Thant Urges Israel to Withdraw From UAR Territory
United Nations Secretary-General U Thant urged Israel to commit to withdrawing troops from occupied United Arab Republic land to meet Gunnar V. Jarring peace proposals. He praised Egypt for a positive reply to moves and urged both sides to maintain the Suez Canal cease-fire. Jarring’s plan would revert Israel to pre-1967 lines, risking Sinai withdrawal.
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United Nations, N.Y
U Thant
Israel
United Arab Republic
Middle East
Gunnar V. Darling
U.N. Security Council
Jarring
Egypt
Jordan
Thant
Palestine
Sinai Peninsula
Black Emphasis Week Dinner and Ball at Ottawa University
The Black Student Union sponsors a dinner from 5:30 to 6:30 and a dance at 7:30 in the Ottawa University Student Union upstairs. The Kansas City band The Stendells will perform. Tickets cost 2.50 for the dinner and 1 for the dance, available at the door.
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Ottawa University
Kansas City
Stendells
Viet Cong stronghold Sepone falls to Saigon forces
South Vietnamese infantrymen with US air cover seized the Lao tian town of Sepone and disrupted the Ho Chi Minh trail network around it, Saigon headquarters reported. President Nguyen Van Thieu sent a congratulatory message.
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Saigon
U.S
Sepone
Nguyen van Thieu
Tran van An
20Th Division
le Thung Hien
Dong Ha
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Hoang Xuan Lam
Thieu
Cao van Vien
Laos
Vietnam
Khe Sanh
Hartford Area Woman Dies In Wreck
A Gridley woman, Mrs. Juanita B. Eccels, 49, was killed in a headon crash five miles south of Hartford around midnight Friday. Her 15-year-old son Jimmy suffered injuries, and Jerry Scoggins, 16, of Hartford, was also injured in the collision.
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Hartford
Kan
Gridley
Juanita B. Eccels
Jerry Scoggins
Scoggins
Eccels
Jimmy
Ottawa GI Killed In Indochina
Pfc. Stephen L. Smith, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Smith of 623 S. Elm Ottawa, was killed in action Monday in Vietnam when the armed helicopter he crewed came under attack during a reconnaissance mission. He joined the U S Army in December 1969 and had served in Vietnam since June 11 1970. Born January 2 1951 in Ottawa he was a Hawthorne Elementary and Ottawa High School alum. Surviving are his parents three sisters Mrs Connie Zimmerman Greenwood Mo Jane and Terri Smith at home and grandparents Mrs H D Smith 710 Ash and Mr and Mrs W V Cooper Chanute. Damron Towner Chapel is in charge of funeral arrangements with burial planned at Highland Cemetery.
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Stephen L. Smith
Homer Smith
S. Elm
Vietnam
Smith
Pfc
U. S. Army
Ottawa
Homer L. and
Leah (Cooper) Smith
Hawthorne
Ottawa High School
Connie Zimmerman
Greenwood
Jane Smith
Terri Smith
H. D. Smith
Ash
W. V. Cooper
Chanute
Damron-Towner Chapel
Highland Cemetery
Primary time as candidates face elimination Tuesday
Voters will narrow the field for USD 290 board of education and city commission in a Tuesday primary. Eight commission candidates and 13 school board contenders compete for April posts. incumbents Stephen V. Ralph Harry Murphy and J Leland Hysom seek re election. Regulars, challengers, polling hours 7 am to 7 pm across Ottawa areas with district specific voting sites and separate election boards.
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Edward McGrath
USD 290 Board of Education
City Commission
Commission
Stephen V. Ralph
Harry E. Murphy
J. Leland Hysom
Ralph
USD 290
Marais Des Cygnes
Lincoln School
Garfield School
USD 287
Pomona
USD
Wellsville
USD 289
Pomona High School
Wellsville High School
Pay Bill Faces Senate Vote On Legislature Salary Hike
TOPEKA AP Lawmakers await Gov Docking decision on a bill to more than double legislative pay and expenses. The Senate passed it 21 16 after the House sent it along 63 62 amid criticism over funding. Proposed funding routes include higher beer taxes and tobacco levies while other measures stalled or moved. The session also saw action on a tax reform proposal and a Uniform Consumer Credit Code, plus a bill making possession of marijuana with intent to sell a felony.
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Topeka
Robert Docking
Senate
House
Docking
Bob Storey
Weather Report For Saturday High 61 Low 30
Weather data shows a steady pattern with a Saturday high of 61 and today’s low at 30. A year ago the high was 50 and the low 37, with a record high 70 in 1925 and record low 6 in 1920. Precipitation 0.02 inches in the last 24 hours ending 8 am with 0.3 inches snow. Hourly readings top at 37 near 1 am and fall to the mid 30s through the night, barometer 29.98.
Johnny Cash Boosters More Than Fans By ARDIS FQUST
Two Ottawa women, Mrs Ronald Yingling and Janet Harris, formed a close friendship with Johnny Cash's sister Joanne after meeting him in Nashville. Joanne arranged backstage visits, tours of Cash's nature house by the lake, and access to the troupe and stars like Glen Campbell and Ray Price. The women attended tapings of the Johnny Cash show and This Is Your Life, describing Cash and his family as down to earth and approachable. They plan to return to Nashville for future tapings and hope Joanne visits Ottawa.
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Ardis
Ottawa
Ronald Yingling
S. Oak
Janet Harris
Johnny Cash
Joanne
Nancy
Nashville
Tenn
Cash
Narcy
Yinglings
Yingling
Janet
Johnny
Glen Campbell
Louis
John
Reba
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Lary G. Johnson
S. Willow
O. R. Norman
S. Cedar
William Shipp
N. Cherry
Fredric B. Zook
Willow
Lamar Phillips
Pepsi-Cola Bottlers Inc
Murphy
Hysom
Finance
J. C. Penney Co
Cook
Ottawa Ready Mix
Johnson
Paola
Norman
Gas
Shipp
Safeway and
Zook
James L. Allen
Ottawa Rfd
James J. Chandler
Rockwood Drive
Clifford Reynolds
College
John N. Wassmer
S. Hickory
Arthur T. Allen
N. Mulberry
Charles A. Beeman
Orchard Drive
Dyke L. Dietz
S. Main
Donald French
E. 2Nd
William Hedrick
S. Maple
Richard
Senate State and Local Affairs Committee
Nancy Yingling
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