Strike Idles Up To 300000 At GM Plants
United Auto Workers strike against General Motors idled about 260000 production workers across the nation after a failed 24 hour bargaining session. Walter Reuther called the outcome a setback, while GM urged an end to the stoppage citing progress at the table. In Kansas City area plants the 9 am CST deadline passed without a settlement and pickets appeared at five GM facilities.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers Union
General Motors Corp
UAW
Chanute
General Motors
Chrysler
Ford
Cleveland
Ohio
Framingham
Mass
Leonard Woodock
Reuther
Louis G. Seaton
Seaton
Auto
Kansas City
United Auto Workers
Senate approves foreign aid after roadblock ends
The Senate adopted a reapportionment compromise 44 to 38 and then passed the $3.3 billion foreign aid bill, despite a prior filibuster. The measure, $216.7 million below the President's request, heads to a conference committee for reconciliation as Congress eyes possible adjournment by next week.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Johnson
House
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Dirksen
Senate House Conference Committee
Gala Final Day In Fall Festival Schedule Climax
The JayCee Fall Festival ends with a packed day starting with free shows for elementary pupils at Peoples theater at 9:30 and 10:45. A parade from City Park to Forest via Main runs 1:30 with 15 marching units and equal floats, prizes totaling 25, 20 and 15 for top non-commercial floats. A 3 p.m. Shetland pulling contest at City Park offers 250 in prizes. a shadeo tomorrow night closes the event at City Park. Crop judging crowned Orville Hawk Carlyle champion with single cross yellow corn. reserve by Alice Anderson. Tonight features Blue Comet Pittsburg football. JayCee drive funds olympics.
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Peoples Theater
City Park
Forest
Orville Hawk
Carlyle
Alice Anderson
Youth's Leg Broken In Intersections Crash
Charles Skilling, 16, of 11 W Srd suffered a broken leg in a two car collision at Edith and 14th. He was taken to Neo sho Memorial Hospital. Three other persons escaped injury. Skilling's 1954 Pontiac total loss. Pugh's 1963 Cadillac about $1000 damage. Redburn, 17, was driving the Pugh car.
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Charles Skilling
W. Srd
Lath
Edith
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Skilling
Junior Pugh
Larson
Gary E. Redburn
Redburn
Pugh
43rd Annual Reunion For War 1 Outfits
INDEPENDENCE KAN AP remnants of two World War 1 outfits recruited here return for their 43rd annual reunion. Members of the 110th Engineers and Company 137th Infantry 35th Division and their wives attend a dinner Saturday night at the Elks Lodge. Sunday the groups hold separate meetings. About 50 men and 15 women are expected.
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Independence, Kan
110Th Engineers and Company
137Th Infantry
Elks Lodge
Burglaries Hit Galesburg Office and Home
In Galesburg the Ducey train Co. office and the owner Clayton Dueey's home were broken into last night. Money was taken from both locations. Loss amount not disclosed. Sheriff’s office in Erie places the time around 9:45 as a high school football game occurred. Kansas Bureau of Investigation assisting.
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Galesburg
Ducey Train Co
Clayton Dueey
Erie
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Senate Approves $1 Billion Hope Plan for Appalachia
The Senate passed a five year highway construction program totaling 840 million dollars plus 220.2 million for health, education and development projects in the Appalachian region covering 165 000 square miles across 15 3 million people. Senator Jennings Randolph said the plan would compensate for years of neglect.
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Senate
Appalachian Mountain
Johnson
Jennings Randolph
D-W
Weather Area Forecast For Topeka Kansas
Mild weather with moderating temperatures and patches of clouds spread over Kansas for the next day or two. A Pacific cold front will reach Northwest Kansas by Saturday bringing cooler highs around the 70s. Tonight will dip near 60 with Saturday highs near the 80s to mid 80s and strong southerly winds 25 to 40 mph as clouds increase.
