Chanute Opens 1959 60 Term With Bright Enrollment Hopes
Chanute schools swung into the new term with full day classes to start Monday and packed enrollment across public and parochial schools. Senior and junior high expect near 550 students each while Chanute Junior College anticipates about 200. First graders entered with nervous pride as kindergartners began their daytime home in a busy start to the school year.
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Chanute
St. Patrick’s
Chanute Junior College
Juco
St. Patrick's
Traffic Deaths Head for Record For Kansas in 59
Kansas faces a grim year with 383 traffic deaths by Aug 28 and potential near 300 more through year end. State Safety Director Claud McCamment calls it possibly the worst year since 1950 with July and August the deadliest months and several multi fatality crashes already reported. He urges careful driving and distance keeping during the Labor Day period.
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Topeka
Kansas
Claud Mce Camment
McCamment
Winter Hospital Transferred to Kansas for Retarded Care
Topeka AP reports Winter Veterans Hospital was transferred from federal to state control for use as a state mentally retarded facility. Gov. George Docking signed the deed. the 224 acre site includes 191 buildings and equipment. Original federal cost 5.11 million in 1943. current appraisal about 744 thousand. 1959 Legislature appropriated about one million dollars for remodeling and first year operation.
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Topeka
Kansas
George Docking
Billion Dollar Housing Bill Faces Veto Threat and Overrides
Congress sends President Eisenhower a 1.05 billion housing bill despite veto warnings. House votes 283 to 105 with a two thirds margin, Senate 72 to 14 in favor of override. Speaker Albert Rains labels it the last chance for a veto-proof measure amid adjournment pressures.
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Washington
Congress
Eisenhower
House
Senate
Rep
Albert
Turnpike Rock Bombings Spur Kansas Patrol Action
Kansas Turnpike guards under General Manager Gale Moss and Maj. Lloyd Vincent expanded patrols along a 32 mile stretch after two nights of rock throwing. Vincent said no arrests yet, but overpasses near Lawrence were watched closely as youths aged 7 to 10 were seen throwing rocks and referred to their mother. He warned older vandals face felonious assault charges if caught.
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Wichita
Gale Moss
Lloyd Vincent
Kansas Turnpike
Lawrence
Kansas City
Vincent
Topeka-Lawrence
Delayed Chamber Meeting For New Industry In Chanute
The Chanute chamber of commerce canceled an open meeting to discuss inviting a new pharmaceutical plant. Kenneth Brown, co chair of the industrial committee, cited a New York development that prevented Ord Morgans and his attorney from attending. The meeting will be rescheduled.
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Chamber of Commerce
Kenneth Brown
Chamber
New York
Ord Morgans
Chanute
Morgans
Brown
Kansas Traffic Fatalities Run Hits 383 For 1959
The State Accident Records Section reports 0 traffic deaths in the last 24 hours ending 9 a.m. Today. To date in 1959 the total is 383, compared with 342 for the same period in 1958.
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Topeka
Kansas
Ottawa Kansas City Highway Opening Celebrated Oct 1
A 55 mile stretch of Interstate 35 will open with a day-long program Oct 1. Ottawa Wellsville Olathe Lenexa Mission and Kansas City chambers plan a caravan from Merriam north terminus to Ottawa south junction with U S 50 featuring symbolic chain tying in each community.
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Olathe
Kas
Kansas City
Ottawa
Chambers of Commerce
Chambers
Wellsville
Lenexa
Mission
Merriam
Eisenhower Vetos Large Water Projects Bill
President Eisenhower vetoed a 1.206 billion water projects bill citing 67 unbudgeted items. The measure would have funded Army Engineers and Reclamation plans for flood control navigation power and erosion projects including specific Kansas and Missouri allocations such as Turtle Creek Reservoir Topeka and John Redmond Reservoir among others.
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Washington
White House
Eisenhower
Army Engineers and Reclamation Bureau
Kansas
Abilene
Council Grove
John Redmond
Manhattan
Ottawa
Pomona
Salina
Topeka
Turtle Creek
Wilson
Marion
Marysville
Milford
Perry
Frankfort
Partly Cloudy Skies Across Kansas With Warm Outlook
Topeka AP reports variable clouds and warm weather across Kansas. Early showers touched some south central points. Thursday highs ranged 87 to 97 across eastern and western cities, with 61 to 77 lows overnight. Forecast calls for partly cloudy warm conditions through Saturday with 70 to 75 low今晚.
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Topeka
Kansas
Emporia
Dodge City
Goodland
Concordia
Composer Killed in Shoreham Hotel Fire
George W. Meyer, 74, composer of For Me and My Gal, was burned to death in a fire that swept his room at the Hotel Shoreham. The blaze, of undetermined origin, was confined to his room.
