Double Agent Gets A Big Raise In Spy Case
Frank J Mikva a State Department employee exposed a Czech bid to plant listening devices in the headquarters. The plot escalated from passsword pages to a microphone under a desk, but Mikva turned over the device to the FBI and the affair was made public.
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Washington
State Department
Frank J. S Mrkva
Meerk’ Va
Federal Bureau For Investigation
U.S
Mrkva
Pisk
Opatrny
Maryland
Virginia
Czechoslovakia
New York
Reds
FBI
Mikva
Director of
Ball
Teenager Cleared in Slaying of Father at Independence Home
A 15 year old boy was exonerated by Jackson County Juvenile Court Judge Kieth Bondurant after the petition accusing James Gade of killing his father, Harold Gade, 45, was dismissed. The boy testified he shot to stop his father who was choking his brother Robert, a crippled 16 year old.
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Kansas City
Kieth P. Bondurant
Jackson County
James “ Gade
Harry Gade
Tne
Independence
Young Gade
Vin Mac Gage
Robert
Harold Taylor
James
Gade
Closed Door Session on Spy System Panel Expansion
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield called for a rare closed session to debate enlarging the committee that supervises the nation’s spy system. Senator Fulbright seeks to add three members to the Senate supervisory group, which currently includes Armed Services and Appropriations committee members.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Serra J. W. Fulbright, Dark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Armed Services and Appropriations Committees
Seven point two million for Kansas poverty program
The Office of Economic Opportunity reports Kansas received 7 215 345 during the past fiscal year for war on poverty efforts. Community action programs in rural and urban areas got 4 524 469 while Neighborhood Youth Corps with 32 projects and 4251 enrollees used 2 267 062. Missouri led the North Central region with 48 033 180.
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Kansas City
Office of Economic Opportunity
Kansas
Don Thomason
Neighborhood Youth Corps
Barbecue Planned By Shultz Group
A countywide barbecue to meet Reynolds Shultz is set for Saturday at Centennial Park from 5 to 8 p.m. Shultz, a state senator and Republican candidate for the Third District seat, leads a seven‑candidate field. Douglas County officials and campaign staff, including chairman William A. Taggart, will assist with cooking and serving.
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Douglas
Reynolds Shultz
Douglas County
Citizens For Shultz
Shultz
Sen. Shultz
Arthur Gasper
Centennial Park
Sen
Pamela Lane
Robert Ellsworth
Lawrence
U.S. Senate
William A. Taggart
Prairie Village
Shuitz
Ohio St
Warren D. Moline
John B. McNicoll
W. 9Th St
Paul Sinclair
N. H. St
Kenneth Vinyard
Ark. St
Carttar
Gasper
Air Force Strikes Down Three MIG21s Over North Viet Nam
U S jet fighters claimed three MIG21s shot down in North Viet Nam within minutes as F4C Phantoms battled and B52s pounded south of the 17th Parallel. Pilots Capt. Snender Buttell Martin Kriepa and others earned credited kills. total MIGs downed by U S pilots reached 17 with one probable. Ground actions in South Viet Nam showed a lull while U S casualties rose to 110 dead, 620 wounded, seven missing or captured for the week.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
USS
Air Force
17Th Parallel
Red River Valley
Hanoi
William J. Snender
Alamogordo
N.M
Duane A. Buttell
Chillicothe
Ill
Buttell
Ronald G. Martin
Lake Villa
Richard N. Kriepa
Chesterton
Ind
U.S
Corral
Navy
William M. McGuigan
Spearfish
S.D
J.g
Robert M. Fowler
San Francisco
South Vietnamese
Libyan Sand Dunes Turned to Oasis with Planting and Oil
In Libya water bearing dunes were planted with eucalyptus and acacia seedlings and sprayed with oil to hold the soil. The effort aimed to transform barren desert into productive land, using trees to stabilize the sand and improve moisture retention.
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Libya
Everett Crosby Dies In Eastern Hospital
Sharon Connecticut AP reports Everett Crosby died Wednesday night at Sharon Hospital at age 70. He guided his brother Bing Crosby’s singing career for years and had been wheelchair bound since 1964 after leg amputations from circulatory disease. He led Everett Crosby Productions and Bing Crosby Enterprises and served as secretary of Crosby Investment Co.
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Sharon, Conn
Everett Crosby
Bing
Sharon Hospital
Everett Crosby Productions
Bing Crosby Enterprises
The
Crosby Investment Co
Three Hurt In City Traffic Crash At 25th Street
Three Lawrence youths were hospitalized after a collision between a Journal World delivery truck and a car at W 25th Street and Ridge Court. Ben Standard Jr., 17, suffered facial and arm injuries. Randy Bailey, 13, had a broken knee cap and elbow. Denise Lambert, 15, head and rib injuries. Bailey and Lambert were listed in good condition. Police cited minimal damage to the truck and car plus a street sign and mailbox. Bailey, Standard, and Lambert are all residents of Lawrence with listed parent names.
