Fire destroys Pomona house with antique heirlooms
Leslie Hunter of rural Pomona watched a night fire wipe out his two story family home. The unoccupied house contained about 3000 in antiques and was insured for 10000. Fire started in the front, possible electrical short, alarm by a passing motorist at midnight. The center section dated to 1860 built by Martins M Hunter, last of the old Ottawa Pomona landmarks.
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Leslie Hunter
Pomona
Hunter
Martin M. Hunter
Ottawa
Charles E. Phillips
Emporia
Lewis W. Carpenter Jr
Wichita
Highway Patrol
Carpenter
Legislature Faces Tax Debates For Kansas Budget
Kansas faces two weeks of decision as lawmakers choose how to raise funds for the next year. Governor Docking proposed a 941 million budget with about 28 million in new taxes. committees have cut funds, prompting options to raise taxes, trim the budget, or a mix. Welfare costs risk deep cuts without revenue, as lawmakers consider an income tax plan including disallowing federal deductions.
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PEKA
Kansas
State of Kansas
Robert Docking
House
Ways and Means Committee
James Bibb
Senate
Ways and Means
Docking
Robert Harder
Frank Hodge
Hutchinson
Shelby Smith
Wichita
R.C. Loux
Attorney General Cards Draw Fire Over Commissioning Power
TOPEKA AP A state representative says Attorney General Vern Miller has issued many commissioning cards deputizing citizens as special law enforcement agents. Miller says the power rests with his office and he will continue issuing cards. The rep notes a Wichita letter thanking a citizen for help in an election and stating the bearer is authorized to carry arms and exercise police power. He found about 35 prior cards under two former AGs and a 1968 law for railroad policemen.
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Topeka
Vern Miller
Miller
Attorney General’s Office
Wichita
Robert Miller
Attorney General
Theard
State of
Kansas
Thousands Reported Dead In East Pakistan Fighting
New Delhi AP dispatches report thousands killed in fierce East Pakistan fighting. West Pakistan army clashes with civilians in Dacca as Lt Gen Tikka Khan dies from injuries. Mujibur Rahman supporters claim independence amid curfews, bombings, and martial law.
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New Delhi
United News of India
East Pakistan
Dacca
Tikka Khan
Sheik Mujibur Rahman
Radio Pakistan
Sheik Mujib
India
Sheik
United News
Pakistan
Chittagong
Awami League
Indira Gandhi
Saidpur
Rangpur
Bravo Troops Return To Unit After Laos Battle
Bravo troop of the 1st Cavalry, Americal Division is reassigned to its parent unit after refusing to advance near the Laotian border. Lt. Col. Osborne praises their fighting, as six Bravo men were killed and five wounded in a heavy Thursday engagement. The action centered around the Yellow Brick Road area from Khe Sanh to Emerald City with 36 North Vietnamese dead according to Bravo and reinforcements, including a missing lieutenant who was found wounded.
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United News
Angartala
East Pakistan Rifles
Comilla
Assam
East Pakistan
Noakhali
Gandhi
Yellow Brick Road
Vietnam
Bravo Troop
Robert B. Osborne
2Rd
Sth Cavalry
Osborne
1St Squadron
1St Cavalry
Bravo Company
Bravo
Calley Jurors Near Verdict At My Lai Trial
FT BENNING Ga AP jurors in the William Calley mass murder case worked into a second weekend of deliberations with no word on their place. They asked for a legible charge sheet as they weighed four verdict options per count and potential penalties up to death. If no verdict today they may deliberate Sunday without court or staff.
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FT. Benning
William Calley
My Lai
Calley
Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant Goes To Layaway Status
The Army announced Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant near DeSoto Kansas will cease rocket propellant production and enter layaway status. Remaining 7 5 employees to be laid off by January after a March 4 cutback of 749. After July 1 propellant will be produced at Badger Army Ammunition Plant in Wisconsin as Sunflower closes due to U S forces reduction in Vietnam. Built in World War II, Sunflower was on standby until 1965 reactivation for Vietnam. Payroll rose to 2000 then declined to 1600 by March 4.
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Washington
Army
Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant
DeSoto
Kan
Badger Army
Wisconsin
Sunflower
U.S
Vietnam
Bombers Strike North Vietnam as Saigon Hit by Grenade
AP reports B52s intensified raids on supply lines in the North while artillery pounded DMZ edge positions. Viet Cong terrorists attacked outskirts of Saigon and Da Nang with a grenade killing three civilians and wounding ten.
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Saigon
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
da Nang
Laos
Dmz
Gio Linh
Khe Sanh
Ham Nghia
Jury Hears Seventeen Residents Before Grand Jury
Seventeen county residents including commissioners Don Yockey George Atchison and Lee Nichols appeared Friday before the fifth session of the grand jury probing alleged irregularities in last November's general election. Several subpoenaed witnesses joined in morning and afternoon testimony along with Roy Swank Franklin County Taxpayers' Association president and county attorney R Michael Latimer.
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Don Yockey
George Atchison
Lee Nichols
Nichols
E. G. Stith
Willow
Dorothy E. Stewart
S. Elm
Clarice Dengel
Hanes Drive
Dorothy McCrossen
Silvia Trout
S. Willow
Maude Adams
Canterbury Court
Roy E. Swank
Franklin County Taxpayers’ Association
Swank
Franklin County
R. Michael Latimer
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Wellington
Citi
Bangla Desh
Bengal Nation
West
Mohammed Yahya Khan
3Rd Squadron
North Vietnam
Cambodia
George Scott
Jim Berry
Jim Cook
Ottawa Rfd
L. W. Nitcher
Vern Ritchal
Leo Wittman
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