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New York
George W. Meyer
Gal
Shoreham
Chipmunk Tests Positive for Rabies Still Pending
Two Topeka families breathe easier as tests on a chipmunk that bit two children show no rabies so far. The animal, a gift to Janice Thurber in California, died en route home. Dr. Wallace Lamb of Kansas State University cautions: only further tests can confirm rabies absence. Six lab mice are inoculated with the chipmunk's body liquids and results are due in 20 to 30 days. Autopsy was inconclusive.
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Topeka, Kas
Janice Thurber
Topeka
Gordon Kelley
California
Wallace Lumb
Lamb
School of Veterinary Medicine
Kansas State University
Lumb
Queen Elizabeth Meets Eisenhower at Balmoral Castle
President Eisenhower arrives in Scotland on a private mission and visits Balmoral Castle where Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret greet him at the gates. The Queen appears on television and the party travels with Prince Philip to the castle, accompanied by a Royal Highland Fusiliers honor guard.
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Balmoral
Scotland
Eisenhower
Western Europe
Britain
Balmoral Castle
Elizabeth II
Prince Philip
Dyce
Princess Margaret
Royal Bodyguard
Royal Highland Fusiliers
Queen Victoria
London
Royal Air Force
Aberdeen
Deeside
Margaret
Philip
Elizabeth
Driver Swats Bee Causes Truck to Turnover
An Erie Iowa highway incident reports Jimmy Hastings 38 Avon dale Mo swatted a bee in the 1959 two ton International truck causing it to leave US 59 and overturn south of here about 2 a.m. Hastings escaped unharmed though the truck suffered about 1500 in damage and was towed to a Chanute garage. The vehicle belonged to Long Bell division of International Paper Co and Hastings had just delivered lumber at St Paul then was en route to Kansas City empty.
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Erie
US 59
Here
Jimmy Hastings
Avondale
Jerry Sloan
Hastings
Sloan
Long Bell
International Paper Co
Ings
St. Paul
Kansas City
Santa Fe plans industrial development on former Little Mexico site
City commission said 40 acre tract east of Santa Fe tracks south of Bath Street will be sold or leased for industry with Santa Fe cooperation. Melvin N. Nelson of Topeka, Santa Fe agent, and Chamber of Commerce leader Kenneth Brown attended the meeting. Nelson cited access to utilities and transportation as advantages. Nelson, a former Chanute resident, aided the project.
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Santa Fe
Little Mexico
Melvin N. Nelson
Topeka
Kenneth Brown
Chamber of Commerce Industrial Committee
Nelson
Bath Street
Chanute
Polio Case Toll Reaches 143 in Kansas City
Kansas City's polio tally climbs to 143 with the addition of a new case reported Thursday. Health officials urge vigilance and continued vaccination to curb spread.
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Kansas City
Open House for School Board in New A E Building
The Floyd Potter president announced an open house Sunday from 2 to 5 PM at the new Board of Education building located at 410 S Evergreen. Six board members and Supt Buford Fisher will meet the public in the air conditioned modern office completed Aug 1 at a cost of 33000. The facility houses superintendent offices, nurse, elementary education director, clerk, meeting room, storage vault and mimeographing room.
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Board of Education
Floyd Potter
S. Evergreen
Buford Fisher
Younger Man Declines Fight With 96 Year Old
Detroit AP report says 73 year old Anastasia Yesue told police he was struck with a cane by 96 year old Frank Archibald leaving Yesue with a black eye. Both men were ordered to appear before a municipal court judge on Sept. 3.
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Detroit
Anastasia Yesue
Frank Archibald
Yesue
Archibald
Walkout Threat From TWA Flight Attendants
The 1200 stewards and stewardesses on Trans World Airlines threaten a walkout, announced by the union president today.
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Washington
Trans World Airlines
Tribune Delivery Help Line Instructions
Notice directs readers to call their carrier if the Tribune is not received and to dial 700 after 6 p.m. if the carrier cannot be reached. The brief reminds subscribers to seek delivery assistance within the established contact options.
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Tribune
Car Truck Crash Injures Two In Oklahoma Incident
George James Lightfoot 25 of 827 S Plummer and William T Warren Jr. 23 of 620 S Highland were injured in a US 59 crash two miles north of Ghanate at about 12 30 a m. Warren had a cut above the left eye and a severe left thumb injury while Lightfoot suffered a facial cut. They were taken to Neosho Memorial Hospital with Lightfoot later dismissed. Lightfoot, a passenger in a 1987 MG, was cited for driving while intoxicated and reckless driving and posted 200 bond for city court next Thursday.
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George James Lightfoot
S. Plummer
William T. Warren Jr
S. Highland
Ghanate
Highway Patrol
Warren
Lightfoot
Neosho Memorial Hospital
R. L. White
Woodruff Oil Co
James H. Harrell
Tulsa
White
Charles Record
Police Department
Open House Sunday at Humboldt Clinic
Open house will be held at the Humboldt Clinic, office of Dr. E. E. Long, from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. The newly constructed office is described as one of the area’s most modern doctor’s offices.
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Humboldt
Humboldt Clinic
E. E. Long
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