Mrs Williamson Tells of Trips at Queen Esther Class
Mrs Pansy Williamson spoke to the Queen Esther class in the Christian church fellowship room about her Europe trip and a recent freighter voyage to Carmel California. Devotions were led by Mrs B E Barkley, a piano solo by John Boydston highlighted the program.
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Pansy Williamson
Christian Church Fellowship Room
Europe
Carmel
Calif
B. E. Barkley
John Boydston
A. C. Ward
J. D. Tyler
A. M. Garton
Choir Honors Couple Before Sunday Presbyterian Marriage
Members of the church choir hosted an open house and bridal shower for Miss Jane Churchill and Bruce Brigden on Wednesday in the church parlors. Churchill, a Wichita University student, and Brigden, a College of Emporia graduate, have sung in the choir for years with honors in the receiving line by Robert Williams and Mrs John Hargrave. Background organ music by Mrs Petterson accompanied special bride and groom numbers. The refreshment table featured lace and green, with red roses, as Mrs Roy Chapple and Mrs Wayne Knox poured and Mrs Roy S Gibson led the party committee.
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Jane Churchill
Bruce Brigden
Presbyterian Church
Miss Churchill
Wichita University
Brigden
College of Emporia
Robert Williams
John Hargrave
Dave Petterson
Etiquette guidance on hospital tipping and social gestures
The guidance says do not tip a trained nurse. a small gift is acceptable. Do not require a woman to rise in a restaurant unless she is young and the other woman is elderly. A bride should send a written thank you note promptly even after verbal thanks.
Social Calendar for Monday May 28 1954
Duplicate Bridge club. Mr and Mrs Bill Peters 55S Larson. 5:30 VFW auxiliary Memorial building Chanute Ladies Encampment Odd Fellows hall and 5 pm Past Matrone of Sunflower chapter OES Mr Charies Yoo 18 W Pittssburg Leave Chanute at pm
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Duplicate Bridge Club
Bill Peters
Larson
VFW
Memorial Building
Chanute
Odd Fellows Hall
Sunflower Chapter
Charies Yoo
Pittsburg
Center Ridge WSWS Hosts Mrs Olson Lesson
Mrs James Olson led the Church and Your Home lesson at Center Ridge WSWS meeting held Wednesday afternoon at Mrs Curtis Carlson's home. Mrs Anna Carlson offered the opening prayer and members shared notes on prayer partners. Secretaries reported, and a children's spend-a-day was announced for June.
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James Olson
Center Ridge
Wsws
Curtis Carlson
Olson
Anna Carlson
Chilldren
Miss Crismas Honored At Erie-A Bridal Shower
A bridal shower for about 25 guests honored Melba Crismas at her parents’ home on May 19. Edna Burk, Alice Atkins and Mrs. Mary Reeves hosted with flowers and a miniature garden scene. Prizes from games and refreshments completed the event.
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Erie
Melba Crismas
Edna Burk
Alice Atkins
Mary Reeves
Miss Bradford To Be Bride
Miss Bradford of Elsmore announces engagement to Hiram Amundaray of Ponce Puerto Rico. Barbara Bradford a Chanute Junior College AA graduate and Kansas State College student works with National Life Insurance in Topeka. Amundaray a Ponce High School graduate studies veterinary medicine at KSU and belongs to Junior AVMA and Phi Sigma Alpha.
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Barbara Bradford
Hiram Amundaray
Ponce
Puerto Rico
Ray Bradford
Elsmore
Barbara
Francis Amundaray
Miss Bradford
Elsmore High School
Chanute Junior College
Kansas State College
National Life Insurance Company of
Topeka
YWCA
Order of Eastern Star
Ponce High School
Phi Sigma Alpha Fraternity
Jet Fighter to Aid Nation s Air Defense
General Earle E Patridge head of the Continental Air Defense Command testifies to a Senate subcommittee that an advanced jet fighter now in operational units will vastly improve interception of high altitude modern aircraft. He adds two newer interceptors with adequate combat ceilings can counter Russia s Bison bomber threat.
