Nutria Coat Exhibit At Spring Farm Show
A nutria coat will be on display at City Park during the Spring Farm Show tomorrow through Saturday, said Les Matthews. The exhibit features Mr. and Mrs. E. Q. Stone of Wichita, a nutria distributor, with the first U.S. ranch raised nutria coat debuting last summer at New York's Hotel Plaza. A gold nutria will also be shown, claimed to be the first in Kansas.
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City Park
Les Matthews
Chamber of Commerce
E. Q. Stone
Wichita
U.S
New York
Hotel Plaza
Kansas
Chanute
Showers Forecast With Cooler Temperatures In Kansas
Partly cloudy with showers tonight and highs 70 to 80 in Kansas. A tornado funnel was seen near Eureka but did not touch ground. heavy rain fell at Eureka with little wind. Continues light rain in western and central areas. precipitation totals up to 2.05 inches reported in Council Grove.
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Topeka
Council Grove
Sedan
Winfield
Burlington
Lyons
Neosho Rapids
el Dorado
Arkansas City
Herington
Alta Vista
Concordia
Emporia
Eureka
Kas
Here
Pickwick Hotel Sold for 3 250 000 in Kansas City
New York investors led by real estate dealer Max Orda acquired the Pickwick Hotel and an adjoining office building on McGee Street between 9th and 10th in Kansas City for more than 3 250 000. Jake T. Schleifer announced the sale and said he would lease and manage the properties.
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Kansas City
Pickwick
New York
Jake T. Schleifer
Max Orda
Schleifer
Orda
McGee Street
Betwen
Worker Killed At Nes Oketo Bridge Near Marysville
A construction worker named Joe Zieons was killed today in an accident at the Nes Oketo bridge about eight miles north of Marysville.
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Marysville, Kas
Joe Zieons
Marysville
Mrs. Christmas of Thayer Killed in Highway Crash
Mrs Lloyd Christmas 45 of Thayer R 2 died after a 1951 Buick hit a bridge abutment on US 59 42 miles north of Parsons. Her husband injured, tracks show tire blowout caused loss of control. Survived by seven children and other relatives. funeral Friday at Engel Funeral Home Thayer.
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Parsons
Lloyd Christmas
Thayer, R. 2
Highway Patrol
Christmas
West Bridge
Gene Starr
Duane Simpson
Mrs. Christmas
Gray
Okla
Bert
Ollie Tood Freeman
Beaver
Thayer
Ollie Freeman
Engel
Kermit Lynch
Tulsa
Urbana Cemetery
Therapy Projects Busy At Southeast Kansas Tuberculosis Hospital
At the 75 bed Southeast Kansas TB Hospital in Chanute, 43 patients, 57 percent of the total, engage in occupational therapy including leather work weaving and ceramics. The program led by Sam Seseney and Mrs. Carl Wortman has produced a display of items and new books totaling 1500 donated to the patient library.
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Southeast Kansas Tuberculosis Hospital
Carl Wortman
Beavers
George Moerer
Neosho Falls
Thomas Skaggs
Chetopa
Charles Rogers
Galena
Louis Galindo
Pittsburg
Lewis Murdock
Coffeyville
Dave Chickadonz
Chanute
Tribune
New Southeast Kansas Tuberculosis Hospital
Roy A. Lawson
Lawson
Kansas
Sam Seseney
Sesenay
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City
Kas
Gideon Society
Chanute Kiwanis Club
Billy Coats
Kiwanis
J. Rolland Christenson v
Dale Fairchild
Paul Parsons
Forrest Steeves
Boys Gang Probed Over Juvenile Theft Ring
Police report a 15-year-old Chanute boy led a youth gang that charged a $1 membership fee and authorized theft of cigars cigarettes candy chips and even a billfold. Four youths are implicated two aged 15 and two aged 10 with the ringleader denying the group’s existence.
Boston Tea Party Reenactment Urges Budget Slashes
A Boston group of businessmen plans a staged Bos ton Tea Party next Monday to arouse public sentiment for cutting the federal budget.
