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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1958
Page
1
Mrs. Bruce Burris created a fashion moment at a women’s party by accidentally wearing mismatched footwear. She had cleaned a soiled white shoe and dried it on the back porch while donning another pair, resulting in one white shoe and one white and tan shoe for the event. The mishap amused her and guests, who later learned of the back porch shoe.
The AP reports cloudiness and scattered showers across Kansas with cooler conditions. Temperatures ranged from 72 at Goodland to 91 at Chanute and Pittsburg, with overnight lows 51 to 66 and Norton County recording 0.75 inch of rain. The forecast calls for gradual warming from the west, increasing cloudiness and chances of showers and thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow.
OZAWKIE AP Merger of Ozawkie State Bank and Bank of Perry announced. The dam on the Delaware River will inundate part of Ozawkie and prompted the consolidation. Resources of the merged bank will approach two million dollars.
Kansas traffic fatalities reported by the State Accident Records Section show 1 in the last 24 hours and a year-to-date total of 183 for 1958, compared with 216 for the same period in 1957.
Mrs. Russell Wells of Overland Park, about 50, was killed in a highway accident six miles west of Larned.
Secretary of State Dulles testified there was no firm State Department stance on amending the foreign aid bill to give Eisenhower more leeway with satellite nations. He noted support for the concept but left whether to attach it to the foreign aid bill to Congress. The Senate had defeated a Kennedy amendment pushing such powers.
An unidentified woman, age about 25 to 30, was found with a slash on her left wrist in the Union Station lobby in Kansas City. A razor blade lay nearby. After hospital treatment she was jailed for questioning. She wore blue-green pedal pushers, a blue jacket, and brown shoes, and carried a $1 bill.
Police report two separate parking lot accidents left several vehicles damaged. A 1954 Plymouth owned by Frank Castle was struck while parked on Main Street by a car backing from a drive by John Drummond. A second hit occurred near the post office about 4 40 p.m. injuring Robert Hurford’s car. Additional fender damage noted on other cars but not investigated.
Lucy Downey 85 gives the flag that draped her husband Bill Downey’s casket to Tyrell Junior High Hayward. She tells students the flag honors a good soldier who loved America. She collapses and later dies of a heart attack. Bill Downey, Spanish American War veteran, lies beside her at Presidio Cemetery.
The Kansas City Southern Railroad lowers fares again to allow Pullman car use on regular coach tickets. Estimated saving about 29 percent, though Pullman space charges still apply. W N Deramus, head since 1940, emphasizes passenger operations remain important. C H Taylor notes the move may be first across its entire system.
Mrs. Lora Johnson Haynes, 51, former wife of the St. Mark's Baptist Church pastor, was found guilty of second degree murder by a Circuit Court jury. The panel recommended a 15 year prison term after she shot Bertha Ernestine Moten, 42, on a Kansas City street. Moten was a church pianist. Haynes awaits a motion for a new trial on $12,000 bond.
Summer heat sent U S 62 in and near Okemah into buckling and popping up to three feet wide cracks appeared across the highway traffic snarled for five hours as the state highway department repaired the damage director C A Stoldt said such explosions were unprecedented in Oklahoma caused by concrete expansion under extreme heat.
A two year old, Danny Irvin, was bitten by a poisonous snake yesterday at his Stanley area home in Kansas. He was rushed to a doctor in Overland Park and then to a hospital where he was reported apparently out of danger. His mother, Mrs. D T Irvin, found two small punctures on his left foot.
A $10,000 addition to the AeroDuct plant at 903 W. Ash in Chanute, now a division of H. K. Porter Co., is part of 14 building permits issued since May 27 by zoning administrator Tom Morehead totaling over $60,000. The project, a 24 by 100 foot concrete block extension, aims for July 1 completion and will shift equipment from AeroDuct’s South Gate plant. hiring will depend on sales.
Government report shows May employment at 64,061,000, up 1.154 million from April, and unemployment down 216,000 to 4.904 million. Manufacturing slips 67,000 to 15 million, jobless payments coverage falls to three million, and the workweek averages 38.5 hours.
