Ike Receives Heroic Bonn Welcome In Germany
President Eisenhower and Mrs. Eisenhower arrive in Bonn on a 92 hour flight from Washington. Adenauer, top officials greet with 21 gun salute as crowds cheer. He plans talks with Khrushchev and leaders of Britain France and Italy, stressing peace and unity.
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Bonn
Germany
Kent Eisenhower
Christian A. Herter
Ger
Washington
Adehero
Heinrich von Bren
Wahn
Newfoundland
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
Eisenhower
Paris
London
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
Soviet Union
West Germany
Harold Macmillan
Britain
Charles de Gaulle
France
Fernando Castiella
Spain
Antonio ‘Segni
Italy
Joseph M. A. H. Luns
Pau-Henry Spaak
NATO
Khrushchev
Rich Mine Claim For Friendly Acts
MERCED California AP An Air Force sergeant who befriended a crippled widow is heir to an Alaska mining claim he says may be worth 40 million dollars. T Sgt Thomas L Howlett reports geologists estimate the cinnabar vein near Cold Bay Alaska at that value. He and Doyle Mayberry formed a corporation to develop the claim while he remains in the Air Force at Castle AFB.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merced
Calif
Thomas L. Howlett
Castle Air Force Base
Norfolk
Pentecostal Church
Ova Mayberry
Turkey
Jim
Cora Dinsmore
Dinsmore
Asia
South America
Mexico
Alaska
Livingston
Howlett
South Dakota
Castle Afb
Air Force
Enrollment At St Patrick's Opens With Many New Staff
St Patrick's parochial school will begin regular classes next Tuesday under Sister M Flavia principal. Enrollment is Thursday and Friday with a brief Monday orientation at 8 am. Four new sisters join teaching staff. several returnees carry on across elementary and junior high grades.
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St. Patrick’s Parochial School
M. Flavia
Sister Flavia
Sister DiSales
Hutchinson
Wichita University
de Paul University
Chicago
Gabriella
Mary Patrick
E. Haller
B. Muninger
College of St. Catherine
St. Paul
Minn
St. Louis University
Madeline Wheat
Chanute
Pittsburg College
Herbert Swender
St. Patrick's Junior High
Weather forecast and regional rainfall report for Kansas
The forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies and warm conditions through Thursday with scattered evening thunderstorms. Record highs reached 89 to 97 degrees in various towns, with overnight lows from 56 to 75. Rainfell in Lenora 1.28 inches and Osage City Longton about half an inch, while Weskan and Quinter reported 1.0 inches or more in prior night. Thunderstorms expected again in northwest and near eastern border.
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Topeka
Kansas
Lenora
Weskan
Big Bow
Quinter
Kaw River
Osage City
Longton
Weather Bureau
Emporia
Kirwin
Goodland
Concordia
Youth on Motorcycle Killed Near Madison
Harold Warren Ellis a 16 year old Madison youth was killed when his motorcycle was rear ended by a car driven by Claude Sill 22 of Eureka Kansas. The collision dragged the bike 125 feet and Ellis 130 feet before the car sideswiped a second vehicle driven by Dale Wiggins 17 of Madison All three vehicles traveled in the same direction with the motorcycle behind the Wiggins car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Kas
Harold Warren Ellis
Here
Ray Lindamood
Claude Sill
Eureka
Dale Wiggins
Wiggins
Interest Ceiling Boost Out the Pushes for Highway Funds
President Eisenhower urged Congress to act on raising gasoline taxes and housing aid while Rayburn said the House is unlikely to repeal the 3 to 3 1/2 percent interest rate ceiling on government bonds this year. He noted Senate inaction likely blocks any move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
House
Eisenhower
Rayburn
Senate
Congress
Twins Born Aboard Pan Am Plane Over Atlantic
A mother from Kentucky gave birth to twin girls aboard a Pan American flight from London to New York via Gander. The stewardesses and Dr Clarence Ing assisted. both mother and babies were reported as doing well at Banting Hospital in Gander. The event marked Pan Am’s first plane birth. The mother is Mrs William B Stivers. the father is a U S airman based in England.
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New York
Atlantic
William B Stivers
Bethlehem
U.S
England
Pan American World Airways
London
Gander
Mld
Bor
Banting Hospital
Pan American
Clarence Ing
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Ellen Mandzik
Yolanda Sisto
Manhattan
Barnett Wins In Mississippi Primary Victory
Ross Barnett, a 61 year old lawyer and segregationist, won the Mississippi Democratic runoff against Lt. Gov. Carroll Gartin. Unofficial returns from 1,777 precincts showed Barnett with 217,842 votes to Gartin’s 184,170, securing a solid lead with strong support for segregation.
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Jackson
Miss
Ross Barnett
Mississippi
Barnett
Arkansas
Orval FE. Faubus
Carroll Gartin
Gartin
Paroles Continued For Three Teenagers
Three teenage Cha nute boys arrested for entering a watermelon patch near Thayer had parole continued at a city court hearing. The youths, previously granted paroles for minor offenses, may remain on parole if they attend school and follow other terms, with review scheduled later.
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Thayer
Traffic Fatalities Reported In Topeka Area
Kansas traffic fatalities listed by state accident records for the last 24 hours ending at 9 am today show 383 deaths to date in 1959, compared with 338 in the comparable period of 1958.
