Spring Water From Arkansas Gains Local Popularity
Left Hand Spring water has become a local specialty with more than 6 000 gallons sold in five gallon containers at 20 cents per gallon. It is used for drinking amid a water shortage and people also obtain cistern water from neighbors or neighbors out of town. The Smiths report their property spring is dry and they rely on well water.
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Arkansas
Boyd Smith
Chanute
Charles Berthot Jr
S. Evergreen
Lisa
Bridget
United States
Great Britain
France
Middle East
Europe
Hungary
Austria
Dulles
Eisenhower
United Nations
Liquor Purchases Across State Line Hit Kansas Revenue
Kansas reports a $317,257 revenue loss last year from Kansans buying liquor in Missouri. State agents patrol the Missouri side during the holidays watching for Kansas plates and alerting officers to transfers over two quarts without Kansas stamps. Possession leads to confiscation and fines from $10 to $500 plus costs. Missouri prices lure shoppers due to tax differences and Kansas price controls.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Missouri
Mail Pouch Containing 44000 Found Near Sheffield
A mail pouch with 44000 in one dollar bills, missing three months, was found unopened under a wire fence near Sheffield Alabama by three Leighton youths. Postal inspectors say the pouch was on the Southern Railway route from Washington to Memphis and doubt it was on the train since September six.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Sheffield
Ala
Ingram Mitchell
William Mitchell
Edward Chamblee
Leighton
Emmit E. Harding
Tennessee, Alabama and
Mississippi
Southern Railway
Washington
Memphis
Harding
J. R. Sims
State reports 603 traffic fatalities in 1956 to date
Kansas accident records show 603 traffic fatalities so far in 1956. In the same period of 1955 the number was 533. No fatalities recorded in the last 48 hours.
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Topeka
Kansas
Eisenhower sets budget talks as Nehru meet planned
President Eisenhower convenes a Friday session with Wilson and other officials in Augusta to review the next fiscal year's military spending. Indefinite postponement of December Washington talks with Congressional leaders is announced as many aides will be in Paris for NATO meetings. The President may extend his Augusta stay for golf and work beyond the two weeks originally planned. He will also begin talks with Indian Prime Minister Nehru on December 16 in Washington, with potential further discussions outside the capital.
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Augusta
Eisenhower
Wilson
Administration
Washington
Congress
White House
James C. Hagerty
Paris
NATO Ministerial Council
India
Nehru
Dulles
Middle East
Mideast
North Atlantic Alliance
Slightly Colder Area Forecast For Kansas Regions
Topeka reports balmy weather with a cold wave warning not fully materializing. Forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and little temperature change tonight, with Tuesday colder and lows around 30 to 35.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Plains
Canada
Morrow
Goodland
Chanute
Pittsburg
Waterflood Meeting At Independence
A dinner meeting of Kansas-Okla waterflood oil operators is set for 6 30 p m Dec 12 at the Booth Hotel in Independence with Carter Oil Co Tulsa as speaker. Richard Walker will present a paper on a field test of the gas driven liquid propane recovery method. Reservations by 10 a m Dec 10 with J P Powell, Bureau of Mines, Bartlesville.
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Booth Hotel
Independence
Carter Oil Co
Tulsa
Richard Walker
Wichita Falls
J. P. Powell
Bureau of Mines
Bartlesville
Wild Ride In Car In Windsor Teenagers Lose Control
In Windsor Connecticut a 17 year old girl Cynthia Moran and her 14 year old brother David lost control of a car on Broad Street going 70 to 75 mph. The vehicle struck Albert Turgeon’s car as crowds cleared a crossing. Patrolman Christensen stopped the runaway by disconnecting the ignition wires. Police suspect a sticking linkage between gas pedal and carburetor.
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David
Broad Street
Church
Robert Christensen
Cynthia
Espanade
Christensen
Albert Turgeon
Turgeon
Four Kansans Die in Flames
In Clay Center Kansas a mother Betty Clark 27 and three of her five children Mark Marvin and Candy died after a kerosene sparked fire inside a small frame house Witnesses heard an explosion and saw Mrs Clark flee the burning dwelling Floyd Carlisle smothered flames while neighbors failed to enter before the fire trapped the interior Firemen found the children on a couch near the stove Mrs Clark died later in Clay County Hospital The former husband was away on a construction job in Kiowa Kansas
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Clay Center
Kan
Betty Clark
Mark
Marvin
Candy
Low Water Dam Nears Completion Near Chanute
City officials report the 285 foot concrete wall of the low water dam on the Neosho River north of Chanute is finished. About 48 feet of the waterfall apron has been poured and work continues toward completion by week’s end if weather remains favorable.
