Fat Animal Sale Draws Many Area Businessmen
4-H Market Animal Sale at Franklin County Fair drew local businessmen. Top bids ranged 26 to 380 per hundred weight with champions and reserve winners in Angus, Shorthorn, lambs and hogs. About 30 cattle, 11 sheep, 15 swine sold. exhibitors and buyers listed. events ran 9 to 4 and rodeo at 8 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ardis Foust
Franklin County
Phil Dunbar
Debbie Chamber
Kandee Wray
Jon Dunbar
Rodeo Clown Balances teaching and rodeo career
Joe Hedrick, a Franklin County rodeo clown and Horton junior high teacher, splits summers as a rodeo performer across the Midwest and winters coaching freshman football basketball and track. He competes in five rodeo events, places in numerous rodeos, and emphasizes discipline and teamwork with cowboys while keeping classroom seriousness. His season wraps with tonight’s final Franklin County rodeo performance.
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Joe Hedrick
Franklin County
Hedrick
Mid-west
Horton
Nixon and Park vow united defense of Korea in summit
In San Francisco the presidents reaffirmed commitment to defend the Republic of Korea under their mutual defense treaty. They urged continued joint efforts toward peace in Vietnam with about 6000 South Korean and U.S. troops present, and Park supported withdrawal of all non-South Vietnamese forces within a year.
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San Francisco
Nixon
Chung Hee Park
United States
South Korea
Korea
Republic of Korea
Vietnam
Park
Washington
White House
Rose Garden
St. Francis
Weather County Forecast Clear to partly cloudy tonight
County forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy conditions tonight, with Saturday partly cloudy and warm. Tonight's low in the upper 60s, Saturday high in the 80s and a 20 percent chance of precipitation. Also noted are historical highs and lows for the date and trace precipitation in the last 24 hours.
Pentagon eyes big troop cuts in Vietnam era plan
Washington AP defense officials note a 100000 man reduction in the armed forces over ten months signals broader Nixon aims for Vietnam withdrawals. Defense Secretary Laird says no pullout from West Germany Korea or Okinawa and Vietnam remains among the few places with many U.S. troops. Nixon previously urged matching Clifford on trimming combat forces from Vietnam this year.
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Washington
Pentagon
Nixon
Vietnam
Melvin R. Laird
West Germany
South Korea
Okinawa
Laird
U.S
US Troops Press To Reach Helicopter Wreck Site
U S forces press a 400 man thrust toward a crashed helicopter near Da Nang as North Vietnamese bunkers hold a 3 day defense. Dive bombers and gunships strike back while 469 enemy troops are reported slain. Eight aboard the helicopter are believed dead including AP photographer Oliver Noonan and Lt. Col. Eli P. Howard Jr.
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Saigon
U.S
da Nang
196Th Light Infantry Brigade
Associated Press
Oliver Noonan
Norwell
Mass
Eli P. Howard Jr
Woodbridge
Controls Slices Through Kansas Legislature Spending
TOPEKA AP Some legislators waste tax dollars by taking expense paid trips to the state capitol for personal business under the excuse of committee meetings. Sen Ross Doyen chairs the Legislative Facilities and Services Committee. He backs tighter controls. subcommittee chairs would need chair approval and call committee chairs must be authorized by the Senate President Pro Tem or the House Speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Ross Doyen
R-Concordia
Legislative Facilities and Services Committee
Kopechnes Win Delay In Court In Autopsy Request
Wilkes Barre Pa AP Mary Jo Kopechne’s parents win a delay in the request to exhume her body for an autopsy. District Attorney Edmund Dinis sought the exhumation after a July accident involving a car driven by Senator Edward M Kennedy. A court judge rescheduled the planned hearing to argue for dismissal of the petition.
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Wilkes-Barre
Mary Jo Kopechne
Dist
Atty
Edmund Dinis
New Bedford
Mass
Dinis
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Bernard C. Brominski
Common Pleas Court
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Peoples National Bank
Anchor Savings and Loan Association
Farmers Elevator
Witherspoon Commission Company
Kansasland Packing Company
Sheldon Truck and Tractor Company
Safeway
Ottawa Farm Implement Company
Briscoe Drugs
Wingert Oil Company
Ottawa Tractor Company
Ottawa Lumber Company
Franklin County Sale Company
Beatty-England Trucking
Deatra Hermreck
Cathy Welborn
Nancy Smith
Donna Kay Hanson
Sheila Hall
Branda Stevens
Bonnie King
Terri Hollon
Geraldine Coffman
Donna Crabb
Carla Roller
Debbie Williams
Roberta Montague
Carol Burlingham
Jackie Shepheard
Debbie Higdon
Rosemary Schamle
Karen Brooks
Gloria Korkames
Linda Adams
Connie Mohr
Jeanie Schamie
Jeannie Hull
Connie Pope
JoAnne Smith
Jane Robson
Diane Cooper
Nanette Troutman
Sharon Fabert
Nanette
Martha Coffman
Kathy Loyd
Linda Peckham
Martha Peine
Leo Peine
Richmond
Franklin County Fairgrounds
Eldon Riley
Northeastern
Kansas Quarter Horse Association
Eldon
Franklin County Fair
Rodeo Clown
Marla Babcock
Eerne
Defense
Clark M. Clifford
Kopechnes
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