Snow and Ice Paralyze Midwest Schools and Midwest Regions
Bitter cold and heavy snow forced thousands of Midwest school closures as arctic winds and 50 mph gusts forewarn dangerous travel. Snow fell across Ohio and Western Pennsylvania while Muskegon and Chicago reported deep Lake Michigan snow cover and subzero temperatures.
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Midwest
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Mississippi Valley
Plains
Rockies
Michigan
Texas Panhandle
Weather Bureau
Montana
Great Lakes
Oklahoma
Texas
Colorado
Kansas
Missouri
Upper
Nebraska
Uniform parole rules set across Kansas penal system
The Kansas Board of Probation and Parole enacted new rules reducing 51 standards to nine and unifying all institutions under one set. Outgoing chair Wilbur Leonard cited revisions including adjusted initial eligibility dates and up to 24 days monthly extra credit for special duties. Leonard resigns to practice law. Chesley H. Looney of Leavenworth becomes chairman with Dibert Yeagley as vice chairman.
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Topeka
State Board of Probation and Parole
Wilbur Leonard
State Reformatory
Leonard
Chesley H. Looney
Leavenworth
Dibert Yeagley
Joint Negotiation Held in New York
Mediators summoned representatives of striking printers and nine major New York newspapers to a first joint session in a week. The Publishers Association of New York City and Local 6 of the AFL-CIO International Typographical Union will attend as talks resume amid the 47 day newspaper blackout.
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New York
Morris Tarshis
New York City
Publishers Association of
Afl-Cio International Typographical Union
Officers Committee For Newspaper Unity
Anderson Hopes TV Plan Will Be Enough
Gov John Anderson expressed hope the Kansas Legislature will fund an educational television start this session to preserve the two reserved channels. He did not quote a total but suggested about 1 million dollars could launch adequate programming and put some shows on the air.
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Topeka
John Anderson
Kansas
Dusty Rhodes Survives In Cold On Arkansas River
In Ellinwood Kansas a 75 year old man named Dusty Rhodes camps by the Arkansas River for five years with no house. He sleeps on feather mattresses and uses an old rug as a wind break. He survives on food from the city dump and sometimes aid, but declines county assistance. He plans to stay until 80 then reassess living at the county home.
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Ellinwood
Kan
Arkansas River
Dusty Rhodes
Dusty
Rhodes
Kansas
Sheriff pushes for merit raises amid budget limits
Sheriff Broeker urges merit raises for his 11 member force citing past pay gaps while noting his wife acts as matron at no cost. Commissioners say discussions possible but Broeker must work within a fixed budget as they insist on maintaining protection for residents.
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Baldwin
Eudora
Rex Johnson
Broeker
Bro
Seven Cars Derailed in Ashtabula Train Smash
A New York Central Chicagoan passenger train derailed at Ashtabula Ohio with seven cars off the tracks. Four people were taken to Ashtabula General Hospital for examination. injuries not thought serious and many shaken up. The train carried 63 passengers from New York City to Chicago.
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Ashtabula, Ohio
New York Central
Chicagoan
Ashtabula
Ashtabula General Hospital
New York City
Chicago
Owens In Hospital After Respiratory Illness
City Commissioner James V. Owens of 1101 West 21st Street was admitted to Lawrence Memorial Hospital Tuesday evening for observation and treatment of a respiratory ailment.
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James V. Owens
W. 21St St
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Annexation plan discussed at Lawrence Commission meeting
The Lawrence Commission on January 18 discussed a long term annexation plan with no firm timetable. City officials emphasized careful planning, coordinated with schools and industry, and noted no property has yet been annexed. Residents urged clearer timelines while the panel proposed an overall growth strategy to lower future tax costs.
