Big boost for area road plan by Kansas Highway Commission
The Kansas Highway Commission withdrew U. S. 69 interposition and backed an Ottawa to Oklahoma border interstate route replacing the Emporia to Ottawa segment. The move aims to route traffic from the Turnpike toward a toll-free option, with a proposed Ottawa south route costing about 24 million dollars less than the U S 69 corridor.
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Topeka
Kansas Highway Commission
U.S. 69
Kansas
Bureau of Public Roads
Ottawa
Oklahoma State Line
Emporia
Jack Goodrich
Parsons
Tulsa
Okla
U. S. 69
Goodrich
The
Highway Commission
Ottawa - Emporia
Chanute
Topeka-Emporia
Kansas City-Topeka
Wichita-Oklahoma
Ottawa South
Bureau of Roads
Commission
Fort Scott
Franklin and Arma
Fulton
Left Hand Angler Hooks 252-Pound Catfish at Ash Grove
Billy Dean Beck of 1005 N Garfied fished on Monday at Ash Grove lake. While bass fishing he hooked a large catfish. After an hourlong battle with light tackle he landed the 252 pound monster and brought it home.
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Billy Dean Beck
N. Garfield
Ash Grove
Beck
Showers and storms hit Kansas with heavy rainfall totals
Heavy rains drenched scattered Kansas sections Tuesday night with as much as 8.09 inches at Elgin near the Oklahoma line in Chautauqua County. Other totals included 4.30 at Stafford and 3.02 at Council Grove. U.S. 54 bridges were washed out and reopenings may be delayed. The forecast calls for more thundershowers tonight and Thursday, with mild temperatures and scattered showers mainly in the east.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wittie
Topeka
Kansas
Elgin
Oklahoma Line
Chautauqua County
Wichita
Sedgwick
Kingman County
Highway Department
Fact
Manhattan
Junction City
McPherson
Peabody
Diamond Springs
Conway Springs
Anthony
Caldwell
Howard
Kingman
Chapman
Enterprise
Abilene
Coffeyville
Independence
Fredonia
McCune
Leroy
Pittsburg
Paola
Claflin
Lyons
Concordia
Wamego
Goodland
Chanute
Surgeon links lung cancer rise to cigarette smoking
Dr Alton Ochsner told the Texas post graduate medical assembly in Houston that the advance of lung cancer is caused entirely by cigarette smoking. He spoke Tuesday as he lectured during the meeting.
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Houston
Tex
Alton Ochsner
New Orleans
Postgraduate Medical Assembly of Texas
West Berlin price clash at Big Four talks over Germany
The United States accused Russia of trying to ransom West Berlin as Andrei Gromyko rejected Western demands for guarantees until German reunification. Christian Herter warned the Soviet plan would let Moscow crack down on West Berlin if Berlin settlement stalls.
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Geneva
United States
Russia
West Berlin
West
U.S
Christian A. Herter
Andrei Gromyko
Berlin
Gromyko
Germany
Compromise Foreign Aid Bill Passes House
The House approved a 3.556 billion dollar foreign aid bill by a 253 to 153 vote, sending it to the Senate. The measure, below Eisenhower's request by about 300 million, is an authorization ceiling not a real appropriation. Rep. Otto Passman warned reductions likely follow in the financing bill.
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Washington
House
Senate
Eisenhower
Otto E. Passman
D-La
Utility Pole Snaps, Worker Killed in Hutchinson
Charles Godwin, 34, of South Hutchinson, was killed Tuesday when an old utility pole at a Carey Salt Co. site snapped at the base. He fell about 25 feet and struck his head on a metal trash barrel while removing old poles installed about 25 years ago.
Kansas Traffic Fatalities Report for 24 Hours
Topeka AP reports state accident records show 306 traffic fatalities thus far in 1959 over the 24 hours ending 9 a.m. Comparable period in 1958 tallied 275 deaths.
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Topeka
Kansas
Eisenhower Proclaims Fire Prevention Week Beginning Oct 4
President Eisenhower has proclaimed the week starting October 4 as Fire Prevention Week, urging citizens to focus on fire safety. The statement underscores the importance of precautions in homes and workplaces nationwide.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Mitchell Acts as Fact-Finder in Steel Strike
Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell will serve as fact-finder for President Eisenhower in the steel strike. The move aims to inform possible Taft-Hartley intervention, while mediation continues with federal mediators meeting the sides. The United Steelworkers strike halts about half a million workers and 90 percent of steel output, with defense projects assured of steel through September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
James P. Mitchell
Eisenhower
Mitchell
Labor
White House
Taft-Harley
United Steelworkers Union
David J. McDonald
United Steelworkers of America
R. Conrad Cooper
U.S. Steel
Federal
Secretary of Labor
Washington
Douglas McKay Dies at 66 in Oregon
Douglas McKay a long time Oregon political figure and former secretary of the interior under President Eisenhower from 1953 to 1954 died in Salem Oregon at age 66 from a heart ailment. He had suffered kidney complications and a persistent heart condition for months. He entered hospital on June 12 and his health declined steadily.
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Salem. Ore
Douglas McKay
Oregon
Eisenhower
Power Failure At Chanute Plant From Broken Coupling
A broken coupling on a motor drives the Chanute power plant boiler fan, causing a 50 minute outage beginning at 6 30 P M. Assistant plant superintendent John Lofthouse said bolts sheared off, splitting the coupling in two. The boiler was taken out of service to remove the fragments before the fan ran again on the remaining motor.
