Joe Lamar leaves Missouri Penitentiary after 23 years
Jefferson City AP report notes Joe Lamar resigns as identification officer and race chief on his 70th birthday. Convicts in the records room staged a farewell party with cake and ice cream. The piece recalls the 1954 prison riot and hints at ongoing investigations as Lamar departs.
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Jefferson City
Joe Lamar
Missouri Penitentiary
Jefftown
Joe
E.V
Stanley
Nash
Johnson County
Kansas
Leawood
Lamar
Oklahoma
Polo
Kansas City
Union Station
Johnny Lazia
Nell Donnelly
Reed
Home Trust Co
Herbert Hoover
4Th and
Missouri Streets
Algoa Reformatory
Forrest C. Donnell
Bonnie Brown Heady
Carl Austin Hall
Bobby Greenlease
Harry Lauf
Lorena Leads Missouri River Upstream First This Season
The Lorena neared Mile 365 at 5:07 p.m. marking the first town boat to navigate the Missouri River this season. Capt. W. A. Hollinger, nicknamed Peanut, steered four barges 390 feet long while depth readings and current guided the route past shoals and shallow water. The crew aimed to reach Kansas City upstream from St. Louis, a 385 mile journey, highlighting the river’s high stage and engineers opening storage dams upstream.
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Harry F. Rosenthal
Associated Press
Kansas City (Ap
Lorena
Mile 365
Missouri River
W. A. Hollinger
Peanut
River Pilots
Missouri
Army
John Ritchie
Paducah
River Marine Ser
Vice
Hollinger
Memphis
Jack Purvis
Leavenworth
Kan
Kansas City
St. Louis
Ritchie
Cheryl Holdridge Chooses Lance Reventlow Over Studio Contract
Cheryl Holdridge, former Mouseketeer, chooses marriage to Lance Reventlow over Universal Studio contract at age 19. Reventlow, son of Barbara Hutton, plans a large Westwood Community Church wedding with a Continental Hotel reception and four children, after earlier vows to avoid marriage.
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Bob Thomas
Hollywood
Cheryl Holdridge
Universal Studio
Lance Reventlow
Lance
Cheryl
America
Reventlow
Barbara Hutton
Jill St. John
California
Westwood Community
Continental Hotel
Measles Case Ties Wellsville Family To Illness
The H E Stonequist family faced a measles sequence starting March 12 with 9 year old Sue, followed by 8 year old Jim on March 23 and both parents by March 27. The father, a Santa Fe Railroad signal maintainer, returned to work March 30 while the mother remained ill. Junior and senior students at Wellsville High School prepare for a business aptitude test and senior play try outs on April 1.
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Bernice Holden
H. E. Stonequist
Lfe
Sue
Jim
Stonequist
Santa Fe Railroad
Wellsville High School
Draughons College of Commerce
Kansas City
Henpecked Husbands: Signs From Hal Boyle
Hal Boyle outlines signs of a henpecked husband with a humorous lens on American domestic life. He notes shifts in authority, listing behaviors such as money control, being corrected in conversations, car and bill handling, and delays in personal freedoms, concluding the so called happy couple masks a loser dynamic.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Gemini Test Set for Unmanned Orbit Patrol
Cape Kennedy Fla AP NASA announced the long awaited first Gemini test flight will be unmanned and scheduled for Tuesday. The goals include orbital capability of the Titan 2 rocket, spacecraft structural integrity and rocket capsule compatibility. If successful a second unmanned flight is planned for next summer followed by a two astronaut three orbit mission in November or December. Technical difficulties delayed the program nearly a year.
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Cape Kennedy, Fla
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Legals Notice Metes and Bounds Involving Estate of Nellie M Fleming
Probate Court in Franklin County Kansas notices that Merle B Fleming petitions to determine descent of Nellie M Fleming real estate described as North 4 percent of Southeast 1 percent and East 1 percent of Northeast 4 Section 12 Township 16 Range 18 totaling 160 acres more or less. Defendants and creditors warned to file defenses by April 10 1964. Ancillary administrator appointed for Mabel Colegrove estate and creditors urged to present demands within nine months from first publication. Quieting title action filed by Mary A Gleason against multiple defendants over Lots 1 3 & 5 in Block 5 City of Rantoul with May 15 1964 pleading deadline. Court attested notices and attorney information included. Also a local obituary note about Minnie Thompson’s 104th birthday remark.
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State of
Kansas
Merle B. Fleming
Township 16
Range 18
Franklin County
Said
Mabel Colegrove
H. E. DeTar
Ottawa
District Court
Mary A. Gleason
Rantoul
Frankslin
Blind Teacher Opens Horizons for Sightless Students
Gettysburg Times reports William J. Shoemaker Jr., a 21 year old blind student teacher at Gettysburg High School, prepares a 14 week internship while finishinga Gettysburg College degree. He uses a portable tape recorder and Braille notes to teach and study, aiming to become a public school teacher despite his blindness.
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Gettysburg Times
Gettysburg
Gettysburg High School
William J. Shoemaker Jr
Gettysburg College
University of Pennsylvania
Shoemaker
Wil
Valley N.Y
Ers
New York City
Billi
Ruth
Russell Rosenberger
Department of Education
Rosenberger
Jose M. Perez
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J. D. Lester
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Gemini
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Nellie M. Fleming
Merle B
Fleming
Winton A
Winter
Winton A. Winter
Q. A. Seymour
Martha E. Seymour
A. A. Mack
James R., Rogers
Martha Edgar
W. D. Edgar
J. B. Cramer
Edward Allen
Ethel Allen
C. L. Phares
Hannah Phares
Marinda Vinson
John. L.casey
Florence Casey
Ds Harper
Sarahi Harper
Maud Eldridge
John. W. Eledridge
Ruth G. Eldridge
Mary Frances Krum
State OF Kansas
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Christina Wake
the, District Court
Anderson & Byrd
First National Bank Bldg
Kenton C. Granger
Morganfield
J. Earle Bell
Minnie Thompson
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