Treasury Seeks Authority to Raise Savings Bond Interest
The Treasury asked Congress for authority to set flexible rates on savings bonds and to raise rates from 3 to 3 1 2 percent. If approved, higher rates would apply to all Series K and H bonds issued after February 1. Baby bonds Series E stay at current price and maturity, but length shortens to 8 years 11 months. Early redemption values rise to attract holders with three year yields at 3 percent.
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Washington
Treasury
Congress
Senate
House
Highway Card Punching Halt Over Unbid License Contract
Topeka the State Highway Commission ordered Remington Rand Univac to stop punching cards in a 126000 contract for driver licenses awarded without competitive bidding. The halt follows an attorney general opinion query and an investigation into the 1,200,000 advance notices of expiring licenses.
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Topeka
State Highway Commission
Remington Rand Univac
Frank Harch
Lynn Brodrick
William Kirkpatrick
The
Highway Commission
Commission
McDonald leads USW election race in partial returns
In Pittsburgh the United Steelworkers president David J. McDonald held a bit more than a two to one edge over his millworker rival based on unofficial returns from 567 of about 2,700 locals across the United States and Canada. Elsewhere, Akka towage marked a Canal obstruction removal and Seaton said the federal government cannot seize the oil industry or bind oil prices, while a grand jury reviews antitrust probes in pricing.
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Pittsburgh
David J. McDonald
United Steelworkers
United States
Canada
Washington
Seaton
Fire damages two story building in Watts Oklahoma
Firefighters from Decatur and Siloam Springs joined crews from other Oklahoma towns to battle a blaze that swept a two story Watts building causing about $25,000 in damage. The flames briefly threatened neighboring structures.
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Watts
Oklaha
Decatur
Siloam Springs
Ark
Oklahoma
County polio shot push. 2400 requests trigger change
More than 2,400 polio shot requests led Neosho Memorial Hospital to modify the inoculation plan for school children. Margaret D. Wood says all county children outside the Chanute district except St Paul will report next Monday in two daily windows, with Chanute pupils on a split schedule. Pre schoolers require a parent or guardian and blue slip cards were slow to return.
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Neosho Memorial Hospital
Margaret D. Wood
Chanute
St. Paul
Chanute School
Hutton and
Alcott
Murray Hill
Roosevelt
Lincoln
Junior College
St. Patrick's
Royster
Warmer Trend In Forecast For Kansas Cities
The forecast shows cooler conditions for most of Kansas today with the extreme west staying warm up to 60 degrees. Skies are partly cloudy with no precipitation expected and a southwest wind bringing milder air.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Traffic Fatalities in Topeka Reported for 1957
Kansas State Accident Records lists 3 traffic fatalities in the last 24 hours and 51 to date in 1957, compared with 61 for the same period in 1956.
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Topeka
Kansas
Boy speaks after brain hemorrhage silenced months
Gabriel Aguilera Jr., 14, fell ill last May on a Stockton baseball field. After months in a coma and little movement he spoke for the first time last Thursday saying Dickie and names of family and friends as his mother urged him to talk.
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Stockton
Calif
Gabriel Aguilera Jr
Dickie
Gabriel
First Ceremony for New Probate Judge Hemphill
Erie Kansas reports probate judge John G. Hemphill, calm but tingling, married Arthur Dirksen and Sylvia Cassel in his Chanute home last Saturday night. The ceremony was his first since taking office January 14, with Mrs Hemphill as witness. He notes the event differs from school work in tone and pace.
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Erie
John G. Hemphill
Chanute
Uon
Peronncu
Chanute J
Arthur Dirksen
Wichita
Sylvia Cassel
Fire destroys four story building in Diamond Market area
Pittsburgh fire damaged a four story building in the Diamond Market downtown. Fire Chief Stephen Adley estimated damage at 300000. Flames menaced nearby structures for hours after 9 p.m. About 25 firefighters were overcome by smoke. Fire under control around 2 a.m. crew remained at scene till dawn. Cause not determined.
