Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier Begin Honeymoon Voyage
Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III embarked on a 15 day honeymoon aboard the 300 ton Deo Juvante II after a civil ceremony in Monaco and a Catholic rite. Pope Pius XII blessed the couple as a 2000 strong crowd cheered their departure for Rome and beyond.
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Monte Carlo
Monaco
Grace Kelly
Prince
Rainier III
Principality
Oliver
Rome
Djerba
Tunisia
Palma
Mallorca
Rainier
Pius XII
Grace
Bids Placed For Area Highway Improvements
Freete Construction Co. Pittsburg and Nelson Brothers La Harpe led bids on multiple highway projects at a local letting. Nelson bid 133532.85 for U.S. 75 relocation near Buffalo, Freete bid 137384.58 for Kansas 47 between US 169 and US 59, plus various sealings on K39 K47 and K96. An Allen County bridge job and US 54 hottop surfacing near Fort Scott also drew bids. About 80 attendees including Lyle Munn of Topeka.
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Freete Construction Co
Pittsburg
Nelson Brothers
la Harpe
Buffalo
Wilson-Woodson
Freete
Fredonia
Altoona
Greenwood County
Severy
John S. McAdams
Moran
Allen County
Elsmore
US 54
Uniontown
Fort Scott
Standard Industries, Inc
Tulsa
Roper
US 75
Chanute
State Highway Commission
Lyle Munn
Topeka
The
Highway Commission
Exhibits Set for Science Fair Across Seven Towns Tomorrow
About 60 exhibits from at least seven towns are entered in the district Junior Academy of Science competition in Chanute tomorrow. Events run 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Junior College Little Theater with research papers in other rooms. Chanute participants include Eddie McGinnis and Martha McGuffey among others, presenting models from atomic reactors to crystallography. Winners advance to the state exhibit in Winfield on April 27.
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Junior College
Royster
St. Patrick's
Pittsburg
Coffeyville
Neodesha
Humboldt
Mound City
Arkansas City
Chanute
Eddie McGinnis
John Boydston
Winfield
Martha L. Stoltz
Merton Staley
Eldon Penner
Junior ‘College
James E. Guinotte
John W. Johnson
Agnes Crockatt
Margaret Parker
Pittsburg State College
Kansas Sixth District
Ammonia Plant Blast Shakes Quaker State Facility
Marcus Hook Pennsylvania Sun Oil Co reports an ammonia plant blast injuring seven workers. Acting plant manager Calvin C. Naylor estimates damage at several million dollars and says the cause remains undetermined. A subsequent fire was left to burn out as no spread risk existed. The plant’s second blast this year follows a 10 million dollar build.
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Marcus Hook
Sun Oil Co
Calvin C. Naylor
Naylor
Labette County High Plans 1.4 Million Bond Vote
Labette County Community High School district residents will vote May 11 on issuing 1.4 million dollars in general obligation bonds for a building and expansion program. Funds would finance a 22 classroom building to replace the old main building plus an auditorium and gymnasium as enrollment grows from 300 in 1939 to 700 now.
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Altamont
Kas
Labette County Community High
Manhattan Child Killed Under Wheels
A three year old girl, Janice Fowell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lowell, was killed when struck by a truck driven by her father at the family farm home three miles east of Manhattan. Sheriff B. E. Deckert said she died while playing in the yard as her father collected ashes and cinders. Janice leaves six sisters, the youngest five days old.
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Manhattan
Janice Fowell
Mrs
Charles Lowell
B. E. Deckert
Janice
Smith to speak at Third District Democratic meeting
Henry Smith of St. Paul will be principal speaker at the Third District Democrats gathering in Memorial Building. Delegates and alternates will be elected for the national convention in Chicago. A 1:30 p.m. start features speeches by candidates and regional party leaders.
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Henry Smith
St. Paul
Memorial Building
Chicago
Smith
Fielding Hopkins
Richard Liebert
Coffeyville
Ruth Davis
Labette
Cessna Board Raises Quarterly Dividend to 35 Cents
Wichita report states Cessna Aircraft Co. boosted its quarterly dividend from 25 cents to 35 cents per share by the board of directors. The decision was announced yesterday and reflects strengthened earnings for the company.
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Wichita
Cessna Aircraft Co
Kansas Highway Commission Awards $4.71 Million in Contracts
In Topeka the Kansas Highway Commission awarded contracts totaling $4,710,000 in the second largest session on record. The year’s construction contract total now stands at $10,370,900.
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Topeka
Kansas Highway Commission
Cease Fire Pact Reached Between Israel and Egypt
U N Secretary General Hammarskjold announced an unconditional cease fire between Israel and Egypt effective at 6 p m April 18. The agreement bans any shooting across the demarcation line and limits actions to border tension reduction under armistice terms. Hammarskjold met with Egyptian Premier Nasser and Israeli Premier Ben Gurion as talks continued for broader peace enforcement with neighboring states.
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Jerusalem
Dag Hammarskjold
Egypt
Israel
U.N
U.N. Palestine Truce Commission
Ior
Cairo
New York
United Nations
Hammarskpold
Middle East
Security Council
Gamal Abdel Nasser
David Ben-Gurion
Ben-Gurion
Hammarskjold
Suez Canal
Jordan
Lebanon
Syria
U. N. Security Council
Draft Call Sets June Quota for Kansas 152 Men
Maj. Gen Joe Nickell announces a June draft call for Kansas of 152 men. This follows 199 men in March, 71 in April, and 144 in May under the state selective service director.
