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The Wichita Beacon from Wichita, Kansas • 3

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l-y Vi A ft 5 -k xhAcr I I AiirAn I n-' -I III Tho Headed for Scotland Seven Vietnamese Arrive for Visit in tower had bero burned out and trouble In the antenna Is apparent Exact cause ar extent of the damage cannot he determined until the service engineer climbs to the top of the 760-foot tower and completes a study of the trouble a company spokesman said Theorizing further on the storm as the cause of the trouble' an engineer at the station: explained that water could have Mown into the transmission line during the storm and -enough moisture could have been retained to' cause the slow deterioration of the Insulators The company spokesman added however that the cause could be even a stray bullet Calls averaging about four every 15 seconds have poured into the station since it went off the air Sunday Dearold Bigelow Agent-Wichita CASTLE-LIKE RESIDENCE TO Unoccupied and with its windows boarded over castle-l ike residence of the 1800s is scheduled to give way to the building of a super market in the 400 block on South Seneca The residence was formerly the home of prominent Wichita attorney Austin Cowan Mr and Mrs Cowan were killed in an airpjarie crash at the municipal airport in June (Eagle Staff Photo) Technical difficulties fwhieh forced KEDD-TV off the air at pm Sunday have been blamed on a short circuit In the tower line which company officials say might have been caused by recent weekend wind and rain storm When' broadcasting cm be resumed will not be known until further examination of the trouble spot Is msde: the officials said An RCA-Vlctor service engineer was scheduled to arrive here from Chicago by plane sometime Monday to make the study Company officials said variations In the operations have been noticed since the storm two weeks ago Then Sunday a meter at the station began showing a serious overload and broadcasting was ceased to prevent the rest of the television equipment from burning lip officials explained A preliminary study revealed that several pieces of the trans-mLvdon line from the transmitter to the antenna atop the giant Kahsan 95 Drowns in Stock Tank Special to Tfcc Caste MARION Oct The body of Frank Hoffman 95 of Kansas City Kan was found Sunday morning In a stock tank on the farm of Mr and Mrs Frank Hollar near here Officials said he met accidental death by drowning The father of Mrs Hollar he had been visiting at the home of his daughter since last March Hoffman met death when he fell Into the tank while pumping water for the stock with an electric pump a small daily chore he had assumed since arriving A machinist for the Santa Fe Rairoad which post he held for some 46 years Hoffman retired at the age of 73 He made his permanent home with a son Richard A Hoffman in Kansas City Kan His only survivors are his son and daughter Funeral services will be conducted In Kansas City Crash Victim Unconscious Max Pemberton 23 846 Big Bend Rd critically injured victim of the fatal car-truck crash Oct 8 on North Broadway still is unconscious at St Francis Hospital Hospital attendants reported Monday that his condition is and Meet Dearold Bigelow an 1 Agent in Wichita -for the Dearold Bigelow Prudential Insurance Company of America -i Mr Bigelow is professionally trained to help you plan 1 1 'J- a more secure future for yourself and your family WICHITA DISTRICT OFFICE Jack Highberger Manager 2512 East Central Are TcL MU 3-6554 Wichita Kansas -k Derby Teachers To Hold Meeting 1 The Derby Teachers Asszl will I hold their first meeting of the year at Derby schools October 19th according to Charles Hubbard association president The gathering will take place I beginning at 12:30 pm with a luncheon for the entire group of 1105 teachers The high school teachers win meet with their principal to talk about the improvement of high 1 school reading and evaluate their departments according to the standards of the North Central American Council of High Schools and Colleges The 1st 2nd and 3rd grade teachers will hear talks on art and literature by Miss Nancy Baldwin of Derby High School and Mrs Mary Greenfield Friends Mrs Sarah Wilson art- consultant from Winfield and Miss Carroll Noel professor of education at Wichita will address the 4th 5th and 6th grade fi -i israv: TWIRLERS TO APPEAR BAND DAY Shown above are twirlers from the Ellinwood high school band-who will appear with the band here in Sousa Band Day activities at the Wichita University-Drake University game to be played on Nov 1 2 Twirlers shown include left to right Sandy Robinson Hatlie Case Vicki Warren drum majorette Doris McLaughlin and Connie Warren Brenda Pryor is shown at center front John Banman is director of the band ese who are representing the premier of their country will have a brisk tour of speeches and club luncheons The tour began at 12:10 pm with a Civitan Club luncheon where they received 1 their formal introduction to Wichita They were scheduled to appear on the on the program on KARD-TV at 5:15 pun and later to have dinner at Innes Tea Room V--x A cocktaU party in their honor is to be held at the home of Attorney Robert