Funeral Friday For Kerr
Washington AP reports funeral services for Sen Robert Kerr Democrat Oklahoma will be held Friday at 2 30 p m in the First Baptist Church Oklahoma City. Kerr 66 died of a heart ailment in Doctors Hospital Washington Tuesday. His body leaves for Oklahoma City at 6 p m today by Air Force plane with his three sons and Mrs Kerr to join family there. The body will lie in state in the Oklahoma Capitol rotunda from 9 a m to 4 p m tomorrow with National Guard honor guards.
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Washington
Robert
Kerr
D-Okla
First Baptist Church
Oklahoma City
Doctors’ Hospital
Air Force
Robert S. Jr
Breene M
William G. Kerr
Kennedy to attend Kerr funeral in Oklahoma City
President Kennedy plans a Friday flight to Oklahoma to attend Senator Robert Kerr's funeral and return immediately. Mrs. Kennedy will not accompany him. Accompanying the President are Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, Brigadier General Godfrey McHugh, and Pierre Salinger.
Dick Powell Gravely Ill in Hollywood
Hollywood AP Dick Powell actor and producer remains gravely ill from cancer. He spent three days at Newport Beach before returning to his Wilshire District apartment for the New Year holiday. A spokesman said friends are deeply concerned about his condition.
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Hollywood (Ap
Dick Powell
Powell
Newport Beach
Wilshire
John C. Sharpe
Prayer Invokes kickoff before Cotton Bowl clash
Rev. Louie D. Boatmann former Trinity Methodist pastor gave the invocation before the Dallas Cotton Bowl kickoff as LSU defeated Texas 13-0. Boatmann, a sports fan who has retired, led the pregame prayer. The piece notes prayers precede Southwest Conference games.
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Louie D. Boatmann
Trinity Methodist Church
Ottawa
Dallas
Tex
Boatmann
Louisiana State
Texas
Tshumbe
Censes Browns
Fear 12 Dead In Blast At Meat Packing Plant
A dawn explosion at Home Packing Co meat plant in Terre Haute Indiana left 12 dead and 47 injured as ammonia fumes steam and debris hampered rescue efforts. Officials recovered 10 bodies with 2 more spotted. 14 workers unaccounted. Damages near 2 million and 200 workers were in the plant. Fire crews police and civil defense joined 75 rescuers at the Wa bash River plant as investigators weighed boiler or ammonia leak as possible causes.
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Terre Haute
Ind
the Holidays Packing
Home Packing Co
Indiana
George Obenchain
Bill Jewell
Indianapolis
Dlinois
Wabash River
U. S. 40
Tshombe Demands Ceasefire By UN
Congo capital crisis deepens as Moise Tshombe on calls for cease fire on the road from Elisabethville to Kolwezi seeks guarantees for safety and freedom of movement. He wants consular escort for the journey amid Katangan forces regrouping. U Thant and Gardiner warn against allowing reorganizing armed forces.
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Leopoldville, the Congo
Moise Tshombe
Congo
U.N
Kolwezi
Koiwezi
Elisabethville
Tshombe
U Thant
Robert K. A. Gardiner
United Nations
Lufira River
Jadotville
New Partner In Ottawa Company
Willard Lister announced a change in ownership at Lister Hardware & Plumbing, 123 E. 2nd, with his son Richard Lee Lister taking a one third stake. Richard, a Ottawa High School and Ottawa University graduate, has studied plumbing and heating at trade schools and will help remodel the storefront including an office on the south side to be rented soon.
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Lister Hardware & Plumbing
E. 2Nd
Willard Lister
Richard Lee Lister
Ottawa High School
Ottawa University
Tonly's Toot Skips Repair Call After Clear Screen
The note reports that Tonly's Toot planned to call a TV repairman today but the screen has cleared up markedly since yesterday, reducing urgency and suggesting a temporary fix or fading issue. The readable text focuses on the prior intention and the improved condition.
Retired Ottawa mechanic George Royer ends 1962 career
George T. Royer of 116 East Ninth Street retired Monday at 65 after a long local career in auto service dating to the mid-1920s. He started at Hymes garage, later opened Royer Garage at 110 West Fourth, moved to 127 South Hickory, and his successor Gerald Walburn takes over. Royer keeps home plans and a future vacation in view as friends and customers hail his retirement.
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George T. Royer
Royer
Ottawa
Hymes
W. 4Th
Sam's Tire & Supply
Hickory
Gerald Walburn
Evelyn Shomber
Charles
Quinter
Dale
Lincoln
Neb
Roger
Ask Railroad To Share Its Profits
A presidential emergency board recommended that Southern Pacific use cost savings from automation to fund benefits for clerks losing jobs. The plan would base renewed talks on a formula providing furlough benefits up to 70 percent of earnings for up to one year, funded by the railroad and paired with unemployment insurance.
