If Jack Grout Had Stayed Chanute Could Chanute Have Won
The piece ponders a hypothetical 1955 Chanute High School basketball crown had Jack Grout, a 6 foot 5 inch standout from the 1953 54 team, remained in Chanute. It notes Grout’s Visalia success and all star selection, then moves to local school events and staff notes including the Junior High exchange final assembly and National Doctors Day boutonniere presentation by Neosho County Medical Society auxiliary.
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Blue Comet
Jack Grout
Comet
Visalia
Calif
W. E. Grout
Jack
Mt. Whitney High School
Chanute
Wyandotte
Pittsburg
Royster
Neosho County
Mrs Elena Follett McGrew Arrives in Tioga for Visit
Mrs Elena Follett McGrew arrived Monday from Denver for a short stay on business and is a guest at Tioga Hotel.
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Elena Follett McGrew
Denver
Tioga Hotel
Milk Ring Tests Begin at Local Dairies in Campaign
Milk ring tests are being conducted at area dairies as part of a joint state and federal drive to eradicate brucellosis in cattle. The portable lab visited Neosho Valley Cooperative Creamery and Erie plant yesterday, with results to producers by official letters.
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Mahlon Morley
Kansas
Neosho Valley Cooperative Creamery Company
Morley
Weather forecast for Kansas shows little temperature change
Forecast calls for fall tonight with partly cloudy skies and little temperature change. Low tonight around 40, high Thursday 65 to 70. Winds easing in the west. cooler in the northwest but not severe. No freezing temps reported. Goodland 33, Concordia 43, Garden City 74 highest in state.
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Topekap
Kansas
Garden City
Goodland
Concordia
Traffic Fatalities Reported in Topekap 1955
State accident records show 0 fatalities in the last 24 hours and 11 to date in 1955. The same period in 1954 logged 120 deaths. Readers without the Tribune are urged to phone 17 between 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. daily.
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Topekap
Kansas
Eighth Expected Own Delivery Plan By Mother of Seven
Titusville Florida AP Mrs Ellerbe W Carter Sr expects her eighth baby in April and again plans to deliver it herself. The 40 plus mother has borne five unattended births with no doctors present and says she uses whisky highballs to relax. Her husband, 71, a retired general, heads a realty firm and local clubs.
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Titusville
Fla
Ellerbe W. Carter Sr
Titusville Lions Club
Carter
Erie Teens Organize Town Youth Group
Erie youths form Teen Town to meet weekly at the American Legion hall starting Friday night. High school class officers and student council members lead the committee with Ray Bryant and wife providing adult supervision. Open to locals ages 13 to 19. small admission fee covers music refreshments and hall rental.
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Erie
American Legion Hall
Ray Bryant
Jet pilot killed in fiery takeoff crash at Kelly AFB
A jet fighter plane caught fire on takeoff at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, veered into a pasture and crashed into a freight train. Pilot 1st Lt. Donald W. Culver, 26, died. no one aboard the train was hurt.
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San Antonio
Tex
Kelly Air Force Base
Donald W. Culver
What Faith Means to Me Power of Belief
A personal reflection on faith grounded in Romans 5 1 2 faith as active belief in Christ leading to peace joy and divine blessings The author defines belief as an idea accepted then acted upon contrasting faith with mere thought and noting faith heel inspires daily submission to God's will and assurance of peace.
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Lord Jesus Christ
God
Jesus Christ
Mrs. Jenkins
Hua
State Highway Patrol Aids in Mercy Trip to Salina
The Kansas patrol escorted two year old Diane Dugan of Abilene to St. John’s hospital in Salina after she showed tetanus symptoms during a visit to her maternal grandmother in Quinter. Her mother Mrs. James Dugan accompanied her.
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Salina, Kas
State Highway Patrol
Diane Dugan
Abilene
Quinter
Kas
St. John's Hospital
Salina Hospital
James Dugan
Snow Deep in Caribou Sets Local Winter Record
More than 15 feet of snow blanketed Caribou Maine this past winter a northern Maine community record and milestone for snowfall. Local officials described the storm total as extraordinary and noted impacts on travel and municipal services.