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Topeka
Kansas
Manhattan
Goodland
Pittsburg
78 Homes Burned In Santa Barbara Fire
A Santa Barbara brush fire raced through hillside suburbs and inland valleys, burning 40,000 acres, killing one, injuring 36, and destroying 78 homes and buildings including the Brundage and Hutchins mansions. The blaze, fanned by Santa Ana winds, threatened Montecito and Westmont College before easing as crews fought flames and air tankers.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Avery Brundage
International Olympic Committee
Robert Maynard Hutchins
Center For the Study of Democratic Institutions
Santa Ana
US Forest Service
Montecito
California
Bel Air
Brunage
Hutchins
Westmont College
Leslie Byers Builds Sandy Green Golf Course West of Town
Leslie Byers announces a new sand greens golf course on Tulakes Properties Inc development three miles west of town on highway K39. The 50 acre, 36 par layout will open for limited play within a week or two. Membership uses a sliding scale ticket plan with prices from $10 to $55 per 100 tickets and daily greens fees of $1.50 weekends and $1 weekdays. An honor system governs play with a registration clubhouse but no full time attendant. Preparation began months ago and fairways work started about three months back.
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Tulakes Properties, Inc
Shold
Ower Leslie Byers
Chanute
Byers
K39
Quints Have a New Sister in Aberdeen
ABERDEEN South Dakota AP A 10 pound 7 ounce baby girl was born to Mrs Andrew Fischer at St Luke's Hospital joining the Fischer quints and making the family of 11 children. Father Andy Fischer stayed at the hospital after the birth. Dr James Hovland delivered the baby with two other doctors involved in the quintuplets' earlier birth.
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Aberdeen
Andrew Fischer
St. Luke's Hospital
Mary Ann
Richard
James Hovland
James Berbos
Berbos
Kansas sets October oil output at 300000 barrels per day
Hutchinson Kansas AP The Kansas Corporation Commission set permissible October oil production at 300000 barrels per day up from 292000 barrels per day in September. The commission also reinstated a depth and spacing factor that had governed individual well production before it was suspended last July.
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Hutchinson, Kan
Kansas Corporation Commission
Kansas
LBJ Gains Speak On Peace As Texas Swing Ends
President Johnson travels Texas Oklahoma and Arkansas promoting peace and liberty as he meets Mexican President Adolfo Lopez Mateos in El Paso and dedicates the Eufaula Dam. He attacks pork barrel spending and pledges full speed ahead on river development while urging restraint and prudent government.
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Johnson
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
el Paso
Lopez Mateos
el Chamizal
Rio Grande
Oklahoma City
Veterans Day Observance Planned Here This Year
Chanate veterans organizations sponsor a Veterans Day observance on November 11 with a morning parade, afternoon public entertainment, and an evening open house at veterans clubs. Participating groups include the Veterans of Foreign Wars American Legion Veterans of World War 1 Disabled American Veterans and the American GI Forum.
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Chanate Veterans’ Organizations
Veterans of Foreign Wars
American Legion
Veterans of World War 1
Disabled American Veterans
American GI Forum
Veterans’ Clubs
Intercepted Letter About Meeting at Texas Border
A fragment suggests Johnson nearly stepped off the field during a talk with the Mexican president at the Texas border in a curious intercepted letter. The note is addressed to Cha and shifts to a border encounter as a focal point.
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Johnson
Texas-Mexico
National Farmers Organization District Convention Set in Memorial Building
The 5th district convention of the National Farmers Organization will meet Tuesday night at the Memorial building, starting at 8. Delegates from Wilson County were elected in Fredonia, including Victor Erbe and others with alternates named. The gathering will include county chairmen and voting delegates from the district and parts of Oklahoma, with area meetings noted and Wilson County planning its next meeting for Oct. 19 in Fredonia.
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Memorial Building
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Oklahoma
Wilson County
Fredonia
Victor Erbe
Allen Nunnenkamp
Carl Morgan
Bob Nelson
Ivan Fail
Edgar Hutchison
Bob Compton
Carl Gorton
Glen Uden
Alfred Thiesen
Bill Fair
Junior Woollard
Elmer Car
County Holding Action
Altoona
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Leslie Byers
Sandy Green
Quints
Andy Rischer
Lbj Mateos
Tex
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Adolfo Lopez Mateos
Barry Goldwater
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