Car Retailers Face Profitless Prosperity Amid Slumping Sales
The AP reports that Detroit's big three GM Ford and Chrysler expect modest profits this year while American Motors and Studebaker Packard remain loss making. Thousands of dealers nationwide also lose money as spring demand stalls after last year’s record output and aggressive discounts.
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David J. Wilkie
Detroit
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
American Motors
Studebaker-Packard
Columbus Woman Heads Kansas PEO
Mrs. George R. Field of Columbus was elected president of the Kansas State Chapter of PEO at the 54th annual convention. New officers include Mrs. Norman Grove, Mrs. R. L. Steinheimer, Mrs. C. E. Long, Mrs. E. J. Rie dell, Mrs. J. R. Wonder, and Mrs. David Glotfelty. The 1957 convention will be held in Emporia.
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Wichita
George R. Field
Columbus
Kansas State
P.E.O
Helen F. Evers
Winfield
Norman Grove
Larned
R. L. Steinheimer
Hutchinson
C. E. Long
Norton
E. J. Riedell
Salina
J. R. Wonder
Manhattan
David Glotfelty
Emporia
Parsons Student Wins $800 BPW Scholarship
Parsons High School senior Sandra Lee Dye won an $800 Kansas Business and Professional Women’s Club scholarship. Kansas City state president Alice Helm said it can be used at any Kansas college or university, though Dye plans to enroll at Pittsburg State College next fall to study mathematics.
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Kansas City
Kas
Saundra Lee Dye
Parsons High School
Kansas Business and Professional Womens Club
Alice Helm
Kansas
Miss Dye
Pittsburg State College
Sororities Bolt Doors As Fraternities Riot
Several California students rioted along fraternity row early today, throwing wine bottles beer cans and firecrackers and setting a street bonfire, police reported. Frank Rutherford 340 pound photographer for the Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
California
Fraternity Row
Frank Rutherford
Riot on campus after secession of local Kappa Alpha chapter
Evening Herald-Express reports a riot on fraternity row after the local Kappa Alpha chapter seceded from the union. A photographer was treated for two rib fractures amid rumors of a panty raid as sorority houses bolted doors and police investigated the demonstration's riot size.
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Evening Herald-Express
Kappa Alpha Fraternity
Kansan Named To Methodist Church Judicial Council
The Rev. J Russell Throckmorton of Hays Kansas and Circuit Judge Ivan Lee Holt Jr of St. Louis were among four men elected to the Methodist Church's Judicial Council at the general conference. Holt is the son of Bishop Ivan Lee Holt of the Missouri area.
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Minneapolis
J. Russell Throckmorton
Hays
Kan
Ivan Lee Holt Jr
St. Louis
Methodist Church
Supreme Court
Methodist General Conference
Holt
Ivan Lee Holt
Missouri
Paul Conrad Wins AP Feature Contest in Kansas
Paul Conrad of the Great Bend Tribune won the AP Kansas short feature contest. His winning piece parodied a paid classified ad about counterfeit checks by Donley Hurd, who was paroled on a bogus checks charge. Other entrants included Don Hull and Jack Lindberg with a tornadic wind bond tale and a 47 year mail delay.
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Kansas City
Paul Conrad
The
Great Bend Tribune
Associated Press
Kansas
Great Bend
Donley Hurd
Hurd
Roy J. McMullen
Don Hull
Ottawa Herald
Jack Lindberg
Coffeyville Journal
Probate Notices in Neosho County Kansas 1956
Multiple public notices from Neosho County Kansas court records announce hearings and actions. Guardians seek oil and gas lease authorization, administrators seek final settlement, and various heirs are urged to respond by specified May dates.
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Chanute Tribune
Kansas
Neosho
Raid
Carrie ‘Hansen
Neosho County
Towit
Charles Bloom
Caarles Bloom
E. E. Lofgren
Balch & Bailey
Emma
Oleen
Emma Otelia Oleen
State OF Kansas
George G. Oleen
Erie
Kenses
District Court
Ida I. Tucker
Naoma Oleen Christianson
George G.oleen
Caroleen Johnson
Bert McCormick
State OF
Charles EB. Henshall
Charles E. Henshall
The
Pro
Charitue Tribune
Lart
Ira D. Mollett
Ira David Mollett
IRA PD
Mollett
T.H. Cronemeyer
Lew
Citherlands
T. I. Cronemeye Domaug Te
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B. M. Dunham
Marion Showalter
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Rep
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Co. R. Mong
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South Malcollm
Chappus
Maseley
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Elsmore
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Lasater School OF Dance
Eproll
Robert Hosack
Broadway
Parsons
Massey
Lincoln Club
Box
Lincoln, Nebr
Evelyns Beauty Shop
Bridge
Humboldt
Montgomery Ward CO
Chappy's
Yates Center
Sante Fe
Albert Burdick
George Woosley
Sweaney & Petty
WYATT
Standard Rendering Co
Idla
Paperhanging & Johnson
Clayton Abbott
Stark
TV & Radio Service
Jack's TV
Philco
Rollow TV & Radio
South Santa Fe
Stark Television Repair
South Ashby
Naff & Bolze
W. Main Ph
East Main
Chanute Iron & Metal
N. Malcolm Pone
W.B.D
Roscoe
Hum
Max Alter
Santa Fe
Wesley
N. Highland
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Bruce H. Burris
S. Lincoln
South Highland
Chanute Bait Supply
South
Washington
Remington Portable
Glen McLaren Insurance
North Grant
Bendix
Crosley
Gibson-Kepley
E. Main
Bill
North Forest
North
Garfield
W. H. Robison
Lincoln
North Steuben
Goodyear
Dorris Tire & Battery Service
Bridge St
B. F. Goodrich
Reas
Robert Maniey
Strubhart
West Elm
Chanute
West Main
Cecil Henley
Main A Highland
Tim Imeesiate
Anyuire
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Prairie Hay
Evie
Ralph Foust
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10Th
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Hiattville
Poland
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Walter Follmer
Phone Buffalo
Potter’s Hatchery
Chanute, Kas
Piones
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Rose, Kansas
Hans
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Roosevelt
Schultz & Judy
Chanute Insurance Board
Frank B. Burris
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Chevrolet
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