Self service cafe frontier claimed by visiting lawyer
D. Hampson, a Fredonia lawyer, told Chanute Rotary members about starting a self service cafe in Chanute on a 1912 or 1913 visit. He described entering a Harvey House station counter and helping himself as a boy, amid other recollections from local figures and a baseball goodwill mission by Connie Mack Ill of the Kansas City Athletics. The talk also covered baseballs production trivia and equipment details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. D. Hampson
Fredonia
Chanute
Rotary Club
Harvey House
Hampson
Harvey Houses
Connie Mack Ill
Kansas City Athletics
A's
Country Club Plaza
Cool Front Signals Cooler Weather Across Kansas
A cool front drifting across Kansas brings 40s in the northeast and 60s in the southwest. Forecasters expect cooler conditions tonight and Friday with lows in the 30s northwest and highs in the 50s southeast. Occasional rain planned in the northwest and extreme north, with Friday turning partly cloudy. Yesterday’s highs ranged from 65 Topeka to 80 Garden City. lows from 43 Goodland to 53 Dodge City, Garden City and Hill City.
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Topeka
Kansas
Garden City
Goodland
Dodge City
Hill City
U N Secretary General Reports Progress in Mideast
U N Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold told the Security Council that new unconditional cease fire agreements from Israel and Egypt Lebanon Syria and Jordan are forthcoming. He said the next step is full compliance with other sections of the 1949 armistice accords ending the Palestine fighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations, N. Y
W— U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Israel
Egypt
Lebanon
Syria
Jordan
Council
Middle East
Palestine
Judo Strain Triggers Detroit Divorce Suit
Barbara Clark files for divorce from Walter Clark saying his judo hobby disrupted life. She alleges he grappled with guests, throwing them to the floor and driving friends away. The filing cites repeated incidents and seeks legal relief.
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Detroit
Barbara Clark
Walter
Sievers Highlights Farm Bureau Ties For Area Growth
Sievers President of the Chanute Chamber of Commerce outlined the chamber's agricultural focus and its role in community development at a Neosho County Farm Bureau meeting. He stressed joint understanding between groups to foster industrial growth and job creation, with a chart of chamber organization shown.
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ERIE
Clarence Sievers
Chanute Chamber of ‘Commerce
Neosho County Farm Bureau
Bureau
Chamber of Farm Bureau
Bureau of Chamber
Sievers
Hall Maintains Right to Work Stance During Kansas Tour
Gov. Fred Hall reaffirms his unchanged position on the right to work as he tours southeast Kansas. He plans to attend a National Gridiron Press Club meeting in Washington and has yet to respond to the Right to Work organization’s invitation. The trip includes a stop in Chanute for a luncheon at the Tioga Hotel with about 100 attendees, plus planned visits to Humboldt and Lola. He also discusses Kansas finances, says state spending exceeds tax revenue since 1947, and plans an inspection of a new tuberculosis hospital nearing completion.
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Fred Hall
Hall
Lyons
Washington, D. C
National Gridiron Press Club
Chanute
Pittsburg
Tioga Hotel
Kansas
Humboldt
Lola
Woman Driver Held For Attempted Murder In New Orleans
Police charged 33 year old Beatrice P Adams with attempted murder after witnesses said she deliberately hit Mack Jernigan with his car two or three times as he tried to enter a parked vehicle. A bystander mechanic stopped the car by lifting the hood and pulling wires.
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New Orleans
Beatrice P. Adams
Mack Jernigan
Charity Hospital
Lon Couste
Mother-in-Law Trouble for Sonja Henie's Husband
Winthrop Gardner Jr testified in a divorce action that his marriage to skating star Sonja Henie from 1949 to 1953 had only two weeks of living together alone. He said her mother was with her most of the time, making reconciliation unlikely.
