Eisenhower weighs Truman for next month goodwill tour
President Eisenhower mulls inviting Harry S. Truman on a 20,000 mile goodwill tour to 11 nations, a proposal sparked by Senator Dodd. A Truman aide in Kansas City says Truman knows nothing of the idea. The White House press secretary notes no communication with Truman yet.
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Augusta
Eisenhower
Harry S. Truman
Three Continents
White House
Wayne Hawks
Truman
Kansas City
Thomas J. Dodd
D-Conn
Dean Acheson
Adlai E. Stevenson
Family’s Nestegg Finances Long Trip
Cecil Emery Jr 39 and his wife Patricia 36 sold their home and all belongings to fund a four month world tour for their four children. The trip cost 5500 dollars and starts with a 30 day freighter voyage to Honolulu and Fiji, then Australia, Sydney five weeks, then a 43 day liner voyage around Australia to Ceylon India Arabia Suez to Southern France Gibraltar and London.
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Seattle
Cecil Emery Jr
YMCA
Chicago
Patricia
Emery
Jim
John
Linda
Tommy
Honolulu
Fiji Islands
Australia
Sydney
Ceylon
India
Arabia
Suez Canal
Mediterranean
France
Gibraltar
London
Khrushchev Details Soviet Rocket Output and Policy
Premier Khrushchev told Soviet journalists that the USSR could sink or cast rockets into the sea to preserve peace if others follow, and he announced public rocket production figures to back his 1958 claim of intercontinental missiles. The Defense Department in Washington gave no immediate comment on his report.
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Moscow
Nikita
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Washington
Defense Department
Missouri hunter killed during opening of 1959 deer season
Thomas Warren Kauffman, 40, of Springfield, died in Branson after a Taney County hunting accident in which a rifle bullet struck him in the head. Ronald P. Caddell, 25, of Stotts City, is believed to have fired the fatal shot. another hunter, Ivan Redman, was wounded. The Conservation Commission reported 2,491 deer the first day and 6,023 in two days, with hunting pace influenced by cold weather and the Drury refuge impact.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Branson Hospital
Thomas Warren Kauffman
Rt. 8
Springfield
Kauffman
Taney County
Theron Jenkins
Ronald P. Caddell
Rt. 2
Stotts City
Caddell
Skaggs Hospital
Brandson
Ivan Redman
Joplin
Redman
The
Conservation Commission
Drury Refuge
Kansas Sees Warmup After Record Lows Across State
Forecasters predict fair skies and warmer temperatures through Thursday with highs in the 60s and lows near 3 tonight. Kansas faces a shifting pattern as arctic air gives way to Pacific-derived warmth, setting multiple records including 19 degrees in Chanute and 10 degrees on Saturday.
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Topeka
Kansas
Iedate
Pacific Ocean
Weather Bureau
Pittsburg
Goodland
Emporia
Chanute
Concordia
Wamego
Lawrence
Chanute Teens Admit Area Theft Ring
Six Chanute teenag ers confessed to a string of car thefts in Chanute Humboldt and area, implicating eight others in earlier cases. Items stolen included hubcaps merchandise samples from a salesman car car parts floor mats a doctor s bag and two quarts of motor oil total value may reach 500 dollars. Police report details of the plan and thefts from Hutchinson Pittsburg Fredonia and Humboldt dating to September with ongoing questioning of at least six youths.
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Chanute
Humboldt
Lige Matlock
Hutchinson
Pittsburg
Fredonia
Matlock
Joe Jacobs
N. Garfield
Vernon Co
Newton
Sportsman's Bowl
Main
Evergreen
Jacobs
Slip of Tongue Roars at Kansas Hearing Opening
At the U S Senate Select Committee on Water Resources hearing in Topeka Sen Andrew Schoeppel slips naming Sen Robert Kerr and Gov George Docking causing laughter. Kerr quips that Schoeppel elevated Docking to a position it took years to reach. Docking jokes about the salary.
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Topeka
Andrew F. Schoeppel
R-Kan
House
Kansas
U. S. Senate Select Committee On Water Resources
Schoeppel
Robert Kerr
D-Okla
George Docking
Bob
Dock
Ing
Docking
Kerr
Chief to Ask Curfew Here
Police Chief Lige Matlock announced plans to urge the city commission to pass an ordinance allowing police to enforce a teen curfew. He stressed the measure targets a few youths and would grant authority to send teens home at late hours when no legitimate reason exists.
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Lige Matlock
City Commission
Matlock
Kilauea Eruption Reaches Fifth Day In Hawaii
Kilauea volcano continues erupting in Hawaii with lava and white hot rock rising 300 feet. Officials say the eruption poses no danger to residents or nearby property as activity enters its fifth day.
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Honolulu
Kilauea
Hawaii
Bloodstains on Bridge Hint at Clutter Family Slaying
Bloodstains found on an Arkansas River bridge near the Herbert Clutter farm may offer a lead in the Clutter family murders. Authorities cautioned the stains could be animal blood from hunters in the area. Evidence including fingerprints rope and tape were sent to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation lab for analysis. FBI agent John Dewey coordinated the probe and a lie detector unit was brought in though not tied to any suspect. Funeral services were held for Carl Clutter Bernard Bonnie Nancy and Kenyon at First Methodist Church Garden City.
