inc
the Lockwood Co
News Standard Printing Co
Midwest Office Supply
Misch & Sons Printing Co
Richeys Rexall Drugs
Schwind Service
Wright & Dunham Htd
Qeories
York Electric Co
Richard L. Ashley
Sherman & Rubow
S.w.bell Telephone
Pitney-Bowes Inc
the Gas Service Co
Erie, Mun. Light & Water
City Ambulance Service
Mike Brune
Mary Lee Frederick
Judicial Council
Bonnie Moffatt
Vital Statistics
Morris Howard
Gary C. Bowles
Labor & Supplies
Bounty
Melvin ‘Hines
Glen Sexton
C. A. Shields
Henry Tuxhorn
J. J. Minor
General Electric
Radio Equip
Oren Purdom
John N. Sherman
Levee Fund
Farmers Coop
Elevator Co
Loyd Cleaver
Clark Cleaver
Wiley Deweese
John Richard
Lawrence
Larry Greve
Jerry Cline
Bill Gericke
E. C. Bryan
Chanute Grain & Seed Co
Shaw Mfg. Co
Neosho County
Erie School Lunch Menus Weekday Highlights
Erie schools publish weekly lunch offerings with each day featuring a balanced meal. Tuesday includes meatloaf and gravy with potatoes and broccoli. Wednesday offers ham and beans with cabbage salad. Thursday serves beef and gravy with potatoes and tomatoes. Friday presents tuna salad on lettuce with green beans and apple sauce.
Erie resident Hoagland enters Grandfather Grandmother award
ERIE Jess Hoagland of the Erie Rest Home has been entered as a candidate for the Grandfather Grandmother of the Year award by the Kansas Nursing Home Association. The award will be presented at the association’s annual convention on October 10 in Topeka.
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Erie
Jess Hoagland
Erie Rest Home
The
Kansas Nursing Home Assn
Topeka
State cigarette tax distribution by county totals
Neosho county received 10594.64 in the state cigarette tax distribution for the period ending August 31, per the state treasurer's office. Other area counties reported Allen 8709.74 Wilson 7743.20 and Woodson 2768.60.
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Neosho County
Allen
Wilson
Woodson
Legion Honors 50-Year Members
American Legion post honored members with fifty years of service at a special meeting. Their wives attended as guests. Pins were presented to Felix Dowling Frank Dowling Roy Long Clarence Pate Ike Smith and Clarence Vitt.
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Walnut
Religious journal campaigns against evolution in South Africa
Kerkbode the official journal of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa calls for a campaign against the pernicious theory of evolution asserting a stand against scientific theory in the church press and public discourse.
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Johanesburg
South Africa
Kerkbode
Dutch Reformed Church
Bhutan Gets First Modern Airport Linking Hermit Kingdom
A new airport under construction will provide Bhutan with its first major outside link. Historically a hermit kingdom in the Himalayas, Bhutan had no wheeled vehicles until recent years.
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Bhutan
Himalayas
Chanute Native Capt. Osborn Earns Arts Degree
Captain James F. Osborn, born in Chanute and a Chanute Junior College alum, received a bachelor of arts degree from Louisiana Polytechnic Institute. He rose through the Air Force since 1956, studied Chinese at Yale, taught in Texas, flew 10 missions over Vietnam, earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and other honors, and serves as an electronics warfare officer with the 62nd Bomb Squadron at Barksdale Air Force Base.
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James F. Osborn
Chanute
Chanute Junior College
Louisiana Polytechnic Institute Aus
Osborn
Air Force
Parks Afb
California
Yale University
Formosa
San Angelo,Tex
Vietnam
Thailand
62Nd
Barkesdale Afb
Shreveport
Floyd Osborn
Gary Upton
Riverview, Mich
Capt
Jamie
Jeffery
June Moses
Humboldt Airman On Taiwan Duty
Humboldt Airman Nach Ornelas Jr. has arrived for duty at Ching Chuan AB Taiwan. An aircraft mechanic, he serves with a Pacific Air Forces unit and previously was at Pope AFB. A 1966 Humboldt High School graduate, he is the son of Mr and Mrs Nacho Ornelas of Humboldt.
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AIC Nach
Airman Donald Sponseller Arrives on Taiwan Tour
Airman Donald Sponseller has arrived in Taiwan for a United States Air Force tour of duty. He is home on furlough visiting his parents Mr and Mrs Tom McGuire and his grandparents Mr and Mrs Wilford York.
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Fm2
Donald Sponseller
Taiwan
Air Force
Tom McGuire
Wilford York
Holcomb Assigned for Training Before Vietnam Deployment
Norman E. Holcomb U S Navy reports to Coronado California September 12 for three weeks of training before heading to Cam Ranh Bay Vietnam He is the son of Mr and Mrs J N Holcomb 118 N Western He graduated from a damage control school in Philadelphia August 16 and from Chanute High School in 1966
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U.S Navy
Coronado
Calif
Cam Ranh Bay
Vietnam
J. N. Holcomb
N. Western
Philadelphia
Chanute High School
Home for Visit Marine Cpl Carroll Stewart
Chanute air base reports Marine Cpl Carroll Stewart home on leave after 28 months in service. He will be assigned to Camp Pendleton California.
