Camp Ripley Vacation for a Minnesota Soldier
Dennis McIntire, 19, works at Herald before joining the First Howitzer Battalion's advance to Camp Ripley Minnesota for National Guard summer camp. He uses a camera to capture his first try with the new device, reports a big mosquito bite season, and notes C-rations and lessons echoed by the plant crew before departure.
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Yellowstone National Park
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Colorado Mountains
Camp Ripley
Ft. Polk
National Guard
Minnesota
Dennis McIntire
The
Herald
127Th
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Ripley
North Woods
Citizen Soldiers Face Tests for Elite Reserve Force
Washington AP reports the Selected Reserve Force SRF nears end of summer training and faces rugged readiness tests. Despite shortages in rifles and gear, units must demonstrate battalion size field operations as lawmakers debate McNamara era reforms and the SRF role.
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Washington
Reglar Army
National Guard Bureau
Guard Bureau
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
McNamara
Army Reserve
National Guard
Congress
SRF
Pentagon
Winston P. Wilson
Wilson
Tax Take Hits Record Tax Take Hits Record
The Kansas Department of Revenue reported 297 million dollars in taxes collected in the year ending June 30, up 83 million from the prior year and a record. Income taxes rose to 75 million, sales taxes to 113.4 million, liquor enforcement taxes to 2.2 million, cereal malt beverage 1.9 million, cigarette taxes 17.5 million, motor fuel 57.8 million, and inheritance 5.6 million as higher rates and advance withholding boosted receipts.
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Topeka
Kansas Department of Revenue
Ace
Quick End To Airline Strike Is Doubtful
The Civil Aeronautics Board announced relaxed rules to ease air traffic in the five airline walkout affecting Eastern National Northwest Trans World and United. Negotiations resumed though both sides remain far apart as the 35 000 plus machinists and ground staff seek higher pay and the airlines offer smaller raises.
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Civil Aeronautics Board
Afl-Cio International Association of Machinesists
Eastern
National
Trans World
United
Northwest Airlines
Johnson
Afl-Cio International Association of Machinists
Thousands Turn To Other Means As Airline Strike Hits
Thousands of stranded travelers seek substitute transport on the second day of a mechanics strike against five major airlines. Bus and train schedules are stepped up to relieve the passenger jam from Fridays grounding of 60 percent of U S air travel. At Kennedy Airport 757 flights were canceled, boosting demand at American Pan American Northeast and Delta, not on strike, with similar impacts in 231 cities nationwide. Portland and Seattle report businesses and railroads running full.
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New York
United States
Kennedy Airsport
American
Pan American
Northeast
Delta Airlines
Portland
Ore
Seattle
O’hare International
Chicago
O'Hare
Miss Ottawa A Winner PRATT Kansas Miss Kansas Pageant
A Miss Kansas will be crowned tonight from 34 contestants as Debbie Bryant, last year’s Miss Kansas and Miss America winner, helps with the ceremony. Preliminary winners Friday were Karen Lynn Schaub and Karyl Palmer both 18. Schaub won the swim division representing Ottawa. Palmer won talent as Miss Barton County. Thursday night winners included Betty Louise Fox and Judy Colleen Martin with Fox representing Emporia and Martin wearing Winfield’s colors.
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Pratt
Kan
Miss Kansas
Debbie Bryant
Miss Bryant
Karen Lynn Schaub
Independence
Karyl Palmer
Great
Betty Louise Fox
Oakmont
Judy Coleleen Martin
Augusta
Miss Fox
Emporia
Miss Martin
Winfield
Traffic Toll Topeka Death Log Summary
Kansas traffic death log records 24 hours to 9 a.m. Saturday July 2, 1966 with totals 3841 for comparable 1965 figure 315
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Topeka
Kansas
Ethiopian Finds Kansas Clean People Friendly
A K State graduate student from Ethiopia, W A Karabatchew, spent two days in Franklin County examining rural water districts and discusses implementing similar systems in Ethiopia. He cites Kansas as ideal for studying agricultural progress and notes friendly people, clean areas, and plans to return after one more semester to teach and help establish water districts back home.
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W. A. Kurabatchew
Kansas State University
Ithiopia
Franklin County Rural Water District
Paul Archer
Teft
The
Farmers Home Administration
Rosie Lister
K.state
Ethiopia
W. A. Kurasbatchew
Franklin County
Kansas
Beccause
Midwest
Manhattan
Kurabatchew
United States
Karabatchew
Weather County Forecast Fair and hot through Sunday
Fair to hot conditions continue through Sunday with southerly winds 20 to 30 mph. Highs reach mid to upper 90s, nightly lows near 70s. Friday high 92, today’s low 74. Year-ago highs 90, lows 69. Record high 107 in 1901, record low 52 in 1947. Hourly temps end at 8 a.m. 81 to 89, barometer 29.99 inches.
Pomona Sewer Plan Gains Public Backing
Pomona city clerk Vivian Eichinger reports a public poll showed 115 for and 28 against sewer system, a 4 to 1 vote in favor. The poll follows a prior survey and supports moving ahead with work, now tallied at 247060 dollars.
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Pomona
Vivian Eichinger
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