Area Schools Ready for Back-to-School in Chanute
Chanute area schools prepare for September 3 opening as enrollment is expected to rise by about 20 percent at Chanute Senior High School. New equipment includes a $10,000 chemistry laboratory and an opaque projector for elementary schools, with twelve new teachers hired and economic geography added at the Junior College. City officials consider a no-fund warrant to finance a water survey to plan future supply.
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Chanute
New City Physical Education
Buford Fisher
Eldon Penner
Alcott School
City
Fisher
R. J. Hayes
State Tax Commission
George Donaldson
Commission
Atoms for Peace Exhibit Draws Chanute Visitors
The Atomic Energy Commission exhibit traveled to Chanute attracting 890 visitors over two days with 502 on Saturday and 388 on Friday. The unit then moved on to Eureka. An anecdote about teens and danger from hopping trains was shared at a Chanute coffee counter.
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Atomic Energy Commission
Atoms For Peace
Chanute
Jack Thompson
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Thompson
Eureka
Counterspy Boris Morros Ends 12-Year Cloak and Dagger Career
Soviet born Hollywood producer Boris Morros concluded a 12 year undercover run as a U.S. counterspy. He testified to a federal grand jury facing espionage charges against Jack Soble Jacob Albam and George Zlatovski. Albam and Mrs Soble received 52 year sentences with Soble due to be sentenced September 18. Morros described posing as a Soviet spy while feeding reports to the FBI and said he would not repeat the ordeal.
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Munich
Germany
Cinerama
Boris Mikhailovitch Morros
Hollywood
United States
Paris
Moscow
Morros
U.S
Jacob Albam
George Zlatovski
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Soble
FBI
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Europe
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Leningrad
Russia
Forecast unchanged as heat wave lingers in Kansas
A minor cool front moved into northwest Kansas offering little relief from the heat. The forecast calls for fall and clouds through Wednesday with possible showers tomorrow and a low tonight in the 70s. Highs near 95 on Wednesday. reports cite Topeka and nearby cities with highs around 94 to 101.
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Kansas
Weather Bureau
Wyoming
Garden City
Hill City
Russell
Salina
Manhattan
Wichita
Goodland
Concordia
Manslaughter Charge In Salina Shooting
Salina. John William Hogard, 55, is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting of Airman Anthony Ray, 20, of Nashville Tennessee at Schilling Air Force Base. Hogard says he fired after seeing a man outside a neighbor's window. Bond set at 1500 dollars for a preliminary hearing on August 24.
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Salina
John William Hogard
Hogard
Anthony Ray
Nashville
Tenn
Schilling Air Force Base
Tot's Body Found in Wichita Pool
The body of 18 month old Teresa Wood was found in a private Wichita pool yesterday after wandering from home. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Wood.
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Wichita
Teresa Wood
James Wood
Widow sues pilot's widow over fatal plane crash
A $10 000 damage suit was filed in U S District Court by Mrs. Joseph J. Maher Jr. of Muncie Kas against the widow of pilot Robert B Zahner of Kansas City. Maher says her husband a 25 year old paying passenger was killed when the plane crashed into the Mississippi River near Memphis last winter due to the pilot's negligence and carelessness.
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Kansas City
U. S
Joseph J. Maher Jr
Muncie
Kas
Asphalt Truck Train Crash Fatal to Three
A Texas Chief passenger train collided with a county asphalt truck near Saginaw 13 miles north of Fort Worth, bursting into flames. Three men died: J. H. Estes engineer Grady Robinson fireman and Grover C. Shivers truck driver. L. G. Ellis injured. Train delayed after Chicago to Galveston run.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Santa Fe Railroad
Texas
Tarranta
Streamliner
J. H. Estes
Temple
Grady Robinson
Grover C. Shivers
Gable Denies Affair Claims At Confidential Trial
On Maui Clark Gable dismissed statements of an alleged affair with Francesca de Scaffa as untrue. Witness Howard Rushmore testified that de Scaffa claimed affairs with stars to obtain material for Confidential. Rushmore said he published sensational gossip while Harrison pushed profits over accuracy.
