Record-Times from Altoona, Kansas • 1

Tl.URSDAY, June 18. 1964 VOL. 3 NO. 15 AITOONA, KANSAS OTOEt MANY ATTEND STAFFORD ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION NEWS SP0TU6DT sifts. WmtfmSM nip" Xw Pacreo3 Stafford's 7o'th Anniversary was celebrated June 12-13, by many ucll-wishers and friends.

Grocery baskets were awarded in drawings botJi days. The Friday winners were: Mrs. Zeke Lctterman, MissOra Surig, and Mrs. L'lwood Girard. The Saturday winners were: Ernest Scott, Gene Kitch, and Mrs.

Max ine Deeds. Refreshments, gifts and prizes were a part of the successful event. Pictured above arc some of the junior citizens who rode around town on Page's fire truck blowing the siren providing added thrills to the gala affair. 1 IrJWC a INTERNATIONAL U.S. reconnaissance jets with fighter escorts keep a wary watch for possible Red Chinese interference as the jets make sweeps over Laos from the carrier Kitty Hawk.

High officials in Washington believe the Chinese Red Air Force with bases just 30 minutes flying time from the area in which the U.S. jets are operating will refrain from flying into Laos to intercept U. S. flights. In notes to the Soviet Union and Britian; Communist China demanded emergency discussions among signatory nations of the 1962 Geneva Accords to avert the danger of an extension of the war in Laos.

U.S. Undersecretary of State Averell Harriman along with Werman Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroeder welcomed Chancellor Ludwig Erhard of West Germany ashe arrived in Washington to review the German and Berlin problems with President Johnson in the light of a recent Soviet-East. German friendship pact. Romania according to increasing speculation may be moving away from the Communist bloc. Bucharest streets with Russian names are getting new ones.

The Russian language is no longer compulsory in Romanian schools. Soviet book stores and institutes are being closed or renamed. Romania recently signed a trade agreement with the U.S. seeks to do more business with the west. Opposition groups against President Chung Hee Park of South Korea ask the National Assembly to lift the martial law Park decreed for Seoul June 3 as the result of student demonstrations against his government.

NATIONAL A roll-call vote gave final approval in the house to President Johnson's $3. 5 billion foreign aid authorization request-The vote was 230-175 with Avery-Dole-Ellsworth-Shriver and Skubitz of Kansas voting against the request. The authorization now goes to the Senate. Former president Dwight D. Eisenhower insists that he is includes $7, 500 -a -year increase formembers of Congress, judges, cabinet officers and top federal executives.

The Postal Department would also be included in the pay-raise. Of major importance to the bill's backers who earlier this year turned down a similar bill, was the fact that most State primary elections are now over. Earlier the primaries were still to be faced and too many members felt it politically unwise to vote raises for themselves and then face the electorate. Helping to pass the bill was President Johnson's strong support along with a powerful lobbying effort by the Postal Unions. The bill now goes to the Senate.

Ellsworth of Kansas was among those voting for the bill, with Dole, Shriver and Skubitz voting against. Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller suddenly announces his with- drawal as a candidate for the Republican presidental nomination; he gave his full backing to Pennsylvania Gov. William W.

Scrantonas manv G.O.P. groups join growing forces to block the nomination of liarry Goldwater of Arizona. A X-15 rocket plane recently modified for5, 000-mile-an-hour flight is expected to exceed by about 1,000 miles an hour its current speed record of 4, 104 miles per hour. Freight trains of the Missouri Pacific and theKaty ltailroads have been halted by picketing. The U.S.

District Court issues restraining orders against the picketing by union members. One threat posed by the strike was to the wheat harvest which is now ready to resume after recent rains over the State. YOUTH CENTER SKATIII6 PARTY June 24 The Youth Center skating party is scheduled for Wednesday June 24, at 7:30 P.M. at the Chanute Skating Rink. The group will meet at the old Altoona Auditorium P.M.

V.C.S. PROGRAM JUNE 18. 7:30 P.M.. Vacation Church School completed its first week with an average attendance of 120, 95 pupils, 15 teachers, 10 Administrative. A Shai r.g Program will be given Thursday evening at 7:30 P.M.

Construcfion Begins On Highway 47 SS RURAL FIRE DISTRICTS ORGANIZED The rural fire district program in Kansas has "caught fire" during the past year. Since July when Kansas State Univeuuv anr ike US. Forest Service excess Army equipment agreement became effective, 219 vehicles were placed in 42 Kansas counties by June 8. Harold Gallaher, Extension foresterat K-State, said vehicles have been distributed largely in eastern Kansas but some have gone as far west as Clark and 1 laskell counties. To be eligible for equipment a rural fire district must have been organized.

Loy Shreve, area fire control forester on Gallaher's staff, said the equipment that had been allocated to fire districts includes 2 12 ton -wheel-drive and 3-4 ton4-wheel-drive trucks, jeeps, pickups, flatbed trucks, and tank semi -trailers. Some water tanks, pumps and fire hoses have been available from an Anny surplus list. Distribution is limited to areas outside incorporated cities. Districts obtaining vehicles are required to equip them to fight rural fires. (Cont'd on pace PEE-WEE'S 10SE IN T0URI1AMEH1 4-6 lliel'ee Wee's baseball itani of Altoona lost a close game' to Galcsburg by the score of 4-6.

The two teams were entered in tournament play being held at "St. PauT Work started Monday on construction of new grade for K-47. Highway, beginning at 16th Street, the east city limits of Fredonia andendingG.3miles east, where connection is made with an improvement constructed in 1955. Major items of construction include 112,000 cubic yards of common excavation, 99,000 cubic yards of concrete for construction of 2 1 culverts, including one of sufficient span to be classed as a bridge, 1570 linear feet of pipe culverts, 3300 linear feet of ditch wash checks and 2000 square yards of concrete ditch lining. Features resulting in standardizing sight distance on the improvement will be reduction of the steep grade on Burton's Hill, 3mileseastof Fredonia, from its present grade of about 5.

G')'o to For comparison grade raising from the Verdigris valley to the plateau west of Altoona is G''u. The curves at the foot of burtons' Hill will be eliminated, although curves of slight deflection will project the new center ine slightly to the north to eliminate those present sharp In reducing grade at Liurton'sllilla 20-foot maximum cut will be made in the shale formation for a length of about 800 feet. At die rise cast of the present curves a cut of 1000 feet long to a depth of as much as twenty feet will be made in a limestone formation Longer cuts of about a quarter mile in length are to be made east of Meadows Auto Salvage Yards and again in die last mile of the project, but maximum cuts will be about 12 feet. Lesser cuts occur through the project. The grade will be finished to a 50-foot widdi, which is designed to accomodate a 24 12 foot (Cont'd on 7) neither a partisan or foe of anv Republican candidates seeking presidental nomination.

tisenhower wants a wide open Republican National Convention to stir the party and the nation's interest. Fears of national inflation were tossed out the window as the -louse passeda pay raise bill that in the Grade School for parents and friends. 1he public is invited to attend and visit the rooms following the program..