VFW Turkey Shoot, Harmony Grange Meet, and Local Police Notes
Community briefs report a VFW turkey shoot Sunday at the northwest Erie club house with lunch at 10 30 A M Harmony Grange meets Monday night at the school with Mrs Harold Storck and Mrs Ralph Debler on the committee R L Phillips 609 S Grant detained on intoxication charge set to appear for a 4 P M hearing A collision at First and Evergreen damages both cars and involves Nancy Jo Blunk 320 N Evergreen and Roy A Williamson 516 E Main Sorghum Valley Grange met with 14 officers present voting to aid a needy family send a Christmas basket and candy to Red Cross patients in Topeka Warm winter weather notes and a cold snap lasting through the Midwest with subzero readings.
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Harmony Grange
Harold Storck
Ralph Debler
R. L. Phillips
S. Grant
Nancy Jo Blunk
N. Evergreen
Dean Justice
Pratt
Roy A. Williamson
E. Main
First
Evergreen
Williamson
Sorghum Valley Grange
Bryan Burk
Red Cross
Winter General Hospital
Topeka
Roy Johnson
The
Grange
Harold Lowe
Daily Transcript Memorial Hospital Admittances and Dismissals
Admittances Thursday Billy D Brant Earlton medical John C Jensen R 1 medical Jim M Miller 1702 S Edith medical Admittances today Mrs Don Ray 1315 W 3rd surgical Janice L King R 3 medical Dismissals Thursday Mrs Ira Carl 110 N Highland Mrs Oscar Pivis Neodesha Dismissals today Mrs S T Reed R 1 Billy D Brant Earl ton
Westinghouse Strike Costly to Both Sides
Westinghouse Electric Corp and its two largest unions remain at an impasse after months of talks. The dispute centers on wages and time studies, with about 55,000 striking workers earning roughly 950000 daily while some 40000 are furloughed. Production losses and maintenance costs are estimated to exceed 150 million dollars.
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Pittsburgh
Westinghoues Electric Corp
Westinghouse
Cab Driver Credited With Saving Man Life
Chicago report says Walter Hamann 63 suffered angina while traveling by bus driver Robert Boeckh 26 who abandoned routes to rush him to hospital. Boeckh broke company rules making an illegal turn but credited with possibly saving the man's life after a passenger warned of critical condition.
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Chicago
Robert Boeckh
Boeckh
Walter Hamann
Southwest Farmers Back Parity Support in Oklahoma Panhandle
A Southwest Kansas and Oklahoma Panhandle meeting voted overwhelmingly for 100 percent parity price supports for mile while 400 attendees opposed the soil bank plan to reduce cultivation. They also agreed to record support for $20 per acre per year to retire land.
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Kansas
Oklahoma Panhandle
Soil Bank
Mid December Cold Spell Holds Fast Across Nation
A mid December cold spell keeps its grip across the United States. Temperatures fall below freezing into the Southeast coastal states and parts of the Gulf region as arctic air continues to spread from the mid continent.
