Scout Essay Contest Promotes What Scouting Means
Left Hand district leaders urge Cubs Scouts and Explorers to enter a statewide essay contest with three winners per division. Prizes include state level awards such as a 10 day Philmont trip and gear, plus council level items. State winners to be announced Oct. 20 with district and council eliminations leading to Dr John King at Emporia Teachers College as final judge.
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Cub
John King
Emporia Teachers College
Dr. King
Kan
Philmont
New Mexico
Underground telephone lines begin in Chanute area
Rural lines near Chanute are being buried by Southwestern Bell with a Missouri contractor's equipment. About four and a half miles of wire will serve 12 customers, cost around 5000 dollars, and be quicker with less maintenance than poles. The project faces rock delays and foliage clearance considerations to avoid future outages.
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Frank Horton
Lamar
Fred Hansen
R. 1
Carl Bartlett
Verle Casey
Horton
Tribune
Chanute
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Missouri
Darrell Green
The
Telephone Company
Green
21St Street Road
Bell
Nineteen New Polio Cases Reported in Kansas
Nineteen new polio cases were reported in Kansas last week bringing the year total to 68. This compares with 206 cases in the same period a year ago.
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Topeka UD
Kansas
Carolinas Coast Under Hurricane Alert From Connie
Coastal residents of North and South Carolina were placed under a hurricane alert as Connie, the year’s first major tropical storm, drifted northward. The Weather Bureau warned of increasingly rough seas from Massachusetts to Cape Cod as Connie neared the Carolina capes, with 135 mph winds. forecaster Gordon Dunn noted the storm missed a trough that could have pushed it out to sea.
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Miami
Fila
South Carolina
Connie
Georgia
Savannah
Weather Bureau
Storm Warning Service
Jacksonville
Fla
Cape Hatteras, N.C
Carolinas
Massachusetts
Carolina
Carolina Capes
Cape Cod
Gordon Dunn
Miami Weather Bureau
Traffic Fatalities Reported in Topeka 1954 Update
State Accident Records lists 219 traffic fatalities to date in 1954 with 322 fatalities for the same period, noting three new deaths in the last 94 hours and two earlier fatalities not previously recorded.
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Topeka
Kansas
Missing funds reported after Erie station break in
Thieves broke a door at the Hank Smith filling station near the junction of Highways K57 and US 59 south of Erie last night. About $2 was reported missing from the cash register, per Sheriff Lee Montgomery.
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Erie
Lee Montgomery
Slayings Probe In Kansas City Sees No Real Leads Yet
Kansas City police report hundreds of tips in the Wilma Allen slaying with no productive leads while FBI and state and local authorities join the hunt. The 34 year old wife of William R. Allen Jr. was found shot twice in the head with hands tied, near Union Station. A $500 reward has been offered for information leading to an arrest.
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Kansas City
Wilma Allen
Bernard C Brannon
FBI
Allen
William R. Allen Jr
Eugene Pond
Topekap
Kansas
William Allen Jr
Sixty Determined Men To San Marino's Rescue
Sixty Detroiters and sixteen New York San Marinoans plan a 3,000 mile flight to Italy to vote against Communist control. They seek to help the tiny republic of 14,000 through anti Communist Christian Democrats in a Sunday election.
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Detroit
Atlantic Ocean
San Marino
Italian Appenine Mountains
U.S
New York
Italy
Christian Democrats
Neosho County farms show growth in value and size in 1954 census
The 1954 Census of Agriculture notes Neosho County averages 201 acres per farm with value including buildings at 12 945 dollars. Total farms 1 759, up from 1 742 in 1950, cropland 1 449, and total county cropland 156 922 acres up from 151 198. Tenancy about 19.4 percent with 1 667 electric farms and 1 144 with telephones.
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Neosho County
Chanute City Wins $55,000 for Airport Expansion
Chanute is approved to receive a $55,000 federal grant for airport expansion and maintenance. The grant requires equal local matching funds, pending a $55,000 voter bond, with FAA inspectors having cleared the runway for safe landings. The aid is part of a larger Kansas airport construction allocation from federal funds.
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Chanute
Myron V. George
Washington, D. C
Chamber of Commerce
the Tribune
CAA
Ross Cooper
Kansas
Secretary of Commerce
Weeks
Congress
Missing Missouri Girl Searched For On Mt Evans
Colleen Patton, 11, disappeared near Mt Evans while visiting relatives. More than 60 searchers including Fort Carson troops and a helicopter scoured timberline around 3,000 feet below the peak as authorities call the area the wildest imaginable. Colleen and relatives had left their car to hunt for souvenirs and photos yesterday morning.
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Missouri
Mt. Evans
Colleen Patton
Clifton Hills
Joe Patton
Ft. Carson
Colorado Springs
Jefferson County
Carl Enlow
Colleen
Robert Taylor
Armstrong
William Trester Jr
Kansas City
Denver
Weather outlook with thunderstorms and cooler trend
Forecaster Tom Arnold expects occasional thundershowers this afternoon and Wednesday with little temperature change. Low 60s to 70s tonight, highs around 80s, with a cooler west and north on Wednesday and scattered storms southeast. Rain totals through 6:30 am include Abilene 3.00+ inches in places and amounts varying across Sedgwick area.
