Alcott Christmas program and local notices
The Alcott school Christmas program will be held at 7 30 p m Friday in the school. Mrs Mayme Hayes 627 S Santa Fe attended a county officials Christmas party in Erie. Northwestern University student Larry McGregor has returned home for holidays. Mrs B E Barkley and Mrs Charles Arnett left for Orlando to attend John Petersons funeral. A 120 p m collision at Main and Steuben damaged two cars. no injuries reported.
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Alcott School
Mayme Hayes
S. Santa Fe
Erie
Larry McGregor
Northwestern University
Evanston
M. E. McGregor
Bob and
Kathy
Buffalo
I. M. O'Brien
Eugene
Ore
McGregor
B. E. Barkley
N. Forest
Charles Arnett
N. Highland
Orlando
Okla
Main
Steuben
Jean Marie Clough
W. Elm
Norbert G. Nollnow
S. Steuben
Mollnow
Clough
Local Admittances and Births Hit Daily Transcript
Daily Transcript lists hospital admittances on Wednesday including Clarence Cox Stark and Mrs Katherine Keath at 192 S Central. Birth reports Mr and Mrs Joseph Vincent Walnut welcomed a boy. Marriage license issued for Don Neely Chanute and Cora Lea Neagie Chanute. Recent moves show several residents changing addresses in Chanute and Humboldt areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Cox
Stark
Max Glamser
Welda
Katherine Keath
S. Central
Leslie N. Bolen
S. Evergreen
Thad Clements
Humboldt
Surgical
Orian Galemore
Medical
John E. Walters
S. Allen
Kathy Moorer
S. Lincoln
Hugh Pullman
I. E. Herb
S. Edith
James E. Riley
S. Garfield
Henry Sauders
Buffalo
Joseph Vincent
Walnut
Pirie
Don Neely
Chanute
Cora Lea Neagie
Forest
Central
Workers at Wichita plant forgo Christmas cards
Boeing Wichita final assembly workers skip holiday cards to aid 15 families. Their shared fund will provide food, clothing, and toys. At least 29 adults and 76 children will have a merrier Christmas because of the effort.
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Wichita
Boeing Airplane Company
Demand for Engineers Slack at Kansas State
Kansas State College reports a cooling in engineering and science recruitment as firms interview on campus become more selective. For the first time in years, many firms have canceled planned interviewing dates and January graduates near entering the job market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas State
Manhattan
Kas
Kansas State College
Chester E. Peters
Unfair Trade Practices Case Set In District Court
A district court hearing is set for December 30 to test the constitutionality of a new Kansas law prohibiting unfair trade practices in dairy products. Adams Dairy of Blue Springs Missouri and Fleming Co. filed demurrers arguing the law violates federal rights. The firms are among defendants named in a restraining order tied to a milk price drop to 29 cents for two half gallon containers.
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Topeka
Adams Dairy
Blue Springs
Fleming Co
Adams and Fleming
Navy
Milk Prices Slash Stopped by Restraining Order
Prices were cut to meet competition but a restraining order now bars further reductions. The action halts the price slash and maintains existing pricing.
Moon Language Is a Question at Stanford Meet
At a Stanford science conference 17 physicists from 10 nations debated what language the first moonwalker might speak. M. M. Levy of the University of Paris suggested broken English, while L. R. B. Elton of Kings College London countered that perfect Russian is equally plausible.
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Palo Alto
Calif
Stanford University
M. M. Levy
University of Paris
France
L.R.B. Elton
Kings College
London
Deaths and Funerals Daily Chronicle
Multiple funeral services are listed including Mrs E V Anderson at Vilas Lutheran Church with Ronald Mooers officiating and burial in Vilas Cemetery. Mrs George Wyatt 72 dies in California after long Chanute residence. services by Daughty Calhoun and Omera in Bakersfield. Stanfield Waldo Preston funeral at Johnson Mortuary officiated by Rev Hurst with memorial park burial. McLaren James R. funeral at First Baptist Church with Rev Life officiating and burial at Memorial Park. Services include notes on pallbearers flower attendants and music selections.
