Traffic rule changes draw parking and U turn citations
Police Chief Tom Morehead announced two new traffic rules: no U turns at Main and Steuben or Main and Central and red painted 30 foot no parking zones on East Elm. Since adoption six drivers were cited for U turns and five for parking in the bus stop zones near 212 East Main. A Jaycees baseball game at City Park pits them against the Senior Chamber tonight at 8 with proceeds benefiting the Osa and Martin Johnson memorial museum.
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Tom Morehead
City Commission
Main and
Steuben
Main
Central
East Elm
Morehead
Elm
E. Main
Chamber of Commerce
City Park
JayCees
Gale Mullen Begins Duties as Neosho County Agent
Gale Mullen of Coffeyville began his duties as Neosho County agricultural agent in Erie yesterday and planned field surveys soon. Rain continues to delay grain harvest while muddy fields hinder farmers who attempted to cut wheat.
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Erie
Gale Mullen
Coffeyville
Néosho County
Mullen
Welch to wed old family friend in Harwichport wedding
Welch 66, a Boston attorney and former Army chief counsel in the McCarthy hearings, plans a summer or fall wedding to Agnes Rodgers Brown of Chestnut Hill. He was a pallbearer at her husband’s funeral in 1956, the year his own wife died.
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Harwichport
Mass
Joseph N. Welch
Boston
Army
Welch
Agnes Rodgers Brown
Chestnut Hill
New Commissioner for Appeals Court Named in Kansas City
Kansas City report announces Fred H. Maughmer of Savannah as commissioner of the Kansas City Court of Appeals replacing J. Coy Bour who retires Sept. 1 1958. Governor Blair to appoint a successor for the remainder of the term ending Jan 1 1959.
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Kansas City
Fred H. Maughmer
Savannah
Kansas City Court of Appeals
James W. Broaddus
Said Maughmer
J. Coy Bour
James T. Blair
Maughmer
No Showers Forecast As Kansas See Rainfall
Partly cloudy and cooler tonight with a warm spell expected Wednesday. Heavy showers drenched eastern Kansas, with totals up to 2.70 inches in Kingman and other cities. floods may crest downstream of the Kansas River while forecasts predict little rain today, possible showers tomorrow, and cooler east winds.
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Topeka
Kansas
West
Weather Bureau
Kansas River
Clay Center
Salina
McPherson
Marysville
Centralia
Manhattan
Willard
Hutchinson
Pratt
Sun City
Kingman
Arkansas City
Sedan
Howard
Independence
LeRoy
Coffeyville
Pittsburg
Goodland
New York Faces Severe Heat Wave Across City
New York sweltered in a 90 degree heat wave with 91 degrees reached before noon. The Weather Bureau expected a yearly high. About 1,000 New Jersey commuters bound for New York were stranded in a Hudson tunnel after a wall fragment caused a power rail break. Passengers walked emergency exits as trains halted. no power shortages reported.
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New York
Mercury
Weather Bureau
New Jersey
Hudson & Manhattan
Hudson River
Manhattan
State Charter Issued To Mid-America Inc
Topeka reports Mid-America Inc has completed incorporation procedures in the secretary of state's office. The non profit firm, formed to promote industry in southeast Kansas, lists incorporators Thomas McNally F W Brinkerhoff and Clyde Reed Jr with Reed as resident agent. It aims to advance agricultural commercial educational and economic interests of the region.
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Topeka
Secretary of State
Office For Mid- America Inc
Kansas
Thomas McNally
F. W. Brinkerhoff
Pittsburg
Clyde Reed Jr
Parsons
Reed
Adolescent slays sweetheart in Houston romance tragedy
Robert Freeman, 17, adopted son of a University of Houston education professor, confessed by phone to fatally slashing Sandra Maynald, 17. He was found with the knife and bloodstained clothes. Freeman was jailed on a serious case charge as investigators noted no sexual assault.
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Brazil Ranch
Buffalo
Bartlesville
H. J. Uhl
C. E. Bonnell
Latham
A. J. Brazil
Eureka
Heb Kind
Louie Taylor
Tribune
Houston
Tex
Sandra Jean Maynald
W. C. Doss
Robert Edward Freeman
University of Houston
Sandy
L. E. Freeman
Dr. Freeman
Robert
W. C. Williams
Sandra
Jarred Clark
Harris County
London study links daily benzpyrene to 100 cigarettes
Researchers hired by British tobacco companies report that Londoners inhale a cancer causing benz pyrene each day equivalent to smoking 100 cigarettes. The finding comes as health officials seek to map risks of urban air pollution and tobacco exposure.
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London
Swanson Effort Is Rejected by Board in Topeka
Swanson parole agent for 22 years, Dr Carl A B Swanson of Page City, loses bid to be reinstated. State Penal Board member Robert Turney supported Swanson's bid to rescind termination, while Dem Chairman Dan O Cain rejected it. Gov Docking allegedly urged strict action, and Swanson will appeal to the State Civil Service Board.
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Peka
Carl A. B. Swanson
Page City
Dan O. Cain
State Penal Board
Swanson
State Civil Service Board
Cain
Robert Turney
Wichita
George Docking
William Townsend
Topeka
First Wheat Cut In Sedgwick County Harvest
Sedgwick County reports 1957 harvest begins on Tony Meyer farm near Mulvane with over 800 bushels cut. Grain yields run 61 to 63 pounds per bushel and moisture around 13.5 to 14.2 percent. Muddy fields prevented precise yield estimates, says County Agent Don Ingle.
