New Year Weddings and A Drive Test Highlights
Probate Judge Louis J. Eaton officiated at the New Year wedding of Leona Walton of Newton and Hosea Perkins of Chanute at 209 N Plum. Iola patrolman Jesse Gragg reported testing 10 license applicants at noon with 15 more due, noting 30 to 45 percent fail on first try. A prank classified ad offering used Christmas trees drew about 200 calls to Merton Staley and his wife, with others contacting Roger McCabe. Staley suspects a single person behind the gag but has no clue who.
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Louis J. Eaton
Leona Walton
Newton
Hosea Perkins
Chanute
N. Plummer
New Year's Day
Staley
Springlike warmth fades as colder air moves in
The region enjoyed mild springlike weather with 60s and 70s in many areas. Forecasters warned that falling temperatures would bring wind and cloud cover, with tonight’s lows in the 20s to 30s and Friday highs about 40 to 50 depending on location.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Wamego
Garden City
Pittsburg
Four From Here Off Critical List
Chanute residents report four from here removed from the critical list after a Tuesday morning collision near Madisonville. Larry Dean Myers died later in Houston while his parents and Felix Bouray and his wife suffered multiple injuries. The battered group were returning from the incident in the Myers car as funeral plans formed for Larry Dean Myers and a burial set for Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Chanute
Tex
Associated Press
Larry Dean Myers
Dale Myers
Madisonville
Houston
Myers
Felix Bouray
Charute
Bouray
Wilson-Johnson Chapel
Judd Jones
Methodist Church
Memorial Park Cemetery
Jones
Joe Sutcliffe
Dick Thunderbird
Bridegroom Recovers Amnesia To Recognize Bride After Week
Placerville scene as Robert Evenson, just recovered from amnesia, recognizes his bride Colora Lee Evenson after a week of marriage. He was found along Highway 50 after wandering from the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Evenson, a Colorado College student, had married Colora Lee, a Sterling, Colorado teacher. Dr. Shortes reports his memory returning with associative recall.
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Placerville
Calif
Robert Evenson
Placerville Sanitarium
L. E. Shortes
Colora Lee Evenson
Colorado
Fairmont
San Francisco
U. S. Highway 50
Evenson
Sterling, Colo
Shortes
Writer of 16 Tons Goes on a Spree
Merle Travis, 37, songwriter of Sixteen Tons, faced no charges after an all night drinking spree ended with him striking his wife with a pistol and barricading himself in his San Fernando Valley home for over 90 minutes. Police stormed the bungalow with rifles, shotguns and tear gas. Travis said he did not remember the events. He is to earn about 75 000 dollars from his hit song.
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North Hollywood
Calif M
Merle Travis
San Fernando Valley
Travis
Brazilian Leader Visits Eisenhower
President Eisenhower welcomes President-elect Juscelino Kubitschek of Brazil at a breakfast meeting in Key West Florida. They spent three minutes together before Kubitschek flies to Washington and New York en route to the capital and East Coast stops.
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Key West
Fla
Eisenhower
Juscelino Kubitschek
Brazil
United States
Kubitschek
Eisehower
Washington
New York
Hall Proposes Large Cuts to Health and Education Budgets
Governor Hall recommends deep cuts to health agencies and education and research in the 1957 budget, trimming $4.6 million from education and research and $6.0 million from health and hospitals while keeping highways unchanged at $75,296,729. The proposal also shows higher overall totals for education, health, and welfare than the current year, with varying gaps from last year’s figures.
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Pera ‘P
Fred Hall
Hall
The
Highway Patrol
National Guard
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
$22 Million Estate Left by Ham Fisher
Ham Fisher creator of the Joe Palooka comic strip left an estimated 2 million dollar estate to his 17 year old daughter Wendy. The will filed for probate leaves the legal minimum to his second wife Marilyn, who he married in April 1954. Fisher, 54, died by his own hand in a Manhattan studio on December 27 and left notes mentioning failing eyesight and diabetes.
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New York
Ham Fisher
Joe Palooka
Wendy
Fisher
Marilyn
Manhattan
Little Rock Man Seeks Half Of Wedding Picture In Divorce
William Gene Shelton of Little Rock yesterday waived his right to contest a divorce sought by his wife Peggy Lou but asked the chancery court to compel her to give him half of their wedding photograph.
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Little Rock, Ark
William Gene Shelton
Little Rock
Peggy Lou
Chancery J Court
Eisenhower Predicts Budget Balance and Debt Reduction Plan
President Eisenhower announced a balanced budget for the year ending June 30 1956 and a proposed balanced budget for 1957. He urged a modest debt reduction before pursuing tax cuts and outlined foreign aid and farm policy proposals, with broad support from Republicans and cautious praise from Democrats.