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George Wyatt
Chanute
California
Effie Allen Wyatt
Monett
Kansas
Velma Roper
Wesley Green
Bakersfield
Calif
Willard Lisle
el Monte
Raymond
A. J. Allen
George
W. H
S. O. Allen
Daughty Calhoun and
Omera
Stanfield
Waldo Preston Stanfield
Johnson Mortuary
Ted D. Hurst
A. L. Chauncey
C. H. Pankratz
Hazel Slane
Mmes
Joe Hummer
Fred Hummer
Howard Stitt
Dewey Maghe
Kenneth Wood
Charles
Richard Bohling
Virgil Sellars
Koch-Skinner Memorial Home
Scene Is Right Score Wrong In Nativity Play
In Los Angeles the Wall children rehearse a nativity scene at home with Jan age seven directing her siblings. Debbie, five months, lies in the crib as the Holy Infant while the Wise Men kneel and sing a comic version of For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow with the baby observed in the scene.
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Los Angeles
Sam Wall
Jan
Debbie
Mouth Does Not Water Tears Help Eye Operation
Atlanta doctors at Grady Memorial Hospital performed a rare operation on 61 year old David Daugherty to lubricate his right eye by connecting a salivary gland. The procedure stopped his dry tears and improved sight. A second operation on the left eye is planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
David Daugherty
Daugherty
Grady Memorial Hospital
Kansas Pipeline Runs Slump in November Report
Kansas crude oil pipeline runs dropped to 330339 barrels a day in November, the State Conservation Division reported. The figure misses the Kansas Corporation Commission allowance by 9661 barrels daily and trails October in actual runs by 7691 barrels.
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Wichita
Kansas
State Conservation Division
Kansas Corporation Commission
Cattle Light Hogs Steady at Parsons and Kansas City Markets
Kansas City and Parsons stockyards report steady to strong hogs and steady cattle markets. Cattle quotations include good grade steers 22.00 to 23.00, cows 14.50 to 16.00, calves 18.00 to 22.00, and feeder calves 24.00 to 26.00. Hogs show 190-240 lb barrows 18.50 to 19.00 with sows 15.50 to 16.25. Sheep and lambs also steady to strong with various ranges for slaughter and feeder weights. Prices listed for both markets and for wholesale eggs, butter, and dairy receipts follow. The Parsons stockyards close Dec 24 and reopen Dec 30 morning.
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Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
USDA
U. S
Parsons Livestock
Parsons
Kansas City Hay Receipts Report
Hay receipts for Kansas City show 1 car of alfalfa today, none last week, and 3 cars a year ago, reflecting supply changes over time.
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Kansas City
Girl Crushed to Death in New Orleans Car Attack
Police hunted for Ellis Riley a 35 year old New Orleans man in a fatal assault that crushed Alma Modica 27 beside an iron fence after witnesses said he chased her onto the sidewalk with his car. Riley fled on foot.
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New Orleans
Ellis Riley
Riley
Alma Modica
Thieves Use Siren To Rob Motorist
Hurley Mitchell reported two men in a late model car used a siren to pull him over then demanded his driver’s license and billfold containing 123 dollars. One robber claimed he would keep the items and pistol was shown before they fled.
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Tulsa
Okla
Hurley Mitchell
Sheriff's Office
Mitchell
4th District Republican Leader Patterson Dies
J. B. Patterson age 62 died yesterday of a heart ailment in a Wichita hospital after being admitted Monday night. He served as the 4th District Republican chairman, the first and only holder of that post under the 1940 redistricting plan.
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Wichita
J. B
Pat) Patterson
Patterson
Armory Program Nearing Completion in Kansas
In Topeka Maj. Gen. Joe Nickell states a post war armory drive is nearing finish with 38 armories completed. Four more are under construction and contracts are to be let soon for three additional facilities.
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Topeka
Kansas
Joe Nickell
NATO proposes Moscow meeting and bases plan
Paris report says NATO offered Moscow a foreign ministers meeting on disarmament and accepted Eisenhower's offer of ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads for Western Europe. The communique stresses not allowing a Soviet monopoly, calls for renewed UN arms talks, and outlines NATO plans for nuclear stockpiles and intermediate range missiles in Europe.
