Side Swipes earns third in state high school contest
The Po Mon a Kan mimeograph paper Side Swipes by Pomona Rural High School took third place in the 41st Kansas High School Newspaper Contest with honors for Anita Stankard and Carol Crawford in the human interest story class. In New York a pair of holdup men forced seven women and two men to strip during a $1,160 corset shop robbery on Tuesday night.
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Pomona Rural High School
William Allen White
New York
Brooklyn
Wife of Shepard to watch flight from Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach resident Louise Shepard, wife of the man chosen for the first U.S. space flight, plans to stay home and not travel to Florida to witness the Project Mercury capsule launch that will send Navy Cmdr. Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. about 115 miles above Earth.
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Virginia Beach
Louise Shepard
U.S
Florida
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr
U S May Try Man In Space Shot Friday
Space program hopes rise as Alan Shepard and alternate John Glenn prepare for a Friday countdown at Cape Canaveral amid weather delays. Rockets, fuel systems, and oxygen-tube troubles delay the launch past Tuesday’s setback.
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U.S
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Redstone
Weather Bureau
Florida
Good And Evil To Fight Bitter Battle On Stage Of Auditorium
The Sunflower Centennial Players present Love Rides the Rails or Will The Mail Train Run Tonight a three act melodrama at the Memorial Auditorium. The Ottawa Community Theater Players Inc. sponsors with John Sheldon Warren Wesen Dale Moser and Sylvia Fogle in key roles. The cast features Simon Darkway Dirk Sneath Carlotta Cortez Prudence Hopewell Truman Pendennis and others. The show runs at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday as part of Chau tauqua Days activities.
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Rohrbaugh Theater
Memorial Auditorium
Morland Carey
The
Ottawa Community Theater Players Inc
John Sheldon
Warren Wesen
Dale Moser
Sylvia Fogle
Sheldon
Simon Darkway
Dirk Sneath
Prudence Hopewell
Truman Pendennis
Truman
Harold Standfast
Jim Summers
Hopewell
Prudence
Lawrence, Leavenworth and Galveston
Mildred Jamison
Simon
Carlotta
Traffic Toll Kansas 1961 May 7 Report
AP Topeka logs 24 hours to 9 am Wednesday for May 7 1961, recording 168 traffic deaths. Compare with the 1960 period at 131 fatalities.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather County Forecast Mostly cloudy with storms likely
The forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies from this afternoon through Thursday with thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight. Highs 55 to 60 this afternoon, tonight’s lows 45 to 50, and highs Thursday near 60s. Yesterday’s high 64, low 50. record highs and lows for the date listed. Hourly readings from 8 a.m. to evening shown with peak values around 63 to 64 degrees.
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Aldmight Saaesees
Cence
Beards And Costumes To Be Judged Today
Rain threatened Chautauqua Days but indoor arrangements were made for beard and costume judging and a historical speech by Fred Brinkerhoff. The area hosted a square dance and an unsanctioned teen dance with sound equipment, while county tours drew 1,000 participants over two days and an upcoming centennial costume review and antique tea were planned. A county picnic was set for Saturday from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at 3rd and Main.
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Fred Brinkerhoff
Franklin Countian
Pittsburg
Don Brown
Brown
Elliott Hall
First Baptist Church
Chamber of Commerce
3Rd and Main
Ottawa and Kansas Under Cloudy Rainy Weather
A broad cloud cover spread over Ottawa and much of Kansas with rainfall up to half an inch in places. Showers are forecast this afternoon and evening, with heavier rain tonight. Rain began in western Kansas around midnight and moved toward Wichita by morning. Thunderstorm moisture is moving north from the south. Temperatures tonight are expected in the 50s.
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Ottawa
Kansas
Wichita
Weather Bureau
Pratt Voters Approve $650000 School Bond Issue
Pratt Kansas residents authorize a $650000 school bond by 1330 to 474 in a turnout of about 3700 eligible voters. Funds will build a new grade school remodel and enlarge existing facilities enabling separation of the junior college from the senior high school.
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Pratt, Kan
Pratt
British Spy Blake Sentenced to 42 Years in Britain
London AP reports George Blake a British official jailed for 42 years for spying for the Soviet Union for nearly a decade. It is the longest peace time espionage sentence in Britain. The judge noted the information was highly important to the USSR and undermined Britain’s security.
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London
George Blake
Soviet Union
Britain
Klaus Fuchs
Blake
Lord Parker
Crash Fatal KANSAS CITY viaduct accident claims life
Ondria K. Finney, 70, died Tuesday night when her car struck a guard rail on a Central Avenue viaduct ramp in Kansas City Kansas. Police and emergency responders investigated the crash.
