Baker Hearing Erupts In Senate Rules Clash
Washington AP report describes a heated Senate Rules Committee session over the Baker probe. McLendon denounces Williams as untruthful while Curtis demands McLendon’s removal. Testimony centers on McCloskey Co. projects, insurance bonds, and alleged kickbacks tied to the Kennedy Johnson campaign fund. Reynolds identifies himself as the bag man, claiming a $35,000 overpaid bond and a $25,000 kickback to Baker with $10,000 kept by Reynolds.
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Bobby Baker
Special Rules Committee
Lennox P. McLendon
John J. Williams
Bbel
McLendon
Williams
McCloskey Construction Co
Curtis
Baker
Rules Committee
McCloskey Company
William K. Stewart
McCloskey Co
Stewart
McCloskey
Ireland
Reynolds
Senate Rules Committee
Washington, D.C
Weather prophet teases wet winter and early 1965 hints
Chalked up as a goose bone prophet he scooped the weather bureau with predictions of moisture and a wet weekend. Elihu Allman’s forecast includes a Christmas parade week and rain through Christmas day. A Money Maker Mile Club banquet is set for tonight at Downings.
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Weather Bureau
Elihu Allman
Guamber of Commerce
YMCA Board Sets Meeting and bylaws in Garden City
The Garden City area YMCA board held its regular monthly session at the Chamber of Commerce office Tuesday night. Bylaws were ratified changing quorum to one third of 24 members. Chairman Paul Masoner noted efforts to hire a full-time director with two candidates visiting. Plans include an interest poll to guide programs and a potential YMCA bus tour to Crested Butte, Colorado.
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Garden City
Agen
YMCA
Robert M. Fenton
Crested
Butte
Colo
Sam Gish
State Personal Income Tax Increase Is Urged
The League of Women Voters of Kansas urged raising state personal income tax and backed a broader sales tax base with food and medicine exempted. The statement was released by public relations chairwoman Mrs. Nelson Morgan.
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Hutchinson
Kan
League of Women Voters of
Kansas
Nelson Morgan
League
Weather forecast notes colder night and light northerly winds
Weather bulletin shows colder night with northerly winds around 16 mph. Lows near 16 with Friday morning cloudy and winds easing. Highs near 20s, with total snowfall around ten inches in the south and four inches in northern counties. Sunrise 7:42, sunset 5:24. City readings listed for Dodge City, Garden City, Goodland, Salina, Topeka, Wichita with trace to 2 inches in places.
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Totel
Bunset
Dodge Cit
Emporle
Garden City
Goodland
Hull City
Russello
Salina
Trace Topeka
Wichita
Avery Lands State Economic Council Work
Governor William H. Avery praised the Kansas Council on Economic Education for strengthening economic understanding among youth and citizens. He cited adding a full time economics staffer under the State Department of Public Instruction and predicted the council’s private state collaboration can guide Kansas toward sound curricula and broader economic growth.
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Avery Lands State Economic Council
Manhattan
Kan
William H. Avery
Kansas Council On Economic Education Today
Kansas
Kansas State University Union
Avery
State Department of Public Instruction
Budd
Adel Throckmorton
Thad Sandstrom
Topeka
Boy Scout Appreciation Dinner Set at St Marys Center
About 600 people are expected for the annual Boy Scout appreciation dinner on Sunday at St. Marys Center. Scouters are urged to reserve quickly as the president's reception begins at 5 30 p m and the banquet is served at 6 30 p m.
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St. Mary's Center
Students Rebel Arrests at UC Berkeley Sit-In
More than 800 University of California students staged an all night sit in at Sproul Hall. Highway patrol officers police and sheriff's deputies moved in to arrest the demonstrators after midnight. The Free Speech Movement leaders including Maria Savio faced charges for campus rule violations.
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Berkeley
Calif
University of California
Sproul Hall
Maria Savio
Alameda County
Pontiff urges unity with world faiths in historic India meeting
Pope Paul VI met Hindu, Islam, Buddhist, Zoroastrian leaders in Bombay and urged all men to work together for a common future. He pressed closer ties with Christian bodies visiting archbishop's residence, including leaders from Church of South India and Mar Thoma Syrian Church. The pope emphasized reconciliation with Orthodox Syrians and noted Catholics are a small minority in India.
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India
Paul VI
Church of South India
Mar Thoma Syrian Church
Methodist Church
Southern Asia
Anglican Church of
Rome
Moran Mar Baselios Ougen 1
Catholicos
Paul
Brezhnev denounces Congo troop landing and Vietnam aid
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev condemned Western paratroop landings in the Congo calling it imperialist piracy and said Moscow is ready to aid North Vietnam in principle. He offered no direct pledge of intervention, speaking at a Soviet Czechoslovak friendship meeting for Antonin Novotny.
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Leonid
Brezhnev
Congo
Soviet Union
Viet Nam
Kremlin
The
Tass
Antonin Novotny
Snowstorm Closes In Across Southwest Kansas
Snow moved into Southwest Kansas last night piling up to seven inches in southern areas and four to eight inches in towns including Garden City and Guyman. Roads were hazardous with no significant drifting, schools in session, busses idle, and officials watching for worsening conditions as 10 highways reported ice and snow across the region.
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Kansas
Highway Patrol
Garden City
Englewood
Oklahoma Line
Dodge City
Guyman
Okla
Kial
Torn
Sublette
Plenty of Experience Handy in This Case
CANON CITY Colo AP Star Caywood a state legislator from Walsenburg locked his keys in his car while visiting the state prison with other legislators Warden Harry Tinsley summoned a prisoner skilled at locks and Caywood had his keys in less than 15 minutes
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Canon City
Colo
Caywood
Walsenburg
Harry Tinsley
KBI Begins Probe into Slaying Case
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation opened a probe into the Gladys Johnson slaying by requesting Topeka Police logs and radio transmissions. Police Chief Dana Hummer said the state will review administrative handling, with A. A. Dewey leading the inquiry, while not examining the entire case. The 10 year old victim disappeared November 1 and was found near St Marys, with William F. Zimmer charged with kidnapping and murder.
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Topeka
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Gladys Johnson
Dana Hummer
KBI
A.A. Dewey
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Atty
William M. Ferguson
Hummer
William F. Zimmer
Kansas City
Kan
Johnson
St. Marys
Infiltrators Pose Big Problem for Vietnam War
Ambassador Than Thien Khiem cites 30,000 to 40,000 North Vietnamese infiltrators into South Vietnam over three years via the Ho Chi Minh Trail. He says 60 percent are military cadres and 40 percent civilians, with Laos routes and Soviet trucks supporting the flow. He warns continued infiltration could decisively affect the war, while political unity in South Vietnam remains unresolved.
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South Viet Nam
Washington
Spencer Davis Washington
North Viet Nam
Than Thien Khiem
Laos
Khiem
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Viet Nam
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Nung
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Savannakhet
South
Viet Nami
Gill
Charles de Gaulle
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