Lyric Theater Tenor Faces Housing Hurdle Amid Eight-Child Move
Kansas City AP report on Richard C. Knoll the Chicago tenor joining the Lyric Opera with a seven week stay budgeted at 200 for housing. His wife eight children and staff seek permanent lodging as Caccavale and team scout area options while a temporary motel refuge is offered.
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Kansas City
Lyric Theater
Richard C. Knoll
Chicago
Knoll
Kansas City Opera Group
Ross Caccavale
Opera
Caccavale
Lyric
Ottawa opens school with 2272 students on first day
Ottawa began the new school year with 2272 students enrolled for first day classes, just one more than last year. Supt. Henry Parker announced enrollments by schools including Senior High 408 and Hawthorne 308, with classes resuming after Labor Day. Weather notes report morning rain and forecast showers through Saturday as Ottawa totals August rainfall reach 3.74 inches.
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Ottawa
Janie Gollier
Ottawa High School
Ottawa High
Herald
R. A. Gollier
Disaster knocks out 78 aboard first single plane crash
A four engine TWA Constellation crashed in a Chicago area cornfield killing all 78 aboard. The disaster near Midway followed a Labor Day holiday flight from Boston to Los Angeles via New York Pittsburgh and Chicago. Investigators examined possible bomb cause as debris and bodies were recovered through dawn.
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Chicago
Midway Airport
Los Angeles
TWA Flight 529
Boston
New York
Pittsburgh
Jerry Broz
Hinsdale
Suncook
NRL
Carole Chase
Linda Annis
Nancy Bergstrom
Linda Peaslee
John M. Macosko
Anthony Skurcenski
Inglewood
Calif
Skurcenski
Weather COUNTY FORECAST Scattered storms and mild weekend outlook
Scattered thunderstorms this evening and tonight with partly cloudy skies through Saturday. Highs Saturday in the upper 80s and lows tonight in the 65 to 70 range.
Traffic Toll In Topeka Report For August 1961
Kansas traffic death log shows a final August count of 37, with 24 hours to 9 am Friday recording 2 deaths for September, 0 for 1961, 340 for comparable 1960 period, and 31L noted.
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Topeka
Kansas
New Hours Announced For Carnegie Free Library
Nell Barnaby announces changes at Carnegie Free Library. Daily hours start Tuesday with adult section 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday, children’s room 2 to 6 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and 2 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday. Two staffers leave. Betty Trout joins as student assistant.
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Carnegie Free Library
Nell Barnaby
Nancy Curry
Emporia State College
Shirley Borglund
Truck Line In Operation After Fire at Main Street Site
Best Truck Line Inc owner Nele Isham says operations continue after a Tuesday fire destroyed the building at 321 N Main. A temporary office in a van is used behind the razed structure. Rebuilding is likely on the same site, with fire damage estimated between 60,000 and 75,000 dollars.
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N. Main
Best Truck Line, Inc
Nele Isham
Isahm
Isham
Bank Robbed of $10 000 in Farley Missouri
Farley Missouri bank was robbed of more than $10 000 by three bandits who herded three customers and nine employees into the directors room and forced cashier Mike Jarowitz to locate the money in the vault. They fled in a white 1960 car, likely a Pontiac or Chevrolet, as Missouri Highway Patrol and sheriff deputies set road blocks.
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Farley
Farley State Bank
Mike Jarowitz
Missouri Highway Patrol
Kansas City
JFK Seeks U.S. Disarmament Agency Congress Push
President Kennedy grows anxious for Congress to pass a bill creating a U.S. disarmament agency to coordinate policy. The move contrasts with Soviet plans to resume nuclear tests, as Berlin and nuclear questions loom in White House discussions with Secretary of State Rusk. Senate action and a rising demand to resume testing add pressure on lawmakers.
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Senate Foreign Rela Itions Committee
Kennedy
Dean Rusk
White House
Berlin
U.S
Congress
Senate Armed Services Committee
Blasts Soviet Strategy As Blackmail And Terror
Washington AP Ambassador Arthur H. Dean told Kennedy that Russia plans to resume nuclear tests to rest its future policy on terrorizing humanity. He said the Soviet policy is one of overkill and underestimates world resolve against blackmail and terror.
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Washington
Arthur H. Dean
Russia
Soviet Union
Dean
Kennedy
Army Seeks 500 More Nurses for Postwar Push
The Army Medical Service announced a critical need for 500 additional nurses due to the recent buildup. The service aims to fill the gap immediately with volunteer nurses, mainly young women and men who have not yet served in the armed forces.
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Washington
Army Medical Service
Army
Goulart Near Brazil Border Triggers Civil War Fears
Vice President Joao Goulart reached Montevideo as rival forces mass around Brazil's border, while military chiefs launch a Rio Grande do Sul operation against pro Goulart factions. Goulart insists he will assume the presidency, but the crisis risks sparking civil conflict in South America’s largest nation.
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Sao Paulo
Brazil
Joao Goulart
South America
Montevideo
Odylio Denys
Rio Grande Do Sul
Goulart
Andy Wants Tests Resumed
Washington AP report notes 13 senators from both parties backed a resolution urging resumption of U S atomic testing with Senator Andrew Schoeppel of Kansas among the signers.
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Washington
Sen
Andrew Schoeppel
R-Kan
Tragic TWA Constellation Crash Victims From Many Places
The flaming crash near Chicago killed vacationing families from California New York Pennsylvania and Connecticut among the 14 boarding Pittsburgh flights and elsewhere. Notables include architect Edward N. Chamberlain of Palo Alto and families of R C Maloney Eureka and P Mahoney Santa Rosa. Names and ages of several children are listed with trips from England and connections to New Bedford and Liverpool.
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Associated Press
TWA
Chicago
R. C. Maloney
Covina Park
Calif
Michael
Maureen
Richard
Mary
Edward N. Chamberlain
Palo Alto
Kensington
Chamberlain
Abiriam Chamberlain
Connecticut
Edward
Grant
James
L. Neil Gilliam
Forestry Department
Eureka
New Bedford
Mass
Frances Gilliam
Benton
Karen
Tommy
Linda Jo
Liverpool
England
P. Mahoney
Santa Rosa
Binghamton
N.Y
Sharlene Woods
Estella Woods
Sharlere
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Mrs. Woods Transfered To the Twa Plane Which Did Crash. Mrs. Woods
Gertrude Pritchard
Bell Gardens
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