May Day Observances Across Nations Amid Tensions
May Day rallies and celebrations unfolded worldwide amid chilly tensions. In Moscow Premier Khrushchev attended a Lenin Prize ceremony while defense boasts covered the parade. West Berlin saw a large antiwar rally near the Reichstag as East Berliners protested nearby.
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Associated Press
Soviet Union
Red Square
Nikita Khrushchev
Rodion Malinovksy
Malinovsky
Socialist Soviet Union
Fense
Moscow Radio
Berlin
U.S
Walter Reuther
Free World
Heavenly Peace Square
Peiping
Peng Chen
Formosa
Quemoy
Matsus
Tokyo
Japan
United States
Viet Nam
Peru
Manuel Prado
Rome
John XXIII
Carpenter
Nazareth
Snorkaga
Marx
St Peter's
St. Peter's Square
Three Day Community Arts and Crafts Fair Opens Tonight
The Seventh Annual fair at Murray Hill auditorium opens this evening with Mrs. Don Abbueh winning the gold ribbon for her lead sculpture Christopher. Robert Blunk named Alan Denney as judge. prizes awarded in adult divisions include Cresent Owens in watercolors and Sue Downs in wood sculpture.
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Don Abbueh
Murray Hill
Robert Blunk
Christopher
Alan Denney
Studio Cards
Hallmark Cards
Kansas City
Cresent Owens
Black Hills Summer Cabin
Richard Good
Sue Downs
Lillian Grimes
W. T. Warren Jr
John Ferguson
Hans Herold
Blunk
Royster Junior High
Glenn Peak
Lie Detector Test Planned for Chanute Youth
A Chanute teenager faced a lie detector test after allegedly admitting to discussing a burglary involving a B F Goodrich store safe. Police said about 260 dollars was taken, the safe abandoned damaged in Kansas City, with no direct evidence of the boy’s participation. A Kansas Bureau of Investigation polygraph expert was to administer the test.
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B. F Goodrich
Firs
Kansas City
Chanute Boy
Kansas Bureau of Investigaion
Burns From Charcoal Fire Put Woman In Critical Condition
A Hoisington woman, Mrs Elton Brown, 43, is in critical condition in Great Bend after severe burns from starting a backyard charcoal fire. She poured gasoline on the coal to restart the fire, causing a flare that engulfed her clothing and led to third degree burns over about 30 percent of her body.
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Great Bend
Woman Pedestrian Killed at Hiawatha
Mrs. Sarah Irene Vaughn 57 died after stepping in front of a car on U S 36 while carrying her 19 month old granddaughter. The child was unharmed and under hospital observation. Driver Robert A Tillotson 36 of Colorado Springs was identified by police.
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Hiawatha
Kan
Sarah Irene Vaughn
U. S
Hiawatha Hospital
Well-Drilling Rig Contact Fatal in Sylvia
Claude F Price of Hutchinson, 50, died after the steel drilling rig boom touched a 7,200 volt power line. He suffered severe burns to his arms hands feet and legs in the incident last night.
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Sylvia
Kas
Claude F Price
Hutchinson
Coop Buys Big Chief Mfg Co in Hutchinson
The Consumers Cooperative Association of Kansas City has purchased Big Chief Manufacturing Company of Hutchinson. The plant employs 35 people in making steel buildings used for grain storage and similar purposes.
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Hutchinson
Consumers Cooperative Assn. of
Kansas City
Big Chief Mfg. Co
Four Mice Set for Space Flight from Vandenberg
Four black mice will ride in a life package capsule on Discoverer III to test survival in orbit and re entry. The mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base aims to prove a living creature can leave Earth and return alive, with Hawaii search planes and radio beacons tracking the capsule.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Earth
West Coast
Holloman Air Force Base
N.M
Air Force
Pacific
Boy Banned Father Shoots Bus Driver in Illinois Incident
In McHenry Illinois a father angry over his seven year old son being barred from a school bus halted the bus and fired at driver Victor A Hopp 26 as 25 children watched The assailant Joseph DiMaggio 49 then fought with Hopp before two older students separated them Hopp survived with shoulder wound DiMaggio held on 5000 bond on assault with intent to murder charges?
Pittsburg Water Plant Converts To Water Sales
Pittsburg Kansas municipal water plant will sell only water after the steam heating plant serving homes and businesses for about 50 years was shut down last night.
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Pittsburg
Salk Says Polio May Be Controlled by Killed Vaccine
Dr. Jonas E. Salk reports three year results of polio vaccine use indicate naraiytic polio may be controlled with proper use of a killed virus vaccine.
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Pittsburgh, Pa
Jonas E. Salk
First Aid Course Offered by Red Cross
The Neosho County Red Cross chapter will offer a standard first aid course starting May 14. Mrs. Kenneth Tebow, first aid chairman, said enrollment is through the Red Cross office at the Memorial Building. Classes meet at 7 30 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays with Mrs. Barbara Hugill as instructor.
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Neosho County
Red Cross
Kenneth Tebow
Memorial Building
Barbara Hugill
Observer attends ABC hearings amid staff dispute
Topeka AP A short staffed Alcoholic Beverage Control office faced a dispute as Gov Docking blocked the nomination of J Richard Foth as assistant attorney general. Assistant Hoffmann attended hearings as an observer while three new retail liquor licenses were approved for Schafer of Dodge City Bridges of Arkansas City and Jane Dehner of Topeka.
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Topeka
Alcoholic Beverage Control Office
Atty
John Anderson
Istate
Robert Hoffman
ABC Legal
George Docking
Anderson
J. Richard Foth
Eugene Davis
ABC
William Murphy
Murphy
John Schafer
Dodge City
J. W. Bridges
Arkansas City
Jane Elizabeth Dehner
Mrs. Luce Quits Brazil Ambassadorship After Row With Morse
Washington dispatch reports Clare Boothe Luce resigns as ambassador to Brazil following a public clash with Sen. Wayne Morse. In her letter to President Eisenhower she cites a poisoned climate and “ugly charges” against her. Morse’s opposition to her appointment is noted, with the White House confirming the resignation.