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West Palm Beach
Flair
Sonja Henie
Winthrop Gardner Jr
Miss Henie
Driver Posts Bond After DUI Incident in Ananute
Earl Loyeau of 311 North Franklin was detained on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated after his car veered off the road while arriving in Ananute around 9 am. He posted bond of $125 and was released. Police report details show the sequence near Erie and West Main streets with brief stops along the route and plans for a luncheon and tree visit.
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Earl] Loyeau
Thayer
Morehead
Russia Demands Repatriation of Tuapse Seamen
Moscow reports demand repatriation of four Tuapse crew members still in the United States and backs the return of five others. State Department notes and Soviet replies describe expulsions of two U N delegates and defense of U N officials during the 1954 seizure incident.
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Moscow
Russia
United States
U. N
U. S. State Department
U.S
U. S
Aleksandr Guryanov
Nikolai Turkin
New York
Arkady Sobolev
Sobolev
Body of Senator Barkley Returns Home to Paducah
The bronze casket bearing white carnation cross arrives in Paducah on a special 10 car train from Washington. Marines and a Paducah National Guard honor guard stand watch as mourners, including Mr. and Mrs. David Barkley and family, gather for funeral services. Stores close early as the community salutes the elder statesman and wit.
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Paducah
Alben W. Barkley
Eisenhower
David Barkley
Barkley
William Evans
Broadway Methodist Church
Washington
Warren Shaw to Visit Neosho County May 25
Warren Shaw, Republican candidate for governor, plans a visit to Neosho County on May 25. His Topeka headquarters informed local Republican leaders about the schedule.
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Neosho County
Warren Shaw
Topeka
Shaw
Garden City Telegram Tests Its Want Ads Slogan
The Garden City Kansas Telegram runs a severe test of its Want ads slogan stating immediate opening in an important southwest Kansas area for rain. No experience required. Beginning may be small if assurance of continued performance is offered. Job will pay big dividends in town and country. Delays harm dispositions and income. If interested, do not send qualifications just start raining. For further information see any southwest Kansas.
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Garden City
Kan
Telegram
Kansas
Two Non Injury Crashes Reported to Police
Police headquarters logged two non injury motor vehicle accidents. One at Main and Plummer around 8 am involved Maurice D. Stryker Fre donia and James M. Evans 421 S Ash. front bumper damage on a jeep driven by Larry Wilson Jr 198 Forest and a car driven by George L Barham Earlton at Elm and Highland on Tuesday afternoon.
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Maurice D. Stryker
Fredonia
James M. Evans
S. Ashby
Main
Plummer
Larry Wilson Jr
Forest
George L. Barham
R. J. Earlton
Elm and
Highland
Traffic Fatalities in Kansas State Records
Traffic fatalities listed by the state accident records section show 0 in the last 24 hours and 186 to date in 1956, compared with 178 in the same period of 1955.
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Topeka
Kansas
Defense Funds of 33.6 Billion Approved by House Panel
The House Appropriations Committee voted to provide the Defense Department 33.635 billion dollars for the next fiscal year, a reduction mainly from administrative changes but with no cut to key military programs. The plan expects 2.865 million personnel in mid-1957 and allocates 276.3 million for foreign currency under defense and occupation treaties. It also funds a 40 million dollar Army Reserve training facility and National Guard armories, listing specific construction in Chetopa Coffeyville Girard Great Bend Independence Lawrence Manhattan and other cities.
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Washington
Russia
House Appropriations Committee
Defense Department
Congress
House
Senate
Army
Uncle Sam
Kansas
Chetopa
Coffeyville
Girard
Great Bend
Independence
Lawrence
Manhattan
Four Airmen Killed In Nebraska Crash
A Lincoln Air Force Base B47 Stratojet bomber crashed ten miles northwest of Lincoln. Four bodies were recovered and names were withheld. The aircraft typically carries three or four crewmen. The incident followed another fatal B47 crash near Lincoln on April 6, with witnesses reporting an explosion either on impact or in midair.
