Mechanical answering device haunts state hospital office
A Manhattan firm’s telephonic answering system greets callers with a calm mechanical voice, guides message recording for up to thirty seconds, but offers no notice of staff absence. Local news notes include a minor dog bite incident involving Frankie Staggs and a corsage fundraiser for Stenographer Lorraine Munninger, plus election canvass results and a TV appearance by Boots Bootzin. Deer sale at Highland Park raises $150 for Hutchinson.
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Highland Park
Hutchinson
Parole Applications Set for Two Neosho County Inmates
G. R. Brookshire and Kenneth Eugene Wood Jr. will apply for parole on June 7. Brookshire was sentenced October 19 last year to one to five years for passing fraudulent checks. Wood, also serving one to five years, was convicted of concubinage.
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Lansing
G. R. Brookshire
Kenneth Eugene Wood Jr
Brookshire
Wood
Easter Climax Observed Across Faithful Region
Easter observances fill Holy Week with services, sunrise worship, and community events. Churches report large crowds at Good Friday services, while the Lions Club hosts an Easter egg hunt at Highland Park with prizes.
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Judd Jones
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Zion Lutheran Church
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Lions Club
Highland Park
First Methodist Church
Little Girl Saves Four From Fire
CHICAGO. Rosemary Pacheco a 13 year old girl saved her three younger sisters and a brother from probable suffocation during a fire at their home. She led Mary 11 Dolores 9 and Samuel Jr 6 to safety then returned for baby Theresa 11 months, shouted for help from a window, and jumped to the sidewalk after passing the child to a passerby. Rosemary suffered a minor foot injury but firefighters extinguished the blaze started around an oil stove.
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S. Morgan St
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Mary
Dolores
Samuel Jr
Theresa
What Faith Means to Me Strength Grows By Clayton Ward
Rural Route 2 essay on Easter faith and eternal life. The author reflects that faith develops with age, strengthens through church involvement, and stems from gratitude to Jesus Christ for redemption. He urges supporting the church’s programs and living by love and service to others.
Salk Polio Vaccine Results Will Be Given Parents Soon
Parents in 11 states Canada and Finland will learn by next week which children received the Salk polio vaccine or a placebo from mass trial records. The 749000 coded vaccination lists are being mailed to health departments as final results are compiled. A separate NIH spokesman said a licensing decision for the vaccine could come around April 12 or 13.
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Fire Department Helps Boy Rescued From Trash Barrel
An eight year old boy, Francis X Moran, hid in a trash barrel during a game of hide and seek in Boston. Fire department rescue workers had to cut the barrel open to free him after he could not escape on his own.
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Francis
Ifree
Mother Finds Son Hanged in Home
A mother returns from a Good Friday church service to find her 29-year-old son Wirt Patterson Crapster hanged at their Taneytown Maryland home. Dr. J T Marsh, Carroll County medical examiner, rules the death a suicide noting the Princeton graduate, on leave from medical college, had been depressed for some time.
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Carroll County
Wirt Patterson Crapster
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B. Walter Crapster
Ichurch
Boy Gets New Bike as Georgia Honors Boy After Hit and Run
Four year old Johnnie Warden, struck by a Georgia tagged car in Tennessee, received two dollars in damages and a public offer to replace his damaged tricycle. Atlanta PR man Robert M. Gamble called the hit and run revolting to Georgians and asked Officer J W Irwin to arrange a suitable replacement. Police seek the unidentified Georgia driver on a hit and run charge.
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Tenn
Johnnie Warden
Georgia
Robert M. Gamble
Atlanta
Associated Press
Johnnie
Irwin
J. W. Irwin
Ready to Start on TB Hospital Construction
Cecil Hunter of Hunter and Lundberg says the state tuberculosis hospital project will employ 40 to 60 workers at peak. The Manhattan firm has not received formal award notice but is ready to start as soon as it does. The project aims to advance quickly with local help and minimal on-site personnel.
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Cecil Hunter
Hunter & Lundberg
Hunter
Topeka
Chanute
Woman Hero Foils Bandit in Greenwich Village Office
In New York a would be thief burst into the office of R Anderson and Sons in Greenwich Village and tried to steal the payroll. Foreman William Pearson grappled with him and a 40 year old woman named Mrs Alice Rader struck the bandit with a stapling machine a metal calendar a telephone receiver and a wooden fixture. The thief fled when Pearson fired a click of the gun.
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New York
Alice Rader
R. Anderson & Sons Contracting Firm
Greenwich Village
William Pearson
Pearson
Rader
Recognition Too Late To Save Battered Face
In St Louis a shipyard worker charged with peace disturbance in a tavern and resisting arrest faced Judge Robert G Dowd. The officer Ray Mastilovich, a three time boxing champion, testified he floor’d the defendant three times during the arrest. The judge fined the defendant $25.
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Robert G. Dowd
Ray Mastilovich
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Easter Bunny Fires Tradition Shaped Fredericksburg Easter
In Fredericksburg Texas residents recall the Easter bunny lighting bonfires on surrounding hills since 1847 to symbolize peace with Indian chiefs. Generations of families keep the custom alive, using fires as a reverent Easter observance linked to a peace treaty.
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Texas
Fredericksburg
Tex
San Saba
Easter Showers Forecast Across Kansas
Forecast predicts Partly cloudy skies this afternoon with tonight and Sunday showers in parts of Kansas. Temperatures hold in the 40s tonight and 65 to 75 for Sunday with scattered light showers in the southeast Easter Sunday. Readings include 72 at Hill City and Wamego, 38 at Topeka.
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Wamego
Russian Church Invites Baptists to Visit Philadelphia
A Philadelphia report notes a Russian church group invites four Baptist clergymen from the United States to visit the Soviet Union on a preaching mission this summer. The invitation comes amid tensions as the visit rules include security oversight and potential penalties for unauthorized gatherings.
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Philadelphia
Russian Courch Group
Ion
New Two Way Radio Station Aids Erie County Sheriff
Neosho County Sheriff Lee Montgomery announces a new base station radio system to link Erie with Chanute Parsons Girard and Pittsburg law enforcement. Operator Elva Wood will run the station which should be in operation within days. The system expands coverage including highway crash investigations and emergency duties across the region.
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Lee Montgomery
Chanute Police Department
Montgomery
Chanute
Sheriff's Office
Parsons
Girard
Pittsburg
Evie
Chanute Police
Elva Wood
Stevenson to speak on China policy for Far East view
Democratic leaders await Adlai Stevenson radio address on the Far East. He aims to clarify U S policy regarding Quemoy and Matsu amid tensions with Communist China. Broadcast by CBS from Chicago 9 to 9:30 p m CST and NBC rebroadcast 9:30 p m.
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Butler
Fires Fatal For 7 Children in Tacoma Home
A flash fire in a two story Tacoma frame house, likely started by a faulty refrigerator, killed seven children. Victims include James Clifton 15 and the McCarley children ages 12 to 3 months. Mrs. Jean McCarley, 28, mother to six, was away at a drive-in theater and held for questioning.
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Wash
James Clifton
Nancy McCarley
Tene McCarley
Cyndia McCarley
Darel McCarley
Susan Saetiareley
Magnus McCarley
Jean McCarley
Trial set in land program case in Texas
An examining trial is set for April 16 for J Paul Little charged with theft of 277244 tied to Texas 100 million dollar veterans land program. Bascom Giles faces four charges related to the same alleged thefts. Everett Looney asks if evidence justifies binding Little over to the grand jury.
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Tex.s
J. Paul Little
Texas
Bascom Giles
Giles
Everett Looney
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