Local residents enlist in Navy and travel notes
Gary Hinkle and Charles Cline reported to Great Lakes Naval Training Center for nine weeks of boat training. Dean Olson and Murray left Casper after two weeks visiting Chanute relatives. John Carter and Oryv Adams to attend Disabled American Veterans convention in Parsons. A 4 year old was bitten by a dog in Buffalo. Community members hosted school activities and meals with local dignitaries and volunteers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gary Hinkle
Clyde Hinkle
R. 2
Charles Cline
John Cline
Earlton
U. S. Navy
Great Lakes Naval Training Center
Hinkle
Dean Olson
Murray
Casper
Wyo
Sidney R. Olson
S. Santa Fe
Margaret Murray
W. 3Rd
Sidney Olson
John Carter
Oryvs] Adams of
Thayer
Parsons
John Thompson
S. Kansas
Johnny
Thompson
Memorial Hospital Admittances and District Court Actions
Admittances Wednesday include Mrs Ethel Bloom and others with medical or surgical needs at Memorial Hospital. Dismissals listed for Mrs W J Arthur and others. District Court (Chanute) sees divorce actions James E Lack vs Shirley Lack and others, partition suits, and property deeds. continuances and arrests for contempt. Erie reports a separate maintenance suit and two marriage licenses Issued for Oswald Earnhardt and Audra Birner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
Oswald Earnhardt
Erie Legal Age
Anc
Audra Birner
Chanute
Legal Age
Wall Street Gains Broad as Rails and Industrials Lead
Stocks rose further in active trading with rails and industrials ahead. Volume around 2.6 million shares, slightly above yesterday. Beth Steel Mont Ward Sears Roebuck Penney Co and other names appear with mixed gains in the closing averages. The Inter-American Defense Board becomes the military planning agency for 21 American republics. Benjamin Franklin founded the first circulating library and fire department in the American colonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Beth Steel
Ecaeses
Mont Ward
Penney JC
Phill Pet
Het Istaaps
St. Jose Lead
Sears Roeboon de
Sun
The
Inter - American Defense Board
Benjamin Franklin
Deaths and Funerals Canior High Awards Given At Assembly
Awards and honors were presented at a Senior High School Honor Assembly. Student council officers were introduced by Elizabeth Pieper and pins awarded. Howard A. Jester announced senior honors and scholarships. Pageant and club awards followed with multiple recognitions including Readers Digest UNESCO awards and various athletic and activity trophies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Pieper
Howard A. Jester
Reader’s Digest
Unesco
Projection Club
Eldon Penner
Jeannene Meyer
FHA
Boys State
Jack Durham
American Legion
Marion Stevens
Claudette Judy
Kenneth Tebow
Future Farmers of America
Charles O. Carter Jr
Helen Anderson
Girls’ Athletic Association
Don Goff
Noah Allen
Richard Stowell
Harlie Wolgast
Bob Hawley
Sandra Nicewaner
Mirza Temple Shrine
Miss Anderson
Joyce Malcolm
Donna Mallory
Nancy Desselle
Bob Byers
Fort Scott
David Fehr
Gene Reinharde
the Elms
Sheila Bray
Rosalynd Booth
Craig Berry
David Gough
Evelyn Dormois
Nancy Harris
Alice McCune
Kathleen Crabtree
Gary Grogan
Kay Hargrove
Larry Harris
Forrest Junod
Karen Penner
Joan Ranabarger
Richard Schultz
Martha McGuffey
Carol Craig
Florence Roberts
Judith Cleaver
Susan Francis
Carol Knox
Marilyn LaRue
Kansas City Live Stock Prices and Market Notes
Cattle light and hogs steady with bids cited for various classes. Cattle ranges include good to choice steers 19.25 to 21.25 and utility cows 13.75 to 15.50. hogs active with 200 to 240 lb at 18.25 to 18.50. sows 14.00 to 16.25. Sheep moderate activity. lambs 75 to 95 lb 23.00 to 50.00, old crop lambs 22.00. Parson hog data shows top 18.00 for 190 to 240 lb. Kansas City Produce and Chicago markets also noted with egg, butter, grain, and futures movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
USDA
U. S
Parsons
Chicago
