All Woman Pilots Enter Cuba Air Race Opens
Sixty two women pilots checked in Monday with 35 light planes for an all women’s air race to Cuba. The race starts tomorrow morning with Mrs Fran Bera at the controls. Planes assembled at Hybla Valley airport for handicapping and impounding at Washington National airport before daylight take off.
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Cuba
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Alvin Hewitt
Chanute
AeroDuct, Inc
Fran Bera
Washington
Hybla Valley
Alexandria
Washington National Airport
Martin Lewis Parting Is Only Temporary
Hollywood reports relay Dean Martin saying the split with Jerry Lewis is brief. He heads to Hawaii with his wife while Lewis attends a Catskill premiere solo, and Martin insists the teams will stay together after the misunderstanding over the movie debut and limelight.
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Hollywood
Dean Martin
Jerry Lewis
Martin
Hawaii
Lewis
New York
Catskill Mountain
Tornado Damages Farm Area Near Beaverton Michigan
A small tornado swept across farmland southeast of Beaverton Michigan late yesterday causing a barn to collapse a garage and granary to be unroofed a house to be toppled power lines to be down and trees to be uprooted No injuries reported.
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Beaverton
Mich
Michigan
Boy brings home made scooter wow in Chanute visit
David Baltz, 12, traveled to Chanute with his grandparents and showcased a motor scooter he and his father built in spare time. The two and a half year project cost about 75 dollars with a 1 horsepower engine and 25 mph speed.
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David Baltz
Chanute
David
A. A. Baltz
Highland
Howard F.baltz
Central Missouri
State College
Warrensburg
College
Tulsa
Loree
Father
Tribune
Vaccine Shortage Expected for All Children This Summer
Surgeon General Leonard Scheele said it is unlikely all children aged 1 to 19 will receive polio vaccine this summer due to manufacturing delays. He cited 90 day batch production and updated testing standards adopted May 27. Public Health Service notes refer to the 1-19 age group and confirms continued plan to vaccinate all first and second graders before August peak, as Eisenhower stated.
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Washington
Leonard A. Scheele
Scheele
Radioo
Public Health Service
Eisenhower
Youth seeks Army enlistment in mystery identity case
A tall blond youth using the name Robert Vonne seeks to join the Army after passing physical and mental tests. He cannot confirm his real name age or birthplace, claiming foster families told him his father died when he was four. He has lived with traveling carnivals and registered for the draft on May 6 in Nevada, Missouri while Army inquiries seek vital statistics.
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Kansas City
Robert Vonne
Nevada
Army
Sneak Attack Tornado and Floods Hit Oklahoma State Area
Violent weather swept Oklahoma with a tornado funnel flash floods and hail. The Oklahoma City region faced a tornado alert at 9 15 am extended two hours as towns within a 75 mile radius were warned. Floods struck the west with six inch rains near Hydro and heavy rain stalled traffic on U S 66. The South Canadian River valley from Thomas to Purcell saw flash flood warnings and radar indicated cloudburst rainfall. The storms followed a meteorological briefing noting no typical tornado conditions.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Hydro
Weatherford
Weather Bureau
South Canadian
Thomas
Purcell
Railroad Trainmen Seek 2.50 Daily Wage Increase
The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen will request a uniform $2.50 daily boost for its 215,000 members. W. P. Kennedy announced after a wage committee meeting in Chicago, with notices to go to 300 railroads on June 16. The raise covers all classifications from passenger brakemen at $13.45 daily to yardmasters at $19.07.
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Chicago
Brotherhood of’ Railroad
W. P. Kennedy
Brotherhood
Union
Kennedy
Galena Council Nominations Spark Attorney General Review
Atty Gen Harold R Fatzer says he has not decided on the council's refusal to confirm Mayor Baker's picks for city marshal and street commissioner. He notes the council gave reasons showing good faith but cites a possible preference issue in the city attorney nomination. Citizens had urged an inquiry in the interest of good government after repeated bypassing of the mayor's nominees.