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Neosho
Chanute
Ewnef
Christ Is a Reality Today in Christmas Hope 1956
Series by Chanute area pastors opens in The Tribune with Rev Life of EUR Church outlining Christmas meaning to God world and man. He cites scriptures on Christ as the Way Truth and Life and urges a real dwelling presence of Christ over mere philosophy or law.
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Chanute
the Tribune
Life
Evangelical United Brethren Church
Chanate Ministerial Alliance
Rev
Paul
Eur Church
Christ
Church
Jesus
Herof Christ
Apos
God
Senior High Music Concert Set for Wednesday Evening
The Senior High School music department presents its first term concert Wednesday at 8 o'clock in the auditorium. The hour long pop program features the mixed chorus and concert band with Judy Oliver and Ronald Sandberg as soloists. Alice McCune accompanies. Larry Harris solos with the band in Morton Goulds Pavanne. Christmas selections and popular pieces highlight an informal evening. admission is free.
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Judy Oliver
Ronald Sandberg
Alice McCune
Larry Harris
Morton Gould
Pavanne
Kenneth Tebow
Budapest admits Hungarians deported to Soviet Union
Government spokesman Istvan Sairmai acknowledged for the first time that Hungarians were deported to the Soviet Union. He claimed all returned and that no deportations occurred in two weeks while noting roaming armed bands and unrest in Budapest amid ongoing fighting with Soviet troops.
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Budapest
Soviet Union
Istvan Sairmai
Sairmai
Hungary
Two Cars Damaged In Highway Collision South Of Town
A two car crash on US 169 a mile south of here Saturday night caused about 150 dollars in damage with no injuries. Drivers Thomas Works 16 of 923 North Grant and Esten Gray 27 of 1014 North Steuben were involved.
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US 169
Here
Highway Patrol
Thomas W. Works
N. Grant
Esten Hershel Gray
N. Steuben
Works
Gray
Duane Houck
Railroad Costs Eat Up Income
A railroad spokesman said carriers expect lower revenue next year despite a seven percent emergency freight increase. Edward A. Kaier, general attorney for the Pennsylvania Railroad, argued before the Interstate Commerce Commission in support of an appeal by eastern and western railroads for the emergency hike.
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Kansas City
Edward A. Kaier
Pennsylvania Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Eastern and Western Railroads
Kansas University Student Is Missing
Parents of 20 year old University of Kansas junior Ronald Edwin Butler say he vanished after leaving his Lawrence rooming house last Monday morning. The journalism student, last seen Nov 25 after Thanksgiving at home, was described as in good spirits and may have joined the armed forces or seeks a job. Butler is six feet tall with brown hair and brown eyes, last seen wearing a gray tweed coat, black slacks, yellow shirt and black shoes.
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Kansas City
Kas
University of Kansas
Edwin V. Butler
Ronald Edwin
Ron) Butler
Lawrence
Butler
City Water Use Totals Reported
Water department data show yesterday’s usage at 1,265,000 gallons, the day before 1,206,000, and seven day totals of 9,698,000 previously 9,101,000 over the prior week.
Elderly Kansas Man Fatally Struck in Arizona
Bert E. Staley 65 from Wellington Kansas was killed on U S 66-89 near Ashfork Arizona when a truck struck him. Driver William L Robinson 26 of Topeka said Staley ran in front of his truck and was not cited.
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Ashfork
Ariz
Bert E. Staley
Wellington
Kas
U.S
Britain and France Agree to Immediate Suez Withdrawal
In Augusta and London reports confirm Britain and France will pull troops from the Suez Canal area without delay. U N chief Hammarskjold hopes forces leave Port Said by mid December as Keightley and Burns plan a timetable for full withdrawal with Egypt, Britain, and France negotiating a new canal regime.
