Left Hand Supersonics Defeat FFA In Polio Benefit Game
Chanute's Left Hand Supersonics, made of male faculty from Senior High and Junior College, beat the local Future Farmers of America 32 to 14 in a polio benefit game. Noah Allen led with 11 points. Dean Daniels added seven for FFA. Referees were Harold Miller and Harlie Wolgast.
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Chanute
Supersonics
Future Farmers of America
FFA
Noah Allen
The
Dean Daniels
Goff
Harold Miller
Harlie Wolgast
Christmas Seals Set New County Record
Response to the annual Christmas seal sale in Neosho County was the best on record with total contributions of 3073.92. Chanute donors contributed 2040.11 including 350 in bonds, and every town saw increased giving driven by rural and urban schools.
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Neosho County
Walter M. Poor
Clark Fleming
Nellie May Hammond
Eric
L. K. Olson
Galesburg
R. A. Grillet
St. Paul
Kenneth George
Thayer
Howard Woodworth
Stark
Bruce Burris
Chanute
Burris
The
Kansas Tuberculosis and Health Association
Nelle Stevens
Snow Looms Over Kansas With Persisting Cold Snap
The forecast predicts increasing clouds and snow by tomorrow across most of Kansas. Light snow fell at Goodland with trace moisture. warmer tonight then colder, with low readings around 20s and highs near 20 to upper 20s. Snow may mix with sleet or freezing rain in the southwest and continue east with flurries as it diminishes.
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Topekapi
Kansas
Goodland
Weather Bureau
Emporia
Garden City
Pittsburg
Russell
Olathe
Salina
Britain hints at hydrogen bomb test next year
The London News Chronicle reports Britain will explode its first hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific next year. The paper claims a three–decked device with an atomic trigger a hydrogen shell and an outer uranium layer, but gives no source for the information.
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London
London News Chronicle
Britain
South Pacific
New Keyboard Innovation Test May Rework Typing
Washington AP reports a four month government test of a new keyboard system that shifts work to the right hand, promises 35 percent higher output, and could reduce fatigue for operators. Twenty four federal employees participate, using the new keyboards versus standard typewriters.
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Washington
August Dvorjar
University of Washington
Fire guts Great Bend firm building
A fire of undetermined origin gutted Drillers Inc., a seismology firm near Great Bend, around 2 a.m. The loss included seismographic equipment valued at about $30,000, while $40,000 to $50,000 in gear was saved. This was the second large fire in Great Bend that year, following January’s Steinert Furniture Co. annex blaze causing about $21,000 damage.
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Great Bendp
Drillers Inc
Clarence Myers
Great Bend
Steinert Furniture Co
Crash Kills Youth On Slippery Road Near Briggs Ranch
Charles Riner, 18, was killed when the truck he was driving on an icy road skidded and overturned. He worked at the Briggs Brothers ranch in Protection, where his father Leroy Riner is foreman.
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Charles Riner
Briggs Brothers
Leroy Riner
Spring X ray Unit to Visit Neosho County
A spring visit by a mobile X ray unit is planned for Neosho County with a planning meeting at Erie city hall. Dates, locations, and volunteer needs will be decided at the meeting based on a letter to Dr. J. D. Gough from Paul Luckan, field coordinator for the Kansas State Board of Health. The program is a cooperative effort with the American Cancer Society and the Neosho County Medical Society, and the unit is supplied by the State Board of Health.
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Neosho County
Erie
J. D. Gough
Paul Luckan
Topeka
Division of Preventable Diseases
Kansas ‘State Board of Health
Bruce Burris
Eisenhower Eden Talk Formosa Policy Amid Far East Briefing
President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Eden met for a second day to discuss Formosa and China policy. Dulles Lloyd and orient specialists attended, signaling a broad Far East review with Middle East issues also on the agenda.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Eden
China
Formosa
Far East
White House
Dulles
Selwyn Lloyd
Walter S. Robertson
Hubert Graves
Lloyd
State Department
Middle
Britain
Middle East
Department
Winthrop Aldrich
U. S
Livingston Merchant
Europe
Douglas MacArthur II
Central Airlines seeks Emporia route expansion request
An attorney for Central Airlines Fort Worth Texas said the carrier seeks expedited Civil Aeronautics Board action by late spring on its petition to add a Kansas City Missouri to Wichita route via Emporia Kansas The firm notes Emporia airport is not yet suitable but improvements are planned and a clear need for service is shown Central already operates Fort Worth Wichita and Kansas City Fort Worth routes.
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Central Airlines
Fort Worth
Tex
Civil Aeronautics Board
Central
Emporia
R. W. Oliver
Kansas City
Wichita
Oliver
Traffic Fatalities Reported in State 1956 Summary
State Accident Records Section lists 24 hour fatalities with totals to date in 1956 and 1955. One death from an earlier accident not previously recorded increases the counts.
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Topekap
Kansas
MOP Receivership Near End Expected Within Two Months
Missouri Pacific’s 22 year receivership may end within 60 days as the Supreme Court refused to hear two objectors to the agreed system plan. The end hinges on a consummation order from Federal District Judge George H. Moore in St. Louis.
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ST. Louis
Missouri Pacific
Russell L. Dearmont
U. S. Supreme Court
George H. Moore
Highway Plan OK Given by President
President Eisenhower approves a pay as you go tax plan to finance his highway program, abandoning the bond method. Martin Mass, GOP leaders, says the decision comes from Congress practicalities and Democratic resistance to bonds, aiming to start construction promptly.
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Washington
Eisenhower
House
Martin Mass
Congress
Martin
GOP
General Noyes Dies After Nome Plane Rescue
Brig. Gen. John R. Noyes commander of the Alaska National Guard died in a Nome hospital shortly after being rescued from a plane wreck. He was pulled alive from wreckage hours earlier but did not survive.
