Toronto Reservoir dedication planned near Chanute Kansas
Side Swipes reports formal dedication of the Toronto Reservoir in southeast Kansas on Saturday June 18. The event, designed by the Tulsa District Corps of Engineers, features Sen Andrew F Schoeppel as speaker, water activities, Indian ceremonial dancing by the Mi Kan Na Mios, and a boat regatta at the lake beach north of the administration building. Ottawa events and Dairy Day promotions are also noted.
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Toronto
Kansas
Corps of Engineers’ Administration
Schoeppel
Car faults prompt judge to fine youth in Groton
GROTON Conn AP a town court judge fined Robert Martin 21 $12 and then asked if his car had an engine and was worth as much as the fine. The car had no horn tailpipe front marker plate marker light one headlight out one brake light out one parking light out one tail light out a loud muffler and emergency brakes not too good.
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Groton, Conn
Robert Martin
Man buys Fairview High School for sentiment
Hopkinsville Kentucky AP Ed Fritz helped erect Fairview High School fifty years ago. All nine of his children have attended the school and three daughters taught there. He now owns the building with a high bid of 2425 dollars.
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Hopkinsville, Ky
Ed Fritz
Fairview High School
Soldier hitchhikes to report stolen car and finds it
Ft Campbell soldier Woodrow Patterson, hitchhiking downtown to report his car stolen, is picked up by a man driving the missing vehicle. Patterson and a Campbell buddy detain the driver Frank Cecil Edmondson until police arrive.
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Nashville
Expensive Gag Sparks Bomb Report Charge
Peter W. Askew, 24, says the false bomb report aboard a plane was a joke. He faced a maximum year in jail and a $1,000 fine if convicted in federal court.
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New York
Peter W. Askew
Weather COUNTY FORECAST Partly cloudy to cloudy through Thursday
Partly cloudy to cloudy this afternoon through Thursday with scattered showers and thunderstorms likely tonight and Thursday afternoon. Local heavy rains possible west tonight. Cooler trend continues with highs 70 to 75 this afternoon and upper 70s Thursday. Tonight low around 60.
Rockefeller After Breakfast With Eisenhower Still Not Candidate
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller met with President Eisenhower at the White House and kept his stance unchanged on a 1960 presidential bid. He said Nixon has a good chance to secure the Republican nomination and again declined any major role or a Nixon ticket as his own. He urged leaders to publish precise policy positions before nomination and warned against a party driven by a question mark.
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Washington
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Eisenhower
White House
New York
Richard M. Nixon
Rockefeller
Japan
Nixon
Chicago
Republican Party
Republi
Gardiner enters race for Congress in 1st District
Gardiner, a 47 year old Leavenworth newspaperman and current state legislator, announces Democratic candidacy for Congress in Kansas 1st District. He plans to file in Topeka and spoke at Holton rally Tuesday night. Avery likely seeks renomination. Republican Robert Turney of Topeka has filed.
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Leavenworth
Marshall G. Gardiner
Congress
Topeka
Holton
William H. Avery
Wakefield
Avery
Robert Turney
Weather outlook for Ottawa and western Kansas counties
To Stay Cool Ottawa experiences partial clearing after a cloudy damp period on Monday and Tuesday. The weather bureau expects showery cool conditions to persist through Thursday with statewide rain Tuesday and heavier totals in western areas including Hesston 1.86 inches New ton 1.68 Inman 1.48 McPherson 1.00 Durham 1.41 Herington 1.80 and Dodge City 0.40.
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Ottawa
Weather Bureau
Hesston
Newton
Inman
McPherson
Durham
Herington
Dodge City
Cheney Joins National Group In Ottawa and Wellsville
Cheney announces Ottawa and Wellsville Super Valu affiliation with Minneapolis based chain. Super Valu operates in 14 states and ranks 11th among U S food concerns. Local stores will keep nationally advertised products while adopting new merchandising procedures and training.
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Cheney
Ottawa
Wellsville
Minneapolis
Minn
J. R. Cheney
United States
Ringling Bros to Withdraw Show for July Rest Period
Sarasota officials report Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey plan to take the show off next month to beat the July heat. Performers will rest in Sarasota while operations pause. Lamb Insurance offers a payment plan.
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Sarasota, Fla
Ringling Bros. and
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Sarasota
Baptists condemn legalized gambling as deceitful policy
George W. Cornell reports the American Baptist Convention denounces state legalization of gambling as a symptom of economic and cultural decay. The 14.5 million members call for anti communism education, stronger disarmament, nuclear ban enforcement, US Soviet cultural exchanges, tech aid ties, birth control and food production efforts to curb population growth.
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United States
U. S
California Primary Strength Elevates Nixon Nationwide
California results show Vice President Nixon leading on the Republican side with 668,073 votes to Brown and McLain totaling 918,?. Brown wins California's 81 Democratic delegates as McLain cuts into Brown's total. In New York, Tammany Hall elder Carmine De Sapio suffers a setback as reform Democrats gain. Other states vote as Metcalf leads in Montana, Prost wins Idaho, Reifel and Fitzgerald win SD nominations, and Eastland with two congressmen sweep Mississippi.
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Richard M. Nixon
California
Tammany Hall
New York
Nixon
Edmund G. Brown
Brown
Montana
Idaho
South
Dakota
Mississippi
George H. McLain
McLain
New York City
Manhattan
Orvin B. Flare
Gracie Prost
Leslie McCarthy
South Dakota
Ben Reifel
Ray Fitzgerald
George McGovern
Sen
James 0
Eastland
Ance Blakeney
John Bell Williams
Arthur Winstead
Kansas seeks countywide school consolidations plan
The Citizens Advisory Committee for Elementary and Secondary Education urged a two year planning period for county wide district units. They asked the Legislature to set a state education agency to order consolidations if needed and to delay expansions in districts below 1200 pupils while shaping finance rules and board elections under a 43 unit plan.
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Topeka
Citizens Advisory Committee For
Kansas
Education Committee of the
Legislative Council
University of Minnesota
Special Board Rejects Union's 25-Cent Request
A presidential emergency board recommended a five-cent hourly wage increase for 650,000 railroad workers not directly operating trains, effective July 1, to head off strikes. It urged negotiations on health and welfare program improvements as a substitute for a further wage rise when contracts expire next year. The proposal is nonbinding. unions and management pledged review.
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Washington
Eisenhower
George Leighty
Railway Labor Executives Assn
St. Louis
Theodore Short
Chicago
Carriers
Arthur W. Sempliner
Detroit
Traffic Toll Topeka Counts Road Deaths 1960
Kansas traffic death log details 294 hours to 9 am 4x during 1960 184 comparable 1959 period 214 x includes one death previously classed as non traffic.
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Topeka
Kansas
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