Motor car collision reports and juvenile delinquency ruling
Velma McLaren reported front end damage after a collision as her car backed from a curb at 25 N Grant, while Marie Stipp’s backing car suffered no damage. Gary Lindquist, 15, was committed indefinitely to the Boys Industrial School after a delinquency hearing. Carrie Lou Greve, in Tacoma, wrote a Tribune newsletter praising the paper. The cab company owner James Schmidt said the woman had made long trips before. a six day journey was described to Oakland via New Mexico and Nevada.
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Velma McLaren
S. Plummer
N. Grant
Marie Stipp
Gary Lindquist
Chanute
Boys Industrial School
Louis J. Eaton
Carrie Lou Greve
S. E St
Tacoma
Wash
the Tribune
Miss Greve
Chanute High School
Oakland
New Mexico
Nevada
James Schmidt
Chicago
Divorce filings and fines from Chanute court docket
Doria Christine Dink versus James Joseph Diskin a contempt citation ordered support and attorney fees. Mary E LeRoy versus William T LeRoy restraining order and suit money. Clem W Greene and Mary Greene quiet title with J W Cole et al. Walter Carl Lucas Chanute cited for motor vehicle with defective muffler posting a $5 bond.
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District Court
Chanute
Doria Christine Dinkin
James Joseph Diskin
Mary E. LeRoy
William T. LeRoy
Clem W. Greene
Mary Greene
J. W. Cole
Wholesale Food Prices Rise to Highest Since October
In New York the wholesale food price index reported by Dun and Bradstreet jumped to 6.14 this week, up from 6.03 last week and 6.37 a year ago, marking the highest level since October when it reached 6.17.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet
Man to stand trial in grand theft over extra 227 dollars
Claude Parker, 31, Los Angeles, faces grand theft charges after a cashier misread a check and gave him 411.56 dollars in change instead of 184.56. He allegedly refused to refund the 227 dollars last day.
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Los Angeles
Claude Parker
Velta Graham
Parker
Dream Comes True For Waukegan Cabbie
Waukegan taxi driver Raymond Gilbert earned a $1,350 fare for a cross country trip to California and back with a passenger later identified as Arlene Andrews wife of Victor J. Andrews chairman of Andrews Corp. He also claimed $10 daily expenses and a per mile rate of 50 cents for side trips.
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Oakland
Calif
Waukegan
Raymond F. Gilbert
California
Arlene Andrews
Victor J. Andrews
Andrews Corp
Gilbert
New Mystery Warplane Succeeds Canceled Interceptor Plan
Washington The Pentagon says it is developing a new mystery warplane to replace the shelved long range interceptor contracts. Dr. Clifford Furnas joins Senate committee testimony noting insufficient funds and heavier-than-expected aircraft. Northrop Aircraft and North American Aviation contracts were canceled due to lack of funds for research and development.
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Washington
Pentagon
Clifford C. Furnas
Furnas
Air Force
Northrop Aircraft
Hawthorne
Calif
North American Aviation
Los Angeles
Saving to Sooners By Desegregation
OKLAHOMA CITY Taxpayers will save at least one million dollars this biennium by desegregating schools. Roy Emans, finance director, said districts wishing to maintain separate schools will pay a premium. State aid will be calculated on overall attendance rather than separate figures.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Roy Emans
State Department of Education
GM President Lowers 1956 Auto Sales Forecast
Harlow Curtice, head of General Motors, reduced his 1956 industry sales forecast from 6.2 million to 5.8 million cars at a Detroit news conference. The new projection places 1956 as the third highest sales total since 1950 and 1955, and 1.6 million below 1955.
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Detroit
General Motors
Harlow Curtice
Copeland Lucien E. Copeland 82 Funeral Rites Held
Lucien E. Copeland aged 82 died Saturday at Savanna Oklahoma. Last rites were conducted Tuesday afternoon at Dietz Funeral Home Erie with Rev J M Torrence of Erie Federated Church and Rev George Emmons of Bethel Methodist Church officiating. Duet by Mrs Earl Beard and Mrs Joe Blaine, piano by Mrs Louis Edwards. Bearers were Earl Beard Clifford Edwards Wilbur McDaniel Keith Knetzer Cecil Fisher and Allen Coover. Interment Bethel Cemetery northeast of Erie.
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Copeland
Lucien E. Copeland
Savanna
Okla
Dietz Funeral
Erie
J. M. Torrence
Earl Beard
Clifford Edwards
Wilbur McDaniel
Keith Knetzer
Cecil Fisher
Allen Coover
Glenn Raney
Will McMullen
Bethel Cemetery
Eight-Point Program To Create 10000 Kansas Jobs
The Kansas Chamber of Commerce proposed an eight point program at a Legislative Council hearing to generate 10,000 new Kansas jobs annually for ten years. Maurice E. Fager, chamber spokesman and industrial council chairman, urged action on zoning districts, tax exemptions for manufacturing equipment, voluntary employer contributions to unemployment funds, water development, workers compensation reforms, recreation development, labor code modernization, and funding for the Kansas Industrial Development Commission.
