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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1957
Page
2
Nancy Joe Nelson arrived Saturday at 129 N Tennessee. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs Merrill Moore and Mr. and Mrs Axel Larson. Paternal grandparents live in Vilas.
The Neosho Memorial Hospital lists today admittances including Mrs Cecil M Greenlee and Mrs James H Chaney and Mr Michael Dunaway among others. Dismissals today include Mrs George Ward and Herbert Neely, with a birth noted for Mr and Mrs Herbert Johnson in Humboldt. A Chanute district court notice covers judgments and divorces, plus traffic citations and building permits issued for local residences and carport work.
George G. Morgan Jr., 31, told police he drove 8,000 miles through seven states in an auto that wasn’t his. He was arrested after an auto dealer in Lancaster reported a stranger tried to sell him a new tire and wheel. Morgan said he picked up the ownership confusion in Lagoa Tex.
A 1956 model car from a Victoria Texas dealer was involved in a meandering tour through Texas, Louisiana, Kentucky, Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The driver claimed no police inquiries and observed all laws while being held on a vagrancy charge pending further investigation.
Mrs Charlie Ermey 74 of 508 N Washington died at 6 p m in Neosho Memorial Hospital after a long illness She was born November 21 1883 in Bourbon County and lived in Chanute 45 years She married Charlie E Ermey May 20 1908 in Kimball Survivors include husband two daughters Mrs H C Mathews of Bremerton Washington and Mrs Lola Johnson of San Diego one son James of Fort Worth Texas three sisters Mrs Ruby Showalter Mrs Josie Dyer Mrs Dollie Raines four brothers Charles Johnson John Johnson W Lee Johnson and Ernest Johnson four grandchildren and one great grandchild A son Westle died in 1927 She was a member of Grant Avenue Baptist Church Funeral arrangements are in complete The Johnson Mortuary will be in charge
Convair engineers mounted camera gear in chase plane pilots helmets to photograph test flights of the B58 Hustler bomber. Jets are single seaters and fast chase planes carry no photographer so a gun camera was adapted to the pilots helmet and operated from the control stick.
In a bail bond office in San Francisco Charles Puccinelli 44 watched television when a man entered asked for bail then drew a revolver and demanded money. Puccinelli surrendered 4400 dollars before the suspect fled and bail money forfeited.
Sgt Ernest Ensminger formerly of LaHarpe now at Chanute received the Commendation Ribbon from Lt Col Ray E Ecker Kansas City. As senior engineer supply specialist in the 929 Engineer group he planned and coordinated shipments valued in the millions for the Air Force Missile Test Program in the Bahama Islands from June 1 1954 to March 1 1956. He now serves as recruiting sergeant at the Chanute recruiting station.
NEODESHA city commission accepts Intrusion Prepair Co of Cleveland Ohio as low bidder for major repairs to Fall River dam downstream from the water and power plant with a maximum cost not to exceed 26950 dollars. In Fredonia editor Ben S Hudson improves from illness at St Margaret s Mercy Hospital and will remain hospitalized with visitors restricted. In Coffeyville four preachers report seeing a bluish green light object plunge from the sky at 11 57 Monday night with a trail splashes near the west city limits.
Wall Street drifted lower as steels motors and rail shares hit fresh 1957 lows. Trading remained quiet with volume around 2.2 million shares, down from 2.36 million the previous day as major stocks declined.
In Atlantic City New Jersey the AFL CIO convention unanimously rejects any 1958 wage freeze or extension of the 40 hour week. It calls for sizeable wage boosts and a shorter work week. Walter Reuther urges higher wages to counter economic decline and rising unemployment.
Peter and Celestia Peterson, lifelong companions born in central Utah, observed their 79th wedding anniversary in Fairview. Peterson, 97, credits love for the enduring marriage as seven of their ten children survive.
Three automobiles two Cadillacs and a Lincoln for President Eisenhower and his aides were unloaded from the liner United States today for the Paris NATO meeting visit.
Robert Hyde Busler 39 secretary of Kansas City Power and Light Co. becomes treasurer of Hallmark Cards Inc effective January 2.
Kansas City livestock report shows hogs up to 25 50 higher for barrows and gilts with mixed movement for sows. Cattle prices steady to 25 higher across most grades with feeders and cows also firm. Sheep offerings slow with most lambs and ewes priced mid range amid trucked-in supply.
Hogs range 25 cents higher with U S No 1 grade 210 230 lb at 18 75 per cwt and varying weights up to 400 lb. Sows heavy 14 50 to 15 75, stags 11 00 to 13 50, boars 8 00 to 11 00. Cattle steady with grain fed steers and heifers U S choice 22 50 to 24 00, standards 17 00 to 19 00, crepe fed calves over 500 lb 22 00 to 24 00, good 19 00 to 21 00. Killing calves 300 450 lb 21 00 to 22 50, stock calves 24 00 to 26 00, heifer calves 20 00 to 23 00. Yearling stockers 20 00 to 22 00, plain 1 yearlings and 2 year old steers 16 00 to 18 00. Bulls steady 15 00 to 17 50.
The bulletin lists animal prices for cattle and sheep with ranges for breeding bulls and lambs, plus Kansas City and Chicago commodity quotes. It notes unchanged wholesale egg and butter prices, fluctuating grain futures in corn and soybeans, and current hay receipts and directions from Kansas City.
The Woonsocket Kiwanis Club decides not to award a Man of the Year for 1957. Officials state no candidate merits the honor this year.
President Eisenhower, after a medical review by six brain and nerve specialists, is in excellent general condition and ready to fly to Paris for the NATO meeting. Doctors say his speech impairment remains mild but improving, with no cerebral hemorrhage or major brain damage observed. The president, still under care for a mild stroke 16 days ago, was described as alert and able to discuss the upcoming alliance gathering in detail.
A five hour blaze gutted the Windsor Hotel in Montreal damaging the south and west faces. Firemen quickly pulled about 30 people from upper floors within minutes of the outbreak. more than a dozen injured by smoke and flying glass, none seriously.
U S Surgeon General Dr Leroy L Burney says half the American population was confined to bed by upper respiratory infections at some time between July 1 and November 9.
A corrected version of Mrs. Carl Bedenbower's Christmas Jewels recipe is printed. It lists ingredients including apricots dates flour soda salt brown sugar butter eggs vanilla and spice jelly with candy, and instructions to bake at 375 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes.
Benedict hosts Mrs Eugene Long farewell coffee at the Elder home with a surprise tree of hankies and refreshments. Urbana guests gather for a covered dish dinner honoring Col James F Neely of Helena Montana with a large list of local attendees from Galesburg Chanute Iola Earlton and Urbana.
Six year old Frances Dvorak found a small balloon on her front steps bearing the name Cox Implement Company Louisville I It likely traveled from Illinois after escaping a balloon launch or drift across the region The find reflects a long journey by a simple balloon from its origin to Salina
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