Surprise TV appearance shakes Local Father on Parade
State Representative John N Sherman Jr revealed he found his eight year old daughter Liza on a Joplin TV parade segment with the Cole family while he watched from home. He said his wife knew Liza had joined the group in Joplin, where the children donated cerebral palsy funds in a glass bowl on a stage nine miles from their home. Open season on boys at Senior High flips to Leap Week with 14 rules for girls to press their suit reversing dating norms.
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Liza
Sherman
Joplin
Koam-Tv
Ronnie
Explosion rattles city as crew dynamites bridge
A sharp blast near 1 p.m. shook homes in the south and southwest. Police traced the source to a county road crew dynamiting a low water bridge on Plummer road near 21st as part of repairs. No other incidents were found at nearby plants. The public flooded police with calls.
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Lorraine Maninger
John Leroy
Warwick Wax
Chanute
Neosho Fertilizer Inc
Wheeling
Plummer
21St
Officer Uses Back Door Trick To Nab Bookie
Miami deputy George McMillan devised a simple capture method for book makers. He waited by the suspect’s back door while a fellow officer phoned to warn the man the police were coming. In about thirty seconds the bookie fled into McMillan’s grasp along with the evidence.
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McMillan
Woman Changes Mind On Hawaii Trip After Leaving Ship
Laura Evans, 33, of Wilmington California, abandoned a Honolulu voyage aboard the Lurline after feeling homesick. She returned to San Diego to resume domestic duties with husband John and their four children, insisting the family go together when possible.
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Wilmington
Calif
Laura Evans
San Diego
John
Hawaii
Mabel Lee
Lurline
Huckstep Pleads Guilty in District Court
John W. Huckstep of Chanute pleaded guilty in district court to a crime against nature. Sentence was deferred for psychiatric examination ordered by the court. The case was set for jury trial, while Merced Vargas faced felonious assault charges with jury selection near completion.
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Erie
John W. Huckstep
Chanute
Merced Vargas
Vargas
Each His Own Way Lenten Series Encourages Faith
Lenten reflections emphasize Christ's sacrifice for all and personal faith in Him. The message notes individual ways to show devotion during Lent, from self denial to helping the poor or attending services. Readers asked to call Tribune delivery line if not received.
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Christ
Weather forecast for Topeka area shows showers and warm trend
A warm front moves into Kansas bringing showers and thunderstorms in the eastern state. Expect mostly cloudy skies tonight and Friday with light rain in the east and north central areas. Temperatures range from 30s to 50s tonight and 50s to 60s Friday, with warmer conditions in the east before a colder turn in the northwest.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Richard Garrett
Garrett
Emporia
Chanute
Pittsburg
Concordia
Traffic Fatalities and Advertisements in Topeka For 1956 Era
Topeka records show traffic fatalities tallied by the State Accident Records Section. The notice compares last 24 hours and year totals, with historical figures for 1955-74. Also advertised at Newberry's are spring rose bushes in multiple varieties priced at 98 cents and 1.29 dollars.
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Topeka
Kansas
Newberry
Gore in Line To Head Probe Into Lobbying
Senator Gore as a frontrunner to head a new bipartisan Senate special committee with broad powers to investigate improper or illegal lobbying and campaign financing. Democratic and Republican senators would fill eight seats, with Gore likely chosen as chairman.
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Washington
D-Tenn
Senate
Kennedy
Massachusetts
McClellan
Arkansas
Mansfield
Montana
Anderson
New Mexico
Bridges
New Hampshire
Bricker
Ohio
Thye
Minnesota
Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Knowland
California
Senate Elections Subcommittee
Plate Glass Windows Scratched in El Dorado Business District
El Dorado police and about 30 irate business men search for a person or persons unknown after three blocks of plate glass storefronts were scratched. Most damage is severe enough to require replacement. Police ruled out a glass cutter and suspect damage was done with flint rock.
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EL Dorado P
el Dorado
Two Non Injury Collisions Reported To Police
Two non injury motor car accidents were investigated this morning. Dudley Fraley’s car at 1018 N. Forest collided with Sammy A. Roles’ car at 1301 N. Garfield at Sycamore and Washington. Elmer L. Pilgrim’s car sustained front fender damage in a West Main business section collision with Roy A. Cleaver at 110 N. Garfield. Both cars were backing from parking spots when the mishaps occurred.
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Dudley Fraley
N. Forest
Sammy A. Roles
N. Garfield
Sycamore
Washington
Elmer L. Pilgrim
West Main
Roy A. Cleaver
Hutchinson Worker Rescued From Cinders
A 20 year old Hutchinson cinder block firm employee, Dean Rodger, was trapped two hours by a cave in the 40 foot tower. Fellow workers and city firefighters freed him, he was hospitalized with exposure and minor abrasions after being drawn out through the tower roof.