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Pittsburgh
Diamond Market
Stephen Adley
Garden City Teachers Get Salary Hikes Voted
Garden City board of education approved raises for teachers. Masters degree holders will earn 3600 dollars annually, up 300 from prior. Bachelor degree teachers receive 3300 dollars, up 200.
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Garden City
Board of Education
Wichitan Meador Dies After Car Rollover
Lee Irvin Meador 24 of Wichita was killed last night when his car overturned north of Mt Hope. Meador served as a Sedgwick County firefighter and was fatally injured in the crash.
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Wichita
Lee Irvin Meador
Mt. Hope
Sedgwick County
Farmer Found Dead at Home Near Galesburg
GALESBURG C IL July Local farmer C. E. Slack age 61 was found dead at his farm home three and a half miles northeast of here about 6 30 a m authorities said the death was from a personal safety related gun wound A note with a Phoenix Arizona address was found Undersheriff Jack Reynolds reported The body was found by neighbor Denzil Smith who assisted with morning work Slack lived with his hospitalized brother Jay Slack who has pneumonia Acquaintances said he had been ill and worried about his brother Funeral plans are pending with Pierce Funeral Home Erie Ohio Valley.
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Galesburg
C. E. Slack
Here
Phoenix
Ariz
Jack Reynolds
Denzil Smith
Slack
Lee Montgomery
Reynolds
Erie
Jay
Parsons
Smith
Charles Everett Slack
William Slack
Waldo Slack
Melvin Compton
Roy Davis
Pierce Funeral Home
Brennecke Files For City Education Board Seat
Paul T. Brennecke an insurance representative filed yesterday as a candidate for the city board of education per City Clerk Howard Parsons. He is the fifth filer for three seats joining incumbents Mrs Carter Brookhart Floyd Potter Floyd Naff and William M Gray Jr.
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Paul T. Brennecke
Board of Education
Howard Parsons
Carter Brookhart
Floyd Potter
Floyd Naff
iWilliam M. Gray Jr
Three Proposals For Financing Made in House
Kansas Democrats introduced two more Docking tax proposals in the House. They would raise corporate income tax from 2 to 4 percent and merge sales tax and general funds while cutting the cigarette tax discount to five percent, with expected state gains of about 4.4 million and 85 thousand dollars respectively. Senate sponsors also pushed elimination of 12.5 million dollars in sales tax residue to local governments.
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Topeka
George Docking
Kansas House
Docking
Senate
Joe McDowell
Kansas City
Owen Root
Parker
W. M. Ferguson
Parsons
Legislative Council
Elmdale Pastor Jailed Amid Scandals Shocks Town
Elmdale Kansas resident Calvin Laskey who posed as Dean Barton and led the Elmdale Christian Church for nine months pleaded guilty to illegally marrying a couple. The FBI shows a long criminal record including convictions in Canada and the United States, with desertion charges and multiple imprisonments. Residents recall his positive impact despite the criminal past.
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Elmdale
Kas
Calvin Laskey
Flint Hills
Kansas
George Dawson
Tom Wells
Elmdale Christian Church
Laskey
Dean Barton
Elmdale Christian
Towle
Fire kills 14 at Iowa rest home blaze in Council Bluffs
A three story rest home in Council Bluffs Iowa burned suddenly collapsing fire by 71 year old fire swept through beds killing 14 residents and sending 14 others to hospitals officials investigated cause and response as the late report noted.
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Council Bluffs
Iowa
February Term Docket Set by Erie's Judge Dunham
Erie reports the February district court docket set by Judge B M Dunham. State jury cases on March 18 and civil actions on March 25, with several dismissals. Trials and arraignments listed for March 18 19 and 25 include assault with intent to maim maintaining a liquor nuisance and judgments. A missing woman case ended with one victim alive, total death toll 14 with 12 identified. Fire officials probe the cause of a fast moving blaze at a home licensed to Mrs Ivy Gilmore now confirmed properly licensed.
