Three Inmates Charged After Bid for Freedom
Three teenage reform school inmates from Pruntown escape attempt ends in capture near Grafton West Virginia. They abducted Sandra Lynne McKeen 18 during a drive and threatened to kill if she resisted. They face kidnapping and grand larceny charges with preliminary hearings planned.
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New Martinsville
W. VA
Sandra Lynne McKeen
Florida
Miss McKeen
Larry Anthony Rector
Roger
Lee Morse
Patrick Jarrell
Reformatory
Richard L. Young
W. C. Lawson
State Industrial School For Boys
Pruntytown
Grafton
Northcentral
West Virginia
Ohio River
Shannon W. Westerman
Westerman
Rector
Making Bows And Arrows His Hobby
Leavenworth assistant city clerk John C. Rea has spent 35 years making bows and arrows as a hobby. He began at 18 after moving from Pennsylvania to Missouri, using hickory hedgewood and cedar for bows and arrows, a craft passed from his late blacksmith father Frank N. Rea.
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Leavenworth, Kas
John C. Rea
Leavenworth
Johnstown
Frank N. Rea
Rea
Pennsylvania
St. Joseph
Reas
John C. Rees
Archer Rea Crafts Custom Bows and Arrows at Home
Rea, famed among archers nationwide, works after work hours to carve hedgewood walnut and fiberglass into bows and cedar fiberglass aluminum into arrows. He spends 36 to 50 hours on a bow and about 10 hours on arrows, often involving his wife and children in a family archery shoot or hunt.
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Rea
Nixon Expands Russian Tour
Vice President Richard M. Nixon plans to extend his Soviet visit to cover nine cities, possibly two weeks, staying longer than initially planned if Kremlin leaders approve visiting more sites. Negotiations with the State Department and Soviet foreign office yielded vague details. Soviet officials cooperate cautiously, influenced by the Eisenhower administration’s hospitality toward Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
Soviet Union
Kremlin
U.S
State Department
Soviet Foreign Office
Nixon
Eisenhower
Frol Kozlov
Richmond Area Visited by Relatives and Friends
Long, detailed list of visitors and travel among Richmond area residents. Mentions Mrs Harvey Paddock and Mrs Louis Monrod visiting Topeka Veterans Hospital. Ed New and family returning from La Grange Illinois and a Michigan fishing trip. Clyde Nilges and Lee Henderson visiting their parents. Adrian Pickert and Al Eatwells and Carl Pickert visiting relatives. Mrs Herman Hermreck and Sister Alberta flying to California. notice of Mrs George Miles death in Long Beach California. multiple visits from Kansas City Topeka and other towns. a hospital patient Albert Schwegman. Camp Chaffee Arkansas trip by Antone Gretencord family. various visits to and from local residents and family news.
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Harvey Paddock
Louis Monrod
Topeka Veterans Hospital
Ed New Have
G. H. Pentecost
la Grange
Michigan
Clyde Nilges
Blue Springs
Lee Hendersons
Grandview
al Nilges
Adrian Pickert
al Pickerts
al Eatwells
Overland Park
Carl Pickert
Kansas City
Ernest Pickert
Gerald Pickert
Wichita
Fred J. Pickerts
Herman Hermreck
Alberta
California
Albert Hermrecks
Ed Bures
George Miles
Long Beach
Calif
Walter Lankard
Boring
Ore
Frank Belangy
Ernest Maxeys
Jack Hackathorne
Florence Keen
E. S. Maxey
Clarence Spongs
Stafford
Ruth Atchison
Emma. Mardick
Charles McCandless
Neodesha
Oxford
Kenneth Cunningham
Marjorie
John
Paola
George de Soziers
Topeka
Baldwin
Albert Dunbar
Hazel Kinchloe Rozell
Harvey
Furman Chambers
Taft
Lonnie Chambers
Charles Hoelschers
Newton
Everett Cluchley
Lawrence
Steve Hoelschers
Warren Yackles
Eleanor Sailor
Jerry Nuss
Jetmore
Kent Heintz
Springdale
Ark
L. L. Chandlers
Canasta Club
Joe Hart
Louis Hart
Sally Patterson
Pittsburg
George Harts
Albert Schwegman
Anderson County Hospital
Antone Gretencords
Camp Chaffee
Clarence J. Gretencord
Don Hamners
George Riebes
Warren Davis
Lyman Lemon Osawatomie
Duane Shaws
Sanford Shaw
Elmer Nickels
Concordia
Charley’ Smiths
John .Fisher
San
Francisco
Wound Fatal To Theron L. Smith
The body of Theron L. Smith, about 70, a longtime supervisor for the Kansas Livestock Sanitation Commission, was found in the Morland basement. He died of a gunshot wound in the heart, with authorities treating it as a fatal incident under investigation.
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Hill City, Kas
Theron L. Smith
Kansas Livestock Sanitation Commission
Morland
Smith
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Jarrell
Young
Moore
Mans
Clarence McFadden
Bill Hull
S. Main
Derele W. Knepper
Richmond
Mabel Chandler
Glen Akin
Marion
Leon Akin
Ster
W. J. Akin
Irene
Florine Brock
Beverly Parsons
Floyd [Brocks
Cecil Smith
Ton
Robert Culley
Leo Thomas
Chevrolet
Chevy
Popular Science
Nascar
A.M.A
Motor Magazine
Sports Cars Illustrated
Motor Trend Magazine
National Automobile Dealers Association
National Association For Stock Car Advancement and Research
T Automobile Manufacturers Association
Eacore Chevrolet Co
South Main St
Ottawa
John Deere Tractors
Ottawa Tractor & Impl. Co., Inc
Pratt & Lambert
Nuzman Lumber
Porcelain
Butter Keeper
Freezer Light
RCA
Body Shop
Crites
South Main
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