Record Freeze Sets Early Breeding Ground for Chill
The earliest freeze on record swept Chanute with a 32 degree low, breaking 1917 and 1920 records. Forecasters predicted a warming trend by Thursday with highs 60s to 70s and lows near 40. Rural crops suffered little damage though tomatoes may be affected. several Kansas towns reported subfreezing readings.
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Chanute
Cork
State Weather Bureau
Gale Mullen
Erie
Kansas
Topeka
Associated Press
Richard Garrett
Goodland
Manhattan
Emporia
Salina
Russell
Hill City
Webster
Cedar Bluff
Kanopolis
Hutchinson
Pittsburg
Braves and Yankees scoreless in early World Series game
Milwaukee and New York battle to a 0-0 tie through the first three innings of the 1958 World Series opener in Milwaukee. Spahn works out of a rundown play and Ford yields a pair of Yankee hits as both sides struggle to score.
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Milwaukees
Milwaukee Braves
New York Yankees
Yanks
Warren Spahn
Braves
Whitey Ford
Yankees
Bauer
Spahn
Adcock
Logan
McDougald
Mantle
Crandall
Howard
Pafko
Schoendienst
Mathews
Aaron
Coffeyville Democrat Denver Hargis to Speak at Chamber Luncheon
Denver Hargis of Coffeyville the Democratic candidate for the 3rd district congressman will address a public luncheon Monday at Tioga Hotel hosted by the Chamber of Commerce government affairs committee. Reservations advised by 10 a.m. Myron V. George, Republican incumbent, spoke at a similar meeting two weeks ago.
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Denver
Hargis
Coffeyville
Tioga Hotel
Chamber of Commerce
Myron V. George
Altamont
Readiness Exercise Engages Chanute Ground Observer Post
The Chanute post of the Ground Observer Corps joins a 72 hour operational readiness exercise with GOC units under the Joplin Air Defense Filter Center. The alert began at 12:01 a.m. today and runs to midnight Friday as local post members maintain continuous skywatch duty at Santa Fe Park observation tower.
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Chanute Post
Ground Observer Corps
GOC
Joplin
Tulsa Man Killed When Car Collides With Truck
John M. Bonham, 32, of Tulsa died in a 4:15 a m crash on U S 81 eight miles north of McPherson. The AP report notes authorities investigated the fatal collision with a truck early today.
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McPherson
John M. Bonham
Tulsa
Names Listed For Jury Duty In Erie Court Panel
Twenty Chanute residents are named on the jury panel for the October term of district court at Erie opening next week. The list includes W. D. Patton Lucile Cox Delmer Cowen R. W. McCulloh Raymond Hibbs Lavon Lee H. E. Reep Avery Sprague W. A. Strean Earl Legge Carl A. Burghart Dan J. Nolan Leonard Haas Betty L. Johnson Martha Schickhardt Wesley Brinkmeyer Ernest Kepley P. A. Swan Ruth Haynes Mae Wheeler and others from Keith Naff Oliver Craig Clifford Olson W. Q. Standley Kenneth Dutton William Walker George Clemens N Duffy Eric Joe Van Leeuwen Carl Quinn Leo Priddie Earlton John McDaniel John Mitchell Lloyd Gough Cecil Hight Harold Heady with six state cases and 27 civil actions listed on pre term docket.
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Chanute
Erie
W. D. Patton
N. Lafayette
Lucile Cox
Steuben
Delmer Cowen
N. Central
R. W. McCulloh
N. Franklin
Raymond Hibbs
S. Grant
Lavon Lee
S. Malcolm
H. E. Reep
W. Main
Avery Sprague
Lafayette
W. A. Strean
Earl Legge
Carl A. Burghart
N. Grant
Dan J. Nolan
N. Highland
Leonard Haas
Betty L. Johnson
S. Central
Martha Schickhardt
W. Oak
Wesley Brinkmeyer
Ernest Kepley
P. A. Swan
S. Steuben
Ruth Haynes
N. Garfield
Mae Wheeler
Keith Naff
Oliver Craig
Clifford Olson
W. QO. Standley
Kenneth Dutton
William Walker
George Clemens
N. Duffy
Eric
Joe van Leeuwen
St. Paul
Carl Quinn
Urbana
Leo Priddie
Earlton
John McDaniel
John Mitchell
Walnut
Lloyd Gough
Galesburg
Cecil Hight
Thayer
Harold Heady
Parsons R. 1
Closed Meeting Tonight Of Zoning Group
A closed meeting of the special zoning committee will be held at 7 tonight at the Memorial building to tabulate returns from property owners on possible rezoning along West Cherry. The panel will study changing the area from residential to commercial as Cherry becomes the K39 highway route through the west part of town. No decision will be made at this session.
