Four-Year Safe Operation Record at Ashgrove Plant
Ashgrove Lime and Portland Cement Co employees celebrate four years without a lost time accident. Plant superintendent Kenneth Wright notes 1,461 days and about 245 workers with 2,031,315 hours worked. Messages of congratulations from Kansas City executives praise safety, while Wright reveals the milestone fell on his birthday. A Turkish agriculture ministry delegation tour included the Erie Neosho Valley Cooperative Creamery visit and local farm stops with an interpreter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashgrove Lime & Portland Cement Co
Kenneth Wright
Wright
A. B. Sunderland
Kansas City
Chanute Plant
A. K. Frolich
Chanute
K. M. Cox
Neosho
Traffic Fatalities Reported by State Accident Records
The State Accident Records Section lists fatalities in the last 24 hours and year totals. In the Topeka Kansas region for 1955 24 hour figures show 1 fatality and year to date 350 with the same period last year showing 263 fatalities.
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Topekap
Kansas
Two More Twenty Dollar Bills Found in St Louis
The FBI announced two more $20 bills from the long missing Green lease ransom money have been found in St Louis. They traced to Springfield and Sedalia Missouri.
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ST. Louis
FBI
Greenlease
Springfield
Sedalia
Jet Bombers Win Over B36 Craft
Riveraside Calif Swept wing B47 Stratojets out bombed the 10 engine B36s to capture the Muir Fairchild Trophy in the SAC world series. Gen Curtis Lemay will honor the B47 pilots who flew in from Omaha. The 220th Bomb Wing led with 1630 points, followed by two B36 wings in second and third. A B47 crew led by Maj Horace C Tray lor won the overall crew standings.
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Riveraside
Calif
Strategic Air Command
Curtis Lemay
SAC
Omaha
Neb
March Afb
Fairchild Afb
Spokane
Wash
Walker Afb
N. M
Horace C. Traylor
Winnsboro
D. C
Castle Afb
Merced
Los Angeles
Sacramento
Humboldt Youth Hurt In Traffic Accident
Humboldt youth John A Wood suffered a nose cut and facial injuries when the car he rode in swerved off the highway north of Chanute to strike a telephone pole. Driver Dennis A Vaughn 16 and passenger Robert L Martin Humboldt were not hurt. Wood was taken to Neosho Memorial Hospital and released after treatment. The car sustained extensive damage.
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John A. Wood
Humboldt
Chanute
John Phelps
Dennis A. Vaughn
O. Humboldt
Robert L. Martin
Vaughn
Martin
Wood
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Howard Almond
Phelps
Walter Winchell Sues NBC for Seven Million Dollars
New York report states Walter Winchell sues the American Broadcasting Company in state court for seven million dollars after his contract was terminated on June 26. The network disclosed the suit today.
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New York
Walter Winchell
American Broadcasting Co
Winchell
Head Bumped- Sight Returning in Riverhead
Riverhead New York reports a 61 year old cigar stand operator, long blind, claims his sight is returning after an auto collision last Saturday. William Francis, who runs a stand in the Suffolk County Courthouse, describes regaining vision from the left eye, aided by a blow to the head and subsequent hospital observation. An eye specialist cautions progress uncertain but possible.
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Riverhead
N. Y
William Francis
Suffolk County
Francis
Belgium
Stell
Tentative Peace Plan Reached for Rubber Workers
Negotiators for the CIO United Rubber Workers and Firestone Tire & Rubber Co reached a tentative contract affecting 22 000 workers in eight cities just before a threatened midnight strike. The settlement includes a 12 cent per hour wage increase for Firestone workers in Akron Des Moines Fall River Los Angeles Memphis New Castle Noblesville and Pottstown.
