Men in Service Parade Local Recruits and Medalists
Marine Sgt Charles T Funk, son of Mrs T D Funk of 701 La, reported for duty at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma Arizona after graduating from Lawrence High School in 1968 and enlisting in August 1968. T Sgt Fred D Zimmerman, son of Mrs Mildred B Zimmerman of 817 Tenn, serves with the EC-121 Constellation wing which earned the USAF Outstanding Unit Award. He is a navigation systems repair technician with the Aerospace Defense Command’s 552nd AEW&C Wing at McClellan AFB California. Airman Clyde D Dunn, son of Mr and Mrs Ralph D Dunn of 511 Utah, completed U S Air Force basic training at Lackland AFB Texas and is assigned to Chanute AFB Illinois for aircraft maintenance training. Dunn is a 1969 Lawrence High School graduate.
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Charles T. Funk
T. D. Funk
Marine Corps Air Station
Yuma, Ariz
Fred D. Zimmerman
Mildred B. Zimmerman
817 Tenn
U.S. Air Force
The
Aerospace Defense Command
552Nd ‘Airborne Early Warning and Control Wing
McClellan Air Force Base
Calif
Clyde D. Dunn
Ralph D. Dunn
Utah
Air Training Command
Lackland Afb
Tex
Cha Rute Afb
Ill
Dunn
Lawrence High School
Retired Ship Attracts 1.5 Million Visitors
Long Beach officials report the Queen Mary attracted more than 1.5 million visitors in its first year as a dockside museum shopping center. It opened to the public on weekends and added the Jacques Cousteau Living Sea Exhibits, with a 400 room hotel planned for the year.
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Long Beach
Calif
Queen Mary
John R. Mansell
Mansell
Jacques Cousteau
Former Astronaut Gordon Cooper Weds Susan Taylor
Former Mercury seven astronaut Col Gordon Cooper married Susan Taylor of Los Angeles on a friend’s houseboat in Miami Beach. They plan a honeymoon in Haiti after the ceremony conducted Saturday.
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Miami Beach, Fla
Col
Gordon Cooper
Susan Taylor
Los Angels
Cooper
Haiti
Mine's Dead Reaches 58 at Kellogg Silver Mine Tragedy
Officials say 58 miners remain missing at Sunshine Mining Co. after a Tuesday fire deep underground. 35 are confirmed dead with 108 escaped as power failures and gas buildup hinder recovery. The Steel Workers union urges congressional probe citing inadequate escape guidance and self rescue gear.
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Kellogg
Idaho
Marvin C. Chase
Sunshine Mining Co
Chase
Steel Workers of America
Bayne Named Associate Director of Kansas Geological Survey
Charles K. Bayne will become associate director of the Kansas Geological Survey starting July 1, succeeding Ernest E. Angino who will chair the University of Kansas geology department. A long-time survey staff member since 1943 and a 1938 Southwestern College graduate, Bayne is a noted authority on Pleistocene geology and glacial history in the mid continent. He has published extensively on geology and groundwater, and holds Sigma Xi and Sigma Gamma Epsilon affiliations.
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Charles K. Bayne
Kansas Geological Survey
Ernest E. Angino
Kansas University Geology Department
Bayne
Mid-Continent
Kansas
Southwestern College
Winfield
Sigma Xi
Sigma Gamma Epsilon
Porter pleads guilty in Wichita supermarket bombings case
Wayne E. Porter 46 of Wichita pleaded guilty in U S District Court to conspiracy in the bombings of Wichita supermarkets from 1968 to 1970. The plea interrupted the trial of Patrick Henry Earley 42 of Duncan Oklahoma on similar charges and prompted a trial continuation and pre sentence report.
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Wichita (Ap
Wayne E. Porter
Wichita
U.S. District Court
Porter
Patrick Henry Earley
Duncan
Okla
Frank Thies
Earley
Three-State Intersection Marker Is Seldom Seen
A 10 foot monument off U S 166 marks the Kansas Oklahoma Missouri tri point once set in 1938 but now three of its four plates are missing and litter surrounds the site near a farmhouse The marker notes Kansas 1861 Missouri 1821 and Oklahoma 1907 with the remaining plate damaged and the north side readin g Kansas 18.
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Galena
Kan
Will Rogers
Kansas
U.S. 166
Oklahoma
Missouri
Monument
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Journal-World Photo
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Mirror CO
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