Rain disrupts oat planting in Parsons area farms
In Labette County farmers report 0.65 inches of rain in Parsons delaying oats planting though soil moisture improves. Ponds are in good condition as locals assess weather impact on farming. In Independence, a man’s $200 found near Elk City leads to a legal dispute over bank notes. Elk City bank sues over promissory notes claimed by John and Vanda McElwain. Humboldt reports $356.50 from Christmas tuberculosis seals, $10 short of last year. Fort Scott district court sees no new cases since Feb. 9, a rare lull in Bourbon County court activity.
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Parsons
Russell C. Klotz
Labette County
Independence
Elk City
Harold Dwayne Brock
Brock
Sheriff's Office
First National Bank of
Elk City Bank
John D
Vanda McElwain
Floyd Huggins
McElwain
Humboldt
Carl Nelson
Fort Scott
Bourbon County
Amy Armstrong
Toronto Site Bids Requested for Verdigiris Dam Project
Tulsa district engineer Stanley G. Reiff announced bids for a $100,000 plus project at the Verdigris River dam site in Toronto Col. The plan covers brick administration and maintenance buildings parking areas water system and fencing with several ancillary structures. First stage work includes site clearing and embankment with Pool Construction Company already awarded the spillway contract.
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Verdigris River Dam
Toronto
Stanley G. Reiff
Tulsa
Holt Construction Co
Oxford
Pool Construction Co
Shawnee
Okla
Judge Refuses Money and Imposes Jail Time
VAN NUYS Calif Motorist Carl A Russell 50 cited for turning left from the wrong lane mailed the citation 11 bail money and a note to Municipal Court If you take this money you are doing it by forcing me unjustly and under false action both your court and traffic officer The case marked his third ticket in 10 months In court he pleaded guilty Judge Gerald C Kepple ordered five days in jail.
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van Nuys
Calif
Carl A. Russell
Russell
Gerald C. Kepple
Some Firms and Offices to Close for Washington Birthday
Chanute financial institutions including Bank of Commerce First National Bank and Chanute Building and Loan Association will be closed next Tuesday for Washington's Birthday. Post office will observe with no city or rural mail deliveries. Neosho County welfare office will be closed. Retail stores and other businesses open as usual.
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Chanute
Bank of Commerce
First National Bank
Chanute Building and Loan Association
Washington
Neosho County
House Approves Tariff Power Expansion for President
The House approved Eisenhower's tariff bargaining powers 295 to 110, rejecting a restrictive amendment 206 to 199. The bill extends the reciprocal trade law for three years and allows the president to cut tariffs by up to five percent annually and to adjust duties above 50 percent. Senate leaders aim for strong support, though some Democrats warn of possible trouble. Byrd will chair hearings as finance proposals move toward quick Senate action.
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Rayburn
Tex
U.S
Senate
Byrd
Sen
George
D-Ga
Finance
Eisenhower
Millikin
R-Cole
Navy to sail 3115 midshipmen on summer training cruise
The Navy announced that 3,115 midshipmen from the U S Naval Academy and ROTC units at 23 colleges will depart Norfolk Virginia on June 6 for a two month summer training cruise.
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Washington
Navy
U.S. Naval Academy
Naval
Norfolk
Robbery suspects nabbed after motorized posse pursuit
In Carl Junction Missouri a minister a funeral director and a newspaper editor formed a car posse to追追 three men Paul Courtwright Earl Vaughn and George Stoneking all Webb City residents accused in a 1683 bank robbery. The loot mostly recovered a pillowcase under Vaughn's back porch with $167 missing.
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Carl Junction, Mo
FBI
Paul Courtwright
Earl Vaughn
George Stoneking
Webb City
Vaugan
John Martin
Courtwright
Citizens Bank
Ray Miller
Carl Junction Standard
Rube Stone
Keith Bottles
Stoneking
Town
Miller
Stone
Carl Junction
Seven Young Persons Injured in Wichita Collision
A head-on crash on U S 54 at the east edge of Wichita left seven injured and all hospitalized at St Josephs hospital. Six occupants were students from Kansas State Teachers College Pittsburg including driver William Devine 22. Other identified injured include Roger Ramsey 21 Ronald Watts 20 John Kaznierski 21 Frank Crestino 21 and Frank Ferson 21. Betty Jo Cameron 23 was the driver of the other car.
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Wichita
St. Joseph's Hospital
Kansas State Teachers College
Pittsburg
William §. Devine
Orhers
Roger R. Ramsey
Ronald L. Watts
John D. Kaznierski
Frank J. Crestino
Frank D. Ferson
Betty Jo Cameron
U.S. 54
House Debates Split Court Bill in Neosho County
State House schedules a vote next week on a bill to divide the Neosho County district court in Chanute after Senate passage. Representative John N. Sherman Jr reports calendar placement and hope for Wednesday action amid other bills. Bids for a new West Seventh tuberculosis hospital will be opened Wednesday to gauge needed funds. Sherman notes interest in Right to Work and state aid to high schools as other statewide issues.
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House of Representatives
Neosho County
Chanute
John N. Sherman Jr
House
Senate
West Seventh
Sherman
Blonde 17YearOld Girl Wins Cherry Pie Contest
A 17 year old high school senior from Red Hook New York Marjorie Campbell won the national cherry pie baking championship in Chicago defeating 47 state and Hawaii entrants. She had never traveled west of Rochester before and entered with a recipe.
