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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1957
Page
2
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Church schedules fill the week with services at Friends and Grace Episcopal parishes. A story hour at the Public Library features A Dimes Worth For Free and Too Many Kittens. Families docked in Urbana and visiting relatives share updates as Jay Ed Parr QM1 suffers a severe leg injury aboard the USS Grenadier near Bermuda and is treated at Chelsea Naval Hospital.
A series of old land transfers listing grantors and grantees. John Cassingham and wife transfer to Chester KE Bailey and wife for parcels in Evergreen Park, with several Lot and Block references. Several other transfers name J L Taylor to L L Rowan, Paul N Harris to Charles E Mussulman, John Robert Prine to Ken meth Pens, and Cora M Wanderer to Paul H Whitworth, all detailing lot locations in Evergreen Park Additions and nearby subdivisions.
The Emanuel Fletcher funeral will be in John son Chapel Saturday at 2 p.m. Rev. Judd Jones will officiate. Burial in Odense cemetery. Clarence E. Sutton, 57, Louisville Neb., former chemist at Ash Grove Lime & Portland Cement, died of a heart attack. Survived by wife Zelma, six sons Wilbur, Kenneth, Richard of Omaha, Marion and William and Robert of Louisville, two daughters, 10 grandchildren, a brother in Pasadena, two sisters. Bybee funeral services held at Johnson Chapel with Rev. Jones officiating. organ solo Have Thine Own Way. burial in Elmwood cemetery.
Hospital notices list Thursday admissions for Mary Jeffers Elizabeth Currie Milo Kesner Refugia DeLa Torre Christie Kirkpatrick Elizabeth Thielen Max Alter Augusta Morgan Lyle Norton and others with specific addresses. Dismissals include George Zugmier Guy Rucker Jennifer Erickson Earl Rogers True Ashlock and others. births noted for four couples. Traffic citation issued for Louise King. numerous county deeds and property transfers recorded in the Cha nute area.
A civil service examination for a state purchasing director will be held July 30 31. It is conducted by J Stanley Bien Michigan purchasing director Charles A Byerly Kentucky director of purchases and a Kansas Personnel Division member. Byerly is president of the National Association of State Purchasing Officials and Bien a former president. Twenty seven people including Henry Knouft acting director have applied for the position.
Banner notes Mrs. William Payne remains ill but shows improvement. Families and friends visit across Chanute Cherryvale and Monroe Louisiana while Mrs. Lamb stays at the Payne home to help. Neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Hines, Wever, and Clinesmith host and travel between homes.
The Swiss Federal Railway keeps cats on its payroll to patrol the Simplon Tunnel. They receive milk and cat tidbits to help curb mice, supporting tunnel operations and safety.
Kansas City Livestock includes cattle hogs and sheep prices with various weights and revisions. Soybeans rise in Chicago Board of Trade with July futures near 2.12 and soybeans up several cents as grains edge higher. Produce notes show eggs butter and poultry largely unchanged in Kansas City and Chicago markets.
President Eisenhower orders cabinet members to keep department spending at the 1956 57 level around 70 billion dollars as the 1958 budget request aims at about 72 billion with 73.3 billion in new appropriations. Rayburn questions the administration's stance saying it cannot cut the budget yet claims it cannot explain why more money is requested. Speaker Cannon and the House Appropriations Committee pressed administration witnesses over Atomic Energy Commission funds and the inconsistent spending rationale.
Wheat prices mixed with 810 cars traded and corn steady. No 2 yellow oats and barley advance slightly. soybeans and bran move within recent ranges. Hay receipts show one car of alfalfa this week, none last week, one year ago.
Foreign circles in Moscow and elsewhere discuss a possible meeting between Soviet and Yugoslav Communist leaders to mend the split dating to 1948. In Topeka, Leslie Dale Caplinger pleaded guilty to a federal escape charge and received five years. In Washington, Judge Burnita S. Matthews denied a mistrial motion in the Hoffa bribery case after co defendant Fischbach was granted a mistrial due to his attorney’s illness.
