May Chanute traffic report notes twenty five crashes
The Chanute police records show 25 motor vehicle accidents in May involving 48 drivers. Of the drivers, 12 were women and 36 men, with 18 daytime and 7 after dark incidents. Two arrests were for defective brakes and two for reckless driving. Four accidents occurred outside city limits and are excluded. Additionally Dr. Eugene N. Duty marked his 50th anniversary of ordination May 20 in Bentonville Arkansas with a 50 year pin and a $50 savings bond from his former church.
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Chanute
Police Department
Eugene N. Duty
First Christian Church
Bentonville
Ark
Weekend Traffic Toll Up Seven in Kansas
The Associated Press reports seven more traffic deaths in Kansas over the weekend, lifting year total to 252 from 228 a year ago. Victims include Lola D Annunzio and Phyllis Palumbo both 26, killed when a car overturned on US 54 near Meade. Other fatalities: Clifford A. Hush 49 Emporia in a two car crash near the Highways 50S and 75 junction. Mrs Joe Ann Partington 26 Chase injured fatally in Potwin area. Charles Richard Jaycox 73 Wichita in a collision near Goddard. Sherman Lee Beal 21 Wichita fatally injured in a crash near a culvert. Phillip Farr 3 Chandler Arizona in a one car crash west of Neal.
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Hollywood
Lola D-Annunzio
Phyllis Palumbo
Meade
Clifford A. Hush
Emporia
Joe Ann Partington
Chase, Kas
Potwin
Charles Richard Jaycox
Wichita
Goddard
Sherman Lee Beal
Phillip Farr
Chandler
Ariz
Neal
Kelly Wendeln
Oliver Wendeln
S. Highland
Highland
Leroy Simon Lopeman
S. Malcolm
Wendeln
Lopeman West
Lopeman
Abe Beltz
Rose
W. Main
Wilma C. Adelgren
Buffalo R. 1
Adelgren
Francis Lee Sharp
S. Wilson
Presley Milton Webb
Garfield
Hickory
Webb
Warmer Trend In Forecast For Kansas Weather
The forecast shows a warmer trend with partly cloudy skies tonight and Tuesday. Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected in western and central areas, with highs from the 80s east to 90s in the west and nightly lows in the 60s. Wichita reports 0.02 inch rain in the last 24 hours. Chanute 0.05 inch.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Goodland
Dodge City
Hill City
Wichita
Chanute
Pittsburg
Garden City
Emporia
Olathe
UN rejects compromise on Neutral Nations exclusion order
In Panmunjom the U N Command rejected a Communist bid to soften the expulsion of the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission from South Korea. Maj Gen Robert Gard called the proposal not acceptable. Separately in New York Mrs Hattie Freeman Dodson was sentenced to seven months in prison and fined $9000 for income tax evasion. London reported Cyprus talks on relaxing British rule while Britain seeks to keep the island as a base. Washington witnessed an inquiry into coal uses with Interior and the National Coal Assn called as witnesses. Chicago announced J Leonard Reinsch as manager of the 1956 Democratic National Convention. Bombay faced riots with one dead as Nehru kept Bombay out of a proposed Marathi speaking state.
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Panmunjom
Korea
U.N
Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission
South Korea
Robert Gard
U.S
Joint Military Armistice Commission
New York
Hattie Freeman Dodson
Adam Clayton Powell
Dn.y
London
Cyprus
Mediterranean
Britain
Meek Named Campaign Manager for Gov Hall in Kansas
State Rep Fred Meek an Idana farmer was appointed state campaign manager for Gov Fred Hall. Meek vowed to reveal the issues behind the smoke screen and focus on control of the State Highway Commission and its $72 million budget and other agencies including the Turnpike Authority and Social Welfare Department.
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Topeka
Fred Meek
Idana Farmer
Fred Hall
Meek
Hall
State Highway Commission
Kansas Turnpike Authority
Social Welfare Department
State Tax Commission
Degrees for 1,654 at Kansas University
Lawrence Degrees will be awarded tonight to 1,654 graduates of the University of Kansas. Commencement speakers include Gov. Fred Hall and Dr Franklin D. Murphy chancellor of the university.
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Lawrence
University of Kansas
Fred Hall
Franklin D. Murphy
University
Scientists May Find Penicillin Like Cancer Drug
British scientist Dr Alexander Haddow said a penicillin like drug might control many cancers by targeting a common difference between cancerous and healthy cells. He spoke at a news conference opening the third National Cancer Conference by the American Cancer Society and U S Public Health Service.
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Detroit
Alexander Haddow
Chester Beatty Research Institute
London
Eng
Haddow
American Cancer Society
National Cancer Institute
U.S. Public Health Service
U.S. and Russian Churches Open Talks in Connecticut
Eight visiting Russian church leaders arrived in New York City and travel to Greenwich for formal talks on bridging ties between Soviet Union and United States Christian churches. The Soviet prelates join U.S. church leaders as guests of the National Council of Churches for a 10 day visit.
