Eisenhower leaves hospital after head-to-toe physical
President Eisenhower checked out of Walter Reed Army Hospital after an overnight stay for a full medical checkup the first since his second term began. White House says the routine examination will yield a public report. his condition described as fine.
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Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
James C. Hagerty
White House
Lisenhower
America
Russia
Oklahoma City
Runaway Steel Barge Wrecks Utah Trestle
A runaway steel barge loaded with rock broke loose from its tug and rammed a 60 foot hole in the Lucia Cutoff railroad trestle near Ogden Utah. A cattle train heading west was halted before the break and detours were set around the lake while crews work to repair the 12 mile trestle carrying Southern Pacific mainline tracks.
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Ogden
Utah
Lucia
Here
Southern Pacific
Great Salt Lake
Car Window Tragedy Claimed 22 Month Old in Kansas City
Lucinda Lynn Howell, 22 months, died after her mother rolled up a car window without looking. Mrs. Vega M. Howell, 25, was in the front seat with a neighbor as three children played in back. A draft prompted the roll up, and Lucinda’s head was in the window. she suffocated when the glass closed.
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Kansas City
Kan
Lucinda Lynn Howell
Vega M. Howell
Lucinda Lynn
Litle Lynn
Traffic Fatalities in Kansas 1957 Update
Topeka reports Kansas traffic fatalities by the State Accident Records Section. In the last 48 hours six deaths. year to date 1957 show 469 fatalities versus 561 in the same period of 1956.
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Topeka
Kansas
Two Girls Slain in Dayton Romantic Tragedy
In Dayton Ohio married man Robert Crites admitted killing his two teenage sweethearts Beverly Eldred 17 and Deanna Fouch 16 after a relationship complicated by marriage vows. He shot them in a car and planned to dispose of the bodies in Colorado. Prosecutors to file first degree murder charges.
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Ohio
Beverly Ann Eldred
Deanna Jean Fouch
Here
R. C. Beckett
Sheriff's Office
Robert Crites
Crites
Beckett
Colorado
Kettering
Deanna
Beverly
Gun Accident Wounds Hays Boy
A 9 year old, Dale Montgomery, was wounded when a 410 gauge shotgun discharged in a car. The gun fired from the front seat as the father, Willis Montgomery of Hays, prepared to hunt. The exact cause of the weapon discharge was not known.
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Dale Montgomery
Dale
Willis Montgomery
Veterans Day Parade Honors Service Members in Chanute
A Veterans Day parade in Chanute featured color guards from the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars leading the march from City Park on Main Street. Junior and Senior High School bands, a World War II Iwo Jima flag-raising float, car displays, and a Royster band maneuver drew cheers. Forty-five marching units expected for Allen County’s observance.
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Tribune
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City Park West
Main
Royster
Glenn Peak
Lincoln
Chanute
Iola
Allen County
The
Bartlesville Youth Killed in Kas Collision
A 19 year old Bartlesville Oklahoma youth James C Harris was fatally injured in a collision between his car and a semi truck five miles east of Beaumont Kansas on K96. Authorities reported the crash occurred today and the youthful driver was identified.
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Bartlesville, Okla
James C. Harris
Beaumont
Kas
Football Contest Winners Named at Chanute Tribune
Robert Martin led last week’s Tribune contest by predicting seven of ten college games correctly. Others, Martha Mitchem, Gerald Braden, Mary Ann Miles and W W Mitchem, each matched six results. Since no more football games remain this season at Chanute, winners receive free tickets to a home basketball game.
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the Tribune
Martha Mitchem
Gerald Braden
Mary Ann Miles
W. W. Mitchem
Chanute
Dentist Dr Homer Cook Injured In City Car Crash
Dr Homer E Cook of 511 N Evergreen Chanute was injured Saturday afternoon in a two car collision at Highland and Walnut at about 12 45 PM. He suffered head and arm abrasions while riding with his wife and their 2 year old son Larry Wayne. The other driver was James Earl Hanson of 521 N Highland. Front ends of both cars were damaged.
