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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1956
Page
1
Drought tightens grip on the area with wheat and barley holding green though not growing, and some plant deaths reported. Oats planting set for February while city water use rises as farmers haul water. Neosho River remains ample and forecasts promise a wet spring with moisture within two weeks.
Friday February 13 passes without incident at the municipal building as staff note birthdays and ignore omens. Firefighters address a false alarm amid a tractor fire on North Lee. A lake project in Wilson County advances toward spring with stocking planned. Lake Fegan in Woodson County expands access. Montgomery County lake slated to open for fishing this summer.
The Kansas Water Resources Board proposes a 316 724 study of water problems in a wet and dry state. It seeks 183 000 for its work and endorses 133 724 for other agencies. The plan includes 150 000 to hire a technical staff and 25 000 for cooperative work with the U S Geological Survey, matched by federal funds. Additional requests cover groundwater, mapping, pollution abatement, and irrigation research in the Kansas River valley.
An unidentified Charleston woman misfired a newspaper box lever at Dryden and Bullitt Streets. Instead of the Charleston Daily Mail, three fire engines screamed to the scene yesterday after the bag dispensing papers hung on a utility pole below the fire alarm box.
In Washington Representative Berry of South Dakota urged Secretary Benson to announce early that higher support prices will be paid for better quality wheat, stressing the importance of this policy for producers.
Barton County records its first traffic fatality of 1956 as John E Rankin 44 of Albert Kansas died in a one car crash last night in Great Bend.
Labette County Medical Society objects to state vaccine distribution for polio. They say excess vaccine will expire by February and cannot be used for children outside the 5 to 9 age group under Board of Health limits. They urge direct doctor access and plan to send letters to officials.
Police say the mystery of missing Jacqueline Smith is solved with two men held on homicide charges. Thomas G. Daniel and Leo Pijuan allegedly dissected the girl and dumped the dismembered remains. A Mexican doctor Ramiro Morales assisted but did not report the death, authorities say.
Washington firms for tires and gasoline defend an agreement to push tire sales at oil company filling stations. The Federal Trade Commission filed charges against three firms as illegal and set hearings to begin March 20 with a 30 day answer period.
O Keefe the fifth witness before a Boston grand jury as FBI ties 11 men to the 1950 Brink's heist that yielded 1 218 111. He describes entry through a guarded plant, keying doors, and destroying new money. He claims he was shorted his share and shot at in Dorchester.
Mrs. Ema Huey Hoshaw 92 a longtime Chanute resident died from burns suffered Nov 27 in Neosho Memorial Hospital. Born Sept 27 1863 in Illinois she lived in Missouri most of her life working in printing newsstands and at Johnson Hospital. Funeral set for Saturday at Koch Skinner Memorial chapel with burial at Elmwood Cemetery.
Jay Allen Kyle of Erie Kansas has been named assistant chief hearing examiner by the Federal Communications Commission. Kyle joined the FCC last December 1 as an examiner after serving as assistant attorney general in Kansas and as general counsel for the Kansas Corporation Commission.
Lyon County plans to raze the unused Emporia old jail and replace it with a parking lot. Commissioners will seek bids for demolition. County prisoners currently housed in the Emporia City Jail under a financial agreement between the two entities.
City manager Ross Cooper announced pay raises for about 90 of Chanute’s 135 workers, retroactive to January 1, averaging $10 to $15 monthly and totaling roughly $12,000. The board passed two ordinances on sewer and street projects, and authorized action to secure airport easements to meet Civil Aeronautics Administration rules. The city also agreed to assume water rights for Santa Fe Park reservoir at the railroad’s request. The meeting opened with an invocation by Howard Parsons.
C B Cable of Chautauqua County was elected president of the Southeast Kansas County Officials Assn for 1956 at the quarterly meeting in Neosho County. Fred Coffield of Woodson County was named vice president and Sadie Head of Elk County the secretary treasurer. The next meeting will be in Fredonia on April 13 with about 150 attending.
Kansas Flying Farmers report a net estimate of 18000 from a polio drive in Wichita. Harold Harrison as drive chairman noted more reports are pending while sight seeing flights at two Wichita airports added 1400 to the total.
A U.S. Air Force helicopter found four bodies after a ground search in the Ecuadorian Amazon near the Caraway River. The missionaries Peter Fleming, Nathanial Saint, James Elliot, Edward McCulley, and Roger Youderian had disappeared while seeking to evangelize the Auca tribe. a fifth remains missing.
Weather summary notes mild dry conditions across Kansas with near normal temperatures and little precipitation. Forecaster Tom Arnold expects warmer highs through Saturday with southerly winds and dust in western areas. Overnight lows 25 to 35 degrees, Saturday highs mostly 50s to 60s in southwest, Garden City 55, Pittsburg 39, Olathe 24, Salina 11.
In 1955 Neosho County District Court filed 153 cases. Of these, 51 hearings occurred in the new district court room during October term, 21 filed locally, and 30 transferred from Erie. Erie filings totaled 132 with 109 heard.
Floyd Souders publisher of Cheney was elected chairman of the Kansas State Board of Education succeeding Nels Greenlund of Atchison. The vote marked a leadership change in the state education panel.
Washington reports Senator Aiken of Vermont, Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee, believes a soil bank plan can be agreed upon. Senator Ellender of Louisiana, committee chair, prioritizes the proposal as part of a new farm law tied to President Eisenhower's recommendations. The plan would pay farmers to retire land from cropping, up to about 400 million dollars this year, with subsidies in cash or in government surpluses, to reduce oversupply and build a land bank for future needs.
State accident records show in the last 24 hours two fatalities, bringing the year totals to 20 for 1946 and 25 for 1955 in Topeka Kansas.
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