Fire Losses Jump Here Last Year
Ottawa fire losses rose to 75380 in 1967 from 20225 in 1966 due to major blazes at National Sign Co in October and Senior High School in June. Fire chief Harry Gilliland noted the La France pumper aging 37 years will be replaced soon. Police chief Flaherty reported no murders or robberies in 1967 with 33 burglaries and 1033 traffic citations. Municipal judge Don White will be absent six weeks for back surgery, and the commission ordered repair or razing of five rundown dwellings within 90 days.
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Scott Payne
Ottawa
Harry Gillliland
City Commission
Gilliland
National Sign.Co
Occtober
Sensior High School
la France
Eugene Flacherty
Lyman Corlis
Harery Murphy
Charles Williams Son
Central America
Flaherty
Council Grove
Richard Skoog
Don White
Kansas City
Shah of Iran warns on global living standards at Malaya convocation
In an AP report from Kuala Lumpur the Shah of Iran stated that differences in living standards among nations are no longer tenable. He told a University of Malaya convocation that humanity has grown so interconnected that disparities in material cultural and spiritual life cannot continue to exist.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Shah
Iran
University of Malaya
Weather forecast for Topeka and eastern Kansas
The Weather Bureau predicts gradual clearing in eastern Kansas as a weak front brought light showers from the northeast to the south central region. A high pressure system will dominate the state for several days, bringing settled weather and mild temperatures. County forecast calls for partly cloudy skies tonight and Friday, cooler temperatures, low 20s to low 30s tonight, high around 55, with precipitation noted at .04 inch in the past 24 hours.
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Topeka
Weather Bureau
Kansas
Nuclear spread pact pace quickens at Geneva talks
The United States and the Soviet Union presented a new draft treaty to halt nuclear spread at the disarmament conference in Geneva. Article 3 would place safeguards under IAEA control with 18 months for nonnuclear states to negotiate with IAEA, while Euratom proposals aim to fit Common Market needs. India remains a key critic, threatening broader nonaligned support and potential regional reverberations if not strengthened.
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Geneva
United States
Soviet Union
West Germany
Italy
France
U.S
Adrian S. Fisher
Alexei A. Roschchin
India
Pakistan
Israel
International Atomic Energy Agency
IAEA
Laos Capital Looms As Communists Reach North
North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao forces push toward Luang Prabang after routing 4000 government troops from Nam Bac. Only about 1000 have returned, with commanders unsure of the royal capital's fate. The army setback marks a major Communist advance in five years.
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Vientiane
Laos
Luang Prabang
Souvanna Phouma
Pathet Lao
Nam Bac
Don White To Vacate His Bench For Six Weeks
Franklin County Court will operate without a sitting judge for about six weeks as County Court Judge Don White undergoes back surgery in Kansas City. Assistant pro tem judges Sherrie Capper and Maxine Emerson will preside in probate and county court, with Ottawa attorney Dick Skoog handling municipal duties and former County Court Judge Rep. Robert Pinet addressing two juvenile cases.
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Don White
Franklin County Court
Baptist Memorial Hospital
Kansas City
Dick Skoog
Ottawa
Ottawa Municipal Court
White
Sherrie Capper
Maxine Emerson
Robert Pinet
Farm Hall Is Honored By 12 Federal Land Banks
In Kansas City Kansas AP the Agricultural Hall of Fame at Bonner Springs received a plaque from 12 federal land banks. William G. Plested Jr of the Federal Land Bank of Wichita presented the award to Orivia Mackey Mexico Missouri first vice president. D W Hinger noted the shrine president Dr Glenn Beck of Kansas State University was in India. The banks grant the annual honor for service to rural America.
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Kansas City
Kan
Bonner Springs
William G. Plested Jr
Federal Land Bank of
Wichita
Orivia Mackey
Mexico
D. W. Hinger
Shrine To Agriculture
Glenn Beck
Kansas State University
Manhattan
India
Prested
America
Presley to star in NBC television special in 1969
Elvis Presley will host his first NBC television special since 1960. The program, announced Wednesday, will air during the 1969 holiday season.
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Memphb, Tenn
Elvis Presley
National Broadcasting Co
Presley
Johnson Proposes War on Crime and Peacetime Tax Hikes
President Johnson in a State of the Union address urges expanding the war on crime and housing slums, backs a 10 percent tax hike to fund unemployment and housing programs, and proposes a $10.4 billion spending rise within a $186 billion fiscal 1969 budget. He seeks a cease-fire in Vietnam if peace talks begin and calls for six million new housing units plus prenatal care and consumer protection measures. The response is mixed among Democrats and Republicans, with critics of tax and spending rising and some backing the proposals.
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Washington
Johnson
State of the Union
Congress
North Vietnam
U.S
J.W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Robert F. Kennedy
D-N.y
New York
J. William Fulbright
Arkansas
William Proxmire
Joint Economic Committee
Russell B. Long
Senate Finance Committee
Johnson crime talk draws applause amid stalled bills
Congress applauded President Johnson for crime remarks but faces a split over action. Republicans back several crime bills and a 100 million police aid program is stalled in the Senate after House edits. A GOP push for legalized wiretapping under court control was not mentioned by Johnson.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
House
Senate
National Rifle Association
Judiciary Committee
Governor Docking backs Johnson surtax with reluctance
Topeka Gov. Robert Docking endorsed President Johnsons 10 percent surtax proposal for individuals and corporations with reluctance. He said he previously supported it, noting 1965 income tax cuts and rising deficits. Docking stressed he is not at odds with the President despite concerns over the budget gap.
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Topeka
Robert Docking
Johnson
Docking
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U.N. General Assembly
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Martin Co
Research Institute For Advanced Studies
Vietnam
LBJ
Gop
Rep
Melvin R. Laird
Wisconsin
House Republican Conference
Laird
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