Toll of two Viet battles soars as 864 reported dead
South Vietnamese paratroopers and U S Marines report 864 enemy soldiers killed in two coastal battles 50 miles apart near Quang Ngai City and Da Nang as air strikes and artillery aided ground assaults. An additional 118 enemy were reported killed in a separate Marine engagement near Da Nang.
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Quang Ngai City
da Nang
Dan Nang
U.S. Air Force
Navy
Marine
North Vietnam
Panhandle
Air Force
Hanoi
Duncan
Gulf of Tonkin
Dong Hoi
U.S. 4Th Infantry Division
Phuoc Tuy Province
Quang Tri Province
Demilitarized Zone
Continental Air Service
Nha Trang
Bong Son
Student Hurt In One Car Crash Near Emery Road
A Kansas University junior, James M. Alley 20 of 905 Avalon Rd, suffered minor injuries after losing control near 1012 Emery Rd at 2 25 am Sunday and striking a rock retaining wall. Alley reported his hands slipped from the wheel. his car damage was 545 dollars and the wall 50 dollars.
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James M. Alley
Avalon Rd
Alley
Bruce C. Perney
Topeka
Towa
Harvard
David M. Hall
Penney
Hall
Louisiana
Edgehill Rd
John W. Carter
Stewart Rd
Merry K. Browning
N.Y. St
Carter
Browning
Clifford D. Burgoon
Ottawa
23Rd and
Tenn. Sts
Cheryl E. Wonnell
Oskaloosa
Burgoon
Wonnell
KU Young Republicans to Host Panel on The Republican Party Dilemma
Kansas University Young Republicans sponsor a panel on The Republican Party Dilemma in Cities at 7 30 p m February 28 in the Jayhawk Room Kansas Union. State Sen Kent Frizzell Sen George Haley Richard Berkley Jackson County GOP chair Ed Sexton will participate.
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Kansas University Young Republicans
Jayhawk Room
Kansas Union
Kent Frizzell
Wichita
George Haley
Kansas City
Richard Berkley
Jackson County
Ed Sexton
Republican National Committee
Watershed Proposal Heads for House OK
A Lower Wakarusa Watershed funding bill advances from the Agriculture Committee to the House Rules Committee and then to the full House. Kansas Rep. Larry Winn Jr. testified for the project which seeks 1,082,400 federal dollars and a total outlay of 1,613,700 to prevent about 104,000 dollars in annual flood damage across 95,000 acres below Clinton Dam, with Turtle Creek pool elevation rising about 0.5 foot weekly.
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Wakarusa
House Rules Committee
Agriculture Committee
Conservation and Credit Subcommittee
Kansas
Larry Winn Jr
Clinton Dam
Turtle Creek
Downtown Furniture Closing Out Sale Ends Soon
Last four days of Downtown Furniture Closing out Sale run 9 to 9 daily. Store urges customers to take advantage of deep discounts on furniture essentials.
Trial Opens For Suspected Killer Of Eight Nurses
Richard Speck went on trial in Peoria on charges of murdering eight student nurses in Chicago. Judge Herbert Paschen retained strict news restrictions and barred publication of juror questions to avoid influencing prospective jurors. Speck arrived in a police van and was taken into the courthouse amid heavy security.
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Richard Speck
Chicago
Herbert C. Paschen
Speck
Paschen
Peoria County
Willard Koeppel
Series of Thefts Reported at KU Buildings
Kansas University police reported multiple thefts including $40 to $45 from the English Department office in Carruth-O’Leary Hall and $19 from Room 107. A roll of galvanized screen wire worth $20 was taken from a truck at Ellsworth Hall. Desk drawers in the English Dept and Room 107 were pried open between 5 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m. Friday. Wire theft occurred at Ellsworth Hall between 3 and 4 p.m. Thursday. Dave Truxal reported $9 plus cards stolen from a locker in Robinson Gymnasium Friday evening.
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English Department
Carruth- O'Leary Hall
Ellsworth Hall
Carruth-O’leary Hall
Dean Milroy
N. H. St
Dave Truxal
Vicksburg
Mich
New Robinson Gymnasium
Presbyterian vote meeting on new building proposal
A meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the First Presbyterian Church invites members to vote on a building proposal and hear bid recommendations from the board of trustees. Bids were opened last week with Kansas Construction Company apparent winner. John Skie presides. Rev. Harold Mallett moderates. Reports will be given by Howard Walker and James Black.
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Kansas Construction Company
Apparent Law
John Skie
Harold Mallett
Howard Walker
James Black
Pike Tax Proposals Headed for Legislative Review
Topeka AP report says lawmakers will study turnpike proposals and state tax changes this week. Bills will be introduced today and Tuesday, with further action planned on Wednesday in Kansas City for Washington's Birthday. Tuesday marks the final day for individual bill introductions.
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Washington
Kansas University
Haskell Institute
City Hall
Douglas County
Washington’s
Topeka
Kansas City
Lawmakers scramble to file hundreds of bills before deadline
As the session nears its end, hundreds of proposals await introduction with John Weeks noting about 300 prepared for consideration today and Tuesday. By last Friday 571 bills had been introduced and action looms on a Democratic plan to cut income tax from 2 to 2 percent on the first 2000 dollars and a GOP measure to raise Kansas withholding from 15 to 20 percent of the federal rate.
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John Weeks
Frank Hodge
Hutchinson
Senate
Robert F. Bennett
Prairie Village
Norman E. Gaar
Shawnee Mission
Kansas
Robert Docking
Dog bite treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Goldie Orender aged 51 of 1145 N.Y. St. received treatment at Lawrence Memorial Hospital this morning for a dog bite on her right foot.
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N.Y. St
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Garrison Seeks JFK Plot Lead in New Orleans Probe
New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison says he will run the Kennedy assassination inquiry and resists handing it to federal authorities. He cites progress and warns that releasing details could slow witnesses and endanger lives. An FBI spokesman declined to comment.
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Jim Garrison
John F. Kennedy
U.S
Johnson
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Garrison
FBI
Lee Harvey Oswald
Dave Lewis
Lewis
Dallas
Tex
Bill Alexander
Kennedy
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