Air Force targets August for lunar probes and Atlas test
Lt Gen S E Anderson said the Air Force aims to fire three lunar probes this year on a 278000 mile flight using modified Thor missiles and plans Atlas range tests in August. Probes will crash on the moon or orbit space, signaling strong space program momentum and possible satellite outcomes.
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S. E. Anderson
Air Research and Development Command
Air Force
Anderson
Thor
Gen. Anderson
Moon
Space
Earth
Roaring Dispute Over Senate Labor Bill Sparks Debate
Washington AP reports a sharp clash over a Senate labor bill aimed at union corruption. Key senators including Kennedy and Ives defended the bill, while Mitchell criticized its effectiveness. Discussions covered secret ballots, amendments, and partisan views with leaders pledging further analysis by June 10.
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Washington
Mitchell
John F. Kennedy
Dmass
Irving M.I Ives
RNY
Kennedy
Ives
William F. Knowland
California
Pat McNamara
Dmich
Labor Committee
Plumbers Union
Barry Goldwater
Rariz
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
McClellan
Karl E. Mundt
R-Sd
Labor Department
Iola business leader A R Sleeper dies at 75
A R Sleeper, prominent Iola businessman and former Kansas legislator, 75, died Monday night in Allen County Hospital. He owned Sleeper Furniture Store and Sleeper Mortuary, led Kansas Funeral Directors Association, and served in the state legislature in the 1930s. Funeral set for 2 p m Thursday at Iola Presbyterian Church.
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Allen County
Sleeper
Lola
Kansas Funeral Directors Association
Kansas
College of Emporia
John
Iola
Allen
Alden
Presbyterian Church
Blocks Long Line For 1 200 Jobs At Rambler Plants
Hundreds of job seekers lined up at the Wisconsin State Employment Service in Milwaukee after American Motors Corp announced plans to hire 1 200 more workers. The firm asked screening for 450 at Kenosha and 750 at Milwaukee where Rambler cars are built. The hires aim to end Saturday overtime and cut overtime as production rises from 750 to 835 daily.
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Wisconsin
American Motors Corp
Kenosha
Rambler
E.W. Bernitt
Detroit
Business Figures Looking Better
Secretary Weeks cites improving data across inventories steel mill use construction and employment pointing to brighter outlook this year. He notes some months to full recovery but sees better times ahead as public confidence grows and legislation stays sound.
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Wecks
National Conference On Weights and Measures
Weeks
Machines Are Needed For Wheat Harvest In Kansas
In south border counties, Kansas wheat harvest is set to begin by Sunday. The Harvest Control Office of the Kansas State Employment Service reports an immediate need for harvest machines to fill orders. Shortages include Caldwell 35, Wellington 39 for 7,500 acres, Anthony 25, Kiowa 50, and Liberal 25. Workers are being placed as they arrive, with demand for experienced truck and tractor drivers and combine operators.
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Kansas
South Border
Kansas State Employment Service
Caldwell
Wellington
Anthony
Kiowa
Liberal
Rev Jones to Preside At Kansas Methodist Conference
The Rev and Mrs Judd H Jones traveled to Topeka for the annual Kansas Conference of the Methodist church opening this afternoon. He will preside at the Thursday evening session. Miss Freda Betts of Chanute reports Thursday as conference president of the Wesleyan Service Guild. A layman's dinner is planned Thursday. Bishop Dana Dawson will announce ministerial assignments on Sunday.
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Topeka
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Chanute
Wesleyan Service Guild
Dana Dawson
Tigers fire Tighe as Detroit manager
Detroit Tigers dismiss manager Jack Tighe today and name Bill Norman to succeed him. Norman takes over as skipper as the team seeks new leadership.
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Jack Tighe
Detroit Tigers
Bill Norman
Scrivner Files For 8th Term Nomination In 2nd District
Rep. Errett Scrivner of Kansas City paid a $225 filing fee today to seek the Republican renomination for an eighth term in Congress from Kansas 2nd District.
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Topeka
Errett Scrivner
Kansas City
Algiers Group Opposes De Gaulle’s Election Plans
The insurgent Committee of Public Safety in Algiers rejected De Gaulle’s orders to leave government and opposed local Algeria elections within a month. They demanded an end to France’s party system, with Gen. Salan’s approval. De Gaulle seeks a strengthened Senate and weaker Assembly. He plans a new constitution and direct voter submission.
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Committee of Public Safety
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Algeria
France
Raoul Salan
Paris
National Assembly
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French Catholic Union of Christians
Wanted Man Killed By Tulsa Police
Tulsa police fatally shot Clayton Tidwell 37 after he fled a stolen car in a two mile high speed chase reaching 90 mph. Tidwell tried to flee on foot after the crash embankment and was killed by a shotgun blast from Officer Walter Conley, following warnings from Officers Walter Conley and Jack Hill.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Jack Purdie
Clayton Tidwell
Purdie
Tidwell
Jack Hill
Walter Conley
West
Conley
Hill
Eisenhower proposes July 1 start for nuclear talks in Geneva
President Eisenhower calls for technical discussions in Geneva starting July 1 to police possible future nuclear test ban. The plan includes experts from the United States United Kingdom France Czechoslovakia and Poland with neutrals possible later. Dulles supports inspection posts including in Communist China as part of a monitoring system.
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Robert F. Bacher
California Institute of Technology
Traffic Fatalities in Kansas Update 1958 Totals
AP report lists state accident records showing 186 deaths in the last 24 hours and year to date in 1958, compared with 225 fatalities in the same period of 1957.
