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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1955
Page
2
The annual meeting of stockholders of the First National Bank of Chanute will be held January 10, 1956 at 3 p.m. in the Banking Room. L. S. Wilson, Cashier.
Daily Transcript notes Wednesday Admittances at Memorial Hospital listing Mrs Paul Hinrichs and others with medical or surgical needs, plus dismissals for Mrs Clifford Culbertson and Mrs Earl Kirkpatrick. Birth reported for Omer Dennis couple. New cases include Mullin v Santa Fe Railway Co for 103000 over Mary Mullin death, plus desertion suit against Eugene Berkefeld and probate appeal for guardianship, among others.
Two long obituary notices from Chanute report the deaths of Mrs. Etta Mae Edwards 69 in Neosho Memorial Hospital and Clarence Arthur Peterson 67 of Thayer. The Edwards family includes husband Charles Edwards Jr. stationed in France, two daughters, a son, and five grandchildren. Peterson's survivors include wife Lena, two sons, two grandchildren, two great grandchildren, and a sister. Services are planned at Wilson-Johnson chapel and Eshbaugh Funeral Home with burial in local cemeteries.
Kansas reports enough Salk polio vaccine for 20 000 injections with 37 000 more expected by December 31. Wichita notes federal tax collections in Kansas total 474 302 685.68 in the first 11 months, about 19 million more than 1954. A NAM analyst in New York predicts a Republican presidential victory is possible in 1956, noting an edge on economic issues but not guaranteeing victory.
A typhoid outbreak in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, blamed on paratyphoid, prompted a state health push with a mass inoculation of 35,000 people. Officials termed the epidemic severe, with 54 reported cases and 16 new cases yesterday, most victims children and several in critical condition.
Senator McCarthy declared a new Communist campaign to overthrow the U S government is underway. He spoke at a public gathering sponsored by the Friends of McCarthy Committee, saying the Reds are coming out in the open to wage their war.
Kansas City dispatch reports James P. Taylor, 30, was arrested in Joplin Missouri by the FBI on a charge of interstate transportation of checks missing from the Northern State Bank of Thief River Falls Minnesota. Percy Wyly I, special agent in charge, announced the arrest.
FBI officials tangled a missing child case with local leads from Schulenberg near River Falls and Clar Lake Minnesota. Authorities linked a farmer with livestock trading to the disappearance while suggesting a possible motive tied to a family dispute. The boy, grandson of Willie Lindbergh, remains unlocated as investigators pursue unclear evidence.
A 15 year old distant relative is held in a serious case involving a Black leader in Gonzales Texas. Sheriff L O McGinty says L C Henry admitted slugging. Herbert Johnson, 58, allegedly struck with a fence post then dragged a body behind a scar, set fire to it and the car. Johnson was a leader in the Na-
El Dorado Kansas sponsors a Christmas lighting project titled Light a Light for Christ. Ed Sorenson, chairman of the El Dorado Garden Club lighting committee, hopes the idea spreads to other Kansas communities as El Dorado will display lights the week before Christmas to illuminate homes.
The project endorses a slogan and proposes a small red light as a uniform display element. The El Dorado Ministerial Alliance backed the project through Sorenson’s statement.
A bandit held up two drugstore clerks last night in Omaha while about a dozen shoppers were in the store. Clerk Craig Swanson handed over cash from the register. The robber glanced back, spotted a $1 bill and three rolls of pennies left, and asked for them before fleeing.
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