Powder Puff Derby Finish Due by Today
The Powder Puff Derby's first two finishers were to land at Ryan Airport Baton Rouge after a 2400 mile Calgary to Baton Rouge flight. About 140 planes started in Calgary with a $25000 purse and a $10000 top prize, and the winner will be decided by elapsed time and handicaps.
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Baton Rouge
Ryan Airport
Calgary
Canada
Alberta
Ramonia Stoat
Charlene Poe
Ft. Smith
Ark
Marion Jayne
Mimi Sligg
Palatine
Ill
Frank Salles
Cherie
Rapid City
S. D
Lincoln
Neb
Little Rock
Coffeyville Refinery Expansion Planned by C R A Inc
C R A Inc, a Farmland Industries unit, announced a multi million dollar expansion of its Coffeyville Kansas refinery to boost low loaded gasoline output. The project begins this fall, with completion targeted for August 1972 and includes sulfur removal and contaminant cleaning units, raising initial capacity to about 10 800 barrels daily with potential to 19 200 if needed, and increasing platforming from 6000 to 8600 barrels per day.
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Kansas City
C.R.A. Inc
Farmland Industries Inc
Coffeyville
Kan
KU Staffers Back China Bid
Three Kansas University faculty members are among 110 China scholars cited by Sen. Edward Kennedy for supporting recognizing mainland China as the UN’s sole legitimate representative of the Chinese people. The KU trio includes Robert Burton, Robert McColl, and Thomas R. Smith, with Smith recalling China’s past stark contrasts between poverty and wealth. Smith notes his own China trip in 1925 and says he signed the letter out of concern for U.S. policy, not opposition to Taiwan, while acknowledging potential travel limits.
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Kansas University
China
Sen
Edward Kennedy
United Nations
Robert Burton
Robert McColl
Thomas R. Smith
Burton
Washington
Citizens To
Smith
Shanghai
U.S. China
George Beckman
Banks to Report On Bank Conditions June Thirtieth
The comptroller of currency issued a call for reports on the condition of national banks at the close of business Wednesday June 30. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp also issued a similar call to insured state banks not members of the Federal Reserve System.
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Washington
Comptroller of Currency
The
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Federal Reserve System
Crime alert urges tips to help police in Lawrence
Local residents are asked to share information with law enforcement to assist in solving or preventing crimes in Lawrence. Citizens are urged to call authorities if they have any details or observations.
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Lawrence
Victims Spelled On Dial It Spells
A telephone dial clue spells out the word victims. The note says the caller need not provide their name.
Sight Restored by Making New Eye from Back Halves
Moscow reported by Tass that an eye surgeon grafted the back halves of Mr. B’s eyes to form a single functioning eye with a miniature artificial lens. After two months of union, a new pupil window was created and color vision returned five days later achieving 100 percent vision.
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Moscow
Tass
Mr. B
Convicted Jersey City Mayor vows return to work
U S federal jur y convict s Jersey City Mayor Thomas J Whelan and seven others on 29 counts of extortion and conspiracy to extort over 165 000 from contractors and suppliers. Whelan Kunz and seven co defendants face potential long prison terms with sentencing not yet set.
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Newark
N.J
Jersey City
Thomas J. Whelan
City Hall
Whelan
Hudson County
U.S. Dist
Robert Shaw
Philipp Kunz
Kunz
Hudson County Democratic
Walter Wolfe
Jersey City Council
Thomas Flaherty
Joseph Stapleton
Fred Kropke
Bernard Murphy
Port of New York Authority
William Steinkopf
Mishap Damages Car and Utility Pole in County
Ronald C. Jehle 19 of Rt. 1 drove off U S 56 about five miles west of here around 2 a m Sunday. A gust of wind reportedly pushed the car over the crest, causing it to leave the road and strike a utility pole. Vehicle damage estimated at 500 dollars and pole damage at 200 dollars per the Douglas County Sheriff’s Department.
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Baldwin
Ronald C. Jehle
Rt. 1
Douglas County
Three dozen highway deaths mark July weekend in Kansas
Kansas recorded at least 11 fatalities over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, far more than the four from the shorter period a year earlier. Victims include Veronica Waechter 54 of Overland Missouri and Faye Sidman 62 with Daniel Reigan 19 near Norton, along with Ray Johnson 18 Beulah Pierson 69 Helen Colle 39 Helen Miller 45 Edward Koch 9 George Neeley 20 David Scarborough 20 and Mark Bales 20 from various communities and states.
