Community theater seeks volunteers at annual meeting
Side Swipes Community Theater Players Inc will hold its annual membership meeting and board election Thursday at 8:30 p.m. at the Youth Center. President Jack Day notes dues are $2 per person or $4 per couple and voting rights for new members may be exercised if dues are paid at the meeting. The group welcomes carpenters electricians hairdressers makeup and costume staff and behind the scenes workers. Senior High Kayettes led a March of Dimes drive in Ottawa raising 398.78 with further contributions expected. contact CH 2-3864 for pickups.
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Community Theater Players, Inc
Jack Day
Frances Jones
Hults Defends Moss Hire Amid Turnpike Transition
TOPEKA AP Sen Don Wults R Lawr said hiring outgoing turnpike general manager Gale Moss as a consultant was needed during a transition. He noted new permanent and temporary members on the Kansas Turnpike Authority and a forthcoming state highway director. Gov John Anderson questioned Moss keeping the job, but both indicated the consultant post would be temporary as a new director takes over.
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Topeka
Don Wults
R-Lawrence
Gale Moss
Hults
Kansas Turnpike Authority
Senate Roads and Highways Committee
Moss
John E. Kirchner
Sevenman Authority
John Anderson
Turnpike
Anderson
Fire damages Kansas School for the Deaf in Olathe
A fire damaged the powerhouse and repair shops at the Kansas School for the Deaf in Olathe. No evacuation of the 261 students was needed as dormitories were distant from the fire. Firemen controlled the blaze in 30 minutes. The cause was defective wiring and the loss was about $20,000.
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Olathe
Kansas School For the Deaf
W. J. Prather
Dari Treat Drive In opens to Morrow
The Dari Treat Drive In announces opening tomorrow offering meals and snacks. Contact CH 2-2301 for details or advertising inquiries.
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Morrow
County Weather Forecast Fair and Mild Through Wednesday
Fair and mild today through Wednesday with highs around 60. Lows tonight near 20 to 25. Yesterday's high 47, low 18. Record high 65 in 1911, record low 8 below zero in 1918. Hourly temps shown in unreadable segments.
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P.M. Vyvenes
Admiral Aboard Pirate Ship To Arrange Release Of Passengers
In Recife this morning Rear Adm. Allen E. Smith Jr. met Brazilian rebel Capt. Henrique Galvao at sea aboard the destroyer Gearing to discuss the release of about 600 passengers on the captive liner Santa Maria. The meeting, part of a NATO like operation, follows Galvao’s seizure of the ship on Jan 22 and Brazil's new leadership under Janio Quadros.
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Recife
Brazil
Henrique Galvao
Santa Maria
Atlantic Fleet
Norfolk
Allen E. Smith Jr
Galvao
Smith
Caribbean
U. S
Pee
U. S S
Damato
Wilson
Vogelgesang
Gearing
Carlos Lacerda
Guanabara
Brasilia
Elks Honor Milton Stoffer for Elk of the Year
Milton Stoffer of Lawrence formerly Ottawa has been named Elk of the Year by the Lawrence Lodge while seriously ill in a Kansas City Veteran Hospital. Clayton Stone and others traveled to present a plaque and a letter signed by over a hundred Elk friends from Leavenworth.
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Milton Stoffer
Lawrence
Ottawa
Kansas City
Lawrence Lodge
Elks
State of
Kansas
Clayton Stone
Stoffer
Leavenworth
Kennedy to Send Special Messages on Recovery Plan
President Kennedy will address Congress with a special message on the anti recession program next Thursday. He plans another special next Monday to discuss the balance of payments and gold outflow. Speaker Rayburn disclosed the plan at the White House after a leaders’ meeting.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
Capitol
United States
White House
House
Sam Rayburn
D'Tex
Rayburn
Green Cloud Kills Animals Near New Roads
A green chlorine gas cloud drifted across southeast Louisiana near New Roads, killing animals and sending several people to hospitals. State police evacuated 400 schoolchildren from a building near the Kansas City Southern Railroad freight wreck, where chemicals spilled into ditches. The vapor, rising from chloride-filled ditches, moved northwest toward Morganza as a chill breeze carried it through the area. Authorities said the gas had killed wildlife and farm animals but had not yet caused many human deaths.
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New Roads
Louisiana
Kansas City Southern Railroad
Morganza
House Votes To Enlarge Rules Committee
The House approved expanding the Rules Committee from 12 to 15 members by a 217 to 212 roll call vote. Speaker Sam Rayburn secured a victory while Kennedy’s administration gained a surface win as the panel shifts to 10 Democrats and five Republicans, altering influence away from Howard W. Smith and boosting party balance amid a tight future for Kennedy’s program.
