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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1956
Page
2
A police court hearing for S. W. Mayes of Chanute on a charge of disturbing the peace was continued today until 3 p.m. Tuesday, according to a report filed at police headquarters.
Hospital notices list Wednesday and today admittances including Mrs Courtney Kaufman Humboldt and Maynard R Clark at 920 N Steuben, with several other names and addresses. Dismissals, births announced, and a string of Erie District Court actions include no fund checks, guilty pleas with long terms, divorce decrees, and new cases. Multiple marriages, licenses, moves, and patrol fines are also recorded with names, ages, and locations.
Sen Chavez notes Army and Air Force will stage a test to compare Nike antiaircraft missiles with the Talos system. He doubts the test can occur before a large defense funding bill passes Congress. Reports say Navy may favor Talos for speed range and accuracy versus Nike, which is slated to guard key U.S. targets.
U S Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce returns from Rome due to illness and will stay in New York for two months of treatment. Dr Milton Rosenbluth reports a chronic enteritis linked to a prior liver infection and iron deficiency anemia, with a transfusion given yesterday and more needed. Luce, 53, flew home May 11 and is receiving care at Doctors Hospital and then at her town house. The note closes with a non sequitur about the Liberty Bell’s origin.
Funeral service for Mrs. Julia A. Ranberg will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Wilson-Johnson chapel with Rev. L. Glen Ahlf of Assembly of God Church officiating. Interment will follow in Elmwood Cemetery.
Brig. Gen W E Potter of the Missouri River division Army Engineer told a House Appropriations subcommittee that opposition remains to the Tuttle Creek dam and reservoir on Blue River near Manhattan. He warned abandonment would halt downstream protection projects and cost the government 10 to 15 million dollars, with 12 million already appropriated and 9 million needed for the year starting July 1.
A Topeka probate court postponed a hearing on a petition challenging the transfer of 2,000 Capper Publications Inc. shares to the Capper Crippled Children Foundation. Two answering petitions were filed by heirs of former Capper president Henry Blake and other officials opposing the Zach petition.
Fifteen contestants were eliminated in the first six rounds of the National Spelling Bee before lunch. Twenty seven boys and twenty one girls remain as the field narrows, with young Jane Humphrey of Fort Worth the youngest to bow out. Ethel Crow of Waldo Kansas misspelled her word heretical.
Kansas City livestock prices show hogs rising while cattle remain light. Hogs around 2,000 head with gains for barrows and gilts, sows down. cattle and calves mixed with steady to lower tones across hay, barley, soybeans, and grain markets.
The New York Times reports Britain told the United States it will ship certain restricted items to Communist China as strategic materials. Britain seeks to ease controls to resemble milder Soviet bloc rules, but has not specified which items, and no U.S. embargo change is implied.
A home recipe from Mrs C R Swan of 1005 N Grant details a cooked custard base thickened with eggs sugar vinegar pineapple juice butter and salt cooled before folding whipped cream cherries pineapple chunks orange sections and marshmallows. Chill 24 hours and top with maraschino cherries.
Senate subcommittee hearings reveal use of criminal elements in adoption markets with fees from 1700 to 3200 dollars. Chicago lawyers reportedly operated nationwide arranging adoptions. testimony details $3200 paid to a New York foster parent and $50 to a mother, while another mother cited $600, all tied to attorney Gale L. Marcus who declined to discuss cases.
New York. Donald Quarles, secretary of the Air Force, says Russia's cut will not affect Soviet weapons for waging air and atomic battle. He notes the cuts target non jet and non atomic arms and warns that peace talk may lull the West into a false sense of security.
George J. Benson of El Dorado receives Butler County Democratic endorsement to serve as delegate at the party's national convention.
For athletes foot use T-4-L for 3 to 5 days. Watch tainted skin slough off to reveal healthy skin. If not pleased with instant drying T-4-L, get 40¢ back at any drug store. Today at Casey's Rexall Drugs.
Wichita report states John Leslie Mudge 36 of Troy Kansas was killed when a tractor backed a trailer into a loading dock at a warehouse. He was identified as a driver for Fred Pohl of St Joseph Missouri.
Kansas crude oil pipeline runs rose to 338,844 barrels a day in the week ended May 14, per the State Conservation Division. The figure is 3,490 barrels higher than the prior week and 3,844 above the May allowance set by the Kansas Corporation Commission.
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