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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1957
Page
1
A Chanute woman was returned to the Wilson County sheriff after claiming a ride with a boyfriend led to assault and abduction. The man offered a separate swimming tale near the county line. Erie authorities will decide which account holds.
Earlton the Rev James A Buckles of Earlton EUB church has accepted a call to the EUB church at Hoskins Nebraska. He and Mrs Buckles will leave for Nebraska August 5.
Ohio Governor C William ONeill halted planned lie detector tests for Dr Sam Sheppard after the Court of Last Resort led by Erle Stanley Gardner questioned the Florida prison confession by Donald Wedler. Wedler claimed involvement in a July 1954 burglary murder that sparked new doubt about Marilyn Sheppard murder.
The 100th grain car from a crop once deemed failures was shipped today by the Santa Fe. G R Stewart, agent, reports harvest continues with about 15 additional cars to be sent as remaining wheat and some barley are loaded at local elevators. Last season 161 cars were handled.
Four close friends and business associates perished when their four seater Stinson 150 crashed seconds after takeoff from Block Island Airport. The victims were Edward Schnoor 31 Lucien Allaire 39 Joseph Farese 29 and George Darling 33 all from New England states. Firemen using bulldozers hacked a path through heavy brush to reach the crash site.
State Accident Records reports 272 traffic fatalities in 1957 through the past 48 hours. compares to 338 for the same period in 1956. Data covers Topeka region and statewide totals.
In Whitley Bay England an 11 year old girl prayed for her mother with a doctor’s aide stating the mother is alive. Carole Draper’s grandmother and relatives were told her mother Mrs Nicolette Draper was dead but hospital officials later reported she is ill but alive, an inquiry opened.
In a June 27 update on hurricane Audrey, 524 people are dead or missing across Louisiana and Texas. Cameron Parish reports 328 recoveries and 190 missing, with total property damage over 40 million dollars. Louisiana crop loss is 26 million and livestock 2 million. insured property losses reach 11 million.
INDEPENDENCE Mo two brothers Floyd Lawson and Andrew Lawson both of Neosho were arrested on cruelty to animals charges after police found 49 dogs crowded into eight crates in their car. Three dogs were dead and the rest were taken in by a humane group while the men claimed they were transporting strays to a serum plant and cited a two dollar price per animal.
Government auditors told a House subcommittee that General Motors overstated costs on a 375 million dollar Air Force contract. They said prices paid by the government were unreasonably high and noted 12.6 percent contract profits. The GAO seeks cost records from GM and potential subpoenas were discussed.
A Union Pacific diesel locomotive on a passenger train exploded in St Marys Kansas injuring fireman C L Lehman 56 of Kansas City. Lehman suffered burns and a fractured leg and was listed in fair condition at a Topeka hospital. The engineer was unharmed and the fire was extinguished promptly.
A 123 car Rock Island Railroad freight train derailed near here on Saturday 21 cars went off the Kansas City Belleville branch. The train carried wheat and lumber. No injuries reported. Cause of the derailment is not known.
Independence construction worker Robert Kirkpatrick, 40, was killed near Thayer on US 169 while helping at an earlier crash. John Eugene Robeson, 41, Moran, the driver, was not charged. Two trucks in the scene, Laschanzky and Stafford, also involved with minor injuries and property damage.
A day of joy riding in a 1941 model car ended at a railroad crossing in Somerset Kentucky when a Southern Railway freight train struck the auto. Eight youths from Somerset, aged 12 to 17, were killed. three girls had been picked up minutes earlier after a church meeting. An investigation will probe possible negligence.
A 20 year old American airman Donald Wheeler of Cortez Colorado was convicted of disobeying orders at Fuchu Japan for refusing a white sidewall haircut. He received four months at hard labor a $200 pay loss and a reduction to basic airman private from airman third class.
Judy Died, 17, survived for 40 hours after a light plane crash 25 miles south of Lincoln, with her parents and a friend dead at the scene. She was found waving a white scarf by Don Christiansen, a photographer from the Alliance Neb Times Herald, and officials predicted full recovery. The flight had taken off from Alliance Friday night amid a storm, with Judy suffering leg fractures and multiple lacerations while her mother and father perished in the crash.
Fire destroyed the unused west half of the Frisco railroad roundhouse in Fort Scott early today. W R Allen said diesel locomotive repair stalls were unaffected and traffic won’t be hindered. Electrician Bill Swafford spotted the blaze around 12 30 am. within 30 minutes walls collapsed. City firefighters saved a coal chute and a 7 000 gallon diesel fuel tank. Fire Chief Sam Ayers left hospital bed to oversee the effort.
In Binghamton New York a car carrying three men and a 15 year old girl crashed after veering off a road and overturning onto railroad tracks. The victims were Elias Polovchak 21 Robert Liberacki 24 Harry Kostic 32 and Constance Abbott 15. Two teenage girls were injured. A second car heading to a swim stop for gas when the crash occurred.
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson warned the Senate will not pass the civil rights bill unless narrowed to voting rights. He argued Part 3 overcomplicates the measure and urged removing provisions linking to federal troop enforcement. Amendments to repeal the old troop authority law are expected to vote next.
Five persons drown when their 16 foot skiff dragged anchor and capsized off Point Ana Nuevo in California. The casualties, four men and a woman, join two couples who perished days earlier in the same area. Odell Wyatt, 28, Santa Clara, and his brother L. D. Wyatt, 35, San Jose, were washed ashore. Odell Velda, 25, and a fourth Wyatt, 42, were still missing. Coast Guardsman searches for the sunken Pen Jay continued after it swamped last Tuesday.
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