Kansas Babies Make News In 1960 Highlights
A Kansas Year in Review notes 1960 silliness and small milestones. Salina’s 15 month old Brian Fashaw required police help to free a stuck potty chair, Emporia’s 17‑month‑old Marie Ann Jones showcased a talent for whistling, and Wyandotte County issued birth certificates for 17 of 18 children after a request by Mrs Arthur F. Carver of Linwood. A two year old pour into an iron caused soap bubbles in Liberal. Names include Parisons Day and Joy Richmond for a new son Jac, Dodge City’s Decker family adopting a girl named Cash and a son named Carey, Pittsburg’s Saver Dollar with a daughter Penny, Wichita’s Steuber family and their daughter Shari Lynn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Salina
Brian Fashaw
Brian
Mark
Arthur FE. Carver
Linwood
Wyandotte County
Liberal
Marvin Branstine
Day
Joy Richmond
Parisons
Jac
Jane
Jon
Steve ‘Decker
Dodge City
Carey
Pittsburg
Saver Dollar
Penny
Neal Steuber
Wichita
Shari Lynn
Lane area airman Charles Mitchell returns home for holidays
Airman Charles Mitchell arrives from Turkey to spend two weeks with wife and daughter, Wayne Hettler and family host Christmas dinners and visits across Humboldt Osawatomie Topeka and Kansas City. Other locals host relatives from Centralia Washington St Joseph and Welch while hospital stays are noted for Jerry Holland family. Rev Truman Christian visits with parents in Seat Pleasant and W M Christian enters St Joseph's Hospital in Kansas City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Mitchell
Turkey
Air Force
Wayne Hettler
Humboldt
la von Hettler
Ottawa
Jim Kennedy
W. H. Hettler
Clifford Hettler
George Snow Jr
R. E
Holland
Jerry
Tommy
Judy
St. Margaret’s Hospital
Kansas City
Kas
Earl Crown
Nellie Boyd
Betty Winslow
Wilma Rowland
Topeka
W. E. Rowland
Jack Kelley
Earl Boyd
Missin
R. E. Metzger
Centralia
Wash
Jack Brownlee
Metzger
St. Joseph
Christmas Guests and Local News From Rapanoose Area
Reports list Christmas guests at multiple homes including Afro Bond in Bellingham Washington and Darell Lauver in Muncie Indiana. The Appanoose Baptist Church held a Christmas program with gift exchange. A citywide school news item notes a senior class graduation moment in Topeka as a salutatorian births occur nearby. Additional notes cover Kansas City and Lawrence visitors and a Santa Claus letter from Wichita.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Appanoose Baptist Church
Alfred Schmitt
Jee Bonar
Hallie Siessey
Lex Drountyn
Ezekie
Lester Clark
Rand
Marvin Woodland
Isons
Topeka
Dillon Ane
I Vernon Clark
Four More Dams Proposed in Kansas Plan
AP reports Army Engineers recommend a $1 million plan to build four multipurpose reservoirs on Lyon Creek in Geary and Dickinson counties Onaga Reservoir Vermillion Creek Potawatomi County Grove Reservoir Soldier Creek Jackson County and Clinton Reservoir Wakarusa River Douglas and Shawnee counties The package totals about 70.237 million including 539 thousand for land purchases to mitigate wildlife habitat loss and 20.883 million to augment flood protection at Kansas City Col. Robert S Palmer notes that river improvements would stabilize streams and reduce erosion but bank stabilization is not economically justified now.
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Omaha
Kansas
Kansas City
Army Engineers
Board of Engineers For
Washington
Lyon Creek
Geary
Dickinson
Onaga
Potawatomie
Grove
Soldier Creek
Jackson County
Clinton
Wakarusa River
Douglas
Shawnee
Robert S. Palmer
Kansas River
Palmer
Loaded Soviet Ships Headed For Cuba
A fleet of Soviet merchant ships moved through the Baltic toward Cuba carrying tractors paper and other goods. Havana Mayor Jose Llanos Govel in Moscow said the shipments broke the economic blockade by U S monopolists and others seeking to strangle the republic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Baltic
Cuba
Jose Llanos Govel
Havana
United States
Boy Hit In Face By Shotgun Blast
A 15 year old Junction City boy, Jimmy Frakes, was struck in the face by a shotgun blast while he and a 12 year old friend handled a .410 shotgun. Surgeons at the University of Kansas Medical Center operated late into the night to treat him. His mother, Eleanor Frakes, was away at the time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Kan
Junction City
Jimmy Frakes
Eleanor Frakes
Jimmy
University of Kansas Medical Center
Hawaii Recount Chooses Kennedy With 115 Vote Edge
Washington AP reports Hawaii’s official recount gave John F. Kennedy 303 electoral votes to Richard Nixon 219, final national totals show Kennedy 34,221,531 to Nixon 34,108,474, with Byrd collecting 16 votes and other candidates 502,773. Kennedy carries 23 states to Nixon’s 26. Mississippi, Alabama, and Oklahoma add Byrd’s pledged and unpledged votes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hawaii
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Richard M. Nixon
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Nixon
Mississippi
Byrd
Alabama
Oklahoma
Also Mentioned on This Page
By Joe Degeorge
Associated Press
Emporia
Marie, Ann Jones
Grace Beam
Rbut
Lane
Edith Crises
Art Schroeder
Lorainne
Ardis Ann Bryan
David and
Lowell
Gardner
JC. R. Kimball
Rapanoose Area
Wilburauver
Afro
Everett Bond
Sandra
Bethel
Oscar Wiggins
Bellingsham
Wendell Lauver
Darell
Muncie
K. Rich
Danny Weese
de Soto
Aly
Harlen Button
Keith
Helen Gilliland
Lawrence
Art Gilliland
Jrank Anderson
Eudora
Arlen Jones and
Kelley
Robert Steele
B. H. Briggs
Airs
Steele
John Richards
Barlington
Towa
Bud Menneke
Algona
W. A. Menneke
Crumb
Violet Mae
Turner
North Pole
Santa Claus
Ashere
Highland Park High School
Joseph Grimaud
Forbes Air Force Base
Lindsborg
Bryce Luty
Bethany College
Kris Krinele
Kris Kingle
Kris
Ft. Riley
Manhattan Mercury
Kramer
Drug Store
TV Service
Keen Company
S. Main
New! Electric
Kansas City Power & Light Company
T-Bone
Swift
wLb
John
California
Texas
Florida
Dox
Calif
Dot
Jane Parker Glazed
Sunkist
A&p
Kraft Philadelphia
A&p Brick
Sultana
Vienna
Nabisco
Alka-Seltzer
Excel
Welchade
Yukon Club
WE Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc
Rm Leai
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