Local Anecdotes and Kansas Centennial Quest Unfold
A Kansas couple spots a baby mole in a home and wonders why. The Kansas Centennial Commission seeks living native Kansans aged 100 plus for honors, with nominations sent to Topeka. UNESCO features Henry Watkins of Erie in a Santa Fe magazine piece noting his work and tours. An Independence Christmas mix up ends with a fur coat swapped for a suit.
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Henry Watkins
Erie
Santa Fe Magazine
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Watkins
Santa Fe
Unesco
Neosho County
Independence
Independence Daily Reporter
Traffic Fatalities in Kansas Log Reflect 1960 Figures
AP data shows Kansas traffic deaths totaling 502 in 1960 up to December with 38 in December and 567 for the comparable 1959 period. The log covers 24 hours to 9 a.m. and notes 38 deaths in December.
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Topeka
Kansas
Clay Center Girl Killed in Traffic
Mary Ahlburg, about 9, was struck and killed by an auto at an intersection in Clay Center Tuesday. Police were searching for the driver who failed to stop. Contact details appeared in the Tribune night edition.
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Clay Center
Kan
Mary Ahlburg
JayCees Plan Projects At Start Of New Year
Chanute Junior Chamber of Commerce members met at the Maple Leaf to review four projects for January. They will name the Outstanding Young Farmer, with a $500 prize fund from Frontier Hybrids. State winner gets $200 and local chapter $50, monies used for state expenses.
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JayCees
Chanute Junior Chamber of Commerce
Maple Leaf
John Gorton
Aplaque
Frontier Hybrids Inc
Scott City
Kansas City
Jim Hatfield
Wright to head Ash Grove as Kittle retires in Kansas City
Purd B. Wright of Kansas City is elected president of Ash Grove Lime and Portland Cement Co to succeed Lawrence Kittle who retires after 42 years with the Chanute plant. Paul Sunderland chairman of the board announces further moves including Robert M. Cox as executive vice president and Robert Sunderland as vice president and treasurer.
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Purd Wright
Ash Grove
Lawrence Kittle
Kansas City
Chanute Plant
Ash Grove Lime and Portland Cement Co
Kittle
Chanutes
Purd B. Wright
Paul Sunderland
Chang
Robert M. Cox
Robert Sunderland
Wright
Cox
Portland Cement Assn
Sunderland
Washington University
St. Louis
Waiting Motorist's Delay Extended
William Hickey from Green Bay attempted to uncouple a train after waiting for it to move at a crossing. He was arrested and charged with intoxication after the failed maneuver.
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Kansas City, Kan
William Hickey
Green Bay
Wis
Two Chanute Men Injured In Icy Car Overturn East Of Chanute
At 1 15 a m a 1953 Ford headed west skidded on ice six miles east of Chanute on highway K39. Driver James T Jensen 28 was hospitalized with head cuts passenger Harry W Berthot 19 suffered minor bruises and abrasions. The car was a total loss.
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Chanute
Highway Patrol
Jerry Sloan
James T. Jensen
N. Forest
Harry W. Berthot
S. Malcolm
K39
Jensen
Soviet Ships Sail to Cuba With Goods
A flotilla of Soviet merchant ships leaves the Baltic bound for Cuba carrying tractors paper and other goods. Havana official Jose Llanos Govel in Moscow says shipments break the economic blockade by U S monopolists and others seeking to strangle the republic.
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Moscow
Baltic
Cuba
Jose Llanos Govel
Havana
United States
Formal charges filed against Gibson in multiple offenses
Police said Billy Gibson 19 of 19 E 8th is charged with three counts of assault with felonious intent grand larceny of an automobile and resisting arrest on a felony. He was arrested December 22 after a chase during which officers fired at the fleeing vehicle. He faces additional car theft counts and parole status from a reformatory sentence.
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Billy Gibson
Gibson
Tribune Phone Contacts for Evening Calls
If you cannot reach your Tribune phone, contact your carrier. If he is unavailable, call 700 after 6 p.m.
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Tribune
Detroit Police Hunt Vicious Assailant
Detroit police search for a Negro man about 25 after Betty James a 26 year old hospital nurse's aide died from injuries suffered in a midtown street assault. She was the second woman victim in 10 days and her purse was snatched. A prior attack on a Michigan Bell clerk involved a Negro wielding an ice pick. motive not yet uncovered.
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Detroit
Betty James
Zinc Mill to Open Near Cardin Oklahoma
American Zinc Lead and Smelting Co plans to recondition and reopen its zinc mill near Cardin Oklahoma after a three year closure caused by weak zinc prices. The mill should be operating by March.
New City Attorney Is John Sherman
The city named John Sherman, local attorney and former state representative, to succeed George Donaldson as city attorney effective Jan 1 as Donaldson becomes district court judge. The commission approved 24 beer license renewals and discussed parking lot financing and a new police car as part of 1961 city business.
