GM, UAW Reach Three Year Pact Amid Massive Detroit Strike
General Motors and the United Auto Workers conclude a three year master contract as 250 000 GM workers remain on strike across 126 plants. The accord adds between 24 and 30 cents hourly raise, ends the 7.5 hour day for some, creates a seven day premium, and begins a study of wage inequities while the strike continues to pressure full production of 1959 cars and trucks.
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Detroit
General Motors
United Auto Workers
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Reuther
Louis G. Seaton
Chrysler
Ford
Bank Robbery Suspects Nabbed After Walker Missouri Heist
The FBI arrests three men at El Dorado Springs for the $835 Farmers Bank in Walker. Casey Jones Boyer 41 Austin Pendley 47 Rayford Pendley 18, all of El Dorado Springs, face federal bank robbery charges after $648 is recovered. Suspects aided by witness James McGregor led to the capture. a revolver remains missing.
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Kansas City
FBI
el Dorado Springs
Farmers Bank
Walker
W. Mark Felt
Casey Jones Boyer
Austin
Alabama
Pendley
Rayford Pendley
Austin Pendley
Felt
Missouri Highway Patrol
Jasper County
Carthage
Joplin
U. S
Boyer
Jack Wells
James McGregor
Berry
Ala
Pendleys
Tri-County
Pineville
Nevada
Driver Pleads Guilty To Reckless Driving
James H. Allen, 17, of 1028 South Central pleaded guilty in a police court to reckless driving and was fined 100 dollars. He was cited after his car struck a curb at Elm and Forest and plunged into a yard last Friday night. Bond of 100 dollars had been posted previously.
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James H. Allen
S$ Central
Elm and Forest
Heated debate over Kansas Supreme Court selection amendment
Two former Kansas Supreme Court justices clashed in Topeka over a proposed amendment to change how justices are chosen. Former Chief Justice William Smith opposed the amendment while former Justice Hugo Wedell supported it. They referenced a 1957 sequence involving Smith, Gov. Hall, and Lt. Gov. McCuish as an example of partisan court influence. Wedell urged that the amendment would curb such manipulation by placing governor appointments on attorney and layman lists with voter retention votes after appointment and at term end. Wedell previously practiced law in Chanute and now resides in Wichita.
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Fred Hall
John McCuish
Wedell
Smith
Hugo Wedell
State Supreme Court
Chanute
Wichita
Driver Cited After Stop Sign Collision
Gene Allen Williams 22 of Thayer Route 1 was cited for running a stop sign after his car collided with James David Clements 24 of 313 South Wilson. The incident at Grant and Walnut around 4 p.m. damaged the front of Clements 1955 Chevrolet and Williams 1950 Chevrolet.
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Gene Allen Williams
Thayer R. 1
James David Clements
S. Wilson
Grant and
Walnut
Clements
Lawrence man killed in turnpike rollover crash
William Hawkins, 63, of Lawrence died when his car crossed the median strip on the Kansas Turnpike and rolled over six miles west of the West Lawrence interchange.
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Lawrence
Kan
William Hawkins
Kansas Turnpike
West Lawrence
Tall Type Sorghum Trial Faces Harvest Challenge
Jay L. Smith introduces a tall sorghum reaching 12 feet in its first year and tests methods to raise the combine height. He and James L. White plan a further lift and consider using Australian sorg hum almum for seed, sowing 12 acres at three pounds per acre and aiming for 35 more next year. The crop yields top quality ensilage hay and pasture and thrived during droughts, with some plants growing to 16 feet.
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Jay L. Smith
Smith
James L. White
America
Texas
Fair and Mild Area Outlook for Kansas
Prospects are favorable for fair mild weather through early next week as a high pressure belt keeps storms north and south. Skies stay clear through Saturday with warmer temperatures, lows tonight in the 40s to 50s, and highs Saturday in the 70s across the region.
