Johnson memorial museum to display Osa and Johnson items
Osa and Martin Johnson artifacts arrive from New York via Mrs. Belle Leighty for a proposed Johnson memorial museum. The Chamber of Commerce will display and safeguard the collection including photo albums negatives and scrapbooks. a rifle from Jack London is also donated. A temporary display will open by May 1 at a vacant Main and Highland building.
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Osa
Martin Johnson
Johnson Memorial Museum
New York
Belle Leighty
Johnson
Main and Highland
Union Agents Pay Stopped in Wichita Local 795 Fight
Six members of Teamsters Local 795 executive committee voted to stop pay for Cecil L. Courtney and J E Summers amid a factional dispute. Sam E. Smith led the move. Roy Williams promised an audit. Courtney previously faced contempt charges in the Wichita cab strike, later set aside by the U S Supreme Court.
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Wichita
Teamsters Local 795
Sam E. Smith
Cecil L. Courtney
Dodge City
J. E. Summers
Roy Williams
Kansas City
Police Investigate Four Traffic Mishaps This Weekend
Police investigated three weekend traffic accidents and one today. Raymond Lawrence Perez cited for reckless driving after a 1950 Ford collided with two parked cars on South Forest about 11 25 p m Saturday. He suffered a skinned knee and was released on 50 dollar bond.
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Raymond Lawrence Perez
Ford
South Forest
Perez
S. Forest
Felix Perez
Humboldt
Roman Moya Garcia
Independence
Fred Ysusi
Marilyn Jo Marts
Humboldt R
John E. VanWickle
Lafayette
Main
Lincoln
Immigrant’s 50 000 Dream Trip For 70 Relatives
Ragnar Benson 57 plans a three week Sweden trip for 70 guests, paying 50000 dollars. The Chicago chartered SAS DC6 carried Benson and guests to Malmo, with half of the party relatives and including his wife and son. They are to return to Chicago May 6 with optional continental side trips.
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Chicago
Ragnar Benson
Sweden
Benson
Malmo
O'Hare International
United States
Ragnar Benson, Inc
Mail Pile Up Not So Great
Postmaster Leif R. Nelson reported a smaller than expected mail pile with first class letters delivered by carriers and placed in boxes today. Some mail was distributed today and the rest will be handled through the week. First class mail will always be delivered daily.
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Leif R. Nelson
Small Turnout For Protest Rally in Portland
A Teamsters Union rally against Dave Beck and other leaders drew about 150 members in Portland yesterday, far short of the expected thousands. Organizers blamed wind and rain for the poor turnout at the Civic Auditorium which seats 4,000.
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Portland
Ore
Teamsters Union
Dave Beck
Civic Auditorium
Hutchinson News To Host Open House May 4
The Hutchinson News invites Kansas press and trade editors to an open house on Saturday May 4 in its new building opened April 8. The event marks the paper’s rebranded name from Hutchinson News Herald, founded July 4 1872 with editor J P Harris. The move to the new plant occurred over a weekend with no edition missed.
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Hutchinson
Hutchinson News
Kansas Press and Trade
Hutchinson News- Herald
J.P. Harris
Kansas
Substitute Heart and Kidney Near Permanent Inside the Body
Dr. Peter F. Salisbury of Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles spoke at the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs meeting in Chicago about the prospect of permanently implanted artificial hearts and kidneys. He noted prototypes and the potential to plug devices into an electrical supply, promising life support for failing organs.
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Peter F. Salisbury
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
Los Angeles
American Society For Artificial Internal Organs
Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology
Chicago
Salisbury
One Man Helicopter Pinwheel Demonstration Planned
A rocket powered helicopter nicknamed Pinwheel strapped to a man's back is set for today’s demonstration in Van Nuys California. Rotor Craft Corp Glendale built the Navy contract craft for Marines to carry infantry and gear. It is said to be lightest smallest and simplest man flown and highly maneuverable with a good climb rate. Landing gear are the pilot’s feet and controls sit on a front handle. Rotor Craft claims an even smaller lighter version could sell under $1000 and that the Pinwheel paves the way for a low cost easy to fly one person civilian helicopter.
