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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1957
Page
5
In Italy four youths roped together fell to their deaths on Mount Griga, a 6000 foot Alpine peak, after one slipped. News received locally confirms the accident occurred yesterday on the perilous ascent.
Stockholm reports sadness as 16 year old Christina Wennerstrom hides in seclusion after remarks by her diplomat father.
A romance between 18 year old Huw Williams of Falls Church Va and Christina Wenstrom ends when they cannot obtain a marriage license. Williams is fired from his Senate job while Christina leaves on a plane with her mother, no legal action planned by her father Col Stig Wenstrom.
Miss Ray Cantrell won the Parsons American Legion bathing beauty contest with Cindy Chandler in second and Patsy Hataway third. Fifteen contestants competed before a large Forest Park crowd. The trio will represent Parsons in the Pittsburg contest on July 4. Roy S. Bennett Jr. resigns as Oswego assistant county attorney after twenty years to join Phillips Petroleum Co. land lease department.
Mike Logan Coffeyville junior college sophomore departs New York aboard a Holland America liner ship bound for Switzerland. The $1,100 trip funded by local organizations and $140 from First Christian Church supports a summer stay with a Swiss family to learn customs and daily life. Logan is the son of E D Logan and relocation includes Texarkana dealer Bob Keaton noted in the report.
Canada's Prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker arrived for the Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference in London. He urged expansion of trade within the Commonwealth and said a conference could be held in Ottawa. He spoke of action to extend trade and noted it would be his first overseas trip since taking office.
Parsons clerk of Labette County Mr. Lawrence Lane and Mrs. Lane visited Mrs. Minnie Carter and Lucille Carter. Wichita residents Mr. and Mrs. Roland F. Cornelson Jr. welcomed their first child Debra Lynn born Saturday weighing 7 pounds 7 ounces. Grandparents Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Cornelson hosted visits, with Mr. and Mrs. Russell Elliott and others. Mrs. Cor nelson’s parents and sister-in-law joined the weekend. Mrs. W. H. Thomson returned to Grandview Mo after visiting Mrs. F. E. Russum. Sunday guests included Mr. and Mrs. George Smith and Mrs. Jane Smith of Kansas City. Librarian Pearl Chapman of Chanute High School and Junior College attended American Library Association meetings in Kansas City with niece Kathryn McGlamery. Mrs. Sidney McConnell returned to Kansas City after a week with her W. E. Gault relatives in Emporia.
Maude Summers returns to Chillicothe from a visit with relatives in Chanute and Thayer. She traveled with her niece Linda Johnston of Breckenridge. Attorneys Moran Amy Stevens and Beverly Binkley are in Dallas, Texas, with Miss Moran planning a stop in Lubbock, Texas.
Mrs. A. E. Gibson and her daughter Miss Mildred Gibson have returned to their home in St. Joseph after a period away.
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