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Chicago
Rochester
Tribune
Marjorie Campbell
Phone
Red Hook
N.Y
P.m
Hawaii
Nationalist pilots report sinking fifteen junks near Formosa
Nationalist pilots reported sinking fifteen armed Communist junks and damaging five more in heavy air and surface strikes near the Taishan Islands off Formosa. The air force said twenty-three Communist ships were sighted and all Nationalist planes returned safely.
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Taipe
Formosa
Taishan Islands
Taishans
Nanchishan
China
Tachen Islands
Wenchow Bay
Chiang Kai-shek
Keelung
East China Sea
Adm
Lee Yu-hai
Lippert Presents Film Evidence in Hit and Run Case
In Denver Superior Court Earl E. Lippert produced cinema film showing motorist George J. Karch leaving the crash scene. Judge Mitchel B. Johns watched as the evidence appeared to place Karch at fault. Karch was fined $150.
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Denver
Earl E. Lippert
Superior Court
George J. Karch
Mitchel B. Johns
Lippert
Karch
Johns
Rush Hour at Bars Blamed for Mishaps
WEST SPRINGFIELD Massachusetts selectman Raymond H Bagg calls for regional action to set uniform bar closing hours to reduce highway accidents resulting from customers rushing between establishments for another hour of drinking.
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West Springfield
Mass
Raymond H. Bagg
Bagg
Blizzard Death Toll Rises Amid Rocky Mountain Storm
A massive blizzard blamed for five deaths and multiple injuries battered Wyoming Colorado and Montana. Rescues freed dozens from vans and buses trapped by waist deep drifts while icy highways caused several accidents. Temperatures plunged and ongoing snow and freezing rain disrupted travel across the region with additional weather warnings and state patrol assistance.
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Rocky Mountain States
Wyoming
Continental Divide
U.S. 30
Greyhound
Craig
Colo
Rotary
Divide Station
Rawlins
Newcastle
Wyo
Montana
Colorado
Denver
Glen Andrews
Cheyenne
Rock Springs
Wolf Point
Mont
Riverton
Neodesha Tops Chanute at Fifth Annual Science Fair
Neodesha exhibitors won four of five superior awards as Chanute's entries earned a lone blue ribbon for Roger Dent's snake display. Top honors went to Briles, Gibson, Carver, and Goering for studies on carbon arc products, stomatal behavior, nutrition triangle, and Wilson county trees.
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Neodesha
Chanute
Roger Dent
George Briles
Sam Gibson
Nutrition Triangle
Anita Carver
Wilson County
Kent Goering
Walnut students visit Cha nute High School science fair
Walnut High School pupils Vera Coester Vida Coester Mary Cole Fred Heitman Jerry Pryor Leroy Sands and Donald Rowe attended the Cha nute High School science fair on Friday with work books and a sign. They were accompanied by Mrs Edith Young Walnut’s music teacher.
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Walnut High School
Chanute High School
Vera
Vida Coester
Mary Cole
Fred Heitman
Jerry Pryor
Leroy Sands
Donald Rowe
Edith Young
Walnut School
Car Damaged in Rural Crash. Driver Uninjured
Ronald L. Goodall of Garnett drove off US 169 two miles north of Chanute to avoid a stalled vehicle. His car struck a tree after leaving the shoulder on soft turf. Goodall was uninjured and did not identify the other driver. Four additional Friday crashes damaged fronts, rears, and fenders at various city and street locations.
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Ronald L. Goodall
Garnett
US 169
Chanute
Goodall
Soviet Union calls for global arms freeze and ban on atomic bombs
Moscow reiterates demand for a world freeze on armaments and destruction of all atomic and hydrogen weapons. Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Jacob Malik will represent the USSR in London talks. The statement urges a general international conference this year to abolish stocks of atomic and hydrogen weapons and to refrain from increasing armed forces or military spending. It criticizes NATO moves as war preparations and notes Britain's H bomb breakthrough, while warning China should join disarmament efforts. Washington says proposal stalls Western inspection demands and signals continued Soviet obstruction.
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Soviet Union
London
United Nations
Andrei Gromyko
Jacob Malik
Germany
New Home On Display By Lee Judy And Ebar Schultz
Realtors Lee Judy and Ebar Schultz host open houses from 2:30 to 5 this afternoon and tomorrow at their newest completed home 1301 W Fourth. The three bedroom house features a utility room and attached garage and may be shown furnished if weather permits.
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Lee Judy
Ebar Schultz
Judy
Schultz and
Manila Pact Ratified by Eight Nations
The Manila Pact or Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty was formally ratified and in force with instruments deposited by the United States United Kingdom Thailand Philippines Pakistan New Zealand France and Australia. Philippine Vice President and Foreign Secretary Carlos Garcia accepted the ratification on behalf of the government noting a shared determination to confront a growing threat to freedom and political ideals.
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Manila
Red China
United States
United Kingdom
Thailand
Philippines
Pakistan
New Zealand
France
Australia
Carlos P. Garcia
Garcia
Bull charges guard. private fends off bullfighter style
Private Herman W. Rogala of the 81st Transportation Co. observed a large white bull at the Rochefort boat basin. After dodging failed, he jumped into the water and punched the bull, which sank and died. Rogala, from Erie, Pennsylvania, survived the encounter.
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France
Herman W. Rogala
Rogala
81St Transportation Co
Erie
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