Chanute Highs 1934 35 team called best ever
The 1934 35 Chanute squad coached by Dale Skelton swept to league regional and state titles. Ralph Miller and Harold Ansell led a starting lineup that included Hugh T Jones Kenneth Caldwell Earl Ahring Bert Hayes Cecil Thurman and Earl Schlosser. Miller later set the state tournament high scoring record with 84 points.
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Bill Allen
Blue Comet
Chanute
Dale Skelton
Ralph Miller
Harold Ansell
Hugh T. Jones
Kenneth Caldwell
Earl Ahring
Bert Hayes
Cecil Thurman
Earl Schlosser
Miller
Newton
Ralph
Dick Miller
Joe Showalter
Rip Cloke
Max Roberts
Dick Shannon
A. M. Lockyear
New Platformer Unit At El Dorado Refinery
Skelly Oil Co has completed a new platformer unit at the El Dorado refinery in Kansas. The facility with a capacity of 7 500 barrels daily is being phased into production to enable higher quality motor fuels. Construction began last July.
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EL Dorado, Kas
Skelly Oil Co
Fe] Dorado
Bus Driver Uncovers Hidden Water Pistols Behind Books
Fairfield officer Lawrence B. Esposito drives Roger Ludlowe High School students home after water pistols are found hidden in book recesses on the 2:45 p.m. bus. Police frisked pupils, confiscated six pistols, and warned suspects as a safety report was filed.
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Humboldt High School
Patterson
Fairfield
Conn
Lawrence B. Esposito
Roger Ludlowe
Esposito
Bink
Death Notice Of a Peddler Is Sad Story
A Cleveland peddler Harry Harkins aged 48 who sold shoelaces trinkets and gum tape died after ulcerated varicose veins and a cold. He lay in a hotel room neglected as ambulance crews refused to move him until a fourth team transported him to hospital where gangrene and pneumonia developed before his death on March 1.
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Cleveland
Harry Harkins
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Harkins
City Health Itment
Hi Hospital
Marian Andre
City Health Nurses
Horkins
Mrs Burris Attends Topeka Board Meeting on TB Study
Mrs Bruce Burris, county chairman and Kansas Tuberculosis and Health Association board member, traveled to Topeka to join a special study and evaluation project aimed at eradicating tuberculosis in Kansas.
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Bruce Burris
The
Kansas Tuberculosis and Health Association
Topeka
Kansas
Midnight Closing Rules Hit Wichita Beer Licenses
Sedgwick County beer license holders must close their venues at midnight beginning April 1 as new city regulations take effect.
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Wichita
Sedgwick County
New Hope Baptist Church Marks 74th Anniversary in Chanute
The New Hope Baptist Church at Central and Chestnut celebrates its 74th anniversary with a 3 p.m. program led by Rev. H. A. Simmons. Guest speaker is Rev. William Bailey of Ottawa. Mrs. Mae McCullough and Fred Goodseal share church origins, with living descendants Jesse Lee Jackson and Nettie Cole among attendees. Dinner follows the 11 a.m. service, and a reception at the Community Center the next evening concludes the observance.
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New Hope Baptist Church
Central and Chestnut
H. A. Simmons
William Bailey
Bethany Chapel
Ottawa
Neosho Valley District
Charles Fields
Robert Lane
Iola
Jesse Lee Jackson
Mae McCullough
Fred Goodseal
Chanute
Roy Johnson
Kansas City
Minnie Nolani
Atchison
Nettie Cole
Church
Friends
Castor Perrin
Church Aid Society
Fred Demps
Traffic Fatalities and Armory News From 1955 Station KCRB
Traffic fatalities in the last 24 hours total two with year to date at 109 and 118 for 1954. Also note Gen. Joe Nickell discusses Chanute's new National Guard Armory. Broadcast noted at 12 30 Sunday over Station KCRB adv.
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Topeka
Kansas
Joe Nickell
Chanute
New National Guard
KCRB
Picnic film to be shot in Hutchinson not Independence
Kansan Walter McVey Jr. says William Inge told him the film version of Picnic will be filmed in Hutchinson, Kansas, not Independence, due to director Joshua Logan’s preference for flat terrain and grain elevators. Holden and Russell star. Inge’s Bus Stop sold to Fox with possible Independence shoot.
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Independence
Kas
Hutchinson
Walter McVey Jr
Independence Chamber of Commerce
William Inge
McVey
Inge
New York
Joshua Logan
Logan
Columbia Pic
Twentieth Century Fox
Erie Incumbents Named as Republican Nominees
Incumbents Cleo I Dalton mayor G C Freeley Verle Craven Frederick Swan Hollis Dunham Louie Rogers and J A Kyle police judge were nominated by caucus for the April 5 city election. Emery Wilson nominated for committeeman. Committeeman W E Reynolds opened the meeting with Charles Forsyth elected caucus chairman and Wendell Bowyer secretary. A motion empowered the caucus leaders to fill any vacancy on the ticket.
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Erie
Cleo I. Dalton
G. C. Freeley
Verle Craven
Frederick Swan
Hollis Dunham
Louie Rogers
J. A. Kyle
Emery Wilson
W. E. Reynolds
Charles Forsyth
Wendell Bowyer
One Killed Two Hurt In Nevada Accident
A car struck a bridge railing three miles west of Nevada Missouri and plunged into the Little Drywood river. James M. Aldridge about 60 was killed. Bill Pilcher 28 is missing, believed trapped. Harry Hurdley 26 and William J. McDermit 28, both of Nevada, were hospitalized with shock.
