Cat and two orphan rabbits fear for their future in South Coffeyville
Desk sergeant John Young warns that the motherly Cali co cat and her three kittens, photographed with two orphan rabbits, may face danger as the rabbits acquire a wild scent. He recalls a Missouri farm tale where a mother cat killed a adopted bunny when scent emerged. Tomorrow is last day for baseball excursion train reservations to Kansas City for a May 20 game between the Kansas City A's and the New York Yankees.
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Calico
South Coffeyville
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Kansas
Kansas City A's
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Milk Inspections Debated by Kansas Committee
TOPEKA The Agriculture Committee of the Kansas Legislative Council heard views from city milk sanitarians and dairy farmers on local milk inspection fees. The panel concluded there is duplication in inspections and is studying the impact of fees on milk distribution economics.
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Topeka
Agriculture Committee
Kansas Legislative Council
Traffic Fatalities in Topeka Area Report 1956 Count
Kansas state accident records show 2 traffic fatalities in the last 24 hours and 188 to date in 1956, including one earlier death not previously reported. The figures compare with 18 in the same period of 1955.
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Topeka
Kansas
Navy to establish training command in Omaha
The Navy announced a new training command will be based in Omaha Nebraska to supervise reserve activities across the United States.
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Washington
Navy Today
Omaha
Neb
Little Walnut Girl Wins Ted Mack Amateur Show
Kathleen McClung of Little Walnut won the nationally televised Ted Mack Amateur Show in Kansas City and will appear on the New York program this week. The 10 year old and her parents will travel to New York by plane tomorrow with possible return later, and a third win could lead to a grand finals in Madison Square Garden. Votes are by telephone and mail. The New York show airs live on channel 9 at 7 p.m. local time.
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Walnut
Kathleen McClung
Kansas
McClungs
Kathleen
Kansas City
Gram
New York City
Clell L. McClung
New York
Madison Square Garden
McClung
Channel 9
Little Girl Killed After Bus Stop Incident
In Kansas City Kansas P Eloise Wray, a Johnson County girl aged years, was struck and killed after stepping from a school bus. Driver Mrs Edna Littleton 54 Overland Park stated her car skidded while trying to stop and struck the girl as it passed the bus on the right side. The vehicle halted 25 feet beyond after snapping a telephone pole.
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Kansas City
Kas
Eloise Wray
Johnson County
Kansas Highway Patrol
Edna Littleton
Overland
Wray
Iola Guard Building Bids Rejected in Kansas
Topeka reports bids for a National Guard vehicle maintenance shop in Iola exceeded the federal limit of 20 000 dollars causing rejection. Maj. Gen. Joe Nickell says plans will be redrawn and resubmitted while the Iola building remains the first of ten similar structures funded by federal money.
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Topeka
National Guard
Iola
Joe Nickell
Kansas
Line Up for Surgery
The Joseph Sullivans of Pueblo Colo have five children Joseph 11 Kathleen 9 Michael 7 James 5 and John 3 who all lost their tonsils in the same day at St Mary Hospital yesterday in sequence.
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Pueblo
Colo
Joseph Sullivans
Joseph
Kathleen
Michael
James
John
St. Mary Hospital
Blame Drinking Drivers For Accident Increase
Kansas car crash toll rises with 18 775 accidents from July 1955 to April 1956. 8 019 injured and 464 killed, versus 17 036 crashes, 7 296 injuries and 474 deaths the year before. Officials cite 583 obviously drunk, 305 impaired, 319 drinking but possibly unimpaired, and 571 drinking with unknown impairment.
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Claud McCamment
Army Announces 13,000 Draft Call for July
The Army today issued a draft call for 13,000 men in July, 1,000 more than the previously announced quotas for May and June. None of the other services is now using the draft.
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Washington
Army
Farm Bill Heads to Senate After House Vote
The new farm bill clears the House 314 to 78 with crucial soil bank pay authority approved at 1.2 billion dollars annually, while Eisenhower’s advance pay proposal fails 211 to 184, amid partisan critique as a political maneuver. Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas members split along party lines on the soil bank measure.
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Two Missing Boys Found Alive in Mine Near Tarentum
Two high school students who vanished while playing hockey were found alive today about 2000 feet underground in an old coal mine near Tarentum Pennsylvania. They surfaced with no injuries after disappearing yesterday.
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Tarentum
Negotiations Fail in East West Disarmament Talks
London and Western powers announced failure of the latest disarmament talks with the East. They stated belief that agreement with Soviet Russia remains possible despite the setback.
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London
Russia
Kansan Named Omaha Model? Regional Farm Loan Directors Named
Merton H. Heck man of Hays Kansas and Clifford Thomas of Stillwater Oklahoma were among eight regional directors elected yesterday by the Federation of National Farm Loan Associations.
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Omaha
Merton H. Heckman
Hays, Kas
Clifford Thomas
Stillwater, Okla
Federation of National Farm Loan Assn.s
Hall Says State Has Financial Problem But Not Critical
Gov. Fred Hall told area Republicans at a Tioga Hotel luncheon that Kansas faces a financial problem but not a crisis. He defended the veto of the right to work bill, warned against Democratic exploitation, and cited rising education costs and postwar program funding as keys shaping the budget. He noted 167 fewer state employees since taking office and urged focus on penal, highway, and health reform.
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Fred Hall
Tioga Hotel
Kansas
Kansans
United States
Lyons
Washington, D. C
Ed F. Peterson
Oppon
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Warren Shaw
Hugh T. Jones
State Highway ‘Commission
Electronic Brain Outpaces Abacus In Fast Calculations
An IBM data processing center showcases rapid arithmetic with division in two thousandths of a second and multiplication in 800 millionths. The Giant Brain 705 can memorize Gone With The Wind in three minutes and output it on magnetic tape in another three. A Tennison notes a brain capable of dividing a.
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San Francisco
NCAP
Japan
China
Charge Dropped in Forgery Case of Young Johnson County Man
Nineteen year old Charles Patterson Jr. of Johnson County appeared in Magistrate Court on forgery charges. The case was dismissed after authorities found that Patterson could not write his own name.
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Clathe, Kas
Charles Patterson Jr
Johnson County
Patterson
Forecast Sees Showers Through Saturday Across Kansas
Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected tonight and tomorrow across eastern and central Kansas with slightly warmer norms. Lows will be upper 40s, highs will reach 60s in the north and 70s in the south, with a five day outlook near normal and rainfall totaling about .50 to .75 inches.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Richard Garrett
Eisenhower Urges Broad View of U S Air Power
President Eisenhower said the United States has a powerful navy and air arm, noting the strength is often overlooked in comparing with the Soviet Union. He argued focus should broaden beyond ground power and bomber production, as SAC leaders warned U S bomber output lags Russia’s. He testified that Russia may surpass the U S in intercontinental bombers by 1958 to 1960.
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Russia
Curtis LeMay
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Wilson
U. S
LeMay
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