Long Haul Truck Trip Ends In Anchorage Sale
Lopeman and Anders completed a 12 year veteran truck delivery run from Cha nute Nebraska to Anchorage Alaska with a 1 2 ton trailer. After 2000 miles and 11 days they delivered the house trailers and returned with no major breakdowns. The trip included a 1500 mile Alcan Highway segment and a comment on road signs and tourist traffic. Separately residents report sighting a newly discovered comet in the area with several locals noting its visibility and tail direction.
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Leroy Lopeman
S. Malcolm
Chanute
Anchorage
Alaska
Lopeman
Henry Anders
R. 2
Nebraska
Sioux Falls
S. D
Bismarck
N.D
Shelby
Mont
Sweetgrass
Edmonton
Canada
Dawson Creek
Weatherman Predicts Hot Dry Conditions Across Kansas
The forecast repeats a hot dry pattern for Kansas with temperatures in the mid to upper 90s and possibly near 100 in several cities. Salina Chanute and Manhattan Wichita Concordia reported high readings around 100 to 102 yesterday while moisture was limited to the far east with Olathe reporting .04 inches. Overnight lows ranged from 57 at Goodland to 75 in Chanute Manhattan and Concordia.
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Topeka
Kansas
Salina
Chanute
Manhattan
Wichita
Concordia
Olathe
Goodland
Man survives plunge from fourth floor in Wichita
A blood trail led police from the Salvation Army Hotel to Eldon T. Haun, 47, who survived a fall from the fourth floor. His descent to a paved alley was broken by a second floor fire escape. Haun was listed in fair condition with a broken ankle and possible skull fracture at a Wichita hospital.
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Wichita
Salvation Army
Wichita Union Station
Eldon T. Haun
Haun
Phone your Tribune carrier after hours
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Tribune
Soviet airliner crash claims 23 near Copenhagen harbor
A twin engined Ilyushin struck a 270 foot chimney then plunged into Copenhagen Harbor. Among the 23 dead were 18 passengers and five crew including one American. Sixteen bodies recovered with several still in the water as rescue operations continued. Names of victims were withheld pending official lists.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Russia
Moscow
Riga
Aeroflot
SAS
Alan Titt
Miss Berry Hall
Corallo Mum At Hearing In Secret Tape Link to Hoffa
The Senate Rackets Investigating Committee played a wire tapped call in which Tony Corallo urged contact with James Hoffa over a Teamsters dispute. Corallo invoked the Fifth Amendment and did not identify his voice, though NYPD agent Natale Laurendi recognized it. The Oct. 28 1954 recording tied Hoffa to racketeers and discussed steering the New Jersey Teamsters Council to prevent Local 522 split.
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Washington
Senate
Tony
Ducks
Corallo
Alfred Reger
James R. Hoffa
New York
Natale Laurendi
Roger
Jimmy
Jimmy Hoffa
New Jersey Teamsters Council
Teamsters
J. M. McDonough
Boston
Kennedy
Mighty Little Fellow Topples Traffic Pole in Mechanicville
Three year old Mark Bergeron of Mechanicville New York weighed about 25 pounds and stood three feet tall when he leaned against a traffic light pole causing it to topple. Workmen reported rusted bolts at the base.
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Mechanicville
N. Y
Mark Bergeron
Pilot Jumps as Jet Crashes in Grand Prairie Tragedy
A Marine pilot ejected from a crippled jet that veered away from homes in Grand Prairie Texas before the craft crashed into a farm yard. The elderly couple, F H Kreger 72 and his wife 69, died and were burned. Lt. Robert P Stuart suffered minor injuries.
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Grand Prairie, Tex
Texas
Poe
F. H. Kreger
Robert P. Stuart
Joshua
Tex
Dallas Naval Air Station
Here
Married 54 Years After First Romance Arrives in U S
NEW YORK A couple who married 54 years after their romance began arrived from France to live in America. Camille Lambert 74 and the former Mrs John Beck 72 of Tipton Kansas were married in France last March. Mrs Beck a Luxembourg native met Lambert in France when 18. They planned to settle in Denver after visiting relatives in the Midwest.