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Caribou
Maine
Too Much Talk Concerning War Says Eisenhower
President Eisenhower urged an end to speculation on war and said there is no clear indication of a hostilities plan by China against Quemoy and Matsu. He implied a rebuke to Adm. Carney and discussed Big Four talks, Paris treaties, bipartisan talks, and farm price policies.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Quemoy
Matsu
Robert B. Carney
Naval Operations
Carney
Matsus
United States
Russia
Dulles
West Germany
Germany
Paris
Italy
France
White House
House
Senate
Bank of O'Fallon Robbed of 11500 in Broad Daylight
Two holdup men robbed the Bank of O'Fallon of about $11,500 yesterday. Cashier N. B. Schwendeman said they forced four employees and one customer to lie on the floor as they took all non time-locked cash.
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O'Fallon
Bank of
N. B. Schwendeman
Racial Bill Killed by Missouri House Panel
Jefferson City Missouri a House committee killed 136 last night a bill to end racial segregation in public places such as restaurants hotels and theaters in the state capital political reporting noted the measure would have integrated public venues and ended separate facilities.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
City Financed Recreation Plan Studied At Meeting
A Chanute public meeting sponsored by the Chanute Community Council discussed a city financed recreation program. About 140 attendees heard Larry Heeb explain city operated programs and possible funding through a mill tax with a special election. The group urged year round service for all ages and a youth summer program, noting past funding varied and a city wide approach is needed.
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Memorial
Chanute
Heeb
Kansas
Independence
Wellington
William E. West
Warren Fitch
Mr. West
Howard Dobson
West
Experts Warn Grasshoppers Threaten Kansas Crops This Summer
Southeast Kansas farmers were urged to attack hatching sites in May to prevent a grasshopper outbreak. Kansas State University specialists Dell Gates and Claude King advised early control and May spraying along field edges, corners, and other hatch sites to achieve up to 95 percent kills, noting drought last year worsened the plague.
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Kansas
Memorial Building
Dell Gates
Claude King
Kansas State College
Manhattan
Gates
C of C Clinic Outlines Work at Tioga Hotel
A management clinic at Tioga Hotel outlined the Chamber of Commerce committees and program of work. Carl Pate presided as president, Clarence Sievers detailed aims, J Roy Hardin explained duties of committees, and plans discussed to renew and expand the chamber’s work.
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Chamber of Commerce
Tioga Hotel
Carl Pate
Chamber
Clarence Sievers
J. Roy Hardin
Pittsburg
Floyd Bray
D. Hampton
Harry Davis
Co. W. Greene
Howard Jester
Floyd Potter
Paul Parsons
Fred Pralle
Charles Henshall
Ed Caldwell
Earl Bain
Buford Fisher
Art Krone
Robert L. Briley
Wilbur Thompson
E. W. Johnson
Wayne M. Taylor
Wayne Umbarger
Reuther Re-elected UAW President in Unopposed Vote
Walter Reuther was elected to his sixth straight term as president of the CIO United Auto Workers Union in Cleveland. The vote followed a 25 minute demonstration and he faced no opposition.
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Cleveland
Walter Reuther
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
Nautilus Trial Leads To Aboard Agonizing First Run
In Groton Commander Wilkinson and Lt Axene recount the Nautilus first trial. Minor incidents included two electrical panel fires a loose gear box screw and a 12 foot wave storm that damaged non critical exterior plates but did not affect the pressure hull. No dangerous radiation occurred as the submarine backed from the fitting out pit and then moved away.
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Wilkinson
Axene
Service for Others Before Salinan Dies
Salina Kansas insurance executive Harry Lucas district manager for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co died yesterday in a Boston hospital after three years of battling an incurable disease. Friends note his civic leadership as Kiwanis Club president, director of the Community Chest, leader of the Boy Scouts district council, and active in many other civic affairs.
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Salina, Kas
Salina Insurance
Boston
Harry Lucas
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Friends
Lucas
Kiwanis Club
Commution Chest
Eisenhower to Speak at Chamber of Commerce Convention
President Eisenhower will speak at the U S Chamber of Commerce convention in Washington on May 2.
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Washington
Eisenhower
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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