Tight Security At Ole Miss For RFK Visit
Ole Miss braces for Robert F. Kennedy visit with heavy security on campus and at the airport. Kennedy will speak to law students at Fulton Chapel after a private reception, then depart for the University of Alabama. Officials restrict campus access and gate tickets sold mainly to students and faculty.
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Oxford, Miss
University of Mississippi
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James Meredith
New York
Campus
Young Democrats Club
Fulton Chapel
Oxford
Tuscaloosa
University of Alabama
Law
Wildcat spirit at KSU concert earns enthusiastic praise
Garden City audience enjoyed a 90 minute program by the KSU choir and K-State Singers with strong student performances. Alumni attendance mixed with praise for guest groups Gary Stelting led junior college performers and Marys Two guitarists provided folk tunes. A medical progress note closes the piece.
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Garden City High School
Mary Austin
Mary Penney
K.U
Tense calm covers Watts in aftermath of rioting
In Los Angeles Watts a tense but hopeful calm settled as officials assessed Tuesday's riot damage. Two people were killed, 26 injured, and 49 arrested while authorities investigated the causes of the violence that erupted in the afternoon and disrupted the Negro community.
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Los Angeles
Bottorn Watts
Optimistic About Fertilizer Plant
Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast session heard Lew Anderson outline plans for a $6 million anhydrous ammonia fertilizer plant by Security Chemical Corp. Verbal state approval was reported with written approval expected soon. The project would boost annual income to about $3.8 million, pay roughly $54,000 in county taxes, create 42 jobs, and include an annuity program saving farmers about $1 million annually.
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Garden City Area
Security Chemical Corp
Lowel Craig
Chamber
Anderson
Larry Davis
Area Mental Health Center
Davis
Arkansas River Survey Push is Promised
Washington AP The Army Engineers pledged to Sen Gordon Allott that they will do all possible to speed flood control surveys of the Arkansas River below Martin Dam in Colorado A July 1 1967 target was set for the river above the dam and July 1 1968 for below the dam Brig Gen Richard H Free said a larger flood than last summer could prompt a project enlargement to prevent greater damage The 75 000 planning funds for Dodge City project appear in this year s budget
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Colorado
Allott
Senate
Richard H. Free
Southwest Division
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Kansas
Free
Congress
Dodge City
Kan
Ireland’s St Patrick Holiday Quiet Amid Uncertain Threats
Dublin police remain on alert for trouble on St Patrick’s Day despite expectations of a peaceful day. Recent acts of extremism include the Nelson monument blast and attacks on the British Legion club and the British attache’s home. The IRA denies involvement. a little-known far-right group is blamed.
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Ireland
New York
Boston
Nelson Monument
England
Church of Ireland
Downpatrick
County Down
St. Patrick
O’connell
Nelson
Britain
Lord Nelson
Trafalgar
British Legion Veterans Club
Irish Republican Army
Cold Wave Crosses State Prompts Lower Temperatures Across Kansas
A strong cold front moved through Kansas bringing colder air and strong winds. Showers were forecast in eastern areas with heavier rain possible in the southeast. Daytime highs ranged from the 50s to near 80, dropping to the mid 20s in the northwest tonight and around 40 in the southeast, with Friday highs near 50 to 60 across the state as winds shift to the north.
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Max
Min
Ree
Dodge City
Emporia
Garden
Goodland
bin City
Sallina Russell
Wichita Topeka
Topeka
Kansas
Johnson to meet advisers over De Gaulle NATO split
President Johnson convenes a second high level session with State and Defense officials to discuss France’s plan to withdraw from NATO. Officials cite legal questions about France’s treaty obligations and potential costs to allies, while seeking to keep NATO intact and avoid friction with Paris.
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Johnson
Defense Department
Western Alliance
Charles de Gaulle
France
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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U.S
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George W. Ball
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NATO
Dr Gaulle Ac
Germany
Seay to Take PC Training for Peace Corps
Randy Seay a Garden City High School and Junior College graduate will begin Peace Corps training. He left Garden City last night for Kansas City where he will board a plane to Hilo Hawaii for the program. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Robert Seay Eminence Rt.
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Gary Stelting
Garden City Community Junior College
Randy Seay
Garden City High School
Peace Corps
Garden City
Kansas City
Hilo
Hawaii
Randy
Robert Seay
Notre Dame to award 20 honorary degrees March 23
Twenty religious leaders who attended the Vatican Ecumenical Conference in Rome will receive honorary doctor of laws degrees from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend Indiana on March 23. The honorees come from several faiths and will be recognized during an academic ceremony at the university.
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South Bend
Ind
Rome
University of Notre Dame
Astronauts aboard destroyer after Gemini 8 down
Astronauts David Scott and Neil Armstrong waited aboard a destroyer off Okinawa after Gemini 8 ended its spaceflight early. Air rescue pilot Capt. John Maddox said the pair sunbathed and ate lunch as recovery crews fixed a float collar and investigated a retrorocket packet possibly causing the termination.
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Tachikawa
Japan
David Scott
Neil Armstrong
Western Pacific
John W. Maddox
Mulberry
Fla
Maddox
Scott
Armstrong
Gemini 8 Flight Ends With Safe Recovery In Pacific
Gemini 8 crews Neil Armstrong and David Scott endured a dangerous re entry after docking with Agena. a violent roll halted the mission at 10 hours 42 minutes. They were rescued by destroyer Leonard F. Mason and landed near Okinawa after a 32 minute descent over Arabia and Red China. NASA officials pursue data to determine cause while Johnson praises the astronauts.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Okinawa
Pacific Ocean
Leonard F. Mason
Neil Armstrong
David Scott
U.S
Naha
Houston
Gene Kranz
Gemini
Earth
Kranz
Western Pacific
Armstrong
Scott
John W. Maddox
Mesa
Ariz
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Robert Gilruth
NASA
Manned Spacecraft Center
Johnson
Cane Kennedy
Constrol Center
Tex
John Hodge
Christopher C. Kraft
Purchose
No. 7
Geminig
Africa
Arabia
India
Red
China
Air Force
Cigarette Sales Drop in Kansas as Taxes Rise
Kansans are smoking fewer cigarettes while paying higher tobacco taxes. Since 1963 peak sales fell about 17 percent, with declines blamed on health scares tax avoidance and cross border shopping. Kansas taxes eight cents per pack, similar to Oklahoma and Nebraska, Missouri lower but local Kansas City tax adds four cents locally. Seven months of this fiscal year taxed 130,791,000 packs versus 141,804,000 a year earlier. full last year tax total reached 14,503,241 dollars.
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Topeka
Kansas
U. S
Kansans
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Missouri
Kansas City
Revenue Department
Garden Sass Gus O Garden Sends St Patrick Wish
Garden Sass Gus O Garden sends St Patrick Day wishes to ten Irishmen of Southwest Kanaag in a local note.
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Gus O
St. Patrick's Day
Kanaag
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