Social calendar highlights for July 5 1955
The town’s social listings include Ladies day at the country club at 9:30 and 1:30, a LAPM golf event, and an 8 p.m. meeting at Odd Fellows hall for LA to BRT. A 2 p.m. session at Odd Fellows hall covers Friendly Thimbie club activities, Highland park hosts a 1 p.m. picnic, and Barathea Service guild gathers at the EUB church.
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Odd Fellows Hall
Thimbie Club
Highland Park
Barathea Service Guild
Eub Church
Fourth of July Activities at the Country Club
The Country club hosts July Fourth events with a Scotch Four-somes golf at 9 30 a m and a men's flag tournament at 1 30 p m. Marjorie Cook and Wally Powell chair the Scotch Four-somes. A buffet dinner is planned for the evening.
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Marjorie Cook
Wally Powell
Allen Stover Winners In Scotch Foursomes
Mrs Robert N Allen and Pete Stover won Scotch Foursomes with a 41 at the Country Club Friday with 20 entries. In a three way tie for second place Mrs Rex Truitt and Dr Dean Gough and Marjorie Cook with C A Wood posted 44s.
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Robert N. Allen
Pete Stover
Country Club
Rex Truitt
Dean Gough
Marjorie Cook
C. A. Wood
William M. Gray Jr
David Gough
Ed Ashley
Carl Stevens
Fred L. Johnson
G. E. Nelson
Allen
Etiquette Answers on Engagements and Invitations
A brief Q and A covers announcing engagements promptly by notice or engraved announcements, or a party for close friends and relatives. It also advises honesty about unfamiliar sports before joining a group and proper letter saluting doctors as The Doctors Robert and Ruth Johnson.
Plans Made by LS of B of LF & E in Odd Fellows Hall
Friday afternoon meeting chaired by Mrs. Bert Hargrove laid plans to attend the state convention in Arkansas City in the fall.
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LS of B
LF & E
Odd Fellows Hall
Bert Hargrove
Arkansas City
Pattern-Add Cents Request to Chanute Tribune
Pattern add cents per entry sent to The Chanute Tribune Household Arts Dept New York address. Include NAMF address zone pattern number and twenty five cents per pattern for Jat-class mailing.
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Marian Martin
Chanute Tribune
West 18Th St
New York II
Chanute Tribune Household Arts Dept
P.O
Old Chelsea Station
New York
N.Y
1955 Alice Prooks Needie Craft Catalogue Request
Readers are invited to order the 1955 Alice Prooks Needie craft catalogue offering knitting crochet embroidery iron ons toys and novel ties with pages of new designs. The ad urges sending 25 cents for a copy and suggests collectors will want every design.
Mrs Petterson Pupils Present Piano Recital
An audience of over one hundred attended a piano recital by Mrs. Dave Petterson's pupils in the Memorial building Federation room last night. The program featured numerous student pieces including My Scooter In the Pet Shop Playing Catch and Fairyland Music with titles like Swan on the Lake and Catch Me If You Can.
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Dave Petterson
Federation Room
Memorial Building
Diana Weber
Leland Clark
Tinker-Brown
Kathleen Wiltse
Bhirley MccCullon
Deedra Lucas
Barcarole
Gary Anderson
Judy Clough
Zellia Mae Samuels
Valeette
Janet O'Conner
Laura Lee Olson
Joretta Hoke
Fred Primmer
Fall fashion trends color New York buyers see in suits
New York buyers view fall collections featuring black dominate many lines with straight cut suits and long seven eighths coats. Local visitors include Mrs Loren Pringle and Mrs Wallace Mills as clubs note social ties and travel while a Highway 169 collision north of the city involves George Briley and Raymond Slife with no injuries reported.
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New York
George R Briley
Chanute
Raymond E. Slife
Humboldt
US 169
Briley
Slife
Community Notes and Local Notables Report
Fre donia Rotary installs officers at a noon luncheon led by Shelton D. Propst, with Mrs. Propst in attendance. Rev George C. Crockatt to preach at First Presbyterian Carlyle. Mrs. Crockatt to accompany him. Various residents travel, visit, or plan trips to Pearl Harbor San Diego and Kansas City. Local clubs meet, including Vilas Homebuilders HD Unit and Alert Homemakers HD Unit. Chanute High School graduates Karlton Naylor William Schultz and Robert LaRue to enroll at Kansas State College in Manhattan. A car damage incident reported with no injuries.
