Virginia-Carolina Chemical Buys Neosho Fertilizer Plant
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp of Richmond buys Neosho Fertilizer Inc plant in Neosho with stockholders approving the sale. The plant will operate under V-C as the 37th V-C facility serving midwest and southwest areas. operation begins July 1 with no interruption and employees retained. Local open house planned in fall.
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United States
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp
Richmond
Neosho Fertilizer, Inc
Memorial Building
Sho Firm
Golden Harvest
Chanute
Big V-C
Florida
St. Louis
Little Rock
Neosho
Virginia-Carolina
James Cooper
Ross Cooper
Santa Fe
Neosho County Home Care Rates Spark Protest
Chanute group Neosho County Citizens Committee charges irregularities in welfare operations and a $125 monthly county home rate with $10 rental to county, vs $100 at private nursing homes. They seek equal $100 payments and question leasing the home to an outside administrator.
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Chanute
Neosho County, Social Welfare Department
Reuben Burkman
Richard Good
Glen Halbe
Bill Walters
Neosho County
Neosho Manor
D. C
Diver
State Department of Social Welfare
Franklin
Butler
Woodson
Wilson
Dr Miller Named Dean of KU Medical School
Dr. C. Arden Miller, 35, assistant dean, was named dean of the University of Kansas Medical School. The board of regents appointed Miller, with a committee noting the protest’s sole focus on taxpayers. The appointment is effective July.
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Topeka
Kan
Arden Miller
University of Kansas
Burkman
Kansas Medical
Good
Wal-l
Radio Board of Regents
Oregon Primary Nears as Morse and Kennedy Clash
Primary voters in Oregon face a showdown between Senator Wayne Morse and Senator John F Kennedy in the 1960 presidential race. Kennedy, already winning elsewhere, campaigned aggressively while Morse warned a Kennedy win could fracture the Democratic Party in Oregon.
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Portland
Ore
Oregon
Wayne Morse
Washington
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Kennedy
Morse
Parking Meters At Municipal Beach For Boats
Detroit AP says Metropolitan Beach installs the first parking meters for boats in the country. The meters at boat wells with fresh water and electrical outlets charge a quarter per 15 minutes. Wells with only tieup facilities have meters that bill a dime.
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Detroit
Remodeling Underway at First Church of Christ Scientist
A 25000 remodeling project is underway at the First Church of Christ Scientist located at 18 N Forest. Work began May 3 and will finish in about five months. Crews will add a large back extension for Sunday School and reading room. Exterior gains include a gabled roof and rose tinted windows.
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First Church of Christ, Scientist
N. Forest
C. C. Norman
First Church of Christ Scientist
Tribune
Eisenhower Returns Home From Paris Trip
President Eisenhower flew into Andrews Air Force Base amid a somber tone after the failed summit. He warned Americans to be watchful for more irritations and possible incidents as tensions with the Soviet Union rise. He announced a missing unarmed two engine transport with nine passengers over East Germany, possible weather-related straying across the border.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Andrews Air Force Base
Maryland
Paris
East Germany
Wheelus Airfield
Libya
Tornado hits Kansas area killing one and injuring 28
A tornado spanning about 100 miles from west of Topeka through northeast Kansas into Missouri left one woman dead, 28 people hurt, and hundreds of buildings damaged or destroyed in Meriden, Rossville, Silver Lake, Elmont, Edgerton, and surrounding towns. Emergency crews aided injured. power outages occurred in multiple towns. a separate path near Brookfield caused cars to be crushed and a radio tower top destroyed.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Missouri
Wamego
Rossville
Lake
Elmont
Meriden
Leavenworth
Edgerton
Brookfield
Missouri Highway Patrol
T. R. Taylor
Mildred Hundley
Ken Bronson
Topeka Daily Capital
Harry Miller
Dick Cantillian
Cantillian
Winds and twister damage hit Chanute area
Powerful winds gusting to 81 mph caused property damage in Chanute with falling tree limbs triggering outages across the city. A baby twister damaged outbuildings on farms near Chanute, while the Hudson Service Station suffered structural damage. No injuries were reported.