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Garden City
Kas
Herbert Clutter
Clutter
Duane West
West
Kansas Bureau of Investigation Laboratory
Topeka
al Dewey
FBI
Lee Wasser
KBI
Wendell Cowan
Bonnie
Nancy
Kenyon
First Methodist Church
Valley View
Secret Meetings On Steel Strike
New York AP reports secret talks between steel industry leaders and union negotiators aim at a voluntary settlement. Iron Age predicts a noninflationary three year contract with a possible wage cost tweak from prior offers. The recent sessions have eased tensions between Steelworkers President David J. McDonald and industry negotiator R. Conrad Cooper as pressure to resume talks grows.
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New York
Iron Age Magazine
National Metalworking Weekly
David J. McDonald
Steelworkers Union
R. Conrad Cooper
Carlson on Caribbean tour touches sugar export quotas
Senator Frank Carlson is touring Caribbean nations, meeting with leaders in Port au Prince and other capitals to discuss each country’s sugar export quotas to the United States.
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Port AU Prince
Haiti
Frank Carlson
R-Kas
Caribbean
United States
Doudna Waives Preliminary Hearing in Slaying Case
Charles Doudna, city employee charged with fourth degree manslaughter in the Halloween night fatal shooting of high school student Jim McCune, waived the preliminary hearing and was bound over to district court. He remains free on a $10,000 bond.
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Charles Doudna
Slaughter
Jim McCune
Injured Jetmore Man Dies of Accident Injuries
Doris Bailey age 48 died from injuries after a single car crash near Jetmore last night. The Jetmore resident had been hospitalized since the wreck and succumbed today.
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Jetmore, Kan
Jetmore
Doris Bailey
Furs Stolen in East Wichita Burglary
AP reporting a burglar smashed a plate glass window at an east Wichita fur store early today and stole seven mink fur garments valued at 25 000 dollars.
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Wichita
East Side
Reward Offered for Clutter Family Slaying Information
The Hutchinson News offers a $1000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the killings of Herbert W. Clutter. his wife Bonnie Nancy and Kenyon at their Garden City area home. The paper urges witnesses to come forward, even anonymously, with usable tips.
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Hutchinson
Kas
Hutchinson News Today
Herbert W. Clutter
Clutter
Bonnie
Nancy
Kenyon
Garden City
Finney County
Young Is Named Scouter of Year in Independence Dinner
Bill Young of Chanute received the Scouter of the Year honor at the Sedan Area Council jubilee kickoff in Independence. Bill Gardner of Chanute was recognized for Bee Creek summer camp work. Al Goering presented a camping plaque. Ray Hale announced the award. 25 Chanute Scouters attended.
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Bill Young
Chanute
Sedan
Independence
Bill Gardner
Bee Creek
al Goering
Neodesha
Young
Raymond York
Ray Hale
Iola
George Palen
National Council
Riverside Park
Kent Goering
Kansas
Goering
Lawrence
Max Bohannon
Coffeyville
Howard Sell
Fredonia
Chanute Silver Beavers
D. C
Zecken dorf Buys Three Chicago Hotels For 6.62 Million
New York AP reports Zecken dorf hotel interests acquire the Sherman and the Ambassador East and West in Chicago for 6,615,907 dollars. The purchase underscores expansion in the midwest hotel market and marks a major investment by the group.
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New York
Zeckendorf Hotel
Chicago
Sherman
Mental Health Crisis Grows Over Pay Freeze in Kansas
In Topeka Gov. Docking faces a crisis as frozen civil service pay scales push key mental health staff to higher paying jobs elsewhere. The Governor's Advisory Commission on Institutional Management outlined the issue citing losses at Topeka State Hospital and calls to raise pay for psychiatrists and senior staff.
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Topeka
George Docking
Kansas
Robert Klein
Dodge City
Governor's Advisory Commission On
Docking
State Finance Council
John Anderson
George Jackson
Jackson
Topeka State Hospital
Karl Menninger
Red Cross Opens Public First Aid Class Enrollment
A Red Cross first aid class opens to public enrollment with the first meeting set 7 to 9 p.m. next Tuesday at the fire station. Enrollments are taken at the Memorial building office of Mrs. H O Winans, executive secretary of Neosho County Red Cross chapter. Helven Anderson will instruct. The chapter also runs two city employee classes taught by Mrs. Carl Ranabargar and Mrs. Barbara Hugill. A St Paul class last week in December will not be open to the public and is taught by highway patrol trooper Richard Smith.
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Red Cross
H. O. Winans
Neosho County
Ter
Memorial Building
Helven Anderson
Carl Ranabargar
Barbara Hugill
St. Paul
Winans
Richard Smith
Highway Patrol
Traffic Fatalities Increase in State Records
Kansas accident records show 1 death in the 24 hours ending at 9 a.m. today. To date in 1959 fatalities total 499, compared with 495 in the comparable period of 1958.
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Topeka
Kansas
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Boy Dies In Accidental Shooting After Knife Threat
Leavenworth Kansas 14 year old Michael Deane Bowers died after fellow 14 year old Larry Owens fired a .38 pistol at him in a home. Owens told investigators he shot while answering Bowers question about stabbing. Coroner set an inquest for Friday.
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Leavenworth
Kan
Michael Deane Bowers
Kay Bowers
Larry Owens
Larry
Bower
Owens
John Owens
Charles Larkim
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