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N. Evergreen
Graham
L. R. Rathburn
John Sherman
George Donaldson
Donaldson
Montgomery Ward Service
S. Evergreen
R. J. Hayes
Seventh Street Grocery
Tyson's ‘Cafe
Eagle's Lodge
B.P.O. Ellis, RuBar
Tioga Hotel
the Smoke‘house
Andersons’ Drive-In
Helen's Coffee Shop
Donaldsons’ Food ‘Center
Hudson’s Market
Empire Billiards
VFW
South Side Tavern
Traveler's Inn
E & M _ Lunch
American Legion
Spot
Tic Toe
Top Hat
American GI Forum
Disney's Market
Orley’s Cafe
Erma’'s Cafe
Commission
Arden
Dean Moore
Chanute
Hayes
Kansas
Kenneth Ellsworth
Southeast
Ways to avert H bomb war warned by psychologist
Dr Charles E Osgood of the University of Illinois told AAAS sessions in New York that nuclear danger stems from human nature and an arms race. He urged realization, new ideas, and a world government as a permanent solution, with preannounced one sided disarmament steps to ease tensions.
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New York
Charles E. Osgood
University of Illinois
Charles P .Snow
China
Charles
Ralph Lapp
Arlington
United States
Hiroshima
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Sir Charles
Aaas Committee On
Osgood
Parole Power Ruling Stands in Kansas Case
Shawnee County Judge Beryl Johnson rejected a bid for a new trial in a dispute between Gov. George Docking and Atty. Gen. John Anderson over parole authority. The judge ruled the governor had no power to issue paroles, making about 20 paroles invalid, with no immediate appeal likely after Anderson’s election win.
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Topeka
Kansas
Shawnee County Dist
Beryl Johnson
George Docking
John Anderson
Johnson
Docking
Dale Spiegel
Kansas Supreme Court
Spiegel
Anderson
Aubrey Brooks Leigh
Leigh
Andrews' Attorneys Seek Re Hearing on Death Conviction
Attorneys for Lowel Lee Andrews filed a motion for a re hearing after the Kansas Supreme Court upheld his murder conviction and death sentence for killing his parents and sister in Wyandotte County. The court denied his appeal on December 10 asserting insanity and trial errors. A denial would allow a date for execution on the Lansing gallows.
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Topeka
Lowel Lee Andrews
Kansas Supreme Court
Andrews
University of Kansas
Wyandotte
Supreme Court
Lansing
Air pressure to protect Chanute telephone lines
Southwestern Bell will pressurize 52 miles of Chanute cable with dry air to keep moisture out and prevent outages under most weather. An eight man crew led by Bill Brinkerhoff works daily to finish by year end as longer distance facilities go underground for weatherproofing.
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Chanute
al Endres
Southwestern Bell
Endres
S. Steuben
Bill Brinkerhoff
Pittsburg
Weather outlook and snow reports across Kansas
A storm from the west is subsiding as clouds persist across western and central Kansas. Snow totals peak from Goodland to a corridor between Salina and Wichita with 1 to 5.5 inches reported. Roads remain slick and hazardous in central to western regions, though highways statewide are open. Temperatures will fall tonight from the northwest to the 20s southeast.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Richard Garrett
Goodland
Salina
Wichita
Sharon Springs
Russell
Ellsworth
Abilene
Chanute
Emporia
Hill City
Garden City
Pittsburg
Highway Patrol
Junction City
Parsons
Kansas Turnpike
Admire
Wellington
Kansas City
Two Held In Springfield Car Theft Ring
Springfield man B C McCauley and associate Alva Simpson are jailed on $10,000 bond each after authorities connected them to at least 19 stolen vehicles across Texas Kansas and Missouri. Detectives say McCauley, a long time dealer paroled for highway robbery in 1941, and Simpson admitted thefts spanning a year or more and tied cars found in Houston garages to the pair.
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Springfield, Mo
Springfield
Texas
Kansas
Missouri
B. C. McCauley
Alva Simpson
McCauley
Greene County
Missouri Highway Patrol
Floyd Robards
Simpson
Robards
Houston
Holiday Traffic Fatal to 488
The 78hour Christmas weekend toll reached 488 traffic deaths in the nation, about one every ten minutes. It fell short of the NSC forecast of 510, marking the lowest Christmas three day toll since 1949 and below last year’s 493. An AP survey earlier showed 293 fatalities for the same period. The NSC estimated up to 340 deaths during the upcoming New Year 78hour weekend.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Associated Press
Council
Dead letters tally across three states before Christmas
Wichita based AP reports regional postal officials found 74 770 dead letters in Kansas Oklahoma and Nebraska post offices in the 10 days before Christmas.
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Wichita
Kansas
Oklahoma
Nebraska
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Ruth Horsley
S. Ashby
The
Kansas Centennial Commission
Maurice Fager
Harrison, Topeka
Elsie Cunningham
Miss Cunningham
Tulsa
Brazilton
Coyville
Burden and
Hubby
Lee Wasser
Jollene Mendenhall
E. M. Mendenhall
Thayer
Lela Steeves
S. Wilson
Ldinner
Chamber of Commerce
Bill Morgan
Hickey
New City
Elm and
Grant
Craig Graham
Dockings
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