Plane hijacked to Cuba with Colombian passengers
A Colombian DC4 airliner was hijacked and diverted to Santiago Cuba with 28 to 32 aboard. Gunmen forced the Avianca plane to land in eastern Cuba after departing Maicao, while passengers include a Colombian senator and a presidential aide. Havana Radio reported the event and noted no U.S. citizens were aboard.
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Havana
Cuba
Versailles
Santiago
Colom
Bia
Taly Analaye
Maicao
Colombia
Enrique Ortiz Acosta
Aristides Villalobos
Fidel Castro
Carlos Lleras Restrepo
Emilio Urrea
U.S
Urrea
Pedro Viles
Bogota
Avianca Airlines
Lawrence Cleanup Week Planned by Local Groups
Representatives from the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, schools, civic groups, and local businesses met at the Virginia Inn to organize volunteer groups for Lawrence Cleanup Week from April 1 to 7. The aim is a thorough spring cleaning and year round civic pride with projects including tree planting and school child involvement. Volunteers can contact the Chamber of Commerce to join and coordinate efforts.
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Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Virginia Inn
Lawrence
Chamber of Commerce
Kansas University
Childreni
Ie Commonwealth
6Th Feet
Lawrence Traffic Safety Commission Meets In City Hall
The Lawrence Traffic Safety Commission will meet at 7 30 tonight in the City Engineer's office City Hall postponed from Monday night agenda includes discussion of a one way street path in North Lawrence and a stronger noise patrol ordinance. Clocks atop the County Courthouse clocked repairs ongoing with four clocks stopped for about two weeks County Commissioner Harvey Booth says warm weather awaited. County Commission reportedly can rise earlier than the City Commission City Attorney Milton P Allen voices a legal opinion on proposed meeting times City Manager Ray Wells notes county wants 7 am Friday meeting to discuss the proposed second Lawrence ridge Don Metzler suggests 7 30 am while Allen says 8 oclock would be reasonable Jim Black asks if that is a legal opinion Allen confirms and notes difficulty attending 7 30 morning sessions.
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Lawrence Traffic Safety Commission
City Engineer’s
City Hall
North
Lawrence
Harvey Booth
Booth
Douglas County
City Commission
Cityttorney
Milton P. Allen
Ray Wells
Lawrence Ridge
Don Metzler
Jim Black
Allen
Dirksen Brother Dies After 18 ft Fall Attack
Benjamin Harricon Dirksen 73 brother of Everett M Dirksen R Illinois died Tuesday after an 18 foot fall attack. He was a retired factory worker.
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Perinks
Benjamin Harricon Dirksen
N. Everett
M. Dirksen
R-Nl
Sertoma Club elects Lawrence leaders in tense meeting
John Hughes, Sertoma chief from Route 3, was elected president of the Lawrence Sertoma Club at the Eldridge Hotel. New officers include George Williams as first vice president Byron Brooks as second vice president Jim Williams as third vice president Walter Love re elected treasurer Bernard Judge secretary Gene Shaughnessy sergeant at arms with directors John Cox Al Haverty Don Julian Warren Hornsby Gerald Wente to chair the board. The club backs Earl Wilson for charter governor of the new Southern Kansas Sertoma District to include Lawrence and seven clubs from Wichita to Kansas City. Election is March 30 at the Hot Springs Ark regional convention. Jim Haney attended as guest and Al Haverty led the program.