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Nation
Associated Press
Gulf Region
Mid-Continent
Deaths and Funerals in Fort Scott and Area
Obituaries report Mrs. Carrie Watson Hunt of Fort Scott died of a heart attack at home. Survived by husband R D Hunt and children Wilburn Hunt and Mrs. Hugh Coon, with grandchildren and a sister. Service set for 2:30 Saturday at First Baptist Church Fort Scott. Interment Fort Scott Cemetery. Also noted are Lizzie Cook of Buffalo death at 80, funeral Sunday at 2 p.m. at Buffalo Christian church with Pool Mortuary in charge. Additional notices cover Mrs. Cora Patton Gahman and Herbert N Bowman funerals with details of services, officiants, and burial in Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Carrie Watson Hunt
Chanute
Fort Scott
S. Santa Fe
Hunt
R. D. Hunt
Frisco
Wilburn Hunt
Kansas City
Kas
Hugh Coon
A. A. Ackerson
Cock Cook
Buffalo
Lizzie As Cook
Walnut
Dock Cook
Roy Swinger
Charles Swinger
Howard
Buffalo Christian Church
J. S. Jones
Toronto
Pool Mortuary
Joe Schmoll
Coffeyville
Earl Depoy
Pittsburg
Memorial Park Cemetery
Eisenhower Cabinet Meets With Nixon Presiding
President Eisenhower's Cabinet held a three hour meeting today with Vice President Nixon presiding over the session. The agenda and topics discussed were not disclosed.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Nixon
Kansas City Livestock and Market Report Summary
Kansas City livestock: cattle meager with 300 head and calves 25 on arrivals for Monday market. hogs 1,800 active, steady with Thursday averages. sows and mixed bars varied. Sheep 200 steady, lambs 16.00-17.00 per cwt, ewes 4.50. Prices for eggs butter and poultry largely unchanged in Chicago and Kansas City reports. Grain shows firm to higher tones with mixed corn and soybeans. wheat around 2.09 1/4 at Chicago, Kansas City No 2 hard 2.15-2.19, corn 1.37-1.39, oats around 0.69-0.75.
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Kansas City
USDA
U. S
Chicago
Board of Trade
Wall Street Ends Five Day Slide With Irregular Gain
The New York stock market closed higher after a five day decline as prices moved modestly up and down. Trading volume was light with about 2.2 million shares changing hands. Prices for wheat, corn, and soybeans showed mixed moves while hay receipts in Kansas City were noted by USDA with grade figures given.
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New York
Judge Lawrence F. Day Dies in Atchison
Funeral services will be held at Stanton Chapel for District Judge Lawrence F. Day who died on Wednesday. Burial will follow in Mt. Vernon Cemetery in Atchison.
Manhattan Soldier Killed in Kansas Highway Crash
One Fort Riley soldier died and another was injured early today when a car struck a culvert on Kansas Highway 18 about a mile west of Manhattan. Sgt. Laurence Proulx, 22, Detroit, Michigan, was pronounced dead on arrival at a Manhattan hospital.
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Manhattan
Ft. Riley
Kansas Highway 18
Laurence Proulx
Detroit
Mich
Year-Old Baby Rescued By Wichita Plumber
In Wichita a plumber named Cowden broke into a burning house to save a year old boy, Carl Le Roy Leonard. He turned off the gas, entered through a window, and retrieved the child from a smoke filled crib. Fire Chief J A Watson said the mother worked and the father was away leaving the four year old Glen with the baby. The fire began in a living room chair.
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Wichita
Wilber BE
Cowden
Carl Leroy Leonard
Ito
J. A. Watson
Glen
Watson
Guy Ritchey Named To Farm Bureau Post
Fredonia resident Guy Ritchey local Polled Hereford raiser and Wilson County Farm Bureau president has been named Southeast Kansas representative on the Kansas Farm Bureau Commodity Committee for 1956. The committee meets on call at Manhattan to study livestock and crop issues and develop solutions.
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Guy Ritchey
Wilson County Farm Bureau
Southeast
Kansas
Kansas Farm Bureau
Taylor's Words Made Public In Senate Release
The Senate Investigations subcommittee released testimony given two years earlier by William Henry Taylor, a former Treasury employee and IMF official, denying membership in the Communist party or any espionage ring. The transcript shows Taylor’s sworn denial amid earlier accusations by Elizabeth Bentley and in connection with a libel suit.
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Washington
Senate
William Henry Taylor
Communist Party
Taylor
Treasury Department
International Monetary Fund
Byron N. Scott
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
Elizabeth Bentley
William Taylor
Robert F. Kennedy
Washington Daily News
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T&t
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RCA
Sears Roeb Wee
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US Steel
Judge Day
Farm Bureau Post
Enjoy Records
Gene Christian
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J. F. King
Church OF God IN Christ
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Sunbeam
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