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Washington
Clare Boothe Luce
Brazil
Wayne Morse
Dore
Eisenhower
White House
Luce
James C. Hagerty
Sen. Mors
Senate
Morse
Uprvest Ly
New York
Mose
United States
Federation of Blind Meets Here Tomorrow
About 30 persons are expected to attend a Kansas Federation of the Blind meeting at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall 27 W Main. The program opens at 2 pm with dinner at 6 pm. W C Markley state employment manager will speak. James Ward is president. attendees include Lowell F E Holland and Chanute welfare counselor is also listed.
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Kansas Federation of the Blind
Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall
W. Main
VFW
W. C. Markley
James Ward
Independ
Lowell FE. Holland
Chanute
Senator Capehart Demands Censure Over Luce Controversy
Senator Homer Capehart said he will urge a Senate censure of Senator Wayne Morse for his conduct during Clare Boothe Luce’s ambassador nomination fight. Luce’s resignation as ambassador to Brazil drew mixed reactions with some lawmakers praising the decision and others lamenting the process.
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Washington
Homer Capehart
R-Ind
Senate
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Clare Boothe Luce
Brazil
Capehart
Morse
Porch Tot Found Dead Under Lamppost in Buffalo
Police recovered blood spattered clothing from the home of a S year old girl after Sharon Crossman was found dead beneath a porch two days after her disappearance from a second floor bedroom. Investigators consider beating a possibility. no sexual assault evidence.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Sharon Crossman
Sharon
Robert Crossman
Eleanor
Spending Spree Charged of AF
A GAO report to Congress accuses the Air Force of overspending on the United States Air Force Academy project at Colorado Springs Colorado. It says authorized 139 million dollars has become 269 million with 72 million more projected, while some facilities may never be built and approvals were not always informed to Congress.
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Wea Constructors
Paola
RK. J. Hayes
9Th
Katy
Wea
Hayes
Jarvis Construction
Salina
Washington
Congress
Air Force
General Accounting Office
Agency For Congress
Colorado Springs
Colo
GAO
Secretary of the Air Force
Godfrey Told Cancer Tumor Was Cancerous in Good Spirit
AP reports Arthur Godfrey was informed the chest tumor removed Thursday was cancerous. He is in good spirits in the Harkness Pavilion after a five hour operation with satisfactory postoperative recovery. Doctors say the malignancy may have been fully removed.
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Godfrey
New York
Arthur Godfrey
Harkness Pavilion
Broadcasting Star
Mary
Leo de Orsey
Thomas R. Jackson
Leesburg, Va
de Orsey
Churchill rests at Chartwell before U S trip
Sir Winston Churchill, age 84, is resting at Chartwell in Kent ahead of a Monday departure for Washington to meet President Eisenhower. A spokesman said there is nothing wrong with him but the trip will be arduous and he should rest first.
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London
Winston Churchill
Washington
Eisenhower
Chartwell
Kent
Churchill
Warm Humid Area Forecast Ahead For Kansas
The report notes near 90 degree warmth in Kansas with record April 30 high of 90 in Topeka and 91 in Wichita. Forecast calls for cooler weather and possible storms moving into northwestern Kansas. Increasing humidity is expected today across the region.
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Topeka
Kansas
Wichita
Goodland
Weather Bureau
Kansas Traffic Fatalities Reported by State Records
Topeka AP reports the State Accident Records Section lists fatalities from the last 24 hours ending 9 am today. The year to date for 1959 shows 140 deaths versus 142 in the comparable period of 1958.
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Topeka
Kansas
Family of Three Found Dead in Columbus Home
AP reports in Columbus Ohio that Robert Burton 18 Sophia 16 and their 4 month old daughter Judy were found dead in their apartment from gas asphyxiation. Police say gas from a heater caused the deaths and that the gas was shut off Thursday morning for nonpayment. The bodies were found Wednesday night after the shutoff.
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Columbus, Ohio
Robert Burton
Sophia
Judy
Utilty Company
FFA Sends Chanute Chapter to National Land Judging Contest
Four Chanute FFA members plus advisor Charles Carter and John Gorton attend the National Land Judging Contest at the state fairgrounds in Oklahoma City yesterday and today. They compete for 1430 in national and regional prizes with a top national team prize of 200 for the team and 40 for the individual champion. Chanute participants include FP Triplett Neil Gray Carl Hine and Glen Swiler.
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Chanute
Future Farmers of America
Charles Carter
John Gorton
State Fairgrounds
FP Triplett
Neil Gray
Carl Hine
Ard Glen Swiler
FFA
Rlsand International
Maynor Pete
Oklahoma City
Hit and Run Collision Reported to Police
Two noninjury accidents were logged by police yesterday including a hit and run. A Plymouth driven by Evert L Lindquist struck at 4th and Lincoln around 4:30 p.m. The other crash involved a 1955 Volkswagen driven by Jim Morris and a pickup driven by Ro Bailey at 2nd and Highland, causing front end and fender damage. An unidentified vehicle was also reported to have run over an intersection damaging a stop sign at Ord and Plummer Wednesday night.
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Plymouth
Evert
L. Lindquist
R. I
Lincoln
Lindquist
Volkswagen
Jim Morris
S. Plummer
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Linda
L. K. Spielman
S. Evergreen
Tribune
Salk
Lee Wasser
Federation of Blind
Capitol
Frank Church
Idaho
Pat McNamara
D-Mich
McNamara
Tot
Stemdy
Hone
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