Surrender ends bank robbery manhunt for Duane Pope
Duane Pope 22 says he is tired of running and will surrender. FBI takes him into custody after a nationwide search sparked by a Big Springs Nebraska bank holdup and killings. Pope, a McPherson College graduate, traveled from Las Vegas and had a 1939 Buick convertible. He faced a $100,000 bond and awaited arraignment.
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Kansas City
Duane Earl Pope
McPherson College
Roxbury
Kan
U.S
Pope
Big Springs
Neb
Kansas City, Mo
Duane Pope
FBI
Lee Cisel
Jackson County
Earl Pope
Kane
Farmers State Bank of
D. W. Bittinger
McPherson
Kan.) College
State Hotel
Dr. Bittinger
Cpl
Vernon Scoville
Scoville
Duane
Karl Dissly
Wichita
Dallas
San Diego
Tijuana
Mex
Las Vegas
Dissly
Andreas Kjeldgaard
Glenn Hendrickson
Lois Ann Hothan
Franklin Kjeldgaard
Andreas
Denver
Space Twins Set for Parade and Promoted Honors
Americans space twins McDivitt and White prepare for a Chicago ticker tape parade and campus and city welcome events in Michigan and Texas. President Johnson promotes them to lieutenant colonels after their Gemini 4 milestone, with Cooper and Grissom also honored.
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Houston
Tex
America
Space Twins
James A. McDivitt
Edward H. White II
Manned Space Center
Chicago
University of Michigan
Jackson
Mich
McDivitt
San Antonio
White
Johnson
Air Force
Manned Spacecraft Center
LBJ
Space Center
Texas
L. Gordon Cooper
Virgil I. Grissom
Weather Outlook Northeast Kansas With Showers
Scattered afternoon and nighttime thunderstorms cover up to 20 percent of the zone this period. Partly cloudy otherwise with light easterly winds. Highs in the mid 80s, tonight's low around mid 60s. Sunrise and sunset times noted with historical records referenced. Advertised cologne sale at Rankin Drug.
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Kansas
Lawrence
U.S. Weather Bureau
Topeka
Boys State Ends Girls State Set For Its Opening
About 400 Kansas high school girls will join Girls State at the University of Kansas as Boys State ends. A total of 1,030 seniors completed Boys State activities this morning. Girls State will open Sunday with registration 1 to 4 30 p m in Joseph R Pearson Hall. Sessions will be in Hoch Auditorium and Strong Hall rather than Fraser Hall. Governor William Avery and Attorney General Robert Sonderholm will speak. Avery at 7 30 p m Thursday in the Kansas Union and Sonderholm at 11 a m Wednesday in Hoch Auditorium. Chancellor Wescoe welcomed Girls Staters, noting KU’s summer kickoff as spring ends for graduates.
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Kansas
Kansas University
Lawrence
Joseph R. Pearson
Hoch
Strong Hall
Fraser Hall
Carruth-O’leary
Mount Oread
William Avery
Robert Sonderholm
American Legion Auxiliary
University Extension
Avery
Kansas Union
Sonderholm
Hoch Auditorium
W. Clark Wescoe
City to Seek Long Range Drainage Relief
City Manager Ray Wells says storm drainage relief for Lawrence areas will be planned in a long range capital improvements budget. The plan targets needs over five to six years and will be presented to the city commission for approval this fall.
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Lawrence
Ray Wells
Wells
City Commission
Storm drainage plans discussed for Lawrence city
City manager reviews 1961 Black and Veatch study on Naismith Ditch and relief sewers. Officials caution storm runoff from rare deluges may exceed capacity and favor funding via general obligation bonds. Recommendations target southwest district and north south corridors near 23rd Street.
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West 22Nd Street Terrace
Michigan and
Arkansas Streets
Michigan-Arkansas
Wells
Lawrence
Black and Veatch
Naismith Ditch
23Rd Street
Beat poets ignite London crowd at Albert Hall
An audience of about 5000 paid an estimated 5900 dollars for a Friday night Beat poetry event at London's Albert Hall. Jill Triebner funded the hall rental to host Daniel Richter and a wave of poets including Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, aiming to launch a poets cooperative with profits of roughly 4200 dollars. The show featured 16 poets plus a disembodied voice in a “spontaneous planet chant carnival,” with varied reception from loud to hard to hear.
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London
Albert Hall
Jill Triebner
New York
Daniel Richter
Jill
Allen Ginsberg
Alexander Trocchi
13 Killed By Texas Flood
SANDERSON Texas AP flood disaster toll reached at least 13 with 15 more still missing after an 11 inch cloudburst. Damage estimated at 2 million as Red Cross says 54 homes destroyed and 36 badly damaged. Representative Richard White aided assessment arriving early.
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Southern Pacific Railroad
Sanderson Canyon
Sanderson
Texas
Fort Stockton
San Antonio
el Paso
U.S. 90
Longfellow
Here
John Wesley Johnson
Michael Johnson
Bill Cooksey
Sanderson Creek
Perry Giles
Houston
Laughlin Air Force Base
del Rio
Giles
Plans Announced For New First National Bank Building
Officials of the First National Bank announced plans to construct a modern bank building at the southeast corner of Ninth and Massachusetts Street with a 150 foot front on Massachusetts and 150 foot adjacent lot on New Hampshire. No construction date is set and lease negotiations could delay starting until late 1967.
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First National Bank Today
Ninth and
Massachusetts Street
Warren Rhodes
New Hampshire Street
Bank
Downtown Furniture Co
Rising
Eagles
Sears Catalog
Emma _ Christensen
Rhodes
Ninth
Rhode Island Streets
Lawrence
University of Kansas
First National
Tennessee Streets
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Florida
Puerto Rico
Charles Berry
St. Johns Bay
Father's Day - Rankin Drug
Emil Heck
Route 3
Heck
Journal-World
Sun
Hillcrest Bowl
Ady
Trafalgar
San Francisco
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Harry Fainlight
Simon Vinkenoog
Vinkenoog
Fainlight
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