Employment hits new high level in April
Americans at work rose by over a million in April to a record 65,012,000, with unemployment at 3,627,000. The Commerce-Labor report cites large gains in construction and durable goods manufacturing, plus spring farm expansion, as driving the recovery. The average factory work week reached 40.3 hours and earnings rose to 89.87 dollars, while hourly wages edged up to 2.23 dollars.
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Washington
Secretary of Commerce
Lewis Strauss
James P. Mitchell
Commerce-Labor Monthly
Strauss and
Mitchell
Chanute Police Log Details Obscene Mail and Disturbances
Police report a Chanute woman received an obscene letter and photographs by mail. Weekend complaints included window peeping family arguments and a wife beating. An assault case left a woman beaten and choosing to file, treated at Neosho Memorial hospital.
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Chanute
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Senior High Concert Set for Tomorrow Evening
The Spring Finale of the Senior High School music department will occur in the high school auditorium at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. The band and mixed chorus will perform together and feature a violin and clarinet duet by Mike Gillihan and Kenneth Tebow. Paul Hindemith pieces will be played. Larry Powell has a trumpet solo.
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Kenneth Tebow
Mike Gillihan
Tebow
Paul Hindemith
Larry Powell
Car-Truck Crash Kills Carthage Infant
A sixteen month old girl, Christy Kay Fite, died in a collision near Route K east of U S 71. Her parents are Charles and (Mrs.) Fite of Jasper Missouri. The truck was driven by Donald Anderson Sinder, 39, of Pittsburg Kansas.
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Carthage
Christy Kay Fite
U. S. 71
Route K
Charles Walter Fite
Route 1
Jasper
Fite
Donald Anderson Sinder
Pittsburg
Kan
Tractor Slips Kill Parker Man in Orchard Loading
A tractor slipped from a truck bed during loading at John H. Parrack's orchard near Parker Kansas, killing Parrack, 30. Authorities described the accident as fatal and ongoing investigation by local officials.
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Parker
Kas
John H. Parrack
Parrack
Matthews Leaves Chanute Chamber for Newton Post
Les Matthews, Chanute Chamber of Commerce manager, accepts Newton chamber vacancy. Duties begin June 8. He served Chanute since July 1, 1956, and led area projects while active in civic groups. He will spend next week three days in Newton to learn the job.
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Les Matthews
Chanute Chamber of Commerce
Newton Chamber
Matthews
Chanute Chamber
Greensburg
Newton
Chanute
Osa and
Martin Johnson
Newton Matthews
Ron Roberts
Topeka
Chamber
First Christian Church
Lincoln Pta
Rotary
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
W. 3Rd
Leslie
Melanie
East Germany Status Delays Opening of Cold War Talks
The Big Four opened talks in Geneva 22 hours late over East German participation. The agreement grants limited speaking rights to East and West Germany, with both at separate tables and the four foreign ministers at a main round table.
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John M Hightower
Geneva
U.S
Christian A. Herter
Selwyn Lloyd
Maurice Couve de Murville
Andrei A. Gromyko
Palace of Nations
Gromyko
East Germany
Ence
Herter
Maurice
Gromyk
Asst
Andrew H. Berding
Berding
Fires at Hutchinson Church Sparked by Arsonist
Four fires at Central Evangelical United Brethren church in Hutchinson were started by an arsonist. Firemen said the blazes caused little damage as crews extinguished them before extensive harm. Three fires used paper and rags. the fourth involved matches among Boy Scout supplies.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Central Evangelical United Brethren Church
Cash, Diamond Taken In Nursery Holdup
Three bandits escaped with 1700 dollars in cash 3100 dollars in checks and a 2500 dollar diamond ring in a holdup at Cloverset Farm nursery south of Kansas City. Kenneth Haysler 54 and his wife operators said they were preparing a night deposit when the gunmen struck.
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Kansas City
Cloverset Farm
Kenneth Haysler
Cherryvale Man Killed in Weekend Vehicle Fatalities
Three one car accidents on Kansas highways over the weekend killed Earl T. Estes 62 of Cherryvale Clarence N. Woodall 50 of Merwin Mo and Mrs Jess Byers 39 of Jetmore. Mrs Byers two children escaped with minor injuries after a creek drowning incident near Dodge City in an upside down car. Eight persons died on Missouri highways during the weekend.
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Associated Press
Kansas
Earl T. Estes
Cherryvale
Clarence N. Woodall
Merwin
U. S
Louisburg
Jess Byers
Jetmore
Dodge City
Two Walk Away From Car Train Crash
Frisco freight train struck an automobile seven miles south of Lyons Kansas. The two occupants Mrs Twila Razlaff and her 8 year old daughter Rosemary Razlaff walked away with only minor cuts and bruises.
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Lyons, Kas
Here
Twila Razlaff
Burrton
Rosemary
Two Scott City Brothers Drown Fishing
AP reports Hubert Delvert and Leonard Delvert, both of Scott City Kansas, drowned while fishing from a boat on Cedar Bluff reservoir early yesterday. Details of the accident were not known.
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Hays
Kas
Scott City
Cedar Bluff Reservoir
Hubert Delvert
Leonard Delvert
Motorboat Drowns Three in Wolf Bayou Accident
Three passengers died when a speeding motorboat swamped on Wolf Bayou near Portageville Missouri. Victims were William Junior White 20 William Wylie White 14 and Nina Stumbaugh 16. Three others survived the Sunday crash. Witnesses reported the boat dipped underwater suddenly.
