Pilot Survives 54 Days After Sierra Parachute Escape
Air Force Lt. David A. Steeves from Trumbull Conn survived 54 days in the High Sierra after parachuting from a plane on May 9. He crawled 12 miles over 15 days, crossed an 8600 foot pass, found a ranger cabin for shelter and food, then trekked toward safety before being rescued near Cedar Grove.
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Castle Air Force Base
Calif
Air Force
David A. Steeves
Sierra
Trumbull, Conn
Sequoia- Kings Canyon National Park
Steeves
Simpson Meadows
Kings River
Albert Ade
Orange Grove
Charles Howard
Fresno
Ade
Cedar Grove Ranger Camp
Lisa
Relief Efforts Reach Louisiana Areas After Audry Hurricane
Letters and Red Cross calls arrive as families in Lake Charles and Cameron report wind gusts up to 105 miles per hour. Homes suffer varying damage while others escape major loss. Survivors relocate furniture to higher ground and monitor continued danger as delayed communications hinder updates.
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B. E. Barkley
N. Forest
Charles Adams
Lake Charles
Red Cross
Storm Relief Help Sought for Audrey Victims
Generous contributions to the American Red Cross are requested to aid Hurricane Audrey victims. A Red Cross disaster bulletin notes more than 40 000 people sheltered in Texas and Louisiana shelters. President Eisenhower urges national support as the organization expands sheltering feeding and medical assistance needs. Checks should be made to American Red Cross care of Memorial Building Chanute.
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Red Cross
Audrey
A. H. Krone
Neosho Counday
Texas
Louisiana
Eisenhower
American Red Cross
Krone
Memorial Building
Chanute
Talley Injured After Fall at Lincoln Intersection
Sam Talley 86 of 620 E Main was injured crossing Main at Lincoln when he fell. He suffered a rib fracture a laceration near the eye and a forehead bruise. Taken to Neosho Memorial Hospital by Assistant Police Lige Matlock, he later returned home after treatment.
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Sam Talley
E. Main
Main
Lincoln
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Lige Matlock
Connie Schleicher Wins Junior Title at State Golf Meet
Thirteen year old Connie Schleicher daughter of Mr and Mrs W J Schleicher won the junior division of the Women's Amateur State Golf Tournament at Wichita last week. She defeated 17 year old Jean Ann Stevens of Wichita in the finals and called the event nice but noted there were not enough young players. Connie has trained with Chanute pro Bob Lind and Benny Boguss of Indian Hills Kansas City. Four Chanute women participated including Mrs Robert N Allen and Jean Ashley. Natasha Matson 1956 champion from Nolling Hills repeated to win the championship flight by defeating Elaine Woodman of Wichita North High.
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William A. Strean
Bill Jr
Susie
Jim
Lake Charles
Stream
Albert Boman
S. Grant
Boman
Connie Schleicher
Robert N. Allen
Kansas
Wichita
Connie
Allen
Tribune
W. J. Schleicher
Bob Lind
Chanute Country Club
Benny Boguss
Indian Hills
Kansas City
Jean Ann Stevens
Miss Stevens
Joan Ashley
Chanute
Larson
William Gray Jr
S. Tennessee
Jean
Jean Ashley
S. Highland
Milton Adams
Natasha Matson
Nolling Hills
Elaine Woodman
Wichita North
Gibson Named To Healing Arts Board
TOPEKA Dr. Richard Gibson Winfield osteopath has been named by Gov. George Docking to a new healing arts board created by the 1957 Legislature. The report of five medical doctors and three osteopaths omitted Gibson’s name by error. The act allows three chiropractors but court action blocked those appointments pending a suit challenging the statute and a new basic science act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Richard Gibson
Winfield Osteopath
George Docking
Gibson
Docking
Watershed Meeting Planned for Pecan Creek
Grady School hosts a Pecan Creek watershed meeting at 8 p m Friday. Charles P McKinnie of the Soil Conservation Service says farmers and landowners will decide whether to form a watershed district. SCS members will explain benefits and organization methods and a film will be shown.
