Save the Quail group formed in Walnut Porterville area
A local farmers meeting led to the formation of Left Hand Pitch A Save the Quail organization in Walnut Porterville Kimball. George Cobb was elected president and Minnie Attkinson secretary. Membership costs $1 to fund the group’s aim of stricter enforcement of game laws on quail on private farms and road shooting. A second meeting is set for Jan 3 at the Attkinson home Walnut R2.
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Walnut- Porterville - Kimball
George Cobb
Minnie Attkinson
Attkinson
Walnut R. 2
Two U S Soldiers Acquitted in Berlin Brawl
In Berlin six army privates faced charges but two were found not guilty. Willie J. Holden of Poplarville Mississippi and Richard L. Calbert of Kansas City Missouri were acquitted of disorderly conduct after a brawl in the Soviet sector. The incident involved East German police and Russian release.
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Berlin
Willie J. Holden
Poplarville
Miss
Richard L. Calbert
Kansas City
Motor Cars Stack Up After Woman Fails to Signal
A sequence of rear end collisions on U.S. 66 near El Reno Oklahoma injured six people after a woman motorist failed to signal a turn. The first car braked, leading to a chain of crashes as more vehicles collided and slid. The woman driver drove away unaware of the mayhem.
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EL Reno
Okla
U.S. 66
Desert survival flight ends with lone pilot's return
A 19 year old Phoenix student pilot John De Castro survived five days in the desert after running out of fuel on a cross country solo from Phoenix to Tucson. He walked about 35 miles, drank milk and water, and was found by a sheriff deputy who guided him to Yuma. He described the ordeal as an unpleasant experience and said he could lift his young niece and nephew upon arriving home.
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Phoenix
Ariz
John de Castro
Tucson
Air Force
Hope
Yuma
Lottery to End U N Deadlock Over Security Council Seat
U N diplomats expect a lottery to settle the Yugoslavia versus Philippines contest for a temporary Security Council seat ending a long adjournment hold. The plan faced initial defeat when Yugoslavia failed to reach the required votes, but a second draw favored Yugoslavia, with an agreement to rotate the term starting January 1.
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United Nations
N.Y
U.N
Security Council
Yugoslavia
Philippines
Wife Sues for Separate Maintenance in Cruelty Case
Mrs Ulrich B Busch of Santa Monica files suit alleging extreme cruelty after her husband, a member of a St. Louis brewing family, left Brentwood last May with a remark about a $10,000 postage stamp. Affidavits say he traveled to New York and Cuba with an unidentified woman.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Ulrich B. Busch
St. Louis
Brentwood
Busch
New York
Cuba
Youth Killed in Car Crash Near Paola Kansas
Kenneth Koehn 20 of near Paola died in a single vehicle wreck on Kansas Highway seven miles northwest of Paola. Two other occupants, John Wesley Fickel 20 and Roger Allen Fickel 17, brothers from eight miles northwest of Paola, were treated for cuts and bruises after their car left the road and rolled down an embankment while en route to a wolf hunt ten miles west of Paola.
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Paola, Kas
Kenneth Koehn
Paola
Kansas Highway
Here
John Wesley Fickel
Roger Allen Fickel
Cold Wave Grips Midwest and Heads East
The season's worst arctic blast sweeps the Midwest with subzero readings. Bemidji and Big Falls Minnesota report −45 and −30 degrees, Minneapolis–St Paul sees a record low, Chicago at 2 above with forecast near −5. US Weather Bureau warns Ohio Valley to New York of continued subzero temperatures.
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Mercury
Bemidji
Big Falls
Minn
Bismark
N.D
Minneapolis- St.Paul
Chicago
U.S
Washington
Ohio Valley
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
New York State
Newton Nudist Club Granted State Charter
TOPEKA A Newton nudist club affiliated with the American Sunbathing Assn was chartered in 1948 as a non profit organization in the secretary of state office. Maria Mark is resident agent for the organization Sandy Lane Club which lists its purpose as the cultivation of physical moral and social health through exercise recreation and social life under natural conditions shared in by both sexes and all ages. The club lists an authorized capital of 10000.
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Topeka
Newton
Mental Test For Brown Kidnap Slay Case in KC
Arthur Ross Brown faces a sanity examination ordered by U S District Judge Charles Whitaker after his arraignment on charges of kidnapping and killing Mrs Wilma Allen, wife of a Kansas City auto dealer. Three psychiatrists will conduct the test. Brown, arrested in San Francisco November 15, admitted abducting and killing on August 4, driving from Kansas City into Johnson County Kansas. His wife has filed for divorce in Jackson County seeking custody and alleges threats to her life.
