Driving Defense Keynotes from Safety Course
A two day Defensive Driving Course sponsored by Franklin County Farm Bureau and the National Safety Council covered preventable accidents and six adverse conditions weather light traffic road vehicle and driver. About 29 people attended. The course emphasized steps stay alert stay ahead stay back and start stopping sooner and highlighted safe passing signaling and proper lane use to prevent collisions with ahead behind oncoming vehicles pedestrians and fixed objects.
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National Safety Council
Franklin County Farm Bureau
Ottawa Industries seeks revenue bonds for new plant
Ottawa Industries moves toward issuing 250000 in industrial revenue bonds to buy land and build a new facility in Ottawa's industrial park. The city will lease the land to the company with bond payments drawn from lease revenue only. A public hearing on related Santa Fe train service changes is set for July 31.
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Rosie Lister
Ottawa Industries
City Commission
Ottawa
Servatius Plumbing
Walton
Durbin Plumbing and Heating
W. F. Snook
E. J. New
Chanute
Santa Fe
Kansas City
Tulsa
Interstate Commerce Commission
Franklin County Court House
New
Eugene Flaherty
Vern Wadkins
Franklin County
Bob Lister
Wadkins
Orrin Smith
State Highway Commission
Lamar Phillips
Robert Docking
War Deaths In Vietnam Rise Of American Toll
SAIGON AP figures show American battlefield deaths climbed 23 percent last week to 182, though still 23 percent below the year’s weekly average. South Vietnamese headquarters reported 295 government troops killed, down 16.
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Saigon
Vietnam
U.S
North Vietnam
Go go dancer fined for topless display in Detroit
A buxom go go girl Tyra Lea LaRue was fined 300 for violating a police regulation requiring dancers to wear pasties. The court found her guilty of driving with nothing on her bosoms, while her lawyer vowed an appeal. The bar owner said the test involved dancing topless to challenge the rule.
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Detroit
John G. Carney
Tyra Lea LaRue
Nasser Threat Sparks Israeli Air War Over Suez
Israeli air and ground forces claim nine Egyptian warplanes shot down along the Suez Canal in renewed fighting. Moshe Dayan warns Nasser may renew the war as Egypt vows to regain lands lost in the 1967 Six Day War.
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Tel Aviv
Suez Canal
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Egypt
Sinai Peninsula
Nasser
Cairo
Moshe Dayan
Israel
County Forecast A mix of clouds and thunder showers
Chance of thundershowers tonight diminishing Friday morning. Partly cloudy Friday afternoon. High Friday mid 80s. Low tonight near 70. Precipitation probabilities 50 percent tonight and 30 percent Friday. Includes record highs and lows for the date and 24 hour rainfall of .66 inch.
Moon Mission Ends With Ping Pong Splashdown Near Hornet
Apollo 11 astronauts landed in the Pacific just nine miles from the recovery ship USS Hornet. Nixon greeted them from the bridge but withheld handshakes until quarantine in a trailer. They were then sanitized with disinfectant before entering isolation as frogmen entered to assist and spray their lunar suits with a biological agent.
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Hornet
Planet Earth
Nixon
Neil A. Armstrong
Edwin E. Aldrin
Michael Collins
Armstrong
Aldrin
Hawaii
Ward
Navy
Clancey Hatleberg
Chippewa Falls
Wis
Hatleberg
Collins
Maatleberg
Hearse Used In Ike's Funeral Now In Service Here
Towner's Chapel in Abilene owns the black 1969 hearse that met the Eisenhower funeral train in Abilene and carried the former president's body to burial. The vehicle bears mementos from the ceremony including a sprig from the Abilene walk greenery and a plaque recounting the role. Ralph Mullins of Superior Coach Co. provided the coach and arranged delivery for the Abilene services.
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Abilene
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Joe Towner
Towner’s Chapel
Abilene Station
Eisenhower Center Chapel
Eisenhower
Towner
Ralph Mullins
Superior Coach Co
Shawnee Mission
Mullins
Ottawa
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Ardis Foust
United States
South Vietnam
Hoi An
da Nang
Anna Mayhugh
Nola
Clarence H. Mayhugh
Wellsville
Ernie Watkins
Excelsior Springs
Pacific
Pacific Ocean
Ike
U.S. Army
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