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ERIE
District Court
B. M. Dunham
State
Chester Bowman
Sam Lambert
Glen
Josephine Kjarsgaard
Glen Salisbury
Alan Rollow
Rollow Radio & T.V
Earl F. Simpson
R. B. Moore Supply Co
Homer Ellsworth
Helen B. Allisson
William
Max Bandy
Grace Lawrence
Mathilda Luchow
Rose Cochran
Lawrence Brandt
Pearl Atkinson
Bertha Jenkins
Anna Benson
Ray Roop
Bertha Bradley
Henry N. Mace
Fred Howe
Charles Adkins
Dan Blakely
Frank Faulkner
Bridget Pinkham
Girl Awarded 30,000 For Injury to Eye
A Tulsa district court jury awarded 16 year old Patricia Ann Burge 30 000 damages for an eye injury suffered last year when a flying blackboard eraser hit her in a classroom. She sought 48 500 from six boys accused of tossing erasers while the teacher was out. A doctor testified she lost 80 percent of vision in the right eye and it cannot be corrected with glasses.
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Tulsa
Okla
Patricia Ann Burge
Little Girl Dies On 1st Birthday
Mullens West Virginia three year old Judy K Sisk dies on her first birthday anniversary apparently from strangulation. Her mother Mrs Garland Sisk Jr says she found Judy on the floor of their home with her red dress caught on a hook supporting a magazine rack under a television set. Judy leaves three brothers.
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Mullens
W. Va
Judy K. Sisk
Dad
Garland Sisk Jr
Judy
City Water Usage Figures for Recent Days
Daily water usage figures show 1,176,000 yesterday and week ago with year ago at 1,369,000. The last seven days total 8,298,000 while the previous seven days totaled 8,441,000.
Iola Meeting Highlights Kansas Water Loss and Conservation Plan
Robert Smith of the Kansas Water Resources Board spoke at the Iola Chamber of Commerce meeting about annual water loss from Kansas rivers, estimated at six million dollars. He noted dams along the Neosho Cottonwood watershed and surface storage as key to conservation, urging legislative funding for statewide surveys and discussing water rights law improvements. Attendees included officials from Chanute Humboldt Erie Neosho Falls Le Roy and Fort Scott.
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IOLA
Neosho
Robert Smith
Kansas Water Resources Board
Smith
Corps of Engineers
Neosho-Cottonwood
Burlington
Council Grove
Iola Chamber of Commerce
Kansas
The
Water Resources Board
Deputies Named In Galveston Taylor Lineup
Galveston Texas sheriff hires J. M. Taylor as deputy and Joe B. Taylor as special investigator while James T. Taylor serves as jailer. The notice warns callers to specify which Taylor when contacting the office and mentions community groups and representatives.
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Galveston
Tex
Sheriff's Office
Taylor
J. M. Taylor
Joe B. ‘Taylor
James T. Taylor
Revised Plan For Middle East Okay Predicted
Senator Lyndon B. Johnson forecasts Senate approval of a Democratic revision to the Eisenhower Middle East resolution. The revised language lets the United States use armed forces if the President determines it necessary to resist communist aggression, shifting from a specific authorization to troops to a conditional readiness. The House already passed a similar form, and the Senate committees approved the revision 20-8, sending the measure toward final action. The constitutional issue remains whether Congress must authorize use of troops or if the President as commander in chief holds that power.
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Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Senate
Eisenhower
Middle East
Johnson
United States
Sen
Knowland
California
State Department
Thomasville
White ‘House
James C. Hagerty
House
Congress
U. S
World’s Largest Arena Proposed for New York City
A plan announced for immediate construction of the world’s largest arena to seat 150000 spectators in Queens or the Bronx. The aluminum roof would cover 15 city blocks and tower 250 feet, with an estimated cost of 57425000 private financing. Richard D. Gittlin leads Greater New York Sports Arena Inc as chairman and president.
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New York
Queens
Bronx
Olympic City
Richard D. Gittlin
Greater New York Sports Arena Inc
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Raymond Hibbs
Murray Hill School
Tribune
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Brennecke
Merl Lemert
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U. S. Navy
Annie Orme
E. J.herron
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