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New York
France
America
Camille Lambert
John Beck
Tipton, Kas
Lambert
Luxemburg
Camille
United States
Nicholas Hollerich
Mankato
Minn
Europe
Beck
M. M. ‘Schmitt
Marshalltown
Iowa
Denver
Flash Fire Kills Two Children in Parked Car
In Philadelphia a flash fire killed Patricia Palmer 3 and Patrick Palmer 4 while they waited in a parked car for their father William J. Palmer who had gone to repair a hunting rifle. Investigators say a lighter and cigarettes on the front seat may have sparked the blaze which welded the doors shut.
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Philadelphia
Patricia
Patrick Palmer
William J. Palmer
Palmer
Pilot Steeves Stands by Sierra Survival Tale
Air Force Lt. David Steeves maintains he lived 54 days in the High Sierra after a jet crash. Investigators found evidence a hike of about 25 miles occurred from Dusy Basin to Simpson Meadow, with a para chute and initials on a handkerchief. Steeves also faces questions from the Saturday Evening Post about discrepancies in the story. His wife Rita, separated, contemplates divorce.
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Washington
Air Force
David Steeves
High Sierra
California
Thomas J. Allen
Kings Canyon National Park
Steeves
Allen
Saturday Evening Post
Clay Blair Jr
Dusy Basin
Simpson Meadow
William J. Briggle
Simpson Meadows
Rita
Fairfield
Conn
Iceberg Season Ends In Atlantic Lanes
Boston report notes the iceberg season officially closed on August 10 after beginning in mid February. Coast Guard Captain Kenneth S. Davis of the International Ice Patrol says this year saw a longer season and a record 897 bergs logged, well above the typical 396.
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Boston
Kenneth S. Davis
Coast Guard
International Ice Patrol
Davis
Quick Action Prospects Fade For Civil Rights
Washington report says action on the civil rights bill stalls as Rep. Howard W. Smith moves to block immediate House debate. Speaker Rayburn faces pressure to push the Senate-passed bill with a jury trial revision, while Southern leaders seek a delay past Labor Day.
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Washington
Howard W. Smith
D-Va
Smith
Congress
Dixie
Rayburn
D-Tex
House
Senate
Inch of Rain At Humboldt
Humboldt residents reported about a third of an inch of rain from a thundershower around 4 p.m. yesterday. Wind and lightning knocked down tree limbs and briefly interrupted power service. rainfall measured 0.3 inch at the town's north edge and was patchy near the north limits.
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Humboldt
Rep George Is Home ill in family returns to Altamont
Rep Myron V George of the 3rd District has returned to his Altamont home due to an illness in his immediate family. Mrs George came home last month while he stayed in Washington for legislative duties. He will open an Altamont office on Sept 1 with secretary Bernice Silcott joining from the Washington office.
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Altamont
Myron V. George
Navy to cut civilian staff at Hutchinson and Olathe NAS
The Navy plans reducing 30 civilians at Hutchinson Naval Air Station by October 31 and 12 at Olathe Naval Air Station. Current civilian employment stands at 228 at Hutchinson and 176 at Olathe.
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Washington i
Navy
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Sen. Schoeppel
Hutchinson Naval Air Station
Olathe Naval Air Station
Hutchinson
Olathe
Kansas highway signs spark political advertising row
In Topeka a Republican says roadside signs bearing Governor Docking's name amount to political advertising funded from highway funds. About 300 signs read A sign of progress Kansas highway program Please drive carefully George Docking governor. Highway Director Brodrick defends the move saying it promotes driver safety and is not a campaign effort.
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Topeka
George Docking
Kansas
Docking
Hubert Fatzer
Kinsley
Lynn Brodrick
Twining Named Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Nathan F. Twining becomes chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff succeeding Admiral Arthur W. Radford. Twining, 60, a World War II combat veteran, will push for Air Force concepts in the nuclear age while Thomas D. White succeeds him as Air Force chief. Also, the House Appropriations Committee cuts foreign aid by 809.65 million dollars amid Eisenhower pressure for restoration.