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Memorial Building
West Cherry
Cherry
Bond Proposal to Build Aged Home in Wilson County
Wilson County voters will decide November 4 on a $250000 bond to build and equip a 60 bed home for the aged in Fredonia. The plan mirrors Neosho County's proposal with 50 beds and a similar site adjacent to the county hospital at Neodesha. The existing 45 bed nursing home east of Fredonia would stay, as it often fills.
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Fredonia
Wilson County
Board of County Commissioners
Neosho County
Neodesha
W. S. Fisher
A. H. Speer
Wichita
Fisher
Butler County
Augusta
Speer
Great Bend Pilot Killed in Crash
A light plane struck a power line during approach and crashed killing 52 year old Milton O. Tanberg in Great Bend. Tanberg, president of the Kansas Engine and Machinery Co., was returning from a business trip to Wichita.
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Great Bend
Kas
Milton O. Tanberg
Tanberg
Kansas Engine and Machinery Co
Wichita
Two Women Injured In Highway Crash Near Stark
Two Jennings residents Mrs. Damon Shaver and Mrs. Henry F. Eilers improved to satisfactory condition at Neosho Memorial Hospital after their 1956 Chevrolet left K-39 west of Stark and plunged into a ditch. Mrs. Shaver suffered a head cut and dislocated finger. Mrs. Eilers had a broken left wrist, rib fractures and bruises. The women had been visiting Elmer Gerhardt and were returning home.
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Jennings, Mo
Stark
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Damon Shav
Henry F. Eilers
Elmer Gerhardt
Gerhardt
Shaver
Laundry Exhibit Plan Fizzles In Moscow Fair
Romaine Fielding, a 38 year old Los Angeles laundry equipment dealer, saw his Moscow fair plans collapse yet still impressed Soviet officials. He shipped gear to Helsinki then set up a basement exhibit in a Moscow housing project. He sold the machines for a sum and returned home to await $30,137. Fielding noted Russians praised the machines while his wife did the family laundry by hand.
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Los Angeles
Romaine Fielding
U. S
Moscow
Soviet Union
Fielding
Russia
Khrushichev
Moscow City
Mrs. Fielding
Flooding Rio Grande Recedes Slowly at Presidio
The Rio Grande near Presidio Texas rose again Tuesday night and early today to within three inches of the prior flood record, then crested around 3 a.m. and began falling slowly as reports from Mexico suggested more water would pour into the river.
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Presidio
Tex
Rio Grande
Border
Mexico
Ralph England
Texas
Chanute Football Contest Offers Scenic Prizes Across Merchants
Chanute merchants host a football contest with weekly gifts including a savings account sport shirt throw rug phonograph record desk lamp and shotgun shells. Three winners will receive free Chanute High School game tickets. Last week winners were G Braden W W Mitchem and Don Papst. other prize winners will be notified by merchants.
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Chanute
Tribune
Chanute High School
G. Braden
S. Malcolm
W. W. Mitchem
W. 4Th
Don Papst
S. Highland
Basic Factors In Agreement
Detroit AP reports the United Auto Workers and Chrysler Corp reached agreement on basic provisions of a contract covering production and maintenance workers.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers and
Chrysler Corp
Crawshaw Injured In Car Train Crash Near Erie
Tom Crawshaw of Galesburg was brok en collarbone and cut scalp after his car hit a train at the M K T crossing on Walnut road near Erie. He received care at the Erie Clinic and was later moved to Mercy Hospital in Parsons.
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Erie
Tom Crawshaw
Galesburg
Sheriff's Office
Walnut Road
Crawshaw
Erie Clinic
Mercy Hospital
Parsons
Ike Calls on All Americans To Comply With Court Ruling
President Eisenhower urged all Americans to follow the Supreme Court school integration rulings. He warned that defiance would bring grave consequences to the nation and reinforced the duty of public officials and citizens to honor equal educational rights under the law.
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Ike
Washington
Eisenhower
Supreme Court
Arkansas
Virginia
Bank Bandits Seize $834 in Walker Missouri Bank
Two men robbed Farmers State Bank of Walker at about 10 20 am taking 834 dollars. Bank president Jack Wells described two suspects matching a prior robbery near El Dorado Springs. They fled in a blue Chevrolet pickup, leaving staff unharmed with no customers present.
