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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1960
Page
8
A man armed with a butcher knife held Mr and Mrs Fred J Pheiffer both 72 for over five hours while ransacking their Kansas City home. He escaped with 72 dollars cash about 1100 in savings bonds four watches and two pistols. He bound the couple with wire and fled in their car. Police dogs failed to trail him due to rain.
Local residents in Thayer and surrounding towns hosted family from Edna Pittsburg Independence Parsons Wichita Lawrence and El Dorado during Thanksgiving and weekend gatherings. Rutgers University estimates Hurricane Donna caused substantial damage to New Jersey fruit crops with about 750000 bushels of apples fallen.
Lawrence A. Barrett reports two Pittsburg area sites proposed as Centennial year attractions. A 1877 coal mine site near East Cow Creek at Litchfield may be restored and marketed. a nearby 80 foot deep sinkhole southeast of Pittsburg draws geological interest and may conceal a cavern.
1 The sentence misuses angry at him. use angry with him. 2 The preferred pronunciation starts with the first syllable like praw. 3 Peccadillo is the misspelled word. 4 Pariah means an outcast or someone shunned by society. 5 A word beginning with fe meaning condition or trim is fettle.
Ernest C. Quigley 81, famed sports figure for over five decades, died Saturday of cancer after long hospitalization. He umpired thousands of games, coached, refereed, promoted, and broadcast, with a career spanning Major League Baseball and major college events. Funeral is set for Tuesday in St. John's Church Lawrence.
Humboldt schools set a candlelight Christmas program at 8 p.m. Tuesday led by Marie Reynolds with soloists Robert Robinson Barry Adams and DeAnna DeMeritt. The 38 member Junior High Chorus and 100 voice high school chorus join Debby Lieurance as narrator in a pantomime concert featuring carols and the Yuletide Potpourri.
A Coast Guard lifeboat was stove in and sank while rescuing six men from a grounded fishing vessel in Nantucket Harbor early today but all hands swam ashore safely. The Coast Guard duty officer.
Vatican City AP report says Pope John XXIII expressed sorrow over the Algeria bloodshed at a Pontifical Latin American College audience. He urged a quick and peaceful end to the conflict. Nehru in New Delhi accused Belgian powers of a Congo empire plan with Col Mo mbutu as frontman and urged UN action as Congo deteriorates.
The Coast Guard reported the fishing vessel Sharon Louise ran aground at the west jetty in Nantucket harbor. Six aboard sought help. a 36 foot lifeboat was sent. The rescue craft was stove in during the effort and sank, but all hands remained safe.
In Argentina two crashes killed 35 people, including three Americans Mary Levitt Wells Thomas Cunningham and wife Mary. A liner from Lima disappeared north of Buenos Aires with 31 aboard. In Concordia a chartered plane crashed in stormy weather killing three Americans and an Argentine. Moscow warned Britain that Polaris submarines bases could be attacked over incidents beyond British waters.
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