VFW Auxiliary Meets for Cancer Dressings
The VFW Auxiliary will meet Thursday at 1 PM in the Cancer Society Rooms at 12414 W Main to prepare cancer dresses. Gordon K Osburn USN aviation boatswain's mate second class arrived at San Diego Dec 19 aboard the Lexington after seven months in the Far East. The Lexington visited Pearl Harbor Japan Okinawa and Hong Kong during the cruise.
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VFW
Cancer Society Rooms
W. Main
Gordon K. Osburn
USN
S. Grant
San Diego
Lexington
Far East
Pearl Harbor
Japan
Okinawa
Hong Kong
Walnut club notes and Christmas season happenings
Walnut HDU held its December meeting and party at Mrs Inez Zur Buchens home with a gold seal awarded. officers were installed led by Mrs Zur Buchen. Hi Wide 4 H Club met December 19 at Jerry Mitchells. Carol Jones named secretary and various safety and motion talks given. Numerous Christmas visits and family gatherings are reported across Walnut with local residents traveling to Wichita Kansas City and Erie for holidays.
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Walnut Hdu
Inez Zur Buchen
Nelle Shireman
Girard
Jens Johannsen
Faye Shireman
Florence Taylor
Ray Rowe
ZurBuchen
Amy Crapson
Roy Rowe
Amy Clapson
Taylor
Jerry Mitchell
Carol Jones
Janice Kleinke
Charles Woodard
Joe Kennedy
Jerry Endicott
Harry Kennedy
Walter Kleinke
Frank Dowling
Rita
Wichita
Bill Arck
Leonard Jaquinot
Kenneth Jacquinot
Bernard Jacquinot
Kansas City
Paul Smith
Rockhurst College
Jacquinot
Gene Jacquinot
Erie
Fred Rowe
Walnut
Lloyd Sands
Ray Brown
St. Paul
H. W. Mudd
Junction City
Harold Smith
Eric
Lillie Noland
Iva Mudd
Jim Hurt
Parsons and Labette County Trooper Assignments
Dwayne Simpson from Fort Scott joins H E Starr in Parsons as Kansas Highway Patrol troopers. Construction expands at Parsons State Training School with four cottages and a laundry unit. an administration building may start before July 1. Neal Duncan, eight, visits Pittsburg for the holidays with family as his mother recounts a bath escape.
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Parsons
Dwayne Simpson
Kansas Highway Patrol
Labette County
H. E. Starr
Simpson
Fort Scott
Parsons State Training School
Ray M. Vincent
Vincent
Pittsburg
Neal Duncan
Charles Duncan
Washington
Neal
Mas. Duncan
St Paul students enter POW WOW in Kansas press project
St Paul High School students submit December issue POW WOW to the 1956 School Press Project guided by Sister Eustasia. Kansas Tuberculosis and Health Association funds health education through Christmas Seals. Judges pick nine Kansas entries for national contest with NTA and Columbia Scholastic Press Association. Four Kansas schools won national awards last year.
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ST. Paul
St. Paul High School
Eustasia
Kansas
Kansas Tuberculosis and Health Association
National Tuberculosis Association
Columbia Scholastic Press Association
Urge for a Smoke Saves Man’s Life
Denver report: Charles R. Berry survived a crash when a car smashed into his home after he left a living room chair to fetch a cigarette. Driver Paul V. Workman said brakes locked on a curve, sending the vehicle off course. Berry credited his quick cigarette break for saving him.
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Denver
Charles R. Berry
Paul V. Workman
Berry
Eisenhower outlines 1957 domestic and foreign agenda
President Eisenhower, aided by Nixon and Brundage, briefs GOP leaders on the coming year’s domestic program including school aid tax labor and farm bills while foreign policy measures such as Middle East standby authority and Hungarian refugee aid are discussed for tomorrow. The plan precedes his January 10 State of the Union as Congress convenes.
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Senate
House
Eisenhower
Nixon
Percival Brundage
Secretary of State
Dulles
Defense
Wilson
GOP
U.S
Middle East
White House
Augusta
Congress
Sen
Knowland
Calif
Bridges
Sen. Millikin
Cole
FBI Seizes Nation's Most Wanted Fugitive Braggnola
FBI agents arrested Joseph Braggnola in Chicago late last night ending a long manhunt for one of the ten most wanted fugitives. Authorities said Braggnola was captured without incident and faces federal charges.
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FBI
Chicago
Joseph James Bragnola
Bragnola Charged in 1950 New Orleans Slaying Probe
Bragnola, 40, sought for five years in the hold up slaying of a New Orleans used car dealer. FBI says he was a hired gunman in Henry Stern murder during a $50,000 hold up in 1950. He will be arraigned before U S Commissioner C Bentley Pike. Agents say Bragnola surrendered meekly in a Chicago South Side cocktail lounge. he was unarmed.
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New Orleans
Bragnola
FBI
Henry Stern
U. S
Bentley Pike
Chicago
South Side
Gen Wilson Resigns Government Post
Brig. Gen. Thomas Bayne Wilson resigns as deputy undersecretary for transportation with secretary Weeks noting the move. The Kansas native, 64, will become board chairman of Johnson Motor Lines, Inc. in Charlotte North Carolina after an earlier career starting with the Southern Pacific Railway and leading Pacific Greyhound Lines in 1929.
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Washington
Weeks
Thomas Bayne Wilson
Kansas
Wilson
Johnson Motor Lines, Inc
Charlotte
N. C
Williamstown
Kas
Southern Pacific Railway
Pacific Greyhound Lines
Former Gov Curley Improves After Emergency Surgery
Former Boston mayor and governor James Michael Curley, 82, showed some improvement in his fight for life after an emergency operation to stem massive bleeding near a large stomach ulcer. He had been hospitalized since December 14 for two shoulder fractures from falls at his home.
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Boston
James Michael Curley
Curley
City Hospital
Slight Decline in Federal Workers in November
Sen. Byrd reports a net decline of 1 830 federal employees in November as chair of the Senate House Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures. The total civilian payroll stood at 2 394 353 persons at month end.
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Washington
Sen
Byrd
D-Va
Senate
House Committee
Methodist Minister Walter Strite Dies at 69
The Rev. Walter Winfield Strite, 69, a Methodist minister for over 40 years, died Saturday. He served pastorates in central New York, Kansas, Washington and Pennsylvania and was born in Greenwood, Kansas.
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Jacksonville
N. Y
Walter Winfield Strite
New York
Kansas
Washington
Pennsylvania
Greenwood
Kas
Outbursts Of Violence Mark South’s Final 1956 Day
Across the South tension over school integration and bus desegregation continued as Montgomery and Birmingham buses were attacked six times in four days. A pregnant Black woman was wounded in Montgomery, while Ole Miss and Mississippi State pulled from tournaments over Negro players. In Tallahassee Negro leaders urged integrated bus seating with 400 attending a council meeting. Steele formed an 11 member committee to push bus integration.
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Tom Chase
Associated Press
South
Montgomery
Birmingham
Ala
University of Mississippi
Owensboro
Mississippi
Evansville
Ind
Alabama
Tallahassee
Fla
Tampa
Fila
Baton Rouge
Inter-Civil Council
Steele
New York City harbor spans about 1500 square miles
The report describes the New York City harbor area as roughly 1,500 square miles in size covering important waterways and adjacent shores. The figure highlights the vast scale of the harbor system and its commercial and maritime significance.
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New York City
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