Broom Corn Shortage Ties Kansas Factory to Looming Prices
The Chanute broom factory faces higher costs as broom corn, a sorghum used for brooms, remains scarce. Limited planting and hand labor drive prices up while production averages decline from historical levels. Krone sources from Oklahoma and nearby states, employing five workers as demand from Kansas and other markets grows.
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Krone
Kansas
Elsmore
Oklahoma
Chanute Broom Co
Alfred Krone
Tribune
Anthony Man Killed In Wichita Accident
Jim Prowse of Anthony Kansas, about 60, was killed in a southeast Wichita residential area when struck by a backing car. Police say he stepped from behind a hedge into the path of the vehicle driven by Beyerly Platt, 72, who was backing out of a driveway.
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Wichita
Jim Prowse
Anthony, Kas
Prowse
Beyierly Platt
Kennedy plane tire blows on Newport landing
President Kennedy and Mrs Kennedy disembarked safely after their plane blew a tire on the main landing wheel at Newport Rhode Island at 2 53 p m Five airport fire trucks stood by as the aircraft taxied to the ramp during a week’s vacation at Mrs Auchincloss’s summer home Senate House conferees back a foreign aid bill totaling nearly four billion dollars clearing the way for possible adjournment before midnight The measure awaits votes in both chambers
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Newport
R. I
Kennedy
New York
Hugh Auchincloss
Washington
Senate
House
Congress
Chanute Plans Building and Fire Code Adoption
City commission approved drafting ordinances adopting standard building and fire prevention codes to improve fire insurance rating and supplement zoning. City Attorney Sherman to prepare the measures for next meeting.
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City Commission
John N. Sherman Jr
Kansas Inspection ‘Bureau
Chanute
R. J. Hayes
KCC Intervenes for Santa Fe in Western Pacific Bid
The Kansas Corporation Commission will intervene for the Santa Fe Railroad in its bid to acquire control of Western Pacific Railroad. Santa Fe and Southern Pacific have filed applications with the Interstate Commerce Commission seeking permission to control Western Pacific.
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KCC
Santa Fe
Topeka
The
Corporation Commission
Santa Fe Railroad
Western Pacific Railroad
Southern Pacific Rairoads
Interstate Commerce Commission
Western Pacific
Council Grove Redmond Dam Funds Okayed
Congress sent to the White House a bill for 3.908 million dollars for federal public works and atomic energy commission needs. Kansas and Missouri flood control projects receive planning funds while several dam and reservoir programs in Kansas face skipped funding in the compromise bill.
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Washington
Congress
White House
Atomic Energy Commission
House
Senate
Glen Elder
Kansas
Stockton
Missouri
Conference
Missouri River
Marmaton
Fort Scott
Kan
Nevada
Andrew F. Schoeppel
Rkan
Leavenworth
Atchison, Kan
Cheney Reservoir
Wichita
Elk River
John Redmond
Turtle Creek
Council Grove
Milford Reservoir
Pomona
Wilson Reservoir
Marais Des Cygnes
Ottawa
Opeka
Atansas City
Almena_reclamaon
Cedar Bluff
Kennedy Signs Bill Creating Disarmament Agency
President Kennedy signs a bill creating a disarmament agency. William C. Foster will head the agency as Kennedy hails arms control as vital to world security. The signing occurs as Moscow radio cites Soviet rejection of U.S. proposals and UN arms restraint actions proceed.
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New York
Kennedy
United States
William C. Foster
Foreign Aid
Secretary of Defense
Foster
Dean Rusk
House
Moscow Radio
Soviet Union
U.S
United Nations
Bank Buys Property To Add Drive In Banking
First National Bank announces purchase of adjoining property at 14 16 N Lincoln to install a new drive in banking facility and parking lot. Construction of the main bank north of the site is under way and the existing drive in on Ist between Lincoln and Highland will be discontinued after completion.
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Hayes
S. Lafayette
Bank
Lincoln
First National Bank
Dale Painter
First National
Highland
Lincoln and Elm
Lincoln and
Main
Johnson Furniture
Smoke House Billiard Hall
Dinty’s Tire Sales and Service
John W. Lapham
Work Order Issued For Woodson Road
The State Highway Commission announces a 5.3 mile asphaltic surfacing project on K 105 in Woodson County. Freeto Construction Co.Inc of Pittsburg wins the $25 742 99 bid with L D Perry of Yates Center as resident engineer. Expected completion early next year.
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Woodson County
State Highway Commission
Addison H. Meschke
Toronto
Toronto Reservoir
Freeto Construction Co., Inc
Pittsburg
L. D. Perry
Yates Center
Highway Commission
Southeast Kansas District Formed for Postmasters
A H Kling of Howard named president of the new Southeast Kansas District of the Kansas Postmasters Association at a meeting in Augusta attended by 76 postmasters. The district combines the old third and fourth districts and parts of the second, with Helen Lacy as vice president and Lois Mitchell as secretary treasurer. Oswego will host next year’s meeting.
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Augusta
Kan
A. H
Misdemeanor Hearings In Police And City Courts
Today one police court and three city court hearings addressed misdemeanor offenses. Defendants Willard Clyde Sauls Bonnie Nichols and W T Leroy faced guilty or parole violations with sentences including 30 days in county jail and remainders of probationary terms. Gene M Abbott pleaded guilty to intoxication with a $25 fine or 15 days at Erie.
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Willard Clyde Sauls
Bonnie Nichols
Iola
W. T
Bill) Leroy
Chanute
Sauls
A. B
Doc) Somers
Leroy
Gene M. Abbott l
Erie
Cost of Living Dips in August After July Spike
Consumer prices fell one tenth of one percent in August due to cheaper fresh foods, though the index shows a 0.5 percent rise for the first eight months of the year. The August dip leaves the cost of living 28 percent above the postwar baseline.
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Washington (C
Labor Department
Department
Clague
Police Guard For Mayor
Newburgh New York city manager Joseph Mitchell, author of a welfare crackdown plan, received a police guard after a dispute over docking pay for the mayor’s son. The mayor, William D. Ryan, said Mitchell was politically dead, while a police car was provided to escort Mitchell to City Hall.
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Newburgh
N.Y
Joseph Mitchell
Mitchell
William D. Ryan
William M
Ryan
John E. Tierney
City Hall
Weather Forecast Sees Warm Tonight Then Showers
Forecasters predict fair and warmer tonight with a slow rise to a mid 50s low. Wednesday turns partly cloudy with little temperature change and a high between 75 and 80 as a new cold front brings showers by Wednesday.
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Topeka
Kansas
Wichita
Hutchinson
Concordia
Wamego
Goodland
South Dakota
Wyoming
North Central
Northwest
Traffic Fatalities Log From Topeka
Kansas traffic death log reports 24 hours to 9 am Tuesday with 1 fatality. For September the tally is 41. For 1961 total rises to 385, versus 353 in the comparable 1960 period.
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Topeka
Kansas
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City Industrial ‘Fund
Paul T. Brennecke
Mahlon Morley
Chamber of Commerce Industrial Committee
Hayes and Sherman
Sherman
Redmond Dam
John J. McCloy
GOP
la Guardia
Air Force
R.I
Woodson Road
Humboldt Postmasters District
Ewan Clague
Bureau of Labor Statistics
North American
Lockheed
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