Kansas Highway Plans View Screening Of Junk Yards
The Kansas Highway Department weighs screening 310 junk yards along the state and interstate road network with screens or trees. Projects would seek federal beautification funds but rely on maintenance funds if approved. Officials say the aim is aesthetics not driving junk yards out of business.
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Topeka
Kansas Highway Department
Highway Commission
Walter Johnson
Johnson
Addison Meschke
Highway Dept
U.S. Bureau of Public Roads
Meschke
Air Force Thunderchief raids northwest of Yen Bay Vietnam
Four F105 Thunderchiefs hit eight boxcars northwest of Yen Bay and damaged a bridge further northwest. Additional raids include A6 Intruders on ferry slips and bridges, A4 Skyhawks on barges south of Hanoi, and a large carrier strike near Bai Thong with power plant and rail yard damage. No aircraft casualties.
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Hanoi
Yen Bay
Independence
Bai Thong
U.S. Navy
Midway
Jobs by Industry in 1963 United States Lead
In 1963 leading industries by employment were food 1.64 million transportation 1.61 million electrical machinery 1.47 million machinery excluding electrical 1.46 million and apparel 1.3 million, reflecting manufacturing and service sector scale.
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United States
House Passes Voting Rights Bill for Negroes
The House approved a compromise bill to protect registration and voting rights of African Americans by a 328 to 74 vote. An earlier bid to send the measure back to committee failed 284 to 118. The Senate planned a Thursday vote to send the landmark bill to the President.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Senate
Johnson
Chanute Man Dies After Police Chase in New Mexico
Robert Leon Harmon 25 of Chanute Kansas died when his car crashed into a loading dock after a police chase spanning US 56 and New Mexico 120 near Clayton. An exchange of gunfire occurred during the pursuit amid an armed robbery case tied to Hooker Oklahoma. Autopsy planned.
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Clayton
N.M
Robert Leon Harmon
Chanute
Kan
Harmon
Sheriff's Office
Okla
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Guymon
Dan Moriarty
Moriarty
US 56
New Mexico 120
Jack Pagett
Pagetts
Pagett
U.S. 56
Late Bids Delay Atom Site Report
Proposals from eight late starters delay front-runners in the $280 million atom-smasher site contest. The Atomic Energy Commission has not finalized about 30 priority locations from 118 proposals, with Lawrence-Eudora-Kansas City area bidders submitting brochures in mid-June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Commission
AEC
Lawrence-Eudora
Kansas City
Johnson Receives Speech Award and Demonstrates Prowess
Washington AP Johnson earns a speech award calling him profound and a free speech champion and then faces questions of policy. He discusses America the Beautiful the beautification program Vietnam and war aims with about 200 International Platform Association members. Johnson defends fighting tyranny poverty disease and ignorance praising Congress and urging continued diplomacy in Vietnam while promising to seek negotiated peace and a free independent Vietnam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Johnson
America the Beautiful
Viet Nam
International Platform Association
Congress
Drew Pearson
The
Platform Association
Lyndon Baines Johnson
United Nations
Oklahoma Sky Objects Deemed Stars By Air Force
Oklahoma witnesses report dozens of flashing colored objects at night prompting calls to the Highway Patrol and Tinker Air Force Base. Officials say sightings may stem from a Delta meteor shower July 26 to August 6 or atmospheric scintillation causing stars to twinkle.
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Oklahoma City
Great Plains
Air Force
Oklahoma
Highway Patrol
Tinker
Ed O’brien
MS Meeting at Huff Home Sees Fifteen Attend
Fifteen persons attended a Kansas Multiple Sclerosis Association board of trustees meeting held at Mrs. James Huff’s home 913 Murray Court. Guests included Mrs Ona Mae Price and Mrs Mary Nielsen from the MS state office in Topeka and Marvin Rowland of Ottawa.
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Kansas Multiple Sclerosis Association
James Huff
Murrow
Ona Mae Price
Mary Nielson
MS State
Topeka
Marvin Rowland
Ottawa
Elephant Life Expectancy Outline
The article notes that elephants typically live about 45 years on average. It emphasizes general lifespan rather than specific cases or events.
Bandit Escapes After Holding Up Kansas City Bank
An armed bandit robbed the Baltimore Bank Drive-in at 234 West 10th Street in Kansas City and fled on foot with an undetermined amount of cash. He threatened two women tellers and another employee, prompting a pickup alert for a Black man in his 20s with a goatee.
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Kansas City
Baltimore
West 10Th Street
KU Calendar Signals Busy Fall at Mount Oread
The Mount Oread schedule shows August university extension events and large October Math and Science Day turnout. September will bring full calendar items including fraternity rush Sept 7 to 10 and sorority rush Sept 8 to 12. Orientation runs Sept 12 to 20 with classes starting Sept 20. Chancellor Wescoe to open with a convocation at 9 30 a m in Hoch Auditorium.
