Fort Scott Launches Its Own Head Start Plan
Fort Scott residents fund and run a local Head Start program to aid underprivileged children. The eight week course starts June 14 with 12 children max, taught by Mrs. Barlow and Mrs. Van Hoorebeke in a former church, supported by church and civic groups. Tuition is 30 dollars with federal funding covering most costs. program aims to prepare children for first grade and reduce future dropouts.
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Fort Scott
Kan
Lyndon Johnson
Steve Barlow
Paul Vat Hoorebeke
Barlow
van Hoorebeke
Mrse. Barlow
Chris
Cathy Jr
Manhattan
American Association of University Women
United Presbyterian Women
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
van Hoorebake
School Has First Graduate in Six Years
Upton Creek West Virginia honors Stella Hall for being the first graduate in six years amid poverty and isolation. Action for Appalachian Youth hopes to inspire more students as Stella enters nurses' training next fall. In Phoenix Arizona the livestock board says dog food must be fit for humans to avoid tainted meat sources. In Columbus Ohio James F. Hamilton becomes the fifth Hamilton doctor in a lineage spanning a century as he completes medical school and steps toward internship.
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West Virginia
Arizona
U.S
Nity
Stella
Upton Creek
Mountain Hollows
Action For Appalachian Youth
Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona Livestock Sanitary Board
Paple
Columbus
Ohio
James F. Hamilton
Hamilton
Ohio State University
School of Medicine
Edwin A. Hamilton
University of Cincinnati Medical School
Walter H. Hamilton
Farmers Ready To Cut Wheat
Wheat harvest begins along Kansas south edge as farmers test ripeness and moisture. Barley fields started cutting, barley moisture 11 to 12 percent in Sumner County while wheat moisture runs 16 to 17 percent but kernels show no shriveling. Oklahoma farmers begin full stale cutting as local grain moves to Wichita and Caldwell elevators with test weights around 632 pounds per carload and 13 to 15 percent moisture. Farmers Coop Grain Co reports 64 to 65 pounds per bushel with 13 to 15 percent moisture on 2000 bushels.
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Wichita
Kan
Kansas
Sumner County
Barber
Harper
Sumner
Oklahoma
Kiowa OK Cooperative
Farmers Coop Grain Co
Caldwell
LBJ Invites Space Twins Wives to Weekend at Ranch
Houston AP report on Gemini 4 wives Pat White and Pat McDivitt awaiting a weekend at the LBJ Ranch with astronauts James A McDivitt and Edward H White IV. The women expressed pride, relief, and mixed excitement after the 98 hour flight, sharing family moments and their views on future space ventures.
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LBJ
Mike Cochran
Houston
Tex
James A. McDivitt
Edward HH. White
America
Ilam
Pat White
Eddie
Bonnie Lynn
Baler Mishap Fatal for Kansas Farmer Tru man Guthridge
Tru man Guthridge, 60, of Walnut Kansas, died after a baler incident left him critically injured. His hat fell into the machine he reached to retrieve it, his arm was drawn in, and he was trapped for an hour with severe back burns as the baler caught fire. Neighbor John McDaniel alerted the fire department.
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Walnut
Kan
Truman Guthridge
Guthridge
John McDaniel
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