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Hayti, Mo
Wolf Bayou
William Junior White
William Wylie White
Nina Stumbaugh
Portageville, Mo
Traffic Fatalities in 48 Hours Ended 9 A.M.
Kansas traffic fatalities tallied in the state accident records section for the 48 hours ending at 9 a.m. today, with figures for 1959 and a comparable period in 1956. The report lists fatalities and resembles a routine statistical update.
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Topeka
Kansas
Tornado Damage Near Galesburg Hit Farms and Homes
A tornado tracked from northeast of Cherryvale to near Galesburg causing farm damage including a demolished barn and a damaged home on the Rex Crumline farm. A lone occupant fled as the funnel passed, and witnesses described a narrow path about 200 feet wide.
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Galesburg
Independence
Cherryvale
Rex Crumline
Shelby Reed
Windstorms Hit Illinois and Michigan Cause Damage and Fatality
Windstorms tore through the central Great Lakes region injuring and killing residents. In Ann Arbor a small tornado ripped a roof from Yost Fieldhouse and a university press box window was blown out. one woman died from a fallen electric line. Monticello Illinois suffered damaged roofs and shattered store windows as storms moved across the area.
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Michigan
Illinois
Ann Arbor
Monticello
Ulinois
Great Lakes
Plains
Midwest
Yost
University of Michigan
Mobile
Ala
Iowa
Forster
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Wisconsin
Frisco
Corpus Christi
Tex
Austin
Three Car Crash on US 169 Near Chanute Injures None
Mrs A R Hudspeth Eleanor Crumley and Ross Martin were involved in a three car crash at the Turkey Creek bridge on US 169 south of Chanute around 5 15 pm. Martin tried to pass and collided with the Crumley car then sideswiped the Hudspeth vehicle. Police and sheriff officials directed traffic and the damage was estimated at 1200 for the Hudspeth car 700 for the Martin car and 125 for the Crumley car.
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A. R. Hudspeth
S. Rutter
Turkey Creek
US 169
Chanute
Duane Houck
Highway Patrol
Martin
Crumley
Hudspeth
Jerry Sloan
Houck
Burglars Hit Elk City High School Safe
In Elk City Kansas burglars forced entry to Elk City High School by kicking out a door panel and stripping the metal door. They knocked the safe knob off and punched at the safe but found it empty. the door had not been locked, only pushed closed, according to Sheriff Bill Lessman.
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Elk City, Kas
Elk City
Bill Lessman
Grandmother Walks Toward Oregon on Open-ended Trek
Emma Gatewood of Gallipolis Ohio known as Grandma Gatewood hikes from Gallipolis to Oregon with no set route or timetable. She plans to reach Portland by August averaging about 20 miles daily and sleeps at farmhouses or receiving homes along the way. She is a longtime hiker and the first woman to walk the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine.
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Gow
Junction City
Emma
Grandma) Gatewood
Gallipolis
Ohio
Independence
Portland
Ore
National Campers and Hikers Assn
Georgia
Maine
Nine Die as Navy Patrol Plane Crashes on Whidbey Island
A Navy P2V Neptune crashed on takeoff from Ault Field at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, killing nine crewmen and leaving one critically injured. Seven bodies recovered, two missing, names withheld. The aircraft belonged to the Heavy Attack Training Unit Pacific.
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Whidbey Island Naval Air Station
Wash
Navy
Puget Sound Island
Ault Field
Pacific
Whidbey Island
Seattle
J. C. Lee Blair
Reilly to Speak at Chanute Chamber Luncheon
Robert Reilly district manager for the U S Chamber of Commerce will speak at a Chanute chamber luncheon tomorrow at noon at the Tioga Hotel. He will discuss the business climate. Directors and government affairs committee members attend, open to interested business men. Reservations through the chamber office.
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Robert Reilly
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Chanute Chamber
Tioga Hotel
Chamber
Bandit Forces Manhatt an Hotel Robbery For Cash
A masked man with a sawed off shotgun held four hotel employees at the Manhattan Hotel and robbed it of 12000 dollars in cash and an undetermined amount in checks. The money was weekend receipts from the hotel.
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New York
Manhattan
Leukemia Patient Beats Odds Says Doctor
A New York woman diagnosed with leukemia in 1951 at age 52 has remained well for over five years, doctors report. Dr. Carl Reich of Lenox Hill Hospital notes she recovered after typical treatment and suggests a donor blood factor may have aided recovery.
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Chicago
New York
Journal of the American Medical Assa
Carl Reich
Lenox Hill Hospital
Reich
Limerick
Ireland
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Newton Post
Monica Jan Geiger
Monica
Robert Geiger
Geiger
Chanute Senior High
Tribune
Tn Eka
Scott City Brothers
Weather Bureau
Herington
Hesston
Burdick
Council Grove
Alta Vista
Pretty Prairie
Emporia
Baldwin
Tom Arnold
Goodland
Hill City
Russell
Leavenworth
Beverly Miller
Miller
Alvin Harmes
Park City
Wichita
Glenn Vandergrift
Valley Center
Sedgwick
Harvey County
Kingman County
Kingman
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Gatewood
Reilly
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Bandit
Wasser
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