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Nevada
Little Drywood River
Here
James M. Aldridge
Bill Pilcher
Harry Hurdley
William J. McDermit
Stricken Traveler Bequests $20,900
Prof Anton A Raven of Dartmouth College died March 6 after a heart attack on a train to California. A $20,000 bequest to Trinity Lutheran hospital in Kansas City funds heart diagnostic expansion and will name a Raven laboratory in his honor.
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Kansas City
Trinity Lutheran Hospital
Anton A. Raven
Dartmouth College
Hanover
N. H
Raven
California
G. O. Lindgren
Raven Laboratory
Two Women and Man Held On Theft Charges
Two young women and a male companion were held at police headquarters on charges of stealing clothing from department stores and whiskey from a liquor store. Named are Marion Wilson 25 Tulsa Betty Johnson 22 Owasso Okla and Charles Leslie Griffith 38 Tulsa. They are accused of theft in stores here Coffeyville and Iola with additional charges of transportation of an open bottle. Preliminary hearings are expected in city court Friday.
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Marion Wilson
Tulsa
Betty Johnson
Owasso
Okla
Charles Leslie Griffith
Tom Morehead
Swiler
South Santa Fe
Neosho
Lee Montgomery
John Phelps
U.S. Highway 169
Thayer
Chet Hale
Howard Carder
Chanute
Lloyd Baker
Dick Harbaugh
Iola
Baker
Griffith
J. C. Penney
Edmiston
Montgomery Ward
Jimmy Lee Morris
Oklahoma
Morehead
Muskogee
Coffeyville
Million Dollar Tuberculosis Hospital Cleared for Chanute
The Kansas Senate passed a bill to raise the Chanute hospital fund from 500000 to 1000000 for an 80 bed facility on a 50 acre site west of Neosho Memorial. Gov. Fred Hall supported the project and a final Senate vote followed an earlier bid to cut the amount.
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Topeka
Chanute
Senate
John Crutcher
Ways and Means Committee
Fred Hall
Southeast Kansas Hospital
Chicago
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Eeh
Uch
Zens
House
Hutchinson
Senate plan seeks March 31 deadline for bills
A resolution to set March 31 as the last day for considering all bills in the 1955 session is to be introduced in the Senate. Sen. Paul Wunsch and House Speaker Robert Jennison agree on the date, needing approval from both chambers, with adjournment then planned for April 5 to allow Gov. Fred Hall to sign measures. Crutcher led opposition to funding a state hospital, arguing costs and bed figures, while proponent senators urged Southeast Kansas needs and proximity to Norton.
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Topekap
Senate
Paul Wunsch
House
Robert Jennison
Sinc
Fred Hall
Crutcher
John Woelk
R-Russell
John Anderson
R-Clathe
Dillard Croxton
R Lacygne
Wilfred Cavaness
Chanute
Legislative Council
Cavaness
Kansas
Norton
Lawrence Gibson
Pittsburg
Leonard Rude Jr
Par‘sons
Richard Becker
Coffeyville
Sen. Becker
Webb-Led Dragnet Moves to NBC in 10 Year Pact
NBC signs a ten year exclusive deal for Jack Webb to provide dragnet radio and TV programs. The agreement covers Webb's services and his distinctive style, linking him with NBC's future prime time lineup and related media ventures.
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New York
NBC
Jack Webb
City election to see bond issue on armory plan
Voters must be registered by 10 p.m. Friday to vote in the April 5 city election. No contests for school board or city commission. a special ballot asks support for a $55,000 bond toward a $90,000 Kansas National Guard Armory. Five polling places will open with single election boards. Balloting closes at 6 p.m. and results start afterward.
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Kansas National Guard
Senate Vote On Hospital Funding In Southeast Kansas
TOPEKA delegates report a Senate vote of 24 for and 9 against a bill to raise the hospital fund to 1,000,000 dollars for the Southeast Kansas tuberculosis hospital. Names listed include Republicans Adams through Wunsch and Democrats Barkis Bradford Haxman McDowell, with several Republicans and one Democrat absent.
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Topeka
Senate
Southeast Kansas Tuberculosis Hospital
Adams
Becker
Brookover
Cavaness
Gibson
Green
Grimwood
Gunnels
Harkness
Lohmiller
Mahon
Meckinob
Moore
Porter
Riegle
Root
Rude
Shriver
Thomson
Wunsch
Barkis
Bradford
Haxman
McDowell
Anderson
Croxton
Crutcher
Doyle
Mark
Nickell
Rinker
Stroberg
Woelk
Collard
Jones
Weigand
Hults
Miller
Woodward
Potucek
Colder Hint In Forecast For Kansas Tonight
Cloudy cool weather settles over Kansas with little change expected through tomorrow. Lows forecast 15 to 25 degrees, highs 28 to 40s, with a trace of snow reported at Hill City and varied yesterday from 42 to 58 degrees across Pittsburg and Goodland.
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Topeka
Kansas
Hill City
Pittsburg
Goodland
Reactor for Geneva to be built by AEC
The Atomic Energy Commission plans a research reactor in Geneva Switzerland for demonstration at a United Nations atomic conference in August. This Sunday at 12:30, KCRB will air a program presenting the facts about the new armory.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Geneva
Switzerland
What Faith Means to Me Faith Is Answer By Mrs W Earnest Wilson
Mrs W Earnest Wilson shares a faith focused reflection on life purpose and destiny. She describes faith as a guide from youth to adulthood, fostering confidence in an eternity in a heavenly home prepared by God. Readers are reminded to call the Tribune for delivery.
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God
Eisenhower Denies Squirrels Ordered from White House
President Eisenhower rejected a report that he ordered White House squirrels deported for marring the putting green. He told Bernard Baruch he learned of the story in the paper and joked about the incident as Baruch visited the White House patio.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
New York
Bernard M. Baruch
Baruch
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