Opposition to Staley in NFO nomination fight
Des Moines AP reports Ore Lee Staley defends his seven year leadership of the National Farmers Organization amid a bid by Harold Woodward and Bob Casper to unseat him. Woodward argues the NFO lacks strength against processors while Staley cites long term contracts and past gains. More than 5,000 delegates expected at the convention.
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Des Moines
Ore Lee Staley
National Farmers Organization
Rea
NFO
Staley
Harold Woodward
Bethany
Woodward
Bob Casper
Winterset
Iowa
Humboldt Wulfs Return From New York Convention
Humboldt Mr and Mrs Walter H Wulf returned from New York City where they attended a National Association of Manufacturers convention with speeches by Nelson Rockefeller Billy Graham and Dwight Eisenhower The trip included a United Nations Seminar and the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
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Humboldt
Walter H. Wulf
New York City
National Association of ‘Manufacturers
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
Billy Graham
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wulf
Adlai Steivenson
United Nations
Rockefeller Center
Polio Clinic Noted in Walnut Area and Local Visits
The Waln ut polio clinic was held at St. Patrick s school in Walnut on December 7 with students from Hepler Seven Day Adventist Emmanuel Luther Walnut public school and St. Patrick s plus many adults receiving vaccines. Local residents and visitors attended gatherings including the Wide Awake Club and Jury Club meetings. numerous neighbors traveled or hosted relatives including the Dowling and Shively families and others from Bartlesville Fort Scott Girard Dallas Crown Point Kansas City and Lacombe.
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Walnut
William
Oscar Elpers
Mary Alice Miller
Erie
Europe
Jack Shively
Carrie Buss
Helen Ly
Mmes
Fern Bohlander
Caroline Briley
Viola Carson
Grace Elledge
Virginia Finley
Bernice Foster
Emma
Immanuel Luther
Walnut Public School
St. Patrick's
Karl Goodson
Oklahoma City
Lillie Dyson
Felix Dowling
Thelma
Bobby Geary
Linda
Bartlesville
Oklo
Joe M. Johnson
Fort Scott
Mary Markley
J.L. Moore
Bert Reeves
Mt. Carmel Hospital
Pittsburg
Henry Moore
Kansas City
Oliver Killough
Five Hours of Freedom Adds 22 Prison Years
Harold Griffin received a 22 year term add on top of existing five to 15 year sentence after pleading guilty to jailbreak and felonious assault. He and another inmate escaped Reno County jail by assaulting a guard and were recaptured the same night. Griffin previously faced sentencing for an August riot at the reformatory.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Harold Griffin
Griffin
Kansas State Reformatory
Reno County
Reformatory
Three Dead and Baby Alive Case Linked to Arizona Slayings
Police found a note by Ray mond J. Hudgens 22 admitting the killings of his wife Grace Mary Hudgens 20 and her parents Myron Young 67 and Dorothy 55 near Kingman Arizona. A 16 month old son was found unharmed in the cabin and Hudgens was sought in the San Fernando Valley.
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van Nuys
Calif
Kingman
Ariz
Raymond J. Hudgens
Grace Mary Hudgens
Myron Young
Dorothy
Hudgens
San Fernando Valley
Los Angeles
Local families visit relatives and announce births and illness
Tom Fugate remains hospitalized at Kansas City Veterans Hospital with Mrs. Fugate nearby. A granddaughter joins the Wilkins family in Blue Rapids as Phil and wife welcome a 7 pound 8 ounce girl on December 2 at Marysville hospital. Others visit relatives in Kansas and Oklahoma as patients improve and newborns arrive.
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Tom Fugate
Veteran’s Hospital
Kansas City
Moore
Phil Wilkins
Blue Rapids
Marysville Hospital
Wilkins
Brett
J. R. Wilkins
Frank Dowling
J. E. Stenger
$60,000 Guarantee For Gotham Elevens
New York AP reports promoter Bob Curran pledged to place $30,000 in escrow today for each team to avert a cancellation of the Gotham Bowl between Miami and Nebraska. With finances secured the teams can focus on the game scheduled for Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Miami
Nebraska
Bob Curran
Carrie Nation Born in Kentucky Prohibition Pioneer
Carrie Nation, noted mother figure of the Prohibition movement, was born in Kentucky, a state known for producing a large share of the world’s bourbon whiskey.
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Carrie Nation
Kentucky
Topeka Lab to Consolidate Highway Testing Units
Construction of a State Highway Department laboratory in Topeka will begin in March to consolidate eight testing units from Topeka and Manhattan. The 1961 Legislature approved an $800,000 appropriation for the project.
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Topeka
State Highway Department
Manhattan
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Caldwell & Son
S. Santa Fe
Wulfs
Lawton Circle
Grand Army of the Republic
Myrtle
Allaire
Clara McGrew
Omar Allaire
Lute DeWitt
Lucille ‘Henderson
Henderson
Alan Livingstons
Columbus
Ohio
Livingston
W. L. Drake
the Women’s Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church Met
Roy Harrington
Guild
Will Hoke
Eugene Bennett
Carl Pullman
Marvin Wellcome
Joe Peters
Mmes. Wellcome
Garlan Wright
Lloyd Thompson
Don Sanders
Ray Middendorf
Charles Clements
Frank Johnson
Lawrence Rinehart
Harrington
Leroy Wellcome
Estle Bake
Mutual Benefit Society
Ross Cress
Millard Cress
Dewey Clements
Vention
Kansas
Missouri
Freezer
Pioneer
East Main
United Building
Salina
Te Crantora County Health Department
The
County Medical Society
Mary Kennedy
Harve Burt
Lacombe
Alberta
Canada
George Greve
Judy
Janie
Ed Shively
Raymond Shively
Jimmie
Chamber of Commerce
Girard
Crawford County
Sidney Alexander
Mark
A. C. Spencer
William Morgan
Dallas
Tex
Jay Tarwater
Tony van Leeuwen
Crown Point
Ind
Ben van Leeuwen
Charles Fredericks
Woburn Abbey
Duke of Bedford
England
Malta
Christ
Eneas Murray
John
Kathy Hastings
Mary Murray
Tulisa
Charley Kennedy
St. Paul
Girard Hospital
Fred Elmer
Clarence
Raymond
Wesley King
Josephine Elouise
Labette County Medical Center
Lon Smith
Leonard Jacquinot
Joe Smith
Mercy Hospital
Chanute Furniture
W. Main
Gotham
James
West Main
Westamerica Securities Inc
F. M. Barris
W. Finney
Myron George
Pacific Coast Stock Exchange
Zenith
Chanute
South Santa Fe
Samsonite
Clothiers
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