Bombing Inquiry Idea Raised by GOP Senator Hartke
Sen. Vance Hartke urged President Johnson to form a board to judge if bombing Vietnam serves U.S. interests. Rusk and Wheeler defended the raids as essential, while Hartke pressed for impartial advice on if boosts to South Vietnamese morale and supply disruption justify the strikes. 10000 more troops were reportedly bound for Vietnam, with total forces rising toward 475000 by year end.
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Washington
Vance Hartke
North Vietnam
Johnson
Dean Rusk
Earle G. Wheelser
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Indiana Democrat
Hanoi
Hartke
Wheeler
Pentagon
Rusk
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
South Vietnam
U.S
Patrick Shaw
United Nations
U.N
U Thant
Thant
Vietnam
Congressional Republicans
Everett M. Dirksen
Foreign Relations Committee
Red China
Missouri Driver Killed In Crash Outside Ottawa
A Missouri man, Dale W. Sharp of Higbee, 32, died from a broken neck when his 1960s Ford left West Seventh Street just outside Ottawa city limits. The car overturned after striking a tree, throwing Sharp into a field about 100 feet away. Eyewitnesses described the car as traveling fast. the body was taken to Dengel and Son Mortuary.
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Missouri
Dale W., Sharp
Higbee
Pomona
West Seventh Street
Ottawa
Dale W. Sharp
Walter E. Hegberg
Gail Osburn
Eskridge
Violet Osburn
Osburn
Ford
Sharp
Enos Horn
DePugh Jailed on Gun Charges
Ros Bert B. DePugh leader of the Minutemen and two lieutenants were sentenced on federal firearms act violations by U S District Judge Elmo Hunter DePugh got four years plus five years probation Walter P Peyson of Norborne Mo got two years and three years probation Troy Houghton of San Diego Calif got three years no probation Appeal planned Bond set at five thousand dollars for each defendant
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Kansas City
Rosbert B. DePugh
National Minutemen Organization
U. S
Elmo Hunter
DePugh
Walter P. Peyson
Noreborne
Troy Houghton
San Diego Calif
Legislature Jumps In Beginning Major Tasks
The Kansas Senate opened a short session with 25 bills, including civil rights, census taking, and constitutional revision. A civil rights measure bans discrimination in property sales or rentals by individuals, adds new Civil Rights Commission members, and lifts the executive director’s salary cap. Other proposals limit census frequency, study constitutional convention need, tax hospital patient liability, raise traffic penalties, allow nonresident bond filings, and Penalize obscene calls with fines or jail.
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Topeka
Kansas Senate
Legislative Council
Kansas Commission On Civil Rights
State Finance Council
Ernest W. Strahan
Salina
Sens
Norman E. Gaar
Shawnee Mission
Kent Frizerell
ReWichita
Robert F. Bennett
RePrairie Village
Jack Quinlan
ReTopeka
Judicial Council
Keith Sebelius
R-Norton
Thanks to an Unknown Doe for a Traffic Guilt Conscience
A letter from John Doe unknown identity to Ottawa Police in Kansas notes he ran a red street light on Jan 13. He enclosed $10 and a postmark from Ottawa. Police ticketed the violation with the name John Doe and noted a $10 bond.
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John Doe
Doe
Ottawa Police Department
Ottawa
3Rd Main
Ottaswa
Kansas
Eugene Flaherty
US Planes Hit North Again After Pause
In Saigon the US bombers resumed raids on Hanoi area with two strikes on the Thai Nguyen rail yard 40 miles north of the capital. Air Force F105 Thunderchiefs hit the yard in the morning and again in the afternoon as weather remained clear for a third straight day. Two Phantom recon jets were reported down over North Vietnam, with four airmen missing. one shot down by ground fire and the other of unknown cause. The tally of US aircraft losses in the north stands at 459.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Hanoi
U. S
Red River Delta
Thai Nguyen
North
Air Force
RCA Zenith Free Home Tryout Ad
In this offer CRITe’S APPLIe ANCE invites customers to evaluate color television sets at home with free trial in their own living space. The advertisement emphasizes quality and service as key differentiators.
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RCA
Zenith
CRITE
Old Schilling Hangars Now Big Classrooms
Salina Kansas AP report describes Schilling State Institute of Technology turning former air base hangars into classrooms. Aircraft including a Constellation, a B 57 bomber, and several prop planes serve as lab equipment for aeronautical technology students.
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Schilling
Salina
Kan
Schilling Air Force Base
Schilling State Institute of Technology
Federal Aviation Agency
Air Force
Constellation
Bill Rakestraw
Institute
Aeronautical Technology Department
Western Pacific
Rakestraw
GOP To Suggest Budget Cutting Not Tax Raise
GOP leaders Dirksen and Ford outline a State of the Union response stressing budget cuts to avoid Johnsons proposed 6 revenue surtax While opposing the surtax they back the Vietnam policy Ford endorses trimming domestic spending scrapping the surtax and boosting Social Security payments with triggers tied to cost of living The plan also cites antballistic missile prep and critiques of Alliance for Progress NATO and U.S. trade policies with calls for policy changes worldwide.
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Washington
Johnson
GOP
U.S
Vietnam
Congress
Everett M. Dirkesen
Gerald R. Ford
State of the Union
Capietol
Supreme Court
Senate
Dirksen
Latin America
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Africa
Middle East
Ford
United States
Soviet Union
County Forecast Highlights Tonight Through Wednesday
Tonight is clear and cold with light winds and a low of 5 to 10. Wednesday will be mostly fair and not as cold with a high near 25. The high on Monday reached 51 and today’s low is 8. A year ago today the high was 27 and the low 17, with a record high of 64 in 1923 and a record low of 11 in 1930. Hourly temperatures extend to 8 a.m.
Man Loses 450 Pounds After Two Year Diet Effort
Fort Thomas Kentucky AP reports Robert Tiny Pelgen aged 40 has shed nearly 450 pounds over two years through willpower dieting. He describes lingering soreness from a 36 inch incision before Christmas but says he feels better and is regaining strength.
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Fort Thomas
Robert
Tiny) Pelgen
Docking Orders Probe of State Insurance Firm
Governor Docking directed the attorney general to conduct a full inquiry into the Wichita securities and insurance firm and its holding companies. The move follows disclosures that Kansas legislators owned stock and held licenses in the operation, with questions about regulatory agency relations and charter denial. The Kansas City Star and Hutchinson News reported these ties and past regulatory difficulties.
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Topeka
Robert Docking
Wichita Securities and Insurance
Kansas
Kansas City Star
Hutchinson News
National Finance Life Underwriters Inc
Farm and Ranch Life Insurance Co
Num
Ber
Docking
Securities and Insurance Commissioners of
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