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Topeka
Galena
Atty
Harold R. Fatzer
Ralph J. Baker
Fatzer
Traffic Fatalities Listed by State Records
Traffic fatalities reported by the State Accident Records Section cover the last 24 hours and year totals. For 1955 the counts are 3 for the last day and 226 to date, while the same period in 1954 shows 212 fatalities.
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Topeka
Kansas
Bethlehem Steel Talks With CIO Union For Wage Increase
Bethlehem Steel and CIO United Steelworkers open wage talks as USW seeks about 25 cents an hour more than the current $2.33 average. Bethlehem and U S Steel lead a six firm group bargaining under a two year contract restricts to wage rates only.
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Republic Steel Corp
McDonald
U. S. Steel Corp
USW
Two Men Arrested After Erratic Driving
Police stopped a car after following it for blocks about 11:30 pm. Driver Perry Neal Coen and passenger William P. Marler of Iola were jailed. Coen was guilty of operating under influence and illegal open bottle transport. fines or brief jail terms offered. Marler jailed on intoxication. fined or jailed.
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Perry Neal Coen
William P. Marler
Iola
Coen
Marler
Wilson County Teacher Heads State Assn
W W C Strecker Wilson County superintendent of public instruction was elected president of the Kansas County Superintendents Association. Christiana D Graf Russell County superintendent was named vice president, June Hamilton Greenwood County secretary, Ruth Sexton Elk County treasurer, and C C Rice Marion County was chosen to the board of directors.
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Topeka
C. E. Strecker
Wilson County
Kansas County Superintendents Association
Christiana D. Graf
Russell County
June Hamilton
Greenwood County
Ruth Sexton
Elk County
C. C. Rice
Marion County
Rural Electrification Loan Approved for Twin Valley Coop
The Rural Electrification Authority awarded a $222,000 loan to Twin Valley Electric Co operative of Altamont to connect 91 new customers and fund system improvements across Neosho Labelle Montgomery and Cherokee Counties in Kansas. Rep Myron V George of the 3rd Kansas district reported the action to Washington today.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Myron V. George
Rural Electrification Authority
Twin Valley Electric Co-operative
Altamont
Neosho
Labelle
Montgomery
Cherokee
Flag Display Urged on Flag Day by Gov Hall
Kansas citizens urged to display the flag from sunrise to sunset on June 14 in a proclamation by Gov. Fred Hall. The ordering official calls for public participation across Topeka and the state.
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Fred Hall
Kansas
Wheat harvest seen in Neosho County fields soon
Neosho County agricultural agent Mah Lon Morley said wheat harvest should start in southern fields within a day or two if weather cooperates with cutting in full swing by mid next week. Yields vary from 15 to 30 bushels per acre with some fields higher. Barley harvest is about 50 percent done at around 30 bushels per acre.
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Neosho County
Mahlon Morley
Morley
Old 762 Engine Nears Home In Santa Fe Park
The old 762 coal burning locomotive is positioned to be moved to Santa Fe Park where it will be mounted on rails as a park attraction. Workmen faced wheel bogging on soft ground as a bulldozer and two trucks aided the move directed by E R Kempfer of Dodge City. The engine and tender weigh about 115 tons and will await a ramp construction for final placement.
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Slane
Santa Fe Park
Santa Fe
E. R. Kemper
Dodge City
Senate Approves 1 Dollar Hour Minimum Wage
The Senate voted to raise the national minimum wage from 75 cents to 1 dollar by voice vote, despite opposition from President Eisenhower who preferred 90 cents. The move would affect about 2,100,000 workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act in industries including textiles, lumber, candy, leather, and clothing.
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Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
Sen
H. Alexander Smith
R-Nj
White House
House
Labor Committee
South
Fort Scott Firm Incorporates In Secretary of State Office
New Fort Scott real estate firm TOPEKA Country Club Ad dition Inc. completed incorporation in the secretary of state's office. John C Gross is resident agent. Authorized capitalization is $25,000.
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Topeka Country Club Addition Inc
Fort Scott
Secretary of State
John C Gross
Five Die in Twin-Engine Crash Near Edmonton
A twin engine Associated Airways plane crashed ten miles west of Edmonton, killing five airline employees including pilot Phillip Shallo, 33, of San Mateo California. An American crew member was among the dead.