A Cpldsnow between 7 and 9 pun Monday and then members of the group will be taken" to -KAKE-TV and KTVH-TV for appearances at 10 pm Breakfast Scheduled The executive committee of the Wichita: Jaycees will hold breakfast for them at the Allis Hotel Tuesday morning- at 7:30 and at 8:30 be taken to Wichita University where some of the Vietnamese group will take part in a public issue course to be held at 9 am in room 329 in Jardlne HalL: A highlight of the visit will be the dinner held in their honor by the Wichita Jaycees at the Allis Hotel Tuesday noon' While the rest of the visiting group are at the Jaydee Dinner one of the Vietnamese Dr Hu Quan Phuoc a dentist will' be addressing meeting of the Southwestern Orthodontics convention being held at the Broadview HoteL A final meeting with the Jaycee executive committee will take place Tuesday at 2:30 pm and the seven visitors are scheduled to board their plane at 4:30 The visit planning was done by George Short Wichita Jaycee president- 'M MeadpwIarkCourse Included in Lot Formal notice was mailed Topeka authorities Monday of intentions to issue more than $3 million In street sewage lire station and park bonds Nov 8 The figure was smaller than the city's previous bond issue this year in May in which bonds for sewer construction and paving alone amounted to $311914075 Funk assistant city clerk said the: -November bond issue would total approximately $3-346390 the exact figure not being immediately determined' for paving sewage and street opening bonds Break-down of the amount said included $350000 in fire atation bonds approved by voters April 5 Funk listed an approximate figure of $22OQOQ0 for bonds earmarked for paving projects sewer construction arid some street opening purposes Golf Course Included Ah even $300000 of the total has been approved by the Board of Park Commissioners and the City Commission for purchase of Meadowlark GOlf Course and a Second park area near 31st South and Bonn A separate grouping of street opening bonds pertaining mostly to construction of West Kellogg-UJSA4 which will be Included In the issue amounted to $33420624 Bands totaling $16218426 are involved In1 the Issue for bridge purposes representing recent hand rail installations on the Douglas avenue bridge over the Arkansas River and the widening of the Lincoln bridge over the drainage canal- Funk said formal notice of the bond sale was scheduled for official publication at Topeka Oct 21 and that city commissioners are to award the bonds to concerns offering the lowest net interest rate to the city Nov 8 Bonds in the semi-annual Issue will be dated Nov 1 Funk said Those issued last spring were dated May 1 Winfield Resident Taken by Death v-' SfMtel to Carte WINFIELD KAN Oct Newman 86 of Winfield died at Newton Memorial Hospital there Sunday f-' Survivors include a daughter Mrs Wilma Seacat of Cunningham Kan and three sans Mwiin of Winfield Olney of Kansas City Ma snd Ivan of Los Angeles Calif Seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren also survive' Funeral services'- win be conducted at the Grace Methodist Church of Wlnfield Tuesday at 2 Swisher Mortuary is in charge of service arrangements Services Arranged-: -Funeral services for Mrs Mary Brooks 78 who died Thursday at the rural Belle Flalne home of her daughter Mrs Van' Novack will be conducted from the Hau field Funeral Home in Belle Plaine at 2:30 pro Tuesday instead: of Monday ms previously announced Burial will be in the Belle Plaine Cemetery -v-i Seven Vietnamese business and professional men arrived in Wichita an Monday for a two-day stopoff during a three-week tour of the United States to stay you" to Americans for The seven are members of the Viet Nam Junior Chamber of Commerce en route to Edinburgh Scotland to attend the Jaycee World Congress Is a Jaycee-sponsored drive- through which funds were sent to Saigon central refugee point far about 750000 non-Communlst refugees who fled Red aggression to find sew homes in Free Viet Nam While in Wichita the Vietnam County to Be In Getting Supply Formation a distribution program for Salk polio vaccine to children aged 5 through 9 is to begin the next two Dr Bauman Wlchlta-Sedg-wick County Health Department director said Monday Bauman returned to his office from a two-day meeting of health officers at Chanute for this district of Kansas at which he said consideration was given to the vaccine program Sedgwick County has not yet been allotted a share of a $30 million federal Salk vaccine grant and Dr Bauman said Monday he anticipated it would be one of the last counties in the state be granted part of the fund Bauman said his office will start "very on working out a distribution plan with the Sedgwick County Medical Society The plan must afterward be approved by the Kansas State Board of Health The federal program Is separate from a program by the National Assn For Infantile Paralyi through which Salk vaccine injections here have been administered Dr Bauman said the state currently has enough vaccine to immunize only about one-fourth of eligible children in Kansas and that Sedgwick County where two years of injections have been carried out probably will be one pf the last counties in the state to receive