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Kansas City
Kan
Ondria K. Finney
Central Avenue
Richmondville banker donates IBM shares to village fund
Chauncey Winters, 68, cashier and vice president of the Bank of Richmondville, gave the village of 743 residents 500 IBM shares worth about 357000 to cover debts including a 1955 sewer project. He previously donated 109 IBM shares for a fire house and had acquired the stock for 7000 after the 1929 crash.
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Richmondville
N. Y
Chauncey Winters
Schoharie County
Winters
Bank of Richmondville
Albany
George Davis
Davis
IBM
Ias
OU Graduate Named Principal At Ottawa High School
W P Shepard of Los Alamos New Mexico has been named principal of Ottawa High School for the next school year. He replaces Norris Burke who resigned to take a job in Wichita. Shepard, an Ottawa University alumnus and former OU football player, has 18 years coaching experience and has taught biology and chemistry. He plans to move to Ottawa after the Los Alamos school year ends on June 2.
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W. P. Shepard
Los Alamos
N. M
Ottawa High School
Henry Parker
Shepard
Parker
Norris Burke
Wichita
Lowell Gish
OHS
Kincaid
Anderson County
Ottawa University
Colorado State College
Greeley
Colo
Dick Godlove
Horton
St. John
Independence
Beulah Foley
Norah Foley
S. Main
Quenemo
Ottawa High
Shepards
Gayl
Mike
Jack
Ottawa
Free Food Up 80 Percent In Pittsburgh
AP reports Pittsburgh city supplies director William Clair says the number of families receiving free government food has risen about 80 percent since last fall. He notes roughly 25,000 families, about 80,000 people, are now on the rolls as of Tuesday.
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Pittsburgh
William Clair
Clair
Six Are Lost When Brig Sinks
A 92 foot brigantine named Albatross sank in the Gulf of Mexico during a training cruise from Progreso Yucatan to Nassau. Six crewmen were below decks as thirteen others, many teenagers, reached lifeboats. A freighter rescued survivors. Coast Guard searched for more. Ownership unclear, reports varied on a home port.
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Tampa
Fla
Gulf of Mexico
Progreso
Mexico
Yucatan Peninsula
Nassau
Bahamas
Key West
Fila
Coast Guard
Connecticut
Illegitimate Births in Kansas Reach Record High
TOPEKA AP The Kansas Board of Health reports a record 1,540 illegitimate births last year, 3.1 percent of 49,100 total births. The figure tops the previous high of 1,? and reflects ongoing birth statistics.
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Topeka
Kansas
Board of Health
Talks Hinge On Laos Cease Fire As Fighting Rages
In Vientiane, Pathet Lao ordered a cease fire while rebels attacked Pha Lane, 60 miles east of Savannakhet, on the road to central Viet Nam. Despite attacks and a prior mortar barrage on Hin Heup, officials hoped for an overall cease-fire with step by step fronts. The rebel radio called for a general cease-fire and urged the Western-backed government to join armistice talks.
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Vientiane, Laos
Pathet Lao Comemand
Pha Lane
Viet Nam
Laos
Savannakhet
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Hin Heup
Nam Lik River
Vientiane
Pathet Lao
Boun Oum
U S 7th Fleet In Asian Waters
Singapore AP reports the U S 7th Fleet remains in Southeast Asian waters on its deterring mission. The carrier Coral Sea moves toward its home base after SEATO Pony Express drills that involved 6 000 U S and British Marines and Australian infantry, 60 ships and 20 000 navy personnel.
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Singapore
U.S
Coral Sea
Gulf of Siam
Laos
South Viet Nam
U.S. Navy
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
North Borneo
SEATO
Senator Clark Booed by Chamber Delegates in Debate
In Washington at the Chamber of Commerce's 49th annual meeting Senator Joseph S. Clark urged federal education welfare and economic intervention while delegates applauded his conservative challenger Milton Friedman who called for shrinking federal powers including Social Security farm subsidies securities controls and other New Deal inheritances.
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Washington
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Joseph S. Clark
D-Pa
Clark
Chamber
Milton Friedman
Chicago
Friedman
John Birch Society
Madison defeat blocks $39,500 city pool bond issue
The Madison, Kansas bond proposal for a city swimming pool failed 283 to 249 in the Tuesday Second election. A prior April vote was 194 to 104 in a tied result.
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Madison, Kan
Madison
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Sunflower Centennial Players
Foulks
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Carlotta Cortez
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