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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1955
Page
5
Community notices include Sunflower Chapter No 147 OES stating a December 28 meeting at 7 30 p m with officer installation at 8 30 p m and refreshments, welcoming visiting members. Also itemized births, family events, and local visits among Wichita area residents.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bakaj Jr. of Berlin Kensington welcomed a daughter Nancy at New Britain Hospital on Sunday matching the couple’s 1954 Christmas birth of Joseph Bakaj II. Their third child Rosanne turns three on May 28.
BISCOE North Carolina. Lew Luquire a textile worker who often loses track of time while playing golf promised to return home yesterday to take his family to a movie. He arrived late as usual and sat down to a plate of warmed tur...
A carver discovers three well cooked golf balls inside a dish described as fever turkey hash. He notes the balls were Christmas presents from his wife.
Daily Transit list shows admissions by date including Mrs Hat tie McFadden Humboldt and multiple medical cases. Dismissals include Mrs Harold Wiles and L M Dannenberg with others. births noted for Dale Fairchild and Cortney Kaufman. moves and a highway patrol citation reported.
John Stevenson, 19, son of Adlai E. Stevenson, had his shattered right kneecap removed yesterday at Passavant Hospital. He will stay 10 days to two weeks and may resume normal activities later. the Harvard student and two companions were injured in a Wednesday auto truck crash near Goshen, Ind, in which two schoolmates died.
In New York the stock market drifted lower in late trading after a higher start with mixed declines and gains, about 2.1 million shares traded, near Friday’s volume. Chicago grains edged up in quiet dealings with wheat up 14 points and soybeans higher, while corn and oats fluctuated.
Clarence Stierwalt 80 of Hartford Ark died Dec 15 after extending illness. Mrs Anna Viola Oldham 72 of Chanute died Dec 25 in Neosho Memorial Hospital after a six month illness. Benedict E Woolery 69 retired farmer died Christmas Day in Fredonia. Reverend John Carson 89 of Chanute died this morning. Albin Sam Barrackman 55 of Humboldt died Dec 24 in Topeka after long illness. Gertrude H McGee former Humboldt resident died Dec 20 in Oklahoma City after a stroke. Survivors and service details listed for each.
Dr. W. J. Pettyjohn, a Russell physician, was appointed by Gov. Fred Hall to a four year term on the State Commission on Alcoholism. He will succeed the present commission chairman Dr. Karl E. Voldeng. Wellington asked not to be reappointed.
Obituaries note McGee of Kerr-McGee Oil Industries and other relatives from Oklahoma City and Lawrence. Services held in Oklahoma City and Wilson Johnson chapel with burial in Garnett Union Valley cemetery and Maple Grove cemetery. Out of town relatives attended the services.
The report notes a 28 year old left handed player was listed unfit for military duty in 1952 due to a back ailment. This historical detail ties to his home and the classification process impacting his service status.
Deputy county attorney Joe Redmond said a supplemental destruction order will be filed for 22 slot machines seized in July raids on the Wichita Moose and Elks clubs. Judge B Mack Bryant already approved confiscation under a default judgment, with any money in the machines to go to Mike Leland, clerk of the district court. Redmond noted the destruction order paused for salvage review, but the machines were found to have no salvage value.
Weather reports from federal and state agriculture agencies indicate last week’s melting snow aided early wheat rooting in north west Kansas but overall crop conditions declined across the state due to continuing moisture absence.
State patrolmen will be on Colorado highways for New Year weekend while patrol chief Gilbert Carrel directs operations from a patrol plane over Pueblo Colorado Springs Denver and Greeley. He notes it is safer up there amid a record 418 traffic deaths this year.
Brooklyn pitcher Johnny Podres, hero of the Dodgers World Series win, has been reclassified 1-A and is subject to military draft. Team officials indicated no definite call date and said Padres notified them today.
Chanute Tribune covers local news and events from Tuesday December 27, 1955. Reports include community notices, school news, sports snippets, and brief updates from Chanute and nearby towns.
The world’s largest scientific organization gathers in Atlanta and is asked to adopt a resolution stating it will not meet again in cities that practice segregation.
Joe Volz died at his Garnett home from a heart attack. He had worked over two decades with his brother C. A. Volz of Coffeyville running Volz Bakery in Independence.
An advertisement from Spears Chiropractic Sanitarium in Denver Colorado promises relief for cancerous conditions and other illnesses. It invites readers to request 72 pages of testimonial proof of Jesus in cancer and numerous other conditions.
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