Richmond Fair Opens With Record Crowd
The Richmond Free Fair opened to what may have been the largest opening-night crowd in its 37-year history. Special events featured Howard Hershberger winning the team-pulling contest and George Brenner taking top amateur honors with a trumpet solo. The Richmond Cubs beat Garnett Lions 12 to 3 to end athletic events as judging concluded in the 4-H photography contest with Jean Reichard winning the human interest division.Livestock judging begins Friday morning with contests at 11. Friday night offers include a square dance, pulling contests, old fiddler contest, cow calling, barber shop quartet, chorus, and Centennial special contests.
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Richmond
Jean Reichard
Williamsburg
Tharon Hornburger
Connie McClure
Miss Reichard
Brothers of the Brush
Side Swipes and a Schnapps Thank You
A Duisburg man phoned the police to drive his car home after drinking. Officers obliged, parked the car in his garage, then found him later at the station waving a bottle and thanking them. Tulsa man Virgil Hougland turns parking meters into income, making $185 first month by collecting coins.
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Duisburg
Germany
Tulsa
Okla
Virgil Hougland
Hougland
County beef champion crowns three breed winners at fair
AP reports Gary Mehl of Seward County showed the county champion beef animal at the Five State Fair. In 1959 he won with a Short Horn and last year with a Hereford. This week his Black Angus again earned county champion status.
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Liberal (Ap
Gary Mehl
Seward
Weather COUNTY FORECAST Midday and Weekend Update
Considerable cloudiness through Saturday with scattered thunderstorms and locally heavy rains. Cooler Saturday with lows in the mid to upper 60s and highs near 80. Yesterday's high 86 and low 46. record highs and lows noted. Hourly data for the past 24 hours listed but unreadable in spots. Weather summary reflects unsettled conditions into the weekend.
Greeley High Adds New Courses and Repairs
Greeley High School expands curriculum with Spanish French Psychology Work History Trigonometry English IV as the building receives repairs and painting. Both Greeley high and grade schools start the new term on August 28, with Greeley located in the northeast corner of Anderson County southeast of Ottawa.
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Greeley High School
Greeley High
Greeley
Anderson County
Ottawa
Washington in mild sweat over Berlin Situation
Weak signals from Berlin prompt cautious coverage as Washington weighs options. Officials stress steady policy and allied cohesion while awaiting clearer developments and potential U S responses to the evolving cold war scenario.
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Washington
Berlin
Senate Rejects Veto on Foreign Aid Grants
Washington AP The Senate rejected a proposal to require congressional veto power over foreign aid grants over 5 million dollars for development projects abroad and blocked an amendment by Senator Winston L Prouty to apply existing curbs to such gifts. The bill already calls for Treasury financed five year development loan programs with loans submitted to four committees 30 days in advance.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Winston L. Prouty
R-Vt
Treasury
Scouts Hike Lincoln Trail for Medal in Missouri
Seven Ottawa Boy Scouts from Methodist Church Troop 77 will hike 20 miles from New Salem to Springfield Missouri along the Lincoln trail. They earned the trip by completing Lincoln life book reports and will receive medals after the hike led by Scoutmaster Fred Adamson and helpers.
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Ottawa
Springfield
Abraham Lincoln
New Salem
Abe
Dennis Cook
Perry Wollen
Richard Johnson
David Adamson
Hal Suits
Jim Graham
Scott Harris
The
Methodist Church
Fred Adamson
Adamson
Bob Graham
W. S. Suits
Lincoln
The Boss and the Key to Office Status
A humorous measure of rank in firms uses S equals D over K where D is doors to open and K is keys carried. The piece cites Robert Sommer and applies examples from janitors to presidents to illustrate how status scales with access versus responsibility.
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New York
Sommer
Saskatchewan Hospital
Weyburn
Canada
United Chest Budgets Due By Aug 26 Says Judge Pinet
Organizations must submit budgets to Judge Robert L. Pinet or Frank Holden by August 26. The budget committee will inspect submissions and set the association’s budget. Members without current representation should contact Mrs. Neil Bullock.
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Ottawa United Chest Association
Robert L. Pinet
Judge Pinet
Frank Holden
Traffic Toll Topeka Kansas 1961 compares 1960 figures
Traffic death toll in Topeka Kansas shows 44 hours to 9 am Friday for August 14 1961, with a comparable figure of 298 for the same period in 1960. The report notes the year over year change and locations involved.
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Topeka
Kansas
Allies to Build Up West Berlin Forces
London AP report that the United States Britain and France concur in principle to send token troops to West Berlin forming an 11,000 strong Allied garrison. Diplomats say the move aims to show resolve against East German border closures while avoiding Russian provocation. Britain will likely back any US lead, with urgent consultations ongoing for a possible announcement.
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London
United States
Britain
France
West Berlin
Berlin
East Berlin bricks up border as refugees slip West
East Germany begins a brick barrier inside East Berlin to reinforce barbed wire. West Berlin police report Red guards fired on a heavy-truck attempt by three refugees to cross, but they reached West Berlin unscathed. A bullet hit a Western house wall. engineers work behind wire to seal the sector as about 150 people daily escape.
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Berlin
East Germany
East Berlin
West Berlin
Cold Front To Bring Rain Across Kansas
A new cold front moved into western and north central Kansas bringing heavy rains. Hoxie recorded the highest rainfall at 3.40 inches as the system spread southeast with cooler daytime temperatures and increased clouds. Rains expected to continue across eastern Kansas with high humidity through Saturday.
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Topeka
Kansas
Hoxie
Mother Kills Children Self in Atlanta Tragedy
A distraught Atlanta housewife shot dead her husband James C. Richardson and three children aged 6 months to 3 years, then killed herself after learning she was two months pregnant. Police tied the killings to her belief she was expecting again, with shells found in the bathroom implying multiple reloads.
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Atlanta
Lammie Jean Kicklighter Richardson
JFK Sends Johnson To Berlin
The White House says Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson will fly to Berlin as Kennedy’s representative to meet West German leaders. Accompanied by Gen. Lucius Clay, Johnson will confer with Chancellor Adenauer and Mayor Willy Brandt to relay a reply to Brandt’s message.
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JFK
Johnson
Berlin
Washington
White House
Lyndon B. Johnson
Kennedy
Lucius Clay
U.S
Germany
Squeezes Two Boys To Death
Milwaukee authorities report two boys, Donald Craig age 4 and Dean Craig age 2, found dead in their home after a housekeeper allegedly squeezed them to death. Investigator Ray Gutkowski noted burns on the younger boy indicating torture with a lighted cigarette. Miss Lucille Adams, 24, identified as the housekeeper, faced possible first degree murder charges.
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Milwaukee, Wis
Milwaukee
Harold Brier
Ray Gutkowski
Gutkowski
Breier
Lucille Adams
William J. McCauley
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