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Washington
House
Rules Committee
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Howard W. Smith
D-Va
Kennedy
Smith
William M. Colmer
Mississippi
Kansas appoints Meschke highway director and Hughes patrol chief
Gov. John Anderson named Addison H. Meschke of Hutchinson as state highway director and Lawrence E. B. Hughes of Stockton as patrol superintendent. Meschke, 53, a business executive and city official, previously led local stores and banking groups. Hughes, 47, a former FBI agent, served 20 years on the FBI and later joined the Kansas Highway Patrol. A chimpanzee rode a Redstone rocket to a splashdown off Cape Canaveral in a test flight with mixed results and no immediate word on the animal’s condition.
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Topeka
Kan
John Anderson
Addison H. Meschke
Hutchinson
Kansas Highway
Lawrence EB. Hughes
Stockton
Highway Patrol
Hughes
FBI
Meschke
Garden City
Great Bend
Salt City Building and Loan Association
State Banking, Board
Maurice Martin
Martin
Anderson
Walter Johnson
Col
Harvey E. Schmedemann
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Kansas Highway Patrol
Stockton, Salina and Plainville
Kansas State University
Tthe Highway Patrol
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Atlantic Ocean
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Washington
Governor outlines early steps for Republican program
Topeka Governor John Anderson says bills to carry out his legislative program will appear soon in the House and Senate. After meetings with leaders including Sen Paul Wunsch and Rep Bill Mitchell, he aims to have key measures drafted and forwarded to committees. Early proposals include reorganizing the Forestry Fish and Game Commission and consolidating financial regulation agencies, with separate items like an anti gambling bill and mandatory jail for drunken drivers likely before larger agendas such as education and budget.
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Charles Arthur
House
Bill Fribley
Mittee
Anderson
Forestry, Fish and Game Commission
Kansas Hotel Association
Dorothy Thompson Dies In Lisbon
Dorothy Thompson famed newspaper columnist and lecturer dies in Lisbon at 66 after a previous heart attack. She retired Aug 19 1958 following the death of her third husband Maxim Kopf whom she wed in 1943. Earlier marriages included Joseph Bard in 1923 and Sinclair Lewis whom she divorced in 1942. they had a son Michael.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Dorothy Thompson
Miss Thompson
Maxim Kopf
Joseph Bard
Sinclair Lewis
Michael
Rome
Kennedy summons U S ambassador to Russia for talks
President Kennedy orders Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson to return to Washington for consultations on all aspects of Soviet American relations. Thompson is due in Washington by about February 8 to provide first hand observations and reports on the Soviet scene.
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Washington
Kennedy
U.S
Russia
Llewellyn Thompson
White House
Pierre Salinger
Washington, D.C
Thompson
Winter Grip Halts Rivers and Ports Across North
Winter returns to Ottawa and the Central Plains while the northeast holds firm. The Mississippi and Hudson rivers freeze, with an 18 inch ice cover locking a four-ship convoy from Albany toward New York. Cairo sees river traffic halted by ice jams, and Grand Haven’s Lake Michigan cutters fight to break free from ice. Ohio Monongahela and Allegheny river traffic slows to a crawl as engineers report standstill conditions.
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Mississippi
Hudson River
West Point
Albany
New York City
Cairo
Ill
Grand Haven
Mich
Coast Guard
Lake Michigan
Milwaukee Clipper
Milwaukee
Muskegon
Army Engineers
Pittsburgh
Allegheny River
Monogahela
Ohio
Braves Face Ottawa Braves At Wilson Field House
The Bethel Threshers, tied for sixth in the Kansas Conference at 4-6, travel to Wilson Field House to play Ottawa's fourth place Braves tonight. Varsity tips at 7:30, B team at 5:30.
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Bethel Threshers
Kansas
Wilson Field House
Ottawa
Braves
Measure to streamline Kansas government proposed in Senate
A constitutional change would end election of all state officers except governor and lieutenant governor, with a governor lieutenant governor team elected from 1964 and four year terms beginning 1966. The move also leaves other exec offices to legislative action. A separate bill seeks to shift primary election date from August to September to shorten the primary general-election interval.
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Topeka
Kansas
Senate
Wade Myers
D-Emporia
E. W. Strahan
R-Salina
Charles Joseph
D-Potwin
Myers
Mmake
Public Instruction
Stedman Ball
R-Atchison
Howard Harper
Junction City
Har
Second Boy Returns to School Amid Integration Tension
In New Orleans an 8-year-old white boy joined his 9-year-old brother at McDonogh Mo 19 as integration continues. Federal marshals escorted the Thompson children to class while jeers from neighbors and the broader disquiet over desegregation persisted.
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New Orleans
McDonogh Mo
Michael Thompson
Gregory
U.S
Thompson
McDonagh
John N. Thompson
Margaret Lezina
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Kayettes
Tri Hepta
Modernettes
ST. Joseph, Mo
St. Joseph
Roselyn Whirley
Guy Cox
Walter Bater
Jack Fenton
Janio Quadros
Juscelino Kubitschek
Portuguese Colonial Navigation Co
Lacerda
Leslie J. Nason
Gov. Anderson
Space Agency
NASA
Cape
Central Plains
Weather Bureau
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