Paola Man Found Dead After Threat of Active Duty
Edward Gene Emmart age 21 a Kansas National Guard specialist was found dead in his Paola home after leaving a despondent note about being called to active duty. A .22 revolver was found beside him and a note addressed to family and friends expressed distress over two years of military service. Funeral arrangements are set in Paola with burial at Osawatomie Cemetery.
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Paola
Ottawa
Edward Gene Emmart
Kansas National Guard
130Th Artillery
69Th Brigade
Ft. Carson
Colo
Harold Emmart
Leslie Barrett
Miami County
Barrett
Rex Stanley
Emmart
Town and Country
Paola Presbyterian Church
Wilson and Son Funeral Home
Osawatomie
Pittsburg State
Ronnie Emmart
Ed Emmart Sr
Ed Dennerline
Parakeet Petey Returns Home From Freezing Kansas Night
Anna Maria Garcia, a Sacred Heart student, watched her parakeet Petey vanish after an open window. The bird survived near freezing as it wandered and dodged starlings before returning to Sacred Heart the next afternoon. Petey’s owner, Eldon Schnoke, retrieved the bird and gifted the class a replacement parakeet named Herman.
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Zeke Wigglesworth
Anna Maria Garcia
Petey
Anna Maria
Sister Mary Linus
Sacred Heart Catholic School
Oge’s Market
South Maple
Schnoke
Herman
Eddie Garcia
King
Former Druggist Dies At Home In Ottawa Area
Francis Edward Bell 54 of Ottawa RFD 4 died at home of an apparent heart attack. Services 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Wellsville Methodist Church with Rev. Robert Craig. Burial Oak Hill Cemetery Baldwin with Masonic and American Legion rites. WWII veteran and former Mann Bell Drug Store partner, survived by wife Bertha and two sons.
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Francis Edward Bell
Ottawa
RFD
Mann-Bell Drug Store
Wellsville Methodist Church
Robert Craig
Oak Hill Cemetery
Baldwin
Masonic
American Legion
Miami County
Wellsville
Charles Frederick
Minnie (Lingle) Bell
Bertha Ewing
Baker University
University of Kansas
Steven Edward
Robert Frederick
Forrest Bell
Faye Kalb
Wheat Corn and Sorghum Stocks Rise in Kansas Apr
Reserve Grain Topeka reports Kansas储 April grain storage totals for wheat corn and sorghum higher than a year earlier.
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Topeka
Kansas
County Forecast Mixed clouds and showers possible
The county forecast calls for tonight and Saturday to be partly cloudy to cloudy with a chance of a few showers. Mild conditions continue Saturday with a high in the 60s and a low around 40s to 45. Precipitation chances are 20 percent this afternoon, 30 percent tonight, and 20 percent Saturday.
LBJ selects George Ball to replace Goldberg at U N
President Johnson named former State Department official George W. Ball to be ambassador to the United Nations, replacing Arthur Goldberg. Ball, 58, a critic of U S policy on Vietnam, signals Johnson's push for a negotiated settlement during his final nine months in office. Goldberg will handle U S arguments on the nuclear weapons treaty before leaving in early June.
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Washington
Johnson
State Department
George W. Ball
Arthur Goldberg
United Nations
Ball
Goldberg
U.S
Mont Tremlant
Montreal
Canada
U.N
Soviet Union
Britain
Nevada tests hydrogen bomb rocks desert near Las Vegas
A massive hydrogen bomb test 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas shook the Nevada desert at 7 am, with the blast felt in Las Vegas. Evacuations and road closures followed as researchers faced protests from business leaders and labor groups including the United Auto Workers appealing to President Johnson for postponement.
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Las Vegas
Nev
United States
Nevada Desert
Here
Mint
Pahute Mesa
Lonely Desert
U.S
Hiroshima
United Auto Workers
Johnson
Hazar’s
Humphrey
Nevada
Romanian Communist purge topples Gheorghiu-Dej figures
In Bucharest a Romanian Communist leadership commission denounces Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej linking him to the 1954 Patrascanu trial and execution. It also removes Alexandru Draghici from party presidium duties and recommends his removal from the deputy premier cabinet post.
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Bucharest
Romania
Soviet Union
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
Romanian
Central Committee
Gheorghiu-Dej
Lucretiu Patrascanu
Alexandru Draghici
United Methodist Church to Fight Poverty and Racism
The United Methodist Church launches a $20 million operation to address the nation’s race crisis, citing the Sermon on the Mount. The effort targets Negroes the poor and youth, with urban slum projects and minority assistance, plus a volunteer youth corps on subsistence pay.
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United Methodist Church
Dallas
Tex
United Methodists
U.S
America
Coyote Bounty Ties County Office To Gruesome Ear Trade
Carol Price at Franklin County Clerk’s office uncovers a bounty scheme paying for coyote ears. Hunters pocket up to $2 per ear, with total bounties rising monthly and workers burning ears to hide payments. Boss Bruce Spears questions the program as wasteful and inappropriate.
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Scott Payne
Carol Price
Court House
Lean
Bruce Spears
Carol
Franklin County
Kansas
Franklin County Court House
Spears
Betsy
Kansas Servicemen Die in Vietnam War Action
Defense Department casualty list names three Kansas soldiers killed in action in Vietnam. Spec 4 Samuel P. Cowan Jr. of Kansas City Kansas, Spec 4 Jack D. Goode of Coffeyville, and Pfc. Ernest Vetter Jr. of Wichita are listed among the dead, with parent mentions in each hometown.
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Washington
Defense Department
Kansas
Army
Spec
Samuel P. Cowan Jr
Samuel P. Cowan Sr
Kansas City
Kan
Jack D., Goode
Samuel B. Goode
Rt. 1
Box 4A
Coffeyville
Pfc
Ernest Vetter Jr
Johnny D. Vetter
Guardiac
Wichita
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Sacred Heart
Eldon Schnoke
S. Maple
Penny
Emporia State
Eldon Schnoke and
Bell
Trinity Methodist Church
Wellsville Lodge
Miss Ottawa
Marcella Goertzen
Ottawa University
Niobrara
Neb
LBJ
Coyote
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