Northeast Kansas Weather Update With Snow Flurries
Cold wave warning for the Northeast Kansas region with mostly cloudy skies and a chance of snow flurries. Tonight precipitation around 0.20 inches, decreasing to 0.01 inches Friday. yesterday’s high 59 and low 36, record high 72, year-ago figures 31 and 25, sunrise 7 35 a.m., sunset 4 82 p.m.
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Rancher LBJ Says Cattle Look Good Under Texas Oaks
Lyndon Baines Johnson, three days from leaving the White House, says cattle look good despite oats burnt by cold spells. He reflects on miss of power with a mix of pride and relief, noting his retirement helped peace talks and national unity. He says he is happy today.
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Czech reform leaders return from exile as hunger strikes persist
Prague reports two top reformers Ota Sik and Eduard Goldstuecker came back from exile while hunger strikes for Jan Palach's death continue in several cities. The men expect short stays abroad, with Sik possibly returning by week’s end and Goldstuecker bound for Britain soon. Some view the moves as a concession to reformists pressing Moscow-friendly limits.
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Deaths Funerals Oak Grove Dr Odus Liston 84
Oak Grove Missouri funeral services for Dr Odus Liston 84 who died January 20 at North Kansas City Memorial Hospital were held at Oak Grove United Methodist Church. Burial followed at Mt Moriah Cemetery Kansas City. Survivors include Jessie Liston widow daughter three grandchildren and a cousin Mrs Milton Schaake of Lawrence. Mrs Liston formerly Jessie Roberts longtime KU associate professor of drawing and painting 1925 to 1948. Mr Mattern died Saturday in Des Moines Iowa. He is survived by his wife Mary. A native of Dirkheim Germany he studied at Chicago Art Institute and taught at Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and Denver Academy before KU. His watercolors and oil paintings were shown at major museums and galleries including Brooklyn Wichita Denver and the Nebraska Art Association.
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Hedrick Rites Set In Kansas City Area
Robert L. Hedrick 75 formerly of Lawrence died today at a rest home in Kansas City Kansas. Services 10 30 a m Saturday at Warren Mortuary Chapel with Rev Floyd Huff officiating. Burial in Memorial Park Cemetery graveside by DeSoto Masonic Lodge. Survivors include daughter Louise Roland Kansas City son Raymond Salt Lake City sister Mayme Culp Linwood three grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Former Union Pacific and Sunflower Ordnance employee and DeSoto Masonics Lodge member.
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Death of Karl Mattern Retired Drake University Faculty
Word received here reports the death of Karl Mattern a retired Drake University faculty member.
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Mrs. Sarah Combest Dies at 82 in Douglas County
Mrs. Sarah E. Combest, 82, of 927 Eirth Street, died this morning at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Funeral 2 p.m. Saturday at Warren Mortuary Chapel with Rev. Harold Hamilton officiating. Park Cemetery. Survived by Alberta, two sisters Mrs. Ella Gerstenberger and Mrs. Maggie Hagenbuch, and a brother. Born March 1, 1886 in Douglas County she lived there all her life. She and her late husband Riley ran a moving and storage company on East 9th Street for many years.
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Newlywed Dawn Langley Hall Becomes Mrs John Paul Simmons
Charleston AP reports Dawn Lan gley Hall born Gordon Langley Hall, a British writer and adoptee of Dame Margaret Rutherford, has changed sex and married John Paul Simmons a 22 year old Negro former steward. The couple plan a England ceremony and Johns Hopkins for further care. Doctors say 50 50 odds of children. she hopes for three. Simmons is one of 11 children of a Charleston County family.
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Jersey City Schools Close Amid Second Strike
Dr. Robert Coyle ordered the closure of all 34 public schools in Jersey City due to a teachers strike over salaries. About 35 000 students are affected as negotiations with the Jersey City Education Association resume. The board offered a top scale of 10 200 while starting salaries rise from 6500.
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Lester Maddox Receives 10-Gear Bike in Atlanta
Governor Maddox known for backward steering on a bicycle received a new 10-gear two-wheeler from Keith Kingbay of Chicago, a League of American Wheelmen representative. He quipped that the bike would discourage backward-riding.
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Jury Still Sought For Sirhan Trial
Los Angeles AP Sirhan Bishara Sirhan faces a long Kennedy assassination trial with Judge Herbert V. Walker noting it could extend three months or more. A largely seated panel of 12 jurors remains, with three women and nine men, and several removed by challenges as voir dire continues. Sirhan sat at the defense table with lawyers as prospective jurors debated employer consequences of potential long service.
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Two Jurors Seated in Shaw Kennedy Conspiracy Trial
In New Orleans two more jurors joined the panel for Clay Shaw’s trial on charges of conspiring to murder President Kennedy. They avoided opinions on the Warren Commission finding that Oswald acted alone. The selection continues as District Attorney Jim Garrison pursues a lengthy hearing.
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