Eight Die As KC Plane Crashes At Dike Approach
A Continental Viscount airliner with five passengers and three crew crashed at Kansas City Municipal Airport, killing all eight aboard. Victims include Capt. Joseph William Smith and First Officer S. Clark George. Witnesses described the fire as the plane touched down and bounced the dike. No weather factor noted. runway length cited as a jet sensitivity issue for future moves to Mid-Continent Airport.
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Kansas City
A. E.N. Johnson
Chicago Heights
Joseph William Smith
Dallas Tex
S. Clark George
Dallas
Anin Lewis
R. C. Lewis
Abilene
Tex
Mary Ann Stewart
Stewart
Wichita Falls
Elmer Russell
Kan
Richard
Mid-Continent
Random Town Musings On Cards And Ice
A local column rambles about bridge, weather, jokes, and skating routines. It notes a friendly delegation from Garden City traveling to Kansas City for a clothing market, naming Doug Crotty Jr, Helen Vaughn, Inez Dillon, and Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Kepley.
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Garden City
Kansas City
Doug Crotty Jr
Helen Vaughn
Inez Dillon
Cecil Kepley
Ulysses
Garden Sass Gus Garden Reflects on Youth Mental Peaks
Garden Sass Gus Garden proclaims his youngsters reach mental peaks at ages four and seventeen. He claims a four year old knows all the questions while a seventeen year old knows all the answers, suggesting a playful view of child development.
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Gus Garden
McNamara Reveals Local Firemen's 1962 Losses and Calls
Fire chief Jim Fare leads 14 Garden City volunteers who fought 44 city fires and 40 rural blazes in 1962, with total property losses down to 10260 from 130645 in 1961. City and rural breakdowns show buildings, cars, and hay fires amid 32 daylight and 9 false alarms, average turnout about 12 per alarm.
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Garden City
Sherlock Township
Garfield
Terry
Ivanhoe
Pierceville
Gray County
Jim Fare
John Koch
I. J. Bunney
Clarence Thomas
Bud Meredith
Dale Bjorklin
Phillip Michel
Dallas Enslow
Kenneth Butt
Melvin Fry
Charles Shelton
Don Miller
Bill Branden
Victor Breit
Flexible Plan Set For Retalitory Attack
Secretary of Defense McNamara outlined a five year defense program to counter the Communist threat from guerrilla warfare to nuclear attack. He testified Congress that fiscal 1964 defense spending would reach 56 billion dollars, with 51 billion for military forces. He suggested the U S would retaliate in kind to a Soviet nuclear strike and outlined a flexible second strike plan aimed at Moscow while pressing accelerated Nike X antimissile development and airborne infantry concepts. He warned allies must bear a larger burden as the United States maintains leadership in the Western defense.
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Washington
Robert S. McNamara
United States
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Free World
McNamara
America
Europe
U.S
Atlantic Alliance
Congress
House
Armed Services Committee
South Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Soviet Union
McNamara “Cooly
Russia
Red China
Cold War Within Cold War West Union In Balance
AP Special Correspondent William L. Ryan surveys the Western Alliance rift as Charles de Gaulle's Europe challenges U.S. leadership and unity. De Gaulle's France weakens NATO, dismisses Britain as Europe’s partner, and advocates continentalism while Britain eyes the Common Market. The piece weighs future Franco American diplomacy through 1966.
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William L. Ryan
Paris
Western Alliance
Kennedy
Europe
Charles de Gaulle
Soviet Union
Red China
United States
de Gaulle
France
Britain
Kremlin
NATO
Atlantic Alliance
Germany
Macmillan
U.S
Meredith Won't Leave Ole Miss
James H Meredith announces plans to enroll for spring at the University of Mississippi, saying the Negro will not go away. He cites personal stance and pressures from harassment on campus as factors in his decision, amid a broader context of segregationist threats and student withdrawals.
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Meredith
Negro Masonic Temple
America
Nashville Tennessean
Jackson
William Jordan Temple
Washington, D.C
Temple
J R Jones to retire after 43 years in Kansas schools
Sublette veteran educator J R Jones plans retirement this spring ending a 43 year teaching career. He has served as Sublette grade school principal and former Garden City superintendent, with roles as high school principal and coach at Coats Burlingame Meade and Sublette, plus state activity association board service and Western Kansas athletic officiating.
