New First National Bank Open House Draws 7000 Visitors
More than 7,000 people toured the new First National Bank facility on N Lincoln between Main and Elm during the weekend open house. Attendance climbed past 8,000 with registered guests and unregistered visitors, while tabled numbers show about 3,000 to 3,500 tours by customers and staff. A ribbon cutting marked the official opening, cash moved from the old building, and prizes and candy gifts were offered to attendees.
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First National Bank
N. Lincoln
Main
Elm
Addi
Dale Painter
Painter
Bank of Commerce
Lincoln
Dave Evans
Mahlon Morley
Tribune
Lois Erickson
City reports slight drop in utilities sales for year
City revenue from utilities sales totaled 1 389 264 24, with electric 767 665 25, gas 450 011 48, and water 171 387 51. 1961 figures show electric and water up while gas fell, due to a milder winter reducing demand. Transfers funded other departments, with bonds and interest, library, airport, and general funds noted. Bonded indebtedness stood at 2 321 500, with several project payouts listed.
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Electric Department
General Fund
Gas Department
Water Department
Library
Industrial
General
Tribune
Confusing Telemarketing Call Leads to Muffled Invitation
Mrs. W. W. Wood recounts a prank telemarketing call in which the unidentified male caller pressed for details of a Sunday School invitation. The caller pretended familiarity, gave vague instructions, and then apologized, leaving Mrs. Wood unsure what invitation was being offered.
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Mrs. Wood
Remodeling at BMA Offices in Main Street
Extensive remodeling underway at the Bus iness Men's Assurance Co. 129 W. Main. Office manager Ralph Willcott says ceiling lowered 30 inches, acoustical tiles and fluorescent lighting installed, new restroom built, interior repainted, and new office furniture purchased. Project began two weeks ago and should finish in about two weeks.
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Business Men's Assurance Co
W. Main
Ralph Willcott
Willcott
Car Found After Report Of 1953 Buick Theft
Police received a report at 9 15 p m Saturday that a 1953 Buick owned by Don Friederich of 1307 North Kansas had been taken from a parking spot near 106 North Allen. The car was found abandoned at Western and Oak at 10 50 p m.
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Don Friederich
Kansas
N. Allen
Western and
Oak
Crash at Erie injures no one in two car collision
Under sheriff Lester Marts said two men Vernon L. Schmid 27 and George KR Presley 61 were southbound on US 59 at the west edge of Erie when Presleys right side struck the left rear of Schmid s 1949 Ford after Schmid pulled from a driveway. Estimated damage totaled 100 dollars.
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Erie
Parsons
Vernon L. Schmid
George KR. Presley
Lester Marts
Lincoln Day rally draws GOP leaders amid Senate race talk
In Independence Kansas the 26th annual Lincoln Day event gathers national and state GOP figures as speculation swirls over two U S Senate seats and the governor's office. Senator James B Pearson seeks the unexpired Schoeppel term, with Rep William H Avery considering his options as other possible candidates enter the field. Principal speaker John G Tower is set for tonight's banquet and Attorney General William M Ferguson will deliver the Lincoln eulogy.
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Independence, Kas
U. S. Senate
Frank Carlson
John Anderson
Senate
Andrew Schoeppel
James B. Pearson
Schoeppel
William H. Avery
Wichita
Hutchinson
Salina
Avery
House
Ed Arn
Payne Ratner
Congress
Walter McVey
Robert Finney
Humboldt
Joe Skubitz
Pittsburg
Stewart Newlin
Wellington
Kansas Press Association
Bill Fribley
Crestline
Alvin Grauerholz
Coffeyville
John V. Glades
Yates Center
Kansas
John G. Tower
R-Tex
William M. Ferguson
Lincoln
City Refunds Mailed After Gas Rate Settlement
City refunds for utility overcharges totaling about 6100 dollars were mailed to consumers for bills due December 1 and January 1. Most checks ranged from 1 to 2 dollars. City Manager R J Hayes said a few welfare-paid accounts remain outstanding. If not received, residents should contact Tribune or call HE 13400 after 6 pm.
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R. J. Hayes
Cities Service Gas Co
Hayes
Reopening Of The Launching Pad Youth Center
Nearly 250 attendees at the Launching Pad reopening with 32 adults visiting over four nights. The center, led by City Recreation Commission chair W H McMurray and supervisor H C Miller, serves non students 14 to 21 and adults. Events include evening sessions for Junior High and College students and a Royster Junior High jazz band performance. Meetings planned for women 21 plus to organize a ten week fitness program. Regular Commission meeting to follow.
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Resonnel
Dave Evans
Tribune
Royster Junior High
City Recreation Commission
W. H. McMurray
Aoe High School
Junior College
Aee
H. C. (Cappy) Miller
The
Recreation Commission
McMurray
New City
Helen Anderson
Chanute’s
Concert Tomorrow By Senior High School Groups
A concert by the Senior High School symphonic band and the Vocale from the Junior College music departments will be held tomorrow night at 8 in the high school auditorium. The program features Bach, Mancini, Zampa, The Music Man selections, Ben Hur parade, Mozart Clarinet Concerto, and CameLOT tunes. The men's quartet and the high school dance band join the program conducted by Leland Crapson and Harold Tarpley.
