July Fourth Plans Set in Motion by Chamber
July 4 committee chaired by Joe Tennessen outlined plans to match last year’s full day of activities except the parade. The morning features horseshoe pitching, a bathing beauty contest, and a doll buggy parade. swimming pool hours extend. An afternoon ball game and girls' softball may occur, with a band concert, talent show, and fireworks at the fairgrounds. Viewers may be asked to relocate for the fireworks due to a new canopy over the stadium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pas
Chamber of Commerce
Joe Tennessen
Ban Johnson
Bud, l Jones
Chamber
Fairgounds
Tennessen
City to battle bugs with dusk fogging and mowing
The city will begin fogging at dusk starting east of Kansas Ave and move west to 9th tonight, with a second pass 5th west to the city limits tomorrow night. Friday covers areas north of Kansas and south of the railroad. City warns children not to follow the truck or fog, and asks residents not to chase the fogging equipment. City also notes vacant lots are being mowed with a new mower unit, funded by city and planning commission efforts, and that notices are issued to owners with weed problems.
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Kansas Ave
Deane Wiley
9Th
5Th
Kansas
al Athough
Ning Commission
Hall
Weather and harvest notes from Kansas regions
Widely scattered thunderstorms tonight with 65 to 70 degree lows and light variable winds Thursday will see middle to upper 90s and evening thunderstorms. Deerfield sunrise 5 22 sunset 8 08. Farmers gather winter barley with tree yields 35 to 50 bushels and moisture 9 to 12 feet around Chanute and surrounding areas. Kansas Employment Service offices in Russell Olathe Salina Topeka Wichita report harvest labor demand with city listings and contact points.
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Deerfield
gaRpen
Kansas State
Russell
Olathe
Salina
Topeka
Wiehita
West makes last ditch bid on Berlin crisis
Geneva AP report says the West proposed an 11th hour temporary Berlin agreement. Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko offered no clear response as the Big Four ministers met in secret. U S Secretary of State Herter and Western allies planned to close the conference within days unless Gromyko showed serious interest. British spokesmen said Gromyko gave no indication of final position and no summit was raised. The atmosphere was described as good. details of remarks were not released.
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Geneva
Berlin
Soviet Union
U.S
Christian
A. Herter
Andrei Gromyko
Gromyko
New York
Teamster Union
Dave Beck
Washington (Ap
House
Agriculture’, Subcommittee
Kas
Culture Department
Charles
Hoeven
Iowa
Agriculture Department
New Orleans
Beulah
Subcommittee
W. R
Mexico
Poage
D-Tex
Weather Bureau
Seattle
Wash
William. Schnitdler
Afl-Cio
Gus
Zoning reform items on county board agenda teased
Tomorrow's session may include a recommendation to adopt proposed zoning regulations to be outlined in Telegram articles. Other items listed: a 1966 budget report and discussion of preliminary plats for Sunrise Park Addition, H. L. Smith plat, and a Heulskamp subdivision plat change requested by C. M. McAllister.
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County Board of Commissioners
Sunrise Park
H. L. Smith
Heulskamp
C. M. McAllister
First New Wheat Trickles Into Elevators Here
The first new Finney County wheat moved into local grain elevators as harvest quickened in the area. Wheat from Pierceville and Deerfield tested up to 60 pounds with moisture near 14.65 percent, yielding about 45 bushels per acre. Other samples from Milhon and Kells fields in Finney County arrived, mostly Wichita variety, with early estimates of 15 to 18 bushels and reports of shriveling from recent heat.
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Garden City
Loren Underwood
Charles Milhon
Finney County
Haskell County
Pierceville
Deerfield
Garden City Cooperative Equity Exchange
Ed Nusser
Wichita
W. E. Kells
Gano
Marvin. Standley
Kelley Grain Co
Milt Claar
Summit Talks Status Is Not Brighter, Eisenhower Says
President Eisenhower said prospects for a summit conference have not brightened and foreign ministers talks may be at an impasse over Berlin. He would attend a heads of government meeting if progress on East West issues at Geneva is likely, and rejected calls to skip diplomacy or hold a televised White House conference to break deadlock.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Geneva
Berlin
State's Hottest Garden Weather Sets Heat Record
TOPEKA AP Kansas' spell of hot weather continues with temperatures forecast 95 to 100 today and in the 90s Thursday. Several towns along the Smoky Hill and Kansas rivers posted their highest readings of the year yesterday, with highs from 53 at Olathe to 100 at Garden City. A few isolated western storms formed last night and more are expected this afternoon and tonight. Rainfall from last night's storms ranged from .14 to .31 inches with trace at Dodge City. Overnight lows were warm, from 60 to 72.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Lower Smoky Hill
Olathet
Garten City
Webster Dam
Good‘land
Cedar Bluff Dam
la Trace
Dodge City
Emporia
Concordia
U S Navy Plane Returns Fire Under Heavy MIG Attack
U S Navy plane crew testified they were attacked 45 miles off the North Korea coast by MIGs that raked their patrol craft with 16 to 20 bursts. One crewman wounded, two engines out, gun units damaged, plane limped to base. Defense officials cited missing parts and failed weapon fire. Admiral Withington said patrols would continue and no fighter escorts would be sent.
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Yokosuka
Japan
Myaters
North Korea
Washington
Defense Department
Eisenhower
Congress
Frederic
Withing
U.S
Sea of Dapan
Withington
Far East
Unidentified object streaks across Nevada skies
LAS VEGAS AP reports a visible unidentified flying object streaked across Nevada skies on Tuesday night. It was the third mysterious sighting in three weeks, with observers noting the object was not detectable on radar and could not have been a plane.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Nevada
Coyle Brothers Captured After Pursuit Ends Fatal Shot
In Mississippi a hunt for the Coyle brothers ends in woods near a Canova residence. William Coyle, 22, dies from police bullets after a liquor-store robbery and hostage kidnapping spree that followed a Philadelphia murder. John Coyle, 34, is wounded but survives. Sedgwick, the kidnapped hostage, escapes. A large posse, including state troopers and conservation officers, pursued the brothers since Monday. Police recount the fatal encounter and capture details at the edge of the woods. The brothers are indicted for Officer James Kane’s murder and charged with kidnapping.
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Middleboro
Miss
Coyle
Massachusetts
St. Luke's Hospital
William Coyle
John
Philadelphia
William Sedgwick
Sedgwick
Lie
State
T Roopers
T Conservation — Oficers
ME Agena
Walter [Lehmidt
Union City
Nut
Victoria Canova
Iwo
Canova House
John Lacasse
New Bedford
Young Coyle
Paul Keating
Ber
James F. Kane
Coyles
Kane
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