Gasoline blasts injure over six dozen in Kansas City event
A Conoco filling station blast and multiple tank explosions on August 18 near 2 Southwest Blvd Kansas City Kansas and Missouri injured 62 or more people including many firefighters. Officials reported conflicting death counts while crews fought flames that reached 200 feet high and spread to nearby buildings.
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Kansas City
Southwest Blvd
Missouri
Kansas
Struc
Ture
Conoco Oil Co
James Mitchum
Kansas University Medical Center
Mitchum
Pyramid Petroleum Co
Docking Returns to Office Amid Uncertain Political Plans
Gov. George Docking resumes duties in Topeka after a month away as speculation swirls about a possible U.S. Senate bid or a third term. He attended fundraisers in Chicago and Puerto Rico and visited Florida, offering no firm presidential plans. Budget reports show up to 15 million dollars in reserve if no new programs are added, possibly ending the 1960 half cent sales tax hike.
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Topeka
George Docking
Docking
Chicago
Puerto Rico
Florida
U.S. Senate
Frank Theis
Democratic
Theis
Mob Dispersed In St Louis After Pursuit Incident
A 500 to 1,000 strong unruly crowd in St Louis disrupted a pursuit of a purse snatcher in Igoe and Pruitt housing projects. Police used 20 uniformed officers and three police dogs to disperse the crowd. no plain clothes officers were seriously injured.
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Jeremiah O'Connell
Neighborly Act Is Too Late
Carl Hooper saw two year old Lee Ann Bernard playing in the street as he drove by. He started back to her, but another neighbor's car struck and killed the child before he could reach her. The incident occurred on a Kansas City street late Monday.
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Kansas City
Carl Hooper
Lee Ann Bernard
Hooper
Veterinarians to Meet in Kansas City Next Week
About 4 500 veterinarians are expected in Kansas City for a joint gathering of the Third Pan American Congress of Veterinary Medicine and the percent annual meeting of the American Veterinary Medical Assn.
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Kansas City
Pan American Congress of Veterinary Medicine
American Veterinary Medical Assn
Chamber committee reports show plan for new industry in Chanute
At a Chamber of Commerce luncheon yesterday Kenneth Brown reported ongoing work to attract a new industry to Chanute. The highway committee discussed US 169 improvements, K39 signals, Walnut street parking, and park work as a five man Chanute delegation plans to attend the Highway US 169 Association meeting in Nowata Oklahoma. Jester outlined letters backing the Landrum Griffin labor bill and the chamber politics course as manager search continues.
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Industrial Committee
Chanute
Paschal Grimes
South
Lincoln
Santa Fe
Cherry and
Elm
Walnut
US 169 Assn
Nowata
Okla
Grimes
Jack Goodrich
Parsons
Howard Jester
Governmental Affairs
Landrum-Griffin
Chamber
Dale Painter
Jester
Charles Pillot
John Gorton
E. F E. Rosenthal
Pillot
Painter
Ebur Schultz
Tragic Tractor Crash Kills 9YearOld Boy Near Lyons
In Lyons Kansas a 9 year old boy, Dannye Wayne Keesling, was killed when a tractor he was driving overturned into a ditch five miles northwest of Lyons. He was the son of Mr and Mrs G W Keesling of Raymond.
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Lyons, Kas
Dannye Wayne Keesling
Lyons
G. W. Keesling
Raymond
Kansas forecast shows little change through Wednesday
Kansas remains generally fair and warm with high humidity through Wednesday. Forecaster Tom Arnold notes possible thunderstorms in the northwest late Wednesday and temperatures in the 90s across the state yesterday.
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Topeka
Kansas
Tom Arnold
Olathe
Wichita
Emporia
Kirwin Dam
Goodland
Concordia
Knight takes on TV news commentary role in August
Former California Governor Goodwin J. Knight, a Republican, begins a five minute television commentary on political aspects of the news airing August 31. Rural Grange schedules 8 p.m. Thursday meeting at the school with initiation in first and second degrees and a watermelon feed to follow with Lester Hole and Larry Ingraham serving.
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Los Angeles
California
Goodwin J. Knight
Knight
Rural Grange
Lester
Hole
Larry Ingraham
Probers Believe Mrs. Marland Alive in Oklahoma Case
Tulsa investigators say Lyde Marland's widow Mrs. Marland may be alive and locatable. The case traces a 1953 disappearance from Ponca City to Independence Missouri and a later Studebaker sale with leads pointing to her whereabouts as recently as 1958.
