Jailed Guests Ordered Clean Quarters and Damage Charges
Police chief Morehead issues memorandum requiring voluntary and involuntary jail guests to keep quarters clean. Officers to inspect on release, charge destruction of city property for damages, no newspapers allowed, sleepers to scrub before departure. Also notes 1955 fire department record and a dog adopted by the fire station. Three youths admit stone throwing damaging windows at local sites.
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Tom Morehead
Erie
Verne A. Woodring
Santa Fe Statiion
Girl Shoots Kidnapper After Attempted Car Seizure
Pratt Kansas report says a 15-year-old girl wounded Michael Mounts of Dodge City with his own pistol after he forced her into a car. Mounts is charged with attempting to kidnap Jane Adams, daughter of the Pratt Chamber of Commerce secretary. A 50-man posse captured Mounts hours after Jane and Jim Pilkington were accosted.
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Meigs
Jane Adams
Michael A. Mounts
Dodge City
Kas
Mounts
Jane
Pratt Chamber of Commerce
Jim Pilkington
Swim Classes Start With 667 Enrolled
The American Red Cross summer swimming school opens after a week delay due to cool weather. Director Mrs. Kenneth Tebow reports 667 enrollments, a new record, with about 180 from outside Chanute and more adults joining this year.
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American Red Cross
Kenneth Tebow
Tebow
Chanute
Seven Fatalities Is Weekend Toll
Traffic accidents, a plane crash and a fire claimed seven lives in Kansas over the weekend. A two car crash near Hutchinson Saturday night killed two and injured four others. The other fatalities occurred in Whitewater Parsons Wichita Lone Wolf Oklahoma and Kansas City.
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Associated Press
Kansas
Hutchinson
J.g
Herbert D. Peterson
Hutchinson Naval Air Station
Roberta Kathleen Patrick
Lone Wolf
Okla
Marine Reserve
Seon
H. E. Koehn
Kansas City
Kas
Elderly Man Jumps to Prove Age Is a State of Mind
Seventy year old Jack Clapp parachuted from a plane yesterday to show a man is only as old as he feels. A former daredevil in his youth and longtime painter for city schools, he planned the stunt after retirement and somersaulted before pulling the rip cord.
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Detroit
Jack Clapp
Geese Fight Weeds in San Joaquin Valley Cotton Fields
In Bakersfield California cotton farmers solve labor issues by using 100 geese to eradicate Johnson and nut grasses on 66 acres in two weeks. Fred Scharat notes the geese consume weeds but avoid cotton plants, offering a practical weed control method.
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Bakersfield
Calif
San Joaquin Valley
Fred Scharat
Mayor Dalton Hurt in Power Tool Accident
Erie Mayor Cleo I Dalton sustained serious hand injuries Friday night in his carpenter hobby shop when an electric saw severed two fingertips from his right hand. He received treatment at the Erie hospital.
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Erie
Cleo I, Dalton
Erie Lelinic
Strategy Session By Big Three At U N Event
The Big Three Western foreign ministers met in San Francisco on the eve of Eisenhower's address at the U N tenth anniversary meeting. Dulles Macmillan and Pinay pressed Molotov for a stand while planning the summit agenda and Geneva talks.
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San Francisco
Eisenhower
U. N
John Foster Dulles
Harold Macmillan
Antoine Pinay
V. M. Molotov
New York
Eduardo Zuleta Angel
Molotov
General Assembly
Dulles
International
Columbine
Geneva
House Okays Boost in Pay
The House passed 870 to 3 a bill granting over one million federal workers a 7 percent pay raise, costing about 325 million dollars yearly. The measure moves to a Senate House conference to reconcile with a 10 percent Senate figure. leaders expect about 8 to 8.5 percent as the outcome.
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Washington P
House
Taber
New York
Mason
Illinois
Vursell
Senate House
Senate
Eisenhower
Rep
St. George
R-Ny
Moss
Calif
Congress
Argentina's Lucero urges end to false alarms after revolt
Gen. Franklin Lucero as new armed forces chief pushes to restore normalcy in Argentina amid a navy revolt. He signs as Commander in Chief of the Forces of Repression and warns against alarmist rumors while authorities discuss a possible three man ruling junta with Peron and Tessaire.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Franklin Lucero
Juan Peron
Lucero
Plaza de Mayo
Manuel Belgrano
Tina
Associated Press
Montevideo
Peron
Navy
Adm
Alberto Tessaire
Washington
State Department
Pickets Target Chanute Building Projects
Construction on two Chanute sites the State tuberculosis hospital and the Kansas Highway Office building was disrupted by union pickets from Laborers Local 550 Parsons. The contractor said wages were paid and both union and non union workers hired. Muddy grounds hindered highway office work as pickets blocked skilled crafts.