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Homer E. Cook
N. Evergreen
Chanute
Cook
Highland and
Walnut
Larry Wayne
James Earl Hanson
Highland
Von Braun says more basic research key to catching Russia in space
In an AP interview, Dr. Wernher von Braun argues that rushing a Manhattan-type crash program would not speed space progress. He notes limited gains from extra funding for main missile programs and calls for strong funding in basic and applied research, plus development of a powerful rocket engine.
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London
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Jupiter
Thor
Polaris
Atlas
Titan
Outer Space
Violent Deaths In Kansas Reach Fourteen Over Weekend
At least 14 people died violently in Kansas over the weekend. Eleven died in traffic accidents while three others including a 6 year old girl were shot to death in the Hutchinson area. The gun deaths involved the Drake family children and a seed company president.
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Associated Press
Kansas
Hutchinson
Don Drake
St. John
Drake
Charles Sanford
Ricky
Sheila
Phoebe
Lawrence Stephenson
Kelvin Sheppard
Stephenson
Weeks Seed Co
Leonard L. Conner
Twyla Jewell Copening
Paola
Fort Scott
Beverly
Sharon
Robert E. Auernheimer
Augusta
William le Vogt
Udall
Towanda
U. S
Arkansas City
William George Clark
Bethany
Hays High School
Hays
Tom Brockman
James Shuckman Jr
Richard Gordon
Joyce Haddock
Leon Burdine
Wichita
Durham
Georgia Congressman Killed in Accident at Rome Crossing
Rep. Henderson Lanham of Georgia, 69, a veteran 11 years in Congress and House Appropriations member, died yesterday when his car collided with a train at a Rome crossing. He opposed armed services cuts and spoke out on issues.
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Henderson
Lanham
D-Ga
Congress
Rome
House Appropriations Committee
US Expert Urges Manned Space Program After Laika Death
Dr John P Hagen head of Project Vanguard proposes a new program to send a man into space and return him safely while Russia reports Laika the dog is dead. Vanguard plans smaller test spheres before full orbital missions as Army satellites enter the field.
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Washington
U. S
United States
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Laika
John P. Hagen
Vanguard
Earth
Hagen
L’unita
Moscow
Rome
Fina
Tass
Moscow Radio
Russia
Alitudes
Romance of the Skies vanishes with 44 aboard near Honolulu
Pan American stratocruiser Romance of the Skies carrying 44 people disappeared 1,028 miles east of Honolulu after a routine radio call. Search efforts spanned 172,440 square miles with planes, helicopters, submarines and ships. flares sighted last night proved likely distress signals but no trace of the missing airliner or its crew was found.
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Coast Guard
Oahu Island
Philippine Sea
Epperson
Air Force
Romance of the
San Francisco
Mild Weather Forecast for Topeka and Kansas
Forecast calls for considerable cloudiness through Tuesday with little temperature change. Southerly winds 20 to 30 mph tonight diminishing Tuesday. Low tonight near 40, highs Tuesday in the 60s. Veterans Day events mark mild statewide temperatures with 55 to 65 expected Tuesday.
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Kansas
Dodge City
Manhattan
Goodland
Russell
President Eisenhower Speech to Air on NBC Radio and TV
The White House announced that President Eisenhower will deliver a live address in Oklahoma City Wednesday night. NBC television and all four major radio networks will carry the speech from 9 30 to 10 p.m. Cet, with ABC and CBS TV showing the address from film at 11 15 p.m.
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White House
Eisenhower
Oklahoma City
NBC
ABC
CBS
Salina Youth Joe Land Signs with Phillies in Class C
The Philadelphia Phillies announce the signing of 18-year-old Salina Kansas outfielder Joe Bobby Land to a Bakersfield California League contract. Land hit .515 as a senior and also pitched for Salina High School. Scout Ben Tincup signed him for the parent club.
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Philadelphia Phillies
Joe Bobby Land
Salina
Kas
Bakersfield
Land
Salina High School
Phils
Ben Tincup
Sunflower Village To Close At Sunflower Ordnance Works
About 200 families at Sunflower Village in De Soto Kansas must vacate by early next year as maintenance costs and population loss force closure. Of 601 units, only 200 occupied. nonplant employees must leave by January 10 while plant workers have until March 10 to relocate.
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