Ground-Breaking Planned for Pomona Dam Event
Plans for the Pomona flood control dam ground-breaking in eastern Osage County are announced by Lyndon publisher Jack Miller, who chairs the committee. The ceremony is set for 7 p.m. Friday July 10 with a brief program. Signposted highway intersections guide attendees, provided by the Army Corps of Engineers and local committee members from area towns.
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Pomona
Osage County
Jack Miller
Lyndon
Corps of Army Engineers
Side Swipes From City Park Band Concert Mystery
A City Park band concert directed by Loren Matthews features a wide program including marches overtures waltzes and solos with trombone solo Walter Butler and Jo Archer. Also in the news a 1909 overdue Carnegie Library book from San Antonio would have incurred a 472.50 fine.
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City Park
Loren Matthews
Holy City
Walter Butler
Jo Archer
Vienna
San Antonio
Tex
Admiral Peary
North Pole
Castle Blair
Carnegie Public Library
Williamsburg Jayhawker Days Set for July 13 15
Williamsburg hosts Jayhawker Days Monday through Wednesday July 13 15 with events nightly. Amateur Hour prizes open Monday at 8 pm followed by a checker tournament for youths. Parade at 7 pm Tuesday themed Holidays features prizes for floats and decorated entries. Band concert and home talent show occur Tuesday, and Wednesday features a baby show and acts from Kansas City. Community sponsors organize the celebration.
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Williamsburg
Williamsburg High School
Kansas City
County Forecast: Partly Cloudy Warm With Storms
The forecast calls for partial cloudiness with warmth and humidity this afternoon and a few thunderstorms. Winds shift to the north later, with cooler temperatures this evening and tonight. Highs reach the lower 90s this afternoon, tumble to around 60 tonight, and near 80 for Thursday.
Relocation of Roads Approved in Kansas Plan
The State Highway Commission approved relocation of K-16 and U S 77 near Randolph due to Turtle Creek Dam. New alignments cover 6.4 miles of 77 in Morris County, 0.4 miles in Dickinson, 3.6 miles of 66 toward Riverton, 14.1 miles of K23 to the Oklahoma line, 10.5 miles south of the Missouri Pacific line between Haven and Elmer, 10.3 miles of K25 from four miles north of the Wichita Logan line, and related connections. The 1960 budget for administration, maintenance and capital improvements was set at 16,695,000.
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Topeka
State Highway Commission
Randolph
Turtle Creek
Morris County
Dickinson County
Herington
Junction City
Baxter Springs
Riverton
Meade County State Lake
Oklahoma Line
Haven
Elmer
Reno County
Hutchinson
Wichita-Logan County
Logan
Mercury astronauts glimpse heat tests for future space capsules
ELTON C. FAY reports from Langley Research Center as NASA demos a white hot capsule model for visiting press. The seven Mercury astronauts observe heat, ablation, and recovery concepts as NASA outlines safety plans including Little Joe tests, Redstone capsules, chimpanzee flights, and automatic bailout and recovery procedures for a 1961 manned spaceflight era.
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Langley Research Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Wallops Island
Army Redstone
Space
Charles Lindbergh
U S Moves Air Wings From France to Britain and Germany
The United States will relocate three fighter bomber wings from French bases to sites in Britain and West Germany. About 200 jet aircraft with atomic missions will shift by summer’s end, prompted by de Gaulle’s stance on nuclear stockpiles.
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Paris
U.S
Britain
West Germany
United States
NATO
W. Randolph Burgess
North Atlantic Council
Charles de Gaulle
Europe
Germany
de Gaulle
France
Swordfish Arrives to Inspect Polaris Undersea Firing Tests
The nuclear powered submarine Swordfish reaches Cape Canaveral Florida to assess facilities for undersea firing of the Navy Polaris missile. The visit starts today with official tests and preparations.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Navy
Northwest Kansas cool front promises heat relief
A cool front has moved into the northwest corner of Kansas and is expected to bring cooler conditions across the state by Thursday. Yesterday saw highs of 105 in Goodland and 100 in Hill City as scattered thunderstorms preceded the cool air and a temperature drop afterward.
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Earth
Goodland
Hill City
Close Call For Airman Lands in Jet Engine
In Brunswick Georgia Aviation Metalsmith Lester Landrum Jr was sucked into a Navy Banshee engine. Sparks and a rising temperature warned Airman Jack Suggs, who shut the jet off. Landrum, 19, emerged missing three fingers lips nose helmet and perhaps some hair.
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Brunswick
Aviation
Lester Landrum Jr
Jack S. Suggs
Suggs
Landrum
Officials mull joint city county health board idea
City and county officials met with state health officials at city hall on Monday to discuss forming a joint health board. Those present agreed the idea has merit and agreed to hold future meetings to continue discussions.
Louis Armstrong cancels New Jersey testimonial concert
Louis Armstrong known as Satchmo cancels a Tuesday night testimonial concert in Lambertville New Jersey on doctor orders after recovering from pneumonia last month. Doctors say it is too soon for him to play the trumpet again.
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Lambertville
Louis
Armstrong
Williams and Kozlov trade barbs in Detroit talks
Michigan Governor G Mennen Williams described his private hour long exchange with Soviet First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov as a knock down and drag out fight over self determination and free elections The governor said Kozlov argued East Germany and other satellites chose their systems and warned Williams that Western claims were propaganda Kozlov later said Eastern European peoples have governments of their own free choice and cited those who fled the region as unrepresentative.
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Williams
Kozlov
Chicago
Detroit
Mikhail Menshikov
Soviet Union
East Germany
Gap
Frol R. Kozlov
Michigan
U.S
Eisenhower Hints At Special Session Over Foreign Aid
President Eisenhower suggested he may call a special session of Congress if denied authority for foreign aid spending. He criticized Senate action cutting his mutual assistance request by 383 million dollars and indicated possible executive action to secure support.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Free World
Jebved
Johnson
Senate
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
America
Urges Continued Negotiations In Steel Dispute
President Eisenhower urged management and workers in steel wage talks to keep negotiating to avoid a strike. The Steelworkers Union postponed a strike deadline to next Tuesday midnight, with no further extension planned, while Eisenhower declined government intervention and pressed for an agreement. He also spoke on segregation, Khrushchev, Harriman remarks, and strongly defended foreign aid funding amid Senate cuts.
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Washington
Eisenhower
David J. McDonald
Steel union rejects Eisenhower steel contract extension
NEW YORK AP says the Steel Workers Union rejected the President's bid for an indefinite extension beyond the contracts' midnight expiration. Union president David J. McDonald said negotiations should end with a definite terminal point and that an agreement could be reached by 12:01 a.m. July 16 if companies show good faith.
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Harriman
Khrushchev
W. Averell Harriman
New York
Life Magazine
United States
Eisenhower
Steelworkers Union Today
David J. McDonald
Seek Slayer Of 6 Year Old
A nationwide manhunt targets Robert K. Ervin after Dolores Staford was found murdered in Las Vegas with knife wounds and a throat cut. Fingerprints linked Ervin to the scene as investigators hunted him across Nevada and Arizona while his estranged wife Kathy Ervin hid under police protection after a violent incident.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Dolores Stafford
Robert K.ervin
Ervin
Kingman
Ariz
Kathy Ervin
Body of Man Who Drowned In River Recovered
A body identified as Robert Johnson, who drowned Sunday in a boat accident, was recovered from the Missouri River near the Atchison bridge by the Corps of River Engineers, according to Sheriff C. A. Jenkins.
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ST. Joseph, Mo
Robert Johnson
Missouri River
C. A. Jenkins
Corps of River Engineers
Atchison, Kan
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