Pete the talking parakeet and Tic Tac Dough notes
Pete the parakeet happily returns to the Pate household after chasing his dog through Chanute. Lt. Richard Curl, son of local residents, appears on Tic Tac Dough and misses two questions but wins a camera and game. Retiring teacher Harold Miller reflects on youth, drive, and education in a Sagacious interview.
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Pete
Carl Pate
S. Highland
Pet
Chanute
Richard Curl
H. G. Curl
Randall
Tribune
Curl
Agnes Zimmerman
W. Main
Jim Zastrow
Projects Okayed For Erie Bypass
Kansas Highway Commission approves more than 125000 in Erie bypass highway work in Neosho County plus about 1.9 million in extra contracts for Kansas improvements. Nelson Brothers win several bids including 6.1 miles on US 59 near Erie. O Brien bids for roadside park. Freete Construction wins a bridge project near Neodesha in Wilson County.
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Kansas Highway Commission
Neosho County
Erie
Commission For Highway Improvements
Kansas
Maurice Martin
Nelson Brothers
Joe O’brien
St. Paul
Allen
Woodson
Moran
Allen County
Yates Center
Hugh T Jones Jr. In Critical Condition After Heart Attack
The 41-year-old Chanute businessman Hugh T Jones Jr. was described as critical by his physician after suffering a heart attack Sunday. He is a patient at Memorial Hospital Neosho Memorial.
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Hugh T. Jones Jr
Chanute
Tribune
Jones
Lee Wasser
Neosho
Memorial Hospital
Pioneer IV Nears Moon on Deep Space Trek
Washington AP reports Pioneer IV edged toward the moon's vicinity as Goldstone Dry Lake reestablished contact at 7:33 a.m. EST. The 13 pound cone traveled about 198,323 miles at 4,742 mph with a predicted closest approach of 37,000 miles and distance from Earth at 239,000 miles.
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Washington
America
Goldstone Dry Lake
Mojave Desert
Soviet Union
Earth
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Goldstone
Moon
Pioneer IV
Cape Canaveral
Fla
California
NASA
Eight Month Twins Seriously Burned in Truck Fire
Twin girls eight months old were badly burned when fire erupted in the cargo bed of a pickup near Dalton Kansas. Amos and Mrs Lykins were moving from Rifle Colorado to Longton Kansas. Shirley and Sharon were in an improvised bed among household goods. The twins were treated at a Wellington Kansas hospital and then moved to Wichita for care.
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Wichita
Dalton
Kas
Amos C. Lykins
Rifle
Colo
Longton
Shirley
Sharon
Wellington
Erie S&L 75 Years Old
Erie Savings & Loan Assn marked its 75th anniversary. Chartered March 5, 1884, it is among Erie’s oldest businesses and the second oldest state savings and loan. Starting capital was 200 000 dollars, now 1 366 340.
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Erie
Erie Savings & Loan Assn
Savings and Loan Association
Erie's
Cleo Dalton
Don Wells
William E. George
Anne Womeldorff
Harold Heaton
Clark Fleming
Elmer Clark
Dalton
John Bass
Marion Richey
Ivan Green
Oliver Craig
E. F. Raynor
Ben J. Smith
Arthur Lodge
Charles H. Reinhart
A. C. Post
John Hall
W. J. Oliver
L. S. Cambern
J. M. Allen
Collision Fatal in Wichita Kills 18 Year Old
Charles Davis Ball aged 18 died after his pickup collided with a Wichita fire truck in the southeast part of the city late yesterday. Police described the incident as a fatal collision with emergency responders on scene.
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Wichita
Charles Davis Ball
Kansas Senate to vote on tax relief for newspapers and liquor price controls
In Topeka the Kansas Senate prepared final passage for a pair of bills. One exempts newspapers newsprint ink and subscriptions from sales tax amid a dispute with the revenue director over a March 1 levy. The other would allow the liquor price director to prevent price wars by enforcing minimums, a provision the governor is expected to veto.
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Topeka
Kansas Senate
Alcoholic Beverage Control
Senate
State Affairs Committee
House
State Revenue
George Docking
Fayette Rowe
Columbus
Rowe
Senate Democrats
Kansas Wheat Commission
Commission
Great Plains Wheat Marketing Development Assn
Docking
House Oil and Gas Committee
Kansas Corporation Commission
Kansas
Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee
Shell Lowers Price on Kansas Crude
Shell Oil Co. reduced its posted price for crude oil by three cents a barrel for Oklahoma and Kansas fields. The new top price is 3.05 dollars per barrel for 40-grade crude, affecting about 10,000 barrels daily in Oklahoma and 1,700 in Kansas.
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Houston
Shell Oil Co
Oklahoma
Kansas
Traffic Fatalities Reported in Topeka 1959
Kansas traffic fatalities listed by the state Accident Records Section show 1 fatality in the last 24 hours and 78 to date for 1959, with a prior 69 for the same period in 1958.
