Youth escapes police after Oklahoma chase in Kansas
A 22 year old Wichita man named Carl J. Lewis fled pursuing officers across Southeast Kansas yesterday after passing a $40 bad check at a service station. He tricked hitchhikers, stole suitcases, and briefly entered a private home before escaping again. Police describe him as 5 feet 9 inches, slender, with black hair and a light complexion.
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Kansas
Tom Morehead
Carl J. Lewis
Wichita
Kenneth Slocum
N. Lincoln
John Leroy
Charles Record
South Santa Fe
Slocum
Coffeyville
Morehead
Wichita Motor Car Company
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Lewis
Independence
Sightless man and guide dog fend off toy pistol incident
Parsons resident Shelby Johnson and his guide dog Humpty were seen guiding along Main Street when a boy ran toward them with a toy pistol. Humpty grabbed the gun arm in both jaws and shook it before they continued on. Johnson, a former Chanute resident, works for the State Highway Commission.
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Shelby Johnson
Humpty
Parsons
Jim Davis
Parsons Sun Reports
Johnson
Boxer
Main Street
Chanute
The
State Highway Commission
Iola Band Plans 85th Concert at Santa Fe Park
The Iola Municipal Band presents an all ages concert at Santa Fe Park Friday at 8 pm. Director Dale P. Creitz leads 40 members in a varied program featuring soloists Delores Mohler T O Cantsey and Joe Rovito with renditions of marches waltzes show tunes and excerpts from Gershwin Sousa Romberg and more.
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Iola Municipal Band
Santa Fe Park
Lola Musical Organization
Delores Mohler
T. O. Canatsey
Joe Rovito
Dale P. Creitz
Star Spangled Banner
Kalman-Yoder
Cole Porter
Sigmund Romberg
John Philip Sosa
Filmore
Porgy and Bess
George Gershwin
el Capitan
Sousa
Benny Goodman
Richard Hayman
Harry Simeone
Edwin Franko Coldman
Man With the Golden Arm
Zoash
Molly-O
Fine and Bernstein
Rolling Thunder
Henry Fillmore
Delores Ohler
John J. Morrissey
March
Emporia Doctor Dies of Polio
Emporia physician Dr. Ralph Jordan, 39, died of bulbar polio after falling ill Sunday and entering an iron lung Monday. A KU Medical School graduate, he had practiced in Emporia a year after earlier work in Holton and Osborne. Funeral services will be private at 2 PM Saturday in Beloit, Kansas.
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Emporia
Ralph Jordan
Lyon County
Jordan
University of Kansas Medical School
Holton
Osborne
Beloit
Kas
Traffic Fatalities In State Record Section
Topeka report shows 3 deaths in last 24 hours and 317 for 1956 to date, against 293 in the same period of 1955. Two deaths occurred previously but were not reported.
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Topeka
Kansas
Old Man’s Friends Help Fer Vent Wish To Go Home
Ferris Keroney, 115 years old by a family claim and about 90 by another, sails from Coffeyville to Syria on an air trip funded by locals. A going home fund raised 547.11 for his journey to Damascus to reunite with his children and grandchildren.
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Ferris Keroney
Coffeyville
Keroney
Syria
Tulsa
New York
Damascus
Keroney Long
Hison
Coffeyville. Kas
Saidit
U.S
Mexico
Springfield
Okla
Cairo
Nedjim
Church Buys EUB Building
The Assembly of God church has purchased the church building at 220 S. Forest from the Evangelical United Brethren church. Purchase price not disclosed. The EUB church recently bought Rose Acres on West Seventh from Virginia Jones to build a church. Possession timing unclear, expected in fall. EUB plans interior remodeling for church school use.
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Assembly of God Church
S. Forest
Evangelical United Brethren Church
L. Glen Ahlf
Assembly of God
EUB Church
Rose Acres
West Seventh
Virginia Jones
Ahlf
EUB
Lafayette
Chestnut
Paul Life
Ottawa Population Tops 10 853 Mark in 1956 Census
Ottawa Kansas shows a population of 10 853 for this year, up 283 from 1955. County Clerk Bruce Spears announced the figures during a tax assessing enumeration. Franklin county rises to 20 366 from 20 255, with residents urged to contact Tribune carriers if delivery issues arise.
