Violent Kansas storm damages Herington area
A midsection Kansas storm battered Herington with golf ball sized hail and heavy rain for about 25 minutes. Two residents were hurt as a house was destroyed and several structures damaged. Gov. Bennett and Adjutant Gen. Fry planned a helicopter assessment.
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Kansas 4
Robert F. Bennett
Edward Fry
Leroy Towns
Topeka
Miltonvale
Concordia
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U. S. 24
Republican River
Clay Center
Butler County
Cowley County
el Dorado
Winfield
Wichita
Emporia
Fort Scott
Kansas Line
Kansas City
Space pioneer Von Braun dies
Space program pioneer Dr. Wernher von Braun died at 65 after a long cancer battle. He led U.S. rocket work and helped design the Jupiter C and Saturn V family enabling moon missions. He spent his last years with Fairchild Industries while facing health issues and hospital stays.
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Wernher von Braun
United States
von Braun
Alexandria Hospital
Virginia
Fairchild Industries
Fairchild
Reading
Marshall
Cc Flight Center
Huntsville
Adolf Hitler
U.S. Army
Russia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sputnik
Eisenhower
America
U.S
Ft. Bliss
Tex
Germany
Newton Teen to Compete in Miss Black Kansas Pageant
Patricia Pat Tolbert Miss Harvey County 1976 from Newton competes in Lawrence for Miss Black Kansas. She performs a Mary Had a Little Lamb comic talent from Pratt and placed top ten with Debbie Bryant original talent award. The winner advances to Miss Black America in Gary Indiana. Coronation follows at Holiday Inn.
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Pat
Tolbert
Harvey County
Lawrence
Pratt
Mary
Debbie Bryant
Lisa Mannon
Silas Mannon
Newton
Mannon
Kansas
Gary
Ind
Miss Tolbert
Anita Tolbert
Bethel College
Bethel
Moffatt’s Jewelry
Frontier Shoes
Weeds, milo weevil threaten harvest in area
County extension agent Jack Barnes reports severe winter delays causing weed infestations in thin wheat stands and buckwheat resistance to 2 4 D. New milo weevil may damage plants. some farmers spray toxaphene while effectiveness remains limited. cinchbugs also causing stand losses.
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Jack Barnes
Barnes
Butler County
Tax deadline set for last half 1976 real estate taxes
County treasurer Sarah Fiedler warns the 5 p.m. Monday cutoff for paying the second half of 1976 real estate and personal property taxes. Taxpayers should bring or mail tax statements, the same ones returned after the first half, due to a press delay that affected that paper’s delivery.
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Sarah Fiedler
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Weather Data
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Oldtimer
Ernest Albright
Camp Hawk
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Hayrack
Hesston
Kansas State University
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