B58 Smashes Speed Marks Across U S Coast to Coast
An Air Force B58 bomber set three transcontinental speed records on a Los Angeles to New York round trip with a total time of 4 hours 42 minutes 32 seconds. The mission produced sonic booms causing window damage in several states. Crewmen Capt. Sowers Capt. MacDonald and Capt. Walton received Distinguished Flying Crosses and Bendix Trophy. Eastbound average speed 1212 mph. westbound 1091 mph.
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Los Angeles
New York
Atlantic
Thomas S. Power
Strategic Air Command
California
Colorado
Kansas
Missouri
Pennsylvania
Long Beach
Bertha Long
St. Joseph Mo
Chillicothe
Greater
Kansas City
Robert Sowers
Lexington
Robert MacDonald
Cresskill
N. J
John Walton
Greenville
Pilot Sowers
Erie Area Turn About Club Dinner Bridge Honors
Dr and Mrs William C entrance into the Air Force Academy hosted the Turn About Club dinner bridge at Grillette. High scores went to Mrs Glen McKinney and Tom Burress with Burress taking the traveling prize. Guests included Mrs Dorothy Snodgrass and Kenneth Killough. April hosts will be Mr and Mrs Pershing Brady.
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Erie
William C
Air Force
Acade Weir
Grillette
Glen McKinney
Tom Burress
Burress
Dorothy Snodgrass
Kenneth Killough
Pershing
Brady
Dessie Redman
Galesburg
Everett Shrum
Two Californians plead innocent in kidnapping case
In Kansas City Kansas two Californians pleaded not guilty to kidnapping charges after a federal grand jury indicted them in the abduction of a New Mexico state legislator's daughter from Albuquerque on January 27. The indictment names Robert Henry Runge, 23, among others.
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Kansas City
Kan
New Mexico
Albuquerque
Robert Henry Runge
Thayer Area Social Notes Highlight Local Cable and Visits
Thayer area clubs report on the Win-a-Couple Bible class sending a bath towel set to Sidonia Indian school and a Friday Reading Club program on International Affairs. Local families visit from Wann Oklahoma Wichita and Carbondale Illinois as residents nurse illnesses and attend Legion auxiliary activities.
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Thayer
The
Christian Church
David Thornton
Sidonia
Ariz
John Thornton
H. M. Minnich
Joe Kephart
Floyd Powers
Wesley Anderson
Milo Hazen
Mmes. Anderson
Belle Siple
Roscoe Hallenberg
Harold Umbarger
Roy Johnson
Joel VenMeter
Johnson
Ira Hague
John Christie
Chanute
Carl Thomas
Wann
Okla
W. FE. Patterson
Wichita
L. B. Greene
Larry Barsch
Mike
Luraine Whitman
Frank Kash
Cherryvale
R. L. McDaniel
Wayne
Fall River
American Legion Auxiliary
Jewelry Theft Sparks Downtown Chase In Kansas City
Marvin Smiley, 22, saw two men smash a jewelry store window and grab items. One man fled immediately while the other, with bags, ran in front of his car and collided with the fender before pursuing the first man. Police recovered bags in the street containing diamonds worth 1484 dollars.
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Kansas City
Marvin Smiley
Smiley
California Men Accused in Abduction of Miss Smalley
Fullerton and Richard C. Banish face charges for abducting 23 year old Miss Wandra Smalley in her car near Fullerton on February 21 and driving her to Kansas City. Runge pled guilty while Banish stood mute. Judge Arthur J. Stanley appointed two attorneys. Smalley testified the men attempted sexual molestation. she was unharmed. A note adds that a few tribes in Netherlands New Guinea still practice cannibalism.
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Fullerton
Calif
Richard C. Banish
Cupertino
Wandra Edith Smalley
Miss Smalley
Kansas City
Runge
Banish
U.S
Education Retooling Is a Must
CHICAGO AP There is so much to learn and so little time that American education must be retooled from top to bottom, top educators said. Oliver J. Caldwell of the Office of Education urged extending public schooling to 14 years with vocational tracks for some, plus a new four year liberal arts college model. He proposed 18 years of formal study for graduate and professional education, arguing the current 12 year system lacks strength in a knowledge doubling era. Iran welcomes Nowruz marking springtime and notes time since 622 Hijra.
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Chicago
Oliver J. Caldwell
U.S. ‘Office of Education
Caldwell
Iran
Mohammed
Medina
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Pittsburg
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Fred
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Erie Rest Home
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Becky
Cindy
Springfield
Gustafson
Dale Ewen
Robert Yeager
Frontenac
Gary White
Ronnie
Ivan Green
James White
Eleanor Swan Jones
Edward L. Jones
John
Doug
Mark
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Jones
L. C. Swan
Neosho County
Terry Casady
Pittsburg State College
Paul Casady
Mick
Independence
Thayer Area
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Joe Burt
A.J. McCready
Legion Hall
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John Powers
Carbondale
Ill
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J. S. Burt
Thornton
Jim Hannon
Coffeyville Hospital
George Zugmierl
Dickie
Jimmie Travis
H. G. Johnson
Kentucky
Elk Creek
Seattle
Fairgrounds
MR. Rogers
Skyline Motel
Netherlands
New Guinea
Williamson Stores
Mrs. Henry Bezingue
Sunbeam Corporation
Sunbeam's
Lorene Fish
Parsons
Cook
Sunbeam
Lady Sunbeam
Frypan
BOUL
Stonbeam Ordinary
Ed Williamson Stores, Inc
E. Main
Brush Control
Ottawa
Lemaster - Glenn Aerial Spraying, Inc
Chanute, Ks
Elsmore
A. C
Massey Ferguson
Sears
Jersey
Forney
Fairbanks-Morse
Sears Milker
Oliver Combine
J. D
Virgil
Josephine Wolfe Budd Butts
Union State Bank
Lismore Sethodist Church
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