U.N. Summit Meeting Agreed By President and Britain
President Eisenhower yields to British push for a U.N. summit to discuss the Middle East crisis. A White House statement says the United States would join a general Security Council session if desired. Britain presses for a clear policy while France leans toward conditional support.
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Washington
Selwyn Lloyd Kent
Eisenhower
House of Commons
London
Harold Macmillan
United Nations Security Coun
Russia
White House
Lloyd
Middle East
U.N
United States
Dulles
U.S
Khrushchev
Briain
Security Council
Geneva
Nehru
India
Dag Hammarskjold
France
Soviets Delay Japanese Plan Showdown
In New York the Soviet Union offered amendments to a Japanese Middle East peace plan that delay a Security Council vote by at least 24 hours. Arkady Sobolev urged withdrawal of U.S. troops from Lebanon and warned he would veto the Japanese resolution if rejected. The move stalls the showdown as delegates seek new instructions.
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United Nations
N.Y
Middle East
Arkady A. Sobolev
Security Council
U.S
Lebanon
U.N
U.N. General Assembly
Associated Press
UN Crisis Briefs Highlight Lebanon Exit, Iraq Stance
AP reports demand to evacuate Americans from Lebanon and a veto threat on a Japanese U.N. plan delaying Security Council votes. Eisenhower sides with Britain on a U.N. Middle East summit while Macmillan contemplates attendance. UK and US weigh Baghdad Pact ties and Iraq recognition as Beirut notes claim imminent U.S. troop withdrawals amid stabilizing Iraq. One Marine killed by own sentry.
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Beirut
U.S
Athletics Red Sox trip limited by ticket cost for local players
League Secretary O K James announced some Little League players cannot travel to Kansas City to see the Athletics face the Red Sox due to round trip fare. Donations to buy tickets are welcome, with last year’s gifts noted. Tickets cost 3.10 and are sold at several local businesses.
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Kansas City
Athletics
Boston Red Sox
O. K. James
League
James
James Shoe Store
Ward's Bootery
Brennecke Insurance
Jordan Plumbing Company
Family Troubles End in Double Tragedy in Wichita
In Wichita a bottling plant tragedy left Roy Wells and his wife dead after Wells, 57, shot his wife and then killed himself. Wells had filed for divorce July 16 and moved to a trailer court. Co workers said the couple had recently avoided speaking at work before the gunfire.
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Wichita
Roy Lewis Wells
Wells
Dan J. Mull
Bank at Hoyt faces 157000 shortage after cashier vanishes
TOPEKA AP The Hoyt state bank with cashier Jeff Williams missing since June 30 shows a 157000 shortage. Books hid a $126479 deposit versus $284183.80 owed. Williams charged with embezzlement. a receiver will liquidate assets for unsecured depositors.
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Topeka
Hoyt, Kas
State Bank
G. W. Lindley
Lindley
Jeff Williams
Traffic Fatalities in Topeka Reported
Kansas traffic fatalities listed by the state accident records section for the last 24 hours and year to date. In the 1958 period 268 fatalities to date, compared to 285 in the same period in 1957. The report notes two earlier deaths not previously reported.
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Topeka
Kansas
Partly Cloudy Area Outlook and Kansas Weather Summary
Partly cloudy and warmer through Wednesday with low tonight in mid fifties and highs near 90 on Wednesday. Neosho River remains above normal at seven to nine feet. Marais des Cygnes River bankfull and flooding along its course. Flooding reported on Beaver Creek and scattered showers caused minor flooding and fog in eastern Kansas. Temperatures ranged 52 to 84 across cities. warming trend expected with scattered thunderstorms in western areas. Weekend visitors from Austin, Texas noted in Wichita.
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Topeka
Kansas
Goodland
Beaver Creek
Brewster
St Francis
Marais Des Cygnes
Olathe
Garden City
Pittsburg
Weather Bureau
Senate lifts trade curbs amid bid to extend program
The Senate voted 63 to 27 to strike a provision that would limit President Eisenhower’s powers under the reciprocal trade extension bill. By removing the amendment, current authority to reject Tariff Commission relief findings remains in place, a win for the administration as the bill heads to conference. The House already backed a plan close to Eisenhower’s request.
