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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1957
Page
2
A 1957 Plymouth four door sedan owned by the city suffered damage to its right front fender when it struck a concrete post while being parked in the city garage. The accident report was filed at police headquarters.
The Daily Transcript lists hospital admissions yesterday including Mrs Edna Nibarger and Ronald Schultz with medical cases and today Phillip Gutierez and Mrs L Chaney with surgeries. Dismissals yesterday include Mrs Augusta Morgan and John Parkins. today Mrs Ed King and Roy Tyson among others. City Court hearing for Mrs Retha Grady on DUI charges was continued to July 22. Fire incidents reported with undetermined causes and several building permits issued for local properties including a new house by Charles Woodruff and a trailer site by Phillip Cooper.
A flood in Mabini Pangasinan due to Typhoon Wendy drowned 230 people and left over 1,000 missing as thousands of homes were washed away. Police fear all missing may be dead while Constabulary troops and Red Cross workers organized relief and searched the area after the typhoon moved into the South China Sea.
Hollywood figure Roy Rogers says he is shopping for an adult Western series and has closed his TV production office at Goldwyn Studios to cut costs. He notes the label adult Western is misleading and the move saves about $4,000 a month while his NBC contract still has a year left and General Foods remains a sponsor.
Harvey A. Rus sell, a 96 year old retired Topeka attorney, collected $2,000 for outliving a life insurance policy from 1892. The policy used an experience mortality table assuming no one would live past 96, and Russell did.
Obituaries list Jake Elonza Shepard 66 of Chanute and others from Coffeyville Erie Iola and nearby towns. Survivors include wives children siblings and grandchildren with funeral details and burial plans noted for several individuals across multiple communities.
Kansas City market reports show cattle steady to higher for cows and bulls while vealers, calves, and stockers vary. Hogs ease 25 to 50 cents, sows steady. sheep and lambs mixed with slaughter lambs and ewes noted. Parsons and government sources report prices, weights, and auction results across multiple categories.
London police report a 27 year old laborer, John Raymond Bridal, jailed three years for abducting 28 year old Marjorie Jordan from her bedroom and imprisoning her in a ground hole behind his home for 32 months. He bound her, beat her, and forced undressings as punishment. A neighbor found a note she tossed over a fence and she was rescued.
Topeka state printer Lillie Washabaugh says Lucas businessmen planned a private audit of the state printing plant books. She notes she asked for a private accounting firm audit but was told no state funds were available and said she knows nothing wrong with the books as previously kept.
Chicago reports resumed negotiations as the national cement strike continues. Lehigh Portland at Buffalo and Penn-Dixie plants in Pennsylvania planned sessions to end production stoppage. Key issues include retroactivity of wage raises and job security, while money terms are broadly accepted.
The Billy Graham crusade executive committee will decide Saturday night whether to extend the New York crusade by two or three weeks. The group postponed today's meeting until after Friday services and will reveal the decision at a huge outdoor rally in Yankee Stadium Saturday night.
The evangelist and committee weigh extending the meetings beyond June 30 after starting May 15. A spokesman said they are praying over the matter to discern divine lead. No crusade meeting was held at Madison Square Garden last night following the schedule.
An 18 year old in Virginia Minnesota shot and killed his 4 year old sister and mother after his parents cut off a record player. He was stopped from killing himself. a father and another sister were wounded during the attack.
Soviet defense minister Georgi Zhukov accused Georgi Malenkov V M Molotov and Lazar Kaganovich of responsibility for illegal acts committed under Stalin in a speech in Leningrad. Moscow radio aired the remarks as Zhukov joined the new ruling party.
The Chanute Tribune reports Khrushchev’s oblique call on Tuesday July 16 1957 for the expulsion of Malenkov Molotov and Kaganovich from the Communist Party as part of a purge.
In Dallas last night four people were stabbed and 20 arrested as clashes erupted between white fans outside an auditorium hosting rock and roll acts. Fort Worth student Bob Plummer, 26, remained in critical condition with a heart wound. about 3,000 outside and 3,000 inside the venue.
Senator Byrd branded the civil rights bill an iniquitous measure that tramples the Constitution and would let the federal government dictate who may vote. He compared Chief Justice Warren to Thaddeus Stevens and warned the bill could create a 20th century American Caesar, challenging President Eisenhower’s knowledge of its contents.
Three photo teams from the New York Press Photographers Assn. snapped 200 pictures in an hour at an American Bar Assn. meeting to show how unobtrusively they can work in courtlike conditions. Canon 35 of the Code of Judicial Ethics bars courtroom photography. The photographers used 35mm cameras with no flashbulbs.
TOPEKA state treasurer announced distribution of 379268 in gasoline tax residue. Counties receive 189634 while 610 cities receive the same amount. Regular quarterly payments of 1,000,000 to counties and 2,500,000 to cities were also distributed.
Ten couples joined the Duplicate Bridge session Monday night in Tioga Hotel Pine room. High scores include Bob Ward and Hub Ulrich with 67, Mrs. Fred Johnson and Lee Judy 63, Mrs. Howard Wilson and Mrs. Harry Williams 59, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Allen 56, and Mrs. Charles Broadwell and Mrs. Dean Stone 54 42. Play will resume next Monday night in the Pine room.
At a Les Demoiselles meeting with Miss Mary to Brazil 128 Forest Monday evening the pledges staged a walkout. Reports by secretaries followed roll call and Miss Charlotte Rhodes led the ways and means update including the candy sale. The next meeting is set for Highland Park Monday at 6:30.
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