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Washington
Earle E. Patridge
Continental Air Defense Command
Senate
Armed Services
Russia
Mrs America winner avoids cheesecake posing
Mrs. Cleo Maletis of Portland Oregon says she was chosen as Mrs America for homemaking and not appearance. She told reporters at a news conference she does not pose for cheesecake photos, though she can bake the dessert and is a mother of three.
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New York
Cleo Maletis
Mrs America
Margaret Truman Sidelined By Laryngitis
Margaret Truman is stricken with laryngitis and has postponed planned television appearances on the George Gobel show in New York.
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Margaret Truman
New York
Thorough Polio Virus Spill Triggers Airline Inspection
A Capital Airlines plane carrying live polio virus was inspected extensively after a crate broke in Washington. Health service technicians and Army decontamination crews at Camp Detrick, Maryland, examined the aircraft and decontaminated it. Twenty two passengers on earlier Baltimore to Pittsburgh flight received gamma globulin shots. 124 later passengers are advised they do not need treatment. The airline calls the actions an abundance of caution and says infection risk is low.
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Washington
Capital Airlines
Health Service
Army
Biological Warfare Center
Camp Detrick
Baltimore
Pittsburgh
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Old Prison Camp Residential Resort in Sandusky
An island in Sandusky Bay once used as a Civil War prison camp is being developed into a residential resort. Promoters report selling a third of the coastal lots and seek a three mile causeway to the mainland. The site held 15,000 Confederate officers during confinement.
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Sandusky
Ohio
Sandusky Bay
Cleveland
Johnson's Island
Northeast crops damaged as warm spell ends
The Associated Press reports a brief cool period damaged crops across the Northeast and Great Lakes, with Massachusetts bearing the heaviest losses estimated at five million dollars. Temperatures rose 10 to 15 degrees in New England, while other regions saw minor changes and widespread showers and thunderstorms. A tornado near Lubbock Texas killed a woman and caused evacuations.
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Associated Press
New England
Great Lakes
Massachusetts
Gulf States
Weather Bureau
Oklahoma
Texas
South Plains
Lubbock
Texline
Upper Panhandle
Rockies
Central Plains
Mississippi Valley
Ohio Valley
Florida
Workers Riot At GM Plant Flint Michigan
At the GM Fisher body plant in Grand Blanc deputies and state police guarded the facility after a riot left 11 injured yesterday, two in critical condition. The rioters were from millwrights steamfitters and riggers unions, all workers for Darin & Armstrong Inc. of Detroit. Ralph Welborn, Flint Building Trades Council secretary, said riggers used goon tactics to muscle in on jobs normally done by millwrights and steamfitters.
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Flint
Mich
General Motors
Fisher
Grand Blanc
Don H. Carmichael
AFL
Darin & Armstrong, Inc
Detroit
General Contractors
Ralph Welborn
Flint Building Trades Council
Traffic Fatalities In Kansas 1956 Update
Topeka reports state accident records show 2 fatalities in the last 24 hours and 236 to date in 1956. The same period in 1955 listed 207 fatalities. One fatality was not previously reported.
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Topeka
Kansas
Firemen's Faces Red As Fire Destroys Santa Maria Station
A Santa Maria fire burned three engines at the station causing $200,000 in damage. Three regular firefighters including the chief were away at a convention and a broken siren hampered volunteer responses. Outside units finally controlled the blaze which started from a gasoline spark.
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Santa Maria
Calif
U.N African Asian Group to Ask Council on Algeria
The U.N. African Asian group will urge the Security Council to discuss the fighting in Algeria. Group chairman U Paw Htin of Burma announced the decision after a 90 minute private caucus and said details would be worked out later.
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United Nations
N.Y
U.N
Security Council
Algeria
U Paw Htin
Burma
Hutchinson Man Heads State Board of Health
Wilbur Murray of Hutchinson was elected president of the Kansas Board of Health with Dr. Ivan Cain of Kansas City as vice president and Dr. Thomas Hood re elected executive secretary. The board set new public swimming pool rules and reviewed reports on biological hazards. It approved a $1,421,742 operating budget for fiscal year 1957, up $19,410 from 1956.
