Beef Auction Hailed At Muehlebach Hotel
In the Muehlebach Hotel grand ballroom 20 yearling calves headlined a livestock auction contest during the 1965 Livestock Marketing Congress. Fifteen men paid 100 dollars each to become world champion auctioneer as bidders from across the country competed in a lively, high stakes show.
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United States
Charles Edgar
Marceline
California
Louisiana
Minnesota
Missouri
Certified Livestock Markets Association
Fred Hatten
Experts Plead Drive Safety Amid Holiday Traffic
CHICAGO AP experts urge careful driving as millions hit highways for the Independence Day period. The National Safety Council warns traffic deaths could top last year’s Fourth of July total of 504, with estimates between 470 and 570.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Youth criticizes delays in Soviet bureaucracy satire
MOSCOW AP A Soviet youth paper Komsomolskaya Pravda carries a blunt satire by Tlya Zverev on red tape. He describes his failed attempt to obtain two eyeglass lenses, detailing sales restrictions at drugstores and optical shops and absurd rules about case types.
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Moscow
Tlya Zverev
Komsomolsekaya Pravda
Zverev
Topeka Bridge Collapses Killing One Person
A 68-year-old Kansas River bridge in Topeka collapsed amid high water and river vibrations, sending at least one car into the river and killing Kenneth Allen, 43. Divers searched for a second car as authorities closed services and crews moved debris. Authorities noted heavy traffic past the span and referenced nearby bridge construction and possible scouring from rising water.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas River
Kansas Avenue
Kenneth Allen
Allen
Charles W. Wright Jr
Topeka River Authority
Richard Garrett
Garrett
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Raymond Rivera
Weather high Friday 88 high this date 107 in 1911
Friday forecast shows a high of 88 and a low of 66 today. Records note a yearly high of 93 and a yearly low of 68. The all time high and low for this date are 107 in 1911 and 48 in 1924.
Hand Harvesting Wheat: Ray Bloomer Demonstrates 19th Century Method
In Kansas, Ray Bloomer shows how wheat was cut by cradle scythe and tied by hand, a practice once common before combines. He demonstrates in Ottawa County, using a museum loaned cradle, while Ray Carpenter Jr. watches, noting how it made men differently.
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Rosie Lister
Kansas
Ray Bloomer
W. 11Th
Bloomer
Ray Carpenter
Ottawa
RFD
Ray Carpenter Jr
Carpenter
Second Pine Creek Declaration Celebrated In Jersey Shore
Residents of Jersey Shore Pa gather around the Tranadaghton Elm on July 4 to honor 23 men who wrote and signed the Pine Creek Declaration of Independence in 1776 the same day the Philadelphia Congress adopted the national declaration. The elm is circa 500 years old and the event is part of Independence Day celebrations.
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Jersey Shore
Little Pine Creek
Philadelphia
Independence Hall
Great Britain
Continental Congress
Pine Creek
Pennsylvania Historical Society
Patrick Gilfillan
Michael Quigsley Jr
Fort Horn
Johnson Proposes National Teachers Corps for Cities
President Johnson told NEA delegates that within a few days he would propose a national teachers corps to work with local teachers in city slums and rural poverty areas. The plan would resemble the Peace Corps and require congressional approval along with fellowships to improve teacher qualifications.
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Johnson
New York
National Teachers Corps
Peace Corps
United States Employment Service
Manpower Development and Training Act
Whitney M. Young Jr
Execus
Communists Pummel Saigon Area Airfields in Viet Nam War
Viet Cong attacked Can Tho and other outposts near Saigon for a third day, firing 20 to 30 rounds at the field edge and about 10 rounds at distant positions. No casualties or damage were reported. Korean troops wounded by a Viet Cong mine near Di An. Seoul plans to deploy up to 15,000 more troops. A Russian trawler was sighted off the coast, and Viet Cong propaganda escalates with a clandestine newspaper in Saigon.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Can Tho
U.S
Salegon
di An
Chung Hee Park
Seoul
U.S. Navy
7Th Fleet
North Viet Nam
Viet Cong
Land of the Ancestors
Psychological Warfare Ministry
Saigon Post
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Beef
Muehlbach
Kansas City
Muehlebach
Sao Zverev
Topeka Bridge
el Leo
Shorty
Susan Church
Garnett
Washington
National Education Association
LBJ Ranch
Texas
National Urban League
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Denver
Colo
NEA
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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