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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1956
Page
5
Harmony Grange will meet Monday night at the school for installation of officers. Mrs. Guy Booe and Mrs. Ed Ladd will serve refreshments. Mrs. Everett Booe will bake the birthday cake.
Daily Transcript shows admissions and dismissals at Memorial Hospital. Admitted: William N. Denson 202 N Steuben medical Mrs Ed Ross Yates Center surgical Mrs Hazel Streets Neodesha medical Mrs Pete Ramirez 1108 N Lee medical. Judy Moore 323 S Allen surgical. Dismissed: Claude Crane Humboldt J Lloyd Johnson Humboldt Mrs Dale Collison Humboldt Mrs Teresa Orozco 1102 S Forest. Dismissed today Mrs Wilbur Ames 1402 N Garfield Mrs Nellie Walker 508 S Highland Mrs J C Staats Humboldt Mrs Jack Riegle and son 214 W Pine.
Fort Worth draftsman Frankie J. Wilcoxon and 18 year old Janice McKee married behind locked Trinity Lutheran Church doors shortly after he killed her jilted suitor John Hoyt Blythe 23, a railroad worker and Arlington State College student. Wilcoxon claimed Blythe grabbed his car keys and he fired. He was charged with carrying a pistol and released on $1000 bond.
UK forces dispatched about 2000 battle ready parachute troops to Cyprus as a precaution for British interests in the Middle East. In other brief items Henry Wickham Steed longtime Times editor died at his home in England. Nikolai Bulganin reportedly absent from Moscow scene for over a week amid illness or vacation. Japan Socialist chairman proposes talks between Dulles and Chou En Lai during Dulles's planned March visit. BBC briefly explained an archaeologist’s odd on air remark as influenza related.
Mrs Olive Colaw 79 of 208 Plummer died at Neosho Memorial Hospital. Gibson Funeral Home in charge. Lars Fredrick Nelson 98 died yesterday at his home on Route 1. Funeral 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Vilas Bethel Lutheran Church with interment Vilas Cemetery. Wilson Johnson Mortuary handles arrangements. Mrs James Titus Nona Clark Titus formerly of Chanute died Wednesday in Indianapolis. Funeral 2 p.m. Saturday at Wilson Johnson chapel Burial St Patrick's Cemetery. Survivors include a daughter and five sons in Chanute and other relatives.
Kansas City market reports show cattle light, hogs uneven with barrows and gilts at 11.00 to 11.50, 1 and 2 grade 200-220 lb at 11.75, 11.85 for 185 lb, 250-280 lb butchers 10.85, sows 8.00-9.50. Sheep market untested. Eggs unchanged, poultry prices mixed. Chicago butter and eggs trade steady with rounded wholesale quotes. Wheat and corn futures mixed, soybeans and hay receipts noted. Manchester railway platform length cited at 2,194 feet.
About 80 year old C. O. Dimmock, a wealthy Hiawatha businessman who founded the Citizens State Bank and organized the Dimmock Mortgage Co, was robbed and severely beaten with a croquet mallet last night. He was jolted from his car in his garage, but he survived and was taken to a hospital after regaining consciousness.
Secretary of State Dulles and Sen. George of Georgia spar over Dulles long range aid proposal. George, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, refused to commit to a 10 year program, and lunch was proposed to discuss the dispute.
BPW club met at Mrs. Harold Heaton home to discuss International Relations and Public Service with Allen county home demonstration agent as speaker. Seventeen attendees enjoyed program aids plus refreshments before next gathering at Mrs. Kirby Snodgrass home.
Ninth grade students from St Patrick s Junior High travel to Marymount College Salina for the National Catholic Theater Conference hosted by the college. Accompanied by Sisters Ignatius and Eustasia the group will see Rumpelstiltskin and hear college drama demonstrations and guest speakers. Bill Young provides transportation.
Droughts since 1951 have cost Kansas the equivalent of about one year of normal precipitation, the Weather Bureau reports.
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