Parsons Scouts Run City Functions During Week
Southeast Kansas notes describe Boy Scout units taking over civic roles during National Boy Scout week in Parsons. Other items report Paul Brassart of Columbus losing sight after an eye injury at a Picher lead mine. Cherryvale road littered with trash. Farley Lasley displaying a six ounce egg. county clerks and assessors meeting at Iola. Coffeyville voters considering a National Guard Armory bond. John Wilson injured by ice on US 54. and Pittsburg officials mourning Capt. William J. Scott and outlining safety lessons from a TV shop fire.
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Parsons Parsons Boy Scouts
Columbus
Paul Brassart
Picher
Brassart
Coffeyville
National Guard
Harry Doolittle
Yates Center
John Wilson
Winfield
Here
Wilson
Mary Covert
St. Louis
Missouri Pacific Hospital
Missouri Pacific
Pittsburg
City Commission
William J. Scott
Lee Haworth
Scott
W. G. Rinehart
Hewitt Airborne Products Inc Chartered in Kansas
A new Chanute company with 250000 authorized capital received a Kansas charter to manufacture rockets missiles aircraft and other airborne vehicles. Hewitt Airborne Products Inc lists John C. McCall Chanute as resident agent with Al Hewitt as president of both Aero Ducts Inc and American AutoLastic Company. Details on plans were not available.
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Chanute Company
Kansas
Paul Shanahan
Topeka
Hewitt Airborne Products Inc
John C. McCall
Chanute
McCall
al Hewitt
R. 3
Aero Ducts Inc
American AutoLastic Company
Preliminary Approval Of Anti Gambling Bill In Kansas House
The Kansas House gave preliminary approval to a model-law anti gambling bill from the American Bar Association. The measure, which caused a fuss two years ago, won a voice vote with no audible dissent and now awaits final roll call passage.
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American Bar Assa
Kansas House
Nationalists Evacuate Islands Near Tachens During Northward Withdrawal
Nationalist China has stripped three small islands near the Tachens of their civilian and military populations and redeployed forces. Civilians from the Yushan group and Pishan have arrived in Formosa, while troops and supplies were moved to Quemoy or Matsu. U S 7th Fleet ships and air cover protected the withdrawal as explosives wrecked underground defenses and refugees moved toward Formosa.
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Taipei
China
Defense Ministry
Yushan Islands
Pishan
Formosa
Quemoy
Matsu
Nanchishan
Tachens
U.S
Yu Shan
Jim Becker
SeKan Area Scout Reports To Governor In Topeka
Humboldt youth Jim Morelan 16 son of Mr and Mrs J W Morelan 712 N Seventh met Gov Fred Hall in Topeka as one of six top scouts in Kansas The group planned a luncheon at the Jayhawk Hotel after the 11 30 a m meeting Morelan is an Explorer Scout from Neodesha and has led at Camp Cauble Philmont and the national jamboree in 1953
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Humboldt
Jim Morelan
J. W. Morelan
Gov
Fred Hall
Topeka
Morelan
SeKan
Boy Scouts of America
Gov. Hall
Jayhawk Hotel
Neodesha
Camp Cauble
Sedan
Philmont
Tioga Hotel Plans Extensive Air Conditioning Upgrades
Tioga Hotel to air condition and redecorate sections including the fourth and fifth floors the Pine Room lobby and cafe with large central units. Thirty thousand dollar project adds showers to 12 rooms and refurbishes 25 rooms. Next year air conditioning planned for the second and third floors raising completion to 90 percent. Tioga owned by Boss Hotels Co of Des Moines Iowa.
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Tioga Hotel
Ralph Deitrich
Deitrich
Lassman and Steeves
Jeff Bilyeu
Tioga
Boss Hotels Co
Des Moines
Iowa
Four Children Die in Wheeling Apartment Fire
In Wheeling West Virginia four children perished in a fast moving apartment fire. Mother Mary Stewart 34 sustained first degree burns while father James a cab driver was away at work and Roy 7 was at school. Fire Chief William McFadden said a gas stove explosion sparked the blaze. Names of the dead are George 5 John 3 Patricia 2 and Edmund 3 months old.
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Wheeling
W.va
Mary Stewart
James
Roy
William McFadden
Stewart
George
John
Patricia
Edmund
Banks Close For Lincoln Birthday Holiday
The First National Bank and Bank of Commerce will be closed Saturday in observance of Abraham Lincoln's birthday anniversary. Otherwise, business will be as usual across the city.
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First National Bank
Bank of Commerce
Abraham Lincoln
No Complaint In Tool Case In Chanute
Police will not file charges against Dennis Tatro over a large set of tools and items identified as stolen. The decision followed a conference with Sheriff Lee Montgomery and County Attorney Charles Forsyth after no one came forward to file a complaint. Tatro said he planned to leave Chanute for Wyoming.
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Dennis Tatro
Chanute
Tom Morehead
Lee Montgomery
Charles Forsyth
Tatro
Wyoming
Bartender Survives Leap From 6th Floor
In Columbus Ohio George Anastasio a 60 year old bartender who had emigrated from Greece in 1906 leaped from the Milner Hotel sixth floor yesterday and survived He had believed tax agents were after him Police found stock holdings and a bank book showing a 5000 withdrawal last week IRS said no record of him existed and began an inquiry Anastasio had multiple fractures and was listed in fair condition.
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Columbus
Ohio
George Anastasio
Milner
Anastasio
Greece
Internal Revenue Service
Traffic Fatalities Reported In State Records
In the last 24 hours and up to date in 1955 the state accident records list fatalities. The same period in 1954 shows higher counts.