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Ottawa
Bruce Spears
Franklin County
Wide Search for Baby Boy in Weinberger Kidnapping Case
The search for 40 day old Peter Weinberger continues with FBI involvement after the infant vanished from his Brooklyn home. In Nassau County a woman Shirley Ginsberg 34 was arrested as an accessory for giving false information and obstructing the investigation. Earlier two men in Queens faced charges of attempted extortion and providing false information in a related hoax.
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Westburg
N. Y
Peter Weinberger
FBI
Brooklyn
Shirley Ginsberg
Nassau County
Weinberger
Queens
Cyprus moves toward internal self government by Britain
The Eden government announced plans to pursue internal self government in Cyprus. In Washington the Court of Appeals ruled foreign states may try their own military personnel for crimes committed abroad, limiting U S jurisdiction when sovereignty is not ceded. Lorne Kennedy was sworn in as assistant to Secretary Seaton. Dulles warned House budget cuts to foreign aid could spell disaster for the free world.
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London
Eden
Cyprus
Washington
Uss
Court of Appeals
U.S
Japan
United States
Lorne Kennedy
Omaha
Neb
Secretary of the Interior
Fred Seaton
State Dulles
House
Little Hope Is Held For 2 Missing Pilots
Navy officials in Norfolk Va held little hope of finding two Jet pilots missing since a Tuesday training flight. Search across the Atlantic Ocean and Virginia coast failed to locate the single seat Cutlass jets from Oceana Naval Air Station. The pilots were Cmdr. Chester W. Gates of Baldwin Base and Lt. William M. Austin of Charlottesville Va.
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Norfolk
P—Navy
Atlantic Ocean
Virginia
Oceana Naval Air Station
Cmdr
Chester W. Gates
Baldwin Bas
William M. Austin
Charlottesville
Vigorous Drive Planned by Ike Nixon to Confer
President Eisenhower will meet tomorrow at Gettysburg with Vice President Nixon to discuss campaign plans before returning to Washington. GOP Chairman Leonard Hall says a vigorous nationwide campaign is planned with Nixon as running mate, and Eisenhower will attend the San Francisco Republican National Convention to accept renomination in person. Nixon travels from Asia with Secretary Dulles to report on his world tour and discuss strategy. Hall forecasts major speeches by TV and radio, while assuring frankness on the President’s health.
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Gettysburg
Eisenhower
Nixon
White House
Washington
James C. Hagerty
GOP
Leonard Hall
Hall
San Francisco
Hagerty
Dulles
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
Toronto Relocation Bids For Kansas Reservoir Project
P List and Clark Construction Co submitted the apparent low bid of 1,465,998 for relocating 22 000 feet of track in the Toronto Reservoir area. The project includes about one million cubic yards of excavation a new bridge 51000 feet of fence and replacement of the Missouri Pacific Railroad track. The reservoir is a flood control structure on the Verdigris River.
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Tulsa
Okla
P—List and Clark Construction Co
Kansas City
Kansas
Toronto
Istrict Army Engineers
Verdigris River
Arms Production Equipment in Reserve
ATCHISON The national conference of Army Ordnance Corps officials was told that the United States has a five billion dollar reserve of armament production equipment for the Army. E K Joy of the chief of ordnance staff in Washington said the layaway policy aims to gain lead time and readiness for any future aggression. The three day conference ends.
Kansas teacher pleads innocent after assaulting officers
In New York Kansas teacher pleaded innocent to assaulting police after officers stopped her for a traffic violation. The case centers on a quiet Kansas schoolteacher facing charges of assaulting law enforcement during a traffic stop.
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New York
Kansas
Stormy Kansas weather and a Queens court case headline
Thunderstorms and high winds swept northeast Kansas with reports of up to 1.10 inches of rain in Topeka and a tornado near Colby. Miss Frances Lindblom 33 Salina was jailed after a Queens incident involving an unregistered car and alleged assault, with bail set at 1500 dollars and a July 24 hearing.
