19 Jan 1955
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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1955
Page
1
A school contest in Royster hall yielded 13 589 items for a charity, with Miss Freda Betts noting the effort as the largest collection yet. Students, led by Mrs. Dorothy Martin’s classes, gathered thousands of items to support the carnival, set for February 18.
Toby Green, jailed at a Boston state prison, appeals to her father Theo dore Green, ringleader of a four-man siege holding five guards as hostages. The standoff began after 5 a.m. Tuesday with no shots fired, while negotiations and food exchanges occur under guard.
Three children of a man were killed in a fast moving two story frame house fire in South Amboy New Jersey early today. Victims were Geraldine and Jacqueline Dellman both four and their two year old brother Raymond Jr. Father Raymond Dellman 38 suffered first and second degree burns.
Eight bids were opened today in Emporia for 359 miles of permanent fencing to be installed along both sides of a 17 mile section of the Kansas turnpike spanning Butler and Chase counties.
The ordinance prohibits dogs from running at large in the city. Penalty ranges from a $5 to $100 fine. Chief of Police announces the enforcement details.
President Eisenhower expressed a preference that the United Nations attempt a cease fire between Nationalists and Red forces. He noted the UN may not halt shooting but should use its good offices. Secretary of State Dulles said the U S would object to nothing in the UN seeking a cease fire.
In Chickasha Oklahoma Mildred Taylor 18 recalled stuffing pebbles into her nose since age three. A doctor removed five pebbles in a minor operation restoring airflow she said this is the first time she has breathed from that side.
West Germany's Socialists announce a push to speed up restitution payments to Jewish victims of the Nazi regime. The move signals a new effort to accelerate compensation and address lingering wartime injustices.
Irv Vermont wowed about 80 Talk of the Month Club members at the Tioga Hotel with feats of memorization telepathy and sightless vision under the title The Other Side of the Mind. He demonstrated writing numbers without communication naming audience members recalling magazine contents and reproducing objects by touch.
A 71-year-old Baptist hunter in Louisville Kentucky fired at a weather balloon or stray money believed to fall from the sky and collected $1955 in coins or cash dropped during the incident, but no prize was awarded. The funds will be directed to a Catholic priest to aid in building a new church.
The Kansas House sees the return of a right to work measure sponsored by Reps Meri Lemert Syed Anderson Leon and Hobart Hoyt. The bill would bar denying employment for union membership or nonmembership and carries penalties of 500 dollars or six months jail.
Emil Aberle aged 67 died of a heart attack while shoveling snow at his home near Sabetha Kansas yesterday authorities said.
Casey Drug Co promotes Be Vitamin Sure Plenamins as a daily health supplement. The notice emphasizes daily use for well being and nutrition support.
Police found a 65 year old woman dead in her dirt floored two story home in Pointe St Charles Montreal chained to her bed with a padlock. A chain and $130 lay beside the body. Neighbors had not seen her for nearly a month. police say starvation likely but no foul play suspected.
A 58 year old truck driver, identified as Frank K Ireland, died in a head on collision between two pickup trucks on Highway 50 near Florence yesterday. The crash occurred around daybreak and investigators work to determine contributing factors.
Gov. Fred Hall gains incremental control of the Kansas Turnpike Authority as House approves highways committee assignments. Rep. Lawrence Blythe becomes highways chair and joins the seven member Turnpike board, along with Walter Rugan and Sen. Bert Collard. Bord to be completed by July 1 when Gourley term ends.
The Chanute area thawed as sun returned and airport readings stayed below freezing. Snowfall totaled five inches with 0.38 inch moisture. chains and highways remained icy but open. A southwest thaw signals warmer weather with highs in the 30s and possible more snow in the northwest by Thursday.
Mrs Harry E Weaver wife of noted Texas architect and geologist was killed when a bomb exploded her car in downtown San Angelo Investigators believed a second bomb was in a second family car and a third possibly booby trapped Police sought explosive experts from the State Department of Public Safety in Austin The blast occurred as she started the car at about 830 am and she died shortly after being admitted to a hospital The Weavers had lived in Houston where Weaver designed several major buildings.
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