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Topekap
Kansas
House group introduces school aid bill for Kansas high schools
The Kansas House Education Committee unveiled a $6.4 million state aid plan for high schools with a 20 pupil minimum, rising to 35 by 1958 59. Funding relies on state funds after levies and local taxes, with Sedgwick County receiving the largest share while nine counties stand to receive none under current deductions.
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Topeka
House Education Committee
Kansas
Fred Hall
Sedgwick
Marvin Cox
R-Kingman
Grant
Greeley
Haskell
Hodgeman
Kearny
Lane
Stanton
Stevens
Wichita
Wyandotte
Shawnee
Feno
Crawford
Johnson
Butler
Cowley
Douglas
Franklin
Labette
Leavenworth
Marshall
Montgomery
Neosho
Osage
Sumner
Christopher Literary Award Honors Moody Editor Moody
Clarence W. Moody of Burlington Iowa, former editor of The Tribune, won the Christopher Literary Award for the last six months of 1954. Father Keller, founder of the Christophers, praised Moody and 18 winners for outstanding craftsmanship guiding constructive use of God given talents. Moody will receive a bronze medallion for an August 11 Burlington Hawk Eye Gazette editorial Parents Are Asking What Can We Do offering advice to protect children from questionable characters.
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Clarence W. Moody
Burlington
the Tribune
Father Keller
The
Christophers
Moody
Burlington Hawkeye Gazette
Western diplomats study Soviet changes after Malenkov ouster
Western diplomats monitor a seven minute Supreme Soviet session that unseated Georgi Malenkov and raised Nikolai Bulganin to Premier with Georgi Zhukov as defense minister. They note Malenkov's agricultural policy admissions as Khrushchev shifts focus to farming and industrial emphasis.
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Moscow
Georgi Malenkov
Nikolai Bulganin
Georgi Zhukov
Communist Party
Nikitai S. Khrushcchev
Supreme Soviet
Pravda
Khrushchev
Malenkov
Kfas
West
Stalin
Highway Officials Review 1955 Specification Revisions
Resident engineers from across the Fourth Kansas Highway Division gather at the Memorial Building for a briefing on major revisions in state highway specifications. The session, part of a Kansas Highway Commission series, covers changes since 1951 and the 1955 revision now in effect.
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Fourth
Kansas Highway Division
Memorial Building
Kansas Highway Commission
Charles Gates
Chanute
H. D. Reed
W. K. Dinklage
L. L. Wells
State Highway Department
Topeka
Clinic and Hospital Sale Is Approved
Security Benefit Life Insurance Co of Topeka has been granted authority to sell its local clinic and hospital facilities after a board hearing at the request of policyholders. The former fraternal organization has closed the facilities and arranged for a local hospital to care for policyholders entitled to clinic and hospital services under the old arrangement.
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Topeka P Security Benefit Life Insurance Co
Topeka
Icy Streets Spark Five City Car Mishaps
Police reports show five icy street collisions today with no injuries. Max Alter and L F Erickson collided at 7 45 a m on Santa Fe. other incidents harmed only minorly or involved building impact and minor car damage.
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Max Alter
S. Santa Fe
L. F. Erickson
S. Ashby
Alter
Santa Fe
Rex Truitt
N. Steuben
Elm and Steuben
Joe Westerman
N. Santa Fe
Robert Hansen
Parsons
Hudson Market
South Santa Fe
Mary P. Schlotterbeck
Second
Lincoln
Harry A. Potts
Iola
Potts
Lincoln Tests Speech in Kansas
Fayette Rowe recounts Abraham Lincoln's Kansas visit and the 1859 Cooper Union speech's impact. The Third District Lincoln Day Club in Independence honors Lincoln 95 years after his Kansas tour, detailing organizers, supporters, and the failed bid for Kansas delegates.
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Lincoln
Kansas
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln Day Club
Independence
Illinois
Ed Kansas
United States
America
Hugh Powell
The
Coffeyville Journal
A. Daubin
Baxter
New York
Cooper Union
Peter Cooper
Sanity Hearing for Mrs Laymon in Chanute Murder Case
Three Chanute doctors were appointed to a sanity commission in district court to assess Mrs. David Laymon charged with first degree murder in the December 21 death of her four month old daughter. A closed hearing was set for this afternoon in Chanute. The Laymon case and a pending jury trial are slated for February 23 alongside other state and civil actions on the docket.
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Erie
Chanute
David Laymon
James A. Butin
A. M. Garton
Henry K. Baker
Laymon
B. M. Dunham
Lawrence Lorraine Leigh
Jack Cunningham
Henry Fields
Ike Jones
Fred McGowen
E. W. Edwards
J. O. Purviance
John W. Williamson
Charles Whitworth
Board of Neosho County Commissioners
Oisease Holdings
Stark
Whitworth
Compromise Settles First Session Legislative Dispute
In Topeka the Senate and House reached a compromise ending the first session dispute. The Senate would charge for mailing a complete daily record of legislative proceedings while the House advocated free mail to any district address for each legislator.
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Senate
House
Arctic blast hits Chanute area with freezing rain and snow
A swift-moving Arctic cold front swept the Chanute region with freezing rain turning to snow. Temperatures plunged from 63 to 12 in 13 hours, winds gusting up to 39 mph, leaving slick roads and drifting snow. Forecasts call for subzero readings tonight and a partly sunny, cool Friday with highs 10 to 20 above.
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Porecast
Chanute
CAA
State Highway Commission
Associated Press
Topeka
Weather Bureau
Goodland
U. S
Salina
Be Vitamin Sure Plenamins daily for health
Vitamin supplement ad advising daily Plenamins for health benefits from Casey Drug Co.
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Casey Drug Co
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