50th Anniversary Stamp Honors Sun Yat Sen
A 4 cent commemorative stamp celebrating the Republic of China’s founding features Dr Sun Yat Sen. News briefs also note travels of Mr and Mrs Owen Fallowell to Oklahoma City and various local events including a ham and chicken dinner at St Anthony's Hall and nursing convention plans in Topeka with TB skin testing in Ottawa schools Oct 16 17 and Oct 23 24.
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Republic of China
Sun Yat-Sen
St. Anthony’s Hall
Franklin County
Kansas State Nurses Convention
Topeka
Ottawa
H. J. Terrill
Max McCready
Vincent Skidmore
Francis Golden
Painter Kenworthy Falls 160 Feet At Syracuse Water Tower
Syracuse police report painter Orville Raymond Kenworthy 21, of Dennis Kansas, slipped on wet paint while working atop a water tower and fell 160 feet to his death. He died at the scene.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Orville Raymond Kenworthy
Dennis, Kas
Evangelism Week Planned at First Christian Church
The First Christian Church at 11th and Hickory launches a week of preaching starting Sunday at 10 45 a m nightly through Friday at 8 p m with Dr Lin D Cartwright an internationally known pastor. He will lead weekday Bible studies at 10 a m with special music directed by Al Williams.
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First Christian Church
Lin D. Cartwright
11Th
Hickory
Cartwright
Ned M. Roberts
al Williams
Coffeyville
Christian Board of Publication
Disciples of Christ
Christian
Drake University
University of Chicago
Texas Christian University
Europe
Far East
Deaths: Co E Rennolds and Edwin Parks
Two obituary notices detail deaths of Topeka area resident E. Rennolds 78 and Pierce City Mo veteran Edwin “Doc” Parks 74. Rennolds formerly of Williamsburg and Lane, Kansas, died at the Methodist Home for the Aged Topeka. services set Friday in Mulvane Chapel with Elmwood Neb burial. Parks, born in Farnhamville Iowa, died at his Purdy Missouri home after moving from Ottawa two years earlier. survivors include wife Elsie and several children and siblings. funeral Friday in Purdy.
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E. Rennolds
Topeka
Williamsburg
Lane
Methodist Home For
Kansas
Nebraska
Colorado State College
Greeley
University of Nebraska
Lincoln
Adah L. Reynolds
Methodist Home
Nellie Hart
Burlington
Edna Dwyer
Lockwood
Mulvane
Elmwood
Neb
Edwin Parks
Edwin “Doc” Parks
Pierce City
Ottawa
Farnhamville
Iowa
Missouri
Elsie Parks
Bill Parks
Eureka
Calif
Carl Parks
Germany
A. H. Davis
Scott
Mdna ‘Harrold
Crestview
Local Market Report KC Markets RANBAB CITY
KC Markets report steady to higher prices across cattle hogs and sheep with varying grades. Cattle steady to high choice prime Helfer around 23.78 to 24.00, cows 15.00 to 16.00, veal and bulls 22.0 to 25.0, hogs lower with barrows 75 to 120, sows 260, lambs 15.55 to 17.60, yearlings 16.70 to 17.00, feeders 32.00 to 11.00.
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Ranbab City
Cholce Pteers
Franklin County Students Among 7800 at KSU Fall
Kansas State University enrollment for fall includes students from every Kansas county, most states, and 43 foreign countries. Franklin County contributes 41 students including Deanna Albright, Bruce Ames, Dan Bonine, Kathryn Chism, Harold Crawford, and Judith Stevens, with many others from Ottawa Pomona Princeton Richmond Wellsville Williamsburg and surrounding areas.
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Kansas State University
Manhattan
Kansas
Union
Franklin County
Ottawa
Deanna Mae Albright
Bruce Alden Ames
Dan Rocky Bonine
Ralph Gordon Bruce
Kathryn Lee Chism
Harold Crawford
James Conard Dunn
Dorothy
Roberta Glanville
John Elmore Going
Kenyon Earl Gross
Jill Linda Jefferis
Terry Lee Kramer
Moreen Kay Max
Joyce Pederson
Milton Pippinger
Betty Ann Pope
Robert Schneider
Charles Shaughnessy
Steve Ray Smith
Judith Anne Stevens
Patricia Stevens
Cheryl Lynn Taylor
Sharon Joy Whitley
Franklin Don Yates
Pomona
Edwin Pippinger
Princeton
Grover Froggatle
Edith Roann Sass
Cletus
Philip Wiederhall
Richmond
Judy Kay McClure
Wellsville
Darrell Harrbison
Karen Sue Mack
Terry Loren Silvius
Robert Wingert
Williamsburg
Larry Anderson
Joe Wesley Barnes
Beverly Diane Fogle
Sandra Lee Herring
James Millken
Maurine Marie Post
Shipping Strike Ends After Two Week Idle West Coast
SAN FRANCISCO AP A two week deck officers strike idled 44 ships along the West Coast and ends after U S Undersecretary Willard Wirtz brokered a compromise. Union vote to retire to work was 935 to 252 with a three year contract pending member referendum. Most ships were not expected to sail until Friday due to Columbus Day. Both sides will negotiate six issues including pension revisions and a mechanization fund.