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Erie
Grady School
Charles P. McKinnie
The
Soil Conservation Service
SCS
McKinne
Chanute Fireworks Rule Clarified by Police Chief
The Chanute police announce a fireworks ban with an allowed window from 6:00 a.m. to midnight on July 4. Violations carry penalties from $5 to $100. The notice cites enforcement by the Chief of Police.
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Chanute
Tribune Delivery Help Line and After Hours Number
If you do not receive the Tribune contact your carrier. If the carrier is unavailable call 700 after 6 p.m. for assistance.
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Tribune
Bonner Springs Cement Workers Hit By First Plant Strike
Bonner Springs Lone Star Cement plant workers walkout led by Local 85 of the United Cement Lime Gypsum Workers International Union seeking 15 cent hourly raise and enhanced fringe benefits. About 162 production jobs affected with picket lines, parallel strikes planned at Independence and Iola.
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Bonner Springs
Lone Star Cement Corp
United Cement, Lime and Gypsum Workers International Union
Universal Atlas
Independence
Lehigh-Portland
Iola
Kansas
Consolidated
Fredonia Monarch
Humboldt
Ash Grove
Chanute
Ash Grove Lime & Portland Cement Co
K. W. Wright
United Cement, Lime & Gypsum Workers
AFL
Flaming Death In Old Plane
James Keith Gibbs a 31 year old pilot died when a war surplus British Mosquito bomber crashed into a canyon 30 miles northwest of Los Angeles as it slid from the San Fernando Valley. The parachute hatch fell onto Pierce Junior College grounds. Gibbs a Van Nuys resident employed by an aerial photography firm had planned to marry this month.
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Calabasas
Calif
San Fernando Valley
James Keith Gibbs
Los Angeles
Gibbs
Pierce Junior College
Jack Ford
van Nuys
Pacoima
Rain Ends, Sun Returns Over Kansas Weather Scene
Welcome sunshine broke over rain soaked Kansas as the forecast calls for a warm humid day with possible scattered afternoon or night thunder showers. Flooding remains in Saline River areas with Saline crest near 29.6 feet at Tescott yesterday noon and forecast to recede by Thursday.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Big Blue River
Blue Rapids
Concordia
Saline
Tescott
Wilson
Solomon River
Beloit
Thankful
Smoky Hill
Goodland
Olathe
Wichita
School Board Receives Summer Maintenance Report
L. E. Henry outlines major remodeling at the local schools including converting fourth floor labs at the Senior High into a chemistry lab and first floor rooms into a physics lab serving Junior College and Senior High. New chemistry lab near completion while physics lab work continues. Painting planned for Royster Junior High auditorium and ceiling plastering at Roosevelt. Board adjourned to July 22 to adopt the new budget as Buford L. Fisher and Mrs. Fisher attend the National Education Association meeting in Philadelphia.
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L. E. Henry
Board of Education
Henry
Royster
Roosevelt
Buford L. Fisher
Fisher
National Education Association
Philadelphia
Senate predicts passage of largest defense bill ever
Senate leaders forecast approval today of the 34.5 billion defense appropriations measure in the form approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee. The panel restored 971.5 million of the House cuts, while President Eisenhower sought 1.2 billion in restored House reductions. Debate highlighted calls to fund army and marine troops, with critics citing waste and questioning total defense funding.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Appropriations Committee
House
Eisenhower
Sen
Douglas
Illinois
Mass burials under way after Hurricane Audrey strike
In Cameron and surrounding towns Louisiana cleanup crews work amid mounting misery as 267 bodies are recovered and mass graves prepared. President Eisenhower’s representative Val Peterson cites total dead near 500 with widespread crop and property damage. Health officials warn Cameron remains uninhabitable for weeks as pests and disease threaten responders.
