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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1955
Page
9
Cherryvale Saddle Club, which sponsored several rodeos, will hold another event Saturday at the club arena west of Cherryvale. A parade at 6 30 p m will include local club members and representatives from nearby clubs.
Mr and Mrs Victor Hicks travel with daughter Jana and son Danny to their home in Tucson Arizona after a stay in Buffalo.
Local families hosted visitors over the holiday including Mr. and Mrs. Ed Childs and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Howerton of Wichita. Cpl. Loren Robertson, Fort Bliss, Tex, is on a two week furlough at home. WSCS met at the Methodist church with Mrs. Jim Pringle presiding and devotions by Mrs. Braman and Mrs. Stevens. Judy Clough performed clarinet, and 29 were served by Mrs. Harve Lillie’s committee.
In London a riverboat party for Princess Margaret and Princess Alexandra ended with empty champagne bottles floating on a muddy Thames. The Duke of Devonshire, 35, funded the event costing about 4200 dollars. Guests enjoyed Dixieland music on two hired riverboats.
Nehru met Pope Pius XII in Rome and said the pope agreed Goa’s future is a political issue, not a religious one. Nehru stated Goa will be Indian territory as India aims to take over Portuguese colonies on its coast. The note also mentions U S coal production in 1954.
St Louis test pilot Albert Seawall Jr. 33 died when his McDonnell Demon fighter crashed on Bellerive Country Club course after avoiding a schoolyard and road. He radioed control tower about engine trouble seconds before impact. McDonnell says engine trouble suspected.
President Juan D. Peron dismissed 80 naval officers and 25 air force personnel following an attempted aerial bombing of his office and the June 16 revolt that damaged Government House when a plane struck a 20 foot tree.
The Senate Banking Committee summoned Comptroller General Joseph Campbell for closed door questioning over a report of laxities tied to zinc contracts and a dollar a year man who led the Defense Material Procurement Agency and the American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Co. Howard I. Young, then deputy administrator, denied knowledge of the report and said he would investigate. The inquiry delays consideration of a defense production act extension and may shape a rule barring dollar a year men from private firms on loan to government posts.
Campbell proposes tying the issue to a broader measure while General Accounting Office reports accuse laxities in zinc production contracts for defense. The comptroller general notes GAO findings show funds channeled to marginal producers after emergency needs ended despite objections to legality. Three unnamed companies are cited.
The Agriculture Department reports July 1 cotton in cultivation at 17,096,000 acres, down 14 percent from a year ago. The decline reflects reduced planted area and adjustments in cropping patterns across states.
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