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Greenwich
Conn
Soviet Union
United States
New York City
National Council of Churches
Woman's page editor Jeanne Arnold named Tribune replacement
Jeanne Arnold named The Tribune's women's page editor succeeding Mrs. Martha Villepique who retired. She is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Arnold of Kansas and brings journalism experience from Neodesha Sun after studying at Kansas State College and Chanute Junior College.
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Jeanne Arnold
Tribune
Martha Villepique
Miss Arnold
W. C. Arnold
Kansas
Kansas State College
Manhattan
Chanute Junior College
Neodesha Sun
Labor unions must serve people, Eisenhower says
President Eisenhower told AFL-CIO leaders that growing union strength carries new duties to serve the public without domination. He spoke at the new AFL-CIO national headquarters near the White House, urging respect for democratic institutions within labor as a core responsibility. The 29 member Executive Council begins a four day meeting on politics and organizing challenges.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Organized Labor
Afl-Cio
Lafayette Park
White House
Labor
AFL
Three Year Old Eureka Boy Killed in Accident
A three year old boy traveling to Maine to visit grandparents died in a one car crash on U S Highway 54 west of Neal. Phillip Farr was a passerby from Williams AFB Chandler Arizona. He rode with Bruce George Jones a 21 year old from Waldoboro Maine and both his parents plus sister were injured. The mother Catherine Farr and Cathy were treated for shock and injuries while Jones was unhurt. Police report the car left the shoulder and struck a tree.
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Eureka
Kas
Maine
U. S. Highway 54
Neal
Phillips George Farr
Phillip Farr
Williams Air Force Base
Chandler
Ariz
A.2.c
Bruce George Jones
Waldoboro
Williams Afb
Catherine Farr
Cathy
Two Young Spellers Split 64 000 Prize
Two 12 year old spelling champions Gloria Lockerman of Baltimore and Andy Douglass of Greenwich split the 64000 top prize after a draw on CBS TV The $64 000 Challenge Their winnings will go into trust funds The contestants both correctly answered the 64000 spelling question a week earlier The planned spell off was canceled by the producers and Son ny Fox announced the draw
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New York
Gloria Lockerman
Baltimore
Andy Douglass
Greenwich
Sonny Fox
Fruit Train Derailed Near Gladstone Delays Traffic
A Santa Fe freight train with thirty seven fruit cars derailed near Gladstone on Saturday. The east bound train caused detours through Newton while the line was cleared and reopened.
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Emporia
Gladstone
Santa Fe
Newton
Storm Tornado Spares Mustang With No Injuries
A twin tornadoes tore through Mustang Oklahoma yesterday causing $200000 in property damage but injuring no one. The funnel pair touched down two miles southwest at the R J Merrill farm and moved into town damaging outbuildings and trees before lifting northeast toward Oklahoma City. The Griggs family were trapped in a storm cellar for an hour but all survived with a boy guiding rescuers to them.
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Mustang
Okla
Oklahoma
R. J. Merrill
Highway Patrol
Oklahoma City
Charles Griggs
Griggs
Lawson Begins TB Hospital Duties
Dr Roy A Lawson Jr chief of pulmonary disease at the Veterans Administration hospital Kansas City started fulltime duties as superintendent of the new tuberculosis hospital. He and his wife occupy a temporary office on the Memorial building’s second floor and reside at 113 S Highland.
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Roy A. Lawson Jr
Memorial Building
Kansas City
Lawson
Veterans Administration Hospital
S. Highland
Graham Wife Sees Him Guilty in Plane Dynamite Case
Mrs Gloria Graham wife of John Gilbert Graham says she believes her husband is guilty and should die in the Colorado gas chamber. Graham 24 sits on death row at Canon City awaiting execution the week of Aug 26 for the first degree murder of his mother in the United Airlines dynamite crash that killed 44 people.
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Denver
Gloria Graham
John Gilbert Graham
Colorado
Denver Post
Graham
Zeke Scher
Colorado Penitentiary
Canon City
Daisie E. King
United Air Lines
Greenwood County Hospital Dedicated
Eureka report notes Greenwood County's new 45 bed hospital funded by a $525,000 bond issue approved in February 1954 was dedicated yesterday. Civic groups and residents contributed $18,000 for equipment while the land was donated by Mr and Mrs Ward A McGinnis on a five acre tract.
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Eureka
Greenwood County
Ward A. McGinnis
Indochina Posting For Health Official Janzen
Herman A. Janzen district engineer for the State Board of Health will take a two year leave to serve as sanitary engineer for the U S Operations Mission in Saigon Indochina. Soukup of Lawrence will replace him mid month and split time between Lawrence and Saigon. Janzen departs June 17 for training in Washington Atlanta and Cincinnati before flying to Vietnam around late July with the Point Four program under ICA. Soukup has three years in public health and two daughters.
