Fort Scott Cafe Operator Collects Thousands of Matchbooks
Ronnie Smith runs Flamingo Cafe in Fort Scott Kansas, and his wall boasts more than 7 500 matchbook covers taped to the walls. Collectors include patrons who leave them as tips, totaling covers from all 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. He has added over 3 000 covers in eight months, aiming for more than 16 000. The collection ranges from tiny three quarter inch covers to large 14 inch ones with hundreds of matches, including a 1936 Louis Schmeling fight advertising cover. One visitor left a penny attached and said he would return in a year to check the coin. Smith calls the collection a good conversation starter and a regional draw.
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Smith
Flamingo Cafe
Ronnie Smith
Fort Scott
Venezuelan Communists Screen Guerrilla Recruits
Venezuelan police uncover a party psychiatry department amid efforts to weed out recruits for the Armed Forces of National Liberation. Dr Jose Marino Colina Leones, jailed on charges of leading the unit, allegedly received about $11 per examination. Police seized 34 notes at Colina's clinic indicating the ruse.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Communist Party
Armed Forces of National Liberation
FALN
Raul Leoni
Interior Ministry
Jose Marino Colina Leones
Colina
College Speech Ban Sparks North Carolina Controversy
North Carolina faces a heated clash over a 1963 law banning Communists or anyone who pled the Fifth from speaking on state university campuses. Opponents cite academic freedom, while supporters warn of accusations, accreditation risks loom, and a governor appointed commission will study the issue with a possible special session.
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Raleigh
N.C
North Carolina
Southern Association of Schools and Colleges
Senate
House
Dan K. Moore
Ised
Commission
North Carolina House
Moore
Steve Allen a Renaissance man of the television era
In Hollywood, Jayne Meadows portrays Steve Allen as a restless multi talent figure. She notes his busy pace from marriage onward, detailing his roles as composer pianist author and public advocate. She describes his curiosity, vast reading, staff, and lifelong projects from poverty to civil liberties.
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Jayne Meadows
Hollywood
Steve Allen
I Perrie
Tie ReVitior
Steve
Cuba
China
Carl Reiner
Spring Byington
Joan of Arc
Life Unsure in Viet Nam Montagnard Brou Life
HAL Boyle reports on the Brou, a Montagnard hill tribe near the DMZ in South Viet Nam. Children often lack names until age one due to high infant mortality, while elders sustain a survivalist culture. Diet includes dogs and small game. crossbow remains a weapon, and social life centers on frequent feasts and strong, blunt moral codes.
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Hal Boyle
Khe Sanh
South Viet Nam
Brou
Kansas Civil War Centennial Commission Ends
Gov. William H. Avery announced the Kansas Civil War Centennial Commission has ended at fiscal year close. After receiving $600 in 1963 and 1964 appropriations, the group closed with a zero balance, using remaining funds to aid the Kansas Historical Society’s Civil War exhibit project.
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PEKA
Kansas Civil
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Fort Scott Cafe
Kan
Louis Schmeling
Don Knotts
Louis Nye
Tim Conway
Local Trademarks, Inc
Plan Books
Hubbard Lumber
Aoe
Ottawa
Kansas
Viet Nam
John
Chigger
AY 2015
John Kaiser Drug Store
University Nursing Home
Rainbow Blvd
Kansas City, Kansas
THE
Wesleyan Foundation
Kansas Nursing Home Association
American Nursing Home Association
Reading Magazine
Nursing Home Administrator
McGraw-Hill
Rainbow Bivd
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!