City Reports Slight Declines in Births and Deaths
City records show 168 deaths last year, eight fewer than 1954, and 1 - births - with 396 in 1954 a drop of 55. Months with highest births were June 35 and September 34, while July and October tied at 33. Deaths were lowest in July with five. Certificates are sent to the state health department after filing. A break in at Don Ward used car lot at 1002 S Santa Fe yielded $10 in cash. a brick used to smash the door was seized by police.
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Don Ward
S. Santa Fe
Two Kansas Women Die in Missouri Crash
A head on collision near Columbia Missouri on Saturday night killed Mrs. W. P. Williams 53 and her daughter Lois Marie Norton 33 of Muncie Kansas. Joe Norton 12 and Raymond Rybolt of Ashland Missouri were critically injured along with Rybolt's wife sustaining injuries.
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Columbia
Here
Kansas
W. P. Williams
Lois Marie Norton
Muncie
Kas
Allen Attends Meetings and Banquet in Topeka
Robert N. Allen, chairman of the Kansas Savings & Loan board, presided at a Topeka hearing on establishing a new building and loan association in Wichita. He joined a league executive committee meeting to plan the state convention in Wichita next spring and attended a banquet honoring Chester A. Sterling on his retirement as president of the Federal Home Loan Bank in Topeka. The Allens returned home from Topeka yesterday.
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Robert N. Allen
Kansas Savings & Loan Board
Topeka
Building and Loan Association
Wichita
Kansas Savings & Loan League
Chester A. Sterling
Sterling
Federal Home Loan Bank
Traffic Fatalities Reported in Topeka for 1956 and 1955
State Accident Records Section lists traffic fatalities in Topeka with 22 for a four to eight hour period in 1956 and 29 for the same period in 1955. Data covers recent hours to date.
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Topekap
Kansas
Kansas considers severance tax on oil and gas revenues
Rep. Fred Meek introduces a 12.14 percent severance tax on oil and gas market value plus 4 percent on stripper wells as a new revenue source. He cites Missouri and Oklahoma as peers and notes support from Kansas Farm Bureau and school groups. Gov. Hall omits the tax from his proposed $262.9 million budget, urging closing gaps first. legislation advances alongside a separate bill on interest earnings from inactive state bank deposits.
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Meek
Fred Hall
State Board of Agriculture
Kansas Farmers Union
Kansas Farm Bureau
Kansas
California
Robert Anderson
Ottawa
House
Ways and Means
Anderson
Senate
Four Men Rob Safeway in Miami Oklahoma
Four men, at least two armed with pistols, robbed the Safeway grocery in Miami Oklahoma last night. Assistant manager James Petts was relieved of an undetermined amount of cash as several customers looked on. The men fled in a cream and green late model car after entering shortly after 7 pm.
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Miami
Okla
Safeway
A. C. Masterson
James Petts
Robert Wickard Dies at 68 in Chanute Kansas
Robert M. Wickard, 68, retired grain merchant, died at 2 52 this morning at Neosho Memorial Hospital after a heart attack on January 6 He helped run Wickard Grain Co later Wickard and Mull Seed Co He was born November 24 1887 in Chanute Married Edna Keath in 1914 Survivors include his wife a brother and a sister The funeral is set for 2 p m Tuesday at Wilson Johnson chapel with Grace Episcopal Church officiating The Elks will hold a service
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Robert M. Wickard
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Wickard ‘Grain Co
D. K. Wickard
James F. Cooper
John A. Mull
Grain Company
Wickard and Mull Seed Co
Harold Richart
Samuel A. Wickard
Chanute
Samuel A
Dora Wickard
Edna Keath
Bartlesville
Phillips Petroleum Co
Fenner and Deane
Tulsa
Colony Inn Hotel
Elks Club
S. Evergreen
Sue Oldham
la Canada
Calif
Wilson - Johnson Chapel
Boyd C. Latimer
Grace Episcopal Church
Elks
TB Hospital Equipment Bids Due January Thirty First
Bids on x ray equipment surgical supplies a canteen counter and barber and beauty shop equipment for the new Southeast Kansas Tuberculosis Hospital at Chanute will be opened January 31 in Topeka. The facility is scheduled to open in June or July.
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Topeka
Kansas
Chanute
Bar Exams Set In Topeka For 57 Kansas Candidates
Examinations will be held in Topeka on February 3 and 4 for 57 candidates seeking admission to the practice of law in Kansas.
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Topeka
Kansas
Eisenhower Sends Balanced Budget Appeal to Congress
President Eisenhower submitted a balanced budget for the new fiscal year totaling 65.856 billion in spending with 66.300 billion in revenue and a 435 million surplus. The plan, praised by Republicans yet questioned by Democrats, projects continued rising outlays and a federal debt reduction path through 1957.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
State of the Union
Chanute Woman Distributes 37000 In Will To Local Citizens
Mrs Ema Hoshaw left 37000 to benefit Chanute citizens, with 1000 to Mercy Hospital and to Boschert family relatives. She also earmarked 17 specific bequests to churches, Red Cross, Salvation Army and others. The will provides for two household cats to be disposed of humanely by named beneficiaries.