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Sublette
J. R. Jones
Garden City
Jones
Coats
Burlingame
Meade
Tones
Kansas State High School Activities Assn
Kansas
No Change in Weather Seen
TOPEKA AF Cold cloudy weather covered Kansas and no change is seen before Friday. Night temperatures will not moderate in the west north and northwest. Early lows ranged from four degrees below zero at Goodland to 18 at Pittsburg with highs to 10 to 15 degrees in the northwest and lower 20s elsewhere. Lows tonight are expected from 10 to 15 degrees statewide. Tuesday highs varied from 9 at Goodland to 39 at Pittsburg and a general circulatory shift may bring milder weather soon. Snow flurries occurred in scattered areas with no accumulation.
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Topeka
Kansas
Goodland
Pittsburg
United States
Cuban Ransom Supplies Move Through March
A Red Cross official said the movement of 53 million dollars in medical supplies and other commodities pledged in exchange for Bay of Pigs prisoners to Cuba will be completed by March 31.
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Providence
R.1
Red Cross
Cuba
Pratt Juco Students May Be Suspended
Pratt Junior College students face possible suspension amid reports of damage to rental property and wild parties. The Pratt Board of Education discussed a revised housing code, with County Attorney Clarence Renner and Police Chief Paul Garst Jr. stating most stories were grossly exaggerated.
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Pratt, Kan
Pratt Junior College
Board of Education
Clarence Renner
Paul Garst Jr
Insurance Bills Move Through Kansas House
A Kansas House measure would let the state insurance commissioner audit company policies and require insurers to cover audit costs. Another bill would ban false advertising by unlicensed insurers. A third bill relaxes inland marine risk filing. A safflower oil amendment to oleo would exempt certain brands from a 10 cent per pound tax. A proposal would allow cities and counties to use general funds for civil defense with an extra quarter mill tax on tangible property for defense needs.
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Topeka
Kansas House
Commissioner of Insurance
Telegram-KIAS Bridge Tournament Entry Deadline
Bridge players must enter by tomorrow for the Telegram-KIAS annual event. Entry costs 4 dollars per couple, with pairings announced Saturday. Matches run during the week at players chosen venues, ending with a buffet dinner and championship matches.
Local Hobby Club Prizes Winners Named in Telegram
Winners announced for the weekly Young Hobby club contest receive packets of foreign postage stamps for the neatest correct Scrambled Planets entries from Jan 9. Names listed include Mark Davis, Debra Hayden, Janet Thies, Mary Ann Burgardt, Carla Melcum, and Pat Athe plus Scott City resident. Another weekly contest appears on Page 7 of today's Telegram.
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Telegram
Mark Davis
Debra Hayden
Coward Ave
Janet Thies
Evans
Mary Ann Burgardt
Carla Melcum
Meade
Pat Athe
Scott City
Democrats push bill to make University of Southern Kansas at Wichita
A group of 16 Democrats in the Kansas House introduced a measure to convert Wichita University into a state university, to be named the University of Southern Kansas at Wichita. Sponsor Rep. Joseph Mikesic said the bill funds a full, open discussion and could shift major higher education costs to future generations. The proposal argues Wichita should serve about one third of Kansas residents and warns that expanding KU and K State would strain access and budgets. Republicans are urged to join. Democrats say they will back any fair alternative from the majority.
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Garden City
Army Reserve
U.S. Army Reserve Center
Kansas Plaza
Topeka
Wichita University
Kansas House
University of Southern Kansas At
Wichita
Joseph Mikesic
Wichita U
Democratic Party
Mikesic
University of Kansas
Kansas State University
Tion
Five Hospital Board Members Re-elected at Garden City Hospital
Five members of the St. Catherine Hospital advisory board were re elected to new three year terms at a hospital meeting Tuesday night. They are C. C. Hicks Mrs Clifford Hope Jr Merle Myers Deane P. Wiley and L. G. Perry. The Rev Merion Kadyk of the Presbyterian Church is the new representative from the Garden City Ministerial Alliance replacing the Rev Dorsey Rotruck.
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St. Catherine Hospital
C. C. Hicks
Clifford Hope Jr
Merle Myers
Deane P. Wiley
L. G. Perry
Merion Kadyk
The
Presbyterian Church
Garden City
Dorsey Rotruck
Groundhog Supper Planned by Church of Brethren
A groundhog supper is scheduled for January 1 in the Church of Brethren hall starting at 1 p.m. The event invites parishioners and community members for a meal and social time.
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Church of Brethren
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