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Cleveland
CIO United Rubber Workers
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co
Firestone
Akron
Ohio
Des Moines
Iowa
Fall River
Mass
Los Angeles
Calif
Memphis
One Day Left Driver's License Deadline Sept 1
Police warn that Sept 1 is the deadline to surrender old licenses with new applications. Delinquent operators risk arrest if found driving without a current permit. Officials note 400,000 motorists have not yet applied. 8,300 licenses issued since July. Chanute agents Coats and Brennecke handle applications and extended hours to finish late renewals.
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Tom Morehead
Morehead
Chanute
Billy R. Coats
Paul T. Brennecke
Coats
E. J. Camp
Vehicle Department
State Highway Commission
Topeka
Slow warmup forecast for Kansas after record lows
Kansas weather outlook predicts a slow warmup across the state after the coolest night since last June. Forecaster Tom Arnold says fair skies through Thursday with 50s tonight and 60s to 80s by Thursday, statewide highs ranging from the upper 70s to mid 80s and no precipitation in the past 24 hours.
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Topeka
Kansas
Goodland
Pittsburg
Tom Arnold
Northwest
Olathe
Hutchinson
Wamego
Chanute
United Nations explores merger of disarmament plans
The U N Disarmament subcommittee studies a U S proposal to merge American and Soviet inspection plans to deter surprise attacks. Harold E Stassen outlines a combined Geneva exchange of military blueprints and aerial inspection rights with ground inspections at ports airports rail junctions. Arkady Sobolev was expected to comment. failure to approve could send the issue to the Disarmament Commission and the General Assembly opening September 20.
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United Nations
N.Y
U.N
Stassen
Eisenhower
Geneva
Arkady A. Sobolev
France
Britain
Canada
U.S
Two Small Boys Rescued From Abandoned Ice Box
Two young boys were rescued from an abandoned ice box in Fort Worth Texas after detectives heard pounding from Arthur King’s garage. Inside they found James Yates 10 and James King 1 who were placed there by Oma Thompson 8 and left unnoted.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Arthur King
King
James Yates
James King
Oma Thompson
Three Topeka Youths Bound Over For District Court
Three Topeka youths Merced Vargas Joe Rocha and Alfredo Cerballos were bound over to district court after preliminary hearings on felonious assault charges. Bonds were set at 3000 each. Edington 16 and Patton 18 testified detailing the incident on Main near Santa Fe with a switchblade knife being used against Edington and Rocha allegedly striking him. Police and witnesses described the confrontation with Vargas later admitting slashing Patton. The hearing drew about 50 spectators in the Memorial Building court room.
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Topeka
Merced Vargas
Joe Rocha
Alfredo Cerballos
Erie
Vargas
Richard Edington
David Patton
Switchblade Knife
Rocha
Cerballos
Edington
Main
Santa Fe
R. G. Edington
Chanute
Salina
Amy Osgood
S. Malcolm
Frank Schul
S. Santa Fe
Patton
Tallie McCoy
S. Highland
Tom Morehead
John Phelps
Charles Forsyth
Morehead
Cabellos
Phelps
Forsyth
George Donaldson
Richard Ashley
Ceballos
Memorial Building
City approves plan for two new public parking lots
City commissioners adopted a resolution to acquire two adjoining lots east of the Memorial Building on South Lincoln for a 54-space public parking area. The $25 000 cost will be funded by $5 000 from the parking meter fund and $20 000 in revenue bonds secured by future meter revenue.
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Memorial Building
South Lincoln
Marie Rideau
Margaret Behmer
The
Santa Fe
North
Lincoln
Bruce Williams
Main
H. Craig Graham
Charles Ballou
Cecil Brinkmeyer
Humboldt
Graham
Ballou
Brinkmeyer
East Main
Smith Lumber Co
E. Main
J & R Motors
Ross Cooper
Charles Rice
J. D. Lightfoot
Randall Diver
Wealth on Body and a TV Win in Altoona
Eighty five year old Mrs. Asai Anderson was found dead in Altoona with bonds and savings certificates tucked in a waist rag. Acting coroner said natural causes. she had been dead about 13 hours. Her husband died in 1941. a son survives. Gloria Lockerman, the Baltimore 12 year old, keeps winnings from The $64,000 Question and will net about $11,000 after taxes with $500 for herself and the rest placed in a trust for education.
