WSU Students Use Computer To Match Dates
Two Wichita State University students create an Interest Compatibility Exchange ICE to match dates using a 28 item personality profile and computer sorting. For a $3 fee participants receive confidential matches, with misfits refunded. They expanded from Wichita to Kansas State University and other local colleges, funding with about $1,500 as they quit jobs and school to run the venture.
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Wichita, Kan
ICE
Jerry Harper
Merle Gates
Gates
Harper
Wichita State University
Kansas State University
Wichita
Unique System Teaches Government in Mulvane Public School
Mulvane Kansas AP report profiles teacher Roger L. Daeschner who runs 11th grade government as a mock legislature with two houses, committees, and Roberts Rules of Order. About 90 students study bills on topics from parks to pay phones, aiming to spur civic interest and intelligent voting.
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Mulvane
Kan
Roger L. Daeschner
Daeschner
Mulevane High School
U.S. Congress
Roberts
Crewecut
Frank Carson
Cost Of Living Soars With Food Price Jump
Washington AP report shows February consumer prices up five tenths of 1 percent, the sharpest rise in 15 years. Fresh vegetables up 10.5 percent, meat near 2 percent, eggs 4 percent, poultry 8 percent, pushing annual CPI 2.5 percent above a year ago.
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Washington
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Arnold Chase
BLS
Chase
Regional Club Day Highlights From Franklin County 4-H
Franklin County 4-H with more than 500 participants sent top winners to Regional Club Day at Baker University Baldwin. Events included model meeting public speaking demonstrations and musical performances with several blues and red ribbons awarded to club members. More than 800 spectators attended as Johnson Osage Douglas Wyandotte Miami and Shawnee joined in the competition.
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Franklin County
Baker University
Baldwin
Lloyd Davidson
Berea Boosters
Richmond
Red Ribbon
Cindy Hollow
Sheri Hewitt
Ann Christie
Doug Durbin
Nancy Hewitt
Town and Country
Blue
Richard Hull
Trail Blazers
Jeanne Hazen
Virginia Higdon
Sheri Dete Wiler
Johnson, Osage
Douglas
Wyanedotte
Miami
Shawnee
KC Markets Egg and Butter Prices Report
KC Markets Kansas City AP notes consumer eggs grades large medium and grade B with prices listed across pages 41 to 43, wholesale eggs large and mediums at 80 percent, butter price unchanged.
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Kansas City
Car Collision at Oak and Seventh Leaves Two Cars Damaged
Howard E. Fletcher 36 of 323 East 13th drove a 1959 Buick south on Oak when Louie B. Mumma 40 of 303 S. Sycamore traveling east on Seventh, in a 1966 Chevrolet pickup, collided at the left rear fender. Fletcher was cited for driving under the influence and reckless driving and posted $300 bond. No damage estimates were provided.
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Oak
Seventh Streets
Howard E. Fletcher
East 13Th
Oak Street
Seventh
Louie B. Mumma
S. Sycamore
Fletcher
Stop Signs Drew Fire in Rural Franklin County
Franklin County commissioners reported ongoing damage as rural stop signs are knocked down soon after installation. Each destruction costs about 14 dollars, and removing signs does not solve the safety need created by a Bureau of Public Roads required program funding the county must cover for FAS routes.
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Franklin County
Bureau of Public Roads
Three Cars Smash On South Main Near Fourth
A three car crash in the 400 block of South Main shortly before 10 p.m. Monday left a 1 year old Ottawa girl with head and neck pain though she reportedly did not require treatment. Witness Carlos C. Cole of Rantoul, 18, cited for following too close and defective brakes, with Dodge damage estimated at 250 dollars and Cole’s car at 120. Hay’s Ford suffered no damage.
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Ottawa
South Main
Kathryn J. Hill
S. Locust
William H. Hay
S. Mulberry
Fourth and Main
Miss Hill
Hay
Carlos C. Cole
Rantoul
Cole
Rescue mission saves downed pilot in Viet Nam mountains
In a daring operation over North Viet Nam, 30 American aircraft and 40 airmen hunted for 25 year old 1st Lt. Kenneth D. Thomas Jr. after his jet was damaged. Capt. William E. Cowell and a Jolly Green Giant crew failed multiple attempts to reach him, finally delivering food and awaiting daylight to complete the rescue. The effort followed a high risk night search with air cover and ground support.
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Saigon
Air Force
Kenneth D. Thomas Jr
Viet Nam
Thomas
Mount Auburn
Ill
3Rd Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Group
Ree
Box Canyon
Cowell
Robert J. Watson
Willoughby
Ohio
David C. Henry
Philadelphia
C. Laverne Kellerman
Butler
Wyn Deporter
Memphis
Tenn
Pomona Faces State Review Over Wage Decision And Costs
In Pomona the city weighs possible losses from delayed sewer bids while awaiting state review of a wage decision raised above the engineer’s estimate. City clerk Vivian Eichinger said the wage level is under scrutiny after the month old decision, signaling potential financial impact.
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Pomona
Vivian Eichinger
Odds and ends from a mailbag of quirky notes and trivia
A jumble of short items covers teen marriages and divorce rates, high heel shoe use at Las Vegas odds, Louis XIV’s fashion, a 1966 education budget, and factors shaping popular culture. It includes safety comparisons, presidents’ dangerous months, social tips, quips, and folklore, wrapping in miscellaneous oddities.
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New York
Las Vegas
Nev
Louis XIV
France
America
Peoria Man Pleads Guilty to Disturbing the Peace
Elzie L. Adams aged 60 of Peoria pleaded guilty at a County Court arraignment on March 23 to disturbing the peace. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail and ordered to pay court costs. The complaint states his March 22 conduct involved abusive language toward his wife Alice Adams and others in the home.
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Elzie L. Adams
Peoria
Adams
Alice Adams
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