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van Nuys
Calif
Rotor Craft Corp
Glendale
Battle Grounds
Three Boys Admit Breaking Truck Lights
Three boys aged 10 and 11 confessed to breaking 27 lights on a Sutcliffe Pipe & Supply Co. semi trailer at 117 Grant. Damage occurred Saturday afternoon. Two other 10 year olds denied involvement. Parents of the admitting boys agreed to cover repair shares.
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Sutcliffe Pipe & Supply Co
Grant
Good Friday Holiday for City Students Observed
Easter vacation for pupils and teachers starts after Thursday afternoon classes and runs through Monday. Senior High School and Junior College began observances with 7:45 a.m. devotions in the auditorium, followed by a Thursday Easter assembly at 9:35 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. for the high school and college respectively.
Federal Agency Seeks Budget Cut For Rural Library Grants
The Office of Education asked the Senate for 3 million dollars for grants to states for rural library service, a cut from the House approved five million and from last year’s 2.05 million. The request follows Eisenhower’s stance and targets farm areas and small towns.
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Washington
Senate
House
Office of Education
Senate Appropriations
Eisenhower
Congress
Emporia Installs Meters in Free Lot to Curb Early Hoarding
In Emporia 58 meters now operate on a formerly free parking lot after merchants complained downtown workers snapped stalls before shops opened. About two thirds of the half block remains free as the new meters take effect.
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Emporia
City Commission
Four County Area Receives 334 352 23 From State Tax Residue
The four counties Neosho Allen Wilson and Woodson will share 334352 23 of the state sales tax residue to be distributed by June 15. Neosho 10827302 Allen 10067770 Wilson 84527 28 Woodson 40874 35. Allocation uses 50 percent population and 50 percent value.
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Neosho
Allen
Wilson and
Woodson
Richard T. Fadely
Neosho County
Wilson
Fadely
State Board of Agriculture
Dallas Walkout Involving Western Electric Workers
About 115 Dallas Western Electric Co workers walked out today with union officials predicting 1,200 Texas and Oklahoma colleagues would join. The protest centers on orders to report to Waxahachie on a commuter basis and similar assignments at Midlothian Texas and Guthrie Oklahoma.
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Dallas
Dallas _Western Electric Co
Texas
Oklahoma
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Waxahachie
B. F. Stewart
International
Midlothian
Guthrie
Oklo
Jordan Students Sit Down Strike at Cairo Embassy Garden
About two hundred Jordanian students protest recent developments by staging a sit down strike in the Cairo embassy garden. The group, largely Palestinians with Jordanian citizenship studying in Egypt, reported no violence during the action.
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Cairo
Jordan
Traffic Fatalities In Kansas Reported In 1957 Totals
State Accident Records Section reports 140 traffic fatalities to date in 1957 and 169 for the same period in 1956, with 0 fatalities in the last 48 hours, reflecting ongoing tolls across Topeka and Kansas.
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Topeka
Kansas
Lenten Self-Evaluation Reflections By Sandra Campbell
Sandra Campbell shares thoughts on Lent as a time for self evaluation and rededication to living as God wants. She describes renewal through Easter and notes nature's spring awakening as a sign of rebirth and a joyous Easter spirit.
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Sandra Campbell
Jack Campdeath
Eric
Pro Western Jordan Leader Heads Cabinet After Crisis
Hussein Fakhri Khalidi named Jordan's new prime minister following a six day cabinet crisis. The seven member cabinet includes Suleiman Nabulsi and former premiers Said Mufti and Fawzi Mulki. The move follows the Eisenhower Doctrine influenced power struggle between moderates and extremists.
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Jordan
Amman
Hussein Fakhri Khalidi
Hussein
Suleiman Nabulsi
National Socialist Party
Bahjat Talhouni
Nabulsi
Said Mufti
Fawzi Mulki
Suleiman Sukkar
Amin Madjaj
Majid Abdulhadi
Khalidi
Mufti
Senate
Middle East
Lie Test Dispute Divides San Quentin Chaplains
San Quentin chaplains clash over lie detector tests sought by prison officials to probe how Carlyle Chessman smuggled a manuscript from Death Row. Rabbi Liebert opposes testing, while Rev Eshelman calls it impersonal. Rev Ewalk says he would take the test if asked.