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Altoona
Kas
Asai Anderson
Charles Spohn
Andersons
Anderson
Augustus Anderson
Arlin Anderson
Wichita
Hal March
Galena Youth Killed In Headon Collision
JOPLIN Oklahoma boy James Lee Gandy 16 of Galena died from injuries after a head on crash south of Galena. In the other car Russell Bunce 19 and wife Josephine escaped serious injury while two Galena youths Martin Phillips 17 and Tommy Proffit 14 suffered serious injuries and were hospitalized.
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Joplin
James Lee Gandy
Galena
Kas
Martin Phillips
Tommy Proffit
Gandy
John H. Murray
Henry Gandy
Commerce
Okla
Russell Bunce
Quapaw
Josephine
Mother Found Dead Near Tracks at Larned
The body of Mrs. Anna Stoppel age 48 was found near the Santa Fe railroad right of way near Larned Kansas. She had told her six children she planned to kill herself days earlier and appeared to have been struck by a train.
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Larned
Kas
Anna Stoppel
Santa Fe
Wife and Children Killer Executed in Arizona Gas Chamber
Lester Edward Bartholomew, 28, a truck driver from Arkansas, was executed in the Arizona State Prison gas chamber for killing his wife and two young children in East Phoenix on May 28. He entered the chamber at 5 00 a.m. and was pronounced dead at 5 03. He had willed his eyes to the blind and showed emotion only when the chamber door closed.
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Florence, Ariz.p
Lester Edward Bartholomew
Arizona State Prison
Bartholomew
Arkansas
East Phoenix
Labor Day Traffic Toll Forecast At 400
The National Safety Council estimates 400 deaths during the Labor Day weekend from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Monday. Council president Ned Dearborn urges extra care by drivers and pedestrians to prevent the preventable deaths.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Ned Dearborn
Council
Wichita Youth Faces Counterfeiting Charge
James G. Probst, 19, of Wichita, charged with possessing and passing counterfeit money after scraps of $20 bills were found in a print shop trash barrel. Secret Service and police traced the case from a south side drug store incident to Probst’s admission and recovery of $9,700 in bogus currency.
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Wichita
James G. Probst
Royce Sickler
U. S
Joe Klepper
Probst
Klepper
South Side
Internal Revenue
Secret Service
Sid Huckabay
Pete Overman
Kenneth Briggs
Union
Neosho County Fair Judges And Events Today
ERIE The Neosho County Fair opens with 8:30 a.m. judging for poultry swine and other exhibits in 4 H and open classes. Dairy cattle judge tomorrow at 8 30 a m. The 4 H public style revue starts 8 p m in the new high school. Betty Poor Chanute queen of the fair. Exhibits released Friday at 3 p m.
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Erie
Neosho County
Betty Poor
Walter Poor
Chanute
One Car Mishap Kills Natoma Youth
Russell Kansas report states 16 year old Robert Bowman of Natoma was killed in a one car crash on U S 281 six miles north of Russell. Passenger Darrell Reitzel of Russell escaped injury. The accident occurred last night.
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Russell
Natoma
0. S. 281
Here
Robert Bowman
Melvin Bowman
Darrell Reitzel
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Ministry of Agriculture
Marilyn Monroe
Chanute Produce
Tribune
Mather Hospital
Wrcessors
Tlewest
Bis
Howard Carder
Public
Benedict seed and feed _ store
Marion Grant
Little Spelling
Gloria Lockerman
Gloria
Baltimore
CBS
Headon
Killer
Dodge City
SAS
Pioneer Shrine-Museum
Stockman’s Lounge
National Peace Offices Hall of Fame
Wichita Youth
Jack C. Nielsen
Kansas City, Mo
Young Probst
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