Gypsy Pair Ester Egg Thefts and Eden Ahbez Feature
Two tone Oldsmobile gypsies in Buffalo last weekend refused entry by homeowners while posing as a religious group. A possible link to earlier Chandler home theft of $24. Eden Abbet, once Chanute resident George McGrew, appears in a California feature on Eden Ahbez and his natural lifestyle with son Zoma. Neo sho probate records show 1954 marriage licenses up 16 from 1953, ages 13 to 75.
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Buffalo
Eden Abbet
George McGrew
Chanute
California
Tujunga
Calif
Ahbez
Brooklyn
Eden Ahbez
Nature Boy
Ahber
Zoma
India
Zoma Ahbez
Stewardess Heroine Guides Passengers From Crashed Plane
A National Airlines twin engine Lockheed Lodestar bound for Miami crashed on takeoff in St. Petersburg. Stewardess Sarah Reeves calmed and led 10 passengers to safety with no injuries. Captain Marshal Hope and co pilot George Graham, both based in Miami, piloted the aircraft.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
National Air Lines
Miami
Sarah Reeves
Dania, Fla
Kathy
Miss Reeves
Jacksonville
Marshal Hope
George Graham
Hastings-On-Hudson
N.Y
Kansas City Explosion Wrecks Three Buildings
An early blast in northwest Kansas City wrecked a one story brick block housing a restaurant a shore repair shop and a grocery injuring firefighter Edward Neville who fell from a theater marquee while aiding evacuees. Firefighters and a police arson squad investigated the cause.
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Kansas City
Edward Neville
Woman and three children killed in Grapeland crash
A mother Mrs Forrest Walling 40 and three children Virginia 17 Pamela 3 and Paula 3 died when their small truck was struck by the Texas Eagle Missouri Pacific streamliner at a Grapeland crossing. One other child Nancy Franklin 9 was critically injured.
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Grapeland
Tex.s
Texas Eagle
Missouri Pacific
J. S. Turner
Crockett
Forrest Walling
Virginia Walling
Pamela
Paula
Plan Disposal Abroad For Big Farm Surplus
President Eisenhower told Congress that 578 million dollars worth of surplus farm products have been disposed abroad with sales and gifts as part of a three year program. He outlined grants totaling 125 million to aid famine relief, and noted sales of 453 million with payments in foreign currencies to develop markets and obtain materials.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Heisenhower
Capitol Hill
United States
Western
Europe
South America
Middle East
Turkey
Southeast Asia
Japan
Pakistan
Weather forecast and state capital ceremony conditions
Partly cloudy through Tuesday with cooler nights and a warm Tuesday. Inaugural ceremonies at the state capital enjoyed fair skies and chilly temperatures statewide. Western Kansas to see increasing cloudiness and light snow from a Pacific Coast storm, with overnight lows in the mid teens to low 20s and highs in the 40s in the southwest and 30s elsewhere.
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Topekamp
Weather Bureau
Pacific Coast
Fom Arnold
Kansas
Arnold
Goodland
Chanute
Hill City
Pittsburg
Traffic Fatalities Reported In 1955 State Totals
Topeka records show 4 deaths in the last 48 hours and 20 to date for 1955 with one additional fatality from an earlier accident included in the period. Authorities tally ongoing accident results across the state.
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Topeka
Kansas
Red Planes Hit Tachen Islands in Major Air Assault
The Nationalist Defense Ministry reported 200 miles north of Formosa the Tachens endured the heaviest Communist air attack of the civil war with more than 300 bombs dropped in seven waves from dawn to late afternoon. Two attackers were claimed shot down and two damaged. civilian casualties were described as considerable.
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Taipeh
Formosa
Tachen Islands
Nationalist
Defense Ministry
Red China
United States
7Th Fleet
$100 Bond Posted After DWI Arrest in Humboldt
H. L. Griffith of Humboldt was arrested Sunday on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He posted a $100 bond and surrendered his driver's license before release. The arrest occurred on North Santa Fe after police followed the car for several blocks.