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Britain
France
United Nations
Suez Canal
Israel
Gaza Strip
Egypt
Sinai Peninsula
U.N
New York
Dag Hammarskjold
Port Said
Selwyn Lloyd
House of Commons
Charles Keightley
Lloyd
Paris
Christian Pineau
National Assembly
Hammarskjold
Sir Charles) Keightley
E. L. M. Burns
de Lloyd
U. N
Sky Watch Begins Observer Corps Plane Sightings Reported
Skywatchers reported 25 plane sightings to Hutchinson filter center as the Ground Observer Corps starts outdoor operations. The 19 sightings were Saturday and six Sunday under post supervisor Les Matthews.
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Hutchinson
Ground Observer Corps
Les Matthews
Santa Fe Park
Memorial Building
C. H. Bates
John Thompson
Pete Ramirez
Virgil Powell
Lawrence Powell
Carl Ranabarger
L. van Wickle
Dennis Stone
Jack Morris
Lee Longest Jr
Terry Lincoln
Denny Robison
Kenneth Wilson
Sammy Barnhart
James Morgan
Roland Casebolt
Matthews
Half Ton Man From Missouri Biggest Santa Claus
Half-ton Robert E Hughes arrived in New York from St. Louis after airlines could not transport his 1,041 pounds. He rested in a hotel suite as aides plan a tent sized Santa suit for a local TV appearance that would crown him the world s fattest man. The producer says Hughes may perform once weathered travel permits.
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New York
Robert
E. Hughes
Hughes
St. Louis
Great Lakes
Alex Daybreak
Santa Claus
Navy reveals guided missile destroyer USS Gyatt
Boston reports the Navy unveiled the first guided missile destroyer the USS Gyatt. Its principal weapon is the Terrier radar guided missile, a nearly autonomous system designed to locate targets with high accuracy. The Gyatt joins the guided missile fleet alongside cruisers Boston and Canberra.
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Boston
USS Gyatt
Gyatt
Canberra
Christmas Trees Bring Festive Front of Memorial Building
Christmas trees stand on the Memorial Building grounds with decorations in progress on doors pillars and windows. One tree sits east of the fire station and another on the front lawn. Both trees are gifts to the city from A. C. Savidge of West Main Road, officials said.
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A. C. Savidge
West Maine Road
Drowned at Horton Lake Ninth-Year-Old Boy Dies on Ice
A 9-year-old boy, David Lee Spence of Horton, broke through ice on Lake Horton while attempting to reach duck decoys and drowned. Eleven-year-old Sharon Wilson and her brother Veryl attempted a rescue but both went under twice before firefighters recovered the body. The victim was the son of John Spence, a state game protector for Brown, Atchison and Doniphan counties.
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Horton
Kas
David Lee Spence
Sharon Wilson
Veryl
David
John,Spence
Brown, Atchison and
Doniphan Counties
Hungarian Refugee Tuberculosis Case at Camp Kilmer
A 24 year old Hungarian refugee bride to be Miss Elizabeth Kiss was diagnosed with tuberculosis shortly after arrival at Camp Kilmer New Jersey. She will be transferred today to the Deborah Sanitorium in Browns Mills. Care is provided by a group of New Brunswick women among 35 000 sponsors of the free non sectarian institution.
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Camp Kilmer
N. J
Elizabeth Kiss
Deborah
Browns ‘Mills
New Brunswick
Milk Hearing Delayed at Arkansas City
The Federal Trade Commission postponed a milk price hearing set for December 12 in Arkansas City Kansas against a cooperative. Examiner Abner Lipscomb was to conduct the hearing but will enter the hospital, so a new date will be set after his return.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Arkansas City
Kas
Abner Lipscomb
Nations ready to withdraw troops from Egypt meet cool reception
In Paris the foreign minister said Britain and France would pull troops from Egypt without delay but the National Assembly greeted the statement with indifference.
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Paris
Christian Pineau
Britain
France
Egypt
National Assembly
Local Hosts Welcome Two Couples Sunday at Thayer
Mr and Mrs H E Anderson of 411 W Main and Mr and Mrs Orr Henderson of 101 S Kansas were guests of Mr and Mrs Jesse Johnston of Thayer on Sunday.
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H. E. Anderson
W. Main
Orr Henderson
S. Kansas
Jesse ‘Johnston
Thayer
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