Tourism funds eyed for Kansas highway promotion
Les Matthews, manager of the Chamber of Commerce, traveled to Topeka for a meeting of a special tourist promotion financing committee. The group will discuss using highway funds to develop Kansas travel through a new tourist division of the Kansas Highway Commission. Mrs. C. L. Allan returned home after a short visit with relatives in Coffeyville. A party from Thayer traveled to Savannah Missouri for medical treatment, joined by local residents.
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Les Matthews
Chamber of Commerce
Topeka
Tourist Promotion Council
Kansas Chamber of Commerce
Matthews
State Highway Commission
Kansas
Kansas Highway Commission
C. L. Allan
Coffeyville
A. F. Leverenz
Cattle Steady Hogs Active Across Kansas City Markets
Livestock markets show cattle steady with calves, steers, and heifers generally firm to up to 25 higher on active demand. Hogs rise 25 to 50 with tops around 19.75 for 190-240 lb barrows and gilts, while sows gain as well. Sheep steady to 50 higher with spring lambs 18.00 to 20.50 and slaughter ewes 4.00 to 5.00, based on Kansas City and Parsons reports and area trading notes.
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Kansas City
USDA
U. S
Forrest Nelson
Great Bend
Parsons Livestock
Parsons
Oceanographers record cat fights with underwater ears
Woods Hole scientists use underwater listening gear to capture the sounds of cats fighting and squealing, marking a rare acoustical observation.
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Woods Hole
Mass
Kansas City Grain and Chicago Butter Market Report
Wheat prices firm at 2.2512 to 2.282 with No 2 hard and dark markets. Corn unchanged with No 2 white 1.60 to 1.70 and No 3 1.53 to 1.69. Oats steady with No 2 white 68 to 75. Rye 1.15 to 1.17. Barley 95 to 96. Soybeans 2.33 to 2.35. Bran 34.00 to 50. Shorts 38.75 to 39.25. Chicago Butter steady with 93 score AA and receipts 1,400,000.
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Kansas City
Chicago
Mixed market notes and commodity prices in Chicago and Kansas City
Market summary reports unsettled eggs and steady live poultry prices, with wholesale buying prices unchanged. Chicago Grain shows wheat futures retreating after gains as soybeans rally, while corn and oats vary. Kansas City reports unchanged eggs, steady poultry fractures, and flat butter.
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Plymouth Rocks
Chicago
Board of Trade
Kansas City
Lightburn Appointed To Credit Board
George W. Lightburn of Capron Oklahoma has been appointed to the Federal Farm Credit Board of Directors. He will represent the Ninth Farm Credit District covering Kansas Oklahoma Colorado and New Mexico. Lightburn succeeds H W Clutter and heads a Woodward Production Credit Association. he farms over 1000 acres near Capron.
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Wichita
George W. Lightburn
Capron
Okla
Federal Farm Credit Board of Directors
Lightburn
Fred R. Merrifield
Farm Credit Banks of
Farm Credit District
Kansas
Oklahoma
Colorado
New Mexico
Lighburn
H. W. Clutter
Holcomb
Kas
Woodward Production Credit Assn
Woodward, Oklo
Farm Credit Board
Federal Farm Credit Administration
Death claims Ernest T. Weir steel leader at 81
Ernest T. Weir longtime head of National Steel Corp died in a Philadelphia hospital from complications after a heart attack. The 81 year old, a founder who stayed active as executive, led National Steel as its chairman and CEO until retirement last April. Rumors say Treasury Secretary Humphrey may be favored to succeed him after Humphrey leaves the cabinet.
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Philadelphia
Ernest T. Weir
National Steel Corp
Weir
National
Pennsylvania
Florida
New York
Nathonal
Pittsburgh Steel
Sost
Treasury
George M Humphrey
Humphey
Eisenhower
Deaths and Funerals in Neosho Area
Deidri Marie Drummond infant daughter of Mr and Mrs John Drummond of 520 W Main died at 545 pm Tuesday at Neosho Memorial Hospital She is survived by parents a sister Patricia Ann and a brother Stephen Lee maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Lee Ward Thayer paternal grandmother Mrs Lula Drummond Parsons and several aunts and uncles A short service will be held Thursday at 2 pm at Roy S Gibson Funeral Home with Rev William T Hunt officiating Burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Charles Carlson of Savonburg funeral held at Mission Covenant Church west of Savonburg Rev Geoffrey Iola assisted by Rev Freeman Conant Stark Friends Church Singers Harry Dahl Nadine Erickson. Bearers Roy Bass Ross Woodworth Vern Cuppett Orval Nelson Wayne Weeks Arthur Nystrom Interment Swedish Cemetery west of Savonburg Alice Olive Brogan funeral service held at Grace Episcopal Church with Rev Boyd C Latimer officiating Organ music by Evelyn Dormois Bearers Jim Cooper Dale Steinman Joe Balch Roy Wiggans Ted Ahlers and Lee Judy Burial in Hope Cemetery St Paul.
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Deidri Marie Drummond
John Drummond
W. Main
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Patricia Ann
Stephen Lee
Lee Ward
Thayer
Lula Drummond
Parsons
Roy S. Gibson
William T. Hunt
First Presbyterian Church
Memorial Park Cemetery
Savenburg
Brogan
Alice Olive Brogan
Grace Episcopal Church
Boyd C. Latimer
Evelyn Dormois
Jim Cooper
Dale Steinman
Joe Balch
Roy Wiggans
Ted Ahlers
Lee Judy
Hope Cemetery
St. Paul
Daily Transcript Admittances and District Court Proceedings
Admittances list shows patients admitted or dismissed with names and addresses for Tuesday and today. District Court hearings in Chanute include divorce case Leverenz, partition suits, title quieting, mortgage cancellation, and a land partition. Hartford Accident case Neptune judgment for 1506.80 plus interest. divorce granted for Lock. City Court dismisses liquor license charge against Tom England and traffic citation for Rolla Rush.
