Food for Peace Program Urged To Cut Surpluses
U S senators Carlson and Symington urged adoption of a Food for Peace program to reduce farm surpluses and win goodwill abroad. Speaking at the Missouri Farmers Association convention, Carlson highlighted humanitarian gains and psychology of aid, while Symington framed abundance as a tool for world peace. Dorsey Kirk of the National Grange emphasized farmer unity and bargaining power to balance supply with demand and direct surpluses to secondary uses.
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Columbia
U.S
Frank Carlson
Kansas
Stuart Symington
Missouri
Missouri Farmers’ Association
Carlson
Symington
United States
Dorsey Kirk
National Grange
Coed Stabbed to Death Near USC in Apartment Hall
Los Angeles police report Linda Edna Martin a 21 year old music major was stabbed to death in an USC area apartment hall after a neighbor heard screams. The suspect, 27 year old G Robert Kinzie a USC graduate art student, was questioned and released. Police say the girl may have left a bath and died at the bottom of stairs. The case was investigated as a possible residence homicide with no rape ruled out.
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Los Angeles
University of Southern California
Linda Edna Martin
Robert Kinzie
Kinzie
Tom Reddin
Martin
William Tomanovich
Lombard
Ill
USC
Hollywood
Tomanovich
Louis Martin
North Hollywood
Miss Martin
Ham sale at Missouri State Fair ends in misunderstanding
At the Missouri State Fair a 19 pound blue ribbon ham for Mrs. Edwin Bieri was auctioned. Frank Farmer of Sweet Springs bid $21, thinking it covered the whole ham. The commissioner announced the price was $21 a pound, allocated $378 to cover the difference, and the fair would pay the rest.
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Sedalia
Frank Farmer
Sweet Springs
Edwin Bieri
California
Owen Downs
Farmer
Sweet Springs Herald
John Sam Williamson
Agriculture
Hundreds Suffer Food Poisoning Across Outings
The Associated Press reports hundreds ill from food poisoning at weekend outings nationwide. About 145 fell ill at an Attica Indiana company event. 750 were stricken in Angola Indiana a week earlier from ham sandwiches in heat. Four in Cheyenne Wyoming and 15 in Cincinnati also affected. hospitalizations reached over 50 in Wyoming with most Indiana patients discharged.
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Associated Press
Coun
Attica
Ind
Angola
Cheyenne
Wyo
Milwaukee
Cincinnati
Ohio
Wyoming
Indiana
Glass damage hits bank drive in East 1st
Police reported two panes at the First National Bank drive in on East 1st damaged Saturday by shots from what appeared to be an air rifle. Each glass pane was struck once.
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First National Bank
East 1St
Tremors Continue in Yellowstone Area Causes Rock Slide
West Yellowstone Montana police report four or five new tremors Sunday night and today, with a rock slide triggered by Saturday’s jolt in the Old Faithful region. The Hebgen Dam area road was blocked by rock debris, about 20 summer homes in the slide vicinity likely unoccupied.
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West Yellowstone
Mont
Old Faithful
Yellowstone National Park
Heb‘gen Dam
New Slide
Ark City Blast Fatal to Two
Two explosions at an ammonia plant in Arkansas City Kansas killed engineers Jack Day 30 and Henry Husky 35 both of Arkansas City. Four others were injured as fumes spread with no fire reported. Police and a plant employee received minor injuries during rescue attempts as investigators work to determine the cause.
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Arkansas City
Kan
Jack Day
Henry Husky
Mauer Neuer Packing Co
Robert van Sciver
Bill Rice
Jim Kinkaid
Kansas Traffic Fatalities Reported In 1955 Update
AP dispatch from Topeka notes state accident records show 377 fatalities year to date in 1955 with 334 in the comparable period of 1958. Two fatalities were recorded previously but not specified.
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Topeka
Kansas
Canadian motorist shot by hitchhikers near Narcissa
Thomas Leonide Pourier, 39, of Montreal, was shot five times by two teenage hitchhikers on U S 66 near Narcissa Oklahoma. Ronald Kelley, 16 Prescott Arizona and Joseph Andrus, 15 Kansas City Missouri were captured after leaving woods. Kelley allegedly confessed to the robbery attempt.
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Miami
Okla
Thomas Leonide Pourier
Montreal
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
H. B. Kidd
Ronald Edward Kelley
Prescott, Ariz
Joseph Eugene Andrus
Kansas City
Kidd
Kelley
U. S. ‘Highway 66
Narcissa
Pourier
Ben Stanley
Oklahoma City
Joe Stone
Eight Die As Ocean County Jail Burns In Fire
Ocean County Prosecutor says a lighted cigarette and matches handed to a prisoner in a padded cell sparked a jail fire that killed eight inmates including General Petersen of Philadelphia. Another inmate and a shipfitter nearby were injured as flames and explosions blocked escape.