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Topeka
Kansas
Eisenhower Sees Reduced Soviet Rigidity On Berlin Talks
President Eisenhower said the Soviet position on Germany shows signs of loosening as Moscow agreed to a foreign ministers conference on the Berlin issue, though with Kremlin conditions. He cautioned Americans against Soviet propaganda while endorsing a 15 minute SAC alert as appropriate for current world conditions.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Russia
Germany
U.S
Berlin
Kremlin
Isenhower
Moscow
Strategic Air Command
NATO
Harold C. Miller to retire after 35 years in Chanute teaching
Harold C. Miller, 65, longtime Chanute educator, will retire at the end of the 1958-59 term after 35 years in teaching, 34 of them in Chanute. A Kansas Master Teacher Award candidate, he has served as basketball coach, junior college coach, and high school principal, and taught social science since 1923 with a brief hiatus for WWII and VA service.
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Harold C
Cappy) Miller
Goin
Harold C. Miller
S. Central
Tribune
Chanute Teachers Association
Kansas
Kansas University
Pittsburg Stae College
Paola High School
Cappy
H. N. Filson
Chanute
Veteran's Administration
Wichita
Miller
Girl Hints It's Time Children Take Over
Kathy Hewitt an 11 year old from Miami writes to President Eisenhower offering her 61 dollars savings saying the country should not go bankrupt and kids could help. The White House replies Ike wants her to keep the money and buy the horse. The debt figure cited is 285 billion plus. Kathy returns the money to the bank and says the country is more important than luxury.
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Miami
Fla
Kathy Hewitt
Eisenhower
Kathy
White House
Wilson B. Persons
Persons
March term district court jurors listed for Neosho County
The jury list for the March term of district court in Neosho County is drawn with openings at Erie next Tuesday and Chanute next Wednesday. The panel includes L. R. Rathbun, Bert D. Beck Jr., Anna Marie Chappell, Melvin Stone, Vernice Parker, John Drummond, and others from Chanute Grafton Heaton Herald Allen Roy Claus Cecil Fisher A. Rose Brady R. H. Eberhart Kenneth Kinne Leo Long Harley Johnson Warren Knox Ernie Triber Francis Grillett Ed MacMains Wayne Gibson St Paul John H. Mitchell Emil Semrad Thayer Grant Murrell Earlston John Heitman Emma Kennedy Lloyd Audiss Walnut Ernest Foster Galesburg Charley Olson rural Savonburg Iran Williamson South Mound Calendars will be set on opening days. Three state cases are docketed at Erie, one at Chanute.
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Neosho County
Erie
Chanute
L. R. Rathbun
Bert D. Beck ,Jr
Anna Marie Chappell
Melvin Stone
Vernice Parker
John Drummond
Rodell Wilson
John Hargrave
T. H. Ahlers
Pauline Shellhorn
Grafton Heaton
Herald Allen
Roy Claus
Cecil Fisher
A. Rose Brady
R. H. Eberhart
Kenneth Kinne
Leo Long
Harley Johnson
Warren Knox
Eric
Harry Triber
Francis Grillett
Ed MacMains
Wayne Gibson
St Paul
John H. Mitchell
Emil Semrad
Thayer
Grant Murrell
Earlston
John Heitman
Emma Kennedy
Lloyd Audiss
Walnut
Ernest Foster
Galesburg
Charley Olson
Savonburg
Iran Williamson
South Mound
Charles L. Kramer
Sam Yockey
Waldene Reasner
Parsons
Blood Donors Give 156 Pints in Red Cross Drive
In Neosho County 156 pints were collected yesterday toward a near quota as 221 donors were scheduled and 59 drop-ins. Ted Ahlers of Chanute joined the "Three Gallon Club" with his total. One gallon donors included several local residents. The two day drive resumes at Chanute on June 4 and Erie on June 5.
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Red Cross
Howard Winans
Neosho County
Ted Ahlers
Chanute
Winans
George Thurman
Rosalie Crabtree
Dale Anderson
Robert E. Herman
Tim Yockey
Humboldt
Erie
Rep. Baughman Dies In Topeka Hospital
TOPEKA AP Rep Thomas Baughman D Elk Falls died early today in a Topeka hospital. The 60 year old lawmaker was serving his first term in the Kansas House.
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Topeka
Thomas Baughman
Elk. Falls
Baughman
Kansas House
Snow Warnings For West Kansas Heavy Winds Drift Snow
Northwest Kansas faces howling winds and blowing snow as a storm advances from western Oklahoma. Officials warn of drifting snow, wind gusts to 40 mph, and hazardous conditions for motorists and livestock. Snow to spread to central Kansas by noon with heaviest amounts from Oberlin through Dighton eastward.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Goodland Weather Station
Oklahoma
Texas
Nebraska
Oberlin
Hoxie
Dighton
Driver Arrested on DWI Charge Near Earlton
Cecil Meredith Runer of Iola was arrested about 11:30 pm by Sheriff Sloan and Trooper White on driving while intoxicated reckless driving and no license tag charges. David W. Shields of Iola faced intoxication charges. Runer bond set at $500 with hearing Friday. Shields fined $15 plus $5 costs. Both jailed in Erie pending further action.
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Cecil Meredith Runer
Iola
Jerry Sloan
R. L. White
Highway Patrol
Earlton
David W. Shields
Lola
Runer
Shields
Erie
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Lt. Curl
Westpoint Military Academy
Korea
Zimmerman
New York City
Chanute High School
Erie S&l
Shell
United States
Girl
District Court
Rep. Baughman
Topeka Hospital
West
Beness OS
Kc Ceee
Bureau
Garden City
Olathe
Goodland
Salina
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