Sky Divers to Perform at Ottawa May 26
Ottawa hosts a Mid-West Sport Parachute Association meet at Ottawa Municipal Airport with 75 plus sport parachutists. Ottawa Jaycees sponsor and Sky Hi Sky Divers of Kansas City lead events including high altitude jumps from 22,000 feet and a 28 foot landing circle. Spectators free and close views planned as jumpers from several states compete for association honors.
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Ottawans
Mid-West Sport Parachute Association
Ottawa Municipal
Ottawa Jaycees
Sky Hi Sky Divers
Kansas City
Kas
France
United States
Campers Group Display at Shawnee Mission Park
The Plainsmen Chapter of the National Campers and Hikers Association will hold a two day camping equipment display at Shawnee Mission Park off Highway 10, about ten miles west of Kansas City on May 18 and 19. Items include tents, tent-trailers, house-trailers, VW type campers, turtlebacks, lanterns, iceboxes, water jugs, sleeping bags, air mattresses and campboxes. No admission charge, public invited.
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Plainsmen
National
Canmers and Hikers Association
Family Camping Organization
Shawnee Mission Park
Highway 10
Kansas City
Min sky’s Las Vegas burlesque producer divorced
LAS VEGAS AP. Showgirl Dardy Orlando files for divorce from Harold Minsky, burlesque show producer, on grounds of mental cruelty. Case details cite separation and ongoing legal proceedings in Nevada court.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Harold Minsky
Dardy Orlando
Janitor Eldon Mahoney Retires After 24 Years in Ottawa Schools
Eldon Mahoney 65 of 831 East 7th will retire in July ending a 24 year tenure as a janitor in the Ottawa school system. For eight years he has cleaned at Wainthorne Elementary and plans to visit his three sons in Pratt Overland Park and Ponca City. He humorously says he will likely do some fishing and throw away his dorm clock. He worked long hours from 7 am until 5 or 5:30 pm and admits he will miss the students and staff though he may return to see them.
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Eldon Mahoney
Ottawa
Mahoney
Wainthorne
Pratt
Overland Park
Ponca City
Okla
Ottawa Sailor Heads to Sea On Little Rock Mission
John R. Meharry a Navy fire control technician seaman from Ottawa is leaving Norfolk aboard the guided missile cruiser USS Little Rock bound for the Mediterranean. Valerian Vs Harkins the Sixth Fleet commander and Dennis M. Harkins son of Rantoul are also linked to the fleet. The destroyer USS Walker celebrated twenty years of service and is among 12 anti submarine destroyers with Destroyer Flotilla Five based at Pearl Harbor as a Pacific Fleet unit.
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John R. Meharry
Navy
Ralph Meharry
Ottawa
RFC 2
Norfolk
Little Rock
Mediterranean
Valerian Vs. Harkins
Dennis M. Harkins
Rantoul
Walker
John Grimes Walker
Destroyer Flotilla Five
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Mixed-Up Tesna 2rs Drop Out Of Sciial And Can't Find/o
A 1963 World Book Year Book reprint surveys youth dropout causes and paths. It notes higher apprenticeship standards, shrinking registered programs from 231000 in 1950 to 166000 in 1960, and details two dropout groups. It cites varied backgrounds, from urban slums to suburbs, with familial and educational factors driving disengagement.
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U.S. Department of Labor
Hach
Doris
Chicago
Cuban Exile Leader Llaca to Speak in Ottawa Monday
Cuban freedom fighter Dr. Enrique Llaca Jr. will tour Kansas May 13 14 and 15 with an Ottawa stop at 6 p.m. Monday May 14 for the Ottawa College Community Banquet at the National Guard Armory. The Kansas sponsor is Kansas Young Americans for Freedom led by OU student Fred Coldren. Llaca, Havana born 27, co founded the Democratic Representative Front and later led Cuban exile groups after Bay of Pigs.
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Enrique Llaca Jr
Kansas
Ottawa
Ottawa College
National Guard Armory
Kansas Young Americans For Freedom
Fred Coldren
Dr. Llaca
Democratic Representative Front
Bay of Pigs
Houston
United States
Committee For the Liberation of
Cuba
Havana
de la Salle College
Villanova University
Madrid
Spain
Cuban Supreme Court
Plan for 1963 Miss Universe of Kansas Pageant
Wichita plans for a 1963 Miss Universe of Kansas beauty contest to crown the state winner who will represent Kansas at the Miss Universe Pageant in Miami Beach Florida from July 10 to 22. The event signals the path to the national competition and a chance for state contenders to gain recognition.
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Wichita
Kansas
Miami Beach
Fla
Long wait led A W Benander to fish and game work
A W Benander, later supervisor of law enforcement for 22 Kansas counties, started in a Hutchinson hardware store at 21 in 1921 and only began his dream job in 1939 after a law ended bounties for wardens. He served in WWI, later worked as a barber and bookkeeper, and now oversees eight game protectors. His unit helps stock state lakes, trains new protectors, and educates the public while sharing duties with water safety and search efforts for drowning victims. He and Alberta Bothe married in 1923, moving to Topeka in 1941. they have two sons.
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Topeka
A. W. Benander
Hutchinson
Benander
Kansas
Kansas Forestry, Fish and Game Commission
Chanute
Holton
Fish and Game Commission
Legisla
Alberta Bothe
Duane
New Brunswick
N. J
Dean
Wichita
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Campers Group
Showgirl
Wis
Ellen Mahaney
Imerald
Sixth Fleet
Jim
New Orleans
Cone
Internal Revenue Service
Atlanta
Breien
Groun
Stow Learcar
Eli S. Coben
National Committee On Employment of Youth
U.S
Bureau of Labor
Enrique Llaca, Jr
Plan Kansas
Clay Loyd
Associated Press
Richland
Rock Island Railroad
Kansas-Missouri National Guard
Ture
Benandez
Tors
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