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Chanute High School
Karlton K. Naylor
William L. Schultz
Robert J. LaRue
Kansas State College
Manhattan
First Women’s Golf Association Play Set For July 12
The inaugural event of the newly organized Women’s Golf Association begins July 12 after a rainout. Four teams Bloomer Girls Lucky Sevens Diggers and Sharp Shooters will compete with subsequent dates July 26 Aug 9 and Aug 23. At season end losers entertain winners.
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Women's Golf Association
Tips for cleaning and preparing glassware and home dishes
Practical advice covers preventing chipping when washing cut glass by laying a Turkish towel in the dishpan or washing in a wooden bowl and sliding pieces in edgewise. A tip adds an apple to vegetable soup for better flavor. Marble stains respond to ammonia but acids like lemon should be kept away from marble.
Funeral services for Mrs Earl Carver and Mrs Minnie Irwin
Funeral services were held Friday in Roy 8 Gibson for Mrs Earl Carver with Rev C A Craig officiating. Burial followed at Altoona cemetery. Also last rites for Mrs Minnie M Irwin were conducted by Rev Judd Jones at Koch Skinner Memorial chapel. Burial was in Elmwood cemetery. Bearers named for both services included members of the Carver and Russell families and the Yoos, Hyde, Petterson, and DeBolt circles. Flowers were arranged by local caregivers.
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Earl Carver
Roy
Gibson
C. A. Craig
Smithville
Harold Thompson
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Dave Petterson
Jesus Lover
Dvorak
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Ralph Russell
Claude
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Clarence Carver
Fred Hyde
Charley Russell
Floyd Russell
Altoona
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Don C. Beach
Lee J. Longest
Charles Yoos
Cecil Cage
C. C. DeBolt
Memorial Hospital Admittances and Dismissals Noted
Friday admissions include Doreen Burghart R 3 medical and Mrs. Ben Mendez 1007 N Lincoln. George Gordy R 1 medical admitted. Dismissals include ONeil Smith 502 N Santa Fe Doreen Burghart R 3 Frank Binkley 302 N Evergreen Beauford Eastburn 1310 S Grant Wade Mayfield 1620 S Plummer Dufford Anderson R 2. traffic offense reckless driving $25 fine and a 4 pm hearing set today.
Creamery Sixth Annual Picnic Set at Neosho Valley Creamery
Erie reports the Neosho Valley Cooperative Creamery Association will hold its sixth annual picnic from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday. Patrons and friends are invited to come early with their picnics. Carnival rides, entertainment, and games for children are planned, with free ice cream for children and iced tea for all provided by the Erie Chamber of Commerce.
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Erie
Neosho Valley Cooperative Creamery Association
Erie Chamber of Commerce
Cadet Richard Curl Returns to Instruct Freshmen at West Point
Cadet Richard L. Curl 22 son of Mr and Mrs Hobart G Curl of Chanute Kansas has returned to the United States Military Academy in West Point to serve as an instructor for the freshman and sophomore classes. He recently toured Army and Air Force installations including Wright Patterson Fort Knox Fort Sill Fort Belvoir and Fort Monmouth and previously served in the Regular Army from 1950 to 1952. Curl earned an appointment from Representative Myron V George of Kansas 3rd District.
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West Point
N. Y
Richard L. Curl
Hobart G. Curl
Lafayette
Chanute
Kan
U. S. Military Academy
Curl
Wright - Patterson Air Force Base
Ohio
Fort Knox
Fort Sill
Okla
Fort Belvoir
Fort Monmouth
N. J
Holidays in Mountains for Eisenhowers
The President and Mrs. Eisenhower are in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains for the Fourth of July weekend. They celebrated their 39th wedding anniversary with a White House staff picnic at Gettysburg and then traveled to Camp David. Six couples accompanied them as a sofa and a large engraved silver tray were given as anniversary gifts.
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Camp David
Eisenhower
Maryland
White House
Gettysburg
Catoctin Mountains
Strike Looms as Union Presses Wage Settlement
The union foresees a nationwide strike as full scale negotiations are paused until Tuesday. Once part of the CIO until 1950 for alleged Communist domination, the union seeks a 21 cent an hour raise plus fringe benefits. Companies, including the nonstruck Anaconda firm, have offered deals rejected by the union.
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CIO
Anaconda
Italian Liberal Party Backs Segni in Center Coalition
The Liberal party, long a holdout, backed Antonio Segni after talks with the 64 year old Christian Democrat. They deem a Center government necessary to national interests and Segni plans to report to President Gronchi on cabinet formation. Leaders say concrete programs will be settled later. Other coalition members support Segni after Scelba’s resignation.