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Topeka
Kansas
Joe Nickell
Selective Service
Boost Farm Show trip heads from Memorial Building at 8:30
Boosters will depart from the Memorial Building at 8 30 a m Saturday in a motor car caravan to promote the annual Spring Farm Show. They will stop at 15 towns including Buffalo Benedict Altoona Thayer Galesburg Erie St. Paul Walnut Hepler Stark Lavonburg Elsmore Moran LaHarpe and Humboldt. Noon luncheon will be at Erie.
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Chanute Boosters
Buffalo
Roper
Benedict
Altoona
Thayer
Galesburg
Erie
St. Paul
Walnut
Hepler
Stark
Lavonburg
Elsmore
Moran
LaHarpe
Humboldt
Kansas weather forecast keeps near steady temperatures
Forecaster Tom Arnold said topeka area will see fair to warm weather tonight and Friday with little temperature change. Night lows mid 40s, Friday highs mostly 60s to low 70s, northern sections fairer, southern partly cloudy. Previous night lows ranged from 24 to 41 across the region.
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Tom Arnold
Goodland
Wamego
Manhattan
Kansas
Dodge City
Salina
Stamp lovers queue for Monaco Grace Kelly wedding stamps
Hundreds of stamp and souvenir collectors lined up at Monaco post offices today to buy an eight stamp set issued for the Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier I wedding. The set sold for 2.38 dollars and was available only on the religious ceremony day.
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Floyd Bray
Booth Pace
Monte Carlo
Monaco
Grace Kelly
Prince Rainier I
House Group Okays Funds for Soil Bank
The House appropriations Committee approved 1.2 billion dollars to fund a soil bank farm plan for immediate operation under existing farm law. The vote was 36 to 7 with GOP opposition and a vetoed farm bill context noted.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Eisenhower
House
Cannon
D-Mo
Fifty Prisoners Riot At Chicago Jail
More than fifty prisoners demonstrated for ten minutes in the Cook County jail yesterday. Guards restored order after inmates smashed twenty six windows and damaged furniture in a dayroom on the ground floor. Warden Jack Johnson said the outbreak appeared staged over a shakedown of jail cells. The protest occurred while prisoners waited to be led back to their cells after a routine check.
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Chicago
Cook County
Jack Johnson
Three Teachers Resign Here
Buford Fisher announces resignations from three teachers with a fourth expected soon. The educators leaving are Carol Thielen kindergarten at Hutton, Lonnie Rhodes sixth grade at Murray Hill, and Mrs Bill Haddan second grade at Hutton.
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Buford Fisher
Board of Education
Carol Thielen
Lonnie Rhodes
Bill Haddan
Thielen
Hutton
Haddan
Rhodes
Murray Hill
Fisher
Robert Johnson
Traffic Fatalities Reported in 1956 Kansas Totals
Topeka dispatch lists Kansas road deaths from the State Accident Records Section. In the last 24 hours zero fatalities, year to date 1956 total 167, for the same period in 1955 total 141.
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Topeka
Kansas
Tribune Delivery Help Lines Advertised
The notice advises readers who do not receive the Tribune to contact their carrier and, if unreachable, call 700 after 6 p.m. for assistance.
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Tribune
Ike Veto Praised by Editors in Kansas
Kansas newspapers react to President Eisenhower vetoing the farm bill. Abilene Reflector-Chronicle lauds his honesty and calls for genuine farm relief, while Pratt Tribune notes local farmers’ disappointment. Lawrence Journal-World and others weigh political gains and the veto’s impact on farmers and parity supports nationwide.
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Ike
Eisenhower
Kansas
Abilene
Reflector-Chronicle
Republi
Whitley Austin
Salina Journal
The
Journal
Lawrence Journal-World
Emporia Gazette
the Gazette
America
Price supports raised to bridge farm income gap Benson says
Secretary Benson told the Senate Agriculture Committee that the administration boosted price supports on key crops to bridge the gap until a soil bank becomes operative. He cited the lack of weapons to reduce surplus and strengthen farm prices and defended the flexible price support law as authority to raise supports after set. He noted wheat to 83.7 percent parity corn to 86.2 and rice to 82.7 with goals tied to soil bank legislation.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Benson
Senate Agriculture Committee
Nation Joins Shaw Forces In Kansas Governor Campaign
John P. Nation of Chanute, former Kansas American Legion commander, named chair of the Kansas War Veterans Shaw for Governor Committee. James V. Pratt announces plans for statewide veterans rallies over the next 60 days and a Shaw tour of Neosho County. Nation, elected state Legion commander in 1953, has led local posts and served on the Legion’s Internal Affairs Commission. Shaw spent 33 months in Europe during World War II. Nation served in the 3rd Marine Division in the Pacific as an enlisted Marine.
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John P. Nation
Chanute
American Legion
Kansas War Veterans Shaw
James V. Pratt
Warren W. Shaw
Nation
Shaw
Neosho County
Legion
Interinal Affairs Commission
3Rd Marine Division
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Francis Tucker
Wilmington
Del
Father Tucker
Quaker State
Floyd Kelley
Democratic Committee
United States
Martyn Korf
Burdett
Paul Alyward
Ellsworth
Fred Killian
George Hart
Korf
George Docking
Lawrence
Frank Theis
Georgia Neese Clark Gray
City Park
Jimmie Pierson
Novelty Boys
Implement Dealers
Chanute and
Chanute Chambers of
Commece
Glen Strange
Clarence Sievers
Bray
Gail Malson
Paul Lowe
Charles Hanson
Oe Bray
Kaw Ouseaante
Imahoe Daling
Weather Bureau
GOP
Taber
R-Ny
Appropriations Committee
Associated Press
Pratt Tribune
the Tribune
Congress
Soil Bank
Journal-World
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Agricultural Department
Dodge City Globe
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