Friendship 7 spacecraft in good condition after flight
Space officials report Friendship 7 shows surface scorching but overall superb condition after John Glenn Jr. orbited Earth. Attention focuses on automatic attitude control issues and a jet failure, while exit from the capsule proved challenging on the destroyer deck.
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Glenn
John H. Glenn Jr
Cape Canaveral
Fla
McDonnell Aircraft Co
Noa
United States
Cocon
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Langley Air Force Base
Van
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Smithsonian
High turnout at Arlington Park on Labor Day
A large Chicago crowd gathered at Arlington Park for Labor Day racing drawing 36 531 attendees as horse racing enthusiasts packed the venue.
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Chicago
Arlington Park
Scout Meeting Tonight for North Lawrance Troop
An organizational meeting for a Boy Scout troop in North Lawrance is set for 8 tonight at 400 Locust St. All interested adults are urged to attend. Marty Mills, Scout executive from Kaw Council in Kansas City, will be present.
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North Lawrance
Locust St
Boy Scout Organization
Marty Mills
Kaw Council
Kansas City
Seven Pro-West Nations Among Top 10 Helpers For Financing the U N
The United Nations lists the 10 biggest contributors to its regular budget and Congo and Middle East operations for 1961. The United States and others lead, with arrears recorded for the Soviet Union Nationalist China and the Ukraine. France Italy Britain India show substantial unpaid amounts of 1961.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.N
Unitied Nations
N.Y. Ue
United Nations
Congo
Middle East
United States
Sin Hatsune
Soviet Union
Sotho
Britain
Alaisa
Jane YW
China
Ukraine
France
Italy
India
Coon Hunters Sponsor Annual Barbecue Dinner
The Douglas County Coon Hunters Assn will sponsor its annual barbecue coon dinner at the Community Building on Saturday. Coon dishes will be served alongside ham and chicken for non-members a one dollar donation. members enter with cards. Coons were caught by David Higgins Jr chair Graham and Clifford Coffman. The event includes a dance and additional entertainment, a 25 year association tradition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas County Coon Hunters Assn
Pitty Coons
David Higgins Jr
Chairhind Graham
Clifford Coffman
Snow expected as winter storm moves from Panhandles east
Light snow fell in northwest Kansas with Goodland at two inches and Hill City at one inch while Russell and Concordia had traces. Temperatures around 30 tonight rise from a 14 degree overnight low, then warm quickly Friday as the storm advances. The 2 PM reading was 35 degrees.
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Texas-Oklahoma
Panhandles
Kansas
Goodland
Hill City
Russell
Concordia
Lawrence Woman Indicted in Federal Extortion Case
Sylvia Gragg of 223 Ark Street was indicted by a federal grand jury in Kansas City Kansas on extortion charges. She allegedly sent two letters to a local businessman on February 8 and 9 demanding 500 dollars under threat to harm his reputation. Gragg was arrested last weekend and earlier admitted working for the man.
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Lawrence
Kansas City
Kan
Sylvia Gragg
Ark. St
Prairie National Park group forms bylaws committee
Dr E Raymond Hall and Charlie Stough head a new committee for the Prairie National Park Natural History Association to draft bylaws and classify members. Others named are Lynn Burris Jr Leon Decker Frank Theis. Bill Colvin reports hearings on a proposed park may start in April or May with a $100000 Kansas appropriation approved by the legislature.
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E. Raymond Hall
Charlies Stough
Prairie National Park Natural History Association
W. F. Farrell
Manhattan
Lynn Burris Jr
Leon Decker
Topeka
Frank Theis
Arkansas City
Hall
Bill Colvin
U. S. Senate
House
Pottawatomie County
Colvin
Kansas
National Park Service
Department of Interior
Congress
John Anderson
U S Plans to Launch Orbiting Observatory To Study Sun
CAPE CANAVERAL Florida AP An orbiting solar observatory nicknamed Oso will be launched next week to study the sun and its effects on Earth. In a 350 mile circular orbit the 440 pound lab will measure X rays gamma rays ultraviolet and infrared rays from the sun to uncover clues about the solar system and solar weather.
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Cape Canaveral. Fla
Oso
Earth
Lawrence High Students Win Big At Kansas Business Club
Lawrence High School students swept awards at the Business Education Clubs of Kansas gathering in Emporia. Pat DeShazo earned Office Student of the Year and top honors in Office Practice, with Dorcas Pfeifer, Gary Worley, and Phil Evans also taking first or high placements across distributive education trade and industry and office categories. About 65 Lawrence delegates joined 426 students from 18 schools for 29 events judged by industry leaders.
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Lawrence High School
Business Education Clubs of
Kansas
Emporia
Pat de Shazo
Lawrence
Dorcas Pfeifer
Pat DeShazo
Gary Worley
Phil Evans
John Ames
Mary Gauthier
Jon Grove
Beulah Brown
Ethan Smith
North American van Lines
Jack Starkey
The
Journal-World
Mike Getto
Eldridge
Janice Zook
Cheryl Bowman
Sandra Smith
Gary
Judy Dillon
Karen Puckett
Judy Avery
Janice Flood
Janice Floyd
County Zoning Discussed at Leavenworth Meetings
An open meeting to explain the new Leavenworth County zoning ordinance is at Mackey School at 8 p.m. tonight with Jim Byington and Jack Smith leading. Another 8 o'clock session is Friday at Tonganoxie city hall. both public meetings will review the Stranger Creek Lake project and the 36,000 study guiding area growth for 25 years.