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Toms River
N.J
Ocean County
Howard Ewart
Petersen
Lakewood
Ewart
Harry Roe
Roe
Philadelphia
Gerard Lau
Naval Air Reserve Training Unit
Freeport
Lou
Robert J. Miller
Ree
Richard Cavileer
Deborah
Plan Concert For AF Band In Chanute
Preliminary plans for the U. S. Air Force Band concert scheduled for Oct. 16 will be discussed by the Chanute Chamber of Commerce civic affairs committee tomorrow night at 7 in the C of C office. Topics include publicity expenses programs house arrangements and welcoming plans. The band will perform in afternoon and evening possibly in two or three shows. Buford Fisher Chanute school superintendent is contacting area schools to invite them.
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U. S. Air Force
Chanute Chamber of Commerce
C. of C
Glen Halbe
Buford Fisher
Chanute
Halbe
Youth Is Charged With Reckless Driving
Brian Haller, 16, of 208 S. Forest was cited on a reckless driving charge after his 1959 Chevrolet skidded into a fence at Monkey Island in City Park about 1 15 p m. A hearing was set for 4 p m Thursday in police court. The impact damaged the fence and the car’s right rear.
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Brian Haller
S. Forest
Monkey Island
City Park
Haller
Six Iowa convicts escape from Fort Madison prison
Six inmates linked to a prison break at Fort Madison pursued across Iowa and Illinois after a Sunday breakout during church services. Three men held a minister's wife and three children at knife point for 22 hours before surrendering, while two others were captured nearby. two remain at large across the Mississippi. The escape follows a prior six-prisoner breakout last June.
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Fort Madison
Iowa
Mississippi River
Charles Robert Wallerick
Illinois
Dallas City
Ill
Arllie Harrison Elliott
John Bennett
William W. Swift
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
Montrose
Charles Carlyle
Ronald Bessler
Samuel Parras
Mrs. Swift
Robert Thomas Jr
Robert
Bird Man and Starlings Still Rampant in Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon New York AP report notes Otto Standke the Bird Man from Kansas still works to remove starlings for a 4000 dollar fee. After four days he has limited success using two aluminum flippers and a chime. The birds briefly relocate but return, and Standke vows to stay until the job is done.
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Mount Vernon
N.Y
Starlings
Otto Standke
Standke
Kansas
Five Die In Kansas Weekend Traffic Crashes
Three victims named in a head on collision on K-15 near Durham include Mrs. Logan Moyer 80 and Claude L. McKinney 6 with Ernest Moyer 57 among the injured. A separate crash near Halstead killed Robert White 26 and another crash near Clay Center fatally injured James Svoboda 22. Missouri also reported six weekend traffic deaths.
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Associated Press
Kansas
Durham
Logan Moyer
Anthony
Ernest Moyer
Argonia
Claude L. McKinney
Hutchinson
McKinney
Lockie Moyer
Robert White
Halstead
James Eugene Svoboda
Lincolnville
Kan
Clay Center
Missouri
Fire destroys Williams Super Market in Gladstone
AP reports a Sunday night fire at the Williams Super Market in Gladstone caused an estimated $290,000 in loss. Store manager Virgil Thorpe said the blaze began in the women’s restroom where an unidentified small boy was seen entering before flames appeared, with about 10 employees and 20 customers escaping.
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Kansas City
Williams
Gladstone
Virgil Thorpe
Ashley Clinic Builds New Facility Near Hospital
Ashley Clinic announces a new 10 560 square foot medical building north of Neosho Memorial Hospital to be constructed by Berthot Construction Co. of Chanute. The brick veneer structure will house six consultation offices, 13 exam rooms, three waiting rooms, a pharmacy and lab, X ray facilities, air conditioning, and a separate emergency entrance.
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Berthot Construction Co
Chanute
Ashley Medical Clinic
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Glen Ashley
Berthot
Ashley
Friend Braden
S. Plummer
Tuberculosis Hospital
Braden
Plummer
C Clinic
Kiene and Bradley
Topeka
Museum Plans To Be Discussed At City Session
Chamber of Commerce tourist promotion committee will meet the city commission at its Sept. 14 session to discuss an Osa and Martin Johnson museum. The former Santa Fe freight depot at 16 S. Grant donated to the city spurs planning efforts.
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Chamber of Commerce
City Commission
Osa
Martin Johnson
Santa Fe Railroad
S. Grant
C. K. James
Glen Halbe
Little Change In Forecast for Kansas Week Ahead
AP reports continued hot, sticky weather in Kansas with generally fair skies and scattered thundershowers. Temperatures Sunday reached 90 to 100 across Abilene to Kirwin, with overnight lows from 64 to 73 at Concordia and Goodland. Hud son received 1.12 inches. Kanopolis Dam 23 and Cedar Bluff Dam 0.17 inches.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Abilene
Kirwin
Goodland
Concordia
Hudson
Kanopolis
Cedar Bluff
Car Door Damage Reported at Main Street Parking
Charles Kepley of 220 W. 14th reported the left front door of his 1956 Chevrolet damaged by an unknown driver while parked at 112 E. Main Saturday.
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Charles Kepley
W. 14Th
E. Main
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Janae Berthot
Charles Berthot Jr
S. Evergreen
Janae
Tribune
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Wasser
Ark City
New Ashley Clinic
Bernard Nelson
Anne Harrison Elliot
Ashley Clinic
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