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Boston
Fredonia Wins Judging Meet at State Contest
Fredonia High School captured the Agricultural Education Club Plaque at the 34th State High School Agriculture Judging and Farm Mechanics Contest in Manhattan Kansas. Coached by Norman Haigh the farm mechanics team finished first and the agriculture judging team finished third with Cherryvale winning the agriculture judging and Stockton second. Individual leaders included Freddie Markham Chanute Fred Eisele Fredonia and Merl Desmarteau Stockton in agriculture judging and Charles Harkness Ashland Carl Whitcomb Neodesha and Bob Crawshaw Fredonia in farm mechanics. Dean Edson Washburn Rural Topeka won the public speaking contest on farm safety.
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Manhattan
Kas
Fredonia High School
Agricultural Education Club
Norman Haigh
Farm Mechanics
Future Farmers of America
Cherryvale
Stockton
Neodesha
Yates Center
Freddie Markham
Chanute
Fred Eisele
Fredonia
Merl Desmarteau
Charles Harkness
Ashland
Carl Whitcomb
Bob Crawshaw
Dean Edson
Washburn Rural High School
Topeka
Tax on Hotel and Motel Rooms Expands in Kansas
Topeka reports a two percent sales tax on hotel and motel room rents effective today. The 1957 Legislature widened the state tax base to cover these lodging charges and also extended the levy to isolated auto sales and construction materials bought by contractors for public buildings including churches.
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Topeka
Kansas
Looter in Chanute burglaries arrested in Wichita
Wichita police and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation arrest 52 year old Ralph H Campbell a perfume salesman for burglarizing four Chanute homes since last July. Police say Campbell admitted looting 40 to 50 homes in Kansas and Oklahoma with a cache of clothing furs jewelry guns and cameras recovered from his apartment and basement storage. Victims include the Richman Corkle Elliott and Walters families. The total burglaries may exceed 100 and Campbell used obituary notices to time break ins.
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Wichita
Tom Morehead
Ralph H. Campbell
Kansas
Oklahoma
Richman
Corkle
Elliott
Walters
Morehead
Campbell
Chanute
Lee Montgomery
Mines
Campbells
Long
Flood Threats Ease Slightly In Texas Areas
In Gladewater the Sabine River flooded beyond banks with 13 flood deaths in 14 days. Oil wells paused as water rose. 11 families evacuated, 150 residents near a federal housing project warned. Highways and feeder roads remained blocked, but absence of rain eased strain on other Texas rivers.
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Dallas
Sabine
Gladewater
Texas
Earl Thomas
Colorado
Nueces
Guadalupe
Trinity
Brazos
Melvin Farrar
Texas Co
Federal Housing Project
State Highway Department
Federal Civil Defense
Welcome W. Wilson
Four Members Named To Health Board
Gov. George Docking named four new Democratic members to the State Board of Health for three year terms. The appointees are Walter F. Fraese of Hutchinson Dr. Theodore Young of Winfield Dr. Richard Nelson of Lawrence and Dr. A. A. Herman of Hays They replace six term expirations including Wilbur Murray H Penfield Jones H St Clair O Donnel and Dr George F Coffey.
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Topeka
George Docking
State Board of Health
Walter FE. Fraese
Hutchinson
Theodore Young
Winfield
Richard Nelson
Lawrence
A. A. Herman
Hays
Wilbur H. Murray
H. Penfield Jones
H. St. Clair O'Donnel
Ellsworth
George F. Coffey
Ulysses
Brazilton Boy Drowns After Pond Incident
In Girard Kansas 13 year old Lloyd Lallamond son of Mr and Mrs Leonard Lallamond of near Brazilton drowned after falling from a raft into 15 feet of water near a pond following eighth grade exams. He and 13 schoolmates were at the pond yesterday. The body was recovered.
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Girard, Kas
Lloyd Lallamond
Leonard Laallamond
Brazilton
Kansas Auto Insurance Rates Jump Across State
Higher automobile liability collision and comprehensive rates take effect in Kansas. Most firms under the National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters and National Automatic Underwriters Association raise premiums, with unmarried males under 25 seeing annual increases from 7 to 33 dollars and $5 000 personal injury coverage rising to 52 109 dollars depending on location.
