Holiday traffic toll tops four hundred for Independence Weekend
The Associated Press reports Independence Day traffic deaths exceeded four hundred, with Alaska, Delaware and New Hampshire reporting no fatalities. Hawaii logged two deaths. Ohio and California had thirty or more. The National Safety Council urged urgent highway safety actions while naming two states with higher tolls and detailing specific crash victims in Kansas.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council Today
Alaska
Delaware
New Hampshire
Hawaii
Ohio
California
Council
Rash of Weekend Crashes Injure One in Southeast Kansas
A weekend string of accidents across Chanute and Neosho County left one person with serious injuries and extensive property damage. Mrs. W. K. Shanholtzer suffered multiple injuries in a two-car collision near St. Paul, while several other crashes in Chanute and nearby areas caused minor injuries and vehicle damage. Police reported 16 moving violation arrests and 15 injuries overall with about $6,000 in property damage.
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Neosho County
W. K. Shanholtzer
Girard
St. Paul
Sheriff's Office
Erie
Dale H. Moore
Shanholtzer
Moore
Allen and Oak
Cloyd Culbertson
Clyde Roush
N. Grant
L. R. Spencer
S. Wilson
Robert Roland
N. Santa Fe
Roland
Lincoln
4Th
Tom Pate
S. Highland
Shirley Marshall
Shawnee
Pate
Marshall
Highway Patrol
Neoisho County
Sunset Club
Chanute
Evalena Thompson
Oren Smading
Independence
Steven Scott
Osage City
Kansas
Goldfine and Paperman Ordered to Begin Terms
Boston industrialist Bernard Goldfine, 69, and secretary Mildred Paperman, 42, were ordered by U.S. District Judge Charles E. Wyzanski Jr. to start serving three months and 10 days respectively for contempt of court. Goldfine goes to Danbury prison. Paperman to Middlesex County Jail.
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Boston
Bernard Goldfine
Mildred Paperman
U.S. Dist
Charles E. Wyzanski Jr
Goldfine
Federal
Danbury
Conn
Miss Paperman
Middlesex County
Congressional Committee
Sherman Adams
Eisenhower
Adams
Washington Post
Solar halo shown over Kansas City after noon
Kansas Citians witnessed a solar halo a bright ring around the sun created by ice crystals in high level clouds. The Weather Bureau explained the 22 degree halo requires hexagonal ice crystals facing the sun and notes the reddish inner edge is usually the only color visible. They cautioned the halo does not reliably signal rain.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Bureau
Flatcar Load Of Poles Burn In Pittsburg Fire
A pair of flatcars on the Kansas City Southern Railroad burned last night near Pittsburg Kansas, loaded with creosoted telephone poles. Firemen fought the blaze for more than an hour and the cause remained unknown.
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Pittsburg
Kan
Kansas City-Southern Railroad
Cuban Ambassador To U S Resigns And Takes Asylum
Jose Miro Cardona Cuba’s ambassador designate to the United States resigns and seeks asylum in the Argentine Embassy in Havana. He had awaited a Washington posting and also resigns his Havana University penal law professorship in a formal letter to President Osvaldo Corticos.
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Havana
Jose Miro Cardona
Cuba
United States
Cardona
Washington Post
Osvaldo Corticos
Harvana University
Plane Crash Fatal to 4 in Shattuck Oklahoma
Four people died when a single engine plane crashed near Shattuck Oklahoma while returning from California Olympic trials. Identified were Paul A Lightner Wichita Eagle sports editor Gary A Humphries photo grapher Henry H Jacobs Eagle sports writer Electra Electra wife 26 and Carl Mason co owner of a funeral home. Jacobs was the pilot and the flight departed Amarillo Texas at 1 26 p m local time.
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Shattuck
Okla
Paul A
Pete) Lightner
The
Wichita Eagle
Gary A. Humphries
Henry H. Jacobs
the Eagle
Jacobs
Electra
Carl Mason
Lightner
Amerillo
Tex
Wichita
California
Skyrocket Explodes at Display Injuring Eleven in Salt Lake City
A skyrocket at a Salt Lake City fireworks show exploded among spectators injuring 11 people. Laverne McRae, 37, remained in fair condition with a shoulder fracture burns and facial injuries. Others were treated and released.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Laverne McRae
No Report Of Lost Airmen
An object sighted by searchers for a U S reconnaissance bomber and its six crew missing since Friday was found to be drifting wood in the Barents Sea. A rescue pilot saw the object near Bear Island between Norway and Spitzbergen and suggested it might be a raft from the aircraft. Officials later corrected it as debris.
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Norway
U. S. Air Force
Bear Island
Spitzbergen Island
Barents Sea
Detroit Man Shoots Father-in-Law Over Interference
In Belleville, Michigan, Gerald Griswold, 23, killed Rev. Elwood A. McQuaid, 53, pastor of Bethany Community Church, after claiming interference over his marriage to the minister’s daughter Judith. Griswold, held for murder, said the fatal shot followed his stepfather Joseph Balete’s hospital concern and his divorce with Judith.
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Detroit
Gerald Griswold
Inlaw
Belleville
Elwood A. McQuaid
Bethany Community Church
Griswold
Joseph Balete
Jerry
Father
McQuaid
No Takers For Free Funeral
In Hamilton County Tennessee the radio station WDXB offered a free funeral to the first traffic victim during the Fourth of July weekend but urged people not to attempt the prize. No one claimed it as the holiday weekend ended.