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Topeka
Kansas
Kansas Bird-Chaser Claims to Evict Starlings in Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon New York residents reported starlings vanished from a city district and Otto Standke of Great Bend Kansas claimed credit. The 71 year old said he used a hidden device and noisemakers to drive the birds away though few believe his claim. Standke has offered 4000 dollars if he can remove the birds permanently, and skeptics noted a hawk and other explanations for the temporary disappearance. Standke has been described as a pest consultant with a reputation for driving birds from various locations.
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Mount Vernon
N. Y
Kansas
Otto Standke
Great Bend
Kas
Standke
Starlings
Kokomo
Ind
Cincinnati
Ohio
Indianapolis
Louisville
Two Kansas City Fire Chiefs Defend Foam Use in Gasoline Fire
Kansas City authorities heard testing on the Southwest Boulevard gasoline blaze of August 18. Fire chiefs Grass and Doherty testified foam would have been impractical as gasoline and water flowed together. They defended asbestos suits as dangerous, noting fatalities could have risen if false courage led crews closer to the blast. Funds for victims and families total $890,000.
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Kansas City
Southwest Boulevard
H. Roe Bartle
Edgar M. Grass
Francis Doherty
Kan
Grass
Doherty
Billion-Dollar Housing Bill Or Nothing
Rep. Albert Rains says President Eisenhower must approve a new billion-dollar housing bill or nothing. He cites FHA home loan insurance authority as key, while the administration objects to combining it with other features. The House Rules Committee moves to floor with unlimited amendments, with a Thursday floor call and anticipated housing-measure changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Subcommittee On
Eisenhower
Albert Rains
D-Ala
Congress
Home Loan Insurance Authority
Federal Housing Administration
Senate
Rain
House Rules Committee
House
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Santa Fe Railway Posts Seven Month Net Income Rise
TOPERA AP The Santa Fe Railway reported net income for the first seven months of 1959 at 37,445,629 dollars versus 30,516,129 dollars in the prior year. The July result shows a roughly 2.3 million drop from July 1958 due to higher wages payroll taxes and heavier maintenance in car repair programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topera
Santa Fe Railway
Man pleads guilty to driving 62 mph in 50 zone
Ronald Gardner, 30, pled guilty in OLATHE to driving a truck 62 mph in a 50 mph zone. Magistrate William Allen joked he did not want another similar case and fined Gardner 2 cents, which Gardner could not pay, leaving his paycheck with the county clerk as security.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olathe
Kan
Ronald Gardner
William
Allen
Gardner
Public Schools Set to Open in Chanute This Friday
Chanute public schools prepare to start Friday with shortened sessions in many grades and full days beginning Monday. Senior High enrolls 536, Junior College about 150. Royster Junior High and elementary enrollments follow Friday and early next week. Administrative meetings and orientations for new teachers accompany the opening activities.
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Chanute
Royster Junior High
Buford Fisher
Chanute Teachers Association
Teachers Association
Board of Education
Dickerhoof Flying Service
Alcott School
Myrtle Moeller
Royster Junior High School
Fisher
Nora Knight
Three Die In Car Truck Crash In Grey Oklahoma
Three members of the Antrim family from Turpin Oklahoma were killed when a car collided with a butane truck near Grey Oklahoma. Patricia Lee Antrim 18 S V Antrim 55 and Rose Nell Antrim 54 were the victims. Larry Vernon Antrim 22 the driver of the car survived and Guy Doy Hall 25 the truck driver was in critical condition in Perryton Texas.
O N Wheelock Suffers Heart Attack in Kansas City
Former Chanute resident O N Wheelock, once division superintendent of Consolidated Gas and Utilities, Kansas City, suffered a severe heart attack Sunday afternoon and remains in critical condition at St Marys Hospital in Kansas City. Mrs Elmer Conklin of 221 E 9th was informed of his illness.
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Elmer Conklin
QO. N. Wheelock
Kansas City
Chanute
St. Mary’s Hospital
Wheelock
Consolidated Gas and Utilities Corp
First Meeting Opens Great Books Discussion
Forty one people attended the inaugural Great Books discussion at the Public Library. Raymond Johnson of Dallas said two groups will form and meet on different weekdays. John?son led a talk on the Declaration of Independence. Plato's Apology and Crito are on the schedule. Jack Ford of Oklahoma Norman attended as a guest.
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Raymond Johnson
Dallas
South‘west Area
Wasser
Johnson
John
Plato
Crito
Jack Ford
University of Oklahoma
Norman
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Ike
Jano
West Berlin
Andrews Air Force Base
Europe
White House
State Department
Thomas S. Gates Jr
Defense
Livingston T. Merchant
John N. Irwin II
Richard M. Nixon
Elizabeth I
Balmoral Caste
Scottish Highlands
Macmillan
St. Patrick's
Euphrasia
Kansas State College of Pittsburg
Martin
Parsons
Charlotte
St. Mary's School
Xavier
Sacred Heart School
Dodge City
St. Mary of the Plains College
Tribune
Ls Oe
Ways and Means
Treasury
Roland A. Bell
Massapequa
N.Y
Santa Fe
O. N. Wheelock
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