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Topeka
Kansas
Colby
Osawatomie
Paola
Ft. Scott
Osage City
Tonganoxie
Wamego
Valley Falls
Garnett
Ottawa
Olath
Frances Lindblom
Salina
James E. Lo Piccolo
Miss Lindblom
Columbia University
New York
John Mercoelia
Thomas O'Keefe
Jamaica
Queens
Columbia
Mercoella
O’keefe
Queens Junior High School
Walter T. Lindblom
Frances
Uranium Mill Blast Injures Three Men
A 15 000 gallon tank of sulphuric acid exploded at the Vitro Uranium Corp plant in Salt Lake City. Officials stressed the blast was not atomic. Three men were hurt, one critically, including George Asmussen, 58, who suffered severe burns from the flash. W. B. Hall cited a welding torch spark as a possible trigger. The blast damaged a corner of the three story facility but caused little other harm.
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Salt Lake City
W. B. Hall
Vitro Uranium Corp
George Asmussen
Rough Road for Rock and Roll Sparks City Dance
In Burbank a teen dance faced a rock and roll scare as city officials first refused then granted permission after a local group was found to play music at a teen event. Four minors were charged with beer consumption. a widow hosting the meeting was charged with supplying alcohol. In Ottawa police halted an Elvis Presley fan session, detaining sixteen teenagers after a raid on a room decorated with rock and roll posters.
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Burbank
Calif
Parks and Recreation Department
David Friendlander
Rita Primeau
David
Com- Ottawa
Prison Terms For Two Men In Neosho County
In Neosho County District Court two men received penitentiary sentences. Clyde T. Webb was found guilty of endangering the life of a woman and drew a sentence of up to 10 years. his bid for a new trial was denied by Judge B. M. Dunham. Don Colan got 1 to 5 years for a no fund check charge and his parole request was denied. Judge Dunham also overruled a parole motion from Ancel B. Som mers, jailed for contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
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Erie
Neosho County
Clyde T. Webb
B. M. Dunham
Don Colan
Dunham
Ancel B. Sommers
Bids Received for US169 Highway Improvements in Southeast Kansas
Apparent low bids exceed 1 million for southeast Kansas highway work. W H Bennett Kansas City bid 144 146.60 for four miles of grading and two bridges on a new US169 route near Morehead Cherryvale. Erickson Construction Assaria bid 46 057.10 for separation bridge over US169. Additional bids cover US169 widening Osawatomie south, hot asphalt resurfacing, and bituminous sealing along K6 and near Neosho and Allen counties.
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Kansas
Kansas Highway Commission
Fourth Division
Cherryvale
Morehead
W. H. Bennett
Kansas City
Santa Fe
Erickson Construction Co
Assaria
Howard Vetto
Harris Asphalt Co
Jefferson City Co
Osawatomie
Black Top Construction Co
Emporia
Neosho County
Allen County
Blacktop Construction Co
Hall Pledges Kansas highway push across new program
Gov. Fred Hall at a dedication in Girard pledged Kansas will not neglect secondary highways as the federal program funnels 140.8 million dollars through 1959. He cited a 1955 record for construction and maintenance, noting 1000 miles of road and 100 bridges built or resurfaced, plus extensive county secondary work and widened culverts.
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Girard, Kas
Fred Hall
Kansas
Hall
Grand Finale Parade By Shriners Tonight
The Shriners wrap a week long convention with the grand finale parade known as the Electrical Parade. Lighting units flash on sabres and satin uniforms as crowds surpass Tuesday’s 225000 spectators and total Shriners exceed 50000 attending the convention.
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Detroit
Shriners
Polio Cases in Fifty Six Fall Short of Last Year
The Public Health Service reports 275 polio cases in the last week, 19 more than the prior week but 130 fewer than the same week in 1955. Of these, 129 are paralytic. For the disease year starting in April, 2,931 cases have occurred versus 3,048 in the same period last year.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Australian Snow Hits Sydney Causing 300000 Damage
Heavy wintry weather brings snow to southeastern Australia with damage in Sydney estimated at 300000. Property and buildings sustain impacts as crews assess risks and initiate repairs. Local authorities issue travel advisories amid declining visibility and slick streets.
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Sydney
Australia
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