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Vocale
Bach
Mancini
Man
Roma Jean Turner
Roy Marks
Seth Gray
Dick Anders
Niles Plummer
Leland Crapson
Harold Tarpley
Injury victim Nancy Campbell dies in Shreveport hospital
Mrs. Nancy Campbell of Independence Kansas died today in a Shreveport hospital after injuries from a traffic accident north of Shreveport two weeks earlier. Friends were notified of the death.
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Independence, Kas
Nancy Campbell
Independence
Shreveport
Boy Scouts Take Over City Offices In Civic Project
City offices including manager clerk fire and police chiefs water and power plant officials and engineers were to be turned over to Boy Scouts during a Scout Week civic project. The boys would lunch at the Tioga Hotel and spend the afternoon with their official sponsors touring offices.
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Tioga Hotel
Two Deputies Killed in Tenn Gun Battle
In Winfield Tennessee a gun battle between five sheriff's deputies and two hill country farmers left two deputies dead and another wounded. Murder warrants were issued for Bill Dingus a 66 year old and his son Arthur about 30. The pair fled after shooting a deputy near Winfield near the Kentucky border. Deputies had tried to serve Arthur Dingus with a warrant.
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Winfield, Tenn
Bill Dingus
Arthur
Winfield
Knoxville
Kentucky
Arthur Dingus
Yerkes to Speak at Chamber Luncheon Tomorrow
William Yerkes planning director for the Kansas Industrial Development Commission will address a Chamber of Commerce luncheon at 11 30 a.m. tomorrow at the Tioga Hotel. He will discuss the federal 701 urban renewal program.
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William Yerkes
Kansas Industrial Development Commission
Chamber of Commerce
Tioga Hotel
Powers Faces Detailed Grilling After Spy Swap
U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, freed after 21 months in a Soviet prison in a swap for Rudolf Abel, faces questioning by U S intelligence agents about the May 1 1960 incident and what he told the Russians. CIA set to form a board of inquiry led by John A McCone as Donovan discusses Makinen clemency prospects.
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Francis Gary Powers
U.S
Soviet Union
Berlin
Rudolf I. Abel
Powers
Oliver W. Powers
Norton Va
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CIA
John A. McCone
James Britt Donovan
New York
Abel
Frederic Pryor
Marvin W. Makinen
Ashburnham
Mass
Kiev
Weather forecast in Kansas remains warm with near record highs
Forecasters said a warm spell would continue through Tuesday with unseasonably warm afternoons and nights. A 74 degree high was set at 1 p.m. in Topeka, unseasonably warm lows in the 40s expected tonight, and highs forecast 60s east to 80 west with no precipitation statewide.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Dodge City
Olathe
Hills City
Pittsburg
Five Neosho Men Arrested for Passing Counterfeit Bills
The Secret Service arrested five southwest Missouri men for passing counterfeit currency. Named suspects Orley W. Martin Ralph M Lawson Kenneth W Patton Basil L Thurston and George C Andres are from Neosho and Anderson. They were to be arraigned in Joplin later today.
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Kansas City
Aps
Secret Service
Southwest Missouri
Maurice G. Martineau
Orley W. Martin
Ralph M. Lawson
Kenneth W. Patton
Basil L. Thurston
Neosho
George C., Andres
Anderson
Joplin
Wreckage Found in Viet Nam Plane Crash
Searchers recovered wreckage of a Vietnamese C47 transport near Saigon with nine bodies, eight Americans and one Vietnamese likely among the dead. The mission carried leaflets of President Ngo Dinh Diem. Unclear if crash or shoot down. parachutes reportedly seen.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S. Army
Air Force
24 Pounds of Dimes Pay Hospital Bill
Con rad Ray carried 24 pounds of dimes in a jar to Methodist Hospital in Memphis and used 360 dollars to cover medical expenses for his newborn son Jonathan Keith Ray born on Sunday.
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Memphis, Tenn
Conrad Ray
Methodist Hospital
Jonathan Keith Ray
28th Annual Credit Assn Meeting Here
More than 400 stockholders are expected for the Chanute Production Credit Association 28th annual meeting at the Masonic Temple starting 11 a m. A noon meal is served by Sunflower chapter Order of the Eastern Star. Hamar will present a financial report and directors are elected for three year terms from Millard Cress Edward Dickerson John Wingrave Lyle Quick and Junior Braman.
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Chanute Production Credit Assn
R. D. Hamar
Masonic Temple
Sunflower Chapter
Order of the Eastern Star
Hamar
Kansas
Millard Cress
Humboldt
Edward Dickerson
Parsons
John Wingrave
Yates Center
Lyle Quick
Mapleton
Junior Braman
Buffalo
Piesker Tip Winner Highlights Army Kin Reunion
A Stark resident’s letter about relatives reuniting two cousins serving with the Army in Korea won last week’s $3 news tip prize. PFC Rex Piesker and a cousin, stationed in Inchon, learned of each other through Kansas Texas and Colorado correspondence before the reunion.
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Fannie L. Piesker
Stark
Korea
Piesker
the Tribune
Chanute
The
Tribune
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