Fall Festival Parade Winners and Final Day Events
Thayer's First Methodist church entry won first place for floats in the Fall Festival parade as part of JayCee's three day celebration. Hutton School's Girl Scout Troop 116 took second, Fairfield Grange third, with Scout troops sweeping marching unit awards. 15 bands and 19 floats entered. Afterward 2000 hot dogs and 79 cases of pop were distributed at the fire station. 36 pony pulling teams competed at City Park with $250 in prizes. Free movies for grade schoolers and a Saturday night shade event capped the day at City Park.
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Thayer
First Methodist Church
Hutton School
Fairfield Grange
City Park
Water Plant Operators Meet Here
A district school for water and sewage plant operators convened Friday and Saturday with about 35 attendees from southeast Kansas cities. Courses covered math, chemistry, hydraulics, water quality, purification, sewage treatment, sludge disposal, and an operator certification exam. Local leaders included Carl Womman, W. K. Moffatt, and Kenneth Trammell. Leonard Imhof organized the arrangements.
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Kansas
Kansas Water Pollution Control Assn
The
American Water Works Assn
Kansas Department of Health
University of Kansas Extension Service
Raymond C. Loehr
Chanute
Carl Womman
W. K. Moffatt
Kenneth Trammell
Leonard Imhof
State Board of Health
Santa Barbara brush fire could be fully contained soon
Fire fighters battling two lingering hot spots predicted containment by 6 p.m. Wednesday and control by 10 a.m. Thursday with moist weather aiding the effort. Fire boss Bill Hansen and aides said they were pretty confident, and a U.S. Forest Service spokesman called the outlook very optimistic.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Bill Hansen
U.S. Forest Service
Kennedy assassination report spurs push for presidential security
The Warren Commission concluded Oswald acted alone in Kennedy's murder and Ruby killed Oswald. It urges federal crime status for attacks on presidents and vice presidents and tightens protection rules. President Johnson forms a four man panel to advise on executing recommendations as Congress weighs action.
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Washington
Warren Commission
John F. Kennedy
Congress
FBI
Secret Service
Johnson
Lee Harvey Oswald
Kennedy
Jack Ruby
Warren Commission Findings Cite Gaps In JFK Probe
The Associated Press summarizes the Warren Commission report on President Kennedy's assassination. It urges more funding and personnel, better interagency coordination, and an overhaul of detection practices. Criticisms target the Secret Service the FBI Dallas police and the media. The report calls for a presidential protection Cabinet committee and to make killing a president a federal crime.
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Warren Commission
John F. Kennedy
Bar
Safety bill priority eyed after Warren Commission report
Washington AP Mike Mansfield Montana Senate Democratic leader said it may be too late for Congress to act before adjourning on Warren Commission recommendations for guarding presidents. He urged making safety legislation a first order of business when the new Congress convenes in January. Senator Dirksen said the judiciary panel will likely discuss procedure Tuesday amid several bills to make killing a president or vice president a federal crime and a Mansfield-Dirksen proposal to shield Goldwater and other nominees with Secret Service protection. The Warren Commission urged a drastic overhaul of presidential guarding.
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Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Congress
Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Nicholas Deb. Katzenbach
John A. McCone
Central Intelligence Agency
McGeorge Bundy
Commission
Secret Service
Washington
Warren Commission
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Senate Judiciary Committee
Mansfield
Barry Goldwater
Christopher
Chris
Sheree
Rusty
Howard Coleman
Coleman
Postmasters Elect Naylor of Burlington District Leader
Robert Naylor of Burlington was elected president of the Southeast Kansas District of the National Association of Postmasters at the annual district convention held Saturday. Lloyd Herder was succeeded as president, Joe Whitmore of Fall River elected vice president, and Beulah VanHluss of Beaumont re elected secretary treasurer for a one year term.
