Sinclair and Continental plan 27-station microwave network
The two companies announce a jointly owned system to link Independ ence Oklahoma City Ardmore Shawnee Ponca City Wichita Falls Fort Worth and Houston. The 708 mile route will use relay stations every about 40 miles and support up to 120 conversations simultaneously. City electric demand hits 5,200 kilowatts with a new Sunday peak and a 99,670 kilowatt 24 hour record last Monday as homes and business grow.
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Independence
Shawnee
Ponca City
Houston
Oklahoma City
Ardmore
Wichita Falls
Fort Worth
Foreign Oil Limits Urged
Washington leaders of oil and coal urge White House action under the foreign trade act to curb excessive oil imports. The National Coal Assn says residual oil imports merit presidential attention for possible restriction. IPAA general counsel Russell Brown says oil importers have invited federal action and the industry expects it. Congress extended the reciprocal trade program with a provision allowing curtailment if imports threaten national security.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
National Coal Assn
Russell Brown
Independent Petroleum Assn. of America
IPAA
Congress
Plane brakes fail on landing at Yakima crash injures none
Northwest Orient Airlines DCS twin engine jet lands in a thunderstorm at Yakima. Pilot Capt. Jack Taylor cannot hold brakes against a 40 mph gust. The craft crosses the runway end, drags across a fence, hits a utility pole, but fifteen aboard including Ed Murrow walk away unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yakima
Wash
Edward R. Murrow
Northwest Orient Airlines
Seattle
Jack Taylor
Sobering Words Heard On Russian Air Power
At the Defense Secretaries Conference in Quantico the briefing summaries warn of Soviet long-range bomber progress and rising capabilities in weapons and space domains. US allies emphasize staying ahead through continued research, production, and technology superiority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quantico
Defense Secretaries
United States
Nathan F. Twining
Air Force
Russia
Moscow
Arthur Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Radford
Soviet Union
Curtis E. LeMay
Strategic Air Command
LeMay
Pronunciation Guide For Summit Meeting
A pronunciation guide lists leading summit participants. French names Pinay Faure. Russian Bulganin Khrushchev Gromyko Zhukov are given with phonetic renderings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nay
Edgar Faure
Fohr Russian
Nikola Bulganin
Nee’ -Koh-Ly Bull-Gahn’-Yin
Nikita Khrushchev
Nee'-Kee-Tah Shees-Lahy
Moh’-Loh-Tohv
Andrei Gromyko
Ahn
Dray Grohm’-Ee
Koh
Georgi Zhukov
Gay-Ohrg
Ee Joo’-Kohv
School to Survey Segregation Problem
Sum merton School District announced a comprehensive survey of reorganizing its system on a nonsegregated basis. After a three judge tribunal told trustees they will have time to make adjustments to end segregation, they will be enjoined from denying admission due to race. The study will be conducted by University of North Carolina education and sociology departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
S. C
Summerton
Robert Figg
Charleston
University of North Carolina Education and Sociology
Dynamite Injures Hiattville Youth
Robert Salmon, 20, of Hiattville, was in serious condition after a stick of dynamite exploded in his hand. He suffered the loss of his right hand at the wrist, eye injury, chest and abdominal injuries, and burns. The accident occurred Thursday night when Salmon and Bill Coleman found the dynamite along a road. Salmon lit the fuse with a cigarette lighter and hesitated to throw it away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Scott
Robert Salmon
Hiattville
Salmon
Bill Coleman
NATO backs Big Three plans for Geneva summit
The 15 NATO members unanimously endorsed plans from the Western Big Three for the Geneva summit. Dulles Macmillan and Pinay reported to the council, affirming unity and continued consultations. They stressed a reunified Germany with freedom to choose its future and NATO membership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris P
North Atlantic Alliance
Geneva
Dulles
Harold Macmillan
Antoine Pinay
North Atlantic Treaty Organization Council
Paul-Henri Spaak
Germany
Europe
NATO
Tax Help Offered at Federal Bureau Office
Taxpayers can get assistance on federal forms at the U S Internal Revenue Bureau zone office three days in July and one day each in August and September. David German said the second floor post office building office will be open July 18 and 25 from 8 a.m. to noon and July 29 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The August 31 and September 30 sessions run 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Internal Revenue Bureau
David German
Bids Sought for Humboldt Water System Improvements
Humboldt council invites bids for extensive water works upgrades including tank foundation work, new tank integration with mains, chemical mixing machinery, pump repairs and plant improvements. A $43 577 bid was accepted for tank construction with the NE corner of New York and Seventh chosen for the tower to free square space for a park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humboldt
Black and Veatch
Kansas City
New York
Seventh
Weekend weather holds steady with scattered storms
Little change anticipated in Kansas weather over the weekend as thundershowers continue. Temperatures mainly near 90 with high 70s to 90s in various counties. night lows mid 60s to 70s. Rainfall reports include Sedan 1.29 inches and Wichita 0.92.
