Comets and Panthers clash in home and away league games
Chanute Blue Comets host Independence Bulldogs in a Southeast Kansas League doubleheader with a 6:30 B team and 8:00 varsity. Chanute seeks a fifth straight win while Independence, 2-1, aims to upset the league leaders in tonight’s two games.
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Chanute Blue Comets
Black Panthers
Independence
Independence Bulldogs
Chanute Juco
Panthers
Pirates
Blue Comets
Kansas
Chanute
Bulldogs
Comets
Fred Russell
Bob Dalton
al Jones
Jim Gough
Jack Brookhart
Mark Steeves
Terry Sutcliffe
Kenny Winters
Chester Williams
Coffeyville
Parsons
Columbus
Fort Scott
Iola
Pittsburg
Ottawa
Ted Holley
Jack Brownlee
Vikings
Chanute Jaco Black Panthers
Independence Piirates
Yort Scott
Highland
Arkansas City
el Dorado
Wichita University
St John’s
Winfield
Civil War Centennial Heralded by Bells
The Civil War Centennial Commission expects every church bell in America to ring at 11 oclock Sunday signaling the start of a four year observance. The commission says it will be the greatest commemoration and that President Eisenhower will address the nation by radio and television next Sunday urging national participation.
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Washington
Public meeting sets election of Mexican Fiesta officers
A public meeting for electing Mexican Fiesta officers for 1961 will be held Sunday at 4 30 p.m. in St Patrick s School basement. The notice lists attendees and local residents connected to the event and surrounding Christmas travel.
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St. Patrick's School
Sunday Dinner Guests in Charlotte and Independence
Sunday dinner guests of Vir and Mrs C C Rhodes of Charlotte Linda and Martha at 523 S Lafayette included Mr and Mrs J T Bradshaw and Rosellen of Independence Missouri and Mr and Mrs D D Dillman.
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C. C. Rhodes
Charlotte
Linda
Martha
Lafayette
J.T. Bradshaw
Rosellen
Independence
D. D. Dillman
Local families visit Millington and St Louis for conventions
Mr and Mrs Leland Lowe Kay Carla and Karen 306 S Highland and Mrs John Schoen hofer and Bob St Paul spent the weekend in Millington Tenn with her sister and husband Cliff Amos and family. David Parker speech instructor at Senior High Junior College attended the National Speech Assn of America convention in St Louis Dec 27 30. Several thousand attendees from across the country joined seminars discussions and speeches by leaders in the field.
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Leland Lowe
Kay
Carla
Karen
S. Highland
John Schoenhofer
Bob
St. Paul
Millington
Tenn
Clifford Amos
David Parker
National Speech Assn. of America
St. Louis
United States
Closet Door Tug-of-War But Burglar Escapes
Glenn Pennington returned to a home in San Mateo California with his wife to find the front door ajar. A burglar trapped inside fought a closet door tug-of-war with Pennington, who finally called the police as the intruder escaped.
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San Mateo
Calif
Glenn Pennington
Pennington
Man Gone In Break In. Woman Describes Theft
Pennington recalls a break in where a man fled and the woman had no chance to grab any items. The quote underscores a rushed incident with no items taken.
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Pennington
Seventy Five Witnesses Called In Air Crash Hearing
New York AP reports 75 witnesses were summoned for the Civil Aeronautics Board inquiry into the Dec 16 two airliner collision that killed 136. The CAB described the hearing as among the largest ever held with 10 named eyewitnesses among those scheduled to testify.
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New York
Civil Aeronautics Board
CAB
Edward J. Slattery Jr
United Air Lines
Plane Collision Witnesses Report Pieces Falling
Trans World Airline Constellation and a collision over Staten Island are noted with Slattery stating witnesses saw parts of the plane falling. The Chanute Tribune references the Tuesday January 3 1961 report on the incident.
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The
Chanute Tribune
Staten Island
Slattery
Plane Bags Geese Lands at Topeka
An airliner arriving at Topeka struck three wild geese that broke the cockpit windshield of a Continental Airlines DC3. Pilot A A Rippey of Aurora Colorado was cut and taken to hospital with the seven passengers bused to Kansas City after a safe landing.
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Topeka
Continental Airlines
A. A. Rippey
Aurora
Colo
Rippey
Kansas City
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Pines
Rockingham
Wilson’s Davis Paint Store
E. Main
George G. Palen
G. W. Palen
S. Evergreen
Naval Training Center
San Diego
Fort Smith
Ark
Harry Barnhill
Silver
Clarence Bland
Maxinedale
Wash
Groves
Tulsa
B. L. Phillips, Altamont, Mahlon Gray and
Howard McMurray
Minnie Carter
N. Grant
Lucille Carter
Bartlesville
San Antonio
Tex
Robyn Carter
Ray Miller
Poplar, Mont
Mrs
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Benedict and
Coyville
Charles H. Orr
Benedict
Denver
Leah Higgins
Charles Wayne Morris
Roy Higgins
Norman Morris
Barber College
Opportunity School
Morris
Hazel Siefken
Rural Grange
Rural School
Delbert Wiggins
David
Debbie
Manhattan
C. L. Childrers
Evergreen
Edward Wiggins
Tola
Wiggins
Kansas State University
Tribune
J. A. Shields
Paul Matlock
Lester
Bill
Batty
Susie
Varnell Evangelistic Party of
Full Gospel Church
N. Lafayette
W. C. Stratton
J. R. Stratton
Richland, Wash
Jim Ellis
Penney’s
ST GE
Penney
Flame, Peacock
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