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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1957
Page
7
In Santa Fe a child gunslinger event ends with Bill Beust, 10, claiming first place after a staged cap pistol draw. Lars Henderson, 9, from Los Angeles finishes second and Janice Nicholson, 12, places third while Eric trails last.
A French Nieuport fighter from World War I flew into Dallas Hensley Field on a cross country tour to plug the Ricks Memorial Trophy jet race and the U S Air Force’s golden anniversary. Owner pilot Frank Tallman, 38, Hollywood, flew the tiny biplane over Dallas to the delight of a handful of veterans.
The telegraph ship Monarch begins laying the longest underwater cable about 2,400 miles across the Pacific to Hawaii. The project provides a two way voice telephone system for the American Telephone and Telegraph Co.
Livingston New Jersey police are leaving dimes at highway phone booths for stranded motorists with notes to return the money. The effort has proven only 15 percent successful and funds are running short.
Gov James T. Blair of Missouri had a successful operation for benign enlargement of the prostate gland at Methodist Hospital in Rochester Minnesota. Judge Sam C. Blair announced the news describing the procedure as successful and routine.
Traffic fatalities listed by the State Accident Records Section show 257 to date in 1957, up from 332 in the same period of 1956. The piece notes the diesel locomotive powering the Freedom Train’s coast to coast tour as the only locomotive to operate in all 48 states.
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