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Lake Charles
Gulf Coast
Louisiana
Audrey
Val Peterson
Eisenhower
Peterson
Civil Defense
Jeff Davis
New Orleans Times- Picayune
Oilmen Propose Wells Spacing Rules For Shallow Drilling
Eastern Kansas producers at a Wichita hearing proposed spacing guidelines for wells shallower than 2,000 feet. The plan, outlined by J B McKay for the Eastern Kansas Oil and Gas Association, sets minimum distances from property lines and other wells across depth bands from under 500 to 2,000 feet. Carl Pate and James Guinotte attended. the CPC continues study.
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Eastern Kansas
Kansas Corporation Commission
Corporation Commission
Carl Pate
James Guinotte
Chanute
Wichita
J. B. McKay
el Dorado
Eastern Kansas Oil & Gas Association
Pate
Driver Arrested On Drinking Charge In Galesburg
Clyde V Howell of Galesburg was taken into custody on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated after officers observed erratic driving on South Santa Fe. He posted a $125 bond and was released.
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Clyde V
Howell
Galesburg
South Santa Fe
Traffic Fatalities Reported In Topeka Area
Kansas traffic fatalities released by the State Accident Records Section show 2 in the last 24 hours and 247 to date in 1957, compared with 309 for the same period in 1950, including one earlier fatality not previously reported.
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Topeka
Kansas
Todd Hosts 1700 at Private Party for Around the World
Film producer Mike Todd plans a 1700 guest event tied to his movie premiere costing up to 200000 dollars. The Battersea Gardens party includes river steamer transfers and coin fed slots with rain gear and private charity aims despite public estimates.
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London
Mike Todd
Mike
Astoria Theater
Todd
Thames River
Battersea Festival Gardens
Battersea
Plan Opposed By Schoeppel On Truck Merger Study
Senator Schoeppel of Kansas opposes printing a study on mergers among interstate trucking firms calling it a waste of taxpayers' money. Michigan State University professors conducted the study for the Senate Small Business Committee, while Sparkman defends the report as valuable and pioneering. Senator Morsey plans to read the report into the Congressional Record if printing is blocked.
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Washington
Sen
Schoeppel
R-Kas
Senate
Small Business Committee
Sparkman
D-Ala
Michigan State University
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Morsey
Dore
Congressional Record
Bid Opening for Kansas State College Home Economics Building
Bids will be opened July 30 for a 1.7 million dollar three story home economics building at Kansas State College. The facility will include classrooms laboratories and offices for the home economics department.
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Topeka
Kansas State College
Enire
Dulles Sees China Not Blocking Disarmament Plan
Secretary of State Dulles said a worldwide disarmament system could be built even with Communist China barred from the treaty. He argued Red China might cooperate and that Russia would want to see such cooperation, warning that nonparticipation would become evident and nations would act to protect themselves. He also predicted evolutionary changes toward greater freedom in Soviet Russia, while noting more revolutionary elements in China.
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Washington
Dulles
China
Red China
Russia
United States
San Francisco
U.S
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Eisenhower
U. S
Injury Report On Washburn Family After K-96 Crash
After a crash two miles west of Leon on K-96, Mrs. Frank Washburn remains in Allen Memorial Hospital with a broken left kneecap and other injuries. Jolene Washburn suffers a broken leg and is in traction. Sharon Beck was in serious condition with multiple injuries. Janice Beck was recently released with minor cuts.
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Washburn
Allen Memorial Hospital
el Dorado
L. Glen Ablfi
Assembly of God Church
Frank Washburn
Leon
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Trumbull
Hamiltton Air Force Base
Luke Afb
Ariz
Craig Afb
Selma
Ala
Harold Steeves
D. W. Hoisington
Harry E. Schaller
Sulphur Springs
Talley
Healing Board
Pecan Creek
Armed Services
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Sen. Morse
Nathan F. Twining
Chavez
Symington
Jackson
D-Wash
Appropriations Committee
Camerson
Cameron
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