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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1957
Page
6
A bomb exploded under a bandstand during a seaside tea dance at the Casino de la Corniche in Algiers killing seven youths and wounding 83 others. Authorities suspect Algerian nationalists, aiming to influence the ongoing rebellion against French rule.
Senator Curtis.as part of the Senate racketeering committee.alleges self perpetuating union leaders hold too much power and rarely face reelection. The panel will quiz Bakers Union president James G. Cross on testimony about a Los Angeles prostitute using union funds and expenses. Kay Lower invoked the Fifth Amendment amid questions on union expenditures. Senator Ervin echoed concerns that leaders wield kingly control over dues and funds.
Mr and Mrs Lawrence Kuntz moved household goods to Kansas City Kansas where Kuntz has worked since late March. They were breakfast guests of Mr and Mrs Walter Bradford Wednesday. Mrs Guy Umbarger visited Mrs Bessie Trichler last week. Sam Sturdevant visited his son William on Decoration Day and returned from Tulsa on the streamliner to Chanute. Russell F Wiltse of Lawson Missouri was visiting this week. The Claude Cockran family remained in the area.
The report records John Hopkins Hospital moving yesterday to Independence. It mentions a fever and Lee Bradford shearing sheep for H Rollins on Friday morning.
Alfred George Bowers, 28, of Columbus Ohio, escaped aboard a Missouri Pacific train during the night. Missouri Highway Patrol mounted a search around Jefferson City and Osage City as he is believed to have slipped away. He was en route to Kansas State Prison at Lansing for burglary and was missed when the train reached Sedalia. He wore a pink sports shirt and blue jeans.
Milton S. Eisenhower Johns Hopkins University president was hospitalized with a preliminary diagnosis of kidney infection. He became ill late Saturday and was admitted to the hospital for observation and treatment.
A 23 year old airman who admitted borrowing a taxi to hurry to Union Station convinced police he had no criminal intent. He said he visited taverns while waiting for a train and was released without charges. The Tribune relies on carrier delivery at 30 cents weekly.
In San Diego a local bachelor’s pet parakeet, perched on his martini glass during solitary cocktail hour, died. An autopsy revealed the parakeet suffered cirrhosis of the liver.
The Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. announced plans to construct a new unit named the Instrumentation Digital Online Transcriber. The project outlines a significant expansion in digital transcription capabilities for industrial control systems.
A device nicknamed Idiot I can manage 128 separate data pieces simultaneously and parse test data in minutes that would usually take days or weeks to compute.
An overnight prisoner in Huntington West Virginia stayed all night in the city jail to obtain a receipt for his $14 fine, saying he wanted his wife to understand the reason.
Stuart Oklahoma report recalls Carl Frazier who runs a filling station. A motorist with little gas smashed the glass, unlocked the pump, refilled his tank, resecured the pump and left. The next day a nameless letter from a nearby town arrived with $11 and an itemized bill for window, lock, and 15 gallons of gas.
A Kansas Traveling Commission display highlights summer titles from Marian Anderson’s My Lord What a Morning to John Brick’s Jubilee. The list includes Hal Glen Borland’s High Wide and Lonesome and Federick Gipson’s Old Yeller with brief descriptions of each work’s themes and settings.
A June 10 1957 Chanute Tribune page highlights new books and authors. It lists titles such as Doubleday vivid depictions of wartime Arctic convoy crews and adventures in American aero nautics. Other items include fiction on Henry V Henry VI and a forest ranger wife in U S national parks plus memoirs of ballet dancers and a White House daughter.
Los Angeles poet Don Blanding, famed for Vagabond's House published in 1928, died at 62 after a seizure at his home. A Kingfisher Oklahoma native, he studied in Lawton Oklahoma and at the Art Institute of Chicago and illustrated many of his books.
PORTAGE Wis A semi trailer truck could not climb a snow slick hill. A farmer in a car tossed chicken grits under the truck wheels providing traction and enabling the ascent.
A guide highlights consumer safety tips in advertising to help readers avoid scams. It emphasizes verifying seller credibility, reading product details, comparing prices, and keeping records of transactions for protection.
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