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Leavenworth
Mackey School
Lawrence
Jim Byington
Leavenworth Regional Planning Commission
Jack Smith
Leavenworth County
Tonganoxie City Hall
Stranger Creek Lake
Regional Planning Commission
Nickell Improves After Kansas Turnpike Crash
Maj. Gen. Joe Nickell of Topeka, Kansas adjutant general, is reported in good condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after a one car accident on the Kansas Turnpike east of Lawrence. He was injured Tuesday while traveling from Atchison to Topeka.
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Joe Nickell
Topeka
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Kansas Turnpike
Lawrence
Atchison
Turkish forces clash over support for premier Inonu
Air and ground units fought in Ankara and other centers as factions battled to control key centers in support of Premier Ismet Inonu's coalition government. No casualties were immediately reported.
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Ankara
Turkey
Ismet Inonu
Solons Propose Cape Glenn for Cape Canaveral
Orlando Florida AP historians note a 1591 map shows Cape Canaveral and Cape Florida with no Cape Glenn. Rollins College historian Fred Eric G Boyer explains Canaveral is from a Spanish term meaning vane or reed field.
Frats to Stay at KU Wescoe Says
Kansas University Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe told about 100 KU fraternity alumni that fraternities remain an integral part of the university and will continue to receive support. He noted housing roles and merchandising membership as enrollment grows. About 1,400 of 5,000 students live in residence halls and 1,500 in fraternity houses.
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Kansas University
W. Clarke Wescone
Kansas City
Wescoe
Dto
Lawrence Residents Recall John Glenn Launch Experience
Lawrence residents including Gene and Lucile Burnett traveled near Cape Canaveral to witness Lt. Col. John Glenn's orbital flight. They shared excitement as the rocket soared and returned to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, coinciding with Glenn's third orbit.
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John Glenn
Cape Canaveral
Gene Burnetts
Dakota St
Florida
Burnetts
Kansas City
Kan
George Lind
Burnett
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Glenn
Georgia
Atlanta
Miami ‘Beach
Ft. Pierce
Snowstorm Stretches Across Eastern U S Belt
A winter storm drifts through the eastern half of the nation with 3 inches of snow in Burlington Vermont and Boston in six hours. Sleet and freezing rain hit Rhode Island Connecticut New York and New Jersey while showers and thunderstorms affect the Carolinas Georgia Alabama and eastern Mississippi. Augusta Georgia receives nearly 3 inches of rain in six hours and Macon Georgia floods with water two to three feet deep on some streets. A storm from Alberta brings blizzard warnings to Montana the Dakotas Nebraska Colorado and Kansas.
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Boston
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Carolinas
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Augusta
Macon
Alberta
Canada
Montana
Dakotas
Nebraska
Colorado
Kansas
Midwest
Isippi Valley
New Eng
KUversity project clash with Corps delays exchange program
Dr Gale of KU plans a two week Costa Rica survey with a Peace Corps rep to adjust EU proposal and gauge Costa Rica government receptivity. A new Costa Rican administration takes office in May and candidates showed favorable unofficial reactions. Venancio Nadarse, 42, Cuban jockey, returns to riding at Hialeah in Florida this winter.
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Gale
Costa Rica
KU Exchange
Peace Corps
Pr. Angelli
Venancio Nadarse
Cuba
Hialeah
Florida
Topeka Library to add plainclothes patrols
The Topeka Public Library will station a plain clothes policeman on nightly duty after repeated disturbances by juveniles described by Librarian Horace Moses as from respectable families. Moses says youths use the library as a city-wide study hall and juvenile night club, prompting the security measure.
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Topeka
Topeka Public Library
Library Board
Horace Moses
Greek Girl Visits Kennedy in White House Foster Child Meeting
Eleven year old Memi Papacotsis from Greece, recovering from heart surgery, met Mrs. Caroline Kennedy at the White House. Memi toured the nursery with the First Lady and Caroline, met John F. Kennedy Jr., and saw Charlie the Welsh terrier and Pushinka the Khrushchev mutt.
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Washington
Caroline Kennedy
Caroline
White House
Chrysanthemis Papacotsis
Chrysanthemis
Memi
Executive Mansion
John PF. Kennedy
Greece
Walter Reed Hospital
Art Exhibition at KU Showcases Young Painters 4 to 12
Kansas Union Bailey Hall hosts 40 paintings by children aged four to twelve in conjunction with the 5th Art Education Conference. Prof Frances Oler gathered works from New York State University at Oswego. lectures by Dr June King Mee and Dr Ralph G Beelke are on the program alongside a TV art education symposium and a tea for Dr McFee.
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Kansas University
Kansas Union and Bailey Hall
Sth
Frances Oler
New York State University
Oswego
June King Meee
Stanford University
Ralph G. Beelke
National Art Fducation Association
McFee
Art Museum
KU Art Education Club
The
Education School and
University Extension
Janice [. Wise
Kansas City
Marieta Spurgeon
Kan
Janet Payola
Independence
Janet Kay Hart
Wichita
Miss Spurgeon
Newman Home Sold to Narayana Ananthanarayanan
The C. V. Newman home at 1946 La. St. was purchased by Narayana Ananthanarayanan, engineering professor and metallurgist at Kansas University Research Center. The Newman family, long at 1734 Maine St., sold the property through the M. R. Gill Agency.
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C. V. Newman
la. St
Narayana. Ananthanarayanan
Kansas University Research Center
Ananthanarayanan
Maine St
Newman
M. R. Gill Agency
In Loving Memory of My Wife
A loving memorial note for a wife's passing on Sept 16 1961. The bereaved, Ben Bartz, expresses longing for reunion in heaven and sincere sorrow at her absence.
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Ben Bartz
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