Defense Starts Case In Slander Trial
In Chanute, the defense opened its case in the $25,000 slander suit filed by Tom Morehead against Dalice Rush in district court. Key witnesses included Chanute city manager R. J. Hayes and former officials who testified about photographs Rush allegedly showed and remarks tied to Morehead’s reputation.
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ERIE
Tom Morehead
Chanute
Dalice Rush
Rush
Ralph Burghart
Spot Cafe
Morehead
Hayes
R. J. Hayes
Harold R. Williams
R. D. Churchill
John Hemphill
Neosho County
Kangaroo Court Held For Beard Regs Violators Tomorrow
Subpoenas will be issued during the first session of the Kangaroo Court at Centennial headquarters tomorrow night. Judge Paul Brennecke will preside as violators face a made- for- venue court. A jail is prepared at Centennial HQ for convicted individuals.
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Chanute Centennial
Paul Brennecke
Centennial
L. D. Hunter
Jim Fehr
Bob Harmon
Charles Musselman
Main Street
Main
Lincoln
Linda Campbell
Jane Evans
Emily Lee
Jackie Churchill
Kay Blair
Sherrolyn Leavitt
Cathy Thompson
Nancy Johns
Dinah Morris
Mary Lee John
Two Arrested on No-Fund Check Warrants in Allen County
Two Chanute residents were arrested yesterday by local police and the Neosho County sheriff's office and turned over to the Allen County sheriff on separate no fund check warrants. Arthur Nicholas was arrested by the undersheriff and Miss Johnson by city police and KBI officers from Lola.
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Chanute
Neosho County
Allen County
Arthur Nicholas
Miss Johnson
KBI
Lola
Plane Crash Kills 18 Servicemen at McChord
A C124 Globemaster returning from Yakima to Ft. Sill crashed in a wooded area near Ft. Lewis early today, killing 18 servicemen and injuring four. Five crew and passengers escaped. 15 Army men from B Battery, 26th Field Artillery, were aboard along with seven Air Force crew. The crash occurred in foggy predawn darkness, with the wreckage smoldering hours later.
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Mcchord Air Force Base
Help
Joseph Wiggins
Wash
Ft. Sill
Okla
Air Force
Madigan General Hospital
Ft. Lewis
Madigan
Globemaster
Donaldison Afb
S.C
Yakima
McChord
Ft. Lewis Military Reservation
Tacoma
Seattle
B Battery
26Th Field Artillery
4Th Army
Kansas Gov Announces 68.7 Million Highway Program
Gov John Anderson unveils a 68.7 million highway construction program for the new fiscal year. The plan funds inter state work with 10 percent state funds and 90 percent federal, plus 50 50 splits for primary secondary and urban projects. Expenditures detail interstate grading resurfacing and bridges across divisions and right of way acquisitions.
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Topeka
John Anderson
Addison H. Meschke
Highway Commission
Will of Mrs. Grace Creates Trust For Companion
The will of 84 year old Wichita widow Mrs. Rachel Grace leaves a ten thousand dollar trust for Miss Eunice S. Spalding and a hundred thousand dollar fund to build a universal chapel at the University of Wichita. The estate valued at three hundred thousand includes a twenty thousand dollar scholarship for women music students at Wichita University and land bequests to the Evangelical Reformed Church Cheney Kansas and Copeland Kansas Methodists. Additional gifts go to the College of Emporia Institute of Lex Pedics Wichita and the Kansas division of the American Cancer Society.
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Wichita
Rachel Grace
Eunice S. Spalding
University of Wichita
Grace
Harvey Grace
Miss Spalding
Kansas
American Cancer Society
Kansas City Police Locate Iola Girl
Doris Ilene Finley a 15 year old girl from Iola who had been missing for days was located by Kansas City police. She is married, and authorities had asked aid from Chanute and Lola police as she had run away from home last week.
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Doris Ilene Finley
Iola
Kansas City
Youth Drowns In Sand Pit Near Wichita
Eugene Bailey 12 of Wichita drowned Tuesday in a sand pit near the Arkansas River. Police and fire rescue dragged for nearly three hours before recovering the body as his brother Paul, 10, watched.
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Wichita, Kas
Eugene Bailey
Wichita
Arkansas River
Fire
Paul
Eugene
Met Opera withdraws Southern performances
New York's Metropolitan Opera Co. will no longer perform before segregated audiences in the South. General manager Rudolf Bing said the company can't afford to stage productions in Atlanta and Dallas, where it regularly stops, after informing patrons there it would discontinue such performances.
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Detroit
New York
Metropolitan Opera Co
South
Rudolf Bing
Met
Bing
Atlanta
Dallas
July Draft Calls 6000 Inductees
The Defense Department has asked to induct 6,000 men into the Army in July, the first draft request since April when 1,500 were called up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Defense Department
Army
Son of TV Dagwood Accused in Palisades Robbery
Police hold Arthur P. Lake Jr 18 son of actor Arthur Lake for suspected robbery in Palisades Park with two others one 17 unnamed. The alleged theft totals 1.93 dollars from a man.