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Walker, Mo
Farmers State Bank
Walker
Jack Wells
Tri - County State Bank
el Dorado Springs
Walker Bank
Wells
Missouri Highway Patrol
Here
Missouri
Nevada
Kansas City
Dwight Martin
Shirley Pickell
Ruth Buckles
Ford Production To Start at K C
Ford Motor Co will resume passenger car production at its Claycomo Missouri plant on Monday after a week’s shutdown due to a parts shortage. Plant manager Clark Riddle said 1100 to 1200 hourly employees will report for work. Union and management at the Buick Oldsmobile Pontiac plant continued talks after an all night session amid optimism on GM strike progress.
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Kansas City
Ford Motor Co
Claycomo
Cark Riddle
Buick
General Motors
UAW
No Charges Planned In Fort Scott Death
Authorities say they will file no charges in the death of 81 year old Charles Wesley Stribling, a retired watchmaker, who was dragged under a transit bus when his long coat tail became caught in the door.
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Fort Scott
Kan
Charles Wesley Stribling
Stribling
Russians Not Want War Highlighted in Chanute Meeting
About 150 teachers, school board members, and administrators attended the Chanute Teachers Association dinner at the Methodist Church to hear Dr. N. H. Pronko of Wichita recount travels in Russia. He described friendly Russian attitudes toward Americans, housing conditions, and the limited access to goods, noting salaries of about 150 dollars monthly and the Communist era church restrictions.
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Chanute Teachers Association
Methodist Church
N. H. Pronko
Wichita
Russia
Pronko
Wichita University
Southeast Kansas School Heads Meet To Discuss Evaluation Standards
Forty administrators from area schools will gather at 3 p.m. at the high school with a dinner at 6 p.m. at the Silver Grill to discuss proposed changes in criteria from the Secondary Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges. Chanute is a member school already meeting criteria. Ralph Johnson of Kansas City will chair. Principal Dell Reed hosts.
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Kansas
Dell Reed
Silver Grill
Secondary Commission
North Central Association of Colleges
Chanute
Ralph Johnson
Kansas City
Association
Reed
Fall Festival Kicks Off Four Day Chanute Event
The Chanute Fall Festival opens with a 6:30 dinner for queen candidates and judges by the Jaycees, followed by an 8:00 talent show at the Municipal Auditorium. Rodeo stock arrives for a three day event at City Park, including bronc riding, bulldogging, steer roping, and a barrel race each night. A Hereford steer will be presented to the top 4-H’er Saturday, donated by the Bank of Commerce.
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Jaycees
Jaycee Jaynes
Municipal Auditorium
City Park
Chanute Sales
Bill Morgan
Bank of Commerce
Drumstick
Hospital Association Meeting In Topeka October 15
District 2 of the Kansas Hospital Assn holds its annual fall meeting October 15 at 10 a.m. in the Tioga Hotel Topeka. A district chairman and vice chairman will be elected along with a hospital representative to the Kansas Blue Cross board of directors. Charles F.E. Gray of Iola is current chairman.
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The
Kansas Hospital Assn
Tioga
Topeka
Kansas Blue Cross Board of
Charles FE. Gray
Iola
Traffic Fatalities in Kansas Reach 403 for 1958
Topeka AP report details Kansas traffic fatalities from the state Accident Records Section. In the last 24 hours the count is seven, bringing the year total to 403, compared with 410 in the same period of 1957.
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Topeka
Kansas
Eisenhower Eyes Cease Fire Path to Formosa Talks
President Eisenhower said a cease-fire in the Quemoy and Matsu area could open a path to good faith negotiations for a Formosa settlement. He noted those islands are not vital to Formosa’s defense, while cautioning uncertainty about demilitarization. Chiang Kai-shek urged no weakening of defenses, and Dulles suggested cutting large forces after a cease-fire.
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Washington
Eisenhower
United States
Quemoy-Matsu
Formosa
Quemoy
Matsu
Chiang Kai-shek
Dulles
Chiang
China
Associated Press
U.S
Headon Crash Fatal to Six Near Seneca Kansas
A head on crash on U S Highway 36 about 3.2 miles east of Seneca Kansas killed six people and injured two. Victims include Mack Hansen 49 of Lakewood California and his wife Phyllis Hansen 47 along with Margaret and Dale Acker of Greenfield Iowa and Wayne Acker with his son Donald Acker who survived with minor injuries. Arie Smith 51 and Lewis Thompson 75 of Seneca also died. Cause under investigation. Hansen and Acker families were en route to Abilene to visit relatives.
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Seneca, Kan
U. S Highway 36
Seneca
Kansas
Mack Henry Hansen
Lakewood
Calif
Hansen
Phyllis Acker Hansen
Dale H. Acker
Greenfield
Iowa
Margaret Acker
Wayne Acker
Donald Acker
Margaret
Arie Smith
Lewis M. Thompson
State Highway Patrol
Acker
Abilene, Kan
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Les Matthews
Harold Stroud
Martha Hutton
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