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Tom Arnold
Collision Fatal Near Lyons Kansas
P Raymond A Clayton aged 62 died when his car collided at an intersection a few miles north of Lyons and he was thrown from the vehicle. The fatal crash occurred today as Clayton traveled near his home in Lyons county.
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Lyons, Kas
Raymond A Clayton
Lyons
Road Builder Dies in Des Moines at 76
Pp George W. Ross founder of a large Mid west road building firm died last night in Des Moines after a series of strokes. He had long led major highway projects and influenced regional infrastructure development.
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Des Moines
George W.ross
Record July employment hits 65 million as jobless fall
Washington reports July marks a new employment peak near 65 million with 2,471,000 unemployed, down from June and roughly a million more jobs than a year prior. Extra hiring of youths helped the gain while adults stayed steady across industries. Secretary Weeks and Secretary Mitchel note reconversion pace unmatched since 1946.
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Washington
Commerce
Weeks
Labor
Mitchel
Rosalind Russell Cited For Aid to Udall Victims
Rep Avery cites Rosalind Russell on the House floor for organizing a benefit at Wichita ballpark and soliciting 14800 in cash contributions for Udall tornado survivors. She raised funds while on location for the Picnic film in Kansas.
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Rosalind Russell
Udall
Hollywood Ip
Avery
R-Kas
Udall, Kas
Miss Russell
Kansas
Wichita Ballpark
Larson Jr Not Polio Victim Says Attending Doctor
The physician treating Robert Larson Jr. of Lavenburg announced he does not have polio. Larson, 28, was hospitalized at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, after transfer from Neosho Memorial Hospital with polio symptoms on August 2.
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Robert Larson Jr
Lavenburg
Larson
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City
Kas
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Pollie
South Koreans Condemn Communist to Death
Seoul reports an army court martial condemns Lee Chang Kwang to death for aiding the enemy. He allegedly passed information obtained from Maj. Gen. William F. Dean to Communist forces after Dean was captured early in the Korean War.
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Seoul
Lee Chang Kwang
William F. Dean
Lee
Dean
Better to Deal With Agencies To Adopt Baby
Wichita reporter Mary Grice argues state licensed agencies are safer than the black market for adoptions. She notes fees from unscrupulous lawyers range 1000 to 1500 while Catholic Social Service charges 0 to 150, Kansas Children’s Service League 0 to 250, and State Division of Child Welfare has no fee. Agencies verify health, stability, and ability to provide for a child. A conservative actual cost to agencies is about 400. The baby is treated as a human being to be placed in a home.
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Wichita
Mary Grice
Wichita Beacon
Catholic Social Service
Kansas Children’s Service League
State Division of Child Welfare
Missing Cap Pistol Helps Solve Stark Breakins
Sheriff Lee Montgomery and Undersheriff John Phelps solved four Monday night break ins in Stark with a missing cap pistol lead. Two 11 year old boys admitted entering Greenacre adjacent stores and taking soda pop cigars candy watches and a toy cap pistol before leaving through a hole into a cafe area near Clark restaurant.
Sheriff Announces 24 Hour County Patrol Plan
Erie Sheriff Lee Montgomery says the office will run around-the-clock patrols with two radio equipped cars. One car will patrol each hour plus overnight, maintaining continuous contact with the sheriff’s office and Chanute police. The sheriff and Under Sheriff John Phelps will split duties.
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Erie
Lee Montgomery
Sheriff's Office
Chanute
John Phelps
Hoover to mark 81st birthday at boyhood shrine dedication
Former President Herbert Hoover will observe his 81st birthday tomorrow in Newberg Oregon at the dedication of his boyhood home as a national shrine. The event highlights Hoover's long career and ties to his early years in the city.
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Newberg
Ore
Herbert Hoover
Hurricane Connie Threatens East Coast Warnings Issued
Hurricane warnings stretch from Cape Lookout to New York City as Connie moves north northwest at 10 to 11 mph. The Weather Bureau urged immediate precautions for life and property with winds near 135 miles per hour and high tides expected near Cape Hatteras overnight.
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Virginia Capes
Cape Lookout
Wumington
N.C
South Carolina
Georgia
Connie
Cape Hatteras
Weather Bureau
Pilot recounts MIG attack before B29 bailout over Korea
Capt. Eugene J. Vandi of Clayton New York recalled a January 12 1953 MIG attack on a leaflet dropping B29 in North Korea forty miles south of the Yalu River. He said the plane was chased by three fighters shot at with rockets and searchlights closing in forcing the crew to bail out within a few minutes, with possible aircraft destruction on impact.
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Tokyo
Red China
Eugene J. Vandi
Clayton
N.Y
North Korea
Yala River
Vandi
Eleven Freed Americans Head for Home
Tokyo reports eleven U.S. airmen freed from Communist captivity will fly home this weekend aboard two C54s. Led by Col. John Knox Arnold, the group leaves Japan for Travis Air Force Base via Midway and Hawaii, ending twenty two months of captivity.
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Tokyo
U.S
Air Force
John Knox Arnold
China
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Midway
Hawaii
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