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Dagwood
Santa Monica
Calif
Arthur Lake
Palisades Park
Arthur P. Lake Jr
Jan Paul Anderson
Boosters Rally For Ottawa South Interstate Highway
A dedicated group of over 110 business and professional leaders from 16 Kansas and Oklahoma towns pledged support for a two lane interstate from Ottawa to the Oklahoma border. The meeting named a resolutions committee as it aims to present hard data on costs and traffic to highway officials.
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Robert Finney
Humboldt
Jim Cooper
Chanute
Charles
Kansas
Ottawa
Oklahoma
Kansas City
Allen County
Jack Goodrich
Parsons
George Docking
Bill Smith
Ottawa South Assn
Bob Gill
Goodrich
Kansas Highway Commission
Kansas- Missouri Line
Missouri
Ottawa-South
Tioga
Glenn Sutton
Highway Department
Myron George
Forsyth
Smith
Cherryvale
Garnett
Howard
Coffeyville
Neodesha
Independence
Edna
Iola
Fredonia
Sedan
Caney
Erie
Bartlesville
Ohlo
Chanute Chamber of Commerce Highway Committee
Neosho River Crest Expected Sunday Flood Scene
The Weather Bureau forecast a crest two feet above flood stage for the Neosho River here by Sunday as upstream waters push levels up. Flooding continues on the Marais des Cygnes and Smoky Hill rivers with the Solomon and Saline rivers also flooding in parts of Kansas.
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Weather Bureau
Topekai
Neosho River
Lincoln
Marais Des Cygnes
Smoky Hill
Neosho
Burlington
Republican
Kansas River
Richard Garrett
Topeka
Kansas
Solomon
Solomon Crest
Beloit
Chanute to Host Martin and Osa Johnson Museum Group
A non profit founded in Chanute to establish and operate a Safari Museum Inc has completed incorporation. The Johnsons famed explorers hunters called Chanute home with Joe F Balch as resident agent for the new organization.
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Topeka
Martin and Osa Johnson
Chanute
Johnsons
Safari Museum Inc
Joe F. Balch
Clymer to Speak at KU Commencement Weekend Events
Rolla A. Clymer editor of the El Dorado Times will speak at the Saturday evening welcoming dinner for the University of Kansas commencement and reunions activities on June 3.
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JayCee
Jaynes
Lee McCay
Caney
National Guard
Steve Stevens
JayCees
Ray Christiansen
Chanute Junior Golf tournament plans announced
JayCees finalize the Chanute Cha nute Junior Golf tournament for June 9 at Chanute Country Club. Nine holes in morning and afternoon, open to boys under 18 by Aug 15 1961, with two age classes and trophies for top two in each.
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Chanute
The
JayCees
National Guard
Chanute Country Club
Dean Sutcliffe
Kern
Jay
Arkansas City
Denver
Aoe Sutcliffe
JayCee
H. A. Wolgast
Tony Lockyear
Royster
Sutcliffe
Sheltered Workshop Feasibility Discussed in Chanute Meeting
Neosho County Assn for Exceptional Children discussed organizing a sheltered workshop for retarded children in the Chanute area. The plan aims to train crafts skills for older youth. operation hoped by next year. Rev and Mrs White man of the 1st Assembly of God attended. Next meeting set for the third Friday in September.
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Chanute
Neosho County
Bishop Freking presides at dedication of $3 million St Mary Hospital
The Most Rev. Frederick W. Freking, bishop of Salina, celebrated a solemn Pontifical Mass at the dedication of Manhattan's new $3 million St. Mary Hospital on Tuesday. The event marked a major milestone for the Roman Catholic community in the area.
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Manhattan
Frederick W. Freking
Salina
St. Mary Hospital
Kennedy to Seek Bigger Space and Aid Funds From Congress
President Kennedy will address a joint session of Congress to ask for increased funding for space and foreign aid. He is expected to push a larger civilian shelter program for nuclear protection and to outline a broader push for Asian and African aid while limiting public works spending.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
House
John W. McCormack
D-Mass
U.S
Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
OCDM
Frank B. Ellis
White House
Flood Crests and Clean-up Rise Across Kansas Areas
Flood crests and cleanup operations spread across Kansas as the Weather Bureau eyed no new rain through Thursday. The Solomon River crest near Beloit could reach 35 feet, ditto Salt Creek flooding the Beloit outskirts. many bridges closed, several highways reopened, and towns evacuated while Neosho and Kansas River levels receded.
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Associated Press
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Kansas City
Solomon River
Beloit
Alan Houghton
Beloit Call
City Park
Salt Creek
Barnhart Road
Solomon
Kansas Highway Patrol
Hartford
Tuttle Creek
Randolph
Minneapolis
Council Grove
Neosho
Emporia
Burlington
Chanute
Kansas River
Manhattan
Topeka
Bonner Springs
Traffic Fatalities Report From Topeka May 1961
Kansas traffic log details 24 hours to 9 am Wednesday for May 1961. Report notes 37 fatalities in the period compared with 198 in 1960. The figures show year to year changes in traffic deaths.
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Topeka
Kansas
Iéi
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Tom Ogden
Plaintiff
Charles Forsyth
Boosters
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Jim Haight
Gary Lantz
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