Rookie officer captures two holdup men after pre-dawn gunfight
Manhattan Kansas police officer Jim Russell chased a getaway car through Manhattan after a trio of holdups. Gene Hoyt was wounded in the thigh and taken to Kansas City for treatment. Ex-convict Robert Mall surrendered after his companion was hit.
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Manhattan
Kas
Gene Hoyt
Jim Russell
Robert F. Mall
Route 1
Clay Center
Russell
Leo Regier
Regier
Hoyt
Kansas City
Mall
State Penitentiary
Space Trip By Red Dogs Space Trip By Red Dogs
The Soviet Union launched two dogs Daring and Snowflake and a rabbit Mariooshka into space on July 10 in a 4,009 pound rocket and returned them with equipment. Tass reported measurements of infrared radiation and atmospheric analysis as part of the research program.
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London
Soviet Union
Space
Earth
Moscow Radio
Daring
Tass
Snowflake
Mariooshka
Martha
Traffic Fatalities in State Records 1958 Versus 1955
Topeka AP reports Kansas traffic fatalities in the latest 48 hours ending 9 am show 283 deaths for 1958 compared with 258 for the same period in 1955. The state accident records section tracks these figures.
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Topeka
Kansas
Polio Clinic Strain Amid Four Suspected Neosho County Cases
Four suspected polio cases in Neosho County, three in rural Erie and one in the county, prompt vaccine shortages as a drive for inoculations continues. Dr. Don Ray reports non paralytic cases. a third clinic is planned in seven months with welfare children prioritized.
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Neosho County
Don Ray
J. D. Gough
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Mortal Hospital
St. Paul
Erie
E. C. ‘Bryan
County Welfare Department
Ray
Doyle Parker
Robert E Parker
S. Grant
Carl Grady III
Carl Grady II
Young Grady
Earl King Jr
Earl King
W. 2Nd
Gregory Weiner
Carl Weiner II
S. Highland
King
Weiner
Neosho Me
Youths Admit Stealing 71529 From Ottawa Bank
Two Eastview youths Richard Boudreau and Gerald Leclerc, both 19, confessed on police and TV to stealing 71529 from a Toronto Dominion Bank in Ottawa. They planned to start a Mexico life after crossing the border but were nabbed when a taxi driver alerted police about luggage in the car.
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San Diego
Calif
Ottawa
Eastview
Richard Boudreau
Gerald Leclerc
Mexico
Boudreau
Leclerc
Toronto Dominion Bank
D. D. Bleacher
U.S
Richard Wolfe
Industrial Committee of C of C to Meet
An organizational meeting of the Chamber of Commerce industrial committee is set for 7 30 p m Thursday at the chamber offices in the Memorial building. Kenneth Brown chairs the committee and W H Caldwell of Mid America Inc will attend to confer with the group.
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Chamber of Commerce Industrial Committee
Memorial Building
Kenneth Brown
W. H. Caldwell
Mid- America, Inc
Southeast Kansas Industrial Promotion Organization
If you don’t get your Tribune call your carrier
Notice advises readers to contact their carrier if the Tribune is not delivered and to call 700 after 6 p.m. if the carrier cannot be reached. The brief instructs on obtaining service or assistance.
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Tribune
Sidewalk Bazaar Returns With Bargains on Thursday
Thursday shoppers will flood Chanute sidewalks for the second annual Sidewalk Bazaar. Merchants display bargains from 9 a m to 8 30 p m with items including clothing furniture hardware tools and jewelry. Barkers will assist buyers creating a carnival like atmosphere.
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Chanute
Big Savings
Revolt Crushed In Honduras Leader Armando Velasquez Cerrato Involved
The State Department cites the US Embassy in Tegucigalpa reporting a second failed revolt led by Armando Velasquez Cerrato. Government troops repelled the attack near police headquarters amid heavy firing, with field artillery and small arms used. Cerrato, a former army chief of staff, was allowed to depart the country again.
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Washington
State Department
Department
Tegucigalpa
Armando Velasquez Cerrato
Army
McCune Merchant Cecil Gregg Dies at 68
Cecil D Gregg 68 hardware and furniture store operator in McCune and president of McCune State Bank died at St John’s Hospital Joplin Missouri He was longtime partner with his father W E Gregg former Crawford County state representative who founded the business in 1881 Survivors include his widow a daughter and two sisters
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McCune, Kas
Cecil D Gregg
McCune
McCune State Bank
St. John’s Hospital
Joplin
W.E. Gregg
Crawford County
Bill Leroy Guilty of Check Charges
Bill Leroy of 1216 S Forest pleaded guilty in city court today to no fund check charges and to a police court traffic count of illegal parking. He was sentenced to nine days in the county jail with a six month parole contingent on paying 70 dollars for the checks and five dollars for the parking violation plus five dollars court costs by week’s end.
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Bill Leroy
S. Forest
Scant Prospects to Avert Steel Strike Amid Talks
New York AP reports stalled steel contract talks at the White House with a midnight Tuesday strike looming. R Conrad Cooper and union President David J McDonald show little optimism while Eisenhower urges resumed talks. Industry imposes shutdown preparations as two week extension follows the stalemate.
