Turnpike Plan Delayed by Bond Market Here
Editorial notes the Kansas Missouri border turnpike won’t be built soon as bonds to fund the multi million project couldn’t be sold. Gov. Docking commissioned an expert who recommends a new financing plan next session. Docking opposed gasoline tax increases during his campaign but proposed other financing ideas in office amid road funding debates.
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Kansas
Missouri
Robert Docking
Docking
William S. Bowers
Pie In The Sky Compromise Bill For Kansas Highways
The measure funds a turnpike without state commitment and links Johnson County to a new Mid- Continent airport. Voters supported it hoping for financial guarantees, but Topeka politics hinder real progress as highway decay outpaces rebuilding. A 1962 Needs study and finances suggest gasoline tax, license, and driver fee increases as funding.
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Johnson County
Mid-Continent
Kansas City
Topeka
Docking
Kansas
State Highway Department
Seehotel Maierhof joins Zurich hotel scene with mixed reviews
In Zurich a new Seehotel Maierhof opens in Horgen near the city, offering high tech rooms with gadgets, in room service and stocked minibars yet suffers from cramped space, noise from a nearby road and railway, and constant construction next door. The piece contrasts it with Baur au Lac and the Grand.
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Zurich
Baur Au Lac
Seehotel Materhof
Dear Dr Mother column recalls seven decades of medical notes
A collage of reader letters to Dear Dr Mother from 10 childbearing years to thyroid pills and knee cracking. The notes cover pregnancy myths, thyroid concerns, umbilical questions, a child’s knee sounds, and rectal surgery shower therapy, plus brief nostalgia items about 25 and 50 years ago.
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rHu
D. K
C.S
Television log for a midweek prime time schedule
A historical TV guide fragment lists a dense midweek lineup with the 5 to 1 a.m. blocks. It names programs such as Leave It To Beaver, News, Truth or Consequences, Batman, Lost In Space, Beverly Hillbillies, Bob Hope, Green Acres, I Spy, Tonight, Joey Bishop, Alan Burke, and Faith For Our Times, with several films noted and multiple time slots, channels and c markers.
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Kansas
Monroes
Beverly Hillbillies
Bob Hope
Green Acres
Gomer Pyle
Steve Allen
Alan Burke
Joey Bishop
Ottawa Herald Local rates and staff details
Ottawa Herald lists address and staff with subscription prices for trade area and outside, plus Associate Press note. It includes editor Robert B. Wellington and publication schedule. A brief note shows an outdoors column continuation on page 3.
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Ottawa
Kansas
Robert B. Wellington
Association Press
Associated Press
Ens
Kennedy family river trip down Grand Canyon rapids
An account of a large party including Sen Robert Kennedy, Ethel, and notable figures like Andy Williams and Jim Whittaker rafting the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The narrator, as Kennedy kin, recalls fears, rafting mishaps, and humorous moments while detailing the trip’s highs and dangers over several days ending at Phantom Lodge.
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Grand Canyon
Ariz
Colorado River
Robert Kennedy
Andy Williams
Jim Whittaker
George Plimpton
Willy Schaeffler
Otis Chandler
Kennedy
Kennedys
Bobby Kennedy
Nile
Gen
Moshe Dayan
Ethel
Bobby
Whittaker
Phantom Lodge
Today In History July 12 1967 Highlights
On this date in history Julius Caesar was born from a wound inflicted in a duel in 100 B C. Joseph Bonaparte became king of Spain in 1808. Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817. In 1940 Britain and the Soviet Union signed a mutual assistance treaty. Alexander Hamilton died in 1804.
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Associated Press
Julius Caesar
Joseph Bonaparte
Spain
Naturalist
Henry David Thoreau
Britain
American States Union
Alexander Hamilton
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M. L
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W. S
Sitz
Fred Proffitt
Lawrence Short
M. F. Short
Television Log
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Colorado
Art Buchwald
Disny
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Malden Technicolor
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