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Ema Hoshaw
Fred Stipp
George Bradley
Mercy Hospiital
Kansas City
Rena Reinhart
Chanute
John Bench
Sam Stacy
Joe Sewell
John W. Reep
Ema Huey Hoshaw
Joe F. Balch
Balch
Frank F. Young
Chanute Named Site for Kansas Rural Carriers Meet
Chanute will host the Kansas Rural Letter Carriers Assn and auxiliary convention July 8 9 10 with headquarters at the Tioga Hotel. Floyd E Bray of Fredonia is convention chairman as executives meet to plan programs and speakers include postal inspectors and national officials. Attendance is to reach about 200. Ralph D Argo of Wellington presides with a large team of officers and committee chairs named.
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Gerald F. Griggs
Delphos
Ralph D. Ard
Wellington
Kansas Rural Letter Carriers Assn
Tribune
Chanute
Tioga Hotel
Floyd E. Bray
Fredonia
Association
the Tioga
National Association
Ralph D.argo
State Association
Eisenhower Budget Seeks Dam Relocation and Flood Control Funds
President Eisenhower proposed planning funds for an alternate Strawn dam site near Burlington and 4.5 million for the Toronto Verdigris reservoir. The package also includes nine million for continued work on Tuttle Creek Dam in Kansas and broad water resources programs totaling about 750 million dollars from Army Engineers and the Reclamation Bureau for construction in 17 Western states during the new fiscal year.
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Strawn
Neosho River
Toronto
Verdigris
Eisenhower
Myron V. George
Strawn Dam
Burlington
Third District
Gordon Barker
Neosho-Cottonwood
Tulsa
Tuttle Creek
Kansas
Big Blue River
Manhattan
Kas
Congress
Army
Kansas River
Blue Valley
Tecon Corp
Dallas
List and Clark Construction Co. F
Kansas City
Verdigris River
Abilene
Kansas Cities
Missouri
Salina
Topeka
Wichita and Valley Center
Washington P
Army Engineers
Reclamation Bureau
Mississippi River
Uranium Outputest Jumps on Colorado Plateau
Grand Junction Colorado reports a 1955 uranium ore production surge 150 percent higher than 1954, per Atomic Energy Commission data released yesterday.
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Grand Junction
Colo
Colorado Plateau
Atomic Energy Commission
Lyons youth killed in car rollover near town
Glenn Eldon Jagger, 17, of Lyons Kansas, died when his car overturned about one mile north of Pratt late Saturday.
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Pratt
Glenn Eldon Jagger
Lyons, Kas
Here
Blast of Cold Air Numbs Area As Mercury Sinks to 3 Degrees
A frigid cold blast swept the region driving temperatures to record lows for the season. The CAA station reported 8 above at dawn, with Manhattan at zero and Concordia, Wamego around 1. Garden City noted 15, and highs today struggled to near 14 at noon, with a slow warmup expected into tonight and Tuesday as light snow and moisture drift from the Pacific.
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CAA
Associated Press
Topeka
Weather Bureau
Pacific
Kansas
Manhattan
Concordia
Wamego
Garden City
Two Non Injury Motor Collisions Reported Saturday
Police logged two non injury car crashes on Saturday. Ivan L. Starr and Thelma Ambler collided at Main and Lincoln damaging left front fender in Starrs car and left front of Amblers. A second crash in the 100 block on N. Allen involved Hugh L. Boyd Norman R. Youngberg with damage to right rear fender and left rear fender respectively.
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Ivan L. Starr
S. Wilson
Thelma Ambler
N. Garfield
Main
Lincoln
Ambler
Hugh L. Boyd
Iola
Norman R. Youngberg
S. Ashby
N. Allen
Youngberg
Final Induction For 2 Neosho Men
Two Neosho County young men Ernest C. Harford of Stark and Glenn G. Isaac of Elsinore will report here Wednesday for final induction into the armed services at Kansas City the following day, it was announced at Selective Service Headquarters today.
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Neosho County
Ernest C. Harford
Stark
Glenn G. Isaac
Elsinore
Armed Services
Kansas City
Selective Service
Six Die in Milwaukee Apartment Fire
Flames engulfed a three story building near City Hall in Milwaukee killing six residents including four children. Firefighters used aerial ladders to reach smoke filled halls and saved 22 of 53 tenants while several residents leaped to nets. The deceased are David Root 12 Ellen Root 14 Karen Root 16. Mrs Helen Roscovious 39 Gerald Oscowicz 12 Martin Jaraczewski 75 and Dorothy Kinney 26.
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Milwaukee
City Hall
David Root
Ellen Root
Karen Root
Helen Roscovius
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Wilson County Soil Conservation District
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Charles Loether
Vickers
Danville
Tioga Townships
State Health Department
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Hopper
Islature
Fred Meek
R-Idana
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D-Mo
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Nellie Wilson
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Argo
Ernest E. Clark
Barnes
Roland H. Fenske
Lincolnville
Clarence Kessler
Altamont
Henry G.janzen
Sylvia
Marvin Walkler
Mankato
Clark
Kessler
Janzer
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Gottlieb Nieder
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Main Street
Foster Clothing Co
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Burday
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