Technicality Postpones KC Arraignment
Kansas City AP reports a legal technicality delayed the arraignment of Henry F. Brown on murder and robbery charges tied to the January 19 bank hold up in Overland Park Kansas. Judge Herbert Walton rescheduled to Friday after Brown waived a preliminary hearing. Sergeant Eldon Miller of the Kansas Highway Patrol died in the gun battle. Brown, wounded, has recovered.
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Kansas City
Henry F. Brown
State Line
Overland Park
Kan
Herbert Walton
Johnson County District Court
Brown
Federal Penitentiary
Leavenworth
Eldon Miller
Kansas Highway Patrol
Miller
Nubians Lose Historic Lands to Aswan Dam Rise
Nubians, descendants of an ancient empire, see 50,000 lives displaced as Lake Nasser forms behind the Aswan Dam. The government resettled many in Kom Ombo, with some villagers abandoning the new homes for Cairo. Despite efforts, many long for homeland, preserving tribal councils and dust from their inundated villages while adapting customs to new economic realities.
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Aswan
Egypt
Nubia
Ethiopia
Nasser
Kom Ombo
Cairo
Lake Nasser
Frozen Cavern Holds Nation’s Pantry Beneath Kansas Bluff
Inland Underground Facilities Co operates a vast 230 million pound underground food storage cavern near the Kansas River, owned by Beatrice Foods. The 100 acre site, cooled to minus 5 degrees, employs 322 workers and uses 6,000 tons of refrigeration to store canned and packaged goods for two months before shipment to chain stores nationwide.
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Kansas City
Kan
Inland Underground Facilities Co
Inland
Kansas River
Beatrice Foods Co
Ual Handling
Scott
Giant Air Force C5A Galaxy Rollout Planned in Georgia
The Air Force will roll out the massive C5A Galaxy at Lockheed Georgia in Marietta with ceremonies Saturday. Weighing 728,000 pounds and powered by four GE engines, the plane can carry 350 troops and equipment, and target capability includes nonstop 110 tons to Europe or 56 tons to the Far East. It should enter service in June 1969 and aims to enter commercial aviation later with a 700 passenger version. Col. Howell M. Estes Jr. notes it can deliver outsized Army equipment no other aircraft can handle and operate from short, rough runways with long-range reach.
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Marietta, Ga
Air Force
Lockheed Georgia Co
Lockheed-Georgia
Aircrat Field
Lockheed
Douglas Aircraft
Boeing
General Electric
Howell M. Estes Jr
Military Airight Command
What Price Glory author Stallings dies at 73
Laurence Stallings Jr died in West Los Angeles at 73. The WWI veteran wrote What Price Glory with Maxwell Anderson and The Doughboys. He lost both legs from war wounds yet remained active, later writing She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and reporting for Fox News. He fought in 1918 as a Marine and served in World War III era Air Force duties.
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Los Angeles
Laurence Stallings Jr
Army Air Corps
Merian C. Cooper
Cooper
Stallings
the Doughboys
Fox Movietone News
Europe
Ethiopia
Spain
France
England
Africa
Middle East
Hollywood
Macon
Wake Forest College
North Carolina
Walkout Set by Oklahoma Education Association
The Oklahoma Education Association executive committee called a one day statewide walkout for a convention next week in Oklahoma City. The meeting, set for Tuesday or Wednesday, aims to present school finance information to about 27,000 teachers and is described as a professional holiday to be made up later this year.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Education Association
Gladys Nunn
OFA
NASA to launch fifth orbiting observatory Friday
Cape Kennedy Fla AP reports NASA plans to place OGO 5 into orbit atop an Atlas Agena rocket. The satellite carries 25 scientific experiments to study how sun flare eruptions influence Earth's weather and space environment.
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Cape Kennedy, Fla
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Geophysical Observatory
Kansas Oilman Sought For Carolina Fraud
Kansas oilman Clyde Endicott, 43, of Sedan is sought for extradition on Wilmington North Carolina charges of conspiracy to defraud and fraud tied to oil lease sales by his Raven Oil Co. and affiliates. An aide to Gov. Docking cites 18 NC counts and a California indictment, with two others named. Endicott pursued extradition for nearly a year. Charles W. Engelhard bought over $1 million in yearlings at Keeneland and Saratoga in 1967.
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Topeka
Kansas
Wilmington
N.C
Clyde Endicott
Sedan
Kan
Raven O11 Co
Radigo O11 Co
Clyde Endicott Supply Co
Robert Docking
Endicott
California
Ronald Baxter
Raven Oil Co
Baxter
Bill Dillin
Sedgwick Couney Court
Attorney General’s Office
Kenneth E. Endicott
North Carolina
Charles W. Engelhard
Keeneland
Saratoga
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Perfume River
Dong Ba
Walled Citadel
Imperial Palace
Aswan Dam
Nile
American University of Cairo
United States
Charles L. Scott
Saffron Glass Co
Norma Claypool
Patti Elaine
Miss Claypool
Maxwell Anderson
Ogo
Keefer
CKUP
Ottawa Herald
S. Main
HOMCO
Sheldon
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