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Topeka
Kansas
Red Cross Swim School Plans Set for Neosho County
Neosho County Red Cross plans its annual swim school with registration cards and permits distributed this week to residents outside Chanute. Lessons run June 16 to 27 at Chanute municipal pool with times 9 am Thayer 10 am Erie and 1 pm for Stark county groups. Chanute beginner to swimmer instruction starts June 30 with June 19 registration in Chanute Red Cross office.
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American Red Cross
Chanute
Raymond Gatewood
Stark
Charles Forsythe
Erie
Dale Anderson
Thayer
Red Cross
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Thayer Group
Two Chanute youths bound over on forgery counts
Two 16-year-old Chanute boys Flay Davis and Richard Reeves were bound over to district court on three counts of forgery each after their arrest last Friday. Reeves confessed to passing three forged checks totaling 60 dollars written by Davis at Chanute grocery stores last month. They are held at Erie county jail in lieu of $1,000 bonds.
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Flay Davis
Santa Fe
Richard Reeves
N. Garfield
Erie
Reeves
Davis
City Hears $900 000 Water Plant Plan From Engineers
Wilson and Co. presented preliminary reports totaling about 900 000 for a new water treatment plant and a 400 000 gallon elevated storage tank plus line improvements. The plan favors a south site to avoid flood risk, with total estimated construction costs around 688 000 and additional expenses for land and engineering.
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Wilson & Co
Salina
Heat Wave Sees Kansas Temperatures Reach 103
Topeka dispatch notes Wichita hit 103 as heat persists across Kansas with highs in 90s elsewhere. Lows ranged from 58 Goodland to 76 Pittsburg. forecast calls for fair hot conditions tonight and a cooler, partly cloudy Wednesday with highs 90 to 95. Precipitation totals show 0.20 inch today and 0.39 inch this month.
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Roscoe Kimerling in Serious Condition After Heart Attack
Humboldt druggist Roscoe Kimerling remained in serious condition today at Neosho Memorial Hospital after a heart attack two weeks ago. He had been moved from a Coffeyville hospital to Chanute last Tuesday. His son Roscoe E. Kimerling and family, plus two daughters, arrived from Scotland on Saturday to be with him.
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Humboldt
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Kimerling
Coffeyville
Chanute
Roscoe E. Kimerling
Scotland
Tribune Phone Note Urges Carrier Contact
Instruction to obtain Tribune phone from your carrier and to call extension 700 after 6 p.m. if the contact cannot be reached.
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Tribune
Dairy Princess Entries Due for June Contest in Neosho County
Dairy Princess contest entries must be received by Thursday at the Erie office. Entry forms available from Gale Mullen G C Freeley of Erie or J D Lightfoot of Chanute. Entrants must be sponsored, 16 to 25, never married, with dairy farming ties and a high school diploma.
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Lightfoot
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Tioga Hotel
Missing Bride Vanishes Near Norman Naval Base
Norman police and Navy investigators pursue unclear leads in the disappearance of 19 year old Carol Ann Batterman wife of Dennis E Batterman. She was last seen May 31 at a highway bus stop in Norman talking to someone in an older model car. Batterman says she planned to join him the next day to hunt an apartment after a motel meeting between Norman and Oklahoma City.
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Norman Naval Base
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Carl White
Special Navy
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Westchester
Ill
Batterman
Oklahoma City
Briton Naps in Coffin To Get Used to It
Arch ie Miller age 92 naps in his solid oak coffin each afternoon to become familiar with his final rest. He polishes the coffin in a shed before crawling in for a nap, a habit he has carried for 33 years, with the coffin costing about 100 dollars.
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England
Archie Miller
Miller
Red Cross Reports Blood Shortage in Wichita Area
The regional Red Cross Blood Bank of Wichita reports a critical shortage affecting 90 hospitals in Kansas and Oklahoma. Manager Tom Irving calls for donors, noting intake around 840 pints monthly and a Sedgwick County need of 1,100 to 1,200 pints.
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Wichita
Red Cross Blood Bank of
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Oklahoma
Tom Irving
Sedgwick County
Mrs Locke Files Candidacy for Neosho County Treasurer
Mrs Lloyd B Locke of Erie announces as a Democratic candidate for Neosho County treasurer subject to the August primary. widow of Tate Locke she has eight teaching years in rural schools and former deputy treasurer for four years in the 1920s. she served as federal census enumerator in 1950 and has two daughters Corinne Gray in Topeka and Lloydeen Hines in Pawhuska.
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Lloyd B. Locke
Erie
Neosho County
Locke
Corinne Gray
Topeka
Lloydeen Hines
Pawhuska
Oklo
Federated Church At
Order of Eastern Star
Four Boys Revisit Meadowbrook School For Cleanup
Four boys aged 6 to 8 returned to Meadowbrook school in Gladstone for extra work after a vandalism incident. Their first visit was voluntary last Sunday when mud, glue, broken records, and damaged books appeared. they came again with parents and officials to help repair. Police chief Vivian Thomas says the children will face juvenile authorities, and the parents agreed to cover the damages.
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Meadowbrook School
Gladstone
Vivian Thomas
Trim Big Weapons Macmillan Says
British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan urged a gradual path to world peace by discarding big weapons including nuclear arms. He spoke at Johns Hopkins University where Eisenhower would introduce him and both received honorary degrees. He praised the Western alliance as essential against Communist aggression.
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Harold Macmillan
Macmillan
Johns Hopkins University
Eisenhower
Western World Alliance
KU Summer Session Enrollment Seen Above 2850
Lawrence AP reports University of Kansas summer session enrollment is expected to exceed 2850 students. James K. Hitt, registrar and director of admissions, provided the forecast, with details to be released as the term approaches.
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University of Kansas
Tribune
James K. Hitt
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