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Kansas Highway Department
State Tuberculosis
Tribune
Chanute
State Tuberculosis Hospital
Kansas Highway
Parsons
W. R. Stover
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Ash Grove
Portland Lime & Cement Co
Jack Patrick
George Senne & Co
Hunter & Lundberg
State Hospital
L. L. Severance
American Federation of Labor
Patrick
Severance
Father dives into flood cellar to save three children
Quanah Texas AP reports a frantic farmer Ira Keeney plunged into a dark flooded storm cellar to rescue his three children. He heard his boy calling for help but could not locate them despite his efforts.
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Quanah
Tex
Ira Keeney
Transit Workers Strike Hits Los Angeles Amid Citywide Shutdown
A predawn strike by about 2,600 transit workers stranded 900,000 riders in Los Angeles. In Texas, the Keeney family lost three children Doris 5 Thomas 4 Alma 3 in a cellar flood after a 5% inch rain broke a nearby dike. Sheriff M C Owen cited a low storm cellar in Hardeman County as the site of the tragedy.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles Transit Lines
Keeney
Doris
Thomas
Alma
Quanah
Hardeman
M. C. Owen
Benson backs new wheat program if quotas fail
Secretary Benson proposes a new wheat program if farmers reject the 1956 marketing quotas referendum set for Saturday. He outlined a neutral stance while noting quota aims to limit planting to 55 million acres, with price support dropping to 40 to parity if quotas fail. He called for changes favoring higher quality wheat and cotton, while stressing farmers must move with efficiency and not expect wartime price levels to return.
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Washington
Benson
National Assn
Congress
Security Its Watchword At Soviet Headquarters
Security is the watchword at the 15 room mansion in Hillsborough California where Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov is housed with his delegation. A policeman saw a staff member's suitcase dumped and pawed over by guards before repacking and entering. Molotov relaxed by a beach umbrella beside the estate pool.
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Hillsborough
Calif. i
San Francisco
Molotov
Picnic Movie Crew Ends Kansas Location Work
Columbia Pictures completed Kansas location filming for William Inge's Picnic at Sterling Lake with cast including Rosalind Russell Bill Holden Kim Novak Verna Felton Susan Strasberg Betty Field and Cliff Robertson. Shooting will resume in California.
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Hutchinson, Kas
Columbia Pictures
Kansas
William Inge
Driver Posts $100 Bond After DUI Arrest
Police report Mrs. Samuel D. Kennedy of 702 N Highland was arrested Saturday night for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence. She posted a $100 bond and surrendered her driver's license.
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Samuel D. Kennedy
N. Highland
Free Data Exchange In Atomic Energy Pact
British Prime Minister Eden announced a new Anglo American atomic energy pact allows full exchange of information on all fields except weapons due to the Atomic Energy Act limits. The agreement aims to expand cooperation while restricting weapon specifics.
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London
Eden
House of Commons
Harvest Weather Outlook and Rain Totals
Generally fair weather across Kansas tonight and Tuesday with widely scattered Western thunderstorms. Overnight lows upper 50s to low 60s, highs Tuesday mainly in the 80s. Rain totals included La Cygne 2.27 inches and other reports around one inch to an inch and a half.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
la Cygne
Lebo
Chanute
Eureka
Emporia
Lyndon
Lecompton
Wamego
Concordia
Goodland
Pittsburg
Arnold
Solomon River
Beloit
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Bray & Johns Equipment Co
Roy Ensminger
SHAW
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Carol Lindquist
Margaret A. Hollenshead
Young Pilkington
Glen Defebaugh
Rosemary Nation
Janis Rollow
Roland Cornelson
Barbara Lightfoot
Margaret Ann Hollenshead
Sandra Mills
Sharon Patton
Doris Halverstadt
Jackie Marts
Mary Brazil
Carol Shook
Sheila Bray
Janice Browning
Marian Gates
Ann Hummer
Red Cross
Dalton
Big Three
U.N
TB Hospital
Inte
TEL
Hon Wokkie
Argen
Army Ministry
Army
Government House
Conan Oe
Tom Arnold
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