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Edmonton
Alta
Associated Airways
Here
Phillip Shallo
San Mateo
Calif
Wichita Man Killed in Car Truck Collision
Wichita man Robert S. Crowdis died in a crash on Highway 50 three miles east of Florence. Three other riders in his vehicle were injured in the early morning collision with a truck.
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Wichita
Robert S. Crowdis
Florence
Not Enough Exercise Blamed For Aches Pains and Tensions
Atlantic City reports on medical experts from NYU Institute for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation who link hypokinetic disease to heart attacks diabetes backaches nerves and obesity. They cite studies showing bus drivers’ higher heart attack risk and widespread inactivity among children and adults with back pain improving with targeted exercises.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Hans Kraus
Bonnie Pruden Hirschland
Kurt Hirschhorn
Institute For Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
New York University
London
U. S
Cooler with partly cloudy skies through Thursday
Forecast calls for a little cooler tonight with lows in the lower 40s and highs in the 70s on Thursday. Showers were widespread in Kansas with light rainfall amounts. Topeka at .06 inches and other towns recording trace to a few hundredths.
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Topekap
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Tom Arnolds
Topeka
Lecompton
Pittsburg
Hill City
Goodland
Garden City
Dodge City
Russell
Sandia
May Is Wettest Month Since September, 1951
The Weather Bureau reports May set a rainfall record statewide at 4.7 inches, with the southwest and southeast sections exceeding 7 inches. La Cygne recorded 11.38 inches, and crops benefited from well spaced rains ending a drought impact since 1951.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
la Cygne
Smith and Nichols Seek Clemency From Lansing
Oscar Smith and Norman Nichols, Neosho County prisoners, plan to apply for executive clemency on Aug. 2. Smith was sentenced July 24 to up to five years for grand larceny theft of two electric fans from a Chanute garage. Nichols pleaded guilty Oct. 19, 1949 to second degree forgery and faced up to 10 years. records show a forged $25 check arrest in Chanute.
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Neosho County
Lansing
Oscar Smith
Norman Nichols
Smith
Harry Wilson
Chanute
Nichols
Wildcat strikes halt at GM and Buick plants spread
Wildcat walkouts at General Motors plants idled tens of thousands as UAW officers ordered a halt to unauthorized actions sabotaging national talks. Ford and GM negotiated amid ongoing stoppages with Buick Oldsmobile Pontiac in Kanasas City, and fireworks flared at the gates.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers
General Motors
Ford
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
John W. Livingston
Buick
Oldsmobile-Pontiac
Atlanta
Farmingham
Mass
Kansas City
Kas
General Motors Assembly
United Automobile Workers, Cio
Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac
Protection Wanted On Washington Tours
Noxubee County officials asked Gov. Hugh White and senators to send the Mississippi National Guard or state patrol to Washington to guard touring high school students from alleged "Negro savages" after a Saturday slashing of three Lulu youths by two Black men on a downtown sidewalk. Washington police found no evidence of provocation by the Mississippi youths. two victims were hospitalized but not critically hurt.
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Macon
Miss
Noxubee County
Mississippi National Guard
State Patrol
Washington
Hugh White
James O. Eastland
John C. Stennis
Lulu
Two Men Die in Headon Truck Collision Near Bogue
Elton Lambert, 27, and Ted Thornberg, both of Stockton Kansas, were killed yesterday when two trucks collided head on near Bogue.
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Bogue, Kas
Elton Lambert
Ted Thornberg
Stockton, Kas
Here
McGuire Named Executive Secretary for Kan Co Op Council
James McGuire of Flagler Colorado has been named executive secretary of the Kansas cooperative council. The appointment was announced by KanCoop officials and ties McGuire to leadership in rural cooperative development.
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Topeka
James McGuire
Flagler
Colo
Kan
Cooperative Council
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Dius
Highway Patrol
Sray
Maine
Danny Wilkinson
Jimmy John
Danny
Bethlehem Steel
CIO Union
Pittsburgh
Bethlehem Steel Corp
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Bethlehem
Cio-Usw
United States Steel Corp
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Joseph M. Larkin
New Fort Scott Firm
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