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Clark Gable
Maui
Gable
Kay Spreckels
Howard Rushmore
Miss de Scaffa
Bruce Cabot
Rushmore
Josephine Dillon
Hollywood
Mexico
Confidential
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Marilyn Monroe
John Garfield
Winston Churchill
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Robert Harrison
Arthur J. Crowley
Harrison
Hike in Postal Rates Predicted in House
Washington AP Leaders from both parties foresee House passage today of a bill to raise mailing charges to help offset a postal operating deficit. A key point is a 4 cent letter stamp raise while pay increases for federal workers may be debated in the Senate. The measure would boost first class rates to 4 cents, air mail to 7 cents, and raise other classes, targeting an annual 527 million dollar revenue gain by 1960.
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Washington (Ap
House
McCormack
D-Mass
Eisenhower
Martin
Senate
Post Office Department
Traffic Fatalities In Kansas State Report
Topeka Kansas traffic fatalities listed by the State Accident Records Section show 4 deaths in the past 24 hours and 305 to date for 1957, compared with 385 for the same period in 1956. Authorities track these figures daily.
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Topeka
Kansas
Little Mexico Fiesta Set for Sept 13 and 14
The annual fiesta celebrating Mexican independence is scheduled for September 13 and 14. Fiesta queen nominations are underway and will be announced later. Lasaro Godinez chairs the committee with Eus tasio Quirarte as vice president and other officers handling duties.
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Little
Mexico
Lasaro Godinez
Eustasio Quirarte
Pedro Guadian
Pablo de la Tore
Abelion Gutierez
Jacinto Verdin
Julio
Three Deaths From Electric Shock At Wichita Lake
A Wichita University student died after an electric shock at a lake northeast of the city. Coroner M C Martin later revised the cause to drowning following an autopsy on Lawrence D Ricks 25. Autopsies pending for John Widdershaven 31 and Mrs Margaret Van Der Voorn 47. A cable from a utility pole lay in the water where they swam. Investigators cannot explain how the cable ended up there.
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Here
M. C. Martin
Harvey County
Lawrence D. Ricks
John Widdershaven
Margaret van der Voorn
Three Die in Sublette Crash Killing Couple on Anniversary
Three persons died in a two car collision near Sublette yesterday. Owen Hoskinson 20 of Copeland his wife Marsha 19 and Ernest Daugherty 18 were killed when the cars apparently struck head on according to Sheriff Paul Blackmore.
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Sublette (P
Here
Owen Hoskinson
Copeland
Marsha
Ernest Daugherty
Satanla
Paul Blackmore
Fall From Crane Fatal to Worker
Clinton Missouri reports the death of Rodney Good a 22 year old ironworker from Verona after a 35 foot fall from a crane boom at the Kansas City Power Light Montrose plant. The accident occurred Friday while he began work at the facility.
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Clinton
Rodney Good
Verona
Kansas City Power — Light Co
Montrose
Civil Rights Compromise Effort Blocked in House Row
In Washington the House blocked a move to send the civil rights bill to conference with the Senate. Rep. Keating sought unanimous consent, but objections halted the plan. Rep. Celler proposed direct Senate action with a compromise amendment, which was blocked. Republicans denied any deal trading rights for foreign aid.
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Senate
House
Rep
Keating
Rayburn
Texas
Walter
Eisenhower
Celler
D-Ny
Rep. Martin
Massachusetts
Sen
Knowland
California
White House
Little Girl Drowns in Pond at El Dorado Farm
Two sets of twins played on a raft near the El Dorado farm when Velda Mae Schowalter 12 fell into five feet of water and drowned. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Eno Schowalter. The others on the raft were twin Virgil and twins Dalin and Dennis 13.
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EL Dorado
Velda Mae Schowalter
Eno Schowalter
Virgil
Dalin
Dennis
Draft Call for One Neosho County Induction
The Neosho County Selective Service Board has received a draft call for one Neosho County man for final induction on September 11. The notice requests readiness and outlines required procedures for the inductee.
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Neosho County
Selective Service Board
Fort Scott Clerk Named as State NIMC Chairman
Fort Scott city clerk Vera Schweppe has been named the Kansas state membership chairman for the National Institute of Municipal Clerks. The appointment marks her rise within the clerk association and expands Kansas representation in national affairs.
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Fort Scott
Vera Schweppe
Kansas
National Institute of MunicipalClerks
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