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Herman A. Janzen
State Board of Health
U. S
Saigon
Indochina
Sookup
Lawrence
Janzen
Soukup
Washington
D. C
U.S
Atlanta
Cincinnati
Ohio
Kansas
San Francisco
International Cooperation Administration
ICA
U.S. Public Health Service
Vietnam
Vietminh
Janzens
Navy
Brazil
Institute of InterAmerican Affairs
Tito Ignores Stalin Wreath for Lenin
Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito visited the Lenin Stalin mausoleum in Moscow and, to emphasize his break with past expulsion from the Communist world, laid a large Easter lily and tulip wreath at Lenin’s tomb with an inscription to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin from Tito.
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Moscow
Tito
Stalin
Communist Family of Nations
Soviet Union
Red Square
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Josip Broz Tito
Traffic Fatalities Reported For 1956 In Topeka
State Accident Records Section lists 6 traffic fatalities in the last 48 hours and 251 for year to date in 1956, compared with 228 for the same period in 1955. The figures reflect current totals and year over year changes.
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Topeka
Kansas
George Immel Dies
Topeka reports the death of George G. Immell formerly of Sharon Springs Kansas and a former state senator from the 39th District. He died in Boulder Colorado.
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Topeka
George G. Immell
Sharon Springs
Kas
Boulder, Colo
Kansas Governor Sees School Crisis From Enrollment Boom
Governor Fred Hall warns Kansas faces a school funding crisis as enrollments rise and a teacher shortage grows. He supports high school aid passage and local control, blasting opponents who resisted state aid. Hall argues the state must keep Kansas schools first rate amid growth.
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Topeka
Fred Hall
Kansas
Hall
Radio and TV Ads Blamed for Teen Drinking
Evanston Illinois radio and television commercials face blame from Mrs. Glenn G. Hayes head of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She warns they influence hundreds of thousands of teenagers to start drinking and predicts a surge in local option prohibition elections in the 34 states permitting them.
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Evanston
Ill
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Glenn G. Hayes
WCTU
Police Call Answered But Accent Is Wrong
Leominster Massachusetts police Sgt Francis Gillis answered a cruising car on the station radio during a rainstorm. The voice claimed to be Car 2 in Stokes County North Carolina and questioned the origin of the responders.
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Leominster
Mass
Francis Gillis
Gillis
Stokes County
North Carolina
Picketing Ban By State Boards Upheld by Court
The Supreme Court, in a 6 3 ruling, holds Taft Hartley does not bar state boards from banning mass picketing force and threats by strikers. Majority includes Reed Frankfurter Burton Clark Minton and Harlan with Douglas dissenting. Case stems from Kohler Wisconsin 1954 strike and UAW appeal.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Reed
Frankfurter
Burton
Clark
Minton
Harlan
Douglas
Warren
Black
United Automobile Workers
Wisconsin Supreme Court
The
Kohler Co
Kohler
Wis
Woman Goes on Trial for Murders of Six
In Montgomery Alabama Mrs Rhonda Belle Martin faces trial for the arsenic poisoning deaths of two husbands her mother and three children The state may seek the death penalty Thetford said she had insurance on each victim The killings began in 1937 and were uncovered last March when husband five was paralyzed instead of dying from arsenic coffee.
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Montgomery
Ala
Rhonda Belle Martin
High School Diplomas For Prison Inmates
Lansing reports inmates at the Kansas State prison will earn high school diplomas. Walter A. Hunter of the State Penal Board outlines a new education department at the prison, modeled after federal programs at Ft. Leavenworth. H. T. Gragert will head the department. diplomas issued through the Leavenworth system, with full operation by fall.
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Lansing
Kansas State Prison
Walter A. Hunter
State Penal Board
Department of Education
Ft. Leavenworth
H. T. Gragert
Langdon
Kas
Udall
Hunter
Leavenworth
Ike and Khrushchev Named Honorary Bald-Headed Members
In Milan Italy President Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev were named honorary members of Italy's Bald-headed Association. Achille Scagni, head of the 1 000 member group, said honorary membership cards will be sent to the two. Motto is Bald-headed men of the world unite.
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Milan
Italy
Eisenhower
Nikita Khrushchev
Assn
Achille Scagni
General Matthews Speaks at Boys Town Commencement
Maj. Gen. Willis S. Matthews, commanding general of the 1st Infantry Division at Ft. Riley, told high school and eighth grade graduates at Boys Town Neb that freedom must be exercised openly and kept vibrant. He warned that freedom cannot be bought and locked away.
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Boys Town
Neb
Ft. Riley
Willis S. Matthews
Havens
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