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Topeka
Kansas Chamber of Commerce
Kansas
Legislative Council
Labor and Industries Committee
Maurice E. Fager
Chamber
Fager
Kansas Industrial Development Commission
Kansas State Alumni Elect Walter Peirce
Walter C. Peirce, a Hutchinson area farmer, elected by mail ballot to lead the Kansas State College Alumni Assn for the coming year. Five new directors chosen for three-year terms include Earl C. Brookover Garden City Virginia Green Adams Prairie Village George W. Archer Eureka and A D Weber Ralph H Perry Manhattan.
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Manhattan
Kas
Walter C. Peirce
Hutchinson
Kansas’ State College
Earl C. Brookover
Garden City
Virginia Green Adams
Prairie Village
George W. Archer
Eureka
A. D. Weber
Ralph H. Perry
Bridegroom Is 104 Enjoys Marriage in Arkansas
DE WITT Ark 104yearold bridegroom J D Manis says he fought Yankee soldiers as a teen and enjoys marriage. He and wife Willie celebrated their first anniversary last month with Manis noting he is “enjoying every minute of marriage.” He is a Confederate veteran and former coal miner.
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DE Witt
Ark
J. D. Manis
Willie Manis
Manis
Manis remarriage note from 1930s era
The record notes an ongoing relationship since 1930 with a proposal occurring five months earlier. It mentions both of Manis' former wives are deceased, the second dying roughly four years ago.
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Manis
Pay Rise For Kansas Highway Engineers Approved
TOPEKA A 15 percent starting pay hike for state highway engineers from 341 to 395 a month was approved by the State Finance Council to aid recruitment. Officials said they lost 25 engineers to higher paying jobs in the past year and hired only one graduate from Kansas universities. Other increases of 10 to 28 percent were set for various civil service positions including arson investigators and social workers.
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Topeka
State Finance Council
Highway Department
University of Kansas
Kansas State College
Probers Seek Cause Of Fatal Plane Crash
Investigators in Jeffersonville Indiana examined twisted remains of a private airliner to learn why it plunged to earth. Eight people died including six business executives en route to a Louisville Kentucky convention.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Louisville
Parakeet Brings Luck to Cook County Death Row
In Chicago, a blue parakeet entered the maximum security wing housing death row inmates at Cook County Jail. The bird's appearance coincided with two death sentences postponed as stays were issued for two convicted murderers. Warden Jack Johnson allowed the men to keep the pet.
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Chicago
Cook County
Jack Johnson
Kechi Road Added to State Highway System
The Kansas Highway Commission announced it will add the Kechi Road from Wichita to El Dorado to the state system once right of way agreements are secured. The route runs 27 miles from U S 81 north of Wichita through Kechi and Towanda to El Dorado, with acceptance subject to Sedgwick and Butler counties providing the necessary right of way. Legal aspects of acquisition are under study.
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Topeka
Kansas Highway Commission
Wichita
el Dorado
Kechi
Towanda
Sedgwick
Butler County
Price Supports Cruel Hoax Upon Farmers
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson told the New Jersey Agriculture Society that price supports never lift farmers to lasting prosperity. He called price supports a cruel hoax and warned that only a temporary increase in prices can be legislated.
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Trenton
N. J
Ezra Taft Benson
New Jersey Agriculture Society
Benison
Cattle and hog market report from Kansas City and Parsons
Kansas City livestock shows cattle steady to mixed with hogs firm to higher as of today. Cattle prices range 11.50 to 20.50 with varying grades, while hogs see barrows and gilts up to 25 higher and sows steady. Parsons report notes similar cattle ranges and hogs 14.25 to 16.50 with weights 200 to 250 pounds and 400 pounds and down sows.
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Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
USDA
Parsons
Livestock Prices And Midwest Market Tables
Market notes show calf prices 12.00 to 19.75 depending on weight and grade, sheep lambs 25.00, ewes 4.00 to 10.00. Kansas City reports eggs 35.5, poultry and butter steady. Chicago Butter and Eggs mixed receipts and price levels, grain firm with wheat near 2.29 and corn around 1.49 May contracts.
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Kansas City
Chicago
U. S
Board of Trade
Grain and hay market brief from Chanute Tribune
The Chanute Tribune records Kansas futures and local receipts for May 16 1956 with prices for corn white yellow mixed and No 2 and 3 grades, rye barley soybeans bran shorts and mile maize, plus hay receipts listing none in Kansas City.
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The
Chanute Tribune
Kansas City
Hay
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Richmond
Potter
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Waukegan Cabbie
Wey
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Southern Kansas Greyhound Lines
Kansas State
Walter Peirce
Chanute Equip. CO. Cockshutt Impl
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Wall Street
Am Tel&Tel
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Atchison
Beth Steel
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Eagle Pee
Ford
iGen Electenet
JC Seen
Phill Peter
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St Jos
Sinclair O
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Std Oil J
US Steel
Teen
Price
Parsons Livestock
Kansas County
Johnson Or
Wyandotte
Blue Cross
Blue Shield OF
Topeka Blvd
Kansas City Cash
W. Main
Dairy Products Assn
Ark Valley
Crmy
Central Kansas
Mkt
Moundridge
Nemaha
Neosho Valley
Sunflower
Washington Co
Army
Chanute Furniture Co
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