Humboldt Readies 14th Annual Biblesta Parade in Humboldt
Humboldt prepares for its 14th Annual Biblesta Parade starting 2 p.m. Saturday with 38 units including 25 floats and six bands. Principal speaker Cecil Todd of Joplin will deliver the address after the parade, followed by the Gospel Lads Quartet. Gov. Robert Docking will attend. a free bean feed and music from Good Twins of Anaheim are planned. The event typically draws thousands, though Humboldt’s population is 2,500.
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Humboldt
Highway Patrol
Cecil Todd
Joplin
Todd
Gospel Lads Quartet
Good Twins of
Anaheim
Calif
Kirby
Chanute
Iola
Erie
Fort Scott Junior College
Humboldt High School
Bridge
National Guard
Humboldt Historical Society Museum
South Park
Gold to Paper Currency Shift Gains IMF Attention
The non-Communist world presses toward replacing gold with SDRs in a new international money system. Britain Japan Italy and others back moving away from a gold backed dollar standard, while South Africa defends gold as currency value.
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Bill Neikirk
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
South Africa
Britain
Japan
Italy
France
IMF
Nixon
United States
Dry Leader's Gloves Off in Kansas Dry Forces Chief Speech
Rev. Richard Taylor Jr, new head of the Kansas United Dry Forces, attacks alcohol as a greater national drug than heroin. He argues against liquor liberalization and notes rehabilitation should include prevention. Experts caution the Dry stance may hinder recovery efforts.
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Richard Taylor Jr
Kansas United Dry Forces
United States
Taylor
Morris Chafetz
National Institute On Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Chafetz
Voters reject local tax and bond proposals in Kansas Missouri
Voters in Independence and North Kansas City Missouri rejected school levy increases. Lawrence Kansas defeated a city county government center bond. Springfield Missouri rejected a one cent sales tax. Cunningham Kansas approved a small municipal pool bond with federal matching funds.
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Associated Press
Kansas
Missouri
Independence
North
Kansas City
Lawrence
Kan
Springfield
Cunningham
Farm Products Funds Approved
The Ozarks Regional Commission approves $50,000 to Farm Products Management Inc. to assist south east Kansas growers for 12 months ending Nov. 15 1972. The program aims to raise farm operator income via intensified land use and cooperative marketing and distribution. Also seeks meetings with Stans and Volpe to discuss Ozarks highway development potential and other Kansas projects.
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Topeka Kan
Ozarks
Secretary of Transportation
Maurice H. Stans
Secretary of Commerce
John A. Volpe
Ozarks Region
Kansas
State Geological Survey
Kansas Department of Economic Development
Parsons
Cherryvale
Wall Street Beef Fondue Stunt Draws Crowd at Noon Showdown
A wild publicity stunt staged a 600 pound free beef fondue outside the New York Stock Exchange. Cattleman Eddie Collins led 50 Western guests in a chuck wagon display to protest beef imports. Traders and staff watched as a cowboy hat figure served beef while a faux kangaroo court issued a fake warrant for Mayor Lindsay. John Center of Billings, Montana, led the wagon and recalled the Gold Rush era.
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New York
Wall Street
Laredo
New York Stock Exchange
Eddie Collins
Red Oak
Iowa
Long Island
John V. Lindsay
Lindsay
Dodge City
Kaw
Collins
John Center
Billings
Mont
Financial District
Nixon pledges action to win POWs and MIAs home
President Nixon made a surprise White House stop during a banquet of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia and promised to revive activity. He stated the POW MIA issue has presidential priority and aims to obtain the release of all prisoners of war and those missing in action.
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Washington
White House
Nixon
National League of Families of American
Southeast Asia
Secretary of Defense
Intercepted Letter on Wall Street Dish Crow Instead of Beef
An intercepted note to Cha declares the proper dish for Wall Street is crow rather than beef, framing a symbolic critique of market appetites and loyalty amid coded language.
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Wall Street
Quiet Night at Lansing Prison Feeds in Shifts
At Kansas Penitentiary inmates were fed in shifts in the main dining hall after a tense Monday when about 100 cooks refused to report for breakfast. Warden R. J. Gaffney’s office said the night passed quietly and an official statement noted breakfast began on schedule with inmates returned to their domes.
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Lansing
Kan
Kansas Penitentiary
R. J. Gaffney
Gaffney
Suspected Burglary At Deluxe Taxi Sparks Two Arrests
Police detained two men after a break in at Deluxe Taxi on 14 S Highland. Tony Woodard and Randy Ward were found in a white 1961 Chevrolet near 35th Street Safari Golf Course Road and US 169. Officers recovered tools worth 127 dollars identified by Homer Cable. two radios valued at 100 dollars each were not found.
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Deluxe Taxi
S. Highland
Tony Woodard
Randy Ward
Independence
Homer Cable
Cobles
35Th Street Safari Golf Course Road
Woodard
Ward
Coble
Kickoff Planned for Chanute United Fund Drive
The 1971 Chanute United Fund kickoff starts Monday at 1 p.m. with a coffee at Central Park Building for volunteer solicitors from business and industry. Drive chairman Danny McCue says workers will receive instruction and materials. The fundraising goal is $27,000 for ten agencies.
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Chanute United Fund
Central Park
Danny McCue
Drive
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Glenn Kirby
Gosnel Lads
Topeka
E. V. D. Murphy
State
Alcoholic T Beverage Control
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Bridge Street
Pine
Chanute High School
CHS
Blue Comet
Columbus
Peggy North
Brenda Steele
Michelle Criger
Carl North
W. Main
Jerry Steele
S. Larson
George Criger
S. Forest
U.S
By Wayne Lee
American Cancer Society
Thomas Edison
James E. Horne
Farm Products Funds
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Fondue
Peter G. Marino
Cha
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