Kansas Law on Education Board May Be Unconstitutional
Dr. M. A. McGhehey executive director of KASB told about 150 school boards at Campus High School that a 1968 law creating 40 senatorial districts for electing a State Board of Education may be unconstitutional. He noted a later law combined four districts into one member district.
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Wichitaar
Board of Education
M. A. McGhehey
Kansas Association of School Boards
McGhehey
KASB
Kansas City Curfew Enacted Amid Racial Unrest
Mayor Davis ordered a 7 p.m. curfew and business closures in Kansas City as riots persisted. Police and Missouri National Guard patrol the area around the Near East Side where six people were killed and more than 150 fires tied to looting. Twenty-four hours into the disturbance, 148 felony arrests were reported, with violence waning but sniper fire and arson continuing to challenge responders.
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Kansas City
Trus W. Davis
Clarence M. Kelley
Missouri National Guard
East Side
Frank Kohler
Kohler
Robert Docking
Kangas
Kan
Ilus Davis
C. M. Kelley
National Guard
Heller to Speak at Washburn Honors Day
Dr. Walter W. Heller economist and consultant to the President will address Washburn University Honors Day on April 24. He is a professor of economics at Minnesota and has served as a consultant to the Executive Office of the President since 1965.
Plane Crash Injures R L Schaforth Near Hays Kansas
R L Schaforth of Oklahoma City sustained serious injuries when his light plane crashed in a pasture about five miles east of Hays. He was alone and taken to a Hays hospital with multiple broken bones. Cause under investigation. believed he may have been attempting an emergency landing.
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Hays
Kan
R. L. Schaforth
Oklahoma City
Pasure
Schaforth
Fire destroys Leonard Homeler farm near Russell Kansas
The Leonard Homeler farm 15 miles southeast of Russell was wiped out by a Thursday fire with 40 mile per hour winds. The house and outbuildings burned as grassland acres burned. Robert Homeler, 16, a son, was overcome by smoke while fighting the blaze and is reported in good condition at a Russell hospital.
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Russell, Kan
Leonard Homeler
Russell
Robert Homeler
Motorcyclist Killed in Florence Area Crash
Rex L. Mahan, 33, of Haysville Kansas, died after his motorcycle left U S 77 four miles south of Florence, crashed into a ditch and he was dead on arrival at a Marion hospital. He was passing an auto at the time, sheriff's officers said.
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Wichita
Rex L. Mahan
Haysville
Kan
Florence
Marion
Final meeting of Methodist Woman's Society in Kansas
The Methodist Woman's Society of Christian Service of the Central Kansas Conference will hold its final annual meeting April 18-19 in Wichita. The society will be dissolved and a new women’s organization formed after the union of Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren churches on April 23 in Dallas. Conference president Mrs. Elbert DeForeat said the theme for the 27th annual meeting is Called From Worship Unto Service.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Methodist Woman’s Society of Christian Service
Central Kansas Conference
Evangelical United Brethren Churches
Dallas
Elbert DeForeat
Wichita
Hallmark Foundation Donates 25000 To Washburn University
The Hallmark Cards Foundation contributed 25000 dollars to Washburn Municipal University on Thursday to support campus reconstruction after the 1966 tornado damage. The gift strengthens recovery efforts and aids long term rebuilding plans.
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Topeka
Washburn Municipal University
Hallmark Cards Foundation
Johnson Signs New Law Blasts Racial Bigotry
President Johnson signed an open housing bill amid outrage over Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. s assassination and ensuing violence. The law bans housing discrimination in most sales and rentals by 1970, creates federal hate crime enforcement, and forms a Civil Rights enforcement task force led by Stephen Pollak to pursue violations and refer cases to the FBI. It requires state or local open housing laws in 11 of 23 states to align with federal provisions.
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Martin Luther King Jr
Washington
Johnson
Martin Luther King
White House
All America
King
Congress
America
Memphis
Tenn
Pres Dent
John F. Kennedy
Justice Department
Civil Rights Division
Stephen J. Pollak
FBI
Pollak
Johnson to See Korea Leader At Honolulu Talks
President Johnson plans a Wednesday meeting in Honolulu with South Korean President Park Chung-hee. The talks follow a canceled Easter trip after King’s assassination and address South Korea’s Vietnam troop role, tensions with North Korea, and the Pueblo crew in North Korea.
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Johnson
Korea
Honolulu
Washington
White House
Chung Hee Park
South Korea
Hawaii
Texas
Park
Vietnam
U.S
Miss Ottawa Pageant Tickets On Sale At Shelden’s
Reserved seats for the annual Miss Ottawa pageant on May 3 and 4 go on sale Monday at Shel den's Men’s Wear. Advance tickets may be exchanged to secure preferred seating. Tickets also available from Ottawa Lions Club members.
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Ottawa
Shelden
Ottawa, Lions Club
Weather forecast for county including cooler turn and showers
Considerable cloudiness and cooler winds with a few showers tonight. Saturday mostly cloudy and colder with scattered light showers. Lows tonight in the 50s, Saturday highs in the 60s. Temperatures record: high 86 in 1930, low 19 in 1957. Hourly temps ending at 8 am today.
Callup Timing Weighs On Kansas National Guard
AP report shows Kansas National Guard members learned mobilization could come at any time. About 3,500 KanSans in the 69th Infantry Brigade will train at Ft Campbell KY, while 995th Maintenance Company units from Hays and Russell head to Ft Lewis WA. Officers and enlisted personnel reflect mixed surprise and expectation, noting long service and readiness.
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PEKA
Kansas National Guard
69Th Infantry
69Th
Ft. Campbell
995Th
Hays and
Russell
Ft. Lewis
Wash
Bruce B. Muzzy
69Th Brigade
Topeka
Muzzy
Kansas Power and Light Co
Vietnam
National Guard
Sgt
John Cummings
Seymour Foods Co
Cummings
Ft. Riley
Kan
Tom Lanschagrin
Blind Topekan Drowned In Lake Pomona Mishap
The Osage County drowning occurred Thursday afternoon when 28 year old George Lewis, a blind Topekan, fell overboard as a 12 foot flat bottom boat accelerated after being released by his companion. Lewis had been fishing since Wednesday with William Gilchrist. His body was recovered about three hours later and taken to Shaffer Feltner Mortuary in Lyndon.
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Lake Pomona
Ralph Dennis
Topeka
Dennis
Osage County
George Lewis
William Gilchrist
Gilchrist
Lewis
Shaffer-Feltner Mortuary
Lyndon
Total lunar eclipse visible across Americas tonight
If skies are clear, a total eclipse of the moon will be visible across nearly all of North and South America tonight and early Saturday. The eclipse lasts about 50 minutes with the moon turning coppery red as it enters Earth’s shadow at 10:10 PM EST and finishes around 12:12 AM.
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New York
North
South America
American Museum-Hayden Planetarium
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Kansas
Elizabeth Mitchell
Mrs
Willard Mitchell
RFD
Heller
Boy Hart
WSCS
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
William C.westmoreland
Ellsworth Bunker
South Vietnam
North Korea
Pueblo
Mtae
State Guard
Lanschagrin
Charles F. Cooper
Cooper
The
Guard
Army Air Corps
Glen D. Alexander
Alexander
Blind Topekan
Randolph Bundy
Kiwanis Club
Lions Club
Kiwanis
Lions
Bundy
Steve Ralph
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co
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