Battle For Highway 4 Rages On
A South Vietnamese task force near a key mountain pass 95 miles southwest of Phnom Penh fights North Vietnamese forces to reopen Highway 4 to the sea. An American plane was shot down in another sector of Cambodia. At Stung Chhay the task force clashed with about 20 enemy troops as air and artillery strikes continued. Officials report 41 North Vietnamese and five government troops killed with 28 South Vietnamese wounded. It remains unclear who controls the area.
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Saigon
Phnom Penh
U.S
Cambodia
Stung Chhay
Franklin County meeting erupts over taxes and jail plans
About 160 Franklin Countians packed a morning County Commission session in a public meeting at district court room to vent over high taxes and proposed jail and court facilities. Speakers grilled the hospital board appointments and bond plans while critics urged fiscal restraint and questioned building needs.
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R. Michael Latimer
Lee C. Nichols
Franklin
District Court Room
Franklin County Taxpayers’ Association
Bill Rice
Ottawa Rfd 2
Rice
Don Yockey
Young Cyclone Jeff Sellers Bends Wrist Bones in Season
Jeff Sellers, a high school sophomore linebacker for the Cyclones, broke both carpal bones in his wrists during the football season. The injuries were discovered after the season when X rays showed a right wrist fracture requiring a cast while the left wrist may heal without one. He delayed reporting pain to continue playing and now copes by running as weight lifting is paused.
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Jeff Sellers
Don Sellers
Poplar
Jeff
Sellers
Cyclones
Achoo
Local Library Hosts Opening Workshop In Ottawa Kansas
State librarian Denny Stevens leads a new five year series of cooperative training workshops covering public library laws and service. The NEKL system coordinates sessions with Ottawa Atchison Sabetha Bonner Springs Tonganoxie Miami Douglas Osage and Franklin counties. Participants receive workbooks complete lesson plans are tested and certification is earned after five years.
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Carnegie Free Library
Kansas
Denny Stevens
Stevens
Hutchinson Area
Ray Wilson
Iola
State Library
Ottawa
NEKL
LeRoy Fox
Johnson County
Atchison
Sabetha
Carnegie
Bonner Springs
Tonganoxie
Miami
Douglas
Osage
Franklin Counties
Oor
Neil Barnaby
NEEL
Israelis Attack Guerrilla Base Deep Israeli Raid Kills 10 Arabs
Israeli commandos penetrated two miles into Lebanon and killed 10 Arab guerrillas at a Palestine base on the coast. The raid, the deepest since the Beirut airport attack, involved about 120 commandos in four helicopters and followed several guerrilla raids on Israeli settlements.
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Tel Aviv
Lebanon
Palestine
Israel
Beirut
Saraf
Mediterranean
Sarafand
Gaza Strip
Elias Antar
Weather county forecast and past temperature checks
Partly cloudy and warmer tonight and Saturday with southwesterly winds to 15 mph. Tonight's low 15 to 20, Saturday high in the upper 30s to low 40s. Yesterday's high 28, low 8. year ago high 54, low 29. record high 62 in 1943, record low 12 in 1927. Barometer 30.54. Hourly data appears garbled with several unreadable tokens.
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Citizens ‘Raid’ County Meeting
Edward McGrath
Yockey
Taxpayers’ Association
Yackey
Floyd H. Coffman
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Latimer
District Court
Sheldon Tallman
The
Ottawa Times
Topeka
Jon D. Schmitt
Princeton
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Rock Creek Bridge
Howard G. Short
Kansas City
Kan
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Short
Barnaby
U.N
New York
Gunnar V. Jarring
Egypt
Jordan
Jerusalem
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