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San Francisco
Masters, Mates and Pilots
Pacific Maritime Association
U.S
Willard Wirtz
Wirtz
Ford Strike Near End
Detroit AP reports the national Ford UAW contract ends after a 10 day strike. 25 local units retain unresolved issues though Walter Reuther expects union approval to end the nationwide walkout, with the executive board to decide remaining disputes tonight.
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Detroit
Today P
Ford Motor Co
United Auto Workers Union
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Ford National Council
International Executive Board
Routher
Royals
Star Farmer of America named Messler of Greenback Tenn
James Isaac Messler, 20, of Greenback Tennessee, is named the 1961 Star Farmer of America at the Future Farmers of America convention in Kansas City. He owns his Hiddener farm in the Great Smoky mountains and received a $1,000 award from the FFA Foundation. regional stars include G Wallace Caulk Jr, Henry Nagamori, and Gary M. Trego with $400 awards.
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Kansas City
James Isaac Messler
Greenback, Tenn
Messler
Great Smoky Mountains
Tennessee
FFA
Future Farmers of America
Cornelius L. Messler
Buford Elling
Future Farmersof America Foundation,Inc
G. Wallace Caulk Jr
Woodside
Del
Henry A. Nagamori
Loma
Mont
Gary IM. Trego
Sutherland
Neb
Kennedy orders Taylor mission on Vietnam threat
Washington dispatch says President Kennedy plans urgent survey by Gen Maxwell Taylor to assess the growing Communist danger in South Vietnam and outline possible military options. The Diem government faces mounting food pressures as Thompson heads toward Moscow to press Soviet restraint over Berlin and Southeast Asia.
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Washington
U.S
South Viet Nam
Kennedy
Maxwell D. Taylor
Taylor
Ngo Dinh Diem
Llewellyn
Thompson
Moscow
Berlin
Southeast Asia
Viet Nam
Cement truck overturns on gravel road near Wellsville
John JD. Clark of Richmond, 25, was cited by state troopers after his cement truck overturned on a gravel road two miles south of Wellsville. Clark had entered from K-33, said to be going slowly while avoiding holes, and faced penalties for driving on the wrong side and driving a truck without a chauffeur's license. The Cement Brick Products Co. truck sustained minor damage. Six other drivers were cited for traffic violations in the county court.
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John JD. Clark
Richmond
Wellsville
Max Gilmore
Clark
Cement Brick Product's Co
Must Register By Saturday For College Test
Kansas high school seniors must register by October 14 for the ACT test in the main session. ACT participation spans 43 Kansas colleges and 600 nationwide. The November 4 test includes four parts and yields five scores plus a composite. Registration forms are available at high school offices.
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Kansas
E. M. Gerritz
Gerritz
Kansas State University
Manhattan
Otawa University
Carlson Says U S Failure To Act Hurts Prestige
Sen. Frank Carlson says the United States lost prestige by delaying actions in Cuba, Laos, and Berlin. He predicts UN troops may head to Vietnam and warns the world situation will be a decades long challenge. education aid, youth conservatism, and unemployment trends also discussed.
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Carlson
Topeka
United States
Cuba
Laos
Berlin
Frank Carlson
A-Kas
United Nations
Viet Nam
Lucius Clay
Germany
Russia
Exodus From Hoffa Control Sparks Teamsters Split Threat
NEW YORK AP AFL-CIO leaders forecast a major exodus from James R Hoffa s Teamsters as the federation invites locals to switch allegiance Meany said about 100 of the nearly 900 locals were already considering defecting and the executive council authorized charters for deserters Hoffa pledged to resist and warned of a possible conflict but Meany refused to predict a labor war or headbusting decisions.
