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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1956
Page
2
The First Methodist Church opens fall schedule with morning worship at 10 45. The Beta Delta Chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha meets tonight at 6 30 in Highland Park for a picnic. Readers urged to call their Tribune carrier or 700 after 6 pm if not received.
The Neosho County Pomona Grange will hold a practice meeting in the Federation Room at the Memorial Building Friday at 8 p.m. All members of the Fifth Degree drill team are urged to be present.
Leanna Aid plans a covered dish lunch at noon Tuesday at Leanna Christian Church with Mrs. J. H. Alford as hostess.
Traffic citations list reckless driving for Jerry MacMiller and Richard W Lind Jr with hearings at 4 pm. New cases include Dorothy May Rice versus John A Rice for divorce with cruelty and neglect, and Annabella Doane versus Eugene Doane with cruelty claims. Also Home State Bank of Erie vs George Hazen seeks 400 dollars plus interest on a chattel mortgage. Licenses issued show multiple pairs of ages and locations in Iola and Chanute. Public notices cover recent moves and county deeds for Chanute, Oswego, and Humboldt areas with numerous transfers of property and interest.
Land deeds show multiple transfers in Humboldt and surrounding towns with buyers and sellers including Mae EK Ellis, George Robertson, Margaret Hilliard, Iola Jessie Barker, Ernest Brodmerkie, Opal Brodmerkie, James Solon, Charles H Stinson, Joseph C Muecke, Joseph Bernard Muecke, James Vincent Muecke, Roy E Coday, Virginia H Coday, G Vale, Burn Buckman, F Goons, Leslie Brubaker, Clarence Warren, Earl Croley, Mildred Croley, Mildred A Drake, Lola, Bob Kiefer, Gas City, Mary E Wilson, E N Hill, Nina Pearl Garrett, EB Lorance Sheriff, Allen County Kansas, Gordon J Roberts, and others in lots and tracts across B 5 B 2 B 1 B 3 and various parcels.
In Albuquerque a boy named Kenneth Mander ville, 11, tried shining shoes in the downtown area but was told the practice requires a license. A man in a car claimed to be a police officer and searched him before stealing 25 cents from his pocket.
TOPEKA reports one of 18 Kansans who attended a Missouri church meeting where typhoid fever cases arose received typhoid tests. The article notes testing of a Labette County woman amid ongoing investigations into the outbreak.
State Health Department reports a Labette County woman ill with suspected typhoid. specimens sent to state labs for diagnosis. Officials seek to contact other Kansans from Montgomery, Johnson, Wyandotte, Labette, Sedgwick, Elk, Barton, Bourbon and Allen counties. Three attendees have died in Missouri.
PRATT Kansas Forestry Fish and Game Commission will meet in Wichita to set quail and pheasant hunting season dates. Dave Leahy reports game protectors will present state wide results and a farmers cooperative survey showing a heavy quail rise and pheasants about the same as last year affected by drought heat and limited cover.
Chillicothe Kiwanis Club nearly abandons weekly courteous driver honor after president Sam Long reports no volunteer found. He observed 45 minutes at a downtown corner without seeing a driver yield to a pedestrian.
Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler predicts a rugged presidential campaign costing more than seven million dollars. He said funds will come from public appeals and be spent by committees backing Adlai E. Stevenson for president and Estes Kefauver for vice president. Volunteers opened headquarters to recruit unpaid workers and conduct door to door fundraising to attract independent voters.
Basil O'Connor president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis says mass use of the Salk vaccine can end epidemic polio. In his annual report he urges procurement and widespread vaccination and booster doses seven months after the first injections to eliminate polio in the United States by year’s end.
The Junior Golf Association at the Country Club wrapped up the season with a tourney won by David Gough in championship flight and Morton Sutton as runner up. Girls and boys flights crowned Peggy Ostrander and Robert Banta as winners respectively with multiple junior players listed among participants.
An Altoona fire from a lightning strike damaged the Reynolds Lumber & Supply Co. office Tuesday night. Firefighters arrived as flames enveloped books and supplies, with a garden hose battle aiding containment. damage extent was not yet estimated. Clarence Stricklan named director of Coffeyville Recreation program. Raymond Belt comments.
Three Pittsburg youths faced city court arraignment on felonious assault after 14 year old Billy Lundberg was beaten and tossed into a strip pit. The Humboldt juror list for October term includes Roy Jay Pearl Couchman Paul Moore and Roy Brooks from Humboldt area. Mrs William Jasper, a farm wife living 13
A woman about miles northwest of Yates Center injured the third finger and index and little fingers of her right hand while cleaning weeds from a combine on Tuesday. She was taken to Allen County Hospital in Iola for treatment.
County Agent Gale Mullen announced an afternoon crops tour in Allen County next Thursday starting at 1 30 p m Attendees should meet at the park on the west side of the highway at the north edge of Humboldt by 1 30 p m
A Soviet woman athlete Nina Ponomareva 27 year old discus champion failed to appear in court in London today on shoplifting charges. Magistrate Clyde Wilson issued a warrant for her arrest after she was released on a 14 dollar bond into the care of a Soviet embassy official following police custody yesterday.
A woman faced charges for stealing five hats valued at 4.60. Police inquiries at the So viet Embassy and consulate found no trace of her and she could not be located at the hotel housing the Soviet athletic team.
The Sacred Heart Church spire at the University of Notre Dame houses the oldest carillon in North America. Twenty three bells were imported from France in 1856, forming a historic chimes program.
A mobile beauty service operated by Dayton owners travels to Louisville's Jewish Hospital to aid bed-ridden patients. Two beauticians drive a glamor wagon offering shampoos facials manicures and scalp care with on board dryer and sterilizing cabinet. Patients pay for the treatment.
Wichita Senator Gar ner Shriver left by plane for Seattle to attend the ninth annual National Legislative Conference. He will represent Lt. Guy John B. McCuish of Newton. Shriver expects discussion of legislative apportionment and notes a constitutional change may be needed to adjust Kansas in Sedgwick County where one sixth of the state population has just one senator and three House members.
Paul W Payton former Bucklin Banner publisher has bought the Union County Leader a weekly in Bucklin Kansas and will take control Saturday He previously published the Bucklin Banner for ten years until April 1 His father W F E Payton ran papers in Burns Florence and Colony Kansas
A historic milestone for Australian broadcasting as the nation’s first commercial television station plans to begin regular transmissions in September. The launch marks a new era for media access and entertainment nationwide.
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