Vacations and Homecomings Tip of News Briefs This Week
EKLUND insurance questions and a string of homecomings appear as area residents return from trips. Glen Strack and family visited California relatives then scattered across Long Beach Oceanside and Los Angeles. Walter Ford and family toured several states visiting kin in Iowa South Dakota Wisconsin Michigan and Illinois. Pittsburg State Teachers College announces honor roll students Everett Hennessey Shurtleff Jones Pickens Knox Watson Quathamer Manning. Pvt Bill Morgan of Ft Riley spends furlough with parents Morgan and family. Harriet Larson begins a two week vacation visiting relatives in Kirkland Mountain and nearby towns.
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Glen Strack
Dean
Elaine
Donald
California
Pittsburg State Teachers College
Everett L. Hennessey
Agnes T. Shurtleff
John C. Jones
Myrtle Fern Pickens
Beverly D. Knox
Chanute
Ruth W. Watson
Elsmore
Marlene C. Quathamer
Erie
Margaret M. Manning
Walnut
Lake Minn and Rev P G Camstedt Family at Sandstone
Lake Minn residents and the Rev. P. G. Camstedt and family were reported in Sandstone Minnesota in a local notice.
Two Are Charged In Negro Slaying In Mississippi
In Brookhaven Mississippi a coroner's jury charged Mack Smith and Charles Falvey with the shotgun killing of Lamar Smith on the courthouse lawn after a man urged Negroes to abstain in the governor race. Noah Smith had previously surrendered and been charged. Ages not given.
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Brookhaven
Miss
Mississippi
Mack Smith
Charles Falvey
Lamar Smith
Noah Smith
Missouri Minister's Funeral Set
Funeral services for the Rev William Wittrock 81 longtime pastor of Hanover Lutheran Church Cape Girardeau will be held Friday Wittrock died Monday night He had led Hanover since 1928 and served in the synod for about 56 years He also pastored churches in Lincoln Temp lin Alta Vista Kansas He is survived by his widow four daughters and two sons two of whom are ministers
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Cape Girardeau
William Wittrock
Missouri Synod
The
Lutheran Church
Wittrock
Hanover Lutheran Church
Lincoln
Templin
Alta Vista
Kansas
Freed Jet Pilot Recieves High Decorations in Montgomery
Captain Harold M. Fischer, an American fighter pilot released by Chinese Reds last May 31, was awarded the nations second highest decoration and four other honors in Montgomery. Lt. Roland W. Parks of Omaha Nebraska and Lt. Lyle W. Cameron of Lincoln were among the other fliers presented with decorations.
Heroic Air Medal awardees noted before capture in 1953
The report recalls Air Medals earned by soldiers for Korea combat actions prior to 1953 captivity. It cites Capt. Fischer of Swe City Iowa receiving the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism on February 16 1953 leading two F 86 Sabre jets against sixteen Chinese MIGs destroying two. A House panel said it is drafting bills for the coming session and criticized Governors Conference for endorsing a broad federal state interstate road plan without a funding stance.
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Neb
Korea
Fischer
Swe City
Iowa
House
Clark
Sen
Neuberger
Dore
Public Works
Hurricane Diane Threatens Atlantic Coast
The Atlantic Coast braced for a pounding from Hurricane Diane with hurricane force winds and torrential rains along the Carolina seashores. The season's fourth tropical storm was expected to bring heavy rain and strong winds the area hit by Connie, with light showers from North Carolina to Maryland and scattered thundershowers in New England and the Ohio Valley. Fairly warm weather persisted elsewhere after yesterday’s readings in the upper 80s and 90s in the midcontinent and Southeast.
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Associated Press
Atlantic
Diane
Carolina
Connie
North Carolina
Maryland
New England
Tennessee
Ohio
Central
Rockies
Congress Prepares Highway Legislation Amid Funding Debate
The nation’s governors faced congressional scrutiny as Congress works on new highway construction legislation.Sen. Ruchel of California and Rep. Clark of Pennsylvania press for clear funding plans to pay for the proposed work.
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Washington
Arrest Brings End Of 8 Year Manhunt
FBI agents and Pennsylvania police arrested Charles Falzone in New Bedford Pennsylvania after a tip recognized him from an FBI poster. Falzone had been living under the alias James La Velle since 1947 and was on the FBI ten most wanted list since February 24, 1954.
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Washington
FBI
Pennsylvania
Charles Falzone
Tonawanda
N.Y
Falzone
New Bedford
James LaVelle
Global Briefs Span Tragedies and Tensions From Naples to Seoul
Naples reports say Mussolini grandson's fiancée, 30, survived a suicide attempt after a sleeping pills overdose and self harm. in Tokyo a communist paper accuses the US of plans to deploy atomic cannon in South Korea despite official denials. In Uttar Pradesh a police inspector killed his eight children and himself after torturing his wife. in Seoul a U.S. soldier killed two South Korean Marines in a dispute over Korean girls, wounding two more and a civilian.
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Naples
Nathan Haenni
Mussolini
Tokyop
Peiping
People's Daily Today
United States
South Korea
New Delhi
India
Uttar Pradesh
Seoul
U. S
Neglect of Gifted Is Union Charge
A vice president of the AFL American Federation of Teachers said public schools educate for mediocrity and gifted students are neglected. Edward Jewett of Council Bluffs Iowa told the convention that teachers must pitch instruction to the median ability group.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
AFL American Federation of Teachers
Edward Jewett
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Canadian Plane Crash Claims Four Lives Near Manitoba Saskatchewan Border
Four Imperial Oil Co. employees died when a plane crashed near the Manitoba Saskatchewan border on Saturday. Two survivors from the burning wreckage, G. H. Kendall and Owen Smith of Regina, were found by search crews and treated for burns and shock in a hospital.
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Pas
Man
Oil Company
North Saskatchewan
Imperial Oil Co
Manitoba-Saskatchewan
G. H. Kendall
Owen Smith
Regina
Sask
Lamont Drops 30 Year Free Watermelon Feed
Lamont Oklahoma will skip its annual free watermelon feed this season, ending a 30 year run. The harvest is too late, so no water melons will be available this year.
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Lamont
Okla
Hearing set on tax levy increase for Neosho County
The Kansas Commission of Revenue and Taxation will hold a hearing on August 30 1955 at Topeka to consider raising the General Fund levy for Neosho County to finance the next budget. Public participation is invited with evidence or affidavits for or against the proposal.
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Chanute TribuNe
Commission OF Revenue and Taxation
State OF Kansas
Board OF County Commissioners
Neosho County
Kansas
General Statutes OF
Commission of Revenue and Taxation of
Cc. A. Pauitt
Board of Commissioners
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