Boat Capsize on Neosho River Near Cha nute Alarm Local Authorities
Two Humboldt men Elmer Harwood and Ernest Karns escaped unharmed when their motor boat capsized while attempting to cross Barker dam on the Neosho River near Chanute. Gear was lost, motor wet, but both men swam to recover the craft. Authorities alerted and a search organized. river was about 17 feet above normal with flood stage 20 21 feet.
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Neosho
Grand Lake
Humboldt
Barker Dam
Chanute
Elmer Harwood
Humboldt Grocer
Ernest Karns
Monarch Cement Co
Harwood
Karns
Har
Wood
Avery Sprague Dies at 64 Noted Insurance Agent
Avery Sprague 64 prominent Chanute insurance agent died this morning at Neosho Memorial Hospital after a colon tumor autopsy. He founded Sprague Insurance Agency in 1932 and operated it at 11 S Lincoln. Survived by wife Ethel, mother Elizabeth Sprague, daughter Mrs. Emmett Bower, two granddaughters Judy and Linda Bower. Funeral at First Methodist Church Wednesday at 2 pm with interment Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Avery Sprague
Neosho Memorial Hospital
S. Lafayette
Sprague
Chanute Elks Lodge
White Shrine of
Elizabeth Sprague
Chanute
Emmett Bower
Judy
Linda Bower
Christian Way of Life Better Rev Hutchison Tells Classes
Rev. Ray Hutchison of First Baptist delivered the baccalaureate address to 124 senior high and 58 junior college graduates in the Memorial building. He urged perseverance through closed doors and urged placing faith in God to guide future plans, with the sermon stressing faithfulness, devotion, and high goals.
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Rev. Hutchison
Ray Hutchison
First Baptist Church
Memorial Building
Hutchison
God
Christ
Buford Fisher
Claude E. Pittenger
Church of the Nazarene
William T. Hunt
First Presbyterian Church
Israel
Almighty God
Partly Cloudy Warm Weather Forecast For Kansas
AP reports a mainly sunny day across Kansas with a brief risk of scattered thundershowers in the west this afternoon. Highs near 80, lows from the 50s northwest to 70 southeast, Chanute noting up to .04 inch of rain yesterday.
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Porecast
Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Chanute
Tribune Delivery Help Line Prompted by Phone Contact
An advisory notes readers should call their carrier if the Tribune is not received. The snippet references a person possibly named Lee Wasser in relation to insurance and provides an after hours contact line 700 after 6 p.m.
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Tribune
Lee Wasser
Canteen Talent Show Attracts 500 Fans In Chanute
Concession sales and ticket income from the Canteen Carnival at the Memorial Building totaled 461 dollars and 25 cents. The event, organized by Chanute youths to fund the Teen Canteen, included 24 acts with 67 participants and a Mike Parsons Junior High Band dance afterward. Publicity was led by Jim McCune, with Nancy Sparks, Jim Gough, Larry Thompson, and Mary Truitt coordinating committees. Joe Mills hosted the show and about 500 people attended various performances and ticket purchases.
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Memorial Building
Jim McCune
Chanute
Nancy Sparks
Jim Gough
Larry Thompson
Mary Truitt
Joe Mills
Mike Parsons
Teen Canteen
Two Cars Damaged In St Paul Collision Near River Bridge
A two car crash on highway K 57 west of here near the Neosho River bridge at about 1 15 p m caused extensive property damage with no injuries. Officers Sheriff Jerry Sloan and Trooper R L White investigated. Damages were estimated at 600 dollars per car. Drivers were Rita I Crepps 55 Wichita in a 1959 Olds and Claude C Ellis 56 Pittsburg in a 1957 Ford station wagon.
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ST. Paul
Neosho River
Here
Jerry Sloan
R. L. White
Highway Pa
Chanute
White
Rita I. Crepps
Wichita
Olds
Claude C. Ellis
Pittsburg
Ellis
Mrs Wheat Becomes Bookkeeper at City Power Plant
Mrs George Wheat of 323 West Fifth Street began work today as bookkeeper and secretary at the city power plant. She succeeds James Anderson, who transfers to the police department as dispatcher and secretary. Wheat previously worked for the city from September 1951 to August 1954 in the police department role now filled by Anderson.
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George Wheat
W. 5Th
James Anderson
Police Department
Wheat
Anderson
Driver Fined After Crashing Into Parked Truck in Erie
Robert McAlexander 29 of Earlton was fined 100 dollars and 5 costs for driving while intoxicated after a crash in Erie at 12:30 am Sunday. His 1949 Ford was a total loss, striking a 1948 Chevrolet owned by Earl Beeler Jr. A tire blew on the truck and a spring hanger was damaged.
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Erie
Robert McAlexander
Earlton
Justice of the Peace Court
Jerry Sloan
McAlexander
Sloan
Earl Beeler Jr
Chanute Youth Places In Road E O Contest
Eu gene Cooke of Kansas City won the Kansas state Road E O driving contest and will represent Kansas in the national event in Washington. He edged runner up Don McGraw of Independence by one point and earned a 250 dollar scholarship with a 464 score based on driving tests. Other finishers included Ailiff Neel McPherson Ronald Carver Fredonia Marvin Berk Concordia Arthur Moberg Johnson County Mike Cozad Derby Gary Griffith Ellsworth Lynn Smittle Chanute and Johnnie Lopez Emporia.
