Close shave at Lake Farlington as Burns nearly loses trunks
Boyd Burns, a Chanute sailboat fan, was pulled along at 13 mph when the Dr. J. W. Kensett boat pushed him by the stern. He freed himself from the tow to retrieve his trunks and was rescued by the crew. A second item notes a Chanute woman reporting a persistent car-wash request and police involvement if the man returns.
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Boyd Burns
Chanute
Lake Farlington
Burns
Kensett
Good Harvest Weather For Kansas Wheat Harvest
Weatherman reports favorable conditions across Kansas for wheat harvest with temperatures rising to near 90 degrees in some areas. Isolated showers are possible in the west today and tomorrow, but the overall forecast shows dry fields and no major river flooding threats as air warms and fields dry out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Richard Garrett
Old Sol
Area Farmers Vote on Wheat Quotas in Four-County Region
Farmers across four counties in Kansas and neighboring wheat states vote on establishing marketing quotas for the 1958 wheat crop. A two thirds majority is needed for quotas to set the $1.78 support price. without it the price drops to $1.19. Polls close at 7 p.m. and results will be tallied at county ASCS offices before statewide reporting. In Tioga Township the noon turnout was only 10 voters. the vote receiving committee is named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Manhattan
Tioga Township
Memorial Building
Reuben O. Bark
Homer Nelson
Dalice Rush
Highland
Dormois appointed to Neosho Memorial Hospital board
County commissioners appointed Glen Dormois of Chanute to the Neosho Memorial Hospital board of trustees to fill the vacancy created by Harold R. Williams resignation after his election to the city commission. Williams cannot hold both posts. an election within the board will fill the seat. Dormois runs a Chanute tire business and participates in civic groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glen Dormois
Chanute
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Williams
Walter M. Poor
R. D. Hamar
Earl Miller
Kidney Transplant For Twin Brother
Leonard Masden, 19, of Shepherdsville Kentucky donated a kidney to his identical twin brother Leon in a transplant at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Boston. Surgeons report will follow in 72 hours covering the critical postoperative window. The recipient received the donor kidney to replace two diseased kidneys to be removed later. Similar twin transplants have been performed successfully at the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Leonard Masden
Shepherdsville
Leon
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Texas Independents Protest Foreign Oil
Texas independent oil men urged steps to cut crude imports after a Texas Railroad Commission proration hearing. Four independent oil producers associations sent telegrams to three U.S. senators claiming the United States depends on unreliable foreign oil and threatening national security.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
United States
Texas Railroad Commission
U. S
Missing Pilot Found in Plane Wreckage
The body of 32 year old C. A. Dahse of Big Spring Texas was found in a Piper Cub wreckage four miles east of Lamar Oklahoma. Sheriff T. J. Sanders and County Attorney Max Darks identified him from papers on the body. He had been missing since Friday afternoon as the Oklahoma Civil Patrol conducted a statewide search.
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Lamar
Okla
C. A. Dahse
Big Spring
Tex
Here
Hughes County
T. J. Sanders
Max Darks
Dahse
Oklahoma Civil Patrol
Arrow Head Hunter Builds Four Thousand Artifact Collection
Phillips scrapbooks a vast four county Indian artifact cache collected over decades. The retired contractor and army officer reveals stone tools pipes and pottery from Woodson Wilson Greenwood and Coffey counties. He collaborates with a Smithsonian team studying Toronto Dam ruins and hints his collection would fetch a sizable sum.
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Phillips
Woodson
Wilson
Greenwood
Coffey
Kansas
Smithsonian Institute of
Washington, D. C
Toronto Dam
Army recruiting office to move to Chanute Kansas
The United States Army recruiting station formerly in Coffeyville will relocate to Chanute to serve Southeast Kansas. Sergeant first class George W. Mattox and his wife Erna Cathrine will move with two other families including Ernest Anslinger and Mamie and daughter Katy, with a third recruit to be assigned.
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United States Army
Coffeyville
Kansas
Kansas City
Chanute
George W. Mattox
Erna Cathrine
Mattox
Ernest Ansminger
Mamie
Katy
Costly to Kiss Wife In Atlanta Court
In Fulton County Georgia Judge F E Andrews fined a soldier five dollars after witnessing him hug and kiss his wife in the Domestic Relations Division. He said he saw a single smack on the second kiss and issued the penalty on the front row of benches.
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Atlanta
F. E. Andrews
Fulton Superior Court
Andrews
Traffic Fatalities Reported For Kansas 1957 Totals
Topeka reports Kansas traffic fatalities from the State Accident Records Section. Last 24 hours show 0 deaths. year to date 1957 total is 229. For comparison, the same period in 1956 was 285 fatalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Oil Men Attend State Hearing On Pollution Bill
About 200 oil men from eastern Kansas attended a public hearing on Kansas House Bill 219 held by State Health Department officials led by Dr. Thomas R. Hood. The bill would require surface pond permits for brine, oil, or refuse, with producers bearing the burden to prove ponds do not pollute water or farmland.
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EL Dorado
Kansas House
State Health Department
Thomas R. Hood
State Board of Health
Kansas
Hood
State Department of Sanitation
Dwight F. Metzler
Division of Sanitation
State Water Resources Board
State Geological Survey
Kansas Corporation Commission
Metzler
Government eases exports to Russia and satellites
Washington announced a relaxation of export controls. About 200 nonstrategic commodities can be shipped to Russia and European allies without individual licenses. In West Branch Town Chairman Lewis L. Strauss urged global leaders to convene a peace plan. In Emporia the 37th annual Kansas VFW encampment opened with over 1,500 expected attendees.
