Local Briefs and Social Notes From Chanute Area
Lorene Pierce of Buffalo participates in the Music for Youth program at Pittsburg State College and played with the College High School band during a watermelon feed. Local families, travels, and events include visits to relatives in Austin and Lawrence, a Rural Grange meeting, and farewells to Californians visiting Chanute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorene Pierce
Buffalo
Pittsburg State College
Bill Sumner
Joyce
Dennis
Austin
Tex
Dan Penno
Chanute
Elsmore Sends Youngsters To Swim Lessons
Forty four Elsmore youths attend daily swimming lessons at Jola sponsored by the Red Cross. The school bus transports the group and Mrs. Fredolph Hawkinson organized and arranged the effort ensuring the program runs smoothly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsmore
Jola
The
Red Cross
Fredolph Hawkinson
Former Sen Walter George Improves After Illness
Vienna Ga Former Senator Walter F George 79 improved after a grave illness from a coronary occlusion He appeared better after midnight and needed no sedation taking fluids and showing signs of improvement Doctors at Emory University noted he was in grave condition yesterday and had difficulty breathing while receiving oxygen at his bedside George served as Eisenhowers NATO ambassador and remained under care through the night
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Walter F. George
J. L. Malloy
George
Eisenhower
NATO
J. Willis Hurst
Department of Medicine
Atlanta
Emory University
Farmers' Supply Store to Carry Gamble Products
Aug. 1 announcement notes a new Farmers' Supply Store will stock Gamble products. The item lists recent callers and visitors to local residents including Mr. and Mrs. Ole Nelson and several Iola, Kansas couples. Community visits reference hospital stays and birthday celebrations among local families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ole Nelson
Walter Crowell
Ira Beaman
Iola
Andy Ludlum
A.B. DeMerritt
Colwell
T. K. Nelson
Kansas City
Cpl
Jimmy Powers
Ida Higgenbotham
Ethel Watson
Nell Zimmerman
Clara Boydston
Charley Alderman
Wilson
Allen County Hospital
McAfee
Charles Munson
Orpha Watson
Wallace Mills
Marsha
George Holcomb
Esther Ericson
Otho Lamb
Curtis Nystrom
Cowker City
Beverly
Elmo Lamb
Walter Stark
Pueblo
Colo
Duke Myers
Ludlum
Russell Ludlum
Donna
D. A. Ludlum
Bonnie
Dean Ludlum
Baby
Wallace Senstedt
Carl Anderson
Cat Hook in Lip Triggers Collision in Hingham
In Hingham Massachusetts a cat with a fishhook embedded in its lower lip caused a head on crash between two cars. Driver Peter Vigneau aged 17 was transporting the cat to a veterinarian when the cat leaped and he reached for it causing the vehicles to swerve. Both drivers and the cat survived with no injuries. the hook was removed by a veterinarian.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hingham
Mass
Peter
Welfare Budgets in Kansas Approved for 1958
The State Board of Social Welfare approved Kansas county welfare budgets totaling 49,809,851 for 1958, up 2,053,150 from 1957, largely due to a 3 per month COLA for old age blind and disabled people and a 2 per month raise for dependent children. The state will fund 15,130,337. counties 11,577,408. and the federal government 23,102,105.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
State Board of Social Welfare
L. S. McEachron
Congress
McEachron
Debt Not Forgotten But Action Is Slow
Fred J. Bonneau of Bristol Connecticut sent a $2 postal money order to Miami Traffic Fines Bureau for a February 15 1954 parking citation. He wrote apologies for the trouble and said he had the money in hand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Fred J. Bonneau
Bristol
Conn
Miami Traffic Fines Bureau
Bonneau
Wife Rescues Husband and His Teeth from Bay
In Oakland California a wife rescued her husband from San Francisco Bay where he was struggling on a pier. M. S.gt. Ivan L. Howe age 43 and his wife Marie 41 were arguing when he went into the water and she pulled him back to shore and recovered his false teeth.
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Husband
Oakland
Calif
San Francisco Bay
Ivan L. Howe
Marie
Oakland Pier
Woman Rescues Man From Murky Bay Water
Marie plunged into thirty feet of murky bay water to save a man. She towed him to a life ring tossed by bystanders and then resurfaced to recover his upper plate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denly
Marie
Evolution of the Dominican Republic Name
The Dominican Republic in the West Indies traces its name to Saint Dominic, the patron saint of the father of Columbus, marking a historic linguistic evolution from that saint’s title.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominican Republic
West Indies
Saint Dominic
Father of Columbus
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W. Main
U.S. Royal Tires
Willard Batteries
Glen’s Tire Service
Tribune
United Commercial
Santa Fe Shelter House
Evangelical United Brethren
7Th
R. H. Lockwood
Lawrence
A. A. Osgood
Tulsa
Robert
Douglas
Rural Grange
Ralph E. Biggs
Reseda
William S. Biggs
N. Garfield
O. L. McMillen
N. Washington
S. L. McMillen
Roy Anderson
Judy
Henry Biggs
Indianapolis
Ind
Larry Foster
David G. Smith
Kem
Paul Mayfield
W. 2Nd
A. F. Smith
Smith
Bancroft Hall Hospital
U. S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
T. F. Ahlers
Florida
Key West
Havana
Cuba
Seamona HD
Neal Heilman
Lavenburg
Clyde Russell
Irma Wanamaker
Mrs
Claude Wanamaker
Billy E. Clagg
Liberal
Fred Clagg
Girard
Antoine Lavoisier
Myers Brothers
Duke Andjon
Mike
Canadian National Railway
Continental
Winnipeg
Cat
Peter Vigneau
the Tribune
Cannister
Foster Clothing CO
Dacron and Wool
Bostonian Oxfords
Fred R. Foster
Dean L. Foster
Revolutionary Development
Hamilton Electric
Alligator
Torrence Jewelry
Tioga Hotel
Bidg
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