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Robert Naylor
Burlington
Southeast
Kansas
National Association of Postmasters
Lloyd Herder
Yates Center
Joe Whitmore
Fall River
Naylor
Beulah VanHluss
Beaumont
William Guthrie
Leon
Orchid Buffet
G. R. Wilkerson
Pittsburg
C. E. Payne
Shawnee Mission
Harold Brown
Eureka
Three Die in Weekend Kansas City and Wichita Crashes
Multiple fatalities occurred in Kansas traffic crashes over the weekend. Daniel Hatfield, 17, of Independence Missouri, and Bobby Leroy Wright, 19, of St Paul Kansas, died in separate late Sunday incidents. Hatfield and Jesse Rose, 17, of Independence, were struck while push starting a broken down vehicle. In Wichita, Mrs Lillian Wheeler, 76, was killed after a collision near an exit on I 285 bypass. Two other people were injured, and Walter H Foth 60 of Cordell Oklahoma was charged with making an improper turn. This marked the year’s seventh fatality in Wichita.
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Bobby Leroy Wright
St. Paul
Kany
Parsons
Daniel Hatfield
Independence
Kansas City
Kan
Hatfield
Jesse Rose
Rose
Janice Woods
William Richardson
Lillian Wheeler
Moore
Okla
Wichita
Walter H. Foth
Cordell
Kansas Highway Patrol
Ith
Traffic Fatalities Log For Topeka Area
Kansas traffic death log shows 48 hours to 9 a.m. Monday nine fatalities for September. The 1964 total reaches 49 with 467 comparable 1963 period at 429.
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Topeka
Kansas
Train crash kills four crewmen injures dozens
Four Burlington crewmen died and about 40 passengers were injured when a Burlington Zephyr on the main line collided with a stationary Rock Island Golden State Limited near Montgomery Illinois. The crash destroyed at least five diesel units and derailed eight Burlington cars as bridges and detours forced rerouting.
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Montgomery, Ill
Burlington
Rock Island
Golden State Limited
Los Angeles
Chicago
Joliet
Jack Steele
Montgomery
Omaha
Earl Petz
Associated Press
Peta
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Rock Island Golden State Limited
Intercepted Letter Hints Jayhawk-Sooner Game Verve
A revised press clipping notes the upcoming Jayhawk versus Sooners football clash shaping into a strong contest. The writer signs as Nute in a playful intercepted letter to Cha.
Sedgwick May Have Overcharged County on 1961 62 Supplies
Kansas Attorney General William Ferguson urged Sedgwick County to seek an accounting of an estimated 45 000 plus paid for fire equipment hardware paint and related items from 1961 and 1962. He proposed formal demands for 37 500 from Lewis Brothers Hardware and 8 750 from Lesco Supply if settlement fails. The investigation found no criminal violations but noted a pattern of overpricing by the two Wichita firms and cited substantial overcharges in many items.
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Ware
Lesco Supply Co
Wichita
Ferguson
Lewis Hardware Company
Lesco Supply Company
Kansas Bureau of Investgation
Attorney General’s Office
Sedgwick County
Lewis Brothers Hardware and
Lesco Supply Company, Inc
Lewis
Lesco
Lewis Brothers Hardware
William Ferguson
Public hearing on widening Main from Central to Steuben
City commission meets tonight at 7:30 with a public hearing on widening Main Street from Central to Steuben. The district court room in the Memorial building will host due to attendance. protest petitions circulated against the plan include an 80 20 cost split between city and property owners, with objections to city paying 80 percent for affected blocks.
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Main
Central
Steuben
District Court Room
Memorial Building
City Commission Room
Weather Update Turns Warmer Amid Falling Temperatures
TOPEKA AP reports a cold snap gave way to sunny skies and mild SW winds. Highs reach upper 60s to mid 70s with 40s to mid 50s at night. Tuesday should stay fair and mild as a new frontal system nears Kansas from the north by Tuesday night with no major changes expected.
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Topeka
Kansas
County policy kept buying items at regular retail prices
Sedgwick County Auditor Nate Harris said the county commission followed a policy of purchasing certain items at regular retail prices. He noted in 1962 the same paint could be cheaper from other firms or wholesalers. Ferguson advised an accounting of over $46,000 paid for supplies in 1961-62. Commissioners Schroeder and Peters commented. Reed unavailable.
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Wichita
Sedgwick
Nate Harris
County Commission
Harms
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Bill Jenkins
Oswald
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J. Edgar Hoover
Ruby
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State Department
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Floyd Kelley
W. P. Wheeler
Plymouth
England
Chris Coleman
Sheree Sowden
Clive
Sheee
Cha
Yours
Lewis Brothers
Lewis and Lesco
Mark Lewis
Seeemmers
Floyd Schroeder
Schroeder
Elmer Peters
Versnon Reed
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