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Washington
Russia
West Branch
Town
Lewis L. Strauss
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Emporia
Kansas Department
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Kishi Calls for Constructive Role in Asia Against Communism
Washington dispatch reports Prime Minister Kishi telling Congress Japan will play a constructive role in Asia to meet the communism challenge. In a separate item, the House passed a major overhaul of excise tax laws reported without a recorded vote. Republicans push to bypass Senate committees on the civil rights bill drawing Democratic charges of legislative lynching and rule-bypass tensions.
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Washington
Japan
Kishi
Congress
Asia
House
Senate
GOP
Sun Boosts Prospects For Start of Harvest
Rain halted early harvests across multiple counties but sunny, dry conditions improve field drying. Wheat yields vary from 10 to 30 bushels per acre with moisture around 12 to 14 percent and some loads testing 50 to 62 pounds, while barley remains down in places and risks losses.
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Erie
Humboldt
Randall Bell
Wilson County
Lester Griffith
Griffith
Jerry Hope
Woodson County
Hoshaw Fund Grants Training Awards To Three Women
Three Chanute women receive Ema Huey Hoshaw trust awards for nurse training at area hospitals. Carol McDonald of Pittsburg gets 350 dollars for Mt. Carmel Hospital. Phyllis Solomon of Fort Scott gets 350 dollars for Mercy Hospital. Mary Jane Muecke of Pittsburg receives 200 dollars for continued training at Mt. Carmel.
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Chanute
Ema Huey Hoshaw Trust
Carol McDonald
S. Wilson
Mt. Carmel Hospital
Pittsburg
Phyllis Solomon
S. Evergreen
Mercy
Don R. Abbuehl
Women’s Auxiliary
Local
Medical Association
Registered Nurses Club
Future Nurses Club
Two Kansas Counties Are Disaster Areas
Washington D C SBA designates Seward and Ellis counties in Kansas as disaster areas due to flood and tornado damage. Home and business owners may apply for loans at three percent interest.
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Washington
Seward
Ellis
Kansas
The
Small Business Administration
Johnsons Return From Two Month European Tour
Mr and Mrs E W Johnson editor and publisher of The Tribune returned home after a two month tour of Europe. They left New York April 14 and arrived aboard the RMS Queen Mary in New York Tuesday then traveled home yesterday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. W. Johnson
Europe
the Tribune
Contractors Expelled by Kansas City Builders Group
The Home Builders Association of Kansas City expelled two contractors for signing separate labor agreements with the painters and carpenters unions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Home Builders Assn. of
Painters and Carpenters
Upper Big Creek Watershed Meeting Held at Moran
Thirty five attendees gathered at the Moran American Legion hall for an educational session on watershed protection for the upper Big Creek area. A six man committee was named to guide further study, with members from Elsmore and Moran. Additional meetings for Village Creek and lower Big Creek landowners are scheduled with maps being mailed to 180 landowners.
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Moran
Big Creek
Ebur Schultz
Chamber of Commerce Agricultural Division
FE. P. Glamser
Alfred Burenheide
Leland Mattison
Elsmore
A. G. Fink
Paul H. Wood
C. C. LaRue
American Legion Hall
Moran Commercial Club
Donald Burehe
Salt Wahoo
Nebraska
Martin Tractor Co
Pat Crews
Iola
Soil Conservation Service
Bill Qualls
Allen County
SCS
Qualls
Schultz, Mahlon Morley
Floyd Stacey
Chamber of Commerce Agricultural Committee
Village Creek
Bethel Lutheran Church
Vilas
Chamber of Commerce of Land Ownership
Schultz
Ship Collision Toll Mounts to Thirteen
The death toll from the collision off Brittany between the American-owned tanker Stony Point and the Greek freighter Ioannis rose to 13. Two sailors were missing and others injured, as a Dutch tug towed the Stony Point toward the British port of Falmouth. The Ioannis, anchored off Brest, burned with crew members aboard fighting a smoldering fire.
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Brest
France
Brittany
Stony Point
Stony Brook
Falmouth
House OKs Planning Funds Of Neosho Dams
The House approved 14.8 million dollars in water project funding for Kansas as part of a larger bill totaling about 14.8 million. Included are 10 million for Tuttle Creek Reservoir and 4.7 million for Toronto Dam plus smaller sums for Abilene Ottawa Saline and Wichita Valley Center. Planning funds of 125 thousand for Council Grove 145 thousand for Pomona and 125 thousand for Strawn reservoirs in Kansas were also approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Tuttle Creek
Toronto
Teopeka
Abilene
Ottawa
Saline
Wichita Valley Center
Council Grove
Pomona
Strawn Reservoir
Tot in a Stroller Is Killed by Car
In Independence Missouri a 10 month old girl Debra Mae Hiatt left in a stroller while her mother weeded was fatally injured by a car. Driver Neil Halvorsen 16 was learning to drive from his father when the vehicle veered into a driveway between the Halvorsen and Hiatt homes. Debra died en route to hospital.
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Independence
Debra Mae Hiatt
William Hiatt
Jack Morton
Neil Halvorsen
Halvorsen
Hiatt
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R. M. Phillips
Yates Center
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Army Office For Recruiting
Armed Services
Leif R. Nelson
Fay Noland
R. 1
Tribune
Hoshaw Fund
Johnsons
James R. Sheridan
Arthur Solomon
Neosho Dams
Eisenhower
Appropriations
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