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Kansas City
Arthur Ross Brown
Wilma Allen
U. S
Charles Whittaker
Brown
San Francisco
Allen
Johnson County
Kansas
Jackson County
L A Young to Transfer Tracto Lift Production to Ottawa Plant
L A Young Spring and Wire Corp announced it has purchased the assets of Tracto Lift Co of Kansas City. N D Ely president said Tracto Lift's heavy duty forklift production will move to L A Young's Ottawa steel division in Ottawa Kansas.
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Detroit
L. A. Young Spring & Wire Corp
Tracto-Lift Co
Kansas City
N. D. Ely
Tracto-Lift
L. A. Young
Ottawa Steel Division
Ottawa
Kas
Free Delegation For State GOP Urged by Darby
Kansas City Kansas Republican National Committeeman Harry Darby urged the state GOP executive committee to back an uninstructed delegation to the next national convention. He called for delegates elected by party meetings with no influence or pressure on their selection. Darby and Gov. Hall said they would not attempt to influence the Kansas delegation. Mrs. C. Y. Semple of Baxter Springs announced she will seek reelection as Republican national committeewoman and a place on the GOP delegation from the 3rd District.
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Kansas City, Kas
Harry Darby
GOP
Darby
Broadview
Emporia
Fred Hall
Kansas
Lloyd Ruppenthal
State Executive Committee
Topeka
C. Y. Semple
Baxter Springs
Semple
Kansas City
Fire damages two Neodesha business blocks
A fire in Neodesha swept through two two story brick buildings housing McGlinn's Grocery and Olds Meat Market and the VFW hall. Firemen battled the flames for more than two hours in 10 to 15 degree temperatures with no injuries reported. The fire started shortly before 2 a.m. and cause was undetermined.
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McGlinn’s Grocery
Olds Meat Market
VFW
Fields Pleads Guilty To Liquor Charge
Henry Fields of 312 N Malcom pleaded guilty to illegal sale and possession of liquor in city court. He received a $25 fine for sale and 30 days in county jail for possession after a raid on his home by county and city officers resulting in confiscation of corn whiskey.
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Henry Fields
N. Malcom
Mummert 93 Dies After Illness in Winfield
L. B. Mummert, 93, a retired farmer and longtime Winfield resident since 1915, died yesterday after a six month illness. A daughter survives.
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Winfield
L. B. Mummert
Storm Lashes San Francisco Bay Area
A night storm battered the San Francisco Bay Area with gusts up to 60 mph shattering plate glass, toppling trees, unroofing houses, and forcing television stations to suspend operations across the region.
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San Francisco
San Francisco Bay Area
Red Cross Blood Mobile to Visit Chanute Wednesday
Local Red Cross plan a Chanute visit for a blood mobile unit arriving from Wichita at 8:30 a.m. It will operate at the Memorial Building from 10 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. with eight donors per 15 minutes and a 150 pint quota. Medical staff will be present and firefighters will help load equipment.
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Red Cross
Blood Mobile
Wichita
Don R. Abbuehl
Chanute
Ferent
Glen Ashley
Neosho County
C. W. Brennan
Pioneer Appliance Co
Naff & Bolze Hardware Co
Melba Russum
Navy jet crashes through hangar killing three at Lincoln
A Navy F9F jet ran wild on the Lincoln Air Force Base flight line and crashed into a large hangar. Three sailors died: Lt. Vernon R. Chapman Jr. of Grand Island and two Lincoln crewmen, Kenneth C. Newman and Hubert L. Tracy. The blaze levelled the hangar, destroyed six aircraft, damaged another, with losses running into millions. Dozens of personnel fled the flames as the structure burned.
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Lincoln, Neb
Lincoln Air Force Base
Vernon R. Chapman Jr
Grand Island
Navy
Air Controlman
Kenneth C. Newman
Lincoln
Hubert Lee Tracy
Chapman
Eisenhower Keeps Easy Gett ysburg Schedule Before Christmas
President Eisenhower, buoyed by doctors reports, maintains a light Gettysburg schedule during his final 1955 visit to the farm. He plans a social meeting with Lewis Strauss, then likely to office calls and dictation before Christmas with the family.