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Lincoln
Neb
Lincoln Air Force Base
Reward Paid by Kansas Bankers for Cheney Bank Robbery Suspect
A total of 500 dollars in rewards was paid by the Kansas Bankers Assn for the apprehension and conviction of Floyd Shobe in the March 19 Citizens State Bank robbery at Cheney. The payments went to Edward Roembach assistant cashier William Brown a customer who pursued Shobe and the Kansas Highway Patrol pension fund in recognition of Patrolman Richard Roberts who arrested Shobe.
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Topekap
Floyd Shobe
Citizens State Bank
Cheney
Kansas Bankers Assn
Edward Roembach
Cheney Institution
William Brown
Shobe
Kansas Highway Patrol Pension Fund
Richard Roberts
State Highway Commission approves 1.17 million in bids for southeast Kansas
The Kansas State Highway Commission approved bids totaling 1,170,000 for highways in 15 counties. Projects include new US 5 alignment north of Woodson Wilson, 11 miles on K4, and multiple sealings on K39 K47 and K96 with bidders Free to Construction Co., Anderson & Oxandale Rock Co., and John McAdam among others.
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Kansas
State Highway Commission
Woodson-Wilson County
Anderson & Oxandale Rock Co
Herington
Freeto Construction Co
Pittsburg
Chanute
Wilson County
Freeto
Fredonia
Altoona
Greenwood County
Elsmore
John
McAdam
Moran
Joe O'Brien
St. Paul
Cherokee County
Fort Scott
Severy
Week's Polio Cases Drop From Last Year
Washington AP reports seventy four new polio cases last week, just over half of the 146 recorded in the same week in 1955, with officials noting a sharp decline and ongoing public health vigilance.
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Washington
Beach Named To High Post In White Shrine Of Jeru salem
Don C Beach a Kansas civic leader was elected Supreme Associate Watchman of the White Shrine of Jerusalem at the Supreme Shrine meeting in Cleveland on May 13. He is the first Kansan to hold the high international post and has long served in Shrine offices from Bethany Shrine No. 1 Neodesha to Golden Shrine No. 8 Chanute. Attendees included Mrs Beach and several Shrine members from Chanute Parsons Yates Center and Eric. A separate Washington note reports House voted 181 to 157 against President Eisenhower's request to authorize up to 500 million dollars in farm soil bank payments this year with a party line split. The vote leaves final passage to a roll call. Republican leaders oppose the prepayment as election-year politics. An amendment to aid cattlemen with grazing land payments was approved by voice vote. The corn price support was confirmed at 1.25 per bushel with soil bank participation.
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Don C. Beach
Shepherds
Order of the White Shrine of
Jerusalem
Supreme Shrine
Cleveland
Beach
Bethany Shrine No. 1
Neodesha
Golden Shrine No. 8
Chanute
Cedar Lodge
Sunflower Chapter
OBS
Washington P
House
Eutell
Isenhower
Rayburn
Texas
Eisenhower
Rep
Hope
Secretary of Agriculture
Benson
Albert
D-Okla
Bate
GOP
Halleck
Indiana
Peage
Mrs. Grannemann Resigns Neosho County Agent Post
Erie Mrs Marguerite Grannemann Neosho County home demonstration agent since March 1955 has resigned for health reasons effective May 22 The program has grown under her direction and the advisory council and Mrs Grannemann contributed to many projects She and her husband own a 480 acre farm east of Walnut
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Erie
Marguerite Grannemann
Neosho County
Home Economics Advisory Council
Grannemann
Walnut
Wichita Man Killed In Fall From Ladder
James D. Gilkey 36 died after falling 17 feet from a ladder onto a concrete floor while repairing an electric sign. He was shop foreman for a truck sales company. Fellow worker James I. Long attempted to intervene as Gilkey plunged, but could not prevent the fatal impact.
