Christmas drive at Parsons hospital faces fund shortage
Homeless children at Parsons State Hospital and Training Center rely on public donations for a yearly Christmas shopping excursion. The Christmas Program seeks gifts and funds, with gifts wrapped or plainly labeled, and donors asked to include name and address for acknowledgment. A separate local note mentions a giant alligator photo claim by Joe Wasser, and a Kansas couple grows a dwarf lemon tree yielding large fruit despite its small size.
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Parsons State Hospital and Training Center
Children’s
Fire Fatal At Hepler Claims Life Of Man
In Hepler Kansas 80 year old Jess Hixon died in a home fire. Neighbors spotted smoke as the blaze was discovered at his small residence where he lived alone. Authorities say he appeared to be trying to build a fire using a gasoline can. The interior was damaged.
Weather Summary For Topeka And Kansas State
Cold air moves into northwest Kansas ending mild temperatures across the state with increasing cloudiness. Rainfall reports show southeast districts heavier totals with Independence at 1.32 inches and many towns reporting under 1.0 inch. Forecast calls for generally fair through Tuesday, colder tonight and Tuesday with low 20s to 25 and high 35 to 40.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Kansas City
Emporia
Wichita
Independence
Thayer
Chanute
Oswego
Paola
Ottawa
Sedgwick
Rent-Free Boarders News Story Wins $3 For Mrs. Bedenbender
The Tribune awards $3 for best news tip to Mrs. Carl Bedenbender of Chanute for information about rent-free boarders in a Chanute home. Bees occupied James H. Taylor house at 402 South Lincoln. Taylor removed them and found honeycomb. Tips urged from Chanute area residents for unusual happenings and accidents.
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Tribune
Carl Bedenbender
W. Elm
Chanute
James H. Taylor
S. Lincoln
Taylor
Four County
The
Joplin Boy Scout Chosen to Report to President
Norman Fretwell a 16 year old Explorer and Eagle Scout from Joplin Missouri has been chosen to report to the President in February for Region VIII of the Boy Scouts of America. He was selected from five regional representatives with William Chambers Lew Eells Samuel Thomas and Robert Morris named as contenders and Eells as alternate. Fretwell is the son of Mr and Mrs D E Fretwell and hopes for an appointment to West Point.
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Kansas City
Norman Fretwell
Joplin
Washington
Boy Scouts of America
Fretwell
William Robert Chambers
Prairie Village
Kan
Lew Eells
Waterloo
Iowa
Samuel Thomas
Sutherland
Neb
Robert Morris
Denver
Eells
Id. E. Fretwell
West Point
Four Young Sisters Die in Farm House Fire
Four sisters aged 14, 9, 7, and 6 died trapped in an upstairs bedroom of a Byron Center farm house fire on Sunday. State police say three brothers aged younger may have started the blaze while playing with matches. Father William Seabolt, 31, suffered cuts and burns while trying to reach the girls. mother Janna, 37, was treated for shock.
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Byron Center
Mich
Deanna
Janna
Cathy
Chery
William Seabolt
Seabolt
Sled Accident Fatal On Grandfather's Farm
A 12 year old boy died on his grandfather's farm near Somerset after his sled struck a slowed sled. The front sled runner pierced Daniel J. Lenio's throat during the collision with another youth.
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Somerset
Here
Daniel J. Lenio
Stoystown
Santa Arrives by Train for Season Opening in Chanute
Santa Claus will visit Chanute this Saturday arriving on the Santa Fe northbound streamliner at 9 45 am. He will distribute candy to children and tour stores. Additional meet dates are Dec 15 17 and 22. Stores will extend hours from Dec 19 to Christmas Eve closing at 5 pm to aid shoppers.
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Chamber of Commerce Retail Committee
North Pole
Santa Fe
Chanute
Chanute Fire Losses Total In November Reach 1075 Dollars
Chanute fire losses for November totaled about 1075 dollars, according to Fire Chief C. W. Brennan. The monthly figure raises the year to December 1 total to 14480, far below 1959's first eleven months of 35715.
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Chanute
C. W. Brennan
Robert N. Allen
S. Larson
Tioga
Danville
Big Creek Township
Wilson County
Hans Brinker Show For Students Today
Chanute elementary students from kindergarten to sixth grade are scheduled to attend a 4 PM performance of Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates in the Senior High auditorium. The show is produced by the National Children's Theatre Production with American Association of University Women sponsorship and features Norma Norman as Gretel and Tony Cooper as Hans Brinker. Only elementary students may attend.
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Chanute
Hans Brinker
National Children’s Theatre Production
American Assn. of
University Women
Gretel
Norma Norman
Tony Cooper
Mulvane School Growth Praised After New Elementary Dedication
State Supt Adel F Throckmorton praised Mulvane Kansas for keeping pace with rapid student growth at a Sunday dedication of a new elementary school. The town has built a high school and two elementary schools as enrollment doubled to 1185 in ten years.
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Mulvane, Kas
Adel F. Throckmorton
Kansas
Throckmorton
Mulvane
Miss OConnor Named To Enter Contest
Janet OConnor, daughter of Mr and Mrs Burl OConnor of 114 N Lafayette, was chosen by the Senior High School faculty to enter the DAR patriotic essay contest. The subject is To What Avail if Freedom Fail, with a 300 word limit. First place wins $100 bond or $75 scholarship plus certificate. Betty Wilson was last year’s Kansas entrant.
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Janet O’connor
Burl O'Connor
N. Lafayette
Daughters of the American Revolution
Kansas
Betty Wilson
Kansas City Population Grows by 7214
Kansas City’s official population rises to 475 539 after a civic drive last June. Horace W. Harding of the Chamber of Commerce reports the Bureau of the Census confirmed the 7 214 increase and explains it reflects outreach that boosted the count.