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Chanute
J. N. Uhren
Pete Rausch
Hudson
S. Santa Fe
Rescue Effort Fails for 5 on Mt McKinley Alaska
In Alaska 5 climbers including a sick woman and four injured men remain stranded on Mt McKinley as a jet helicopter fails twice due to mechanical trouble after taking off from a 10 000 foot base camp. Rescuers, including Seattle Mountain Rescue Council members, push on by foot as temperatures plunge to 15 below zero. A second helicopter en route to Summit with skis is planned, while an Air Force cargo plane may drop adrenaline and plasma to the ill climber. Crews and others gauge whether to resume ascent or aid the sick woman by helicopter if possible.
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North America
Seattle Mountain Rescue Council
Peter Bading
Anchorage
Paul Crews
Oregon
John Day
Seattle
Four of One Family Killed in Crash
A Kanopolis family of four was killed in a car truck collision east of Brookville on U S 40. LeRoy Galliardt 42 his wife Georgia 35 son Gary 5 and daughter Karen 13 died. Truck driver Guy Willis 26 of Lubbock Tex escaped injury. The Galliart family was bound for Salina. Willis truck bound for New Mexico carried 25 000 pounds of irrigation pipe and scattered along the highway.
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Kanopolis
Kas
Brookville
U.S. 40
LeRoy Galliardt
Georgia
Gary
Karen
Guy Willis
Lubbock
Tex
Galliardt
Salina
Willis
New Mexico
Poppy Day Designated in Chanute on May 28
May 28 is designated Poppy Day in Chanute. Mrs. C. E. Blackwood, chairwoman for the American Legion Auxiliary, says headquarters will be set up by the Auxiliary in a Main Street building and Mrs. Marvin Seefeldt with Junior members will sell poppies in the business district throughout the day.
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Chanute
C. E. Blackwood
American Legion Auxiliary
Main
Marvin Seefeldt
Auxiliary
Water project funds okayed for Kansas sites by House panel
The House Appropriations Committee advanced a bill funding Army Engineer and Reclamation Bureau water projects for the coming year. Kansas sites include John Redmond Reservoir, Pomona, Turtle Creek and Milford Reservoirs, plus others in Missouri and planning surveys.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
House
Army Engineers
Reclamation Bureau
Eisenhower
Kansas
Council Grove
John Redmond
Manhattan
Ottawa
Pomona
Topeka
Turtle Creek
Wilson
Milford
Frankfort
Marion
Perry
Missouri
Fabius River
Pomme de Terre
St. Louis
Table Rock
Perry County
Kaysinger Bluff
Stockton
Joanna
South River Drainage District
Cedar Bluff
Webster
Almena
Glen Elder Unit
Meramec Basin
Khrushchev Seeks Six to Eight Month Pause in Berlin Talks
Soviet Premier Khrushchev promised to preserve the Germany status quo until a possible summit in six to eight months. He warned against returning to Cold War tensions, urged patience, and called for a treaty with the two German states if talks ripen. He also criticized Eisenhower personally for Paris summit collapse.
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Berlin
Nikita Khrushchev
Germany
U. S
Paris
Khrushchev
East Germany
Eisenhower
Chanute Contributes 913 to Farm Hall drive
Chanute businessmen completed a fund drive for the Agricultural Hall of Fame with total contributions of 913 dollars. Of this, 413 dollars were cash and the rest pledged to be paid over two years. John Gorton and Mahlon Morley co chaired the Chanute effort conducted by the Chamber of Commerce agriculture committee.
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Chanute
Agricultural Hall of Fame
Harry Rash
Thayer
Rash
John Gorton
Mahlon Morley
Chamber of Commerce Agriculture Committee
Traffic Fatalities in Topeka Report for 24 Hours
Kansas traffic death log shows 0 deaths in the Topeka area during the 24 hours ending at 9 a.m. Friday. The comparison table notes 180 deaths in the 1959 period and 143 in 1960.
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Topeka
Kansas
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Pacific Northwest
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Crews
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James
Louis Whittaker
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