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H. L. Griffith
Humboldt
North Santa Fe
Strike Halts Food Delivery In Midwest Logistics
A Teamsters Local No. 955 strike halted deliveries from the Safeway warehouse to stores across Missouri and Kansas. About 250 workers were idle as a 95-member picket line protested a stalled contract that expired December 19. Warehouse officials said some outside deliveries continued.
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Kansas City
Kas.p
Teamsters
Safeway
Missouri
Kansas
Teamsters Local No. 955
Columbia
Junction City
M. V. Witbeck
Democrats Realign Senate Posts for Barkley Morse O Mahoney
Senate Democrats announced new assignments for key committees. Barkley returns to Foreign Relations and Finance, Morse gains Foreign Relations and Banking and Currency, and O Mahoney takes Judiciary and Interior. Johnson said votes were unanimous and seniority waivers used for Barkley and O Mahoney.
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Washington
Senate
Democrats
Sen
Barkley
D-Ky
Morse
Ind-Ore
O’mahoney
D-Wye
Judiciary
Interior
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
O'Mahoney
District of Columbia
Johnson
Armed Services
Labor
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Kansas county officials inaugurated at Erie courthouse
In ceremonies at the Erie courthouse the majority of Neosho county officials elected last November took oaths. Wendell Bowyer was sworn in as county clerk, followed by Louis J. Eaton as probate judge and other officials including sheriff Lee Montgomery and undersheriff Oliver Craig. Terms begin immediately with several officials starting new years of service this fall and July.
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Erie
Neosho County
Wendell Bowyer
P. W. Kyle
Louis J. Eaton
Chanute
Charles Forsyth
Emery Wilson
Eaton
Flora Klenklen
Bill Snyder
Snyder
Forsyth
John N. Sher
Cary Pruitt
Jure
Parsons
Lee Francis
Humboldt R
Ed Brinkmeyer
H. F. Swain
Don Harding
Thomas IF. Leatherman
Nelle Stevens
Gas Rates Hiked For Some of Erie
Eastern Kansas Gas Co set new monthly rate schedules affecting Erie area consumers including Erie schools the city power plant county buildings and several industrial users. Domestic rates stay unchanged. Public buildings pay 1 per thousand cubic feet for the first thousand and 45 cents then 35 cents per thousand for over 10 000. Power plant rates start at 25 cents per thousand for up to 100 000 and continue at 25 cents thereafter with four million monthly use as a threshold.
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Erie
Eastern Kansas Gas Co
Gas City
LaHarpe
Piqua
Kansas
Red Leaders Denied Supreme Court Review
Thirteen second string Communist leaders were denied a Supreme Court review of their New York subversive conspiracy conviction. They were convicted January 23 1953 after a trial lasting more than eight months. Sentences ranged from one year with a $2000 fine to three years and a $6000 fine.
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Washington
Supreme Court
New York
Death Pace Quickens In Kansas Highway Toll
Four people died in Kansas over the weekend from traffic crashes, lifting the year toll to 20 versus 16 a year earlier. John Everhart of Can ton area died in a McPherson hospital from injuries when a pickup overturned. An Emporia couple R L Smith and his wife were killed crossing into a Missouri Pacific train at Allen. Eddie Spears, 26, of Kansas City Kansas, died when his car hit a tree in Wyandotte County.
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Associated Press
Kansas
John Everhart
Canton
McPherson
Roxbury
McPherson County
Emporia
Kas
R. L. Smith
Missouri-Pacific
Allen
Smith
Santa Fe Railroad
Kansas City
Eddie Spears
Wyandotte County
Bill Young to Lead Neosho Red Cross Drive
Chanute motor car dealer Bill Young named to head the annual Red Cross fund drive in Neosho County. Aiming to raise 9981 dollars, the campaign runs March 1 for the month. Young will be aided by Mrs Frank Gibson and Paul Brennecke on the committee.
