Deep Freeze Arrives As Jet Stream Holds Cold In Kansas City
Kansas City and surrounding states endured a two week siege of extreme cold with temperatures plunging to 33 below in northeast Kansas and 25 below in St Joseph. The jet stream’s southward dip locked in a frigid pattern before a rapid thaw began, threatening further cold snaps as forecasts warn the pattern could repeat.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
St. Louis
Topeka
Kansas Capital
Independence
Trenton
St. Joseph
National Football League
All-Stars
San Diego
Mercury
Concordia
Kan
Missouri River
Atchison
Nebraska
Columbia
Lawrence
Warrensburg
National Weather Service
Northeast
Frederick Ostby
National
Ostby
Hemisphere
Arctic
Missing Man Found Dead In Car Wreck
Jefferson City, Mo. AP reports Wayne T. Jones aged 29 was found dead in his car along Cadet Creek road ten miles east of Jefferson City. Investigators say the vehicle missed a curve and overturned after going down an embankment following the crash on December first 1973.
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Jefferson City
Wayne T. Jones
Cadet Creek
Excelsior Springs Votes Hospital Tax Measure
Excelsior Springs voters approved a 20 cent tax levy to fund a community hospital. The measure carried 1,221 to 127 in a record city turnout, with plans to issue $400,000 in revenue bonds for a 58 bed facility on a 20 acre site near the US 69 and MO 92 intersection. The levy will cover operating expenses.
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Excelsior Springs, Mo
Excelsior Springs
U.S. 69
Missouri 92
Delayed Missouri Welfare Checks Now Out This Week
Missouri welfare director Bert Shulimson announced a delay in mailing new supplemental payment checks for aged, disabled, and blind recipients. Checks to state and federal supplement recipients were delayed by missing Social Security data from Baltimore. Some 113,104 recipients have data. 5,000 more await information, with lenders urged to be lenient during the hardship.
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Jefferson City
Bert Shulimson
State Welfare
Missouri
Social Security Administration
Baltimore
Shulimson
Audrain group to hold board meeting January 21
Audrain County Human Development Corp board meets at 7:30 p.m. January 21 at the City County Health Unit. Director John Dibble says the public is invited.
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Audrain County Human Development Corp
John Dibble
Sketches Of Mao Stalin Nixon Likely To Vanish
In Washington DC a bicentennial building dedication featured murals of Mao Tse tung Stalin Nixon in gangster garb. Artist H H Booker Jr says he was told to draw faces, many of which will be replaced by staff artists as plans to rotate images unfold. The room will serve as a tourist information center. Booker claims unpaid wages of 52.25 for 19 hours of work.
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District of Columbia
Mao Tse-tung
Joseph Stalin
Nixon
H. H. Booker Jr
D.C
James P. Alexander
Walter E. Washington
Alexander
America
Booker
Stalin
Mac
Tricia Nixon Cox
Herbert Banham
The
Foun
Fountown
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
Groucho Marx
Greta Garbo
Laurel and Hardy
Gracie Allen
Graffiti Sign Co., Ltd
Shoe Firm Fined For Price-Fixing
Wohl Shoe Co. of St. Louis owner of Given Brothers Shoe Co. convicted in a US district court of violating the German Antitrust Act by conspiring to fix shoe prices. Judge H Vearle Payne fined $50,000 and barred further violations. Evidence showed a 50 percent retail markup and attempts to align prices with other retailers.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Wohl Shoe Co
St. Louis
Given Brothers Shoe Co
H. Vearle Payne
Payne
Wohl
Chinese Claim Group of Islands in South China Sea
Saigon says it will defend sovereignty over Parcel Islands after reports of a Chinese landing on uninhabited reefs and coral islets about 250 miles east of Vietnam and 150 miles southeast of Hainan. Bao refused to discuss military action, citing right to measures.
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Saigon
Peking
South China Sea
Vuong van Bac
Bac
Vietnam
Hainan
Bao
South Vietnam
Hsinhua
Randall seeks ninth term in U.S. House from Missouri
Rep William D Randall a Democrat from Missouri said he filed Tuesday in Jefferson City for renomination to a ninth term in the U S House. The 64 year old disclosed the move after completing a three week tour covering 13 of the 16 counties he represents in west central Missouri.
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Independence
William D. Randall
Dmo
U.S. House of Representatives
Randall
Jefferson City
Missouri
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