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Topekap
Kansas
Prospect
South Central
Sedan
Conway Springs
Wichita
Dodge City
Sublette
Elkhart
Sedgwick
Ripley
Concordia
Emporia
Goodland
Olathe
Pittsburgh
Ford Views Given On Layoff Pay
Ford Motor Co official hints fear Chrysler would grant the UAW a full guaranteed annual wage and prompted Ford to accept a modified layoff pay plan. John 8 Bugas, Ford vice president, said Ford dropped the dangerous principles of the GA wage by a watered down version. Ford negotiators believe pressure could force a breakthrough in the auto industry later this summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Chrysler
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford
John 8. Bugas
UAW
Death Sentence For Sex Murder In Georgia Case
CARTERSVILLE Ga Willie Wrady Cochran 27 a former mental patient faces the electric chair for murdering Rome schoolgirl Patricia Ann Cook The Bartow County jury condemned him to die August 26 after he lured the 14 year old from her home while she sunbathed June 20 took her to a secluded spot raped and killed her and cast her body into the Etowah River where it was recovered five days later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cartersville
Willie Wrady Cochran
Rome
Bartow County
Patricia Ann Cook
Etowah River
Four Powers Optimistic on Geneva Parley Start
The Big Four leaders Eisenhower Bulganin Eden and Faure head to Geneva hopeful the summit will yield procedures and methods to ease Cold War tensions. They expect a six day session focusing on disarmament European security German unification and world trade with further meetings possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Geneva
Eisenhower
Bulganin
Britain
Eden
Kremlin
Surplus Wheat a Major Problem for USDA
James Browning, executive assistant to the administrator of the Commodity Stabilization Service, says surplus wheat is a major issue for the USDA. He discusses export pricing, livestock feed effects, and the department's price support and drought programs. Browning, his wife, and four children visited the Stevens home in Wichita before returning to Arlington, Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
James Browning
Department
Commodity Stabilization Service
Browning
Carl Stevens
W. Main
Stevens
Arlington
J. M. Browning
Buffalo
Okla
Ezra Taft Benson
Secretary of Agriculture
United States
Commodity Credit Corporation
Chanute Building & Loan Association Buys Main Street Property
The Chanute Building & Loan Association announced the purchase of a two story building at 3 W. Main adjoining its office on Main and Santa Fe. The sale was from Mrs. Cecil Gardner and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Justice and Robert N. Allen noted long term expansion potential though no immediate plans exist. The property houses Harmon Jewelry Store and Galbraith Studio on the ground floor with lodgings upstairs. The association reported over 2 million dollars in insured savings, assets near 2.2 million, and 1 400 accounts serving more than 2 800 customers. Allen also serves as secretary treasurer and managing officer and the offices have been recently refurnished with air conditioning and new equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Main
Chanute Building & Loan Association
Association
Cecil Gardner
Raymond Justice
Robert N. Allen
Main and
Santa Fe
Allen
Harmon Jewelry Store
Galbraith Studio
Building and Loan Association
Reclamation Bureau Details Dam Projects in Missouri Basin
The Reclamation Bureau lists expenditures totaling 179.895 million dollars approved by President Eisenhower for Missouri Basin works in Kansas. Kansas items include Kirwin unit 1.4 million to finish dam and reservoir and irrigation lines, Webster unit 3.5 million to finish Webster Dam, Lovewell Dam work continued with 6.784 million, and 3.175 million for investigations on 13 units including Kanapolis and Almena.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Reclamation Bureau
Missouri Basin
Kansas
Eisenhower
Kirwin
Webster
Webster Dam
Missouri Base
Bostwick
Nebraska-Kansas
Nebraska
Lovewell Dam
Lovewell Reservoir
Kanapolis
Almena
Stowaway 12-Year-Old Flies From St Louis to Los Angeles
William Davis, 12, left Berkeley Missouri to take a plane ride on a Trans World Airlines Constellation from St Louis to Los Angeles. He dressed in blue jeans and was not noticed until after takeoff. He claimed his mother put him on the flight and his aunt would meet him in LA. Juvenile officers met the plane upon arrival.