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Bill Young
Chanute
Red Cross
Neosho County
Herman A. Janzen
American Red Cross
Walter M. Poor
Young
Frank Gibson
Paul T. Brennecke
Kansas Chamber of Commerce
Sedan
Boy Scouts of America
Rotary Club
Wide Area Rain and Snow Grips Much of Nation
Wet weather persisted across the United States with heavy snow in west Texas closing schools and slick roads while moisture spread eastward to Alabama and Oklahoma. Northeastern Texas saw mixed precipitation as the north remained unsettled, and light snow touched northern states from Vermont to Washington with Pacific Coast showers in the Far West.
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Associated Press
Texas
Alabama
Oklahoma
United States
Vermont
Washington
Pacific Coast
Great Basin
Eisenhower Nominates Finnegan to Lead Federal Mediation Service
President Eisenhower announced the nomination of 50 year old New York lawyer Joseph E Finnegan to director the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service He would replace Whitley P McCoy who resigned December 1.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Joseph E. Finnegan
New York
Federal
Meidiation and Conciliation Service
Finnegan
Whitley P. McCoy
Belle Starr Trail Quest in Ozark Ghost House Tale
Fayette Rowe recounts Belle Starr the Confederate spy and outlaw from the tri state area. At Newtonia Missouri the antebellum mansion hosts restoration while Belle’s birthday ride 35 miles to Carthage Missouri warns Ed Starr of Union pursuit.
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Fayette Rowe
Chanute
Columbus
Belle Starr
Tri-State
Rowe
Newtonia
Oklahoma
Kansas
Belle
Carthage
Belle Star
Myra Belle Shirley
Northport
Ozarks
H. M. Ritchey
Shirleys
Ritcheys
Ritchey
Edwin B. Eno
Eno
W. C. Quantrill
Five Brothers Sisters Die in Baltimore Fire
Five brothers and sisters under six perished from asphyxiation in a one alarm Baltimore fire. The blaze confined to a middle bedroom on the first floor of a row house. smoke from mattresses filled the room. No burns were reported. The children's mother Katherine Harrington was elsewhere. the father was serving in Korea.
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Paltimore
Katherine Harrington
Korea
Juco Enrolls On Wednesday At Little Theater
Junior College enrollment for the second semester will be held from 10 a.m. until noon on Wednesday in the Little Theater. Howard A. Jester, dean, said today. Late enrollments will be taken at the Junior College office. The second semester starts January 28.
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Little Theater
Howard A. Jester
Kansas Aims for Order Under New Governor Hall
Fred L. Hall became Kansas 33rd governor promising cooperation with the Federal government where needed while defending states rights. He urged efficiency and self discipline in an 11 minute inaugural speech to about 4,000 in cold sun. Hall appealed for federal aid on education welfare highways and water amid rising population and crime.
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Topeka
Fred L. Hall
Kansas
Dodge City
Hall
Edward F. Arn
Arn
United States
Mrs. Fager Killed in Hunting Accident Near Overbrook
Mrs. Maurice E. Fager, 41, was killed when a hunting rifle leaning against a fence was knocked over by a dog and fired. She hunted with her husband, manager of the Kansas Free Fair Assn, and their 14 year old son Mark near Overbrook Kansas. She was to host a reception and ball in Topeka tonight.
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Overbrook
Kas.f
Maurice E. Fager
Kansas Free Fair Assn
Kansas Industrial Development Commission
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Charles Chandler West
Chandler
Hollywood
Cupid
Pinellas Fort Myers
West Palm Beach
Nancy Franklin
Houston
Tachen
Tribune
Casey Drug Co
Sen. Barkley
Fred Hall
Miss Estes
Gun Mall of Area History
By Fayette Rowe
Guerrila
Major Eno
John Shirley
Carthage Female Academy
Juco
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