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Dean Rodger
Rodger
Elva M Wood Files Candidacy for Neosho County Register
Elva M Wood announces she will seek the Neosho County register of deeds post in the Republican primary. A decades long county resident, she has worked as a radio operator and secretary in Sheriff Lee H Montgomery’s Erie office, taught in Crawford County schools, and runs a farm near Erie. She is a lifelong Republican and Kansas Woman’s Republican club member. She aims to run the office efficiently and courteously.
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Elva M. Wood
Neosho County
The
Methodist Church
Office of Register of Deeds
Kidnap-Slayer Brown to Die Tonight in Missouri Gas Chamber
Arthur Ross Brown, condemned for the kidnapping and murder of Wilma Allen, is scheduled for execution in Missouri's gas chamber shortly after midnight. Allen, 34, was raped and shot last August after a shopping trip in Kansas City. Brown, 30, reportedly declined a special last meal, saying the standard prison fare is fine for his final dinner.
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Jefferson City
Arthur Ross Brown
Wilma Allen
Missouri
Brown
Arrests to Start March 15 for Old Tags
Topeka Kansas motorists face court after March 15 if they keep old license tags. Col Tom Glasscock highway patrol superintendent says he will seek cooperation of all peace officers in a crackdown on vehicle registration violations.
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Topeka
Kansas
Tom Glasscock
Highway Patrol
Furriers Reach Out-of-Court Settlement Over Onion Odor
The fur company which sued to stop a hamburger stand from moving next door has settled. The furriers will buy the lease for 1500 dollars and pay the landlord 50 dollars a month for six months with assurances no other food business will locate nearby.
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Dallas
Fur Company
Eisenhower unveils uranium program for world peace
President Eisenhower announced a billion dollar plan to release 88 000 pounds of uranium 235 for peaceful atomic projects both at home and abroad. Half of the supply will be leased in the United States mainly for power reactors, with the other half to be sold or leased abroad for research and power uses.
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Thomasville
Eisenhower
Russia
United States
Nikola Bulganin
Bulganin
Soviet Union
Longton Driver Arrested for DUI and Liquor Transport
Richard E. Persinger of Longton was arrested last night on illegal liquor transport and driving under the influence charges and released after posting 150 bond. Two passengers Herman Snyder and Bernard Alexander, both of Longton, were held on intoxication charges and released after posting 15 bonds each. A portion bottle of apricot brandy was found in the pickup.
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Richard E. Persinger
Longton
Persinger
Herman Snyder
Bernard Alexander
El Dorado Kiwanis Sells 1400 Trees For Drought Losses
El Dorado residents ordered nearly 1,400 trees from the Kiwanis Club to replace trees lost to drought and last winter's ice storm. The club organized the sale as a community project.
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EL Dorado
el Doradoans
Kiwanis Club
Tragic Stop Claims Life of Father in Kentucky Crash
In Ludlow Kentucky Anthony Eades stopped after witnessing a car fail to turn and strike a utility pole. He found his 62 year old father Thomas W. Eades dead and pinned inside the wrecked vehicle against the steering wheel.
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Ludlow
Anthony Eades
Thomas W. Eades
Battle over farm price supports moves to Senate floor
The Senate shifts debate on the farm bill from committees to the floor with Ellender urging higher supports to boost farmers' income and Aiken predicting a late week vote. The bill includes rigid price supports, soil bank, acreage reserve, and other farm-law changes aimed at boosting prices and income. Senators propose amendments signaling floor rewriting before a final vote is possible.
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Senate
Sen
Ellender
D-La
House
Sen. Aiken
R-Vi
Aiken
Senate Agriculture Committee
Eisenhower
Overcome by Smoke Man Pays $25 Fine
Theodore E Layden of Bartlesville Oklahoma was carried unconscious from his hotel room at the Town House in Kansas City Kas. A fire on a studio couch led to his plea of guilty in police court to smoking in bed and a $25 fine. Hotel staff and firemen extinguished the blaze and a bellman Arlen Allen helped revive him.
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Kansas City
Kas
Theodore E. Layden
Bartlesville
Okla
Layden
Arlen Allen
Tribune Delivery Change for Chanute Subscribers
Starting Monday February 27 Chanute subscribers who do not get the Tribune by carrier and owe no unpaid balance may obtain it by calling 700 after 6 p m to have a taxicab deliver the paper. Call your carrier first before using this service. The Tribune office closes at 5 p m daily and 1 m on Saturdays.
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