Death Notices for Mrs. Clark A Rowley and Tom A Eastburn
Mrs. Clark A Rowley nee Johnson dies at Bryant's Rest Home after a long illness. A Chanute resident 50 years at 419 S Lafayette born in Wilson County, she married Clark A Rowley in 1904 and is survived by her husband sister Selman Keefer and brother Walter Johnson. Funeral Saturday 2 PM at Wilson Johnson Chapel with Elmwood cemetery burial. Tom A Eastburn of Coweta Oklahoma dies after living in Chanute and Carl Junction Missouri. survived by his wife six children and sisters Mrs Fehr and Mrs Louise Klein. Funeral Friday 2 PM at Rocky Comfort. burial at Eastburn family plot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clark A. Rowley
Esther Augusta Rowley
Bryant's
Humboldt
Walter Johnson
Portland
Ore
Rowley
Bethel Lutheran Church
ORC
Hulda Parker
Order of Eastern Star
Wilson-Johnson
Elmwood Cemetery
Tom A. Eastburn
Frances Woods
Coweta
Okla
Herman Fehr
S. Malcolm
Woods
Rocky Comfort
Sia Eastburn
Chanute
Carl’ Junction
Fehr
Louise Klien
Newton
FFA Honors Markham and Poor at State Convention
Ronnie Poor and Freddie Markham of the Senior High School FFA earned the State Farmers Degrees at the Kansas State College convention in Manhattan. Markham led state judging, Poor won in soil and water management with a $100 prize, plus a public speaking medal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Future Farmers of America
Ronnie Poor
Freddie Markham
Future Farmers
Kansas State College
Manhattan
Charles C. Carter Jr
FFA
Markham
Poor
Carter
Hampshire
Markam
Carl Hines
David Masters
Ronmie Poor
O. D. Sperry
Ronald Burk
Richard Fairchild
E. Wayne Hole
George Morehead
Craig Thompson
Chicago
Larry Ingraham
Mollet Moves to Strengthen Position Over Suez Crisis
Paris Premier Guy Mollet offered to resign in protest at foreign powers and was urged to stay by President Rene Coty. He then moved to bring a U.N. Security Council demand that Egypt live up to six canal principles, a stance editors say diverts attention from domestic policies while rallying support for his belt tightening measures.
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Paris
Guy Mollet
Mollet
United States
Britain
Rene Coty
Egypt
Nasser
U.N. Security Council
Suez
Assembly
France
Weather watch at Nevada site tests wind before summer nuclear shot
The atomic test weather team monitored high altitude winds to decide if the first summer series shot could occur after a 24 hour delay. A House subcommittee urged quick action on a way for the vice president to temporarily replace a disabled president but did not back Eisenhower's constitutional amendment proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atomic Test Site
Nevada
Atomic Test Weather Team
Washington
House
Eisenhower
Clayton Wells Sr Pleads Guilty In Chanute Court
Clayton Wells Sr. pleaded guilty in district court to assault with intent to rape, a charge filed after his Chanute arrest last March. The judge set a maximum penalty of five years in state prison. In a civil suit, Seaton vs Harlan the title to Chanute property was quieted for the plaintiff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
Clayton Wells Sr
Chanute
Charles G Seaton
Garland R. Seaton
Oliver H. Harlan
Billy Graham Crusade Lights Up New York Start
Billy Graham opened his New York crusade at Madison Square Garden drawing 18,500. He warned of a moral sickness in the land, urged a change of heart, and appealed for souls to Christ, with 485 people responding on the first night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Billy Graham
Madison Square Garden
Graham
Christ
America
Britain Announces First Hydrogen Bomb Test
Washington reports Britain's successful high altitude hydrogen bomb detonation. Officials say the test strengthens Allied stance while urging continued nuclear testing to maintain global power, despite public opinion and fears of radiation. Libby notes minimal local fallout but acknowledging broader radioactive effects.