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New York
Afl-Cio
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
George Meany
Teamsters
Meany
Hoffa
Mr. Hoffa
Two Charged After Collisions
Police cited Oscar W. Baker and William T. Shipp after multiple collisions in the city. Baker, 35, faces a failing to yield charge for a truck crash with Claude M. Hoss, 65, in the South Hickory 100 block. Shipp, 18, rear collided while backing from a curb in the East Sud 100 block with Edith A. Reen, 50s. A third crash near North Main involved Carolyn C. Scott and Wallace W. Scott. No citations issued.
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Oscar W. Baker
S. Poplar
William T. Shipp
Waverly
Bakers
Claude M. Hoss
Poplar
South Hickory
Shipp
Edith A. Reen
East Sud
North
Main
Carolyn C. Scott
N. Main
Wallace W. Scott
Quenemo
Hospital Admissions and Discharges Noted Around City
Admissions list includes Randle Bronson 815 Pecan Mattie Sweet Cedar House William Fowler 1607 King Harry Flory 609 Beech Mrs John Montgomery 1034 N Sycamore Donald Leroy Smith Paola Gary Brubaker Lyndon Elizabeth Byrd 17 Rockwood Drive Mrs Frank Rose and baby daughter 11314 S Main Mrs Dora Glenn 309 E 2nd Mrs George W Kyle RFD 2 Lewis D Smith 903 FE 6th transferred to KU Medical Center Kansas City KS Thomas Rebecca Brown 941 Ash Thursday.
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Randle Bronson
Pecan
Mattie Sweet
Cedar House Nursing Home
William Fowler
King
Harry Flory
Beech
John Montgomery
N. Sycamore
Donald Leroy Smith
Paola
Gary Brubaker
Lyndon
Elizabeth Byrd
Rockwood Drive
Frank Rose
S. Main
Dora Glenn
E. 2Nd
George W. Kyle
Lewis D. Smith
K.U. Medical Center
Kansas City
Kas
Thomas and
Rebecca Brown
Ranney Denies Involvement in Greek Seafarers Case
In Piraeus 26 year old Roger Ranney testified in his defense that he was duped into narcotics smuggling and that he left seamen George Manteleros and Dimitrios Efstathiou ashore on an island. He said he was shipwrecked in a storm and denied mutiny in the November disappearance tied to a 39 foot yacht Delos. He described a bloody shirt found with his blood as from shaving, challenging a blood test.
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Piraeus
Greece
Kansan
Roger Ranney
Chanute
Kas
Ranney
George Manteleros
Dimitrios Efstathiou
Delos
Aegean Sea
County War On Snakes In Tampa Subdivision
In Tampa a 42 pound cottonmouth found on a subdivision street spurs residents to seek county action. Gene J. Gauthier plans to circulate a neighborhood petition after reporting the vipers invasion. The Stoot-4 cottonmouth appeared Sunday night and was killed, with others also slain by residents. The snakes are blamed on a wooded area bordering the subdivision.
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Tampa, Fla
Tampa
Gene J. Gauthier
Gauthier
Rayburn Condition Improves After Pneumonia Illness
Speaker Sam Rayburn, 69, who has incurable cancer and pneumonia, shows improvement after regaining consciousness. A bulletin from Dr. Robert Short Jr. says Rayburn is out of a coma, stronger, recognizes family, and has a normal temperature while vital signs stay steady. The pneumonia led to suspension of anticancer treatment.
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Dallas
Sam Rayburn
Rayburn
Robert ¥. Short Jr
New Contract For Jack Paar
NBC announces a new contract for Jack Paar retaining his nighttime show through March 30 and outlining a fall shift to a weekly prime time series. The move follows Paar suggesting a departure and keeps him active with NBC in a key television transition.
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Ottawa
W. Morgan
Clayton, I
Great Bend
William D. Morgan
New York
Jack Paar
National Broadcasting Co
Paar
NBC
Ike Mamie In Good Shape After Annual Examinations
Washington AP Ike and Mrs Dwight D Eisenhower completed satisfactory examinations in their annual physical checkups at Walter Reed Army Hospital Army surgeon general Lt Gen Leonard D Heaton said on leaving the hospital both are in fine physical condition Eisenhower who will be 71 next Saturday has undergone yearly checkups since his Army days
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Waller Reed Army Hospital
Leonard D. Heaton
Army
Eisenhowers
State of Siege Declared Across Colombia Amid Attacks
President Alberto Lieras Camargo said on Wednesday night the government faced an attack by extremist forces and proclaimed a state of siege nationwide, with authorities stepping up security measures across major cities in Colombia.
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Colombia
Bogota
Alberto Lieras Camargo
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