An eight year old boy Richard Borders Jr. died from a skull fracture after falling from the upper bunk of a bunk bed in Bonner Springs. The accident happened Wednesday night.
Gov George Docking told about 1 300 Kansas 4-H delegates that farming has changed in 20 years as farmers adopt scientific methods. He recounted a Douglas County farmer once scoffed at for using soil science and praised growing farmer knowledge.
In Fayetteville North Carolina Mrs Verna York began a nonstop talking contest at 2 AM as the fourth contestant. The record for uninterrupted speaking rose to 29 hours 12 minutes 43 seconds by Mrs Arthur Capps. Previous leaders were Mrs J D Mc Cauley 28 hours 44 minutes 14 seconds and Mrs Lois Grant 272 hours. The event filmed at an appliance store and aired on radio aims to prove Southern women are the most talkative.
The 1958 barley harvest arrives as Chanute elevators report 40 to 60 bushels per acre with 14 to 20 percent moisture. Elks Lake hosts a junior fishing derby tomorrow from 9 30 a.m. to 2 30 p.m. with free refreshments and Pioneer Appliance providing 1 E Main shuttle at 9 a.m. for riders.
John Monk Larson, 21, from Washington DC, delivers his valedictory at Washington and Lee University, marking a 13 year polio battle. He lost use of both arms in 1945 but earned honors at St. Albans and Phi Beta Kappa at W and L. He plans graduate study at Yale and aims for a PhD and teaching career.
AP reports the International Circulation Managers convention will be held in Kansas City Missouri June 16 to 19. Dr Simon Ramo director of weapons systems activities on Air Force intercontinental missiles will address a noon luncheon June 18.
Emporia State College expects summer school enrollment to exceed 2,000 with 1,921 already registered by yesterday. The previous record was 1,837 last year and officials cite strong interest in Wasser for Insurance courses.
Peter Romme once postmaster at Victoria Kansas, who served 21 years, received a two year probation after pleading guilty to stealing a letter from the mail.
Ten year old Jimmy Hazuka and his eight year old brother Ronald along with Ted Mann were playing on a Barberton Erie Railroad trestle when a west bound freight train approached at about fifty mph. Engineer John L. Sontag noted the danger and blew the horn as the boys failed to retreat. Ted escaped, but Jimmy and Ronald perished after being unable to reach safety on the narrow structure.
Alan Thirlwell of England defeated Tim Holland of Rockville Centre New York the last surviving American in the tournament 4 and 3 in their 36 hole semi final match at St Andrews Scotland. Chrysler Shuts Plymouth Plants As 2700 Workers Sent Home After UAW Walkout. Defense Secretary McElroy seeks to trim a quarter of a billion dollars from the House approved Army Marine manpower bill. Eisenhower nominates John A McCone to the Atomic Energy Commission succeeding Lewis Strauss.
In Norwalk California two 10-year-old boys confessed to tying 7 year old Michael Evans to railroad tracks to frighten him. The incident ended when the father Frank Evans rescued his son moments before an approaching train. The youths, later released to their parents, face juvenile court action.
New York AP report from the National Association of Retail Grocers says meat vegetables and fruits will be cheaper this autumn. Beef prices should fall in about two weeks as cattle quotations drop. Officers note cattle arriving at terminals indicating a market turn. Warnings that declines may be gradual and not sharp.
The House approved a measure extending corporation income and excise taxes at wartime rates to avoid a 2.6 billion revenue drop. The Senate is expected to amend, likely seeking repeal of wartime transportation levies. Senator Douglas plans broad personal income and excise tax cuts as an amendment.
A 12-year-old Topeka girl reported missing by her parents appeared at the police station to talk with the Juvenile Bureau. She brought a photo saying she would leave it so officers could recognize her if she were reported missing again.
WICHITA AP Jacob Henry, 67, a Wichita park department worker, died after a two car crash here yesterday. It marked the citys first traffic fatality since April 15.
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