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Lawrence Young
W. 25Th Street
Ridge Court
Journal-World
Ben J. Standard Jr
N.H. St
Randy L. Bailey
Ridge Ct
Denise D. Lambert
Clare Ct
Standard
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Bailey
Lambert
LMH
Lambett
25Th Street
Journal- World
U. S
Richard Bailey
Ben Standard
Miss Lambott
Aubrey Lambott
Astronauts Prepare for Fog Free Gemini 10 Visor
Michael Collins and John Young are scheduled for a double rendezvous and space walk aboard Titan 2 with a planned 4 21 p.m. CST launch. Ground crews tested a chemical 350 AF to prevent visor fogging, echoing prior Gemini 9 concerns.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Michael Collins
Eugene A. Cernan
Air Force
Collins
Navy
John W. Young
Atlas
Hoover Ordered Las Vegas Bugging by FBI in 1963
The Justice Department says FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover acted under attorney general authority in 1963 to have agents bug a Las Vegas hotel suite. It notes Kennedy was attorney general then but says he may not have been involved and cites earlier practice dating before 1961.
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Washington
Justice Department
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Attorney General
Las Vegas
Nev
Robert F. Kennedy
Dn.v
Fred B. Black Jr
Bobby Baker
Kennedy
Thurgood Marshall
Mt Oread Drives Surge in City Offenses and Parking Tickets
Police report 1 406 violations this year up from 1 085 last year with Mt Oread accounting for 17 percent of offenses. Traffic tickets rise nearly 30 percent while accidents drop about 4 percent as parking violations jump to 34 929 from 26 956.
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Mt. Oread
Troelstrup
Stop the World musical opens at KU Murphy Hall
Heard In Lawrence reports the musical Stop the World I Want to Get Off opening at 8 20 tonight in Murphy Hall Experimental Theatre KU. Summer repertory company members are featured.
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Experimental Theatre of Kansas University
Murphy Hall
State Crop Specialist Probes Spraying Program Irregularities
Manhattan Kansas AP Lester Branson state crop program specialist says an investigation is under way into alleged irregularities in the ASCS crop spraying program. He notes farmers acting as flag men for aerial sprayers receiving payments, with kickback concerns tied to unreported flag work on county bills.
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Manhattan
Kan
Lester Branson
The
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
ASCS
Branson
Woolworths Opens in Lawrence Downtown
The new Woolworths store at 913 Mass. opened at 10 a.m. with Mayor Jim Schubert cutting the ribbon. More than a thousand people attended as store representatives and local businessmen watched the ceremony and a four week opening sale begin.
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Woolworth’s
Lawrence
Jim Schubert
Mass
Martin Bucksbaum
General Management Corporation
Buckbaum
Ray T. Pace
Schubert
Syrian Jet Shot Down in Israeli Air Force Clash
TEL AVIV AP Israeli air force planes shot down a Syrian MIG in a dog fight over Syrian territory. Four MIGs attacked tractors, trucks and construction gear inside Syria as retaliation for recent explosions in Israel that killed two people. The raids targeted equipment similar to that destroyed in the Israeli incidents, according to an army spokesman.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Card of Thanks from the Otten S. Metje Family
The Otten S Metje family expresses sincere thanks to friends and neighbors for sympathy during their bereavement and says their appreciation cannot be adequately expressed.
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Otten S. Metje
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Jiri Opatrny
Girl Opot’rini
Zdenek Pisk
United States
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U.N
Falls
Passport Office
Missouri
North Central
Shultz Group
Flower Club
Lawrence Flower Club
Rankin
South Park
Marguerite Parnell
Dean Kerkman
Junior Flower Club
Marguerite G. Goff
Charles Springer
S. E. Casebier
Journal-World Photo
Pace
Eastern Hospital
M. R. Carlson
Vermont
Superior Life Agent
State Farm
Gvate Farm Lwe Imburance Company
Meme
Bloomington, Withess
Kansas Board of Regents
Medical Center
Kansas Legislative Council
Champney Wrecking Company
Topeka
Strong Hall
Kansas University
Kenneth Spencer
Spencer Foundation
Kansas’ City
Lawrence Memorial Co
Haverty & Hedges
Haverty & Hedges Real Estate and
Adams Body Shop
Sweps Petunias
Fuchsia Clematis
Pence
Owens
Garden Center
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