Grace Kelly Engaged to Prince Rainier of Monaco
Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III announced their engagement. Rainier, 32, and Miss Kelly, 26, are Roman Catholics and meet on the Riviera during her filming. The palace and the Kelly family confirmed the betrothal.
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Miss Kelly
John B. Kelly
Philadelphia
The
Riviera
United States
Rainier
Mediterranean
France
Prince Rainier III
Monaco
Grace Kelly
School Begins in Trailer for Seven Pupils at Newland
Seven pupils at Newland School west of Thayer in Wilson County resume classes in a trailer classroom after the original building, destroyed by a gas line explosion on December 21, was deemed unsafe. Teacher Mrs. Edwin Greer and students escaped with minor burns. A Fire Marshal representative approved the trailer setup as a temporary school site while a new building or consolidation is considered.
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Newland School
Thayer
Wilson County
Newland
Edwin Greer
Eisenhower omits 18 year voting rights request in State of the Union
In a State of the Union message President Eisenhower dropped a major proposal from two years ago seeking voting rights for 18 year olds. The omission was noted as a shift in priorities while Congress debated civil rights and youth ballot access.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Destruction Ordered For 21 One-Armed Bandits
WICHITA district judge B Mack Bryant ordered destruction of 21 one armed bandits seized in raids last July. The slot machines were taken from the club houses of the Elks and Moose organizations.
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Wichitap
B. Mack Bryant
Elks and Moose
Tot Drowns in Sandpit Near Wichita Trailer Home
Four year old Wesley Roland drowned yesterday in a sandpit beside his family's Wichita area trailer. His mother pulled him from the pit and attempted resuscitation.
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Wichita
Wesley Roland
Ike's Congress Message Highlights Policy For 1959
President Eisenhower outlines state of the union focusing on peace, prosperity, and defense. He cites record national income, farm income concerns, and calls for a modern interstate highway system and a five year federal school aid program while stressing balanced budgets and local autonomy.
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State of the
Union
Congress
Eisenhower outlines plan to aid farm prosperity
President Eisenhower promises a multifaceted push to solve farm problems and raise farmers’ incomes. A special message to Congress next Monday will lay out a soil bank idea to shrink overexpanded farm capacity and a new attack on crop surpluses. He notes farmers have faced declining prices despite broader prosperity and urges timely wartime program adjustments to prevent ongoing harm.
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Washington (P
Eisenhower
White House
Congress
Drought Aid For Area Farmers Extended Loans
A Washington message from Myron V. George says all counties in the Third District are designated for emergency drought loans to farmers with major 1955 crop losses. Local FHA staff in Erie expect details soon. 1954 drought loans offered five percent financing for seeds and fertilizer purchases.
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Myron V. George
Washington, D.C
Agricultural Department
Farmers Home Administration
Neosho County
FHA
Erie
Traffic Fatalities in Topeka 1956 Report
Topeka Kansas reports 1 traffic fatality in the last 24 hours and 9 to date for 1956. For comparison, the same period in 1955 had 16 fatalities.
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Topeka
Kansas
Advisory Group Proposes 30 Million New State Revenues
Topeka advisers present a 30 million dollar package of revenue ideas to Governor Hall. Proposals include a 3 to 4 percent tax on oil, land, and gas and a 50 percent rise in income tax rates, with emphasis on enforcing and equalizing existing taxes. The plan rejects a general property tax and a higher sales tax, urging a state department of revenue and stronger tax administration.
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Topeka
Governor Hall
Advisory Committee On
E. W. Johnson
Chanute
Ethan P. Allen
Lawrence
Allen
Department of Political Science
University of Kansas
Johnson
Chanute Tribune
Kansas Citizens Commission On
John G. Stutz
League of Kansas Municipalities
Kansas
Johnson - Allen
Legislative Council
Five Beer Licenses Approved by City in Chanute
Five additional 1956 retail beer licenses have been approved by the Chanute city governing board, bringing total licenses for the year to 23. Recipients include H. L. Toomey Shamrock Inn 317 E Main American Legion 301 N Evergreen C F Disney Disney Market 1116 N Santa Fe Orley Barker Orley's 20 W Main and Francis T Berthot The Piza 14th and Steuben.
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Chanute
H. L. Toomey
Sham‘rock Inn
E. Main
American Legion
N. Evergreen
C. F
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Gordon Barker
Jim Ellis
Tribune
Jesse M. Gragg
Iola
Kansas Highway Patrol
Merton Staley
Will Thuy
Roger McCabe
Altoona
McCabe
CAA
U.S
State of the Union
Hawaii
Free Nations
Senate
House
Prince of
Monte Carlo
Prince Rainier of
New Orleans
Boston
Leon J. Kamin
Harvard University
Bailey Aldrich
Tot
Ike
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