One Injured in One-Car Wreck in City
One man was hospitalized with cuts after a single-vehicle crash Wednesday night. Jesse D. Remby, 30, of 732 Hickory St, released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital, suffered injuries when his westbound car ran out of control at 11 06 p.m near 6th and Locust Streets and struck a Kansas Power and Light pole. Damaged car valued at 250 dollars.
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Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Jesse D. Remby
Hickory St
6Th and
Locust Sts
Kansas Power and Light Co
Turnpike traffic tops last year by 800000
Kansas Turnpike will top 7.5 million vehicles in 1966, about 800000 more than 1965, as 11 months through November show a 12.34 percent gain. Chief engineer-manager L W Newcomer cites a November 27 record day post Thanksgiving and a Nebraska-Oklahoma football game surge. Toll revenue also up about 12.43 percent through November, with November up 8.4 percent year over year.
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Kansas Turnpike
L. W. Newcomer
Turnpike
Newcomer
Nebraska
Kansas
Norman
Okla
Fire destroys Wren Building laundries in Lawrence
A $1 million blaze swept the south end of the 700 block of Massachusetts and Vermont Streets, gutting the Wren Building. Twenty one residents in seventeen apartments were displaced as police guarded against looters. James Cox of the Independent Laundry said a temporary office would aid customers, while valuables including furs and KU marching band uniforms were stored in a basement vault. Insurance assessors planned inventories to determine losses.
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William Wathen
Wren
Massachusetts
Vermont
Lawrence
Douglas County Sheriff's Auxiliary
James Cox
9Th and Miss. Sts
Cox
Kansas University
Parsons Stirs On Ammo Site
In Parsons Kansas interest runs high in jobs at the Kansas Army Ammunition Plant though hiring has not begun and no date is set. The State Employment Service reports about 100 inquiries from several southeast Kansas cities and Parsons since news of the plant’s reactivation. National Gypsum Co. plans to operate the plant and has seen 300 to 400 inquiries in the past three weeks.
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Parsons
Kan
Kansas Army Ammunition Plant
Kansas State Employment Service
Kansas
Lyle J. Phillips
H. G. Carley
National Gypsum Co
National Gypsum
AP Photographer Ira Galdner Dies at 76 in California
AP veteran Ira Galdner of the Los Angeles Bureau died Tuesday after a brief illness. A photographer with the AP for 27 years, he retired in 1955 and lived in Van Nuys, California.
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van Nuys
Calif
Apj
Ira Galdner
Los Angeles
Associated Press
Post Office rules vs snow affect home deliveries in Lawrence
Lawrence residents were reminded that post office policy allows carriers to skip home delivery if walks and access roads are not cleared of snow. Door delivery continues on some routes where street delivery exists. The Red Cross offers emergency aid for Wren Building fire victims, including food, clothing, and shelter, with aid based on need. Virgil Foust, a Lawrence officer, is praised for helping neighbors with snow removal and yard work. KU Alumni events kick off with a Kansas City social and an on-site reception, following a large turnout at the first Big 8 basketball tournament event. No garbage pickup Saturday or Monday due to the holiday. Thu pickup for Monday routes.
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Lawrence
Jack Harris
Post Office Department
Harris
Wren
American National Red Cross
Jo Byers
Arizona Street
Virgil Foust
9Th St
John Evans
Ariz
Foust
Kansas University Alumni Association
Downtowner Motor Hotel
Kansas City
Ku-Oklahoma
Municipal Auditorium
Alumni Association
Vince Bilotta
Rivers Russell Say Hit Hanoi If It's Needed
Washington AP reports House and Senate Armed Services chairs L Mendel Rivers and Richard B Russell advocate powerful air strikes on North Vietnam. Rivers says use air power to fullest and dismiss public opinion as a factor. Russell argues greater force is needed until Hanoi seeks negotiations and peace appeals fail. Morse, an opponent of policy, notes civilian casualties unite North Vietnam against U.S. power.