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Mount Oread
W. Clarke Wescoe
Hoch Auditorium
City mulls Kasold area for future elementary site
The board plans to finish building by Sept 15 and weighs a 100 acre Kasold Drive area offered by Carl Hird at 1200 per acre for a school park. The City Commission is advised. Mrs. Ethan Allen reported on a White House Conference on education held July 20 21 in Washington DC attended by hundreds of school leaders.
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Kasold Drive
Sixth Street
Carl Hird
City Commission
White House
Ethan Allen
U. S
Washington, D. C
Senate Panel Backs Moscow Consular Treaty
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the long pending consular treaty with Moscow. Chairman J W Fulbright said the panel voted to recommend ratification with only Senator Rourke B Hickenlooper in opposition.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Moscow
J.W. Fulbright
Senate
Rourke B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Federal Official Posts Bonds For 37 in Sit Plan
In Allendale South Carolina a federal official posted bonds for 37 civil rights demonstrators arrested at the county courthouse during a voter registration protest. Bonds totaled 700 dollars for one white youth and 200 dollars each for 36 demonstrators as officials sought to maintain order amid the register opening.
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Allendale
S.C
Rev. C. A. Webster Jr
Federal
Webster
Washington
CBS
CRS
Calvin Kytle
Robert McNair
South Carolina
J.P. Strom
State Law Enforcement Division
Columbia
U.S
Dist. Atty
Terrell Glenn
GBI
McNair
Wayne State University
Detroit
Mich
Martin Luther King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
S.J. Wilson
Board of
Voter Registrars
Lawrence High School photo night. KU dean to Tel Aviv move
Lawrence High School sophomores and juniors without yearbook pictures should report at Estes Studio between 7 and 9 p.m. Monday. New town students enrolling at LHS are included. Meteorological data report July rainfall 4.98 inches above average. year total 25.31 inches, normal 21.67. Dean Burton W. Marvin of KU Journalism School and family plan moving to Tel Aviv to head a mass communications center. Bob Marvin will join them. other family members sail Aug 20. Mrs. Mary Smith reports seeing a pod shaped flying object near Ottawa at 10 p.m. Sunday. Douglas County 4-H style review held at LHS. winners announced next Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the 4-H Fair.
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Lawrence High School
Estes Studio
LHS
Marvin
Anne
Bob
Lawrence
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv University
Marvins
Evanston
Ill
Baltimore
Israel
New York City
Charles
France
Chicago University Law School
Mary Smith
Perry St
11Th and
N.J. Sts
Douglas County
Topeka Bridge Collapse Claim Seeks Damages
Three sons of Kenneth M. Allen file a $25 000 claim with the City Commission alleging the Kansas River bridge collapse was caused by negligent inspection and repair failures. The claim, the maximum under Kansas wrongful death statutes, could lead to a lawsuit if denied.
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Topeka
City Commission
Kenneth M. Allen
Allen
Donald Wesley Allen
Lynnwood
Calif
Joseph Allen
Pamidel C. Allen
Topea
Kansas
Intruder Caught After Shootout at Kansas City Apartment
In Kansas City a gunman invaded a third floor apartment injuring Joe Carter and his wife Eola. Carter fought off the intruder, pushing him over the porch railing. the suspect Lee C. Wilson was captured nearby after police linked him to multiple rapes. The Carters were treated at a hospital.
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Kansas City
Lee C. Wilson
Joe Carter
Eola
Carter
Wilson
Carters
Four Hurt In One Car Wreck Near Lawrence
Four persons were injured in a single car crash shortly before 11 a m on U S 40, 30 miles west of Lawrence. Hel en Bircher and son Kurt were badly hurt. Marie A Purvis drove the 1963 convertible and was treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. The car overturned after skidding on the shoulder while attempting to pass another vehicle. Brenda Purvis, 6, also injured along with an accompanying woman and her daughter. Authorities sought to locate Mrs Purvis's husband.
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Lawrence
U. S. 40
Helen Bircher
San Jose
Calif
Kurt Bircher
Kansas Highway Patrol
Marie A. Purvis
Purvis
Brenda
Bircher Boy
Deems
New York
Old Dog Ages to 100 Human Years
A dog aged 17 is roughly equivalent to a 100 year old human, marking the common rule of thumb for aging in dogs. Veterinarians note that individual factors can adjust this comparison.
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Johnson County
DeSoto
James Bright III
Kaw
DeSoto Bridge
Journal-World Photo
Lbj
Bandit
K.C. Bank
Board
Stan W. Grigg
Miss. St
West Sixth Street
Grigg
Journal-World
Worden
Walter Schwarz
Burton W. Marvin
Kansas University Journalism School
Beautyrest
Simmons
K.C
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Lawrence Mills
Archie Mills
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