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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1955
Page
1
A destitute Kansas City family received Red Cross aid after car trouble near police headquarters. Vandalized street lights were reported around 9th and Malcolm as police noted no Week-end accidents, while Chanute prepared for the 82nd Neosho County Soldiers and Sailors Reunion with Leon McAuliffe to perform and a pancake day. Chanute to host Elks midget baseball tournament for boys under 15, with complete trip arrangements pending.
D J Cox director says band rehearsal is tonight at 8 in the Memorial building community room. The final summer series concert is Friday at 8 in Highland Park. If Tribune not received call 17 between 5 30 and 6 30 pm including Saturdays.
Dayton police hold ten teens for questioning in the $82,000 theft from baker Fred Frowein's basement. Two 19 year old males are being sought. Cash recovered in Richmond after a roadblock crash, with $24,000 found and $8,000 more located in Dayton. some of the money had been spent by suspects.
A joint filing with the State Corporation Commission seeks sale of Eastern Kansas Gas Co. lines serving Erie LaHarpe Gas City and Piqua to Gas Service Co. of Kansas City. Hearing set August 5 in Topeka. The move follows Eastern Kansas liquidation steps including selling a storage field near Iola and shifting distribution to Cities Service. John Bass says no service change expected in Erie.
The Office of Defense Mobilization grants Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway a five year write-off on a $4,020,534 outlay for a centralized traffic control system. The write-off may be applied to 40 percent of the costs.
The House Agriculture Committee proposed a revision of sugar marketing quotas claiming a fair solution for all parties. It would trim Cuba’s future share of the U.S. market while addressing producer and consumer concerns.
State accident records show 5 fatalities in the last 48 hours and 301 to date in 1955, with 298 in the same period of 1954. One death from an earlier accident was not previously reported.
Kansans saw a slight rise in temperatures after a weekend cool spell. The forecast calls for mostly fair skies through tomorrow with highs in the upper 90s and overnight low 60s to 70s. Rain totals included 3.02 inches in Atlanta and scattered amounts elsewhere as a cool air mass moved through the north.
The Neocha Drive-in Theater reopened last night after windstorm damage ended operations in May. A new all steel wide angle screen now stands ready to withstand winds up to 100 miles per hour.
Washington hearing delves into Harold E. Talbott's $50,000 annual profits from Mulligan & Co while he serves as Air Force secretary. He says he sought no profits from government contracts and clarified ties after RCA renewal questions.
Northern and eastern United States welcomed its cheapest import from Canada cool air. The vast mass lowered temperatures as much as 15 degrees and rolled southward after a 10 day stretch of 90 degree heat. Renewed southerly winds brought a warming trend. further west, cooler showers occurred in the Great Basin. Two tornadoes were reported in Missouri and severe storms hit Chicago and St. Louis with little damage or casualties.
Orlando police seek Bernard Davis, 39, accused of entering his ex wife Rosa Finley’s home to kill her but killing roommate Joe Cohen, 38, by mistake. Rosa Finley was wounded in the stomach and elbow as she fled the scene chasing the shooter. Oregon? No, Florida.
A Des Moines native Pfc. Mark J. Thomas stationed at Fort Riley drowned while attempting to swim across a large lake 344 miles east of Peabody. Army engineers recovered his body several hours later.
Geneva notes say the four powers begin a second phase to ease world tension through negotiations. Experts in capitals begin shaping plans to implement summit directives on disarmament Germany unification and European security with a follow up in late summer and fall.
Gov. Fred Hall reported President Eisenhower authorized more emergency aid for Udall Kansas, with a request for $200,000 extra to augment $125,000 already approved. Funds target high school, grade school, and general repairs plus debris removal as the Civil Defense Administration coordinates the final amount.
TOPEKAP Lloyd and Joseph Bruce welcomed two newborns on July 24, a daughter for Lloyd and his wife and a son for Joseph and his wife. The families celebrate the double arrival as a shared life milestone.
A home economics judging school for 4-H members and leaders will meet at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the extension rooms of the old Erie High School building. Mrs Marguerite Grannemenn, county home demonstration agent, announced today. Classes focus on foods and clothing.
In Lewes Delaware two couples were rescued after spending a night adrift in a 14 foot rowboat in Delaware Bay. James Bennett Marion Keene Chance Keene and Lillian Keene were aboard the boat when a sudden storm swamped it. All four were hospitalized for exposure and related injuries.
In Winsted Connecticut John L. McFaum 48 shouted I’ve got no brakes as his five ton truck with four show horses and two helpers lurched down Main Street at about 80 mph. His wife Kathryn McFaum 48 in an open convertible tried to outrun the truck and warned other drivers to clear intersections. The truck avoided collisions by inches with cars and a boy on a bicycle and passed through three red lights in a two mile dash before McFaum halted the vehicle by pulling the emergency brake and steering to a curb outside of town.
A fishing party of six men from five cities faced fines of 250 dollars and costs for using a net to catch fish. Their net valued at 45 dollars was confiscated along with four catfish. The men pleaded guilty and were arrested Friday by game protectors on Big Stranger Creek near here.
President Eisenhower told congressional leaders no secret agreements or private papers were created at the Big Four talks in Geneva with Soviet, British, and French leaders. Secretary Dulles and press secretary Hagerty echoed this, noting a friendly Soviet attitude and discussing next steps including planned talks with Red China representatives.
The United States and Red China will send ambassadors to Geneva next Monday to discuss repatriation of civilians and other practical matters. U Alexis Johnson will represent the United States, returning to Washington for consultations with Secretary of State Dulles before the talks.
A pilot crash landed his plane on a small private lake northeast of Cincinnati. Uninjured 30 year old Carl Minion said what surprised him most was how the fishermen on the lake shore kept casting and reeling as if aircraft were not landing nearby.
Washington reports the Senate passed a bill designating September 17 through 23 as Constitution Week and sent the measure to President Eisenhower for signature. The action follows a long-standing push to honor the founding document and its civic lessons.
The bulk of Chanute’s National Guard unit Battery B 297th Field Artillery Battalion returned from two weeks at Ft Carson Colorado. Captain Charles Rice praised the unit as the only firing battery in the 195th Field Artillery group to earn an excellent rating at summer camp. The unit fired 155mm howitzers and trained with M1 carbines and other weapons plus bivouac and field kitchen meals. Five members bring back vehicles. six firing batteries operate in the group.
General Motors Corp. said its worldwide employment averaged 624,954 with payrolls totaling 1,563,000,000 in the first six months of 1955. U S employment averaged 408,933, weekly earnings were 103.09, up from 89.81 a year earlier, and the average work week rose from 40.1 to 43.5 hours despite a 25 percent drop in defense work.
A Pravda correspondent hails the exchange of agricultural visits between United States and Russian farm delegations as a great success for peace.
The Bronx Zoo welcomes a baby hippo named Petamus weighing 40 pounds. The newborn joins the zoo’s animal family, drawing visitors and showcasing the birth of a young hippo at the famed institution.
State Board of Health records 276 new tuberculosis cases in Kansas so far this year, 66 more than the same period in 1944. The Kansas Tuberculosis and Health Association has launched a study led by Dr. Joseph B. Stocklen of Cleveland to examine TB as a potentially cyclic disease and rising susceptibility.
The Senate Appropriations Committee backed restoring over a billion dollars for defense and atomic programs but rejected 85,443,000 for the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. Planning funds of 200,000 and 3,000 for McConnell AFB at Wichita were approved.
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