Honor Assembly Highlights At Senior High
The annual Senior High honor assembly featured John Kerwitz presiding and Elizabeth Pieper presenting officers for 1955-56. Dozens of awards were announced including trophies, scholarships, and United Nations certificates across basketball, track, debate, and club achievements.
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John Kerwitz
Elizabeth Pieper
Miss Pieper
W. H. McMurray
Don Grogan
Dodge City
Milton McKenzie
Bob Brundage
Bill White
Tom Fajardo
Don Goff
Bill Allen
Nurses Club
Margaret Wood
United Nations
Charles Yoos
Keith Maring
Yoos
Robert Martin
Jacquita Coe
FFA
Charles Carter
Kenneth Tebow
GAA
Celeste Reynolds
Harlie Wolgast
Kerwitz
Bill Warren
Jean Ashley
Carl Anderson
Carol Barber
Richard Hargrove
Carlene Haines
Betsy Hant
Larry Irwin
Carol Martindale
Bi Ivia Shaffer
Oliver Rimbler
Eddie Bender
Gary Berthot
Don Breiner
Lanny Buordge
Bob Cukjati
David David
Bob Hawiey
Hugh Hollenshead
Jerry
George Bareis
Joe Hamill
Sylvia Shaffer
Judy Ashley
Doris Baker
Janet Ebert
Linda Fargo
Joan Ford
Pat Gailion
Marie Grogan
Beverly Hansford
Sue Holman
Sherry Houser
Glenda Johnson
Jean Kirkpatrick
Martha McCune
Sandra Mills
Sheila Bray
Linda Clark
Judith Cleaver
Alice McCune
Joan Renaba
Womans Day Gatherings Across Walnut in May
Several households in Walnut hosted family and friends for Mother’s Day dinners and gatherings. Guests included relatives from Erie Chanute Independence Oklahoma City and Wichita. A late note mentions the 1947 defense spending totaling 12 billion dollars, higher than World War I peak military outlays.
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United States
Elsmore News Highlights Social and Local Visits
The senior class enjoyed a hamburger fry at the Humboldt park shelterhouse hosted by faculty and the board of education. A senior girls sextet performed at Friend's Home Lutheran church. Numerous visits followed among locals including the Marrs family, Nelsons, Krokstroms, and Barnetts with many Shakespearian and nursing connections. The Krokstrom Nelson family reunion gathered guests from Chanute LaHarpe Mission and Kansas City. A donkey ball game is planned at Miles Field May 26 by the American Legion.
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Humboldt
H. D. Barnett
Chanute Hospital
Mary Lou Swanson
Lorene Masterston
Topeka
Carol Lower
Bartlesville
Carol
Elsmore High School
North Carolina
Eric Carlson
LaVonne Carlson
Fred Cunningham
Gerald Johnson
Kristine
J. Edward Swanson
Jerry
Jiggs Butts
Florence Krone
Nadine Winters
Glenna Kuhn
Chanute
Kenneth Rodel
Ralph Biggs
Iola
Krokstrom-Nelson
Humboldt Park
Howard Krokstrom
Pat Bui
Kansas City
A. H. Peterson
Grandview
H. C. Peterson
Mission
A. E. Krokstrom
Altamont
Junior Zimmerman
Hillis Krokstrom
John H. Peterson
Milton Nelson
Tulsa
Copan
Oklo
Bob Evans
Wilbur Yockey
Ann Phalen
Wilbur Phalen
Miles Field
P.m
American Legion
Harold Leibst
Local Residents Return and Travel Notices
Eunice Knott RN returned home after a medical checkup at a Fort Scott hospital. Edd Schnoefer entered Mercy Hospital at Parsons for surgery. Mr and Mrs Jack Lancaster shopped in Chard. Mr and Mrs Theo Strausser and Mary Lancaster took a business trip to Pittsburg. Mrs Melvin Holding has been ill at home south of town. Mrs Dorothy Tredway spent...
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Thelma Garrett
Callie Scrivner
Oklahoma City
Elton Thompson
Kennedy
Don Reed
Main Street Hospital
Ivan Harding
Ivan Jr
Keith
Carol Jones
Carolyn
Paul Houdashelt
Kansas City
Junior Rike
Doug
Erie
Buford Teeple
Joe Modica
Nellie Vance
Parsons
Modica
Hepler
Felix Dowling
Post Office
Main St. Hospital
Fort Scott
Valgene Arnold
Marilyn
Phylis Hershberger
John Arnold
Phylis
Golda Hershberger
Linda
Billy
Emma Wintjen
Pearl Wintjen
Nowata
Okla
Lloyd Wintjen
Rural
Walnut
Jack Boyd
Gas City
Hazel Hand
Dorothy Tredway
J. C. Walker
McCune
ST. Paul
Eunice Knott
Fort Scott Hospital
Edd Schnoefer
Mercy Hospital
Jack Lancaster
Chard
Theo Strausser
Mary Lancaster
Pittsburg
Melvin Holding
Pope Praises Aviators For Great Strides
In Vatican City Pope Pius lauded aviators for advancing space exploration and urged engineers and test pilots to pursue generosity and heroism. He spoke to the International Association of Aeronautical Material Constructors praising their drive to surpass limits.
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Pope
Vatican City
Pius
Mans
International Assn. of
Little Boy Receives Two Shots of Vaccine
In Manchester New Hampshire John Langevin age six unknowingly received two doses of the Salk polio vaccine yesterday. Officials cannot explain the double dose though doctors expect no ill effects and will observe him. The boy remarked he did not know how it happened. Ten U S counties produced over ten million tons of coal in 1953.
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Manchester
N. H.P
John Langevin
John
Hugh
United States
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Buford Fisher
Margaret Manly
Emily McNeal
Kay Whitworth
Shirley Key
Nancy Wait
Bruce Burris
American Legion Post
Lloyd Dalton
The
Legion Auxiliary
Howard A. Jester
Harvey McFarland
J. E. McFarland
Bud Blair
Charles Houghton
Ene
Homer Rush
Maude Daggett
Verle Simmons
Kay
Mce- Cune
Roy Long
Jim McFarland
Harry McFarland
Henry Lang
Girard
Frank Bohlander
Arkansas City
Keitha Bohlander
Cherryvale
F.C. Bo
Reg
U.S Per OF
Outour
Pamle Sra
Elsmore
Alvin Ericson
Raymond Ericson
C. J. Johnson
Earl Ericson
Howard Baker
Ernest Baker
Ruth Butts
Longford High School
Lois Krokstrom
Richard Nelson
Lawrence
Duke Myers Home
Dewey Barnett
Harold Barnett
Axel Peters
LaHarpe
Cora Huss
Stark
World Airways
Flight 567
NAVY
Dontlaya
Isjurk
San Diego
Eanwaile
Buz
Good Best
Payway
Pillsbury Best
Chapman Feed Service
Hone
Ozalic Blue
Oilfield Research Labs
N. Highland
Chanute, Kansas
Case Farm
Trabue
Habiger Motors
E. Main
Studebaker
Case Farm Machinery
S. Lafayette
Green Kroehler
Streit
Duncan Phyfe
Chelsea
Earl Ballinger
Neal McCoy
C. C. DeBolt
Thayer
Innin
Guernsey
Ayrshire
Everett
Bill Thornton
Frank Troutman
Fredonia
Don Marple
Benedict
First National Bank of Thayer
S. Santa Fe
Erie Road
Earlton
Oliver
John Deere
Ann Arbor
Riley Graham
Bill Riley
Bill Gough
South Santa FE
Dearborn
F. E. Maynard
Chas. DeBolt
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