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Topeka
Kansas
National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters
National Automobile Underwriters Assn
Frank Sullivan
Sullivan
Kansas City
Wichita
Lawrence
Leavenworth
Hutchinson
Coffeyville
Pittsburg
Olathe
Pope Honors Carl Weiner with Benemerenti Award
Evergreen oilman Carl Weiner of Chanute receives the Benemerenti award from Pope Pius for loyalty and service to the Catholic Church. Ceremony to be held in Wichita. Weiner, born 1877, helped develop local oil fields since 1903 and remains active with his son Carl Weiner II in oil projects.
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Carl Weiner
Evergreen
Pope Pius
Peter Finnegan
St. Patrick's Church
Weiner
Wichita
Mark K.carroll
St. Francis ‘of Assi
Chapel Hill
Perry County
Chanute
Carl Weiner II
Kansas
Edna Dietz
West Virginia
Carlol
Stephen
Gregory
St. Patrick's Parish School
Finnegan
Coffeyville
Weiner and
Europe
St. Peter's
Rome
Oberammagau
Germany
Readvertise for Bids On Pittsburg Buildings
The state re adverts for bids on three buildings at Pittsburg State College. Bids open May 8 for a men’s dormitory and two married student apartments. Previously bids were returned unopened after an attorney general ruling required sales tax on materials. A 1957 law effective today extends sales tax to materials bought for tax exempt buildings.
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Topeka
Pittsburg State College
Mishap Kills Father Son Hurt Hour Later
In Albuquerque a 29 year old man, Delfinio Gonzales, died when the truck he drove ran out of control and overturned. His 3 year old son, David Gonzales, unaware of the death, was struck by a car an hour later, receiving minor injuries.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Delfinio Gonzales
David Gonzales
Man Held After Threat Letter To President Eisenhower
64 year old ex convict Paul Woodward Brink told Newton officers he mailed a letter threatening President Eisenhower. Brink says he hurt his back in a fall at Leavenworth and has arthritis. he came to Newton after welfare denial in Wichita and previously lived in Arkansas City and worked as a printer at the Emporia Gazette. He was held for the FBI.
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Newton
Eisenhower
Weldon Morford
Paul Woodward Brink
Brink
Morford
Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary
Wichita
Arkansas City
Kas
Los Angeles
Emporia Gazette
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Nation wide alert system to notify in a minute
Ent Air Force Base launches a 24 hour leased wire system to alert civil defense directors in all 48 states within a minute. The new system will announce by voice and forego the old relay method that took 10 to 30 minutes.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Ent Air Force Base
Civil Defense
Traffic Fatalities Reported in Topeka Area
Kansas State Accident Records lists traffic fatalities in the Topeka area. In the past 24 hours the date in 1957 shows 165 deaths and the same period in 1956 records 192 fatalities.
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Topeka
Kansas
Farm Show Set to Open Tomorrow amid Weather Plans
The three day Spring Farm Show begins tomorrow with an 8 p.m. talent program at Memorial Auditorium, weather permitting. Park events, a tractor-trailer backing contest, merchant tents, and midway rides are set at City Park with the chamber of commerce sponsoring. The temporary Osa and Martin Johnson museum opens tomorrow at noon at Main and Highland.
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Memorial Auditorium
City Park
Chamber of Commerce
Speed Limit Starts Today
TOPEKA The State Highway Patrol began enforcement of the new speed limit law. Daytime limits are 70 mph for passenger cars, 60 mph at night. 60 mph for trucks under 5 000 pounds, 50 mph for trucks over 5 000 pounds, 60 mph for passenger buses, and 45 mph for school buses. Kansas Turnpike excluded for cars.
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Topeka
State Highway Patrol
Kansas Turnpike
Ex-Congressman Hillerson Named Acting Postmaster Kansas City
Jeffrey P. Hillerson, formerly a Republican member of the U S House, was sworn in as acting postmaster of Kansas City Kansas yesterday. He succeeds Alex F Sachs who resigned from the position.
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Kansas City
Jeffrey P. Hillerson
U.S. House
Alex F. Sachs
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