Washington journalist surveys 1968 race rivals
Jack Bell, AP correspondent, visits Kansas City to assess GOP and Democratic contenders. He rates Romney, Nixon, Reagan, Rockefeller, Percy, Lindsay, and McCarthy, Johnson, Kennedy, and Humphrey, noting strengths, weaknesses, and likely strategies for the 1968 nomination race. He criticizes press misquoting and predicts Nixon’s enduring influence and Johnson’s fragile image.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Associated Press
Kansas City
Johnson
Bell
Percy
Lindsay
New York
New York City
Minnesota
Eugene McCarthy
Sen
McCarthy
Bobby Kennedy
Kansas City Chiefs
Kennedy
Bobby
LBJ
Humphrey
Hubert Humphrey
Eisenhower
Truman
Vietnam
Senate
Motorist Escapes Serious Injury In Ohio Wreck
Akron youth Gerald B. Grisby, 18, walked away after his car flipped and skidded 117 feet on its top on Ohio 93 south of Akron. He told deputies he swerved to avoid a pheasant.
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Akron, Ohio
Gerald B. Grisby
Ohio 93
Here
Akron
Summit County Sheriff's Deputies
Fire crews combat trash fire and street smoke complaints
Firemen responded to a trash fire that reached a garage about a mile north of Tee Pee Junction. The garage valued at 800 dollars was destroyed. Earlier, at 12 02 p m, they investigated leaves burning on 1635 Mass Street with no damage reported.
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Tee Pee Junction
1635
Mass
Thief Escapes As Victim Held Until Freeed
In El Monte California the hold up man escaped while the service station attendant Lester Howard Stack, 22, was handcuffed. Officers failed for a half hour to unlock the cuffs and a hacksaw finally freed him. The bandit, who likely had the key, took $50.
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Lester Howard Stack
Stack
New radar complex planned for Kennedy Airport
A $6 million radar complex with a central radar room for improved air traffic control over New York will begin operation at Kennedy Airport next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Kennedy Airport
Oswald Stone Returned From Bartlesville To Fort Worth Grave
In Bartlesville Oklahoma police recovered a 130 pound Oswald grave stone found in a downtown park. The stone is to be returned to Lee Harvey Oswald's Fort Worth grave after a third party delivered it to authorities. Two Bartlesville teens were implicated as joking thieves according to Capt. Joe Glenn.
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Bartlesville
Okla
Lee Harvey Oswald
Fort Worth
John F. Kennedy
Warren Commission
Oswald
Joe Glenn
Glenn
Young Mexican rescuer improves at Kansas City hospital
Primitivo Garcia twenty three, wounded while aiding his night school teacher, moved from General Hospital to a private ward at St Marys. His condition eased from critical to fair since November fifteenth shooting. Blood donations surged as a medical fund nears nine thousand dollars to cover Garcia’s care and future art studies.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Mo
Primitivo Garcia
General Hospital
St. Mary’s Hospital
Garcia
Helen Dow
Virginia Morea
U.S
Margaret Kinderman
Black Power Leader Brooks Held On Induction Refusal Charge
Fred Horace Brooks a 21 year old Black Power leader remained jailed in Nashville Tenn on a charge of refusing induction into the Army. He was arrested Friday after a judge refused to block prosecution and he could not post a 5000 bond. Brooks head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee opposed the Vietnam War and refused 1 A induction after reclassification.
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Nashville
Deaths Funeral for Asa H Evans 69 Oska loosa
Asa H Evans 69 of Oskaloosa died Friday at Kansas University Medical Center. Funeral services 2 p.m. Monday at Hampton Funeral Home with Rev Henry Kile. Burial in Buster Cemetery near Perry. Survived by daughter Clara Jane Evans. Born October 22 1898 in Oskaloosa he lived there his whole life and worked 22 years for Jefferson County Road Dept retired last year.
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Asa H. Evans
Oskaloosa
Kansas University Medical Center
Hampton Funeral Home
Henry Kile
Buster
Perry
Clara Jane Evans
Mr. Evans
Jefferson County Road Dept
Outbid Rancher Wins 640 Acre Oregon Land Bid
Oscar Peterson a former Morrow County judge won a 640 acre tract for 40200 at a federal BLM auction near Boardman Oregon outbidding cattleman Fred Andrews. Eight tracts totaling 7185 acres were passed over as too highly appraised. Rex Ellis and Andrews bought multiple tracts. Auction drew 500 people in Boardman.
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Boardman, Ore
Oregon
Federal Bureau of Land Management
Northwest
Columbia River
Morrow County
Oscar Peterson
Heppner
Fred Andrews
Echo
Andrews
Rex Ellis
Pendleton
Grange Hall
Boardman
Morrow
Irving Andersons
Bureau
Division of Land and Minerals
Monument to Pilgrims Erected in Provincetown
Provincetown Massachusetts unveils a 252 foot high historical monument marking the landing site of a small Pilgrim group at the tip of Cape Cod. The project honors early settlers and attracts tourist attention to the town.
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Provincetown
Mass
Cape Cod
Communists Fire On U S Position In Dak To
In Dak To the Communists fired 25 to 30 mortar shells at American positions. The attack follows a 24 hour lull after a three week battle that left casualties. U S artillery returned fire against suspected mortar crews linked to five North Vietnamese regiments. Also, 19 earlier mortars and flamethrower assaults hit villages north of Saigon in the Mekong Delta.