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Washington
Britain
India
Japan
United States
Russia
Willard F. Libby
Atomic Energy Commission
Earth
Tooth Cap Retrieved From Presleys Lung
HOLLYWOOD a porcelain tooth cap put Elias Presley in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital after he swallowed it during a film dance number at MGM. X rays showed the cap in his lung and a doctor retrieved it. A spokesman said Presley will be out of action for a while.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Elias Presley
MGM
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
Presley
Dorsey Reported Very Sick at Doctors Hospital
New York Jimmy Dorsey the band leader aged 52 was described as a very sick man at Doctors Hospital. He suffers neuritis in the left leg contracted on a recent road tour. A full medical report is expected within ten days after surgery last January to remove a nonmalignant growth from a lung.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jimmy Dorsey
Doctors Hospital
Dorsey
Soil Bank End Adds Surpluses Says Benson
Secretary of Agriculture Benson told the House Agriculture Committee that passing to cut the soil bank acreage reserve risks bigger farm surpluses and higher price supports costs. He urged new farm legislation and warned the 1958 impact could raise taxpayer costs if surpluses pile up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary of
Benson
House
Soil Bank
House Agriculture Committee
Department of Agriculture
Department
Assembly Line Launch For A Subs In Groton
Undersecretary of the Navy William B. Franke launched the USS Skate at Groton marking the first of the assembly line atomic submarines. He said the Skate ends pure research and will become a conventional attack submarine with a power plant proven by the Nautilus and Seawolf programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Groton
Conn
Navy
William B. Franke
Franke
Electric Boat Division
General Dynamics Corp
Skate
Chanute to Host Benefit Stock Car Race Sunday
The Chanute Racing Assn. sponsors a charity stock car race Sunday at 8 p.m. on West Main Saddle Club grounds. Proceeds aid Chanute groups. Chanute drivers led in Neodesha events with Fred Collins, Glenn Grennell, Ronnie Fowler, and Bud Almond earning top places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chanute Racing Assn
Saddle Club
West Main
Jack Thompson
Thompson
Chanute
Neodesha
Independence
Erie
Yates Center
Fred Collins
Glenn Grennell
Ronnie Fowler
Bud Almond
Driver Placings Highlight Fast Car Race and Feature
John Arnett finished second in the Fast Car Race and fifth in the Feature driving car No. 17. Bud Morgan placed third in the Fast Car Race and won the Feature in car No. 38.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Arnett
Bud Morgan
Francis W. Smith Named VP at First Life Kansas
Francis W. Smith former Chanute resident was named vice president of the First Life Insurance Company of Kansas by the board at a Newton convention. He serves as superintendent of general agents in Kansas and is married to Barbara Rowland daughter of Mrs. Louis F. Ingle. The couple lives in Newton where the company HQ is located.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis W. Smith
Chanute
First Life Insurance Company of Kansas
Newton
Smith
Kansas
Barbara Rowland
Louis F. Ingle
S. Central
Ingle
Chanute Lodge
Smiths
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Tribune
Charles E. Pulliam
Santa Fe
H. P. Moon
Salt Lake City
Utah
Bessie Clark Randle
Montrose
Colo
Grace Boman
Randle
War Mothers Home
Denver
Harry Orendorf
Buffalo
Midway School
Silver Grill
Methodist Church
J. L. Walker
LCA
Bob Dollar
G. M. Pierce
Daily Transcript
W. J. Arthur
Ronald McCulloh
N. Franklin
Harry Ingels
Lavonburg
E. C
Wolfe
Edward Myers
Malcolm
District Court Action
James E. Lack
Shirley Martindale Lack
Rollan Rush
Elizabeth D. Berry
Darlene Hennessey
Everett L. Hennessey
Darlene Burghart
Prudential Insurance Co. of America Ve. CC Clarridge
Marietta Carol Thomas
Marion Courtland Thomas
Mary K Hoffman
Cleo W. Hoffman
Wall Street
G. A.A
Pine
Nancy Alexander
Nancy Dessell
Nancy Fletcher
Shirley Russell
Charlene Wilson
Embiem
Colleen Booe
Janice Browning
Janice Carlson
Evelyn Chickadonz
Karen Earnest
Sharry McGhee
Margaret Nelson
Barbara Thompson
Mike Glilihan
Iam Morford
Jonn Boydston
Alice Hanen
Lois Kern
Jerry Waldrip
Melvin Alger
Robert, Baughn
Karine Bowman
Anita Burdge
Nancy Tate Clemans
Mary Lee Dety
LaDena Everly
Roger Gray
Janice Johnson
Gary Kennedy
Jerry Lacey
Howard McMurray
Ronnie Rains
Nancy Ramsey
Carol Shook
Ruby Smith
Dee Ann Tabor
Sharon Umbarger
Anita Weber
Bonnie Wilson
Karen Ballee
Danny Weaver
Jerry Bauer
Leroy Chard
Dick Coulter
Stephen Griffith
John Lock
Leroy Matthews
Sam Newland
Maribel Berthot
Chanute Junior College
Jack Kensinger
Jerry McCune
Susy Biele
Charlotte Rhodes
Mary Jo Brazil
Medina David
Barbara Koenig
Donna Lucas
Jean Waits
Kansas City Livestock
Parsons Livestock
Board of Trade
Kansas City Cash
the Tribune
Philco
Francis Smith
Energy and
Page Mil K
Coffey Ville van
Page Milk Co
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