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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1960
Page
9
AP Business News notes April and early May show improved consumer goods output and retail sales up 3 percent in March, lifting industrial production to 109 percent of the 1957 average. Auto sales rise. steel output lags at about 70 percent capacity with price cuts easing fears of widespread hikes.
The bulletin lists a range of local happenings including a person injured on ice after a tire incident, reminders of May Day and a spy plane reference, slow homebuilding and mortgage financing easing, and varied visits and gatherings. It notes deaths and a funeral in Walnut, family visits from Sedan, and a new daughter born at Mercy Hospital in Parsons along with an emergency appendectomy at the same hospital and patient improvement.
Reports from Western Big Three on the collapse of the summit are to be presented at a special NATO Council meeting in Paris. General Lauris Norstad will not attend due to a mild heart attack and hospitalization in Munich. Donors so far have given over 4,000 to aid jailed South Africans amid the racial crisis. Fidel Castro delivered a 24 hour address as part of a six hour Cuban television program.
Sunday night in Pittsburg the American Legion Past Commanders Club hosted a dinner for members and wives. Attendees included Paul and Mary Casady, Charles and Florence Forsyth, Frederick and Mildred Swan, Kirby and Mildred Snodgrass, Marvin and Sally Huffman, Ted and Helen Kyle, Verle and Margaret Craven, Richard and Edna Salb, Emery and Esther Willson, A F Redmond and Hollis Dunham, Fred Newell, William and Helen Snyder. The event is annual. Others visiting Erie residents included Harold Cason and family, Mrs Margaret Lewis, Peggy Lewis, Meryl Lero, Betty Avonhalt, Connie Noland, and several local and neighboring residents attending high school baccalaureate, visits, and social gatherings.
London AP reports the British Broadcasting Corp noting a notable rise in jamming of its Russian language service as Russia intensified disruption of Voice of America broadcasts.
Fifty five Humboldt High School seniors will graduate in the 76th commencement ceremony on May 24. Kansas Centennial Observance committee chair Maurice Fager will deliver the address with the theme Kansas Is America.
Melvin Joseph Simmons of Council Bluffs Iowa survived 60 hours trapped inside a railroad boxcar before rescue. He says a prayer helped him endure and notes past work at Osawatomie State Hospital and hospital training in Topeka. He is recovering in a local hospital.
A laborer named Simmons was pinned by the foot when lumber toppled inside a boxcar door shut in a Savannah run near Ottumwa. The car was shifted to Council Bluffs yards where Ray Rocha freed him after a day’s confinement. He was hospitalized for dehydration and a foot injury.
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