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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1959
Page
5
The speaker notes about 10 million students will graduate, urging continuation of schooling and skill training. He cites unemployment gaps: unskilled workers face much higher rates than skilled, and dropouts earn far less with higher unemployment.
Fidel Castro contends Cuba’s agrarian reform will cut his family holdings from 2178 to 1000 acres of sugar land. In Buenos Aires, about 300 strikers were arrested after clashes between rioters and police disrupted downtown as Indonesian President Sukarno visited.
St Patrick High School in Walnut holds baccalaureate services for ten seniors led by Rev J G Bartos at St Patrick's Church at 9 am Sunday. Commencement for seniors and thirteen grade school graduates follow Holy Mass and Sunday morning events. senior speaker is Rev Michael Blackledge of St Joseph's Yates Center.
Bank clerks protesting for higher wages trigger clashes as an open car is mobbed and a balcony collapses killing two spectators. The incident comes amid a 10 day government holiday with skeleton staffs.
Ozark farmer Opie Warner Moss confessed to shooting neighbor William Dellaven at Dellaven’s farm after accusing him of stealing $83. Moss said he fired a deer rifle from the hip, killed Dellaven, and buried $900 from the alleged theft. A neighbor reported Moss to the Missouri Highway Patrol, prompting the arrest.
Kansas City AP report: Gas Service Co. seeks a $10,523,000 rate increase from Cities Service Gas Co. The boost would affect 250 communities in the Kansas City area and become effective June 23 if approved. President Mr. Power cites high operating costs making absorption impossible. The firm serves western Missouri eastern Kansas and small parts of Nebraska and Oklahoma.
A kitchen tip suggesting adding drained minced canned clams to browning potatoes to make a flavorful hash. Combines seafood with potatoes for a quick skillet dish.
Washington AP report on the House effort to trim President Eisenhower's requests for 20.3 billion dollars in funding. A series of defense commerce public works and operating funds bills face potential reversals as Senate panel adds amounts, with Welfare funding exceeding requests while Agriculture and independent agencies face cuts. The outcome will shape the next year's federal budget beginning July 1 and reflects congressional control limits over spending.
In Geneva AP reports two leading U.S. delegation members arrived at a staff meeting wearing bow ties. Secretary of State Christian Herter, who regularly wears bows, raised his eyebrows at Defense officials during the session.
Secretary Neil H. McElroy and Livingston T. Merchant serve as assistant secretary of state for European affairs in a late 1940s rearrangement shaping U S diplomacy.
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