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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1967
Page
17
Sen. Glee Smith Jr. of Larned was to have surgery in Providence Hospital for fractures in his right ankle after falling Friday night while attempting to jump a water-filled gutter en route to a Kansas Bar Association meeting.
Thomas W Braden a publisher and former CIA official says he created a CIA funded program subsidizing student labor and cultural groups abroad including fifty thousand dollars spent by the United Auto Workers to influence West German labor unions He says he personally gave the money to UAW President Walter Reuther Braden editor of the Oceanside Blade Tribune says the CIA money aided European trade union education and organization Reuters responses indicate the CIA would not comment Walter Reuther and Victor Reuther denied and defended the UAW actions The UAW later said convention delegates voted in 1962 to bolster the European labor movement by investing earnings from its strike fund into the Free World Labor Movement.
Cliff Lyon of Hiawatha was elected president of the Kansas Elks Clubs Association. W Harold Young of Salina was elected deputy president. Re-elected were Fred Kelly of Salina as secretary and Forest Link of Pratt as treasurer.
Millard Price, 55, was electrocuted accidentally in a well on his Belle Plaine farm. His body was found by a friend who arrived to help repair an electrically driven pump.
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