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Springer
Minerva Davis
Route 2
Lawrence
Thompson-Haywortho
Jim Clark Motors
Fth Street
Lawrence Avene
Crawford Street
6Th Stree
Fth Stress
Ovelward Lane
Arkanane Street
24Th Street
25Th Street
Arkanrarn
Weat City Dinis
Lineh Court
Clute
Edgewood Park
Fels, P
Secret Orbiting of Needles Told at Science Meeting
MIT scientist W. E. Morrow disclosed at the Institute of Aerospace Sciences meeting that the Air Force secretly placed about six 14 inch tin dipoles into orbit to study solar and electrical effects on small space objects. The needles, tracked near Boston and Moorestown, aim to predict copper dipole behavior in Project West Ford.
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New York
U.S. Air Force
W. E. Morrow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Institute of the Aerospace Sciences
Morrow
Boston
Moorestown
N. J
West Ford
U.S
Project West Ford
Carolinans Move to Close Clemson College
South Carolina lawmakers report plans to close Clemson College rather than integrate under a federal court order. Senate defense of segregation faces doubts as Clemson trustees prepare to act on the court’s final order allowing Harvey Gantt, a former Iowa State student, to transfer to Clemson.
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Columbia
S.C
South Carolina
House of Representatives
Clemson College
Senate
Clemson
Sen
L. Marion Gressette
Harvey Gantt
Gantt
Iowa State University
U.S. Dist
C. C. Wyche
U.S. 4Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Egg in the Mail Delays Pvt Wright at Fort Knox
Louisville AP report on Pvt Peter Wright who faces a spoiled egg in his mailbox due to new postal regulations. Carrier Lawrence Peake found the egg wedged inside a deposit box after being sent to Wright at Fort Knox with improvised postage and scented markings. Wright, reachable at Fort Knox, hopes to retrieve the item over the weekend if a pass is granted.
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Louisville, Ky
Peter Wright
Peter H. Wright
Fort Knox
R. H
Louisville
Sam
Lawrence Peake
Wright
Ft. Knox
Minuteman Blast Successful in Long Range Flight
An advance Minuteman missile blasted from an underground silo in Cape Canaveral Florida and flew over 4000 miles in a test. The Air Force announced the Wing 2 model of the three stage ICBM achieved its first successful flight after two earlier Wing 2 rockets exploded during first stage tests last summer and the series was halted for study.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Air Force
Parsons Study Sought for Use of Parsons Plant
Rep. Joe Skubitz of Kansas asks the Defense Department to assess possible government use for the World War II shell loading plant at Parsons. The inquiry seeks options and potential suitability for federal needs.
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Washington
Defense Department
Joe Skubitz
R-Kan
Parsons
Record Low and Subzero Fans Hit Lawrence area
Mercury records fell as temperatures plunged to 6 below zero by midnight on Tuesday. The day saw a new record low for January 24 threatened if tonight’s low reaches 5 to 10 below zero. Across Kansas bitter cold lingered with Concordia and Belleville reporting 11 below zero and highs near zero while winds subsided for some relief.
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Lawrence
Kansas
Concordia
Belleville
Peace Corps trainees from KU prepare for Costa Rica service
Kansas University trained 29 Peace Corps volunteers destined for Costa Rica in secondary schools. They completed eight weeks on campus and now proceed to Puerto Rico for final field training. Dr. Thomas M. Gale will lead a two year Costa Rica assignment. A test for local volunteers is scheduled at 8:30 a.m. Saturday in the Lawrence Post Office.
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R. Sargent Shriver
Peace Corps
Kansas University
Costa Rica
Puerto Rico
Thomas M. Gale
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
W. Clarke Wescoe
Shriver
Central
Latin America
Costa Rica University
Khrushchev Heads Home From Berlin Conference
In Warsaw Khrushchev heads for Moscow after a 20 minute morning talk with Polish Communist leader Gomulka. The Khrushchev special train halted at Gdansk Station, where Gomulka and Premier Cyrankiewicz joined him in his private car for discussions.
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Warsaw
Poland
Khrushchev
Moscow
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Communist Party
Berlin
Gdans
Gomulka
Jozef Cyrankiewicz
Truman Doing Fine After Hernia Operation
Former President Harry S. Truman is reported making very good progress at Research Hospital after a hernia operation last week. Doctors say he probably will go home Friday or Saturday.