Wellington police report three inmates escaped after overpowering a jailer. Identified as George O Woetzig 35 held for jailbreak in Caldwell Clinton C Perrson 32 charged with car theft and Ernest C Fleming 20 charged with burglary and robbery. They fled in an old model car using T shirt lassos to seize keys.
House Democrats led by Speaker Rayburn accuse President Eisenhower of seeking billions more than Congress will permit for federal agencies. Rayburn cites reports of inflated spending requests and demands a review of the administration's numbers.
Donald W. Douglas predicted jet airliners will double world travel in ten years and that jet engine noise problems will be solved before service begins in 1959. He noted commercial jets will not use afterburners and spoke at an ASNE panel on water supply.
Earlton observed a quiet July 4 with family picnics and a VFW event in Chanute. Harvest activity rose as tractors and combines struggled in wet fields while local children swam in nearby ponds. Visits included Chanute residents, Humboldt families, and scout crews en route to a national camp.
Sunday notes report Mr. Hurt died Monday at Winfield Hospital. Visitors called on Neosho Memorial Hospital patients including Mrs. A. R. Brant, Mrs. Bernice Converse, and Earlton friends. Under Sheriff Jack Reynolds was in Earlton on routine business. News mentions Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Scribner, Lena Converse, Debra Lee Wolberidge, and a new baby boy at the Christmore home in Coffeyville.
Atty. Gen. John Anderson says the Eisenhower Presidential Library Commission may accept gifts and must place all receipts in the state treasury, credited to the library building fund. Funds are for planning and construction at Abilene, with option to deed the site to the Eisenhower Foundation if fundraising fails.
The nation faced collar-wilting heat with high humidity and scattered showers briefly cooling some sections. Readings ranged from 70s to 80s from the eastern Rockies to the Appalachians while the Great Lakes and upper Mississippi Valley saw 60s. Fair weather dominated east of the Rockies with only light storms offering minimal relief.
In Oklahoma City City Judge James Demopolis fined a man $20 for vagrancy after a questioning exchange about employment and support. The unemployed defendant asserted no money was needed to get by, but the judge insisted the fine was required.
Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney states an increasing body of evidence ties excessive cigarette smoking to lung cancer. He cautions heavy smoking is not the sole cause while urging more research. Clarence Cook Little retorts that the statement adds nothing new to existing views on lung cancer causes.
MINNEAPOLIS, has -If Ottawa County lawbreakers who fall into the hands of authority think they are seeing double they are. Sheriff Fred Hawkins has appointed his identical twin Alfred as undersheriff. No one can tell us apart the sheriff said. I will use my brother for psychological effect on criminals. He means he will use me as a decoy Alfred quipped. The only discernible difference between the brothers is their weight Fred weighs 20 pounds more than Alfred.
Russell California sheriff reports an oil field worker pulled an unconscious despondent motorist from a car on a lonely road. George E Gustafson 64 Oakland Calif was rescued by Albert Plegler a pumper for a Great Bend oil company in a rapid action that saved his life.
Sheriff Morgenstern reported Gustafson, hospitalized after a car was found with a hose attached to the exhaust and running into a window. Plegler observed the scene at about 6 a.m. while driving to inspect an oil well and alerted authorities. Gustafson, despondent due to a prolonged illness, provided statements.
Belated obituary notes Smoky a unique farm animal near Webster in Jewell County died by lightning. At 2 2 years old she showed deer like markings and blue eyes and did not mingle with cows. Offspring of a heifer left normal calves. vets offered theories of mutation recessive trait or cow deer hybrid. News of her death surfaced after a reporter contacted Tom Fulton.
Neosho County officials joined the Southeast Kansas County Officials Council quarterly session in Sedan with 98 officials and eight guests present. Attendees included Marion Edwards deputy county clerk Cary Pruitt county commissioner and Mrs Pruitt John Hemphill probate judge and Nelle Stevens county superintendent and council secretary. Next gathering set for Columbus on October 10.
Portland Oregon earned the nickname City of Roses as multicolored blossoms bloom in nearly every yard across the city, reflecting its historic gardening culture.
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