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Chanute
John Lofthouse
Missouri Man Is Buried Alive
A 16 foot sewer ditch wall collapsed in Ellisville Missouri burying 26 year old Edward D Heaston a Pacific laborer. Two coworkers escaped. Authorities estimated two tons of dirt fell on him. Rescue workers reached him in an hour but he died at the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellisville
Pacific, Mo
Edward D. Heaston
Heaston
Clear the Air Nixon News on Soviet Talks
Vice President Nixon hopes his upcoming Moscow visit will "clear the air" on basic Soviet American differences. He aims to dispel any miscalculation by Khrushchev about U.S. strength and unity, after a White House meeting with Eisenhower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nixon
Russia
Soviet Union
Nikita Krushchev
America
White House
Eisenhower
Moscow
Khrushchev
U.S
Living Costs Reach New High in June
The Labor Department reports a four tenths of one percent rise in the consumer price index for June reaching 124.5 percent of the 1947-49 average. Food prices led the increase, with other major items in living costs also advancing. Wages tied to cost of living will rise for about 900,000 workers across trucking, aircraft, and electrical manufacturing sectors, while take home pay set new highs but purchasing power lagged behind prices.
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Washington
Labor Department
Ewan Clague
Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS
Eisenhower Highlights Labor Road and Farm Policies in Intentions
President Eisenhower stated that labor control, interstate highway funding, and a farm bill are top priorities for Congress this session. He indicated no must list exists but emphasized revenue measures for highways and a strong farm program, while wheat policy options leave farmers with a hard choice. He noted House action on labor reform is pending and veto decisions depend on each bill’s U.S. impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Senate Labor Management Committee
Senate
Special Investigating Committee
John McClellan
D-Ark
House
Ways and Means
Woodrow Wilson
United States
Sleepwalking hotel guest linked to jewelry case
In Chicago Ralph Goldberg claimed sleepwalking when staying at the Morrison Hotel prompted his actions. Police allege he, with Lisciandrelo and his wife, conspired to commit a felony during a jewelry convention, with Goldberg entering Room 1238 after receiving a key from the couple.
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Chicago
Ralph Goldberg
Goldberg
the Morrison
Fitzgerald
Lisciandrello
Margaret
Lisciandrelo
F. Noto
Los Angeles
Raymond Clark
Rotarians Plan Kansas City Baseball Outing
A group of 40 Rotarians and wives depart Chanute by bus at 4 p.m. for an Athletics Orioles game in Kansas City. They will picnic in an Olathe park en route, with fried chicken prepared by Jim Lightfoot, then return home after the game.
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Chanute
Kansas City
Athletics
Baltimore Orioles
Olathe City
Jim Lightfoot
Freedom F reflected cockatoo learns cage is home
Albert the cockatoo escaped from a Manhattan apartment during a storm and spent days flitting across ledges. He was found by office workers on a 23rd floor Madison Avenue window ledge and returned to Miss Fisher, who locked him back in his cage, warning that a little freedom can be dangerous.
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Miss Fisher
Manhattan
Albert
Madison Avenue
Walking Grandmother Reaches Oregon
Mrs Emma Gatewood a 71 year old great grandmother from Gallipolis Ohio reached Oregon on a hiking trip from Independence Missouri. She left Independence May 11 and walked the distance carrying a 14 pound pack with clothing food water a blanket and an umbrella.
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Ontario
Ore
Emma Gatewood
Gallipolis
Ohio
Oregon
Independence
Gatewood
Snake River Bridge
Idaho
Polio Cases Rise to 55 in Kansas City
Kansas City reports 55 polio cases for the year after four new cases, with one newly added patient in critical condition.
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Kansas City
Seven crewmembers die in KC97 crash near Andover New Hampshire
An Air Force KC97 tanker embedded in flames after a routine training mission crashed near Andover New Hampshire. All seven crewmen Capt. James H. White Harold C. High Dean H. Holzworth Marion C. Ackerman Phillips K. Daret Owen Q. Combs and Jake Schmidt were killed. A companion plane and a ground observer reported the crash shortly before 2 a.m. local time.
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Andover
N.H
Air Force
Pease Air Force Base
James H. White
Cambridge
Mass
Harold C. High
Duluth
Minn
Dean H. Holzworth
Worland
Wye
Marion C. Ackerman
Vevay
Bodies of three men feared drowned in Swanson Lake
A wind and rain storm sparked a search for three men missing after their 14 foot boat sank on Swanson Lake near Trenton Nebraska. Dragging crews from nearby communities worked through the night as a boat seat hat and notebook were found on the north shore. The missing are George Buehler 45 Trenton Alfred Vap 30 Atwood Kansas and Howard Brown Rock Springs Wyoming living near Stratton.
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Trenton
Neb
Swanson Lake
George Buehler
Alfred Vap
Atwood
Kas
Howard Brown
Rock Springs
Wyo
Stratton
Here
Sentencing set for Gordon Atteberry on August seventeenth
Gordon E. Atteberry the Hollywood actor accused of more than 100000 in house thefts will be sentenced August 17. He pleaded guilty to three counts of burglary after being captured in Reno Nevada July 1 following a year of looting more than 750 Los Angeles area homes since 1957. He had been pursued in six states and earlier this month wounded a policeman and fired at another near Kansas City Kansas before fleeing on foot.
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van Nuys
Calif
Gordon E. Atteberry
Hollywood
University of Wisconsin
Reno
Nev
Los Angeles
Atteberry
Kansas City
Kan
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Alma
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Wasser
Della Wimmer
N. Central
Charles Fitzgerald
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