Silent Memphis march honors King with Coretta and children
Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr joined a silent Memphis march honoring her slain husband. The procession led from Clayborn Temple toward City Hall with Coretta and three King children, Belafonte’s jet arriving first, amid armed National Guards and a wary crowd. The event shifted from a strike show of support for garbage workers into a memorial demonstration for King.
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Memphis, Tenn
Martin Luther King Jr
Memphis
King
Main and
Beale Streets
Atlanta
Havery Belafonte
City Hall
Belafonte
Dexter
Martin III
Yolanda
Coretta
Harry Belafonte
Mississippi River
National Guard
Pontotoc Street
Hernanedo
Dr. King
Memephis
BOAC Jet Crashes After London Takeoff
A BOAC four engine Boeing 707 with 126 aboard crashed in flames shortly after takeoff from London Heathrow. Police reported five killed including a woman and a child, 18 missing, 22 injured, and 30 in the airport medical center. The plane was en route to Australia via Zurich Tel Aviv and other stops and radioed that an engine had fallen off before the crash.
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London
British Overseas Airways Corp
Airport Fire Brigade
Australia
Peresons
Scotland Yard
Australia House
Zurich
Switzerland
Tel Aviv
Israel
Tehran
Iran
New Delhhi
India
Singapore
Perth
Sydney
BOAC
Chesbro Named To Convention Alternate Delegate
Vernon Chesbro former Franklin County GOP chairman was elected an alternate delegate to the national convention at the Shawnee Mission district meeting. Keith Brecheisin Garnett also named alternate. delegates include Odd Williams Lawrence John Breyfogle Clathe Donald Sloan Overland Park. Fourteen Franklin County attendees. District roles listed include Mrs Winton A Winter Morgan Williams rules committee chair Winton Winter credentials James Grogan and Rep Robert Pinet. Resolutions honor Sen Frank Carlson praise Rep Larry Winn and mourn Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
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Vernon Chesbro
GOP
Franklin County
Shawnee Mission
Keith Brecheisin
Garnett
Odd Williams
Lawrence
John Breyfogle
Clathe
Donald Sloan
Overland Park
Chris Long
Prairie Village
Gan Williams
Winton Winter
James Grogan
Robert Pinet
Frank Carlson
Larry Winn
George Haley
Wyandotte County
Martin Luther King
County Forecast Mostly sunny with mild days and cool nights
County forecast indicates mostly sunny skies with mild days and cool nights through Tuesday. Cooler tonight with lows around 30s, highs near 60 on Tuesday. Weekend highs around 68 with Sunday low about 50. Today's low near 42 and record highs and lows noted for date. Hourly readings listed, barometer at 30.01.
Derailed Katy freight hits Centerville grain elevator
Twenty eight cars of a southbound Katy Railroad freight train derailed at Centerville in Linn County after midnight. No injuries were reported though the grain elevator under repair since December 26 was damaged again. One derailed car struck the elevator section under repair and another toppled onto a small building housing tools and chemicals near the company office. Centerville lies about 70 miles from Kansas City.
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Centerville
Kan
Katy
Marie Stiffier
W. M. Stiffier
Linn County
Kansas City
Hoisington Widow Loses Vietnam Pilot Husband
Relatives in Hoisington Kan were notified that a helicopter pilot, husband of Elaine Davis of Hoisington, was killed last Thursday in Vietnam. Lt Col Robert J Runkle, husband of the Hoisington woman, left four children and now lives with them in Ozark Alabama.
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Hoisington
Kan
Vietnam
Elaine Davis
Robert J. Runkle
Lves
Ozark
Ala
Fire Damages 8000-Acre Prairie North of Scott City
Authorities blame a Girl Scouts charcoal broiler for a prairie fire that spread across 8000 acres of grassland north of Scott City. Firefighters and volunteers from Scott, Lane and Logan counties fought the blaze for six hours as winds up to 50 mph fanned the flames. No injuries were reported, though a tractor used to dig a firebreak was burned.
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Scott City
Kan
Scott
Lane
Logan
Easter Egg Hunt in Forest Park Saturday
Ottawa Unified School District 290 hosts an Easter egg hunt in Forest Park for children. It starts promptly at 10 a.m. and divides participants into age groups from 3-year-olds through third grade, around the shelter house.
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Forest Park
Ottawa
Orlis Cox
The
Recreation Commission
Ottawa memorial ties King to Moses Joshua theme
Rev S E Hopkins at Ottawa noon service likened Dr King to Moses and named Rev Ralph Abernathy as next Joshua while urging white America to take King’s nonviolent role. About 400 attendees, mixed white and Black, heard the pageant of prayers and song We Shall Overcome at the Franklin County Courthouse.
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Scott Payne
America
Martin Luther King
S. E. Hopkins
Bethany Chapel Baptist Church
Rev. Hopkins
Dr. King
Moses
King
God
Joshua
Hopkins
Ralph Abernathy
Franklin County Court House
Martin Luther King Jr
Ottawa Ministerial Association
Ottawa
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Percy Sutton
Manhattan
N.Y
Boreough
Charles Cogin
American Federation of Teachers
Jerry Wurf
American Federation of State
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers
Dick Peters
Ottawa University
Giles Guthrie
Charles Taylor
Aire
Chesbro
Winton A. Wineter
Kansas
William Willard Braker
Trinity Methodist Church
Irving Hamer
New York
Court House
Mrs. Hopkins
Hamer
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