Forged Papers Plot to Free Bank Robber Uncovered
San Francisco officials disclosed a plot using forged court papers to free bank robber Roy Rudolph Drake of Indianapolis. The plan involved forged order letters and a memorandum, potentially enabling Drake’s immediate parole rather than release. The Justice Department investigates while Blackwell and Newbold described careful checks and staff clearance. Drake, once a notorious career criminal, had heavy prior holdups including a Beverly Hills hotel robbery.
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San Francisco
APY
Alcatraz
Olin Blackwell
Roy Drake
Washington
Justice Department
Indianapolis Star
Roy Rudolph Drake
Drake
Blackwell
Robert G. Newbold
Newbold
New Orleans
Indianapolis
California
San Quentin
Missouri
Beverly Hills
Calif
Kansas City Livestock Market Report and Egg Prices
Kansas City AP report: cattle 1,700 head, calves 100, cows steady to weak, other cattle steady. Choice steers 27.50, cows 13.50-15.50. Hogs 3,000 head, barrows and gilts 190-250 lb 15.50-16.00, 275-400 lb sows 13.50-14.25. Eggs: A grades extra large, large, and medium prices noted.
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Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
Robbery linked to pep pill shipment probe in Kansas City
Federal agents investigate a possible link between a package of 10 000 illicit pep pills sent to Oklahoma and a $17 444 bank robbery in Kansas City. Mrs Elizabeth Comely and two men, arrested on federal bank robbery charges, may be connected to the package return address showing P G Salley of Kansas City Kansas. Sheriff says family innocent in bootlegging scheme.
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Kansas City
Kan
Hockerville
Okla
Kasas City
Alfred Barnard
Federal Food and Drug Administration
Wenesday
Elizabeth Comely
Comely
Baxter Springs
Jim Cunningham
Oklahoma
Ottawa County
Cunningham
P. G. Salley
Paul Gordon Salley
Salley
Kansas Penitentiary
JFK to Seek Urban Affairs Department in 1984 push
President Kennedy plans to ask Congress to create a Department of Urban Affairs with cabinet rank. Officials concede passage this year is unlikely, but aim to oil legislative wheels for a strong push in 1984. Weaver would head the department, a historic choice amid earlier racial controversy. House vote last year was 264 to 150 to block the bill.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
Department of Urban Affairs
Robert C. Weaver
Weaver
House Rules Committee
Senate
House
Wheat Crop Said In Excellent Shape In Kansas
TOPEKA AP The 1983 Kansas wheat crop is in good to excellent condition through cold weather, frost, top growth and limited pasturing, with rain and snow last week adding moisture in western areas. Livestock are in excellent condition with good gains and adequate feed from pastures and stored grain. The USDA ERS notes Americans eat just over six eggs weekly, up from seven and a half years ago.
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Topeka
Kansas
Federal
State Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Equity Federal Credit Union Plans Annual Meeting
The Equity Federal Credit Union will hold its annual membership meeting on Monday at 7 30 p m in Clifford R Hope Auditorium. President Mike E Rome says reports on the past year committee work and elections are on tap with three board directors and one credit committee officer to be elected. Principal speaker is Dr Richard L D Morse Kansas State University Department head of Family Economics who has published about agriculture and economies. Membership exceeds 1300 with assets around 996000. Assistant Treasurer Manager George C Gerstner stated 300 people are expected.
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Equity Federal Credit Union
Clifford R. Hope Auditorium
Mike E. Rome
Richard L. D. Morse
Kansas State University
Manhattan
Morse
Nigeria
George C. Gerstner
Kenneth M. Becker
J.T. Lear
Two Garden City men sentenced on check charges
Finney County Court jailed two Garden City men on Wednesday for check related offenses. Fred Jackson at 1801 A was given 30 days and court costs for a no account check. Dave Johnson of 205 N First received 30 days after a guilty verdict for writing an account closed check. Both were committed.
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Garden City
Finney County
Fred Jackson
Dave Johnson
Johnson
Jackson
West Germany to Ecuador Effect of Longshoremen Strike Is Widespread
The East Coast dock strike disrupts West Germany car plants and Ecuador banana farmers, with U S aid shipments stalled and domestic losses topping 400 million dollars daily. The dispute between the AFL-CIO Longshoremen and New York Shipping Association triggers port embargoes, cargo backlogs, and price shifts while talks continue in New York.
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New York
West Germany
Ecuador
United States
U.S
Maine
Texas
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Afl-Cio International Longhhoremen's Association
New York Shipping Association
Alexander Z. Chopin
Associa
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Boston
Norfolk
Dock Union
Fire damages English Palace at Kensington Palace
Fire broke out at Kensington Palace in London today damaging a roof over the servants quarters in the apartment being prepared for Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones. Firefighters arrived with 15 pumps, took about an hour to control the blaze, and repairs are estimated at 238000 dollars as the remodeling of No 1A continues.