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John Hughes
Route 3
Hallmark
Topeka
Lawrence Sertoma Club
Eldridge Hotel
George Williams
Byron Brooks
Jim Williams
Walter Love
Bernard Judge
Gene Shaughnessy
John Cox
al Haverty
Don Julian
Warren Hornsby
Gerald Wente
Sertoma
Earl Wilson
Southern
Kansas
Lawrence
Wichita
Kansas City
Hot Springs
Ark
Jim Haney
Kansan Miss Randall To Keynote 18th Aging Conference
Miss Ollie A. Randall, a native Kansan who pioneered aging studies in New York City, will deliver the keynote address at the 18th annual Conference on Aging at Kansas University. Her talk titled Older Persons Are People Too will open at 1 p.m. Monday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
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New York City
Kansas University
Ollie A. Randall
The
Kansas Union
Lawrence Chamber Membership Meeting At Holiday Inn
More than 180 reservations have been received for the Friday noon Lawrence Chamber of Commerce membership meeting at the Holiday Inn Motel. Laurence T. Greiner of B F Goodrich Co Akron Ohio will speak, with buffet luncheon to start at 11 45. Call VI 3 4411 to reserve.
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Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Holiday Inn
Laurence T. Greiner
B. F. Goodrich Co
Akron
Ohio
Chamber
Boatright Convicted of Second Degree Murder
Robert Charles Boatright, 34, was found guilty by a Wyandotte County District Court jury of second degree murder for the May 9 slaying of Clifford Kamke, 36, outside Hayseed Tavern in Kansas City Kansas. The jury sentenced him to not less than 10 years. the state sought life. Boatright’s wife testified she loved Kamke and planned to marry him, and she identified her husband as the shooter. The couple has six children.
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Kansas City
Kan
Robert Charles Boatright
Wyandotte County
Joe H. Swinehart
Boatright
Clifford Kamke
Hayseed Tavern
Merriam Lane
Kamke
Boatrights
Galena Turnpike Plan Fails Again in Senate
In Topeka Kansas the Senate Highway Committee defeated a revival of the Kansas City to Galena Turnpike bill. Chairman Sen. William Ward led the decisive vote. The measure would have authorized a turnpike and pledged highway funds to guarantee financing, with some members arguing the pledge would lower bond interest rates.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas City
Galena
Senate Highway Committee
William Ward
Marion
Official laments votes over constituents’ deaths at luncheon
Baltimore Evening Sun columnist Lou Panos recalls an elected official at a Real Estate Board luncheon moaning about eight constituents who died in one week. He quips that the $40 for flowers hurt less than losing eight votes.
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Baltimore (Ap
Lou Panos
Baltimore Evening Sun
Real Estate Board
City Pool Awaiting BOR Word On Funds
State Park Authority officials report no word from the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation on the city pool application for matching federal funds. Denver BOR office likely cannot process before Friday. The project was sent from Topeka and aims to start contracts by late March or early April. Only soil investigations done. architects refining design.
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State Park Authority
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
BOR
Park Authority
Denver
Colo
State
Topeka
Central Park
Johnson Seeks Half Billion For Indian Welfare Reform
President Johnson asked Congress for a half billion dollar program to aid about 600 000 American Indians in health education housing and civil rights. He called Indians aliens in their own land for two centuries and urged an undivided government wide effort with 10 percent more funding than fiscal 1968 to address decades of neglect and exploitation.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Scout Session Set for Pelathe District Meeting
The Pelathe District of the Boy Scouts will hold its first 1968 quarterly meeting at 7 30 p m Tuesday March 12 at the Board of Education Administrative Center at 21st and La Sts Elliott Gillerman district chairman says emphasis will be on aims goals and problems of Scouting with district staff involvement in regional and national activities A report on the status of Scouting in the area is planned and J Fred Thompson Raw Council Scout executive will speak
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Pelathe
Boy Scouts
Board of Education
21St and
Elliott Gillerman
Douglas County
Gillerman
J. Fred Thompson
Raw Council
Harman Seeks Kansas Governor Nomination in 1969
Ex Kansas candidate Harman, discussin g a gubernatorial bid, cites funding shortages and urges the governor to address the state’s record. He names Lt Gov John Crutcher and Raymond J Van Skiver as rivals and pledges policy input from Kansas citizens, tax relief, and new programs. Harman, a 1950 Kansas State graduate from Mission with wife Susie and three children, emphasizes businesslike reforms.
