Chanute Drum and Bugle Corps Earn High Festival Ratings
Chanute Senior High School drum and bugle corps earned high marks at the fourth annual Drum Corps Festival in Joplin. The 40-member group was judged on marching and maneuvering, drumming, bugling, and general effect, earning two superior bugling ratings and excellent or good marks in other categories. Color guard omission cost up to 20 points. Sponsor Helen Anderson announced drum majorette tryouts for next year open to all juniors.
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Chanute
Joplin
Chanute Corps
Helen Anderson
Drum Corps
Walnuts mourn Houdashelt kin and Tulsa death
Funeral services were held for Johan Perry Houdashelt 71 of Pittsburg with half brother Paul Houdashelt and family attending. Leonard Hill of Tulsa died April 17. funeral in Tulsa April 20. Walnut store McClung suffered a major burglary April 27 with merchandise valued about 3500, including key making gear and shells. Sheriff and deputies investigated.
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Walnut
Paul Houdashelt
Floyd Houdashelt
Johan Perry Houdashelt
Pittsburg
Ashbury Houdashelt
Walnut Public School
Walnut Cemetery
Leonard Hill
Tulsa
Fred Hill
Gamble
Clell McClung
McClung
Sheriff Kneebone
Alvin Selle
Lyle Gladson
EUB Ladies Aid to Meet Amid Village News
The EUB Ladies Aid of Urbana will meet Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Vern Heilman of rural Galesburg. Edna Ewen will lead the lesson on the word mother. Various local residents hosted and visited family and friends across Thayer area with overnight stays and Sunday dinners.
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Walnut Home
Alma Archer
Leola Rowe
Faye Shireman
Walnut Gas and Electric Plant
Rick Goodinson
Howard Bailey
Wisconsin
Morial
Chanute
C. W. Goodinson
Baileys
Fred Hummer
Wayne Stude
Rita Smith
Ginger Westhoff
Baker
Steven
Connie
Linda
Jerry Neely
Audrain
Neely
George Neely
Earlton
Olathe
Vern Heilman
Galesburg
Edna Ewen
Mary Rutledge
Carl Rutledge
Mike
Carla
Hillcrest School
Ernest Gillett
Ora Heilman
Ralph Robertson
Milo Heilman
Reuben Bean
Roy Adams
Wilson Rutledge
Wichita
Ray Fuller
Little River
Randy
Wayne Plake
Jerry
Don Dunivant
Darrell Dunivant
Clarence Obenhous
Leon
Erie
George Nordstedt
Larry
Anna Winans
Don Witt
St. Paul
Tommy Hudson
Hudson
Iola Hospital
K.U. Medical Center
Kansas City
Leon Obenhous
Larrry Nordstedt
Verle Winans
Don Vitt
Thayer
Bean
Rural
Water Trees For Growth
Iola asks readers to water young shade trees and fertilize with high nitrogen tree food to spur rapid growth. Allen County agent Tom Maxwell says trees grow fastest when young and can gain up to three years of growth in two with proper feeding and watering each spring.
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IOLA
Tom Maxwell
Allen County
Maxwell
Fourteen 4-H Members Chosen for Kansas Round-Up
Erie reports twelve Neosho County 4-H youths will join 14 delegates for the 38th Kansas 4-H Round-up at Kansas State University Manhattan June 5 to 9. Delegates include Sandy Thurman Nan cy Kinne Patsy Harris Ruby Baker Virginia Madill Lynnta Swiler Kenneth Swiler Ronne Smith Glenn Barnhart Raymond Erickson Tom Bartholomew and Larry Lindberg. Selection reflects 4-H work participation record books and activities.
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Erie
Neosho County
Kansas
Midway Graduation Events Highlight May Activities
Midway celebrates graduation for eighth graders and high school seniors on May 22 with James Putnam delivering the commencement address. Baccalaureate speaker Rev. Pierce appears May 20. The 27 seniors enjoyed a recognition dinner at Vilas Lutheran Church. An athletic banquet, Mother-Daughter supper, and PTA events are planned, with awards by coach Charles Schooler and coach Bob Johnson as guest speaker. About 150 expected. Hobo Work Day May 24 precedes summer vacation. Seventy-eight seventh and eighth graders toured Chanute Art Fair with mosaics on display.
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Midway
James Putnam
Emporia
Pierce
Buffalo and
High Prairie Methodist Churches
Vilas Lutheran Church
High Prairie Methodist Church
Buffalo Methodist Church
High Prairie Wscs
Bob Johnson
College of Emporia
Charles Schooler
YWCA
Mary Lou Payne
PTA
Chanute
Maxine Collison
Field Day At O Bryans Ranch In HIATTVILLE
The 23rd annual O Bryan Ranch Field Day will be held Saturday at the Joe O Bryan ranch near here. Farmers and ranchers from a wide area will be guests. Experts and successful livestock men will share knowledge and demonstrations. William D. Guy will discuss factors for youths planning farming careers. Wendell Moyer and Wayne Tyler coordinate the program.
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Hiattville
O'Bryan Ranch
Joe O'Bryan
O'Bryans
William D. Guy
Chanute
Wendell Moyer
Kansas State University
Manhattan
Wayne Tyler
Bourbon County
Laos Forces Press Royal Stronghold Ahead in North
In Vientiane the acting foreign minister Sisouk Nachampassak says pro Communist units that seized Nam Tha are pushing toward the government’s final northern Laotian fortress creating a critical security stand for the royal Laotian government.
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Vientiane
Laos
Nam Tha
Sisouk Nachampassak
Track meet heats to decide regional champions at Fredonian
Twelve track men are entered in the regional track meet at Fredonian on Friday. Preliminaries start at 2 p.m. and finals at 7 p.m. The event is part of the year's last lecture and concert series, featuring Lew Hershey, a former circus clown, entertaining the school.
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Madonna and Child
Lew Hershey
Fredonian
Cash Prizes For Posters In County Contest
Neosho County Soil Conservation District offers cash awards to grades 1 through 8 for a soil and water conservation poster contest. Local prizes are 3 2 and 1 dollars. two entries advance to the state contest with 20 15 and 10 dollar prizes and fifth through seventh place receive 5 dollars. Posters due by August 15 to Mrs Hazel Meeker or the SCS office in the county courthouse. A 1960 contest saw Neo sho County entries place fifth and seventh at state.
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Erie
Neosho County
Soil Conservation District
Charles P. McKinnie
SCS
Hazel Meeker
Divorce Granted After Husband Beating Pet
Virginia P. Dandy won a divorce in Detroit on grounds that Jess Dandy assaulted her and his cruelty extended to her Pekingese dog Peter to torment her. The case highlights domestic abuse including cruelty to a pet as a factor in the divorce.
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Detroit
Virginia P.dandy
Jess
Peter
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