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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1956
Page
9
News briefs note C. G. Wood left Sunday for duty at Little Rock Arkansas after completing training at Parks Air Force Base Oakland California. Chanute Community Council held its regular monthly meeting in the Memorial Building Federation Room on the third floor at 7 30 p.m. Tuesday.
Saturday and Sunday adoptions list multiple admissions including Ellen L West R1 surgical and Merle Young R2 surgical while dismissals feature Mike Gogan and Randy Clements. Birth records note a daughter born to Mr and Mrs George L Heider in Humboldt alongside recent moves and property transfers in Allen County.
The Coast Guard opens an inquiry into a collision between the 180 foot tanker M. J. Derby and a 33 foot cabin cruiser off 51st Street in New York. One woman died and five people were rescued as thousands looked on.
About 600 women from Kansas and Oklahoma are expected for Rural Homemakers Day in Coffeyville. Sponsored by the Coffeyville Chamber of Commerce the event features Home Demonstration Club shows skits picnicking and a basket dinner with participants from Nowata Craig Washington Montgomery Labette and Chautauqua counties.
Stock prices drifted lower in slow late trading with most sectors down 1 to 3 points. Volume around 2 million shares. some price recovery appeared in spots as the day closed. The Leyden park paragraph notes early condenser use in storing electric charge.
Beulah Benton of Tishomingo Oklahoma scored 97 on her car driver's examination here, described by state patrolmen as the highest score ever recorded. She is a senior at Chiloojee Indian School just across the Oklahoma line.
The House Appropriations Committee recommended 125.9 million dollars for the reclamation construction program for the coming year, 25 million below Eisenhower’s budget. It struck out all new Upper Colorado construction funds, allocating 3.155 million for planning and advance work on Glen Canyon Flaming Gorge and Navajo dams, with 85 thousand set for Navajo Dam planning on the San Juan River in New Mexico.
Workmen at a Tokyo site found the last of 255 gold coins valued at about 1 758 dollars scattered through mud. Police impounded the coins pending an inquiry into their origin and rightful ownership. A prior storehouse for valuables stood on the site. Japan halted gold coin use in the 1930s.
Cation late rites held for Mrs Dosia Cation in Wilson Johnson chapel with Rev Ted D Hurst officiating. Burial at Leanna cemetery. Jesse Charles Beckwith 70 retired Humboldt farmer died en route to Neosho Memorial Hospital Chanute of heart attack. Born Dec 9 1885 in Hildreth Nebraska. Survivors include sisters Edith Wolf Martha Fadely, and brothers Lester and Bernard Beckwith. Funeral arrangements by Johnson Funeral home.
Emil Dick of Peabody died when an oil transport tank exploded at the Rhoades Bros. Construction Co. yard in Newton. Police Chief C. E. Peterson said Dick was working alone near the tank when the blast occurred Saturday.
In Rome Mrs. Harry Truman joined friends including Stanley Woodward, former White House protocol chief, for a morning of window shopping along Via Condotti. She did not buy anything, despite extensive browsing of jewelry and glass and other shops.
Truman spent the morning in his hotel in Milan and met Arnoldo Mondadori, publisher of his memoirs in Italian, receiving advance copies of the Italian edition. The president then went out again to shop for gloves.
Indonesian leader Sukarno, admirer of Thomas Jefferson, lauds the U.S. third president in Charlottesville Virginia as an inspiration for his own country’s independence.
Brannan states he is satisfied and opposed to any effort to doom him for the Democratic vice presidential nomination. He says his goal remains running for the U S Senate and dismisses calls to block his candidacy.
Elton Carter, Norton publisher, filed today as a candidate for the Republican nomination as a presidential elector.
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