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James D. Gilkey
Wichita
Gilkey
James I. Long
Husband Convicted in Wife's 22-Year Missing Case
James V. Alexander, 48, is found guilty of second degree murder in the death of his second wife Barbara, 24. Her body was dug from the basement floor of Alexander's home nearly 22 years after she disappeared. He faces 20 years to life in prison. The Casper, Wyoming, former schoolteacher appeared stunned as Judge Sam Thompson read the verdict after a 15 day trial.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
James V. Alexander
Barbara
Alexander
Casper
Sam Thompson
Eighth grade commencement speaker to address 74 graduates
Dr. Robert R. Noble of Pittsburg State College will speak at the county eighth grade commencement at 8 p.m. May 11 in the Cha nu te Senior High auditorium. Mrs. Nelle H. Stevens announces 74 graduates and will present diplomas. Music includes a Roy Marks trumpet solo, Stark grade school mixed chorus, Accordionaires from Parsons, and processionals by Mrs. L Debus. Rev. Jim Lundell gives invocation and benediction.
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Erie
Robert R. Noble
Pittsburg State College
Chanute
Nelle H. Stevens
Whooping Crane Egg Big News in Zoo
In New Orleans Josephine laid an egg marking the first captive breeding for whooping cranes. Audubon Park superintendent George Douglass said the pair Josephine and Crip are among only 28 remaining cranes in the world and the event proves captivity breeding is possible. A second egg followed as a photographer waited.
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New Orleans
Josephine
Zoological World
George Douglass
Audubon Park
Douglass
Eisenhower to speak at Baylor University commencement
President Eisenhower will deliver an address on important phases of international affairs at Baylor University during the commencement exercises on May 25. The speech will address global issues and U.S. policy as part of the university ceremony.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Baylor University
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Hans Herold
Jester
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Raymond Pierpont
Wilbur Thompson
A. F. Leverenz
Wedeentay
Nes Indica
U.N
Mideast
Tribune
Farm Bureau
William A. Sailors
R. J. Erie
Harry Kennedy
County Farm Bureau
Wayne Taylor
Chanute Chamber
James R. Sheridan
Chanute District
Robert N. Allen
Wilfrid Cavaness
W. T. Blackwood
Buffalo
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Sonja
Sen. Barkley
Garden City Telegram
House Group
Nebraska
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Golden Shrine
Shelton D. Propst
0. W. Bray
Norman Cooley
Parsons
Lester Sheppard
Eric
Aaron Stockebrand
Yates Center
Leonard A. Scheele
Alexander D. Langmuir
Atlanta
Langmuire
Scheele
Langmuir
Neosho HD
Dr. Noble
Pittsburg State
Neosho
Donnie Aikens
Barbara Jean Allen
Wendell Lee Allen
Martha Sue Angleton
Donald Eugene Baker
Glenn Marie Baker
Harrold Everett Barnhart
Elmer Leon Briley
Joe DeWayne Brooks
Sharon Kay Bussman
Connie Elaine Carlson
Marjorie Lou Chase
Margaret Rose Clines
Katherine Rae Cooper
Carl LeRoy Cox
Nancy B. Defenbaugh
Lowell Kenneth DeVore
Phil Stanley Dryden
Carol Ferguson
Karen Fergusson
Jerold Dan Fox
Donald Eugene Garst
Bernard Vincent Hansen
Jarold Wesley Henry
Philip Roger Isom
Ira E. James
Jimmy Gene LaRue
Beverly Jean Martin
Michael .Martin
Herbert Matlock Jr
Jeannette
Isabelle Milroy
Gary Don Mitchell
Dale Herbert Moore
Car Jole
Lucille Morris
Marian Sue
Lela Pearl Tubbs
Danny Warren Wade
Ralph Henry West
Charles Richard Wheatley
Thomas Patrick Wheatley
Danny Ray Whitworth
Jeannette Carol White
Lester Lee Witt
Gary Charles Winans
Max Eugene Wood
Loretta May Wort
Connie Sue Wright
Sharon Louise Young
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