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ROMEP
Antonio Segni
Segni
Christian Democrat
Giovanni Gronchi
Sengi
Democratic Coalition
Italy
Mario Scelba
Six Box Cars of Grain Overturn at Kansas City
Six box cars carrying 300 tons of wheat overturned as a Frisco freight train from Fort Scott arrived in Kansas City yards. Officials said a hot journal on the 80th car caused the wreck. No injuries reported.
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Kansas City
Kas
Frisco
Fort Scott
Hot Journal
Wage Talks Resume For Copper Miners
Wage talks restart on a limited scale in Denver as federal conciliators and union spokesmen doubt a strike by three large copper firms will be settled before late next week. With few properties using six day weeks, the strike impact will be felt after the Independence Day weekend. Spokesmen for the International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers, representing 50 000 to 60 000 workers, commented.
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Denver
International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers
Ind
Fliers Searched On Sixth Day In Japan Rescue
A sixth day search for two missing Marine fliers continues after their Sky Knight ran out of fuel in fog off Japan. Capt. H. P. Montague of Jackson Mississippi and 2nd Lt. David Winston Bell of Wayzata Minnesota are presumed drifted on life rafts. The crash also involves Lt. James R. Day of Minneapolis who went down with a helicopter. three crewmen were rescued. The body of Lt. Alan M. McAneny of Yonkers New York was found beside his Fury Jet wreckage on O Shima island.
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O Shima
Tokyo
Alan M. McAneny
Yonkers
N. Y
Two Daughters Drowned and Mother Detained for Mental Health Care
A Bridgeport mother admitted to police she drowned her two young daughters in a bathtub and was committed to a mental hospital. Dr. Nathan Friesman ordered emergency commitment sending Mrs. Michael Watart, 83, to Fairfield State Hospital in Newtown after her husband returned home to find her bleeding.
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Bridgeport
Conn.r
Nathan Friesman
Michael Watart
Fairfield State Hospital
Newtown
Vatart
Mother confessed drowning two daughters over debts and neck scar
Police said Mrs. Vatart told officers at the hospital she drowned her two daughters Marilyn aged 315 and Linda four months due to family debts and an alleged neck disfigurement. An officer found no such mark, but she remained insistent.
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Marilyn
Linda
John J. Carroll
Pravda Softens Eisenhower Stance on Satellite Freedom
Pravda revised its stance saying Eisenhower’s call for free self determination in Soviet satellites as a condition for world peace was erroneous. It welcomed his optimism for the forthcoming Big Four summit, noting the Soviet people’s reception.
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London
Pravda
Eisenhower
Warm humid weather blankets the eastern half of the nation
The Associated Press reports persistent warmth and humidity across the eastern half of the United States with 70s to 80s temperatures from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic. A July freeze hit Montana’s mountains, Needles California was warm at 85, and thundershowers affected the upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes regions.
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Associated Press
Great Lakes
Mississippi River
Atlantic Ocean
Montana
Mullen Pass
Needles
Calif
Mississippi Valley
Appalachian
Rockies
Pacific Coast
Farm Index Climbs for Kansas Farmers
Government marketing specialists report the Kansas farm product price index rose to 243 percent of the 1910 14 base in the month ended June 15 up from 242 a month earlier and 238 a year ago. The index reflects federal and state agriculture data.
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Topekap
Kansas
Federal
State Departments of Agriculture
Bishop Stamm to Speak at Eisenhower Park Rally
The Rev. John Stamm, bishop emeritus of the Evangelical United Brethren Church from Kansas City, will headline the second annual Faith and Freedom rally in Eisenhower Park on July 4.
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Abilene, Kas
John Stamm
Kansas City
Evangelical United Brethren Church
Eisenhower Park
Nehru and Tito Back Coexistence as Peace Path
Prime Minister Nehru of India and President Tito of Yugoslavia reaffirmed that coexistence is the only possible way to preserve peace and ensure the existence and progress of human society. The leaders stressed mutual resolve during talks in Belgrade, underscoring its global significance.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Nehru
India
Tito
Dust Belt Reported in East China Sea
An unexplained 15 mile long yellow dust belt was reported in the East China Sea near MOJI Japan. The observer noted a distinct yellow plume stretching across the sea and trending in a fixed direction. Authorities were not immediately able to identify the source or confirm dispersal patterns.
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Moji
Japan
East China Sea
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