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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1955
Page
10
Washington reports say Republican hopefuls fear being boxed out of primaries if Eisenhower delays a second term decision. Sen Knowland may enter Illinois primary on April 10 if no word by January 23, with implications for New Hampshire and other contests.
The Miami Open at Miami Springs Course, halted by a mid afternoon downpour, forced a restart with 39 of 154 players still on site. Doug Ford and Billy Maxwell led by one stroke when play was suspended, as sponsor Miami’s publicity department cut the event to 54 holes. Dutch Harrison shot 68 to join the field.
New York columnist HAL BOYLE relays reader Win Haynes of Greenville Pa who argues the rose is troublesome and high maintenance while praising the dandelion as hardy cheery and worthy of national flower status. The letter catalogs roses as aggressive pests requiring constant care and protection from diseases insects and weather.
The excerpt jokes about dandelions as inevitable in Texas yards and notes a defense in a court case. It mentions Myford Irvine and Carson in southern Oklahoma moving into west central Texas and beyond, with a possible 27 year sentence to be appealed.
New York private detective John G. Steve Broady was found guilty on 16 counts of illegal wire tapping after a February raid on a Manhattan tap center. The center reportedly accessed between 48 000 and 60 000 phones on the East Side from 36th to 96th streets.
Funeral services were set today for aviation production pioneer Genny L. Martin aged 69 who died last Sunday in Baltimore. Six boyhood friends will serve as pallbearers at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Ana with A. H. Allen Roy Deal and Harry Hanson among those named. The first plane Martin built and flew in 1909 is noted in the obit.
The arctic air mass extended from the Rockies to the Appalachians and into the Gulf region. Temperatures fell about 20 degrees in the lower Mississippi Valley and Texas with snow flurries observed as far south as Tennessee.
New York named Cola G. Parker of Kimberly-Clark as NAM president at the association's annual convention. Parker, a Wisconsin native who led Kimberly-Clark's Neenah operations, is lauded for returning to his home state to help industry.
Henry G Riter III president of Thomas A Edison Inc West Orange N J and Ernest G Swigert president of the Hyster Co Portland Ore were elected national vice president and president designate for 1957 at the national meeting in 1955.
Comedian Jack Benny announced he will be 62 on February 14. He spoke at a $100-a-plate dinner in Denver raising funds for General Rose Hospital last night.
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