Local Briefs Highlight Community News and Alumni
Ottawa University student Carol Wiles was elected sophomore class treasurer for 1955-56. Pvt James C. Lander, 20, son of Elsmore residents, graduated from the Far East Anti-Aircraft Artillery Specialist School in Yokohama Japan and served with Battery B of the 138th Group. A Chanute Junior College graduate, he joined the Army in 1954 and arrived in the Far East in March 1955. The column also notes visits by Mr and Mrs S H Davis of Orange Conn, Allen County Centennial rehearsals in Iola, a library story hour featuring The Bear on the Balcony and Buffo and Petro, and birth of Daniel Lawrence James in San Bernardino California to Mr and Mrs Harry C James.
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Carol Wiles
Ottawa University
Miss Wiles
Everett D. Wiles
James C. Lander
Carrol J. Lander
Elsmore
Yokohama
Japan
Lander
40Th
138Th
Chanute Junior College
Army
Fort Bliss
Tex
Far East
Harry C. James
Lilac
Rialto
Calif
Daniel Lawrence
St. Bernardine’s Hospital
San Bernardino
Stephen Philip
Thomas Andrew
Nancilyn Susan
James
Marilyn Booth
John W. Booth
Chanute
Nancy M. Stubbs
Humboldt Rotary selects representative for international event
Humboldt W R Kent was named as the Humboldt Rotary Club delegate to the Rotary International meeting in Chicago this June. The club canceled Monday meetings for Memorial Day observance and for Allen County Centennial activities in Iola next week. Merie Morris, president, paid today, and Rev. Robert Wheatley spoke on Character Building in Sports, introduced by C H Williams. Visitors included Bill Shaw and others from Chanute Iola Manhattan Parsons and Parsons.
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W. R. Kent
Humboldt Rotary Club
Rotary International
Chicago
Rotary Club
Allen County
Iola
Merie Morris
Robert Wheatley
The
Baptist Church
Wheatley
C. &. Williams
Bill Shaw
Dean Gough
Carl Pate
Joe Baich
Chanute
Bill Young
Dudley Henderson
Stanzel
Showalter
Nesmieth
Manhattan
Visitors and arrivals mark Hum boldt centennial week
Rapp family guests join locals for Humboldt Centennial celebrations while relatives travel from Chanute to attend. Others travel from Los Angeles Santa Rosa Texas and Chicago to visit, attend or extend summer plans. Diverse ties connect Chanute Farmers and city families through summer journeys and nursing school completion.
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Humboldt
Traxel
Sidney Wertz
Mr. Wertz
Chicago
Richard Googins
Yates Center
Leon Hansen
Santa Rosa
Calif
William Feeney
Louise
Don Hofer
Ranger
Texas
N. A. Arme
Alien County
Jack Armel
Mrs. Armel
Debbie
Jackie
Tracey
President Seeks Changes in Law of Refugee Aid
President Eisenhower urged Congress to liberalize refugee relief with 10 amendments including admitting orphans worldwide. He advocated improved administration of the 1953 act and argued the changes would bolster sanctuary tradition while noting past criticism of program handling. The remarks came amid controversy over immigration staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eisenhower
America
Congress
Edward J. Corsi
New York
Dulles
French Expedition Scales Mt Makalu Fourth Highest Peak
Global briefs report a French expedition reaching Mt Makalu at 27 824 feet ranking as the world’s fourth highest. Paris papers also covered a 24 hour strike by morning newspapers protesting a new bill.
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New Delhi
Mt. Makalu
Paris
Global postwar tension and military moves across Asia and Europe
Chiang Kai-shek urged troops to recapture the mainland from Communists as labor unrest disrupts papers in the capital. Hatoyama dismissed talks to drop the US Japan defense pact. The U.S. fired a 280 mm atomic cannon and a Jupiter rocket in Europe during a Grafenwoehr exercise. A crash near Sendai Bay killed six aboard a U.S. Army helicopter. Paris shifts a NATO division from West Germany to Algeria to quell North African unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafenwoehr
Germany
U.S. Army
Europe
U.S. 7Th Army
Czechoslovak
Memorial services set in Buffalo cemetery at 10:30 a.m.
Buffalo American Legion and auxiliary sponsor memorial services at city cemetery Monday at 10:30 a.m. Rev. Bill Lakey of the Church of the Nazarene will speak. Fall River area reports heavy rains inflating the watershed reservoir with the year's largest water inflow. Jack Shields, an
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
The
Buffalo American Legion and Auxiliary
Bill Lakey
Church of the Nazarene
Fall River
Jack Shields
Reservoir pool rises as rainfall fuels flood risk
An engineer reported the reservoir pool increased 4.16 feet to 937.68 feet Thursday morning with further rise expected and no discharge. Rainfall from Wednesday into Thursday totaled 2.25 inches at Reece and 3.56 inches at the reservoir, with heavy rain across the area. The Neosho River near Iola carried silt and debris at noon, forming a large log jam, while anglers hunted catfish in high water. In Parsons, Velma Gewis key earned her high school diploma as part of the 1955 class and planned to teach after attending Parsons Junior College. In Garnett, J C Lewis faced a first degree murder trial for the Lone Elm slaying of Fred Hermreck, claiming self defense after a transportation dispute. Erie Future Farmers of America members won Best Beef Day honors at Parsons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reece
Garnett, Kas
J. C
Blackie) Lewis
Lewis
Fred Hermreck
Lone Elm
Hermreck
Garnett
Here
Instructioned team members named after winning group
The text lists team members A. J. Depee Mike Sears Donald Gibson Clark Cleaver Jack Waltermire and Louis Bartholomew as part of the winning squad, accompanied by their instructor Harold VanCleave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold VanCleave
A. J. Depee
Mike Sears
Donald Gibson
Clark Cleaver
Jack Waltermire
Louis Bartholomew
Fish and Game Commission to name Leahy successor
The Kansas Forestry Fish and Game Commission voted to interview applicants to replace Director David Leahy at a Wichita meeting on June 5. The unanimous vote sets the plan to fill the post with a chosen successor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fish, Game Commission
Leahy
Topeka
State
Forestry, Fish and Game Commission
Wichita
David Leahy
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