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Mcpherson
Kan
Eugene Cooke
Kansas City
Kansas
Washington
Cooke
Don McGraw
Independence
Ailiff Neel
Ronald Carver
Fredonia
Marvin Berk
Concordia
Arthur Moberg
Johnson County
Mike Cozad
Derby
Gary Griffith
Equalization Board To Hear Tax Appeals in Erie County
Erie Neosho County commissioners continue as tax equalization board to hear 1959 assessment appeals through Thursday. The 10 day period began last Monday with 26 applications filed by noon today, mostly minor. 13 requests were filed on the first day.
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Erie
Neosho County
Chanute Central Union Meets at Carpenters Hall Tonight
The Chanute Central Union will meet at 8 p.m. today in Carpenters Hall to discuss upcoming events and community plans.
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Chanute Central Union
Carpenters Hall
Hostage crisis ends as captor shot by police in Dallas
In Dallas a drunken contractor held four hostages and killed a painter before police with tear gas and submachine guns fatally shot Frank Windsor, 68, after a two hour standoff. Hostages escaped unhurt as officers stormed the house and seized control.
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Frank Windsor
Dallas
Bill Decker
Windsor
M. G. Hassels
C. E. Campbell
Jane Dickinson
Hassell
Dickinson
Will Fritz
Mrs. Carter
Jerry Hill
Dallas Times-Herald
C. W. Brown
T. T. Dean
W. G. Jennings
Dean
Jennings
Hill
Brown
Tractor Mishap Fatal To El Dorado Youth
A 15 year old farm youth Neal Hildebrand died when an overturned tractor trapped him in a field near his home northeast of Latham Kansas about 25 miles southeast of El Dorado. He would have graduated from Latham grade school in last night’s commencement.
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EL Dorado, Kan
Neal Hildebrand
Alvin Hildebrand
Latham
Here
Latham Grade School
Free Areas Mourn Death of Dulles
World tributes pour in for John Foster Dulles after his death at 71 from cancer and pneumonia. Presidents and officials planned a three day flag half staff period as Western leaders attend a 2 PM funeral at Washington National Cathedral with burial at Arlington. Dulles had shaped Cold War strategy and influenced Geneva talks while his funeral follows Presbyterian rites.
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Dulles
Christian A. Herter
Selwyn Lloyd
Maurice Couve de Murville
Geneva
Andrei Gromyko
West Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Japan
Aiichiro Fujiyama
Free World
Giuseppe Pella
Eisenhower
Gettysburg
U.S
Capitol
National Cathedral
Episcopal
Arlington National Cemetery
Presbyterian Church
Dulles Death News Echoes From Geneva to Washington
In Geneva Western and Soviet diplomats discuss funeral plans for John Foster Dulles as U S officials expected to travel to Washington. President Eisenhower hailed Dulles as brave and great while mourning the loss of his former secretary of state and noting the personal sorrow in his tribute.
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Geneva
Antalks
Germany
Susdrei Gromyko
Ministrom
Washington
John Foster Dulles
Eisenhower
Dulles
Rural 8th Grade Exercises Here
More than 400 people filled the Chanute Senior High auditorium Saturday afternoon for the commencement exercises of 54 rural eighth grade graduates from 16 Neosho County schools. Dr Clifton Huff urged students to pursue higher heights in his speech Meet The Success Family. Music and ceremonies featured Grant Rural High School performers and local clergy offered prayers.
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Chanute Senior High
Neosho County
Nelle Stevens
Clifton B. Huff
Emporia State College
Emporia
Grant Rural High School
Stark
Lydia May Phillips
Parsons
William T. Hunt
Chanute Presbyterian Church
Kenneth Henshaw
Friends Church
Dulles Dies After Cancer Battle at Walter Reed
Former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles died in his sleep at Walter Reed Army Hospital after illness with cancer. An official funeral near state status is planned for Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Washington National Cathedral with President and Mrs. Eisenhower attending. Burial with full military honors will follow at Arlington National Cemetery.
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U.S
Washington National Cathedral
Dulles
John Foster Dulles
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Washington
New York City
Associated Press
Washington National
Body recovered from Verdigris River near Independence
The body of Sgt. Edward L. Holmberg, 37, an 18 year Army veteran, was recovered yesterday from the Verdigris River. He drowned May 17 while fishing near the city dam. Holmberg and his wife and two children lived in Independence and he was to report to Fort Leonard Wood next month.
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Elmer Wentermote
Floyd Young
Equalization Board
Dallas, Tex
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Kremlin
Death of Dulles
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FFA
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Highland Park
St. Patrick's Catholic School
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St. Pat's Boys
Peter Finnegan
Herbert Snender
Joyland
Murray Hill School
Ruth Crossfield
Alcott School
Myrtle Moeller
Alcott
Marilyn Wall
Hutton
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Roosevelt
Harold Anderson
Vendla Kjellander
Calvin Cassady
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