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Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
Finance Committee
Robert S. Kerry D-Okla
Tariff Commission
Senate House Conference
Senate Finance Committee
House
Farmer to Quit As U.S. Attorney
Kansas City AP report says William C Farmer resigns next month to return to private practice in Wichita. Congress members receive letters urging Wilbur G Leonard of Council Grove as successor, Leonard currently an assistant to Farmer who has held the post since 1954.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Star
William C Farmer
U.S
Kansas
Wichita
Congress
Wilbur G Leonard
Council Grove
Star
Jack Williams
Washington
Leonard
Farmer
Defense Funds Cut Half Billion By House Group
The House Appropriations Committee cut over 511 million dollars from Defense Department construction requests citing loose fiscal procedures at the Air Force Academy. Navy and Army budgets were reduced as well with specific projects eliminated or scaled back.
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House Group
Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Defense Department
Air Force Academy
Administration
United States
Air Force
Navy
Army
Colorado Springs
Colo
Trains Move Slowly Over Merriam Track
Trains moved slowly over a 100 yard section of new track replacing rails damaged by a Katy freight derailment Sunday south of Merriam Kansas. A second track was expected to be in place tonight. A fire from the wreckage of the 49 car derailment was allowed to burn out.
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Kansas City
Katy
Merriam
Kan
City Dads OKay 42304 Bid For 20 Block Street Project
The city commission accepted a corrected bid of 42304.80 from Freeto Construction Co. for street paving and resurfacing over about 20 blocks, with a second bid of 47388.45 from George M. Myers, Inc. of El Dorado. Protests to some projects were deemed sufficient while others were rejected. The board also approved Santa Fe Park beer sales with a license, lease transfers, safety rules banning swimming, and scheduling for a 1958 59 budget hearing, with six Plummer resolutions to be published and protests allowed within 20 days.
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Freeto Construction Co
Pittsburg
City Commission
George M. Myers, Inc
el Dorado
Freete
Commis
Sion
George Donaldson
Elm
Grant
Plummer
Larson
Rutter
Wilson
Santa Fe Park
Board of County Commissioners
Chanute Sales
Neal McCoy
Chanute
McCoy
East 14Th Street
Joe Brazil
Robert L. Briley
R. J. Hayes
David Ray Webb
Rual Chanute
Hayes
C. E. Collins
City Park
Collins
South Plummer
Five year old Karen Gordon achieves solid food milestone
In Decatur Illinois five year old Karen Gordon born without an esophagus eats solid foods for the first time after seven operations. Doctors substituted a portion of her lower intestine for the esophagus and she celebrated a birthday with cake and ice cream before going home.
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Pana, Ill
Karen Lee Gordon
Gordon
Karen
St. Mary’s Hospital
Decatur
Ill
Docor’s
Conway Springs Boy Suffocates in Wheat Bin Tragedy
12-year-old John Lauren Small suffocated while unloading wheat from a bin on his parents farm. Ronald Pletcher of Wichita tried to rescue him by shutting off the augur and pulling him free, but both efforts failed. Survivors include his father Donald A. Small, a West High School teacher, his mother, two sisters, and a brother.
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Conway Springs
Kas
John Lauren Small
Ronald Pletcher
Wichita
B. J. Myers
Young Small
Pletcher
Small
Donald A. Small
West High School
Spray Pilot Killed in Kansas Plane Crash
Lincoln Kansas report says Henry McEwen aged 24 from Woodcliff Lake New Jersey was killed when his light plane crashed while spraying crops three miles south of Westfall Kansas yesterday.
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Lincoln, Kan
Henry McEwen
Woodcliff Lake
Westfall
Kan
Education as the Soviet strength and its limits
Kansas educator Dr. Franklin D. Murphy after a six thousand mile Soviet tour says tensions stem from mutual ignorance about each other. He notes Soviet education fuels curiosity, equality of opportunity and women’s prominence while exposing limits on free speech and individuality in the USSR.
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Lawrence
Kas
Kansas
Russia
Ussr
Franklin D. Murphy
University of Kansas
Soviet Union
Lee Wasser
United States
Allen Dulles
Central Intelligence Agency
Murphy
University of Central Asia
U. S
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Miss Quast
Jackie Dack
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Hoyt
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Hoyty
Tribune
Middie
Neosho River
Bill Sumner
Joyce and
Dennis
Austin
Tex
Dan Penno
Everett Penno
Mary K
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Dana Cook
Dale Bailey
City Dads Okay
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Dahlgren
Randall Diver
Harold R. Williams
Dr. Murphy
Moscow
Leningrad
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Georgia
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Ussr Atomic Energy Center
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