Baldwin mill fuels oak trade for whiskey barrel heads
Rosie Sister Baldwin reports on Bunch and Sons Stave Company at Baldwin, Missouri, expanding to process oak timber for whiskey barrel heads. Joe Bunch, 29, manages the Baldwin mill started in 1964, employing 10. timber is bought locally, dried for eight months to a year, and shipped to Albany plant.
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Rosie
Baldwin
Bunch and Sons Stave Company
Joe Bunch
Bunch
Albany
Arkansas
University of Arkansas At
Kansas school boards adopt 22 unified legislative resolutions
The Delaware Assembly of the Kansas Association of school boards adopted 22 resolutions on proposed legislation, mainly unification. They want foundation plan funding via sales and income taxes, reject ad valorem state revenues, define local effort, and urge district boundaries, governance, audits, and grade entrance age changes.
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Topeka
Kansas Association of School Boards
Association
Kansas City
Wichita
Kansas State Teachers Association
Avery Eyes School Finance in Budget Message
Governor William H. Avery said he is nearly finished with the school financing portion of his budget message to the legislature. He plans to spell out the price tag for the proposed school foundation program and expects the legislature to craft the funding formula, after discussions with Budget Director James Bibb and school officials. Avery also noted Democratic and Republican reactions were generally favorable as he prepares to attend President Johnson's inauguration.
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Topeka
William H. Avery
Avery
James Bibb
Washington
Johnson
Frank Carlson
Rehan
Kansas
William Avery
Miss Howes
Alfred Hitchcock
Hubert H. Humphrey
Hitchcock
Negroes jailed at Selma while trying to register
In Selma Alabama Sheriff James G Clark jailed more than 30 Negroes who refused to use an alley entrance for voter registration at the Dallas County Courthouse. Dr Martin Luther King Jr led the crowd, while Rev James Bevel urged calm and nonviolence as the marchers circled the block or returned to church rather than enter the rear door.
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Selma, Ala
James G. Clark
Dallas County
Clark
Martin Luther King Jr
James Bevel
John Love
Weather County Forecast Partly cloudy tonight and cooler
Partly cloudy tonight with a low around 25 degrees. Wednesday will be fair and cooler with highs from 40 to 45 degrees.
Estes jailed after appeals fail in sprawling fraud case
Billie Sol Estes, described as the most gigantic swindler in history by a judge, was taken to the county jail in Abilene, Texas, after the Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal of a 15 year mail fraud sentence. He faces transfer to El Paso for imprisonment, with potential delays of up to five weeks.
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Abilene, Tex
Billie Sol Estes
U.S. Supreme Court
Estes
U.S. Dist
R. E. Thomason
el Paso
Thomason
U.S
William C. Black
Abilene
Supreme Court
West Texas
Church of Christ
Pecos
Wall Street
Washington
Two Kansas State students charged with arson fire
Larry Sayler and William Shaw, Kansas City Kan residents, were charged with second degree arson in the January 15 fire that destroyed the Kansas State University auditorium. Both students, majors in music education, are jailed on $5,000 bonds as university officials plan to report to the Kansas Board of Regents. Sayler, a violinist and Phi Mu Alpha member, serves as choir director at a Manhattan church.
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Manhattan
Kan
James Tubach
Kansas State University
K.state
Larry Sayler
William Shaw
Kansas City, Kan
Donn Everett
Jerry Mershon
James A. McCain
Kansas Board of Regents
Topeka
McCain
Sayler
Shaw
the Collegian
Newsepaper
Phi Mu Alpha
Topekans Seek Desegregation Petition Signatures
Topeka residents are collecting signatures for petitions demanding neighborhood desegregation. Cards are distributed by the Topeka Interfaith Council on Race. Signatures will be made public in an advertisement during Brotherhood Week from February 21 to 28. The council includes Roman Catholics, Jews, and Protestants.
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Topeka
Topeka Interfaith Council
Gemini two man craft soars Suborbital test flight
A Titan 2 rocket powered a two man Gemini capsule on a suborbital flight at Cape Kennedy. The craft reached 105 miles, landed 2,150 miles southeast of the Cape, and was recovered aboard Lake Champlain with a crane. Grissom and Young observed from the control center as simulators aided in mission procedures.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Virgil JL Grissom
John W. Young
Atlantic
Lake Champlain
Blasteoff
Dea
Grisson
Air Force
Young
Navy
Grissom
Flight Control Center
Space Agency
Crewe
Robin Hood hoax call lands Iowa man in Indiana jail
An Evansville police dispatcher received a prank call in which the caller said he was Robin Hood. The responding officer identified the voice as part of the joke but arrest followed after Robin E Hood, 23, Davenport Iowa, admitted he was wanted for auto theft. He was jailed awaiting transfer to Iowa.
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Evansville
Ind
Robin Hood
Nottingham
Robin E. Hood
Davenport
Iowa
Hood
German French Leaders Meet for Talks on Unity and Defense
West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard meets Charles de Gaulle at Rambouillet near Paris to discuss European unity and German reunification. Paris hosts Foreign Ministers Schroeder and Couve de Murville as he faces pressure between closer Atlantic ties and French led European strategy.
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Paris
Ludwig Erhard
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Rambouillet
Gerhard Schroeder
Maurice Couve de Murville
Schroeder
Erhard
U.S
Europe
West Germany
Washington
France
Bonn
Inaugural Gala Delights as Stars Pack the Armory
Washington AP reports a late start at the National Armory inaugural gala with 11 000 Democrats in attendance. The mystery figure George O Doyle raised a hand by surprise. performances included Alfred Hitchcock host duties, Bobby Darin, Carol Channing, Julie Andrews, Carol Burnett, Nureyev Fonteyn ballet, Streisand, Belafonte, Nichols and May, Carson humor, and a playful jab at McNamara. The event showcased diverse acts, despite a cryptic greeting incident.
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Washington
Richard Adler
Sally Ann Howes
National Armory
O’doyle
Bobby Darin
Army Reserve
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Woody Allen
Carol Channing
Barry
Carol Burnett
Julie Andrews
Dame Margot
Fonteyn
Rudolf Nureyev
Harry Belafonte
Barbra Streisand
Mike Nichols
Elaine May
Johnny Carson
Fall the Tuxedoes
Spurs
Johnson
Carson
International Ballet
George O’doyle
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Neegroes
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Lafayette
Ruleville
Miss
Frank Sorroco
San Francisco
King
Monaday
West
Alabama
Billie Sol
Nutty Old
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