Airliner Crashes in Colorado Killing 44 Aboard
Four engine United Air Lines DC6B crashed in a northern Colorado sugar beet field killing all 44 aboard. Witnesses said the craft exploded in the air. 38 adults and five crew members perished, with the crash occurring near Longmont about 32 miles north of Denver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Longmont
Colo
United Air Lines
Colorado
Rocky Mountain
UAL
Medicine Bow Peak
Wyoming
Lud Lang
Colorado Highway Patrol
Denver
Scenic Rocky Mountain National Park
Jake Heil
Cheyenne
Wyo
L. H. Hall
D. A. White
S. F. Arthur
Peggy Peddicord
Jacqueline Hinds
Seattle
John Des Jardins
Johnson County
Kas
Nurses Hold Two Day TB Study Meeting in Topeka
Public health nurses wrapped a two day district meeting at the Kansas State Board of Health office in Topeka to review a state wide tuberculosis study. Ruby Foote led the session with others including Genevieve Jones and Dorothy Rogers from Washington, and local nurses from multiple counties. The study funded by Christmas Seal Funds and directed by Dr. Joseph Stocklen aims to map TB problems and strengthen control programs across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas State Board of Health
Roberta Foote
R.N
Topeka
Berga J. Comer
Genevieve S. Jones
The
Public Health Service
Washington
Fred Hall
Joseph B. Stocklen
Cleveland
Comer
Catherine Dotson
Loretta Wilson
Cherokee County Health Department
Columbus
Frances Clarkin
Virginia Cotrell
Labette County
Grimes Elected Kiwanis Club President in Chanute
Grimes Paschal Grimes, Chanute city engineer, was elected president of the Kiwanis club for the new year. Eldon Penner is retiring president. New officers include Billy hk Coats as first vice president Paul Parsons as second vice president and Cecil Pankratz as treasurer. Directors named are Emmet Bolze Wayne Smith Raymond York Iva Hubler Fred Mosier Fred Skinner and Harry Carter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paschal Grimes
Chanute City
Kiwanis Club
Eldon Penner
Billy Hk. Coats
Paul Parsons
Cecil Pankratz
Emmet Bolze
Wayne Smith
Raymond York
Iva Hubler
Fred Mosier
Fred Skinner
Harry Carter
Severe thunderstorms forecast in four-state region
The weather bureau issued a 9 20 a m bulletin predicting locally severe storms this afternoon with a tornado risk in northeast Arkansas southeast Missouri west Tennessee and extreme northwest Mississippi.
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Memphis
Tenn
Weather Bureau
Arkansas
Missouri
Tennessee
Mississippi
Sutton Named Fourth Division Engineer for State Highway Commission
Walter A. Rugan announces G. A. Sutton appointed fourth division engineer effective immediately. Sutton succeeds C. G. Gates who moves to a supervisory design role in Topeka. Sutton served as assistant division engineer since May 1954 in the same division.
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G. A. Sutton
State Highway Commission
Walter A. Rugan
C. G. Gates
Design Department of Commission
Topeka
Sutton
Gates
W. E. Allison
Allison
Commission
Paola
Kansas State College
Manhattan
University of Kansas
Cold wave warning in Kansas with hard freeze ahead
The Kansas weather service warns of a cold wave with temperatures dropping near 25 degrees tonight and upper 30s Thursday. Snow fell in western Kansas and around Junction City and Topeka, with light precipitation totals. Overnight lows range from 22 to 48 across cities, while Goodland reports .05 inch.
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Porecast
Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Junction City
Manhattan
Goodland
Concordia
Salina
Pittsburg
Big Kansas teachers meeting tests Chanute logistics
Buford Fisher says planning for the Kansas State Teachers Assn conference in Chanute will seat about 2000 educators for two days. Eldon Penner notes 86 meetings require precise placement. Preparations began in February under Dr. Ernest Anderson with Chanute school staff coordinating reception and logistics.
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Kansas State Teachers Assn
Memorial Building
Ruth Stout
Topeka
Nora Knight
Eldon Penner
Ernest M. Anderson
Pittsburg
Buford Fisher
Paul Parsons
Howard Jester
Tribune
Fisher
Chanute
Chanute School
Ernest Anderson
Pittsburg State College
Anderson
Coffeyville
Penner
Chanute Teachers Prepare for Educational Conference
Chanute educators plan a large educational conference with Supt. Buford Fisher chairing an administrative seminar. Ruth Stout and Ruth Crossfield lead program coordination as teachers, principals, and administrators organize round tables, voting booths, housing, and seating in Chanute buildings and local hotels.
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Lincoln
Roosevelt
Memorial Building
Chanute
Key Club
Chamber of Commerce
Ecitizens
Fisher
Kansas Teachers Assn Convention Opens In Chanute
The Kansas State Teachers Association convention opens with a sectional delegate assembly at the Junior College in Chanute. Hans V. Tofte will address the first general session with a talk on Twenty Years Around the World.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chanute
Kansas State Teachers Assn
Hans V. Tofte
Mason City
Iowa
Charles W. Rice
Buford E. Fisher
John Morley
Morley
Harold Benjamin
George Peabody College
Nashville
Tenn
Benjamin
Nelson L. Bossing
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis
Minn
Ruth Strickland
University of Indiana
Bloomington
Ind
Howard Dawson
NEA Division of Rural Service
Washington, D.C
Tokyo Rescue Teams Seek 33 Missing in Hokkaido Mine Disaster
Rescue teams searched a gas filled Hokkaido coal mine for 33 missing workers among 90 trapped last night in Japan's worst postwar mine disaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Hokkaido
Japan
State Teachers Meeting Highlights Schedule and Sessions
Highlights outline for the State Teachers Meeting includes general sessions at Memorial Auditorium with speakers Hans V. Tofte and John Morley, multiple round tables at various locations, affiliated and reunion meetings, department gatherings, seminars, and school problem conferences detailing times, venues, and participating groups.
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Chanute
Paul Whitney
Whitney
Milwaukee
Pittsburgh
KSTA
Joe W. Ostenberg
Iola
John Haberbosch
Fort Scott
Charles Yoos
Pittsburg
Nelson L. Bossing
University of Minnesota
Yoos
Junior Red Cross
Hiry
Memorial Auditorium
Hans V. Tofte
Mason City
Iowa
John Morley
Pacific Palisades
Calif
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Martha Villepigue
Ethel Davidson
Royster Junior High School
First Methodist Church
L. F. Sare
Murray Hill School
Carl Heady
Erie
Kansas State Teachers Association
John Hemphill
Leavenworth
Greeley
Gilbert R. Carrel
Glenn Peak
Grimes Heads
South
Glenn A. Sutton
Essescors
State Department of the
Royster
Round Table
Robert Blunk Jr
Velma Anderson
Elizabeth Pieper
Jacquita Coe
Athaleen Dahlstrom
Don
Kenneth Tebow
Margaret Hollenshead
Freda Betts
By Keith Wright
Parsons
Ellsworth Briggs
Pratt
Episcopal
College
Industrial Arts
Red Cross — Memorial Bldg
Murray Hill
Hutton
Council For Social Studies
Emporia Kstc
Methodist Church
Phi Delta Kappa
Tioga
Kansas University
Delta Kappa Gamma
Masonic Temple
KSTC
Baker University
Webster, N. Y
Alcott
Murray Hi
School of Tomorrow
Senos High
Citizenship Education
Seno High
Senmio
Junior
Esta Insurance — Junior College
Credit Unions
Hulton
American Assn. of University Women
Zion Lutheran Church
Tioga Hotel
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