Concrete Conduit Under Pomona Dam Construction Near Ottawa
Concrete pouring progresses at Pomona flood control reservoir 16 miles NW of Ottawa. A large metal form shapes a 13 ft 9 in diameter conduit over 600 ft long to carry releases from the dam to a stilling basin. The project links a control gate area to a hilltop overlook. List & Clark of Kansas City hold the contract with completion set for 1963 and a 14 million dollar estimate.
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Pomona
Ottawa
Stilling Basin
110 Mile Creek
Fred Blanks
Corps of U. S. Amy Engineers
Pomona Reservoir
Marais Des Cygnes Valley
List & Clark
Kansas City
Dress Up Days At Schools Sponsored By Ottawa REC
Ottawa Recreation Commission Director Oris Cox announced dress up days this week at schools with Friday morning events for Garfield and Eugene Field and Saturday for Lincoln and Hawthorne. Hawthorne events move to city park due to custodial workshop. Thursday Hawthorne playground moved to city park. Players pick Inherit The Wind for fall production directed by Jack Rast with casting starting in September for mid October show.
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Ottawa Recreation Commission
Oris Cox
Garfield
Eugene Field
Lincoln
Hawthorne
Cox
Ottawa Community Theater Players
Inherit the Wind
Jerome Lawrence
Robert E. Lee
Jack Rast
University of Kansas
Rugan to Manage Addington Campaign in Kansas
TOPEKA AP W. H Addington of Wichita announced Walter A Rugan of Ellinwood will direct the campaign for the Republican nomination for governor. Rugan has served as Barton County commissioner state highway director and as a highway commission member. He is a former Kansas Day Club president. Addington said Rugan will conduct campaign business from Wichita headquarters.
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Topeka
W. H.addington
Wichita
Walter A. Rugan
Ellinwood
Rugan
Barton County
Highway Commission
Kansas Day Club
Addington
Ragan
Weather County Forecast Cloudy to partly sunny and warm
Considerable cloudiness this afternoon and tonight with a transition to partly cloudy conditions Thursday. Highs today 80 to 85 and Thursday 85 to 90, with lows tonight in the mid 60s.
Senate ratifies U S Japan security treaty in swift vote
Washington AP reports the Senate approved the 10 year U S Japan security pact by a wide margin. Ratification documents will go to Hawaii then Tokyo for exchange. Japan's leftists threaten protests and blockades around the exchange as demonstrations unfold in Tokyo with mass labor actions and calls for Prime Minister Kishi to resign.
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Washington
Senate
Japan
U.S
Haawaii
Eisenhower
Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur II
Aiichiro Fujiyama
Foreign Ministry
Parliament
Kishi
United States
Traffic Toll Topeka Traffic Death Log Details
Topeka AP reports a 24 hour traffic death log ending 9 am. During 1960 204 comparable period 959 notes 246 prescriptions for Raney Drug CH2 3092. The brief item records fatalities and pharmaceutical data in the Kansas traffic toll snapshot.
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Topeka
Kansas
Cool Weather Delays Kansas Wheat Harvest
Cool weather with high humidity stalls general wheat cutting in parts of Kansas as grain ripens. The harvest labor office notes scattered cutting along U S 56 from Great Bend to Dodge City and near Larned and areas north to Ness City. Wet fields slow work in Sedgwick, Harvey, Kingman, Reno, McPherson and Rice counties while workers and machinery move into all needed areas. minor labor shortages are being filled by routing surplus labor from other regions.
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Great Bend
Kansas
State Harvest Labor Control Office
Daily Bulletin
U.S. 56
Dodge City
Larned
Ness City
Sedgwick
Harvey
Kingman
Reno
McPherson
Rice
Mamie Eisenhower Returns to White House After Hospital Stay
Mamie Eisenhower leaves Walter Reed Army Hospital after three weeks with acute asthmatic bronchitis. She entered May 31 and returns to the White House feeling much better, according to Anne Wheaton.
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Washington (Ap
Mamie Eisenhower
White House
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Anne Wheaton
City Manager Form Topic For Jaycee Discussion
Ottawa Junior Chamber of Commerce launches an educational campaign on the city manager form of government. KU professor James W. Drury will discuss the issue at 7 30 p m Tuesday, with Jaycee members visiting Lions, BPW, Rotary, Kiwanis and the Chamber of Commerce boards to inform voters.
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Ottawa
Ottawa Junior Chamber of Commerce
Jaycees
Rick Beatty
The
Evening Lions Club
BPW
Rotary Club
Kiwanis
Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
Noon Lions Club
James W. Drury
Political Science and Government Research Center
University of Kansas
Beatty
Jaycee Rooms
Memorial Auditorium
Vernon Chism
Gene Mavity
Bryce Wantland
Civic Club
Prof
Drury
Bank Robbery Reported in Walton Kansas
Two men robbed Walton Bank in Harvey County near Newton and fled on foot. Police identify the suspects as white men, one armed with a shotgun, exiting as Cashier O. E. Spangler was approached. A white and bronze 1956 Chevrolet is tied to the getaway, and the fleeing car may have been stolen in Newton earlier today.