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Kansas
Veronica R. Waechter
Overland
Homewood
Faye Sidman
Ray Johnson
Minneola
Beulah Pierson
Columbus
Kan
Helen L. Colle
Helen Miller
Lyons
Edward Koch
Baileyville
George L. Neeley
Portland
Ore
David J. Scarborough
Lansing
Mark C. Bales
Overland Park
Fitzsimmons Faces Challenge in Teamsters Election
Miami Beach AP reports Frank E. Fitzsimmons, a Hoffa protege, heads the Teamsters as 2 million rank and file face a controlled convention. Opponents Vestal and Daley clash over rule enforcement and dues hikes as Fitzsimmons seeks a five year term amid calls for rank and file voting power. The union holds about 150 million in assets while convened in Lewisburg prison legacy.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Teamsters Union
Frank E. Fitzsimmons
Fitzsimmons
James R. Hoffa
Hoffa
Don Vestal
Nashville
Theodore Daley
Yonkers
N.Y
Daley
Lewisburg
Union
Vestal
Youth Searchers Continue For 16-Year-Old Missing At Douglas County Lake
Richard King 16 of 2809 Schwarz Rd Lawrence is presumed drowned after a sailboat capsized Sunday near the center of Douglas County State Lake two miles north of Baldwin Divers and boats from multiple agencies including the Kansas Forestry Fish and Game Commission and Lawrence Fire Department search the 200 acre lake under the supervision of Douglas County Sheriff Rex Johnson The missing youth would have been a Lawrence High School senior this fall.
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Baldwin
Richard King
Schwarz Rd
Lawrence
Douglas County
Here
George Redman
Baldwin City
Rex Johnson
Bob Nixon
Lawrence Fire Department
Kansas Forestry, Fish and Game Commission
Allen D. King
Lawrence High School
Rick King
Bill King
Judge rejects polygraph tests in Henderson My Lai case
Fort Meade AP reports a military judge denied a motion to admit two Army lie detector tests for Col. Oran Henderson in the My Lai massacre coverup investigation. Henderson passed the tests, and motions include challenging a Vietnam war crimes reporting regulation and asserting an overbroad duty to conduct a proper investigation. Medina and Calley remain linked in the case.
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FT. Meade, Md
Oran K. Henderson
My Lai
Peter S. Wondolowski
Henderson
Henry Rothblatt
Rothblatt
Frank J. Dorsey
Vietnam
Wondolowski
Indianapolis
Pentagon
William Peers
Pops Exit From Waldorf Ends Public Performances
On his final Waldorf appearance, Pops walked off stage in a daze with tears in his eyes. Ira recalled Pops’s last night as the horn legend cried, played as if for the last time, and never performed publicly again.
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Pops
the Waldorf
Ira
Canine Unit and Country Band Highlight Linwood Pioneer Festival
Linwood residents will enjoy the Canine Unit of the Kansas City Police and a country music band at the Linwood Pioneer Festival on July 24 and 25. The Canine Unit, with 15 handlers and staff, will perform at 2 30 p m on Sunday July 25 and officers will answer questions after the show. In 1970 the unit arrested 274 suspects including for murder rape robbery and burglary. Granny and the Sod Busters will perform both days and sponsor a fiddling contest at 3 p m Saturday with cash prizes.
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Linwood
Kansas City, Mo
Granny
Sod Busters
Stewart to race in Can-Am despite glandular fever
Jackie Stewart, the 1969 world champion, says he will compete in Sunday's Can-Am race in Atlanta despite glandular fever. He has been on antibiotics for fatigue and aches for over a week, insisting the fever won’t stop him during the busy season.
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LE Castellett
France
Scotland
Jackie Stewart
Atlanta
Stewart
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Will Hess
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Mainland
U.S
Southeast Asia
Office of Strategic Services
Central Intelligence Agency
Europe
Mikhail Krasnov
Associated Press
Daniel F. Reigan
Norton
Ernest Medina
Charley Company
William L. Calley Jr
Medina
Assaul
Calley
Warren Yorduany
New Hampshire
Lawrence, Kansas
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