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District Court
Chanute
Cole Leverenz
Doreen Leverenz
Patricia Weber
Joseph
Hurley Rush
H. M. Minnich
Ola E. Minnich
John Harmon
Sarah Harmon
F. L. Manley
Frank MclIntyre
Edwin
Hugh T. Jones
Don C
McCune
Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company
Lloyd Neptune
Mildred Neptune
Kathryn Louise Lock
Jess Donald Lock
State of Kansas
Tom England
N. Ashby
Pay Starts June for Acreage Reserve in Wilson County
Soil Reserve payments begin in June in Wilson County as Charles C. Ropp says many farms will receive acre age reserve payments this month. First payments go to farms with only one allotment crop while field checks and office work continue.
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Fredonia
Wilson County
Charles C. Ropp
County Agricultural and Stabilization Committee
Kansas 1956 Safety Awards Winners Named
Gov. George Docking announces 1956 Kansas traffic safety contest awards. City winners include Topeka Emporia Lawrence Newton Pratt Wellington Ellis Herington Hoisington Bennington Buhler and more. County winners include Johnson Leavenworth Bourbon Jewell Clark Comanche and others.
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Topeka
Kansas
George Docking
Emporia
Lawrence
Newton
Pratt
Wellington
Ellis
Herington
Hoisington
Bennington
Buhler
Johnson
Leavenworth
Bourbon
Jewell
Clark
Comanche
el Dorado
Great Bend
Liberal
Winfield
Arkansas City
Fort Scott
Garden City
Hutchinson
Parsons
Abilene
Roeland Park
Augusta
Iola
Mec
Pherson
Russell
Plainville
Beloit
Girard
Rushton
Weir
Woodston
Colwich
la Cygne
McCune
British Leaders Meet to Patch Differences and Plan Foreign Policy
The Commonwealth nations convened at 10 Downing Street to mend rifts over the Suez crisis and shape future ties with Russia, Red China, and global powers. Leaders including Macmillan, Nehru, Suhrawardy, Diefenbaker, Menzies, and Nkrumah gathered to review foreign affairs and assess shifts in power across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
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London
Suez Canal
Russia
China
Egypt
Downing St
Macmillan
Europe
Middle East
Asia
Nehru
India
Hussein Suhrawardy
Pakistan
John Diefenbaker
Canada
Robert Menzies
Australia
Kwame Nkrumah
Ghana
Gold Coast
Wall Street Mixed as Aircraft Rally Flanks Broad Market
Wall Street in New York closed mixed as aircrafts rallied amid a mostly flat session. About 1.9 million shares traded versus 2 million yesterday with gains and losses in key stocks generally around a point or so.
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New York
McCoy to Direct KU Correspondence Study Bureau
Dr. Donald R. McCoy will become director of the University of Kansas Correspondence Study Bureau on July 1. He succeeds Ruth Kenney, who retires, after resigning from New York State Teachers College at Cortland where he was associate professor of history and assistant to the director of conferences.
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Lawrence
Donald R. McCoy
University of Kansas
Ruth Kenney
McCoy
New York State Teachers College
Cortland
Kansas
Red Training For Egyptians
Washington reports that Soviet forces secretly trained Egyptian naval crews at Gdynia for six months before handing over three submarines. Egyptian crews can operate the subs sooner than Western navies expected, though further training remains. Delivery appears tied to Nasser’s secret arms deal.
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Washington
Russia
Gdynia
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Moscow signals support for Nasser amid Mediterranean maneuvers
Western observers view the delivery and accompanying Russian warship maneuvers in the eastern Mediterranean as Moscow bolstering Nasser's prestige in the Arab world. The move coincides with increasingly outspoken American officials denouncing his activities.
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Russia
Mediterranean
Moscow
Nasser
Neosho HD Units Win Certificates for Fund Drive
Three Neosho County clubs Erie Sunflower and Victory join 88 others in Kansas to earn certificates for a full unit in a state drive by clubwomen to raise 150000 for a Smurthwaite scholarship house at Kansas State College Manhattan. The drive assigns each unit a 3 per member target, and the three Neosho units met it. The scholarship house would offer room and board for 50 coeds on a cooperative basis, saving students about 25 monthly toward college costs and honoring longtime state leader Georgiana Smurthwaite.
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Manhattan
Neosho County
Erie
Sunflower
Victory
Kansas
Kansas State College
Georgiana Smurthwaite
Three Neosho County Men Report for Preinduction Examinations
A notice of preinduction examinations was received at the Neosho County selective service headquarters. The call orders three local men to report on July 15 for medical exams in Kansas City the following day.
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Neosho County
Armed Services
Kansas City
Selective Service
Sox Beat Tigers In Senior League Showdown
The White Sox topped the Tigers 8 to 3 in a senior division Little League game at the EUB diamond last night.
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White Sox
Tigers
Ft Riley Hospital Named for General Irvin
A new hospital at Ft. Riley will be named for Brig. Gen. Bernard John Dowling Irvin, Medal of Honor recipient and founder of the frontier Army post at Ft. Riley.
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Ft. Riley
Bernard John Dowling Irvin
Frontier Army Post
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