Kansas Governor urges rebalance of House districts
Gov. Avery told legislators that the House must be reapportioned in the current special session while the Senate can wait. He urged creation of representative districts by the Legislature to meet one person one vote standards, warning courts should not usurp the process. The House voted 63 to 45 to proceed with a plan to create 125 residence districts and elect one representative per district.
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Avery
House Apportionment Committee
Kansas
John P. Harris
Hutchinson
House
Senate
Ten Year Old Jail On Its Last Legs
A federal inspection of the Franklin County jail highlights serious deterioration and repeated wear from inmates. Sheriff Joe Ferns notes patching replaces major repairs as outmoded facilities struggle with plumbing, heating, and safety needs. County leaders consider renovation or a new joint city county building with possible federal aid, while funds remain uncertain.
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Rosie Lister
Hubert H. Raney
Franklin County
Ferns
Raney
Averill
Sheriff
Lee Nichols
Joe Ferns
Gas Kills Swiss Workers in Mountain Power Tunnel
Seventeen workmen suffocated by carbonic gas in a tunnel at Robiei hydroelectric station near Locarno Switzerland. Fifteen victims were Italian. An Italian inquiry team arrived and details were withheld pending investigation. The tunnel feeds the station's artificial lake in a barren mountain area north of Locarno.
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Locarno
Switzerland
Robiei
Senate debate before war bill passes
The Senate faces days of debate before likely passage of a 4.8 billion military authorization bill covering Viet Nam outlays. Critics urge delaying until witnesses testify, while leaders push speedy action to fund troops abroad.
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Senate
Washington
Johnson
Russell B. Long
Louisiana
Wayne Morse
Viet Nam
County Forecast: Fair, cold night. warming Thursday
The county forecast calls for fair skies and continued cold tonight. Thursday should be clear to partly cloudy and warmer with a night low of 10 to 15 and a high around 40. Temperatures today include a high of 46 and a low of 15, with year ago readings of 42 and 25. Record highs and lows for this date stand at 71 in 1911 and -8 in 1903. Hourly temperatures end at 8 am today.
Dover Coach Descriptive Piece in Ottawa University Jazz Concert
An Ottawa University band concert at 8 tonight features a trumpet trio performing Dover Coach a descriptive Dover England mood. Works by MacDowell Von Suppe and Wagner under Prof William Kloster with Elie Siegmeister Five Folk Song. The program includes tain Donkey Gal The Monkey s Wedding Black Is The Color of My True Love s Hair and M seau Banjo. Admission is free.
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Dover
England
Ottawa University
University
MacDowell
von Suppe
Wagner
William Kloster
Elie Siegmeister
Seau Banjo
Kansas Senate Postpones Reapportionment to 1967 Session
Topeka AP reports Republican lawmakers in the Kansas Senate voted to delay upper-chamber reapportionment until the 1967 general session to shorten the current special session and save taxpayer money. House reapportionment must proceed. A 1966 court ruling set an April 1 deadline, later postponed to April 1, 1968, allowing current senators to finish terms while 1968 elections approach.
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Topeka
Kansas Senate
Senate
House
Atty
Robert Sonderholm
Batman and Superman Comics Guarded at Library of Congress
The Library of Congress stores Batman and Superman comics, dating from the late 1930s, in locked gray boxes for scholarly use only. About 2,500 titles, the collection may be the world’s largest, with new titles arriving under copyright rules, and rare copies valued highly as researchers consider microfilming.
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John H. Thaxter
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Federal Court
House of Representatives
Kansas Supreme Court
Harris Vs. Anderson
O’ Avery
Greeley County
Sedgwick County
Jack Turner
Wichita
Thomas van Cleave
Kansas City
Turner
Jess Taylor
Sheriff's Department
Don Averill
Come Mission
Morse
Mike Mansfield
Florida
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Maxwell D. Taylor
Saigon
Dean Rusk
Richard B. Russell
de Ga
Senate Armed Services Committee
Congress
Russell
Vance Hartke
Delind
James Anderson
E. Blackhawk
John Presley
S. Hickory
Thomas Young
Lakewood
Ohio
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