Christmas Calm Amid City Holiday and Flood News
A boy asked if BB guns are illegal in city limits causing a desk sergeant to refer the question to law officials. Medford floods impacted families with four hundred homes lost. Detours and landslides hampered return travel. A destitute family sought aid at police HQ. Red Cross provided meals and lodging. Schools resumed after a Christmas-New Year break with limited activities.
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Smalle T
John Young
Young
Medford
Rogue River
Two Minor Car Mishaps Over Holiday Weekend
Two minor motor car incidents occurred in the city over the holiday weekend with no injuries. Ara minta Brown backed into Wilbur Chandler’s parked car at 317 West Main, damaging Chandler’s left front fender. Elizabeth Kepley’s car was struck while backing from a curb on West Main, damaging her right rear fender after Charles H. Gerdsen backed into it from a curb.
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W. Main
Araminta Brown
N. Garfield
Wilbur Chandler
Chandler
Elizabeth Kepley
Chanute
Charles H. Gerdsen
la Harpe
Hale Johnson County Assessor Dies at Home
Fred A. Hale Johnson County assessor died today at his home after suffering a heart attack several weeks ago.
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Olathe
Fred A. Hale
Johnson County
Second Session For 84th Congress Opens at Washington
The 84th Congress began its second session with debate over a farm program tax cuts foreign aid and highway construction. House Democrats, seeking investigations, pushed talk of government control by big business as the new year starts. In Key West Eisenhower completed the State of the Union and budget messages, budget to go to Congress January 16.
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Sth
House
McCormack
Mass
Key West
Fla
Eisenhower
Congress
Rowland R. Hughes
Chamber
Cottonwood
Neosho
Bank Announces Call for State of National Banks
The comptroller of the currency calls upon all national banks to submit statements of their condition as of close of business Saturday December 31. The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp also request member banks to file statements as of December.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Kansas bank commissioner calls for year end state bank report
Acting Kansas bank commissioner W Lindley ordered a statement of the condition of all state banks and trust companies as of the close of business on December 31.
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Topeka
PG. W. Lindley
Kansas Bank
First Day Rush for Erie License Plates Draws Crowds
Erie motorists flock to the county treasurer’s office for new 146 passenger car and 23 truck plates. Don Harding reported about 100 people waited in the courthouse corridors at opening time and some arrived as early as 4 a.m. The first passenger car tag went to Magdalene Orosco. the second to Chanute’s George Orosco and third to Mr. and Mrs. Parsons. Truck tags began with Gene Tarn and Joe Heck, with John W. Tipping receiving the third. Deadline to purchase without penalty is February 15.
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Erie
Don Harding
Harding
Magdalene
Maggie
Orosco
Steuben
Chanute
George Orosco
Paul Parsons
Western
Gene Tarn
Chanute R
Family of Four Killed in Illinois Plane Crash
A Bloomington Illinois private plane crash killed Paul E Ward 42 a railroad supply salesman his wife Harriett 40 and their two daughters Joan 14 and Sharon 8. The family returning to Hinsdale after visiting St Louis over the New Year weekend.
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Bloomington
Ill
Paul E. Ward
Harriett
Joan
Sharon
Hinsdale
Chicago
St. Louis
Richland Bank Heist Targets Mrs Gray in Kansas
Mrs Georgia Neese Clark Gray former U S treasurer was abducted from her Richland Kansas home by three armed men who forced her to open a bank vault and a smaller silver vault and took about 1 200 dollars plus 767 from her grocery. The attack occurred last night and she was later released unharmed.
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Richland, Kas
Georgia Neese Clark Gray
United States
Richland
Gray
Mrs. Gray
Postal Receipts Near 100000 at Chanute in 1955
Postmaster Leif R. Nelson announced Chanute post office set new yearly receipts at 99,557.37 dollars for 1955, surpassing 1954 by 1,055.96 and marking the highest annual total to date. December 1955 receipts reached 16,607.73 dollars, up 1,885.14 from 1954, with the December 1953 record previously standing at 15,135.65.
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Chanute
Leif R. Nelson
Nelson
Unusually mild start to new year in Kansas forecasts
Forecasters say the first days of the year will stay generally fair and mild through Wednesday with tonight s low in the 25 to 35 degree range and Wednesday s high in the 50s. Kansas highs yesterday ranged from 48 in Pittsburg to 61 in Wichita with lows from 32 at Garden City and Dodge City to 24 at Russell and Salina.
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Kansas
Weather Bureau
Pittsburg
Wichita
Garden City
Dodge City
Russell
Salina
North Central
Wamego
Topeka
Olathe
Korean Visitor Highlights U S Life and Local Growth Plans
Seoul journalist Kim from Korea, in a six month exchange tour, praises America’s cleanliness and worker balance while touring Chanute. He renews ties with Ostrum and visits Dallas and Carroll Iowa. returns to Northwestern. Chanute officials outline 1956 city projects including a $1.2 million electric plant expansion, parking lots, street and utility improvements, and a new state hospital wing.
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Reuters
Korea
United States
U.S. State Department
Dallas
Tex
Dean Ostrum
Raymond Pierpont
Chanute
Pusan
Ostrum
U.S. Judge Advocate Section
Ostrums
Aso
Pierponts
Fort Worth
Daily News- Press
Carroll
Iowa
Times-Herald
Medill School of Journalism
Northwestern University
Northwestern
Evanston
Seoul
Byerley Retires From Humboldt National Bank After Long Service
Humboldt W A Byerley retires as president of Humboldt National Bank at week’s end. He sold his interest to J R Leimenstell, long‑time executive, who has worked with the bank over 35 years. The bank’s capital, resources and staff are listed with Leimenstell as president. Byerley, nearly 79, cites age and gratitude to patrons and friends.
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Humboldt
W. A. Byerley
Humboldt National Bank
J. R. Leimenstell
Byerley
W. 8. Fallis
Bank of
Wendell Dean Strunk
Teller
Ladonna Booe Gibson
J. W. Braucher
Robert A. Finney
Wulf
Miss Smith
Leimenstell
Baby Derby Entry Only Contestant Named in Stork Derby
James Michael Adelgren was the first baby born in the Chanute trade territory this year at Neogho Memorial Hospital. Born Jan 1 at 3:07 a.m. to Mr and Mrs John F Adelgren, 311 E 12th, weighing 7 lbs 9 ozs. Thirty prizes await the first baby born to resident parents, with the winner to be announced tomorrow after a final check.
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James Michael Adelgren
John F. Adelgren
Neogho Memorial Hospital
Chanute Trade
Quadruplets Born To Lancaster Postal Clerk Family
Mrs. Norman C. Hohenwarter, wife of a 65 dollar weekly postal clerk, delivered quadruplet boys yesterday in Lancaster. The newborns were listed in fair condition early today.
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Lancaster
Norman C. Hohenwarter
New Year Holiday Traffic Toll Sets Three Day Record
Weekend traffic deaths reached 357 with 72 fires and 74 in the miscellaneous bracket for an overall 503 toll. Kansas reported ten traffic deaths and one fire. Key incidents included a Johnson County crash killing Loren James Johnson and the Wichita area deaths of Maynard Wilks and Ruby Dies. Governor Hall cited progress in highway safety despite the high totals.
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Associated Press
Kansas
Loren James Johnson
Bennington
U. S. 50
Johnson County
Johnson
Monrovia
Maynard Wilks
Wichita
Edgar Whistler
Independence
Kas
Jay Theodore Brown
Edgar Yearling
Manhattan
Ruby
Topeka
Fred Hall
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