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Palm Beach, Fla
Southern Pacific Railroad
Southern Pacific
Kennedy
Car Fire Triggered by Hood Light In Cold Spell
Syracuse AP reports Richard Valle placed a 150 watt bulb under his car hood to warm the engine during a cold spell. Heat from the bulb ignited a blanket under the hood, catching fire and setting the car ablaze.
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Syracuse
N.Y
New York City
Richard Valle
Valle
Plan to Abandon 112 Miles of Rail Track WASHINGTON
The Interstate Commerce Commission approved a plan by the Kansas Oklahoma and Gulf Railway Co to abandon more than 112 miles of track in Oklahoma and Kansas. The line segments include 103.4 miles between Okay and Miami, Oklahoma, and 8.9 miles between northern Oklahoma and Military Junction, Kansas.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Railway Co
Oklahoma
Kansas
ICC
Okay
Miami
Okla
Military Junction
Kan
Traffic Toll Toll Death Log for January 1963 1964
Kansas highway death toll for the 48 hours ending 9 a.m. Wednesday shows figures for January 1963 and 1964. The December 1962 total is 45, with 588 deaths in 1962 and a comparable 1961 period of 48.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather and Kansas forecast summary
The county forecast calls for considerable cloudiness tonight with fading showers. Thursday will be partly cloudy and warmer with scattered drizzle, lows in the upper 20s and highs in the 40s. Kansas forecast shows fair west and mostly cloudy elsewhere with light drizzle or freezing drizzle north east, highs 45 to 50. Five day outlook: near normal east, 3 to 6 degrees above normal west, warmer Thursday, turning colder by weekend with little to no precipitation.
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Kansas
Lille
Three American Killed as Viet Nam Helicopter Assault Hit
In Saigon zone battle, Communist ground fire destroyed 14 of 15 U S helicopters ferrying government troops. Three Americans including an Army captain killed, four wounded. Viet Cong trenches and heavy fighting followed as airlifted troops landed near Vinh Long 50 miles southwest of Saigon.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Ngo Dinh Diem
Mekong
Mekong River
Vinh Long
Brisk Tag Sales Open at County Office
Nearly 550 automobile plates and 135 truck tags were sold by noon, said Mrs. Ralph E. Shafer, county auto clerk. New tags with green figures on white began sales at 8 this morning. Clerks called the early demand good and reminded buyers to bring personal tax receipts and IBM cards from the State Motor Vehicle Department before purchasing plates.
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Ralph E. Shafer
IBM
State Motor Vehicle Department
Lincoln Proclamation Centenary Commemorations Mark Emancipation
New York AP reports the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect 100 years ago this Tuesday. President Kennedy urged nationwide commemorations amid lingering racial discord as the proclamation’s centennial is observed. The document now rests in Albany, New York, while slavery was abolished by the 13th Amendment.
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New York
Abraham Lincoln
Kennedy
Albany
N.Y
Emporia Conductor Loses Leg In Freight-Train Accident
An Emporia freight train conductor, Fred L. Seugendollar, was severely injured when his leg became caught under a Santa Fe freight as he stepped from the train in El Dorado Kansas. The leg was amputated later at a hospital.
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EL Dorado
Kan
Emporia
Fred L. Seugendollar
Ottawa’s First New Year Baby Born at Memorial Hospital
Jonathan Ira Stone, Ottawa’s first newborn of 1963, arrived at 2:12 a m New Year’s Day at Ransom Memorial Hospital. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Carl Stone of Princeton. The family earns gifts from the First Day of the Year contest with prizes listed on pages 6 and 7.
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Jonathan Ira Stone
Ottawa
Johnathan
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Carl Stone
Princeton
Romney Dons His Woolies at Michigan Inauguration
At the Michigan state capitol the winds swept the platform as George Romney prepared for his inauguration. Mrs. Romney told him to wear long johns and woolies, and he appeared warmly dressed despite the 18 degree chill.
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Lansing
Mich
Michigan
George Romney
Hard-Hit England Faces New Storm
London reports shivering southern England braced for another blizzard as snowdrifts block roads and railways. Air Ministry forecasters warn of fresh snowfalls with widespread disruption and a rising death toll as the nation endures a severe winter.
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England
London
Air Ministry
Bloomer Boom As Britain Faces Freezing Winter
In London stores, knee-length woolly bloomers sell out amid the coldest weather since 1881. Shoppers laughed at first but soon found the unglamorous undergarment useful for warmth as blizzards sweep southern England.
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London
Britain
England
Why Ottawa Needs a New High School For Ottawa
The Ottawa Herald explains the need for a proposed new high school as enrollments rise from 452 to 567 by fall 1963 and 590 by 1964, with current classrooms at capacity and shift use looming. More courses are required as graduation and college requirements grow, demanding more teaching space.
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Ottawa
Sacred Heart
Ithe Senior High
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