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Washington
Air Force
Nathan F. Twining
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
Military High Command
Twining
Joint Chiefs
Hoyt Vandenberg
Neil H. McElroy
Charles E. Wilson
Pentagon
Thomas D. White
White House
Rep
Wigglesworth
R-Mass
Eisenhower
Congress
U. S
House
Martin
Massachusetts
Boy Needs Blood After Teeth Pulled
A nine year old boy with hemophilia needed 10 pints of Type A negative blood before dental extractions could be performed. After his case was publicized many offers came from Maryland New York Huntington West Virginia and local donors though Red Cross said out of state donations were not needed.
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Louisville
Fred
Maryland
New York
Huntington
W.va
Ft. Knox
Racketeer Johnny Dio and bodyguard charged in secret indictments
Late News reports from New York state that racketeer Johnny Dio and his alleged bodyguard Theodor Ray face secret indictments charging tax evasion and conspiracy to violate tax laws. Dio allegedly failed to report 63 333 in income and evaded 20 168 in taxes for 1950 to 1952.
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New York
Johnny Dio
Theodor Ray
Dio
Senate
Hiss Takes Administrative Post at NYC Comb Firm
Alger Hiss has taken a $12,000-a-year administrative assistant role to the president of a New York City firm that manufactures women’s combs.
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New York
Alger Hiss
New York City
Seafarers survive 17 hour ordeal on buoyant mattress
A 70-year-old Florida grandmother Ruth Nelson and 17-year-old Bill Dozier survived 17 hours adrift after the Janeen schooner capsized off Miragoane Haiti. They floated on a mattress praying as waves and rain battered them until a fishing boat rescued Nelson and Dozier joined later.
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Port AU Prince
Haiti
Frescuer
Caribbean
Bill Dozier
Sarasota
Fla
Mrs. Nelson
Wess
Earth Sand Collapse Fatal to Six Workers
Six Ontario construction workers were killed when 150 tons of earth and sand collapsed into a 35 foot hole while pouring concrete for a waterworks pumphouse between Windsor and London. Three bodies were recovered overnight. witness accounts described a sudden, swift collapse and the men’s desperate attempts to escape.
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Dresden
Ont
Windsor
London
Ontario
Joseph Grabec
Copter Sinks in Barcelona Harbor With All Aboard
A U S aircraft carrier helicopter from the Franklin D. Roosevelt plunged into the Barcelona harbor during a courtesy visit. It sank quickly and all aboard were believed dead though exact numbers could not be learned.
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Barcelona
Spain
U.S
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bacelona
Traffic Fatalities Reported by State Records Section
Topeka Kansas traffic fatalities list shows 0 in 24 hours, 305 to date in 1957, compared with 388 in the same period of 1956.
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Topeka
Kansas
Three-Car Collision Damages Vehicles on US59-169 edge
Police reported a three-car crash on highway US59-169 near town at about 4 10 p m. Dororthy Jeanette Ford began to pass a parked car causing Ira Eugene James to rear end her 1953 Pontiac. Roberts 15 2 S Lincoln backed into a 1950 Olds causing minor damage. No injuries were reported.
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Dorothy Jeanette Ford
N. Lafayette
W. 6Th
E. Main
Frances G. McCoy
S. Ashby
Lou Ella Roberts
Parsons Yards Are Closed Amid Anthrax Outbreak
Parsons stock yards in PARSONS have shut down due to anthrax seen in La bette and Cherokee counties. Officials say trading will resume after the epidemic is stamped out. Managers and the livestock commission firms join in urging farms to retain livestock and promise updates on market conditions.
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Parsons
Labette
Cherokee
Livestock Commission
Kansan Drowns During Utah River Swim
Earl Eugene Hart of Chetopa Kansas drowned at Strawberry River during a swimming party in Duchesne Utah. His body was recovered two hours later.
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Duchesne
Utah
Earl Eugene Hart
Chetopa
Kas
Strawberry River
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