Bowers Announces Retirement From Senate After 12 Years
Senator William S. Bowers says he will not seek re election to the 5th district seat covering Franken Miami and Johnson counties. He cites desire to focus on law practice and family while remaining active in GOP politics and state government. Bowers chaired the water resources and reapportionment committees and led efforts on a long range highway program. He noted pride in Kansas water conservation progress and plans to stay engaged in public affairs.
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William S. Bowers
Franken
Miami
Johnson Couney
Senate
Bowers
Sen. Bowers
Legislative Council
Robert Dockeing
Senate Water Resources Committee
Kansas
Midwest
Egg payload survives 1000-foot drop in project
In Coldwater Michigan Legg Junior High pupils created egg packaging to endure a 1000 foot fall. Designs included a foam filled coffee can and a spring loaded shoe box. A plane dropped 100 packaged eggs in a cornfield and only five eggs broke.
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Coldwater
Mich
Legg Junior High School
Phillips and Hagelin Set Mayoral Race in Ottawa
In Ottawa, Phillips leads the mayoral primary with 63 percent of 1,621 votes, 1,012 for the retired reporter. Hagelin secures 26 percent with 426 votes, while Staneart Jr. earns 11 percent with 183 votes and is eliminated from the April 2 election.
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Lamar Phillips
Tueseday
Phillips
Art Hegelin
City Water and Light Department
Orval M. Staneart Jr
Staneart
Ottawa
Hagelin
Harry Murphy
Laurence Wightman
Joseph P. Servatius
Avery Enters Senate Race With Four Point Plan
Former Gov William H Avery announced at a press conference his candidacy for the Republican nomination to the U S Senate representing northeast Kansas. His Save America First program calls for a UN supervised Vietnam ceasefire, a firm American approach if talks fail, ending foreign aid, and halving the space budget to redirect funds to jobs and training for the hard core unemployed.
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William H. Avery
United States Senate
Avery
Kansas
Washington
America
United Nations
Vietnam
Space Administration
County Forecast: Cloudy and Colder With Light Snow
Weather report shows cloudy, colder conditions tonight with scattered light snow ending late tonight. Lows in the mid 20s, Thursday partly cloudy and cold with highs near 40. Wednesday high 62 and today’s low 33, with records cited from 1907 and 1906.
Swallow posts bond after felonious assault charge
John C. Swallow, 1123 N Poplar, Ottawa, is freed on $1500 bond after surrendering to police on a felonious assault charge involving a .22 caliber pistol that injured James F. White, 213E Red Jacket, who was treated and discharged from Ransom Memorial Hospital. A preliminary hearing is set for March 26 before Franklin County Court Judge Don White to determine probable cause for trial in Franklin County District Court.
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Ottawa
John C. Swallow
Poplar
James F. White
White
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Swallow
Franklin Couney
Don White
Franklin County
Miss Ottawa pageant seeks entrants for Miss America
Applications were mailed to area young women for the Miss Ottawa prelim. Eligible entrants must be 18 by Sept. 1 and may be OU students, Ottawa-area residents, or students attending elsewhere. Deadline extended to April 9 due to spring break. finalists rehearse in Ottawa. Miss America sponsorship includes a $10,000 scholarship and about $75,000 in net sponsorships.
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Ottawa
D. G. Laury
Ottawa University
OU Stuents
Ottawa University Student Civil Rights Commission
Chicago
CRC
First Day of Spring Echoes in Widespread Snow News
An AP roundup notes varied winter aftershocks as spring begins. Weather officials warn March remains risky with potential freezes and more snow. Swallows return to Capistrano on time for a 171 year streak except 1935. Snow records span North Carolina Texas Indiana Illinois Utah New Mexico Montana Oklahoma Arkansas and New England, with widespread disruption and mixed moods.
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New York
Henry van Dyke
J. Murray Mitchell
U.S. Weather Bureau
Washington
Capistrano
Capistrano Mission
California
North Carolina
Albert Hardy
Gulf Coast
Texas
Indianapolis
Ind
Iowa
Chicago
James McDonough
Utah
Red Lodge
Mont
Oklahoma
University of Arkansas
New England
Docking Finishes Work On Bills Passed In 1968
Gov. Robert Docking has received all bills passed by the 1968 Kansas Legislature. The last one, a four page revision of election laws, reached his office Tuesday. He has until Friday midnight to act on it and other bills. Docking also signed 47 bills including raising the state insurance commissioner salary to 16500 and setting duties for the new state board of education.
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Topeka
Robert Docking
Kansas
Docking
GOP Delegates Are Picked For Franklin County
The Republican Central Committee named delegates and alternates to represent Franklin County at district and state GOP conventions. It urged naming Odd Williams as delegate to the National Convention. County delegates include Almeda Edwards, Winton Winter, James Grogan, Vernon Chesebro, Dr. Wayne Angell, Sen. William Bowers, Mrs. Don White, Chuck Hendrickson, Morgan Williams, Rev. Jerry Harden and Rep. Robert Pinet. Alternates: George Marstall, Mrs. Winton Winter, Mrs. Dorothy Cramer, J. R. Cheney, Mrs. Jim Dykstra, Mrs. Jack Patty, Mrs. Gerald Lindsey, Jack Patty, Dr. Larry Matney, Mrs. George Atchison, John Richeson.
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Republican Central Committee
Deleegates
Franklin County
Odd Williams
Lawrence
Almeda Edwards
Winton A. Wine
Wrong-number flood hits Canoga Park resident
In Canoga Park California Patricia Comfort endured 15 mistaken calls in a half hour after her number was listed on 2985 junk recreation bulletins. She joked about changing her name to discomfort as the barrage continued.
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Canoga Park
Calif
Patricia Comefort
Guidance Center Marks 10 Years Of Service In Ottawa
The Franklin County Guidance Center in Ottawa celebrates a decade of helping people with mental or emotional difficulties since its March 17 1958 opening. Director Dr Seymour J Epstein notes rising caseloads in January February and March, plus more adult referrals from neighboring counties and schools physicians welfare offices courts attorneys ministers hospitals and employment offices. The clinic roots include Ed Sprague Dr Franklin Boraks and Dr Epstein, with staff Dr Arthur W Hoyt psychiatrist Marvin J Fine PhD Barbara Smith MA and Phyllis L Burress office manager. It collaborates with Osawatomie State Hospital for case evaluation discharge planning and community reintegration, funded mainly by patient payments and local support including United Fund and a tax levy.
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Ottawa Social Serice
Franklin County Guidance Center
Elizabeth Sprague
Franklin Boraks
Seymour J. Epstein
Epstein
State Hospital
Arthur W. Hoyt
Marvin J. Fine
Barbara Smith
Phyllis L. Burress
Forrest Bond
Jess R. Gilemore
Richard Fogle
David G. Laury
Neal Baxter
H. E. DeTar
Harry Finch
John F. Huderson
Robert L. Pignet
Allen Unruh
Raysmond Wagner
McCarthy would back Kennedy if he can not win nom
Senator Eugene J. McCarthy said he would support Senator Robert F. Kennedy for the Democratic presidential nomination if he concludes he cannot win it himself, but he denied any arrangements or conspiracy between them. He urged a guaranteed annual income and major housing and education programs, but warned these goals are unlikely while the nation continues the war in Vietnam.
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Eugene J. McCarthy
Sen
Robert F. Kennedy
McCarthy
Kennedy
Vietnam
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