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Walton, Kas
Walton
Harvey County
Newton
Charles OD. Grubbs
O. E. Spangler
Grubbs
Baptists Passed Resolution Against Catholic Presidential Candidate
The American Baptist Association adopted unanimously a resolution opposing a Roman Catholic as U S president. Dr Hoyt Chastain said loyalty to the United States and the Vatican cannot align and claimed Catholics are a political state influencing other religions. The 600000 member association, meeting in Kansas City, Mo, through Thursday.
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Kansas City
Kan
American Baptist Asso
National Convention
United States
Association
Hoyt Chastain
Malvern
Ark
Vatican
Chastain
Rome
One Killed In Great Bend Crash
Alvin R. Peterson 21 of Great Bend died at the scene when a car plowed through a barricade at a highway construction site and hit a parked truck near the west city limits on U S highway 56. Noel Cole 33, the driver, suffered critical injuries. the crash occurred just after 2 am and the cause was not known.
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Great Bend
Kas
Alvin R. Peterson
U. S. Highway 56
Noel Cole
Key Man In Brinks Robbery Is Freed
Joseph J O Keefe alias Specs, 51, who helped mastermind the Brink's robbery, was declared a free man in Massachusetts Superior Court after two concurrent three to four year sentences were deemed served. Judge Forte discharged him while authorities credit his testimony for solving the Jan 17 1950 heist. He faces a Pennsylvania firearms charge pending.
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Boston
Joseph J
Specs
Dist
Atty
Garrett H. Byrne
Forte
O’keefe
O'Keefe
Pennsylvania
Brink
May Lose Contact With Pioneer V
Washington AP reports Pioneer V may lose radio contact within a week as it drifts beyond 20 million miles from Earth. Jodrell Bank engineers say dwindling batteries will hinder tracking, though the probe sent a signal Tuesday. launch occurred in March.
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Washington
Joddrell Bank
England
Jodrell Bank
Phillipsburg approves 536000 bond for new high school
Voters in Phillipsburg Kansas approved a 536000 bond issue for a new high school with a 619 to 1327 vote. The special election drew near-record turnout in the northwest Kansas town of about 13,500. Lamb Insured Payment Plan, adv.
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Phillipsburg
Kas
Northwest
Kansas
Lamb
Lunar Living Won't Be Luxurious
Washington AP reports the House Space Committee notes lunar life will be harsh for early astronauts. Hazards include extreme temperatures, no atmosphere, high radiation, and meteorite bombardment. A $6 million, three year Army Corps facility could simulate moon conditions, while booster projects remain a top priority. NASA outlines manned orbital flights by decade end with no crewed landings before the early 1970s.
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Grees
Army Corps of Engineers
Defense Department
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Space achievement marks first double satellite launch
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP The United States achieved a historic space first by sending two satellites into orbit on a single Thor Able Star rocket in a single launch. Transit II A and a piggyback radiation satellite rode the booster into near circular orbits about 500 miles high.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
United States
Air Force
Defense Department
Khrushchev Defends Peaceful Coexistence Policy
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, addressing the Romanian Communist Party congress in Bucharest, defended peaceful coexistence and relaxation of tension. He warned war is not inevitable and praised socialism's advantages while urging U S leadership to correct mistakes and seek better relations with capitalist nations.
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London
China
Nikita Khrushchev
Kremlin
Khrushchev
Romanian Congress Party
Bucharest
Tass
Red China
Peiping
Lennin
Tax collection hits ninety percent for second year
County treasurer Mrs Roselyn Whitley reports 90 percent of taxes due were collected by the June 20 deadline for the second year in a row. Both total assessed and collected are lower than last year with $2 278 447 71 assessed and $2 051 513 09 collected this year, down from $2 355 386 47 assessed and $2 128 390 25 collected. Delinquent payments incur a 19 percent penalty and added assessment is based on days overdue.
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Roselyn Whitley
Weather warms in Ottawa with showers forecast later
Ottawa and eastern Kansas rise above yesterday�s cold snap with improving skies. The weather bureau indicates warmer temperatures before light showers and possible thunderstorms Friday or Saturday and again Monday.
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Ottawa
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Russia Ahead of U S Says Symington Warns
New York AP Senator Stuart Symington warns on NBC Today that militarily the Russians are stronger than the United States. He cites losses in economy psychology technology and space power and argues U S policy changes are needed to avoid irreversible weakness and world-rule ambitions by Moscow.
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Japan
United States
Asia
New York
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Today
NBC
Symington
Russia
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