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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1957
Page
4
Community notices include a Pomona Grange meeting at the Rural school Friday at 8 p.m. with punch and cookies to be served. Also reported are local families welcoming a new baby and travel updates from residents visiting relatives in North Carolina and Connecticut.
Daily Transit lists hospital entries with multiple admittances on Tuesday and today including William N Gardner and Mrs Ed Lesher in surgical and medical cases. Dismissals include John C Jones and Mrs P J Mendoza. Births reported to Ken Wood and Ralph Cavanaugh families. Also regional Alien County deeds recorded, detailing transfers and estate actions across Iola and Savonour areas.
Gloria Wellman testified in the criminal libel trial that she sold three Confidential stories about Hollywood parties for a total of 650 dollars. She identified one tale about a 1947 party at John Carrolls home and said she and two other models met Carroll in an upstairs room with others including Forrest Tucker and Jimmy Dorsey. She said the magazine story about nude swimming was true and that payments came from Hollywood Research, Inc.
Wield Any Avetena Ar and its operators Road and Marjorie Meade are defendants along with the magazines in a civil action alleging unspecified claims.
Funeral services and burial plans are announced for Margaret Ella Alger at Johnson Mortuary with burial in Memorial Park. Fort Lauderdale resident W M Huff, formerly of Chanute, dies after long illness. survivors include two brothers and two daughters. Rev Ernest A McCool, 54, dies in Winfield. funeral at Roberts Funeral Home Blackwell with survivors including wife and children. Gene Culver of Stroud dies. service in Stroud then Memorial Park Cemetery Chanute.
Walnut Boy Scout Troop 88 held its first Court of Honor on August 10. Tony Van Meter earned tenderfoot and joined the troop as its newest member. Second Class badges were pinned for Junior Harding Bernard Smith Wilber Kennedy Joe Kennedy Jim Lowe Billy Augustin Jerry Endicott and Jimmy Finley. Some members earned Second Class badges but were absent. Junior Harding and Billy Augustin earned Rowing and Bern ard Smith received Swimming. Ed and John Maxwell presented slides from the National Jamboree at Valley Forge. Library board met August 13 with Bertha Smith Viola Carson Bernice Welty Hildus Rohmiller and Carrie Buss present. The club received Cari bee by Thela Strabel from Book of the Month Club. Walnut Wonder Workers 4-H toured area farms including Shamrock Hall and Oscar Elper farm with sewing cooking baby beef dairy cows garden and grain displays and a picnic lunch. Pete Seiwert and family welcomed a 4 pound 4 ounce daughter born August 10 at Mercy Hospital Parsons with maternal grandparents Mrs. John Van Leeuween and parental grandparents Mr and Mrs Pete Seiwert Colwich. Mr and Mrs William Archer returned from a vacation in Minnesota.
Kansas Turnpike Authority and State Highway Commission approved $19.5 million in bonds at 4.406 percent to extend the turnpike about five miles from Wyandotte into Johnson County. Total project cost, including interest, would reach $42.3 million over 40 years, financed by toll revenue rather than gas tax.
Mr and Mrs W H Wagar celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary on August 14 after marrying in Warren Ohio. They moved to Neodesha in 1924 and were honored at a family dinner hosted by granddaughter Mrs W E Wilmoth and family in Kansas City.
International Typographical Union leader Woodruff Randolph, president since 1944, announced today he will retire from the top post next July 15 when his term expires.
Cattle show steady to higher demand with gains in slaughter cattle and bulls, calves steady, cows stronger, hogs up to 50 cents, sows up to 50 cents, and sheep steady with spring lambs trading 21.00 to 23.00 dollars. Kansas City produce includes butter eggs and poultry figures, with soybeans and wheat futures quoted and cattle feeding items listed, highlighting market activity and price ranges.
The firm grows to its 100th office at 320 E Main Evansville Indiana with manager Jim Waller stating the local office opened this week. Established in summer 1955 the Limerick Finance network now includes nine branches in Kangas and nearly 700 employees in seven states. The Evansville office is a member of the Kansas Consumer Finance Association and the National Consumer Finance Association.
Denver reports James G. Patton of the National Farmers Union will meet with former President Harry S. Truman next month to discuss a network television show. Truman says offers from major networks are held in abeyance and the Farmers Union sponsorship would be acceptable.
A sponsor appears to hold an inside track for providing his services, suggesting favored access or influence in the arrangement. The context indicates preferential treatment or insider advantages shaping the deal or contract.
TOPEKA The pest exterminator Henry Hastings says locked areas hinder his work and claims more than 10 000 locked areas exist in the statehouse. Secretary of State Paul Shahanan says previous contractors had no lock issues and access is possible when informed. The custodian estimates not more than 150 locks across offices and storerooms.
About 8 000 citizens of the United States live permanently in Paris and are listed among expatriates.
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