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London
Kensington Palace
Margaret
Antony Armstrong-Jones
London Fire Brigade
Princess Mating
Duchess of Kent
Marina
Princes Alexandra
Prince Michael
Princess Marina
Armstrong-Jones
Earl of
Snowdon
Ministry of Works
Minor injuries in garden city collision near st john
A Garden City driver, Victor Donald Woodard aged 19, sustained a facial laceration after his car struck two parked vehicles, skidded 86 feet into a tree, and tore down 20 feet of a fence near the 500 block on St. John after 8 p.m. Wednesday. Police charged him with improper driving and speeding. Damages totaled about 1335 dollars across vehicles, fence, and tree, with the Burtis Motor Co. and Dopler vehicles named in the crash. In North Africa archeologists locating Carthage outer fortifications by air.
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Garden
St. John
Victor Donald Woodard
Conkling
Raynesford Clinic
Woodard
Garden City
Burtis Motor Co
N. Main
John Dopler
N. Std
Soren Peter- Bon
Burtis
Dopler
Hospital admissions and discharges listed by town
Today hospital admissions include Elizabeth Menke 1705 Parkwood Eminence John Marlow Holcomb Lyle Joss Scott City Francis Schreibvogel Minneola Beatry Creeden Oletha Delgado 809 Pearl Charles Butler Towner Colo William Gribble 512 N 9th James Hayes Kalvesta Kate Wilkens Seoti Jakob Weber Park W T Myler Johnson. Dismissals at St Catherine Wilbur Wright Scott City Alvina Bretkreutz Seoti Sharon Minor 1402 W Fulton Came Horning Ray mmy Jo Kimsey 603 E Ma ple Mrs Marcellus Barker 401 N 6th James Lee Brewer 203 W Fair Mike Samagis Rt 1 Mrs Leroy Rupp 1210 N 9th
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Lyle Joss
Holcomb
Francis Schreibvogel
Star Rt
Beatry Creeden
Minneola
Frank Spangler
Scott City
Arthur Brown
Oletha Delgado
Pearl
Charles Butler
Towner
Colo
William A. Gribble
James Hayes
Kalvesta
Kate Wilkens
Seoti
Leopold
Jakob Weber
Park
W. T. Myler
Johnson
St. Catherine
Wilbur Wright
Alvina
Bretkreutz
Sharon Minor
W. Fulton
Horning
Raymmy Jo Kimsey
E. Maple
Arctic Air Brings Deep Freeze Across North
Strong northerly winds pushed arctic air from Montana through the central Plains into the northern Ohio Valley. Temperatures plunged below zero in Montana, the Dakotas, and Minnesota as blizzard conditions and blowing snow hit parts of Montana and the Dakotas. Wind peaks near 60 mph. snow depths reach four to six inches in Montana and South Dakota. Cut Bank records 21 below zero.
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Associated Press
Montana
Midwest
Central Plains
Ohio Valley
Canada
Dakotas
Minnesota
South Dakota
Mercury
Cut Bank
Notable Local Births and Court Notices From Garden City
Births report a daughter born at St. Catherine to Benny Creeden and wife in Minneola at 2 13 pm weighing 4 pounds 14 ounces. Court items note abatement for Irma Reid of Lakin for insufficient funds and several fines for overloads, overwidth, speeding, and no driver’s license. Police bonds listed for Gary Daniels and others. not guilty ruling for Michael Anderson Mounts. various fines refunded or disbursed.
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John Blernack
Beverly Nichols
Holcomb
Jasper Whitley
Maio
Lee Egan
Leopold
Courts County
Irma L. Reid
Lakin
Paul S.miller
Lloyd Casper
Hobart C. Dimean
LeRoy Amen Merrill
Charles
Carlise
Howard M. Farr
Paul L. Frank
Tellme Green
Dean Oliver
Delbert Campbell
Gary Don Daniels
Rolla
Richard D. Murray
William Bart Kadyk
Lester Keith Land
Michael Anderson Mounts
Kenneth Lee Frezee
James Francis O'Dell
Meade Couple Found Dead in Meade Home
Meade Kansas AP report says Thomas H. Johnson, 33, and his wife Willene, 42, were found dead with their small dog in their living room. Coroner R N His ruled suffocation. Johnson worked for Carter Drilling Co of Wichita and was with a drilling crew in the Meade area. Discovery followed a report that Mrs Johnson failed to appear for work Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Meade, Kan
Thomas H. Johnson
Meade County
R. N
Johnson
Carter Drilling Co
Wichita
Meade
Arlie Johnston
Willene
Elise Verhelst
Peace talks stall after 45 minutes in New York papers
Federal mediator Schlossberg reports no real progress after revived joint talks between striking printers and publishers of New York City's nine major newspapers, stalled yet again. Local 6 leaders say negotiators are not ready to settle. Panel of jurists resumes the fact finding today as Cleveland also faces a two-paper strike affecting 2,000 workers.
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New York
Powers
Cleveland
Ralph
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Leroy Rupp
Arctic Air
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