an allotment Although the federal grant provides free vaccine to youngsters physicians probably will charge an for their part in giving the shots to youngsters whose parents can afford to pay Bauman said Dr Bauman said that law provides' for no charge being assessed to parents who could not otherwise afford the vaccinations for their children Church to Push- Visitation Program Margaret Westfall Indianapolis Ind has been named to the evan- gelistic staff of the Central Christian Church the Rev Mr Wright Lunsford minister of the church and Calhoun chairman of the church board announced Monday Miss Westfall is a field worker as-signed to churches li military com- munities by the Disciples- of Christ- Her work kxsb westfall Is a part of a nationwide program of the Disciples of Christ to give assistance to churches located near military and defense 'installations Her work here will' involve -a period of helping the church de- velop a program of visitation as well as provide "a hospitality program that willi enable it to minister more to men in the armed forces- and their families While In Wichita she will work with John Newton chairman of Central Christian department of evangelism and Chester Riggs who is directing a special program of evangelistic work during her assignment Resident 42 Years Dies inHospita! Mrs Nellie Boling 70 2434 Second died in a local hospital Monday 4 She was born June 24 1835 In Hinton Va and came here 42 years ago -Mrs Boling attended the Methodist church and was member of the- Auxiliary and Pocohontaa Lodge "'Survivors Include one daughter Mrs Cletha Carlson 515 Dodge: -one son Earnest VanGundy of the home one sister Mrs Frances Faye Stockton Calif and one grandchild Funeral services wnibe ccn- ducted at 10 am Wednesday in Culbertson Mortuary ChapeL Burial will' be in Wichita Park 'Cemetery feet feel like VIchlla Eagb 81 MmIw Kmlait OcUfetr IT USi RelieYe Your CHEST COLD MISERY ThePElIETRO Way I i sn- it NX Inhale Fenetro in steam loosens phlegm lessens cough Hub Penetro on chest and back to ease achy muscles Rub it on bresthe it in Buy a jar today RENEiliRQMS -4 COMPANY i AMKHICA -r 'j By Al Vermeer -Tl CD Stabbing Slaying Hearing Starts Preliminary hearing of a first I degree murder charge against a I 46-year-old Wichita woman for the knife slaying pf her husband last Sept 28 got underway In Sedgwick County Court of -Common Pleas Monday morning Mrs Edna Brown 1510 Ida is charged with stabbing her husband 28 times with a 12-inch I butcher knife in their home The preliminary hearing was I being heard Monday by Judge Thomas Raum Officials Probe Crash of Plane A Civil Aeronautics Administration Investigator and the county sheriffs office continued Monday to probe into the crash of a light two-place airplane in the yard of a north Wichita home Sunday noon James Colton Investigator for I the aviation safety district office of the CAA and Lt Frank Per cenka of the 'sheriffs office were to meet Monday with Dr Bert Bass who was said to be the pilot of the- plane at the time of the crash Identity of the pilot and a passenger was unknown at the time of the crash as both occupants of the plane left the wreck before an ambulance and gating officers could arrive However a witness to the crash I Roy Hof fine gave a description of the men he helped out of the plane and a later check led the investigator to name the pilot as I Dr: Bass and a Jim Frogg The 17-year-old Holfine sald one of I the men appeared to be cut on I the head but no injury report was available jy? Estimate Made Water Lines Pass Under Big Ditch An estimate of a quarter-million reached city officials Monday for construction of two crossings under the Big Ditch for Wichita's 48-inch equus beds pipeline Robert Hess director of water supply and sewage treatment and City Manager Smith said the City Commission On Tuesday will be asked to fix the date for receiving bids on the project The relocating of the water line has been spurred by the UB Carps of Army Engineers expressing interest in continuing construction of the floodway held up because it was not known how the city would proceed in replacing the line Hess said underground crossings below the ditch would be constructed just west of K96 north of 29th street and about a mile and a half west of Valley Center He said construction needed to be completed next when the Army plans to start scooping earth in those areas of the Wlchita-Valley Center Floodway Project A slight interruption of the pipeline service may result when the crossings begin operation Hess said He said the replacement pipelines will be laid while the existing lines remain In use Hess declined to name the exact estimate of the project received Monday from the Black A Veatch consultant firm Kansas City Mo but said it will cost mart than he anticipated- rvr- a miracle of To give you the most comfortable walk of your life ft'- The amazing thing about Microlite is that a sole so light can wear so longl It's slipper-flexible waterproof and non-marking too So the more you walk the more want this revolutionary new miracle of comfort and economy best for all the shoes! 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Pages Available:
574,434
Years Available:
1879-1980