Fredonia JC's Fredon Findley Installed as President
Fredonia Junior Chamber of Commerce swore in Don Findley as president for 1957 58 at the City Park shelter house Tuesday night. Norman Castagnoli served as state vice president. Findley has led several committee projects including the Road E O working group for teenage drivers.
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Fredonia
Don Findley
Fredonia Junior Chamber of Commerce
City Park
Norman Castagna Lola
Findley
Scout Den 2 Pack 9 Holds Wiener Roast
Scout Den 2 Pack 9 of Grace Episcopal church met at the West home for a picnic style evening with games. Four cubs and Mr and Mrs West plus Phyllis West attended.
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Grace Episcopal Church
Arlen West
Cubs
Mrs. West
Phyllis West
Blanks for Bidding On Inactive Funds In Kansas
Kansas banks will receive blanks next week to bid on inactive state fund deposits. A 1957 law authorized one percent interest on 80 percent of idle funds, which were previously interest free. The Board of Treasury Examiners will meet in July to assess the total idle money and allocate it to bidding banks.
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IOLA
U. S. Atomic Energy Commission
Atoms For Peace
Kansas University
Iowa
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Bud Mealey
Topeka
Kansas
Board of Treasury Examiners
Mayor Candidate Has Faith in Campaign
New York hotel executive Robert K. Christenberry, a Republican pick for mayor in a Democratic city, declares he believes he will win after designation by GOP leaders from five counties. A one handed World War II veteran, he lost his right hand in France with the Marines and will face Mayor Robert F Wagner in the race.
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New York
Robert K. Christenberry
France
Christenberry
Robert F. Wagner
Humboldt Funeral Rites Held for George Ernest in Kansas City
Funeral held in Kansas City for George Ernest, uncle of Mrs. G A Redfield, former Humboldt resident who ran hay and grain business in Iowa. Ernest lived in Kansas City 58 years. burial in Kansas City. Passages mention accompanying relatives and other local visits and notices of a piano recital and upcoming wedding. An obituary note also records Benjamin A McIntire’s funeral in Gardner and his Indiana origin. An old tax reference closes the record.
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G. A. Redfield
Robert Redfield
Kansas City
George Ernest
Redfield
Humboldt
Ernest
Kansas
Iowa
Rackie
Tracey
Fort Madison
N. A. Armel
Larry
Armel
J. A. van Nice
G. C. van Nice
C. G. Puckett
Minnie Towles
Gardner
Benjamin A. McIntire
J. A. van Nice Jr
Emporia
McIntire
Indiana
Gardner Cemetery
Frank
State appeals suit on air plant tax to Supreme Court
The state seeks $164,706 in compensating taxes on machinery used to produce military craft at Boeing Airplane Co in Wichita. The Commission of Revenue and Taxation appeals a Sedgwick County ruling that Boeing owed no tax because the federal government was the purchaser of the taxed property.
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Topeka
Boeing Airplane Co
Wichita
Supreme Court
Commission of Revenue and Taxation
Sedgwick County
Boeing
SEK Towns Seek Air Service for Cherryvale Airport
Five southeast Kansas cities Coffeyville Parsons Independence Neodesha and Cherryville unite to petition the Civil Aeronautics Board for scheduled airline service to a Parsons owned airport five miles northeast of Cherryvale The field lies south of U S 160 and east of U S 169 after road relocation.
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Coffeyville
Kansas Cities
Cherryvale
Parsons
Independence
Neodesha
Cherryville
Civil Aeronautics Board
U. S. 160
U. S. 169
StateSeverance Tax Takes Effect July First
TOPEKA The new one percent severance tax on oil and gas becomes effective July 1. State Revenue Director John F Kirchner says collection will begin and officials estimate about 4.2 million dollars a year. Oil is expected to yield about 10 000 daily and gas about 2 000 daily.
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Topeka
John F. Kirchner
Kirchner
Mrs. Orr Returns From Week-Long Western Trip
Mrs. Anna Orr of 25 S Forest returns home after a seven week visit across Montana Idaho Oregon Washington and Canada. Her daughters from San Diego Benson and others arrive to visit. Local note covers other visits and a traffic accident involving Earl Seefeldt and OwenFrancis Lawson with minor damage to a Nash sedan.
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Anna Orr
S. Forest
Montana
Idaho
Oregon
Washington
Canada
Carl Hawkins
San Diego
Calif
Gough Stadelman
Benson, Ariz
Mmes
Edwin Neyhard
Mary Flynn
Lawrence Nelson
Elizabeth Wolf
Etta Tom
Erie
Elizabeth Currie
Nash
Earl Seefeldt
W. Seventh
Owen Francis Lawson
Independence
Bike taken from home reported to police
A light blue 20 inch frame girl's bike was stolen from the home of the Rev. and Mrs terday. The bike last seen in the garage at 5 30 p m with the owner's name on Scotch tape on the bicycle.
Calf Calm Pilot Lands One-Wheel Plane in Prairie
Norm Wyborn, 21, a student pilot with seven flying hours, landed a single engined craft safely in Grand Prairie Alberta after a wheel dropped off during takeoff. He maneuvered the craft to a stop on one wheel and an axle tip with no injuries or damage reported.
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Grand Prairie
Alta
Norm Wyborn
Art Resident Lockwood Named KU Visiting Professor
Lawrence ward Lockwood, renowned American painter and KU alumnus from the class of 1916, will be the Rose Morgan visiting professor and artist in residence at the University of Kansas for 1957 58. He has taught art at UC Berkeley since 1949 and will reside in the Rose Morgan endowment house in Lawrence.
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Lawrence
Ward Lockwood
Rose Morgan
University of Kansas
Lockwood
Atchison
University of California
Plea of Guilty to Fraud Charge in Oklahoma City
In Oklahoma City former Emergency Relief Director Frank Easley pleaded guilty in district court to defrauding the state with relief checks used in a state senator’s campaign. He was fined 750 dollars by District Judge W R Wallace Jr. The relief checks allegedly were issued.
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Oklahoma City
Frank Easley
W. R. Wallace Jr
Russell Jr Campaign Workers In Okmulgee Primary July 1956
Campaign workers of former Senator John W. Russell Jr. operate in Okmulgee during the July 1956 primary as part of his political effort.
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John W. Russell Jr
Okmulgee
May Shows Drop In Traffic Deaths
Chicago reports a 2 percent decrease in May traffic deaths from 1956, the sixth straight month with lower or unchanged figures. There were 3,110 highway deaths in May 1957 versus 3,170 in May 1956, with 14,360 deaths in the first five months, a 3 percent reduction from 1956.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Spending Giant RFC Breathes Last Today
The Reconstruction Finance Corp. once a vast spending and lending colossus that fueled or cooled American business in the 1930s ends its long decline today after two years of being a dying organization.
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Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corp
RFC
End of Business Imminent Amid Ongoing Corporate Wind Down
Report notes this is the last day of business though the corporate life is not officially over until Sunday midnight. Prepared statements indicate final actions remain to be completed over the weekend and organizational continuity will be reviewed.
Farmers Can File For Gas Refunds
The Agriculture Department announces July 1 as the start date for farmers to file applications for refunds of 3 cents per gallon of gasoline used for farm production in the year ending June 30. Refunds are issued upon request, not by the IRS, with forms available at offices banks and county agents.
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Terminal Island
Calif
Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Internal Revenue Service
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Crooksville
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