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Probers
Tulsa
Okla
Lyde Marland
Marland
Lyde
Ponca City
High Bid Wins Oil Gas Property in Sheriff Sale
Marion L Schooley of Rich Hill Missouri was high bidder at a sheriff sale paying 910 dollars for an oil and gas property in the John Cassingham estate. The lease covers 200 acres east of Chanute in the Fairfield school area with an equipped non producing oil well and removal rights only for pipe and equipment.
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Marion L. Schooley
Rich Hill
John Cassingham
Fairfield School
Chanute
Thayer Votes On $130000 Water System Bond
Ballots were cast by 75 of about 150 eligible voters in Thayer for a city water system bond proposal. The five member board at city hall will count votes after the noon to 6 p.m. polling. The proposal funds a dam reservoir lines plant and elevated tank with plans due two weeks after approval. Mayor Carl Studebaker said preparations proceed if approved.
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Thayer
City Hall
Carl Studebaker Srid
Exams to Open For Census Jobs in Parsons Area
Examinations for agricultural census processing center jobs in Parsons will be held soon, per a telegram from Sen. Frank Carlson. Civil Service Commission and Bureau of the Census announced the tests, first in Parsons and Chanute with several other towns. Jobs are clerical and tabulating in Civil Service grades two and three for about a year, with applications available at post offices or the processing center serving a 15 county area. Applicants from Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey, Crawford, Elk, Greenwood, Labette, Linn, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson and Woodson will receive first preference.
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the Tribune
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Washington
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Bureau of the Census
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Eureka
Burlington
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Anderson
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Chautauqua
Cherokee
Coffee
Crawford, Elk
Greenwood
Labette
Linn
Montgomery
Neosho
Wilson
Woodson
Flash Flood Traps Needles Residents Near Desert Storm
A desert cloudburst near Needles California isolated the Colorado River town. About 200 motorists were stranded while three railroad workers were reported missing. U S 66 and U S 95 were washed out sealing off the town from the north south and west and debris clogged roads and bridges hindered traffic the day after the storm.
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Colorado
U.S
Two Trusties Escape From Federal Prison Farm
Two trusted inmates fled the federal prison farm near Leavenworth Kansas Platte County Missouri Monday night the warden announced. Maurice Gerard Kirby 53 San Antonio Texas serving five years for car theft and Noah Hicks Jr. 40 Galveston Texas serving four years for car theft were named as the escapees.
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Kan
Federal
Platte County
Maurice Gerard ‘Kirby
San Antonio
Tex
Noah Hicks Jr
Galveston
Earthquake Hits Northwest Area Claiming 16 Lives
AP reporting a severe quake chain from British Columbia to Wyoming leaves a growing death toll in Montana. Authorities cite six confirmed dead at Virginia City and reports of landslides and dam damage near Hebgen Lake, with marooned residents and park closures across Yellowstone.
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Mont
British Columbia
Wyoming
Montana
Lloyd Brooks
Virginia City
Idaho
Madison River
Big Slide
Civil Defense Headquarters
Eisenhower to release steel strike facts to aid talks
President Eisenhower and Secretary Mitchell will publicly release basic data on wages prices productivity and profits tied to the steel strike. Mitchell says the report totals a major portion of the facts from industrial and government sources but offers no recommendations. The briefing aims to increase public understanding and press parties toward a settlement.
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Eisenhower
James P. Mitchell
Mitchell
White House
Gettysburg
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Sheriff to auction confiscated liquor at county jail
Erie officials auction 1,123 bottles of whiskey gin and vodka seized from an Oklahoma car. Sale begins at 10 am with proceeds funding the county school fund.
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Erie
Oklahoma
County School Fund
Traffic Fatalities Rise in 1959 Topeka Area
Kansas traffic fatalities reported by the state accident records section show 362 for the 24 hours ending at 9 a.m. this year, up from 328 in the comparable period of 1958, including an earlier fatality not previously reported.
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Topeka
Kansas
Two Sub Machine Guns Stolen at Cherryvale
Thieves broke into the National Guard Armory in Cherryvale Kansas and stole two sub machine guns and two forty five caliber pistols. Authorities said other items were taken and a full loss will take two days to determine. The armory houses the 174th Military Police Battalion which returned Sunday from a two week camp at Camp Guernsey Wyoming.
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Kas
National Guard
174Th Military Police
Camp Guernsey
Wyo
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