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Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
Research Hospital
Carlson Turns 70 as Kennedy, colleagues salute
President Kennedy congratulated Sen Frank Carlson on his 70th birthday. Carlson, a Republican from Kansas, received well wishes from senators, colleagues, and friends and marked the day with a birthday lunch and cake in the Senate restaurant. He attended a Foreign Relations Committee meeting and received praise on the Senate floor.
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Washington
Kennedy
Frank Carlson
R-Kan
Carlson
Senate
House
Kansas
Kansas State
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
James B. Pearson
Pearson
Mike Mansfield
Mont
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Thomas H Kuchel
Calif
Tank Burst Floods Mankato Streets In Freezing Oil Spill
A 40 foot high soybean oil tank at Honeymead Products Co burst in 20 below zero weather, sending oil across three streets and flooding homes. One man injured, two freight cars pushed into the river as the oil, valued at about 1.5 million dollars, flowed through the area.
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Mankato
Minn
Honeymead Products Co
Lowell Andreas
Crown Prince Constantine Engaged to Princess Anne Marie
The engagement of Crown Prince Constantine of Greece and Princess Anne Marie of Denmark was announced in Athens. Constantine is 22 and Anne Marie 17. the couple were formally engaged in Copenhagen during a North Atlantic Treaty Organization tour. The wedding date was not disclosed.
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Athens
Greece
Constantine
Anne-Marie
Denmark
Copenhagen
Europe
German town funds drill to aid grave diggers
Gravediggers in Bamberg face days of frozen ground as workers fail to break soil. The town council allocated 550 to purchase a pneumatic drill to speed burials and ease the labor.
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Bamberg
Germany
Pearson Pushes Senate Panel for Veterans Legislation
Senator James B. Pearson of Kansas introduced a resolution to form a Senate committee to handle all veterans bills. The House already maintains a veterans affairs committee.
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Washington
James B. Pearson
R-Kan
Senate
House
Veterans Affairs Committee
Kansas Traffic Deaths Log From Topeka AP Report
Kansas traffic death log shows 18 deaths in January 1963 and a comparable 29 in 1962 for the same period. The report lists 1 death for the 24 hours to 9 am Wednesday and notes a prior fatality.
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Topeka
Kansas
Soviet Newsman Defects in Stockholm
Vladik Krasnov a 25 year old program editor and rewriter for Moscow Radio defected to Sweden after slipping away from a Soviet party tour in a Stockholm department store on October 28 He told reporters he read foreign newspapers in his Swedish section job and sought to see the world outside the Soviet Union He has been granted political asylum in Sweden.
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Vladik Krasnov
Stockholm
Krasnov
Moscow Radio
Soviet Union
Arm heals spurts as 13 year old avoids surgery
Everett Knowles Jr. 13 in Somerville Mass avoids planned January operation after eight months of treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital. Doctors report progress with two good nerves to the elbow and ongoing therapy to strengthen an arm salvaged after being severed by a freight train. He will continue daily rehab at the hospital after school.
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Somerville
Mass
Everett Knowles Jr
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston
Everett
KU Prof Loehr Listed In Fairly Good Condition
Civil engineering associate professor Raymond Loehr of Kansas University was in fairly good condition at Olathe Community Hospital after a six mile east of De Soto crash on Highway K 10. Police report two cars were involved. Loehr had skull and head injuries and two fractured jaws, while driver Cuma M Wake sustained minor injuries.
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Raymond Loehr
Tenn. St
Kansas University
Olathe Community Hospital
Loehr
DeSoto
Cuma M
Kansas Highway Patrol
Wake
Card of Thanks by Mrs Theresa Schwhrer
A note expressing gratitude for prayers cards meals calls and visits during illness. Mrs Theresa Schwhrer thanks friends and neighbors for their support.
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Theresa Schwhrer
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