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San Quentin
Calif
Carlyle Chessman
Chessman
Lover’s Lane
New York
William 0. Weissich
Marin County
Julius A. Liebert
San Anselmo
Byron Eshelman
Edward Dinberg
T. W. Ewalk
Church of the Holy
Plane Crash Kills Mexican Film Star Pedro Infante
Merida Mexico top singing film star Pedro Infante aged 39 died when a four engine transport crashed into a home shortly after takeoff for Mexico City. Three others aboard and a woman in the home were killed. The plane belonged to Transportes de Aereo de Merida.
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Merida
Mexico
Pedro Infante
Mexico City
Transportes de Aereo de
Every Seventh Week A Vacation for Bosses
New York reports Bart Schwartz International Textiles Ltd will grant top executives a mandatory full pay week off every seventh week starting May 1. The aim is to reduce heart attacks strokes and ulcers among executives in textile jobs while nonexecutives keep the standard annual two week vacation.
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New York
Bart Schwartz International Textiles Ltd
Nonprofit Group Reflects on Tax Return Statement
In Parkersburg West Virginia an IRS filing included a blunt note from a nonprofit stating Our is strictly a nonprofit organization. That wasn't the way we planned it, but that's the way it worked out. The remark accompanies the income tax return at the local agency.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Internal Revenue Service Office
Big Tax Bite Taken Today
Washington accounts show individuals pay about 38 percent of the 60 billion dollar levy due today with corporations adding roughly 21 billion. The government budget for the year runs over 70.6 billion, plus 113 billion in trust funds and refunds, leaving about 23 billion still to be raised after taxes. Excise taxes alone will bring in around 100 billion this year.
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Washington
Sam
Uncle Sam
Benedict 1907 Class Reunion Plans At Benedict Kansas
Eight members of Benedict High School class of 1907 will gather in Benedict on Saturday. Four reside in Wilson County and four now live in California. J B Owens of Neodesha, former teacher and superintendent, will attend, as will Mrs Will Gogers of Buffalo who performed in the exercises half a century ago.
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Benedict
Kas
Benedict High School
Wilson County
California
J. B. Owens
Neodesha
Will Gogers
Buffalo
Tribune Delivery Help Line
If you do not receive your Tribune contact your carrier. If the carrier cannot be reached, call 700 after 6 p.m. for assistance.
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Tribune
House Moves to Quickly Approve 41 Million Postal Funds
The House planned swift approval of a 41 million dollar postal funding bill to restore normal mail service. Senate leaders poised to act, paving the way for Postmaster General Summerfield to halt service cuts. Summerfield earlier began a second stage of cutbacks and cited heavy volume and new routes as reasons.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Senate
Summerfield
House
Cannon
D-Mo
House Appropriations Committee
Sen. Robertson
D-Va
Senate Appropriations
Policemen Witnesses To Sooner Wedding
Justice of the Peace Wendell Foster was redecorating his courtroom when a young couple asked to marry. With no witnesses available he telephoned the Police Department. Officers G. L. Engleberton and Paul C. Ming were sent and witnessed the ceremony.
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Oklahoma City
Justice of the Peace
Wendell Foster
Foster
Police Department
G. L. Engleberton
Paul C. Ming
May Crude Demand Hearing Set for Wichita April 26
Kansas crude oil demand will be determined by hearings of the Kansas Corporation Commission in Wichita on April 26. Gas matters are scheduled for two earlier days that week during the Kansas Bar Association convention in Wichita.
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Wichita
Kansas
Kansas Corporation Commission
Kansas Bar Assn
Patron Plans Aid For Post Office
A cardboard donation box in the Atlanta post office lobby urged keeping the post office open and noted donations would be appreciated. Officials ordered the box confiscated.
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Atlanta
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