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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1956
Page
7
Carol Wiles a sophomore and daughter of Everett Wiles performed Minuet by Ravel for students and faculty at Ottawa University. The public is invited to a Galesburg Public Schools open house Friday at 7 30 pm with student displays and refreshments by the Community Club.
Benedict Consolidated Schools schedule events for May including baccalaureate at 8 pm May 13 with Rev. Loren Shaffer preaching, commencement at 8 pm May 16 with Emmet Eklund Bethany College addressing on The Excitement of Growth. Junior senior dinner Saturday at 7 pm and Senior Night May 15. Graduation candidates listed for high school and eighth grade. Also a statistic notes home ownership at about 60 percent versus 40 percent fifteen years ago.
Mary Ann Truster 28 mother of Burt J. Truster died at her Parsons home after extended illness. She was born January 29 1868 in Virden Illinois and married Frederick J. Truster in 1889. Funeral at First Methodist Parsons with burial at Memorial Lawn. Maud E Vint 77 a Parsons resident formerly of Chanute died in Mercy Hospital Parsons after three years illness. She was born in Douglass and married twice, survived by three sons and a daughter. Funeral services set for Carson Funeral Home Parsons with chapel memorial at Chanute Memorial Park cemetery.
Topeka man Adam Degan kept a 10 cent refund check from 1945 that was flooded and faded. After receiving a new government notice to cash it, he turned it over to the Veterans of Foreign Wars office, which cashed it and sent it back to the government. The piece ends noting there are over 60 million beef cattle in the United States.
Washington reports White House aides press former New York Governor Thomas F Dewey and Kentucky Ambassador John Sherman Cooper to run for the Senate. Eisenhower associates have floated Dewey as a potential candidate if Taft wing GOP support is assured.
Judge Clark Wallace of the Kansas 24th district told the Wichita Bar Association that photographs in court cause no disturbance. He recalled a Pratt hearing and opposed rules banning newspaper and television cameras during hearings.
A quotation stresses that lawyers should cultivate better relations with newspapers, describing it as the oldest means of communication. The remark highlights the role of media in legal and public affairs.
Neodesha city commission adopts ordinance requiring health certificates for all food handlers selling food or beverages not in sealed containers. The measure likely affects all employees of restaurants meat markets and food stores. An ambulance en route to Allen County Hospital stopped at a LaHarpe service station to witness the birth of a son to George Moerer and his wife. Mrs. Moerer formerly lived in Neodesha. Mother and child reported doing well. Bud Butler named manager of Iola Edminston's store in Chanute assignment.
Excerpt describes John Lawrence resigning about a month ago after sale to W. M. Michaelis. Melvin Belcher of Nevada Missouri led initial operations in Iola and also managed Chanute store. Butler continues as traveling salesman.
In San Marino California the Sobieskis run as a political couple with John Sobieski seeking Congress while his wife campaigns for the California Assembly. They aim to emulate the Neubergers of Oregon who swept a Senate seat and a state representative post. Both couples are Democrats seeking high offices.
Oklahoma City police chief Roy Bergman announced the firing of two veteran officers after a drinking incident at a tavern led to a shooting. Officers R. D. McGuire and R. E. Albee were terminated following the incident that left tavern owner Edwards, 42, wounded.
About 50 Scout officials and lay leaders in Emporia discussed plans to raise 488000 dollars for seven Boy Scout councils in Kansas.
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