U S Forces Told To Act as Needed
President Kennedy ordered the armed forces to take all necessary action to prevent a recurrence of Wednesday’s Cuban MIG rocket attack on a Florida shrimp boat. The White House said several thousand Soviet personnel would be withdrawn from Cuba by mid March, a move cited as reducing tensions.
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Kennedy
White House
Florida Straits
Soviet Union
Cuba
U.S
Salinger
Ala
Pentagon
Defense Department
Florida
Two Utah girls battered and buried alive by suspect
In Tooele Utah two Salt Lake City teens, Carol Annette Clayton and Drinda Jane Ames, were allegedly attacked with a hammer and buried under desert brush Wednesday. A 19 year old Rex Hintze confessed to the assault after his car stalled on a muddy road near the Great Salt Lake. A companion Tony Robertson 19 miles to a phone to summon help. both victims hospitalized in critical condition.
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Tooele
Utah
Salt Lake City
Carol- Annette Clayton
Drinda Jane Ames
Tony Robertson
Faye Gillette
Rex Hintze
Great Salt Lake
Robertson
Hintze
Gillette
Fire destroys Schendel home near Eudora
A noon blaze gutted the Wesley Schendel home on Route 1 south of Eudora, about 12 miles southeast of Lawrence. No one was home. no injuries. Loss estimated at 10 000 to 15 000 with most contents destroyed. The Edgerton Fire Department fought the fire as neighbors salvaged some furniture.
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Wesley Schendel
Route 1
Eudora
Lawrence
Douglas County
Dewey Cripe
Schendel
Louis Schendel
Edgerton
Cripe
Ottawa
Baldwin
Press leader injured in Kansas crash
AP reports Larry Miller general manager of the Kansas Press Association was slightly injured when his car struck a street sign early today.
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PEKA
Larry Miller
The
Kansas Press Assn
Citizens Group Plans Election Meeting Tonight in Lawrence
The Lawrence Citizens Committee for the Support of Good Government meets at 8 30 tonight at Hotel Eldridge. Delegates from organizations bring candidate names and background on prospects as filing deadline March 8 looms. Junius Underwood chairs a revived nonpartisan group seeking many good candidates for City Commission and School Board posts.
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Lawrence Citizens Committee For the Support of
Eldridge
Junius Underwood
Citizens Committee
Underwood
KU Museum Praised by New Zealand Visitor on Sabbatical
Joan Robb of Auckland University toured the KU Natural History Museum and praised its value for the country and for researchers. She noted the strong student activity, hoped for a similar museum development in Auckland, and described her fieldwork plans in the United States and New Zealand.
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New Zealand
Auckland University
E. Raymond Hall
Kansas University Natural History Museum
Miss Robb
Journal-World Photo
Kansas University
Natural History Museum
Auckland
United States
Robb
KU Museum
Musem
Hobart ‘Smith
Allinois
Smith
Lawrence
KU Natural History Museum
Henry Fitch
Natural History Reservation
William E.deullman
Lawrence's
Arizona
India School District weighs annexation by Kaw Valley
India School District patrons met to study annexation possibilities by Kaw Valley. About 35 attended as attorney Robert Oyler outlined current plans and answered questions. The board will assess pros and cons and report later. Also discussed Brackett District’s Feb 28 vote on annexation by Riverside.
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Robert Oyler
India District
Lyle Frye
Harry Christian
Richard Anderson
India
Kaw Valley
Lawrence
Earl Wilson
Wilson
Brackett School
Brackett
Riverside
Powell Accuses Williams of Racial Bias in Property Claim
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell says Sen. John J. Williams shows a Hitlerlike bias in buying a property with racial sale restrictions. Williams denies racial motives and stresses proper accounting of government spending.
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Washington
Adam Clayton Powell
John J. Williams
Williams
Powell
New York Democrat
Senate
Weather warms Friday after cold night
The region will see slowly rising temperatures on Friday after a cold night with a 6 a.m. low of five above zero. Expect clear to partly cloudy skies and a high near the 60s Friday as a cold wave that peaked at 53 degrees yesterday drops 48 degrees in the 19 hours. Northerly winds 20 to 25 mph are expected to diminish tonight.
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Weather Bureau
Wells Resigns to Take Post as City Manager in Oklahoma
Lawrence assistant city manager and planner Ray Wells 28 will become El Reno Oklahoma city manager March 18 with a salary of 8500 a year, up from 7200. El Reno population about 14000 lies 25 miles west of Oklahoma City.
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Ray Wells
el Reno
Okla
Wells
Oklahoma City
Harold Horn
Ray
Horn
Dave Condon
Bartholomew and Associates
Nadine
Harper St
Childern
Mike
Kellie
Kathy
Wichita University
Kansas University
Wichita Metropolitan Planning Department
Shopping Area Rejected by Lawrence Planning Commission
The Lawrence Planning Commission voted 4-3 to reject a request to rezone 1023 Iowa St from residential to shopping center for a 10 acre complex with ice skating. Protests cited depreciation of property and expansion of an existing center. planners noted Lawrence has 215 acres of business land, about double the typical amount.
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Lawrence
Ralph Reed
Paul Wilson
John Pickens
Harold Allen
Delbert Richardson
Ethan Smith Jr
Donald Metzler
Dave Condon
Midwest
9Th and
Iowa Sts
Planning Commission
Reed
Smith
Francis Heller
Iowa Street
Princeton Blvd
National Guard Armory
9Th St
Burgess Subdivision
6Th and
Wisconsin
Peterson-Wiggins Roads
Board of Zoning Appeals
Mass, St
Conn
Just-in-Case Apportionment Bill From Democrats
In Topeka Democrats proposed a just-in-case apportionment bill to preempt a stalled process. It would assign three Senate seats to Wyandotte Johnson and Shawnee counties and five to Sedgwick, with sparsely populated counties merged into 40 000 to 60 000 person districts and no county split.
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Topeka
Senate
Wade Myers
D-Emporia
Wyandotte
Johnson and Shawnee
Sedgwick
Myers
Property Tax Change Offered in the House
A Kansas House bill by Rep. Ernest Unruh would bar property taxes from funding schools. He doubts serious consideration, noting amendments would raise sales and income taxes to finance operations. He cites a 9 percent annual rise in tangible property levies since 1946 to illustrate the burden.
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Topeka
Ernest Unruh
Newton
Unruh
Bank of Otterville held up in Otterville Missouri
Two men robbed the Bank of Otterville in Otterville Missouri at 1 15 p m fleeing in a brown over white Chevrolet toward U S 58. No further details were immediately known.
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Sedalia
Otterville
U.S. 58
Here
Weather Roundup Notes Cold to Warm Trends
Weather notes show a brief cold spell easing with a slight warming forecast for Friday. Temperature readings list yesterday’s high and a comparison to last year, noting record highs and lows from past decades.
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