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Gettysburg
Eisenhower
Lewis Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
James C. Hagerty
Dillon Anderson
Washington
Maj
John Eisenhower
Augusta
Guatemala MDN proclaims victory as Castillo Armas era begins
A fragmentary report states the National Democratic Movement led by President Carlos Castillo Armas announced victory today in Guatemala. In Wichita a six year old boy was killed when he fell from a moving car while his father rode as a passenger alongside Norman C. Stuckey, the car’s driver.
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Guatemala
National Democratic Movement
MDN
Carlos Castillo Armas
Wichita
Martin L. Allen
Norman C., Stuckey
Weekend Traffic Mishaps Prompt Police Reports
Three motor vehicle accidents were logged over the weekend with no injuries. Damage occurred at Third and Western when Vera Rader’s northbound car and Bob Ward’s pickup collided, as Ward pulled from a curb. A separate rear-end collision on East Main involved Juanita Elliott and Beulah Barr. Another noon crash at Elm and Lincoln damaged Henry Hanson’s car while Earl Stanfield’s car had no damage.
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Vera Rader
Western
Bob Ward
Rader
Ward
Clayton Ward
Earl R. Stanfield
R. 1
Elm
Lincoln
Stanfield OS
Seventy-Eight Quakes Hit Imperial Valley Area
A sequence of about 78 earthquakes jolted the Imperial Valley triggering damage estimates around 50 000 dollars in Brawley with broken windows buckled ceilings and cracked walls though no injuries were reported across 800 square miles of the Imperial Irrigation District The latest shaker last night rattled dishes and windows but caused no discernible damage The series marks one of the longest tremor events in years in the San Andreas fault zone
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EL Centro
Calif
Imperial Valley
Brawley
Imperial Irrigation District
Rex Culley resigns to join Labor Department post
Rex L. Culley, assistant attorney for the State Liquor Control Office since 1949, announces resignation effective December 31. He will serve as regional attorney for the U S Department of Labor at Kansas City starting January.
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Topeka
Rex L. Culley
Liquor Control Office
U. S. Department of Labor
Kansas City
Kefauver Seeks 1956 NH Primary Challenge
Sen. Estes Kefauver announces entry in the New Hampshire primary hoping to win the state’s support against Adlai Stevenson. Stevenson未 responds, while backers suggest Sen. Knowland may enter GOP primaries early, and Dr. Paul White indicates Eisenhower’s fitness for a second term remains uncertain into mid February.
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Estes Kefauver
New Hampshire
Adlai Stevenson
Stevenson
John Rogers Penn
Kefauver
William F. Knowland
Rcalif
Senate
Eisenhower
Knowland
Paul Dudley White
Boston
Cold Lingers In Forecast For Kansas Weather
Forecaster Tom Arnold expects partly cloudy skies and not so cold tonight and Tuesday. Light snow possible in the west tonight and north central Tuesday. Temperatures will vary from near 5 to 15 degrees tonight and reach the 30s to 40s tomorrow with a generally cold pattern across the state. Multiple locations reported traces of snow and low temperatures ranged from 3 to 15 degrees overnight.
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Topeka
Kansas
Tom Arnold
Arnold
Goodland
Hill City
Russell
Garden City
Dodge City
Concordia
Pittsburg
Wreck Deaths Rise in Missouri Crash Toll
Death toll from Saturday Hamilton Missouri two car wreck climbs to three with William A. Van Winkle 71 of Manhattan Kansas dies in Cameron hospital. Grace Sellars Brooks 35 of Cheyenne Wyoming and Mrs William Van Winkle 62 die earlier in Cameron hospital.
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St, Joseph
Hamilton
Cameron Hospital
William A. van Winkle
Manhattan
Kas
Grace Sellars Brooks
Cheyenne
Wyo
William van Winkle
Traffic Fatalities Reported in Topeka Over 48 Hours
State Accident Records Section lists Topeka traffic fatalities in the last 48 hours. Totals show 3 to date for 1955, with prior year 1954 totaling 588 for the same period.
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Topeka
Kansas
Gift of God through Jesus Christmas reflection
A Christmas meditation on accepting God's gift of Jesus as the path to happiness forgiveness and eternal life. The text emphasizes that the gift must be received to become ours and notes Christ's coming amid rejection and the season's call to generosity. It closes with a seasonal blood donation appeal and a call to action.
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Jesus
God
Jesus Christ
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