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Washington
L. Mendel Rivers
House
Armed Services Committee
United States
Hanoi
Senate
Richard B. Russell
Rivers
South Carolina
Charleston
S.C
North Vietnam
Russell
Atlanta
U.S
U.S. Vietnam
Wayne Morse
Dorem
Twenty Three Die In Mexico City Bus Crash
Twenty three people were killed in a head on collision of two buses on the Pan American Highway near Salanca, north of Mexico City. Ambulances from five cities carried 49 injured to area hospitals.
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Mexico City
Salanca
China conducts fifth nuclear test with possible hydrogen device
Tokyo reports indicate China's fifth explosion, possibly a small hydrogen device, may raise nuclear capabilities. Japanese experts cite a yield near several hundred kilotons, with analysts split on whether it was a full hydrogen bomb. Weather and radioactive fallout concerns add to unease ahead of New Year.
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Tokyo
China
Sankei
Japanese Defense Agency
U.S
Asahi
United States
Nevada
Mainichi
Japanese Meteorological Agency
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
China test worsens Sino Soviet rift and fears of nuclear spread
China has conducted another nuclear test, its fifth and third this year, intensifying Moscow's nerves and signaling a deepening Sino Soviet split. Peking denounces nonproliferation efforts while vowing to break the nuclear monopoly, raising Moscow’s concern over wider global instability and potential peace moves in Vietnam.
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China
Peking
U.S
Kremlin
Vietnam
Moscow
Nuclear Club
Peking People’s Daily
Red China
U.S.S.R
Western Hemisphere
Governor's Oath Taken by Accident
Ronald Reagan inadvertently took California's official oath in a casual reading at his Sacramento office. An aide explained it was the state oath pledging to uphold constitutions, not a swearing in, though Reagan did affirm the document. He will still be sworn in at 12:01 a.m. Jan. 2 and hold a public inaugural on Jan. 5.
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Sacramento
Calif
Ronald Reagan
California
Reagan
United States
Lyn Nofziger
Bert Clarkston
Capitol
Nofziger
Golden Condition Remains Critical
CHARLOTTE N C AP Harry L Golden author and editor remained in critical condition after gall bladder surgery complications. A midmorning Charlotte Memorial Hospital report said his condition is substantially unchanged and he remains in critical condition. A spokesman said a mechanical respirator was discontinued and a tracheotomy was performed early Wednesday after respiratory difficulties.
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Charlotte
N.C
Harry L. Golden
Charlotte Memorial Hospital
Golden
Docking Lands Parsons Move to Reopen Army Plant
Governor-elect Robert Docking announced plans to reactivate the Kansas Army Ammunition Plant east of Parsons, saying it would boost southeast Kansas and the state. He cited job creation, heavy payrolls, and more federal dollars as advantages and noted Kansas would gain a larger role in defense and Vietnam peace efforts after a Washington visit.
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PEKA
Robert Docking
Kansas
Parsons
Docking
Vietnam
Washington
Mrs Powell Skips Hearing In Powell Inquiry
Washington AP Mrs Adam Clayton Powell's wife again did not appear today at a congressional probe into her husband's payroll and travel expenses. Chairman Wayne Hays warned she has a final chance to testify on Friday and threatened firing, contempt charges, and possible removal from her $20,500 a year staff job if she remains silent.
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Washington
Adam Clayton Powell
Wayne L. Hays
Ohio
Administration
Hays
Subcommittee
Powell
Congressional
Congress
Brown Spares Four Slayers In Death Row Commutation
Gov. Edmund G. Brown released Dec. 22 a list sparing four death row inmates at San Quentin and making eight others eligible for parole. The move, one of his last acts before leaving office, leaves about 60 on death row with court action and Reagan policy still unsettled. Two commuted inmates were linked to a Los Angeles multiple murder.
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Sacramento
Calif
Edmund G. Brown
San Quentin
Brown
Ronald Reagan
Los Angeles
Clyde Bates
Manual Chavez
Leo Carlton Lockadoo Jr
William Earl Cotter Jr
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