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New York
White House
R. Conrad Cooper
David J. McDonald
Cooper
McDonald
Eisenhower
Steelworkers Union
U.S. Steel Corp
Progress U S Hopes For Summit Meeting
Geneva AP report says U S Secretary of State Herter urged the Soviet Union to show concrete progress toward an East-West agreement to justify a summit. He pressed Gromyko on West Berlin rights during a proposed moratorium while Western ministers debated standards for peace, reunification talks, and a future summit.
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Geneva
U.S
Christian A. Herter
Soviet Union
United States
Herter
Andrei A. Gromyko
West Berlin
Berlin
West
Gromyko
Russia
Germany
Ussr
Wes Berlin
Ten Fatalities On State Roads In Past 3 Days
The Associated Press reports Kansas traffic deaths rising to 283 for the year with ten fatalities in three days. Killed were George Oertle and Francis Jones in Cherokee County, and Loren Thromley in Inman among others.
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Associated Press
Kansas
Hallowell
Cherokee County
George W. Oertle
Pittsburg
Francis Jones
Markley
Columbus City
John Girotto
Glen Edward Krueger
Emporia
Linda Christlieb
Kru
Betty
Hugoton
Donald Lytle
Kenneth Hill
Topeka
Sandy Paden
Hill
Howard V. Hill
Tulsa
Okla
Inman
Lorraine A. Thromley
Oil Company
Mae Arrowood
Roy A Christianson
East Peoria
St. Francis
Kansan Drowns While Swimming at Grand Lake
James Hribar 25 of Frontenac Kansas drowned Sunday while swimming with his wife toward a group on inner tubes at Grand Lake Grove Oklahoma. His wife said he disappeared after shouting I cant make it as they swam toward the others.
Gunfire Fatal At Tulsa Temple
A burst of automatic gunfire at the Tulsa Baptist Temple killed one person and wounded three others during Sunday worship. J R Swart, 4, surrendered his pistol after police corralled him. Swart stated he aimed at the minister, claiming anger over a divorce and remarriage plan.
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Tulsa
Okla
Tulsa Baptist Temple
J. R. Swart
Robert L Mawhinney
Swarb
Kenneth Starnes
Viola M. Bridges
Starnes
Earlene Starnes
Cornelia Bragg
U.S
Mawhinney
Temple
Clifford Clark
Clark
Jailed Son Hangs Himself After Stabbing Accusation
William M. Brown visited his son John, 17, in Kenmore Sunday after police said he stabbed another youth. John was found hanging in his cell, cut down, revived, and taken to a hospital for treatment.
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Buffalo
N.Y
William M. Brown
Kenmore
John
Fantastic Haul- Gentleman Burglar in Jail
Los Angeles AP reports Iain Anthony Hemensley a self styled gentleman burglar who stole between 50000 and 100600 dollars in six months targeting rich households. He claimed to have committed multiple burglaries while in the United States on a visitor visa. Victims included Zsa Zsa Gabor and Rosemary Lane. He drove a stolen white convertible to work and a patrolman arrested him when spotted. He left lipstick verse on a mirror at one home.
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Los Angeles
Iain Anthony Hemensiey
Southern Rhodesia
Hemenssey
United States
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Rosemary Lane
Hemensley
Don Ferguson
Driver Dies at Wheel asPassenger Guides Car
In CLATHE Kansas a car rolled downhill after driver Walter Lewis Forrest 78 of Wellsville suffered a heart attack and died at the wheel. His brother in law George M Hamner of Mathe switched off the ignition and steered the vehicle to a stop at the bottom. The two men were returning to Olathe from Overland Park.
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Clathe
Kan
Walter Lewis Forrest
Wellsville
George M. Hamner
Mathe
Olathe
Overland Park
Unsettled Kansas Weather Brings Showers and Thunderstorms
The forecast calls for considerable cloudiness with scattered showers and thunderstorms across Kansas. Rain totals include Langley 4 inches unofficially, with other top readings like Hudson 2.86 and Thayer 1.4 inches. Monday into Tuesday, showers continue in the east and thunderstorms may spread west, with warmer lows in the 60s and highs around 80 to 90. Top Sunday highs ranged 77 to 88 with Sunday night lows from 53 to 66 at various locales.
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Topeka
Kansas
Langley
Ellsworth County
Hudson
Thayer
Atwood
Fredonia
Kingman
Kanopolis
Ellsworth
le Roy
Scott City
Forbes Air Fce
Hutchinson
Pittsburg
Five Die In Colorado Plane Crash Near Ignacio
An Illinois industrialist Kenneth B. Ross president of Ross Mfg. Co. of Chicago died in a two engine plane crash in the Colorado mountains. Also killed were Betty Mink 40 of Washington Iowa her son Daniel 17 and her two younger daughters.
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Ignacio
Colo
Chicago
Iowa
Colorado Mountains
Kenneth B. Ross
Ross Mfg. Co
Betty Mink
Washington
Daniel
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Elaine Marie Rankin
Sheila Ann Rankin
Chocolate
Shorty
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Ogden
Red Dogs
Toronto-Dominion Bank
Jack Rooney
Industrial Committee of
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Honduras
Progress U
Palace of Nations
High Leoves
Maurice Couve de Murville
Selwyn Lloyd
Britain
Larry Sprenkel
Hill City
Quinter
Orian Stacy Reeves
Yates Center
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