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Paris
NATO
Moscow
Eisenhower
Europe
Russia
Dulles
West Europe
U.S.S.R
U.N. Commission On
Soviet Union
Germany
Jefferson City Blaze Fatal to Local Firefighter
A downtown Jefferson City fire destroyed Newberry's variety store and two adjoining buildings, killing Linn volunteer fireman Frank Otto who was aiding local firefighters. City firemen Ralph Earhardt and Dorsey Pendleton were hospitalized with injuries. the blaze started on a loading dock and spread rapidly, with damage estimated at about half a million dollars.
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Jefferson City
Newberry
Frank Otto
Linn
Ralph Earhardt
Dorsey Pendleton
Earhardt
Pendleton
Man's Body Found In Car Wreckage
Syracuse Kansas reports the body of Cletis F Stacey 40 Vinita Oklahoma found in a wrecked car under a bridge east of Syracuse. Sheriff says the vehicle left US 50 in fog, followed a ditch and plunged into a deep gully. Stacey worked in Ulysses as a radio and TV repairman.
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Syracuse
Kasw
Cletis F Stacey
Vinita
Okla
Charles McFadden
McFadden
Stacey
Ulysses
Ottawa flood protection plan approved by KCC
The Kansas Corporation Commission endorsed Ottawa's flood project submitted by the city with a local $770 000 allocation to dike the Marais des Cygnes River relocate bridges sewers and utilities and an additional $4 million in federal funds. The panel also scheduled Jan 17 for Plateau Natural Gas Co hearing on a proposed $122 000 annual revenue increase affecting Goodland Johnson Kendall Manter Syracuse and Ulysses.
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Topeka
Ottawa
Kansas Corporation Commission
Marais Des Cygnes
Plateau Natural Gas Co
Denver
Goodland, Johnson, Kendall, Manter
Syracuse
Ulysses
Local rural areas span Hamilton Stanton and Sherman counties
Rural districts extend across Hamilton Stanton and Sherman counties with limited access roads, farming communities, and small settlements. Authorities urge cautious travel and note ongoing infrastructure concerns affecting emergency services and school districts.
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Hamilton, Stanton and
Sherman Counties
Bids Opened for U S 50 Paving Franklin County Kansas
The State Highway Department opened bids for paving and relocating U S 50 in Franklin County. Apparent low bidder for concrete paving was Koff Construction Co of Des Moines Iowa at 3 517 957. Koff also led base construction at 19 288. St Paul Kansas bidders Joe OBrien and Fred Beachner led seeding with 20 240 and 29 506 30 263 for sections. Additional bids expected in Topeka tomorrow for work from Franklin County line to Kansas City.
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Koff Construction Co
Des Moines
Koff
Joe O’brien
Fred Beachner
St. Paul
Kas
O’brien
Beachner
Topeka
Franklin County
Kansas
City
Florida Study Planned For Missile Center
Florida official Leroy Collins announced the appointment of a committee to study Brevard County around the missile test center. He toured the facility yesterday and said the group will assess conditions and make recommendations on highway congestion and school shortages.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Florida
Gav
Leroy Collins
Collins
Brevard Coun
Population growth near Cape test center and air base
The Chanute Tribune notes population near the Cape test center and the nearby air base, stating the number has risen from 25,000 in 1950 to about 85,000 by 1957, reflecting rapid regional expansion.
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Cape
No Naval Hero For Tulsa Schools
Navy League president William D. Moorer filed a formal complaint to Tulsa schools superintendent Dr. Charles C. Mason. He urged naming a future school after a naval hero, noting Tulsa has 76 schools named for Army and Marine figures but none for the Navy. Officials said the next new school may honor John Paul Jones.
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Tulsa
Okla
Eisenhower
Andrew Jackson
Lee
McArthur
Pershing
Navy League
Charles C. Mason
William D. Moorer
Navy
John Paul Jones
New York City Post Office History Highlight
The note states New York City's first general post office remained privately owned until 1783, marking a transitional period in U S mail services and governance.
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New York City
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Tribune
Peoples Cleaners
Daily Transcript
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Chicago
Kansas City Cash
Heceits I.ives S
Greot AG
Wall Street
New York
Anaconda
Atchison
Beth Steel
Chrysler Serene
Erseenes
du Pont
Eagle
Ford
Firestone Stores
E. Main
KCC
Highway Department
The
Chanute Tribune
Frank Gregore
N. Steuben
Turkeys
Chuck
HAM
Arkansas
Lloyd's Wholesale Market
W. Main
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