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Los Angeles
St. Louis
Trans World Airline
William Davis
9221
Natural Bridge
Berkeley
TWA
Alvina Kelfisch
St Louis
William
Riots Surge in Casablanca Amid Martial Law
Rioting spread from the European to the native quarter of Casablanca as martial law was declared. Moroccans set fire to a hospital and a sugar warehouse while firemen were pelted with stones. Army tanks were ordered in and a curfew imposed. police planes scouted gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Casablanca
Gilbert Grandval
Grandval
More Polio Vaccine Released for Use
The Public Health Service released 440 000 more shots of Salk polio vaccine from the Pitman Moore Co laboratories in Zionsville Ind. The doses will go to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis for its free two shot program for first and second graders. Since May 26 the service has released 2 998 000 shots under revised testing and production standards and about nine million shots had been made available before that.
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Washington P
Public Health Service
Pitman-Moore Co. Laboratories
Zionsville
Ind
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
The
Health Service
Fire at Rothschild clothing store causes heavy damage in Chicago
An extra alarm blaze at the Maurice L. Rothschild clothing store on State Street and Jackson Boulevard damaged the 12 story building with an estimated one million dollars in damage. Flames on the top floor sent smoke over the loop while traffic was snarled for hours. Spectators crowded ropes as falling debris and glass showers prompted police crowd control. No injuries were reported and the cause was not determined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicagopa
Maurice L. Rothschild Clothing
State St
Jackson Blvd
Death in Car Wreck Near Hays Claims Elderly Driver
Sixty seven year old? Wait. Eighty seven year old John Karlenbaugh of Hays was killed today when his car collided with a vehicle driven by Donald Rogers, 20, of Newhall Iowa. Mrs Earlenbaugh was critically injured and both occupants were thrown from the car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hays, Kas
John Karlenbaugh
Hays
Donald Rogers
Newhall
Iowa
Vote on Power Strike Okayed at Kansas City
Two AFL IBEW locals authorize their business agents to strike against Kansas City Power and Light Co over a wage dispute. A third local will vote on the matter Tuesday. Gov Donnelly urged settlement through collective bargaining to avoid power outages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
AFL International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Kansas City Power & Light Co
Phil M. Donnelly
Kansas Citions
Eisenhower Heads to Geneva for Big Four Talks
President Eisenhower flies from Washington to Keflavik Iceland on the way to a Geneva conference. He hopes for progress toward peace and prosperity as he meets Icelandic leaders and U S minister John Muccio aboard Columbine III. He urged Russia to honor recent conciliatory pledges.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Atlantic
Geneva
Keflavik
Iceland
Air Force Base
Asgeir Asgeirsson
John Muccio
U. S.S
President
Columbine III
Mrs. Eisenhower
Maj
John Eisenhower
Rain Disrupts 142nd Infantry Parade at Fort Hood
At North Fort Hood Texas the 142nd Infantry Regiment of the 36th National Guard Division ordered sprinkling of the parade ground for dust control at 4 p.m. Wednesday. A storm then toppled 60 tents injuring three men and soaking the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Hood
Tex
142Nd Infantry Regiment of
Texas
36Th National Guard Division
Lack of Brakes Brings Bad Break
Pontiac Michigan Earl W Wooley 56 set out to have brakes adjusted when the car ran wild crashing through a service station wall. The driver was not injured but station damage and roof safety concerns loom as engineers fear collapse if the car is removed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pontiac
Mich
Earl W. Wooley
Wooley
Cemetery Tycoon Plans Sky Wedding Over Iowa
Edward L. Williams, 52, Kansas City cemetery tycoon, will marry Marian Sutton, 28, in a chartered airliner over Iowa with sky writing. The ceremony follows a divorce from his first wife, with guests aboard and a two week Hawaii honeymoon. Williams, founder and president of an international cemetery chain, cites Minnesota law for remarriage timing.
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Kansas City
Iowa
Edward L
Doc) Willams
Miss Marian Sutton
Minneapolis
Williams
Florence
Minnesota
George Butters
Nicollet
Hawaii
Great Lakes
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Ahnt-Wahn’ Pee
Cee
Lucy
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Morris Pack
Tribune Phe'o
Esseico
Faure
Agriculture Department
Neosho
Oklahoma
Department of Agriculture
Washington, D.C
Oklahoma A & M College
Stillwater
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Harvard
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Marguerite
Bob
John
Elks Lake
Bureau
Chanute
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Tribune
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