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Carroll Stewart
Chanute
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Notice of impounded vehicle sale in Chanute Kansas
The City of Chanute Kansas impounds a white 1959 Chevrolet Model 60 Viking truck bearing number 58 and serial 066124 113815 believed owned by Miller Brothers Circus. The vehicle will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash if the owner does not claim within ten days after the second publication and pay removal storage and publication costs. Bonnie Moffatt City Clerk date September 20 1968.
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Chanute Tribune
Miller Brothers Circus
Chanute
Kansas
City OF
Bonnie Moffatt
Sergeant Earns Army Commendation Medal for Heroism
Sergeant Charles R. Cook of Neodesha is awarded the Army Commendation Medal with V device for heroism in Vietnam. As a platoon sergeant he moved under fire to aid the platoon leader during a search and destroy mission, saving lives. He and his wife Vickie reside at Fort Hood, Texas.
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Russell M. Cook
Vietnam
Cook
Vickie
Killeen
Tex
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Kirch Goesn
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3D Armored Division
33D Armor
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Sailor James E. Stover Serves Aboard USS Jason
Jason Fireman James E. Stover USN 21 son of Mr and Mrs August Stover R 1 serves aboard the 16000 ton repair ship USS Jason. The vessel acts as a mobile repair base for the Navy coastal harbor and river patrol forces at the mouth of the Saigon River in South Vietnam.
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USN
August Stover
Jason
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Son of E Mendenhall Serves Aboard USS Whitfield County
The son Gene D Mendenhall 31 son of E M Mendenhall 1110 S Garfield is serving aboard the tank landing ship USS Whitfield County in South Vietnam. Crewmembers participate in operations transporting infantry from a mobile base to various delta areas.
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S. Garfield
Gene D. Mendenhall
Whitfield County
Mekong
Vesta
South Vietnam
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Navy teen serves on Hancock mission carrier
Aboard Carrier Robert L. Mayer, USN, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Mayer of 117 S. Plummer, serves in the Hancock’s commissary. The Hancock’s mission is to halt material flow from North Vietnam to enemy forces in the south.
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S. Plummer
Hancock
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Hayen Assigned to Vietnam Air Base Security Detail
Lt Bernard N Hayen son of retired Lt Col B N Hayen has arrived in Vietnam for duty at Phan Rang Air Base. He serves with the 821st Combat Security Patrol Squadron noted for air base security and repelling enemy aggression. His mother Mrs Delores F Hagen resides in Belleville.
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Belleville
Data costs fall for large-scale computations
In the late 1950s performing 100000 multiplications on the most efficient computer cost $1.35. Cybernetic Applications Inc. says today the same function costs less than 3 cents, highlighting a dramatic drop in data processing costs.
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New York
Cybernetic Applications Inc
Golf Now Played by Fifteen Million World Enthu siasts
Golf has attracted about 15 million players worldwide from Australia to Zambia. The sport's growing appeal spans diverse regions and demographics as more people pick up clubs and join the game.
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Australia
Zambia
Flight from Japan Sets Speed Mark
Richard Lee Clements, 21, a passenger on a record-breaking transoceanic Air Force C-141 flight from Japan to Travis AFB California, completed the trip in 8 hours 50 minutes. The flight departed Japan in the afternoon of Sept 13 and arrived in California the morning of Sept 13, crossing the international date line. Clements is the son of Mr and Mrs Jewel R Clements and has served in Turkey and Japan.
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Richard Lee Clements
Japan
Travis Afb
California
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Aviation mechanic Dimon assigned to 4th Infantry Division
Specialist 4 Steven L. Dimon 21 and grandmother Mrs A O Dimon of 1121 North Forest are noted as Dimon was assigned August 19 to the 10th Cavalry near Pleiku Vietnam.
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Steven L. Dimon
A. 0. Dimon
North Forest
4Th Infantry Division
10Th Cavalry
Pleiku
Vietnam
Shipfitter Donald R. Phillips back from Mediterranean cruise
Back to States Shipfitter Third Class Donald R. Phillips USN age 21 husband of Mrs Paula L Phillips of 718 S Evergreen serving aboard destroyer tender USS Shenandoah The destroyer has returned to the U S after four months with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean During the cruise the ship stopped in Naples where the crew could visit Italy
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Kiwanis Here Cited For Achievement
Chanute Kiwanis club received honorable mention at the 1967 Kansas District Kiwanis convention in Garden City. The Chanute group competed with clubs of 31 to 45 members. The award was announced by Kiwanis governor Jack C. Pulliam. Past president was Jack Brown.
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Kiwanis Club
Garden City
Jack C. Pulliam
Topeka
Kiwanis
Chanute Club
Jack Brown
Husband Inducted into Army in Walnut Fort Scott
Gary Comstock of Fort Scott has been inducted into the Army and is stationed at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri for basic training. His wife is Lorraine Shively daughter of Mr and Mrs Ed Shively rural Walnut.
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Gary Comstock
Fort Scott
Fort Leonard Wood, Mo
Lorraine Shively
Ed Shively
Girard Horse Show Slated Oct. 6
Girard Crawford County Saddle club members plan their final horse show of the season on October 6 at the fair grounds 12 miles east of Girard on highway K57. Eight halter classes seven performed events seven timed events and a square dancing display. Four trophies per class plus an all around point trophy will be awarded. The event is free to the public. For information contact Bud Ausemus or Pat Hallacy.
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Girard
Crawford County
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