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Saigon
Dak To
Central Highlands
Mekong Delta
Man found stabbed to death in Haverford bachelor apartment
William B. Thompson a 50 year old former Merck Sharp and Dohme executive was found stabbed and beaten to death in his Main Line bachelor apartment. He was discovered Friday by a brother in law and a policeman, his nude body covered by a sheet on the bed in the master bedroom.
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Haverford
Philadelphia
Main Line
William B. Thompson
Thompson
Merck, Sharp and Dohme
French Sculptor Zadkine Dies in Neuilly at 77
Paris AP reports Ossip Zadkine a French sculptor whose works have been shown extensively in the United States Europe and Asia died in Neuilly after surgery He was 77 years old.
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Paris
Ossip Zadkine
United States
Europe
Asia
Neuilly
Kansan Expects Prison Sentence for War Dissent
Ray mond Thomas Zimmerman, 25, predicts imprisonment to demonstrate his belief the Vietnam War is immoral. From Pittsburg, Kansas, he fled to Canada to avoid the draft, then returned via Toronto, saying U.S. protests lacked impact. He plans to turn himself in after learning a warrant will be issued in Topeka.
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Kansas City
Raymond Thomas Zimmerman
Zimmerman
Pittsburg
Kan
Canada
Toronto
U.S. District Attorney’s Office
FBI
Topeka
Firemen Rescue Forgotten Stove Across Two Cities
A Syracuse visitor in Rochester feared she left her kitchen stove on. The Rochester Fire Communications Center alerted the Syracuse Fire Department via radio and a responding truck found only a burned pan as damage.
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Rochester
N.Y
Lewis Fauth
Syracuse
Rochester Fire Communications Center
Syracuse Fire Department
Northeast Air Warning Service
Fouth
Invasion Fears Ease as Peacemakers Work Four Fronts
Cypriot and international mediation efforts continued as U S envoy Cyrus Vance met Turkish and Greek officials in Ankara to push for troop withdrawal and minority protections. Turkish RF 84F overflights followed a UN Security Council call to de escalate while police blamed saboteurs on Greek communities after three blasts.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
U.S
Greece
Turkey
Cyrus Vance
Ankara
Ihsan Sabri Caglayangis
Vance
Council of Ministers
National Security Council
United Nations
Zenon Rassides
Security Council
New York
Wichita Industrialist Fred C. Koch Leaves Foundation Major Estate
The late Wichita industrialist Fred C. Koch left most of his estate, several million dollars, to the Fred C. Koch Foundation. His will, filed in Sedgwick County Probate Court, directs Rock Island Oil stock to transfer to the foundation. Koch died November 17 in Brigham City Utah on a hunting trip. His wife Mary Robinson Koch receives personal effects and the family home on 160 acres near Wichita. Sons Charles Wichita William Cambridge Mass and David New York City share the residue. The Koch Foundation, organized in 1954, has funded scholarships and educational efforts. Koch helped found the John Birch Society.
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Wichita
Fred C. Koch
Utah
Koch
Mary Robinson Koch
Charles
William
Cambridge
Mass
David
New York City
Koch Foundation
Kansas Corporation
Witterman
The
John Birch Society
Rockets Rule West Covina Youths Star in Rocket Club
In West Covina boys ages 9 to 17 formed the West Covina Model Rocket Society under teacher James Hauk. They launched over 700 rockets in nine months at Galster Park using city supplied engines, with speeds between 400 and 600 miles per hour.
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West Covina
Calif
West
Theft, two noninjury crashes reported in Friday night
Lawrence police logged a quiet Friday night with one theft and two noninjury traffic accidents. The theft, a man's ring valued at 285 dollars, disappeared from W. O. Brownlee's basement. The first crash at 9:20 p.m. involved Larry O. Peterson and William Shaw with 125 and 350 dollars in damages, respectively. The second crash at 3:17 p.m. involved Timothy Honn and Ruth Smith with 120 and 135 dollars in damages.
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Lawrence
W. O. Brownlee
Ohio St
Brownlee
Mass. St
Larry O. Peterson
Eudora
William E. Shaw
Shaw
Peterson
Tenn. St
Timothy E. Honn
W. 22Nd St
Ruth M. Smith
Barker Ave
Honn
Smith
Lawrence buys 1500 Sc acol trees for sale at local centers
About 1500 Scotch and Austrian pine trees from Washington arrived Friday for sale next week by the Lawrence Luncheon Optimists. Paul Willingham, the club president, said more shipments will arrive soon. Trees will be sold at two shopping centers on Massachusetts and Iowa Streets and at Rusty’s on 28th Street and Hillcrest Shopping Center. Kansas University Thanksgiving vacation ends at 7 30 a m Monday with classes resuming.
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Washington
Lawrence
Paul Willingham
Massachusetts
Iowa
Rusty’s
Hillcrest
In loving memory of Clarence Kiser
Clarence Kiser died November 26 1950 his wife Blanche Kiser mourns his loss with a loving remembrance. She says he is gone but never forgotten and they will miss him always.
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Clarence Kiser
Blanche Kiser
Appreciation note for kindness after loss of Mrs Effie Hoffman
Mrs Harry Campbell and family express gratitude to friends and neighbors for kindness shown during illness and death of Mrs Effie Hoffman.
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Effie Hoffman
Harry Campbell
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Black Power
A. V. Phillips
Amrikowi Gifts
George Esper
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7Th & Mass
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Kansas University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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