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Wichita
Sedgwick County
Tony Meyer
Mulvane
Don Ingle
Ingle
High Court Disbars Wichita Attorney
The State Supreme Court disbarred Wichita attorney George L. Adams after he and any representative failed to appear on June 14 to show cause. The court noted Adams had pleaded guilty to drunkenness on several occasions in its show cause order.
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Topeka
George L. Adams
Wichita
State Supreme Court
Adams
Traffic Fatalities Reported for Topeka Kansas
State Accident Records Section logs show 0 deaths in the last 24 hours. To date in 1957 total fatalities reach 227, compared with 283 in the same period of 1956.
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Topeka
Kansas
House Approves Civil Rights Bill amid Senate hurdle
The House passed President Eisenhower's civil rights bill 286 to 126. Final passage votes split along party lines with 168 Republicans and 118 Democrats for the bill and 19 Republicans with 107 Democrats against it. The measure moves to the Senate where filibuster risk and a by pass strategy loom, as Knowland seeks calendar placement and a possible direct floor debate.
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Washington
House
Eisenhower
Senate
Nixon
International Atomic Energy Agency
Johnson
Texas
Knowland
California
U. S
Senate Judiciary Committee
Fourth of July Plans at City Park by Chanute VFW
The Chanute VFW post led by Commander Paul Brennecke outlines the annual Independence Day events at City Park. The highlight is the Starlight Revue with stage scenery and lighting, featuring novelty acts, chorus lines, musical dance varieties, acrobatics, comedy, trick bicycles, and a closing works display by J. C. Michaels Attractions from Topeka.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
City Park
Paul Brennecke
Chanute Post
City ‘Park
Judge blocks Girard transfer to Japan for trial
A federal judge ordered the government not to turn over Army specialist William S. Girard to Japan for trial in the death of a Japanese woman. The ruling keeps Girard within U S jurisdiction for court martial proceedings and denies a habeas corpus writ. Tokyo plans sympathy payment of 629000 yen to the woman’s family as Japan seeks closure in the case.
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Washington
William S. Girard
Japan
U. S
Joseph S. McGarraghy
Girard
McGarraghy
Ottawa
Dulles
Defense Wilson
Tokyo
United States
U. S. Army
Scs
Naka Sakai
Two Boys Admit Piggy Bank Thefts In Chanute Homes
A 15-year-old Chanute youth and an accompanying 13-year-old admitted stealing piggy banks from the homes of Mrs. Dunham at 102 N Lafayette and the Nooteboom at 203 S Wilson. The older boy broke in through a door and window, taking $1.85 and $3 respectively, later dumping the money in a storm sewer. The younger boy did not enter the homes or receive funds, and parents agreed to repay the money.
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Lee Dunham
N. Lafayette
Nicolaus
Royster Junior High School
Nooteboom
Dunham
Cross Agrees To Answer Before Senate Rackets Panel
Washington report on James Cross president of the Bakers Union agreeing not to invoke the Fifth Amendment and to cross examine a witness. The hearing covered former Bakers Union Local 100 president Gilbert Mann who said he was forced to resign in 1955. Mc Clellan and Abraham Harris sparred over questions about a 1956 dinner fundraiser for Max Kralstein and tax handling of the $60,000 gift.
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Washington
James G. Cross
Bakers Union
Senate
Cross
Gilbert Mann
Bakers Union Local 100
Chicago
Abraham Harris
Mann
McClellan
D-Ark
Harris
Senators
Max Kralstein
New York
Kralstein
Stubborn Brush Fire Threatens Lake Elsinore Area
A stubborn brush fire burned through a thick watershed at Lake Elsinore with hot dry and windy weather continuing. About 350 firefighters fought through the night on lines near Lake Elsinore southeast of Los Angeles, aiming to halt the blaze two and a half miles from its origin as temperatures climb toward 100 degrees.
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Los Angeles
Lake Elsinore
California
Ecores
Kansas City Nurse Dies In Minneola Car Crash
Miss Ola Ross, 27, of Kansas City Missouri, was killed when an automobile overturned on U S 54 two miles west of Minneola. Passengers Mildred Louise Lewis and 12 year old Elena Odom, also of Kansas City, were hospitalized in Minneola in stable condition.
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Minneola, Kas
Ola Ross
Kansas City, Mo
U.S. 54
Minneola
Mildred Louise Lewis
Elena Odom
Kansas City
First Carload of Wheat Reaches Wellington from Hunnewell
Wellington receives the first carload of new wheat threshed in Sumner County this year. The dark winter wheat graded No 1 tested 60 pounds to the bushel with 13.2 percent moisture. An extra inch of rain delayed harvest in the area.
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Wellington
Hunnewell
Sumner County
Plunge From Overpass Fatal for Wellington Woman
Wellington police report Mrs. Max Thompson aged 25 died after plunging 29 feet from a railroad overpass. Highway Patrolman Jim Jacobs said he attempted to save her at the scene. She is survived by her husband and four small children.
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Wellington
Max Thompson
Jim Jacobs
Thompson
Jacobs
Added Day of School For Million Dollars
SACRAMENTO Calif San Juan Union School District ends its year with a single extra school day to qualify for state aid totaling a million dollars The district counted 174 schooldays through last Friday and held one more day for students and staff to secure the funds Supt William T Mooney noted the plan went smoothly for 4300 pupils and personnel
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Sacramento
Calif
San Juan Union
William T. Mooney
Mooney
Fiscal Policies Bring Prosperity With Problems
Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey credits fiscal policies for prosperity amid concerns about its side effects. He argues higher interest costs finance growth and jobs, while critics say tight money worsens debt and burdens borrowers. Senate Finance Committee session opens a full review of monetary policy.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey
Sen
Byrd
D-Va
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