Byers Portabase Corp outlined at Tioga Hotel lunchin
Leslie Byers outlined plans for a new Chanute firm, Byers Portabase Corporation, to meet rising demand for the portable jack base from Leslie Byers of Harry Byers & Sons Inc. The portabase, in about 150 types, is sold to oil field dealers in six states. The new capitalized venture aims to expand plant and assemble bases in multiple states, with a 250000 share common stock, and a nine member board of directors.
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Chanute
Byers Portabase Corporation
Chamber of Commerce
Tioga Hotel
Leslie Byers
Harry Byers & Sons Inc
Portobase
Byers & Sons
Mid-Continent
Leslie Cable
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Kentucky
Indiana
Illinois
Cable
Byers Corporation
Harry
Jess
Floyd
Alcometer Breath Test Lets Police Release Suspect
Left Hand Pitch Police used a new Alcometer yesterday to release a man held on suspicion of intoxication. He was taken into custody on North Garfield and given a breath test showing a reading just short of the intoxication threshold. A blood test results are pending for comparison with the machine.
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Alcometer
North Garfield
Weather forecast shows little change for area
Scattered showers left much of western Kansas with moisture up to 1.80 inches reported. Forecaster Tom Arnold predicts showers and isolated thunderstorms tonight and Saturday with little temperature change. Overnight lows range 50 to 70, highs in the 80s, and the five day outlook calls for 3 to 5 degrees above normal with western precipitations up to an inch in the east.
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Topeka P
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Spearville
Tom Arnold
Arnold
Milk prices cut to 15 cents a quart in town
A price war lowers milk to 15 cents a quart and 29 cents a half gallon as local suppliers drop prices to compete with Adams Milk Co of Kansas City entering the market.
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Atchison P
Adams Milk Co
Kansas City
Reserve Plan Backed by Veteran Leaders
Washington leaders of reserve and veterans groups urge President Eisenhower to back a bill reforming the military reserve system.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Oops Missed Again Price Now At Eighty Dollars
An unclear note reports the price shifting to eighty dollars with unclear context. The fragment mentions eighty dollars but lacks full details or corroborating facts.
Clue Filled Crossword Prize Contest at Chanute Tribune
A Chanute Kansas word puzzle offers a $5 bonus for correct crosswords with postcard entries to The Cha nute Tribune. Rules require exact form, 5 pm Wednesday deadline, judges’ decisions final, restricted to non employees and relatives, winners announced next Friday.
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Little Stinker
Chanute Tribune
Chanute
Kansas
Tribune
Little tinker Elusive In Tribune Puzzle Series
Readers again struggle as No 5 fails to solve the Little tinker puzzle. No 6 arrives with an $80 prize tag and new clues. The author explains difficult entries noting rations nations loss meal and other terms as key clues and hints.
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Tribune
Foreign Aid Bill Heads for House
President Eisenhower’s thirty one billion dollar foreign aid program sped to the House after Senate approval without cuts. The Senate vote 59 to 18 backed the authorization as debates on loans versus grants endured. Some senators signaled fights to trim totals in later money bills and appropriations.
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Washington
Eisenhower
House
Senate
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Appropriations Committee
Traffic Fatalities in Kansas 1955 Update
Topeka reports state accident records show 0 deaths in last 24 hours. Year to date totals reach 218 fatalities in 1955, compared with 205 in the same period of 1954.
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Topeka
Kansas
Ford and UAW Fluctuate Over Unemployment Supplement Pact
Detroit negotiations between Ford Motor Co and the CIO United Auto Workers focus on how much Ford will supplement layoff unemployment benefits under a new contract. Reports differ on scope, with possibilities ranging from a 26 week extension to a half year supplement or a guaranteed semiannual wage, as GM’s stance remains unclear.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
CIO
United Auto
Ford
UAW
General Motors Corp
Detroit Times
General Motors
The
Times
Walter Reuther
Series of Blasts at Kansas City Wharf
Police investigate a sequence of dynamite blasts at Powell Port Facilities on the Missouri River near Kansas City Wyandotte County Missouri. Three blasts after 10 p.m. caused about 8000 dollars in damage.
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Kansas City Wharf
Kansas City
Missouri River
Powell Port
Wyandotte County
Kas
Wyandotte Prisoners On Unusual Diet
Two Wyandotte County jail inmates began an unusual diet in the bullpen cell yesterday. At a hospital last night physicians pumped from their stomachs needles bed springs and zipper tabs from their jail clothing. Lester Ray Thomas 17 and Gordon Keith Anderson 30 charged with arson and murder.
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Kansas City
Kas
Wyandotte County
Lester Ray Thomas
Gordon Keith Anderson
Backlog of Summer Projects Keeps City Work Crews Busy
San Quentin execution delays mark a day of legal wrangling as Barbara Graham dies in the gas chamber behind schedule. The murder-for-money case ties to the 1952 Northern California grocer massacre and includes accomplices Jack Santo and Emmet Perkins. Six months of appeals falter as officials report record city-wide projects and storm cleanup in progress.
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San Quentin
Calif
Barbara Graham
California
Southern California
Santo
Perkins
Graham
Burbank
Mable Monahan
Goodwin Knight
Federal Court
San Francisco
Supreme Court
Los Angeles
Phil S. Gibson
Chester
Las Vegas
Mabel Monahan
Baxter M. Shorter
Udall Tornado Rebuild to Cost 41.8 Million Across City
Udall Kansas faces 41.8 million dollars to rebuild after the May twenty fifth tornado that killed 77. Public works will cost about 800 thousand, private property about a million, and school facilities 550 thousand. Red Cross aid will assist residents with home rebuilding and city planners aim to have new schools ready for fall classes while restoring utilities and city services.
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Udall, Kas
Udall
Red Cross
Insurance Company
Earl Rowe
McKay Heads U S Delegation to World Petroleum Congress
Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay arrived in Rome to lead the United States delegation at the fourth world petroleum congress to address major global petroleum issues.
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Rome
Douglas McKay
United States
Fourth World Petroleum Congress
Erie Adopts Dial Telephone System For Local Calls
Erie switches to automatic dial system with Circle prefix numbers for all locals. Subscribers dial Circle followed by five digits and long distance to St Paul is toll free. No attendants needed. equipment housed in new building. Tribune delivery line provided.
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Erie
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
St. Paul
The
Telephone Company
Kids Tongues Turn Blue In Brooklyn Button Ink Powder
A group of 25 children ages 5 to 12 sparked a blue tongue incident in Brooklyn after a can of blue ink powder was shared at the end of the school day. Doctors confirmed methylene blue in the powder is harmless and kept the kids for observation overnight at Cumberland Hospital.
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New York
Brooklyn
Cumberland Hospital
Navy Yard
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Wyandotte
Ross Cooper
Kenneth Lake
Denver
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