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Harman
John Crutcher
Hutchinson
Raymond J. van Skiver
Wichita
Kansas
Kansas State
Mission
Susie
STARS Funeral Home Handles Local Services
Competent professional service noted for STARS Funeral Home, contact VI 8 5111, and Ady acknowledged for arrangements.
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Stars Funeral Home
Ady
North Vietnam, Viet Cong Losses Tallied in Saigon Drive
U.S. officers report 50,000 enemy dead in operations against South Vietnam cities since Jan 30. American deaths about 2,000. South Vietnamese 4,000. Total South Vietnamese killed, wounded and missing around 9,754. South Vietnamese forces have inducted 14,000 new men.
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Saigon
U.S
South Vietnam
Douglas County Drought Marked With Wells Repairs
Douglas County marks the drought anniversary after a near record 1967 rainfall. Commissioners authorize repairs to two drought-relief wells at 200 dollars, to be paid from the drought emergency fund of 500 dollars.
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Douglas County
Walter Kampschroeder
Harvey Booth
Booth
Census Instructions For Include Absent Residents
The guidance to the Young State Board of Agriculture directs counties to count residents temporarily away from home such as military personnel students away at school and inmates in institutions. It notes home counties should record these individuals rather than the county where they attend school, such as Douglas County, for most of the year.
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Young State Board of Agriculture
Douglas County
Anne Baxter Seeks Divorce After Eight Years
SANTA MONICA Calif AP actress Anne Baxter has filed for divorce from her Australian husband B Randolph Galt after eight years of marriage. The suit cites extreme cruelty and was filed last Thursday. Baxter 44 spent seven years as a farm wife on Galt’s 34 000 acre cattle ranch. They have three children Katrina 16 Melissa 6 and Maginel 5.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Anne Baxter
B. Randolph Galt
Stanley Geis
Miss Baxter
Gelt
Honolulu
Katrina
John Hodiak
Melissa
Maginel
Judd Urges All-Out U.S. Effort in Vietnam
Former U.S. Rep. Walter H. Judd urged Kansas University listeners to press Ho Chi Minh with heavy force short of nuclear weapons. He called for a Kennedy-type blockade, intensified bombing, and targeting North Vietnam’s food supply, arguing the war tests the United States at home and abroad.
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Judd
Vietnam
U.S
Walter H. Judd
Minnesota
Kansas University
Kansas Union
Ho Chi Minh
Kansas Masonic Foundation
North Vietnam
Congregational Church Foreign Mission Board
China
Barry Goldwater
Goldwater
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C
87Th Congress
General Assembly of
United Nations
Washington Report
Masonic Leader Claud Young Dies After Illness
Dr. Claud Young aged 80 a prominent Masonic figure died in Fort Scott Kansas after a recent illness His survivors include his wife Sadie Jane Young a son and a daughter He was a Texas University Medical School graduate Past Grand Master of the Grand Masonic Lodge of Kansas and Sovereign Grand Inspector General for Scottish Rite in Kansas He recently served as Grand General Secretary in Washington DC before ill health forced his return home to Kansas
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Claud Young
Fort Scott
Kan
Sadie Jane Young
Texas University Medical School
Young
Grand Masonic Lodge of
Kansas
Scottish Rite
Washington, D. C
First Liquid Fuel Rocket Launch by Robert Goddard in 1926
The pioneer propulsion test marks a milestone as Robert Goddard fires the first liquid fueled rocket in 1926, a landmark event in rocket science and space exploration history.
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Robert Goddard
Card of Thanks from the Kennedy Family
The family of Isa C. Kennedy expresses gratitude to relatives neighbors and friends for acts of kindness during their bereavement May God bless you all for your support and sympathy
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Isa C. Kennedy
Thank You Note For Hospital Care To Dr Holliday
Nora Dowding expresses gratitude to Dr Holliday the 2nd floor North nurses and friends for cards gifts and acts of kindness during her hospital stay. God bless you all.
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Dr. Holliday
Nora Dowding
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