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Nome
Alaska
John R. Noyes
Alaska National Guard
Vancouver Lions Sign George Mrkonic Former Kansas Eagle
George Mrkonic, former Kansas tackle and Philadelphia Eagle, signed by the B C Lions of the Western Interprovincial Football Union in Vancouver B C. The move marks a notable addition to the Lions line.
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Vancouver
B. C
George Mrkonic
University of Kansas
Philadelphia Eagles
B. C. Lions
Western Interprovincial Football Union
House Kills Six Major Tax Measures in Topeka Action
Kansas House committees reject seven revenue bills including severance tax on oil and gas, sales tax expansion affecting hotels and dry cleaners, and higher income tax rates. A new 2 percent severance tax replaces 2.14 percent, while other measures such as cigarettes tax rise, corporate tax hike, and liquor tax all face defeat or withdrawal.
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House Horticulture Committee
Kansas
State Affairs Committee
Assessment and Taxation Group
House
Thief Steals 42-Pound Piggy Bank From Colorado Springs Home
A suspect took a massive piggy bank weighing 42 pounds containing about 500 in dimes quarters and half dollars from the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Martin in Colorado Springs. Martin had weighed it three days earlier before the theft.
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Colorado Springs
Cole
James Martin
Martin
Chanute telephones rise 200 in 1955 amid Kansas expansion
Darrell Green of Southwestern Bell reports Chanute added 200 telephones in 1955 with total in service reaching 4,892, up from 3,080 a decade earlier. Erie and Humboldt posted gains with dial service expanding. overall Kansas saw 29,500 new lines and a statewide total of 572,000 by year end.
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Chanute
Darrell Green
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Erie
Humboldt
Southwestern Bell System
Crew Alerts Stop Fire In Reynolds Home
Three city Sanitary Department workers spotted a peculiar light through a Reynolds residence window and alerted occupants, saving a child from a bed of flames. The fire started near a defective floor furnace, damaging hallways stairs and three upstairs bedrooms while smoke spread through the upper level. The home at 11 Lafayette belongs to C A Duerson of 609 West Main.
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Joe Rogers
Charles Reynolds
S. Lafayette
D. L. Rumble
Andrew Rentz
Rogers
C. A. Duerson
W. Main
Santa Fe to Buy 160 Acre Lawrence Industrial Site
The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway plans to purchase a 160 acre tract a mile northwest of Lawrence marking a potential record industrial development for the city. The land lies near the Kansas Turnpike and Santa Fe rail line with sale at cost and rail facilities to be extended into the area.
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Lawrence
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Lawrence Journal- World Today
Melvin N. Nelson
Santa Fe
Nelson
Kansas City
Topeka
Wichita
The
Santa Fe Land Improvement Co
Railway
Bart L. Hills of
Lawrence Country Club
Kansas, Turnpike
Lawrence Industrial Development Co., Inc
Private Plane Crash Kills Ten Near Caracas
Venezuelan officials report all ten aboard a private two engine plane died when it crashed in the Capaya Mountains while approaching Higuerote. The Americans include pilot Capt Charles C Baughan 55 his wife Mary formerly of Shelbyville Kentucky and Malcolm J Edgerton 70 and Mrs Edgerton 60 of Stamford Connecticut and New York.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Capaya Mountains
Higuerote
Charles C. Baughan
Mary
Shelby
House Votes 387 to 0 for Farm Tax Exemption Bill
The House approved a 60 million dollar annual tax exemption for farmers against the federal gas tax on farm use. Proposed by President Eisenhower as part of farm relief, the measure passed by a roll call vote with bipartisan support and moves to the Senate.
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Washington (P
House
Eisenhower
Senate
House Bombed in Montgomery Amid Bus Boycott Violence
An explosion last night damaged the home of a Negro minister in Montgomery as violence flares from the prolonged Negroes boycott of the city’s transportation system. Police reported no injuries, and authorities urged calm while investigating the attack amid ongoing civil rights tensions.
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Senate Approves funding for Chanute TB hospital opening
The Kansas Senate sent to Governor Fred Hall a bill to provide 15000 dollars to ready the Southeast Kansas Tuberculosis hospital at Chanute. The grant, available this fiscal year, funds pre opening tasks including staffing, records, supplies, and equipment ahead of patient admission.
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State Senate
Southeast Kansas
Chanute
Fred Hall
Turnpike Authority Awards Contracts for Toll Road Works
The Kansas Turnpike Authority awarded contracts totaling about $3.5 million for projects on the Kansas City to Oklahoma state line super toll highway. Westinghouse Electric Corp. wins for a communications system, with an initial equipment cost of $389,888 and annual maintenance of $49,000.
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Topeka
Kansas Turnpike Authority
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Westinghouse
Mother Is Freed In Death of Doris Jean Ostreicher
The mother of 22 year old Doris Jean Ostreicher, who arranged the abortion that caused her death, was freed by a Philadelphia judge who said the tragedy would be a substantial punishment. Earlier, a bartender and his beautician wife received prison terms in the death of the heiress.
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Philadelphia
Doris Jean Ostreicher
Three-Vehicle Collision Causes Minor Damage at City Intersection
A two p.m. crash at First and Santa Fe involved trucks driven by Ted Dunican and R J Thayer and a motor car. No one was hurt. The Dunican truck slid after impact and hit a parked car owned by Wayne Taylor, Chamber of Commerce manager. Damaged parts included right front and left rear of the David truck and the left rear fender of the parked car.
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Santa Fe
Ted Dunican
R. J. Thayer
Roy David
N. Wilson
Wayne Taylor
Chamber of Commerce
David
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