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Topeka
Wilbur Murray
Hutchinson
Kansas Board of Health
Ivan Cain
Kansas City
Kas
Thomas Hood
Meilan-Fang Arrives in Tokyo for Final Good-will Mission
Meilan-Fang, a noted Red Chinese female impersonator, reaches Tokyo with the last group of an 86-member goodwill theatrical mission invited by Japanese theatrical circles in return for Peiping in Eggs invitation to a Japanese troupe last year.
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Tokyo
Meilan-fang
Dorr
Car damaged in passing attempt near Chanute. Phillips uninjured
A right front end collision occurred south of Chanute after a passing move, injuring no one in Gary R. Phillips Tulsa Oklahoma driven station wagon. Phillips walked away without injuries as car left the highway and struck a tree in a ditch.
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Gary R. Phillips
Tulsa
Okla
Chanute
Phillips
Community program and traffic court fines reported
The meeting awarded Charles Beck with the fifth degree and heard a substitute lecture by Mrs. Barker on the Christian Flag story. Gary Mack of 326 West Third pleaded guilty in police court to four traffic charges with fines totaling eighty dollars including reckless driving speeding illegal muffler and no lights.
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Charles Beck
A. C. Barker
Barker
Spence
LeRoy Hunt
Hunt
Gary Mack
W. Third
Memorial Hospital Admittances and Dismissals Summary
Friday admittances include Shirley A Key at 320 S Western for surgical, Ida Gaughn at 501 S Lincoln for medical, Eugene L Pope, Eric, surgical, Timothy Clancy at 917 S Highland for medical, and Patrick L Blanchard at 1820 S Evergreen for surgical. Dismissals listed include Rob ert Dahl, Lavenburg, William Payton at 517 W 4th, Frank Gossett at 611 S Kansas, Pete L Adiss Buffalo, Mrs Julius Baker at 915 W 14th, Mrs Donald Booe and son 206 S Gretchen, George R Hutchison R2, Johnnie C Wells, Dennis.
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Buffalo
Julius Baker
W. 14Th
Donald Booe and Son
S. Gretchen
George R. ‘Hutchison
Johnnie C. Wells
Dennis
Staggered Lunch and Start Times Considered for State Building
Topeka reports the State Office Building Commission discussed staggered work and lunch hours to move employees to their floors efficiently. Elevators are available but 45 minutes may be needed to reach floors. Midwest Research Institute proposed 7:45 a.m. starts and 15 minute intervals to 8:30 a.m. for arrivals. lunch would be staggered on the ground floor cafeteria. The commission took no action on the tentative plan.
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Topeka
State
State Office Building Commission
Midwest Research Institute
James Brown Car Hit By Bullet Holes In Pasadena
In Pasadena California the car driven by James Brown was found with bullet holes after an incident. Police investigated the case as a possible comedy of errors but the vehicle showed multiple gunshot damage. Brown reportedly took the car from an unknown location before incidents occurred.
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Pasadena
Calif
James Brown
Brown
Car chase ends when gunfire hits Brown’s car in Chanute
The Chanute Tribune reports a police pursuit after a car reported stolen by a wife. Officers fired upon the fleeing vehicle but missed the Browns. The driver Brown halted and remarked on the damage while officers confirmed the shooting.
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Brown
Presbyterians approve 1957 benevolence budget rise
The 168th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U S A approved a 1957 benevolence program budget of 31 404 063 a rise of about six million from 1956 The plan allocates 10 408 039 for foreign missions 8 854 475 for national missions 4 063 262 for Christian education and 1 325 000 for ministerial pension service 1 317 299 for general services and 4 409 287 for the General Assembly The committee urged churches to determine their own shares and outlined other allocations including 93 205 for the World Council of Churches 73 978 for the National Council of Churches 785 556 for theological education and 73 972 for the American Bible Society.
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Philadelphia
168Th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
U.S.A
General Assembly
World Council of Churches
National Council of Churches
American Bible Society
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