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Steve French
Hamilton County
Farm Boy Drowns In Stock Pond Near Linn
A 16 year old farm boy Dennis Wilkens drowned after falling into a stock pond on the family farm near Linn Saturday. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Herman Wilkins. Authorities report the accident occurred on the farm property.
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Linn, Kas
Linn
Dennis Wilkens
Herman Wilkins
Traffic Fatalities Log Shows Increase in 1960 Toll
TOPEKA AP reports Kansas traffic death log for 72 hours to 9 am shows 3 fatalities added in the period ending Friday. The 1960 tally compares with 277 deaths in 1959, with at least one new fatality included in the count.
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Topeka
Kansas
Fire destroys two buildings after Kansas City blast
An explosion blasted the ECO building top floors in downtown Kansas City injuring seven firefighters and a passerby. The FECO store and Star Furniture were destroyed with water and smoke damage across area. preliminary losses exceed one million dollars.
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ECO
FE. C. O
Star Furniture Co
12Th and
13Th Street
Grand Avenue
G.c.co
Employes Consumer Organization
C. O
Star Furniture
Black Jong Jones Department
Walnut
Jenkins Music Co
B.C. O
J. W. Jenkins
Fourth of July Celebration Draws 7000 at City Park
A Kansas holiday crowd gathered at City Park for the 23rd annual Fourth of July celebration. About 2000 attended the afternoon show and 5000 the evening program. Gene Uden of Kansas City won a new 1960 car after a numbered wheel drawing. Gift certificates of 15 dollars went to 12 runners up. The event featured a Kansas City based talent show "Lucky Stars" and a large fireworks display worth about 700 dollars.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Gene Uden
S. Western
Kansas City
Mildred Donaldson
S. Wilson
Gene Shultz
C. A. Booe
Kan
Claude Camp
Bernice M. Gerritzen
Iola
R. L. Goodnough
Madison
M. KR. Gass
Parsons
Hazel Lamb
Buffalo
George Ritter
Wichita
Mary Fogel
E. K Wilson
Neodesha
Betty Bema
S. Grant
Weight loss worsens as Smith rejects nourishment
Lansing Kan AP reports killer Perry Edward Smith continues to lose weight despite a limited diet after a 35 day hunger strike. Prison officials note he drinks some milk egg mixture but refuses all liquid intake. doctor warns malnutrition could progress, alongside co-defendant Richard Hickock, both under death sentences for the Clutter family killings near Garden City.
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Lansing
Kan
Perry Edward Smith
Smith
Tracy A. Hand
Hand
Richard Eugene Hickock
Herbert W. Clutter
Garden City
Johnson Declares Candidacy for Democratic Nomination
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas announced his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination six days before the Los Angeles convention. He warned against youth and inexperience and pledged support for the party's choice if he fails to win, while hinting at Kennedy as a rival.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Los Angeles
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Johnson
Kennedy
Sen
Stuart Symington
Missouri
Nikita Khrushchev
Harry S. Truman
John
Truman
Too Nervous For Testing In Wichita Slaying Probe
Sheriff Captain George Wells said 33-year-old David Smith, a roomer in a widow's home, refused a lie detector test as detectives widen their probe into the nude body of 38-year-old Mrs Lora Guinn found in a vacant farmhouse northeast of Wichita. Police seek a motorist with North Carolina plates who was briefly detained near Cherryvale for bloodstains and who claimed a Tulsa destination as funeral services for Mrs Guinn, mother of four, were set for today.
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Wichita
George Wells
David Smith
Smith
Lora Guinn
Wells
Cherryvale
North Carolina
Tulsa
Guinn
Britain Demands Return of Cuban Shell Oil Refinery
London reports Britain officially protested to Cuba over the seizure of the Shell Oil refinery in Havana. A British note demanded restoration to Shell International and warned of legal rights if Cuba does not comply.
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London
Britain
Fidel Castro
Shell
Cuba
Stanley Fordham
Theoreign
Havana
Shell International
British Foreign Office
Foreign Office
Fordham
Herbert Stanley Marchant
United States
Netherlands
Texaco
Cuban Sugar Flow To U S Is Halted
Washington AP reports the Agriculture Department halted shipments of Cuban sugar to the United States until President Eisenhower acts under a new sugar bill authorizing a Cuba quota cut. Officials say 740000 tons remain unshipped from Cuba’s 1960 quota of 3119655 tons.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
United States
Eisenhower
Cuba
Bevan's Condition Growing Weaker
London AP reports Aneurin Bevan deputy Labour leader is weakening with a stable general state but marked weakness after abdominal surgery last December. The 62 year old has been invalid and had a severe relapse last week despite a comfortable night.
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London
Aneurin Bevan
Britain
Labor Party
Bevan
Weather forecast continuation of mild Independence Day conditions
Topeka AP reports mild weather likely to continue through Wednesday with generally fair skies. Low tonight 60 to 65, high Wednesday in the mid 80s, with a chance of scattered thunderstorms. Monday afternoon readings were mostly in the 70s. Manhattan 84, Garden City 73, overnight low 54, Hutchinson 62.
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Topeka
Weather Bureau
Richard Garrett
Manhattan
Garden City
Hutchinson
Large spruce forest fire near Alamosa controlled
The Rio Grande National Forest blaze, the worst in southwestern Colorado this season, was brought under control yesterday after scorching over 800 acres of spruce timber 60 miles south and west of Alamosa. More than 400 firefighters fought the fire that began Saturday.
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Alamosa
Colo
Colorado
Rio Grande National Forest
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