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Kansas City
Horace W. Harding
The
Chamber of Commerce
Harding
Bureau of the Census
Symington Proposes Sweeping Defense Overhaul
President elect Kennedy received a report from Senator Stuart Symington proposing major Defense Department reorganization. It would abolish civilian secretaries and undersecretaries of Army Navy and Air Force while retaining services as distinct entities. The plan aims to cut about 20 percent of military spending and create new under secretaries and a joint staff chairman to advise the president.
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Fla
John F. Kennedy
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Air Force
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Kennedy
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
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Symington
Ken
Nedy
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Vandal Damage Hits City Sign and Ten Trees
City damage report says vandals damaged a speed limit sign south of the boat dock and broke ten small trees planted by the city. Police said the sign was struck by a car and the trees were broken off Saturday night.
France Boycotts Algerian Talks at United Nations
UN debate on the French Algerian conflict saw France boycott the session as Algerian rebel supporters pressed for a UN supervised referendum. Mongi Slim, spokesman for the rebel government, attacked De Gaulle's policies while a delayed move to postpone the debate did not materialize. France argued the issue is internal and not within UN competence.
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France
U.N
Chad
Congo
Brazzaville
de Gaulle
United Nations
Slim
Science Committee To Review Chanute School Program
The Science Evaluation Committee will assess Chanute schools from kindergarten to 12th grade in a Board of Education meeting on Thursday night. Walter Bell, state science consultant, will attend. Members include Opal Lowe Thelma Beasley Del Tolbert Tony Lockyear Ray Zumalt A Mannoni Pansy Sale Marion Stevens Charles Day and chair Dell Reed.
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Chanute
Board of Education
Walter Bell
Opal Lowe
Thelma Beasley
del Tolbert
Tony Lockyear
Ray Zumalt
A. Mannoni
Young Topeka Driver Dies in Weekend Crash
Jim E. Harvey a 19 year old of Topeka died from injuries from a two car crash east of the city at the intersection of U S 40 and Crocco Road early Saturday.
Phone and call procedures for Tribune readers
Readers are advised to contact their Tribune phone service or, if unreachable, call 700 after 6 p.m. for assistance. The notice emphasizes alternate contact steps and timing for support.
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Tribune
Apparent Break in New Orleans School Boycott Signals Integration Return
Seven white pupils attended William Frantz School today signaling a possible end to the boycott. At McDonogh No. 19 only three Negro first graders entered amid police protection as demonstrators jeered. A federal court blocked the legislature from replacing the New Orleans School Board, keeping federal orders for integration in effect. News coverage faced pushback from officials seeking limits on on scene reporting.
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William Frantz
McDonogh No. 19
Richard Rives
J. Skelly Wright
Herbert Christenberry
McDonogh
Louisiana
de.Lesseps S. Morrison
Morrison
Joseph Giarrusso
Giarrusso
Myrna Rains Injured in One Car Crash North of Chanute
Myrna Rains, 16, of 307 S West jern, suffered minor injuries in a one car wreck on US 169 two miles north of Chanute about 2 10 p.m. yesterday. She was treated at Neosho Memorial Hospital and released. The car a 1956 Plymouth sustained about 600 dollars damage.
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S. Westjern
Cha!mnute
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Highway Patrol
Highland and
Chestnut
Bill Dixon
E. Chestnut
Belle Leighty
S. Steuben
KK. K. Lind
Maple City
Mich
William Gard
1603 S. Ashby
Lind
Gard
Jim Layman
Santa Fe
Robert Hembree
Chanute
Traffic Fatalities Log Shows December 1960 Counts
Topeka reports a 24 hour traffic death log with December figures and comparisons to December 1959. The data lists 1960 totals and year to date totals, noting increases over the prior year.
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Topeka
Kansas
Flashlight Curiosity Tragedy In Bronx Apartment
Eight year old Robert Ingraham prized a gifted flashlight and explored the city dark for days. When he vanished police traced clues to a vacated basement apartment and found the boy curled in a refrigerator with the battery burnt out and the flashlight still in his grasp.
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New York
Bronx
Robert Ingraham
Topher Kelly
Kelly
Robert
Missile Bomber Eyed by Brass
About 175 military and civilian Air Force officials began a week long inspection at the Boeing Wichita plant to clear the way for full speed production of the B52H global missile platform jet bomber. Initial flight is expected early next year with deliveries to SAC to follow. The eight jet plane uses extended turbofan engines and can strike world targets with nuclear bombs and dispatch nuclear armed missiles at supersonic speed beyond its range.
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Wichita
Air Force
Strategic Air Command
Air Research and Development Command
U. S. Air Force
Air Materiel Command
Boeing Airplane Company
SAC
Mobutu Threatens Nile Water Shutdown Over Congo Aid Crisis
Mobutu says he would cut headwaters to punish Egypt and Sudan for aiding Stanleyville rebels. He claims rebels are surrounded and would be eliminated before any supply line via the Sudan. He asserts Congo owns Nile sources within its borders amid regional tensions in Stanleyville.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
Joseph Mobutu
Nile River
Stanleyville
Sudan
Mobutu
Stanley
Lumumba
United Arab Republic
Congo
Cosmetologists Elect Wichita Leader
Joseph McConnell of Wichita was elected president of the Kansas Cosmetologists Association Inc at the group’s Sunday meeting, in an AP report from Wichita.
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Wichita (Ap
Joseph McConnell
Wichita
Kansas Cosmetologists Association Inc
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