Thieves Remain At Large After Armored Truck Heist
Robbers who hijacked an armored truck in Quincy Massachusetts remained at large as police pursued fingerprint and ballistic tests. Four bank bags found yielded 17 000 in cash and 77 577 in checks. Guards fired on the getaway vehicle as investigators trace weapons and routes from Fall River to Salem New Hampshire.
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Quincy
Mass
Paul LaHive
Weymouth
LaHive
Skelly Detective Agency
Fall River
Salem
N.H
David Connell
Connell
Boston
Brinks Inc
Bedford
Plymouth
Shipwrecked French Couple Rescued After Three Months At Sea
Henri Bourdens and his wife were adrift for three months after their yacht was wrecked by a cyclone off Bathurst Island. They survived on sea snails and a kangaroo, built a raft, and were found three days at sea on a submerged raft when the ketch Betty Jane spotted them and brought them to Darwin.
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Darwin
Australia
Henri Bourdens
Bourdens
Bathurst Island
Betty Jane
Henri
Kansas AG Urges Clear Conflict Definitions in Insurance Probe
Topeka AP Atty Gen Robert Londerholm calls for a precise conflict of interest definition and a study of Kansas insurance laws. His report on National Finance Life and Midwestern Financial ties shows lawmakers named as board members and agents, with rapid growth through public officials, while noting no specific legislator wrongdoing. Docking backs further investigation.
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Topeka
Robert C. Londerholm
Kansas
Londerholm
National Finance Life Underwriters Inc
Farm and Ranch Life Insurance Co
Wichita
Midwestern Financial
National Finance Life
Farm and Ranch Life
Securities Commissioner
National Board
Eudora to Fill 10 Offices Tuesday
Eudora residents will vote in Tuesday elections for mayor police judge and five city councilmen. Write in votes allowed. Three school board members will be chosen from districts A B and C for four year terms.
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Eudora
Unified School District No. 491
D. E. Kerr
Neal Cummings
Homer Broers
Harry Edwards
Edgar Grosdidher
Jim Hoover
Bill Schehrer
Harold Morley
Roy Breithaupt
James B. Smith
Francis McConkey
Alf T. Oleson
Glen Jarmin
Norbert Grosdidier
Gaullist Leader Re elected Assembly President in Bordeaux Win
Gaullist mayor Jacques Chaban Delmas of Bordeaux was re elected president of the National Assembly. The result marked a Gaullist victory in the assembly's first test for President Charles de Gaulle and his supporters.
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Paris
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Bordeaux
National Assembly
Charles de Gaulle
Witness Shot During Perry Post Office Burglary
Robbers entered the Perry Post Office at about 3 a.m. and stole 3717.30 in stamps and cash after firing three shots at a newspaper carrier who was delivering papers nearby. No arrests or description of suspects, roadblocks set east on Highway 24, Kansas Bureau of Investigation alerted.
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Perry
M. T. High
Route 1
Tecumseh
Jap Dunaway
Dunaway
Jefferson and
Douglas County
Highway Patrol
Jefferson County
Gordon Rumbaugh
Lawrence
Rumbaugh
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Kansas Senate kills three turnpikes bill in favor of one route
Kansas Senate Highways Committee rejects a House plan to build three new turnpikes and backs a bill raising the gasoline tax by two cents to fund a single turnpike the north south route along Kansas eastern border. The House proposal also would have funded bonds with state highway support. The earlier plan included Baxter Springs to Wichita and Wichita to Hays routes. The House bill emerged from a Docking administration and Conard led negotiations but stalled in the Senate.
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Topeka
Senate Highways Committee
Kansas
Senate
State Highway Commission
Baxter Springs
Wichita
Hays
Robert Docking
House
John Conard
Rain floods basements as heavy weekend runoff hits homes
Weekend rain led to basement flooding across the district due to seepage and sewer backups. Official rainfall reached 4.66 inches with some areas reporting over 5 inches, while Sunday night and Monday morning still brought calls to plumbers. Walden Norris notes the earth pulled away from foundations after dry spells, allowing water to seep under walls.
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Walden Norris
Norris Brothers
Theater critic John Gassner Dies at 64 in New Haven
John Gassner 64 noted theater critic, teacher, and anthologist died Sunday in New Haven of a heart ailment. He was a prominent voice in American drama criticism and an influential educator.
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New Haven, Conn
John Gassner
Rainfall Nears Ending Drought Gap in Lawrence
Weekend storm brought 4.66 inches, nearly erasing the year’s moisture deficit in Lawrence. KU station logged 1.48 inches in March, 3.29 inches year to date, with 16 cloudy and 9 partly cloudy days. Temperatures ranged from 2 to 84 degrees, average 47.27.
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KU Weather Station
Baldwin Youth Dies of Wound In Gun Mishap
A 19 year old Baldwin man, William D. Sieg, died after a pistol discharged while friends shot turtles and snakes at Baldwin City lake. Robert Christie of Ft Leavenworth accidentally fired the gun, striking Sieg who stepped in front of the weapon. Sieg was a 1965 Baldwin High graduate.
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Baldwin
Baldwin City Lake
Sheriff's Office
William D. Sieg
Orange St
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Sieg
Robert Christie
Leavenworth
Janmen
Dale Sieg
Kathy Jones
Kansas City
Larry
Olevia Sieg
Ottawa
Della Boyd
Tonganoxie
Baldwin High School
Hallmark Cards
First Methodist Church
GOP Urges Johnson to Halt Six Percent Tax Increase
Republican leaders in Washington demand President Johnson drop the 6 percent income tax surtax proposal. They allege the policy is poorly conceived and timed and call for curbing nondefense spending to meet current means instead.
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Washington
Johnson
Republican Coordinating Committee
Ballots Drop At 7 For Local City and School Elections
Voters will cast ballots at 7 am Tuesday for three of six City Commission candidates and three of five Unified School District 497 school board hopefuls. Polls close at 7 pm. Absentee ballots arrive in good pace with more than 100 returned by 9 am. Incumbents seek re election in both races.
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Unified School District 497
Vera Mercer
Mike Getto
City Commission
Donald E. Metzler
Kansas University School of Engineering and Architecture
Clark Morton
Jesse Milan
Unified School District
Ernest Pulliam
H. H. Belote
James W. Black
Gladys Six
Andy Garyardt
Hatfield-Jackson Oil Co
James W. Paddock
Rees Jackman
Bow
Pinckney School
Hillcrest School
West Junior High School
Funeral Home Service Listing VI 38 6111 Ve
A compact classified notice lists a professional funeral service in VI with contact number 38 6111. It signals a competent provider offering arrangements and related offerings for the community.
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I Funeral Home
Five Day Forecast Details Weather and Temperatures
The weather page reports temperatures averaging 9 degrees above normal from Tuesday to Saturday with normal highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s and lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Northeast Kansas may see showers tonight or Tuesday with a low in the 40s and a high in the 70s.
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Lawrence
Kansas
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