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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1956
Page
6
Anatole Bykov, nine, survived with a swollen face and injured arm after a cave-in in Brooklyn killed six of his young friends. The children had dug a cave into a construction cut to play cowboys and Indians when tons of earth and sand collapsed.
Five questions ask about subject verb agreement in none of us were there but he and I, pronunciation of beige, a misspelled word among asphyxiation avordu pois au revoir amortize, meaning of sobriety, and a prompt for a word beginning with.
A cheeky multiple choice style entry defines ludicrous or unreal as farcical, contrasts phrases and spellings, and notes sobriety as temperance with example usage. It covers answers such as None of us was there, the pronunciation bayzh, avoirdupois, sobriety, and farcical.
Earlton residents list visitors and activities including Floyd Wolfe family, Red Cross swimming enrollments, Chanute trips by Bert Bass, Fall River Dam gathering, and Earlton Ladies Aid meeting with Elmer Wooten guest. Local families Cramer Wolfe Dix Bailey Clifford Tubbs and others socialize and attend events. Dean Dighero bitten by a dog entangled in a chain.
In rural Earlton at the annual June 1 school board meeting Gerald Umbarger was re elected treasurer. Voters approved a budget increase to raise bus driver wages and voted to hire a music teacher for the 1956 57 term. Men of the EUB church worked on the foundation for the building bought last week.
New York based Boeing Airplane Co chief test pilot A M Johnston, a native of Emporia, receives the Octave Chanute citation for aeronautics work. Johnston, 41, won the 1946 Thompson Trophy in a modified Bell P39 with a 376.4 mph closed course record and joined Boeing in 1949 as a B47 jet bomber test pilot before testing the B52 on its first flight.
The tug May Dee sank off the Mississippi coast during a tropical storm. Three survivors were rescued northwest of the sinking site. four men remain missing. The Cormorant and O J Senac saved others nearby as ships searched the Mississippi Sound. The May Dee crew and seven barge workers were swept into the water.
A historical comparison shows average personal water consumption rising from 90 gallons per person per day in 1920 to 145 gallons today. The change highlights increased domestic usage and modern lifestyle demands.
Two teenage stowaways from California spent a day in Honolulu with less than $4 between them after boarding the liner Lurline in San Francisco. Joan Damon and Dudley Taylor enjoyed lunch, swims, surfing, and a Hawaiian tour under the chaperonage of Earle C. Anthony before heading home to face their futures.
Elizabeth resident Bernie Johnson, 37, explains he drove for two decades without a license until a Rt. 1 traffic stop. He paid a $30 fine after police action revealed the lapse.
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