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Topeka
Richard Garrett
Garrett
Pittsburg
Hill City
Goodland
State Labor Leader Backs Water Proposal
The Kansas Federation of Labor executive board approved constitutional amendment No. 2 on water resources and opposed amendments No. 1 No. 3. William Holly, president, said the water measure safeguards future generations while calling the No. 3 Right-To-Work amendment undemocratic and a threat to Kansas workers and business.
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Wichita
Kansas Federation of Labor Executive Board
Supreme Court
William §. Holly
Kansas Federation of Labor
Kansa
First Grader Leads Kingsbury School Fire Drill
A Memphis first grader followed a reading cue and correct sign instruction as 3,000 Kingsbury School students conducted their first fire drill of the year under Principal John Crothers.
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Memphis, Tenn
John Crothers
Kingsbury School
Newton to Rent Police Cars Next Year
Newton Kansas will join Manhattan and Junction City in renting police cars rather than buying. The scheme costs $150 per month per vehicle.
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Newton
Kas
Manhattan
Junction
Traffic Fatalities in Kansas Reach 406 for 1958
Kansas traffic fatalities listed by the State Accident Records Section show 406 for the year to date and 1 in the last 24 hours. The same period in 1957 recorded 413 fatalities.
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Topeka
Kansas
Faubus vows never to open integrated Little Rock schools
Gov. Orval Faubus announced he would never open public schools as integrated institutions. He warned the federal government might send marshals and Army to eject teachers and students if schools reopened, as courts consider private segregated schooling plans and related legal actions in St. Louis and Omaha.
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Little Rock, Ark
Orval E. Faubus
U.S. Supreme Court
Faubus
Supreme Court
U.S. Circuit Court
Omaha
Little Rock
Little Rock Private School Corp
T. J. Raney
Corporation
NAACP
National Assn. For
Advancement of Colored People
Daisy Bates
L. C
Daisy) Bates
Arkansas
The
St. Louis
8Th Circuit Court of Appeals
8Th Circuit
Two Firms Cut Price Of Oklahoma Crude
Kerr-McGee Oil Industries Inc. and Sunray Mid-Continent Oil Co. reduced posted Oklahoma sweet crude prices by 14 cents effective today. Sunray set 40 gravity at $3.01 per barrel with gravity differentials unchanged except the differential below 36 will be 3 cents instead of 2. The move aims to align prices with other buyers.
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Tulsa, Okla
Oklahoma Sweet
Kerr-McGee Oil Industries Inc
Sunray Mid-Continent Oil Co
Sunray
Hibbs of Thayer Named Corn King at Chanute Fall Festival
G V Hibbs of Thayer won the grand champion prize in the Chanute Fall Festival agricultural show. David Swiler of Earlton was named Reserve Champion with white hybrid corn. Other winners include Doris Shellhorn, Don Strack, Marie Wheatley, and Ralph Hibbs earning top honors in corn and grain divisions. Cold weather limited rodeo attendance as events run through the final day with city park pulling contest, free carnival rides, a parade, watermelon feeds, and a festival dance at the armory.
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G. V. Hibbs
Thayer
E. Main
Chanute
David Swiler
Earlton
Hibbs
Swiler
L. W Thurman
Erie
Orton Kinne
R. I. Erie
Doris Shellhorn
City Park
National Guard Armory
Main Street Cleared for Fall Festival Parade
Central to Forest on Main Street closed to parking from 10 30 a m until parade ends, Chief Tom Morehead announced. Cars must be removed for the festival procession tomorrow.
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Central
Forest
Tom Morehead
Decoration Drive Reaches Eight Hundred Dollars
The Chamber of Commerce retail committee reports approximately 800 dollars raised for Christmas street decorations. Leaders say funds are short of their goal and must arrive soon to fund this season. Three tree silhouettes will be erected on Main Street to spur interest, two 11 foot and one 5 foot, expected next week.
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Chamber of Commerce Retail Committee
Main Street
Neosho County Builds Survey Committee For Schools
A meeting in Independence organized a county survey committee to study present and future school needs and to recommend improvements. Eighteen administrators, board members and interested laypeople will oversee the state survey with Clark Fleming of Erie as chair and Marlin Blackston as vice chair. The effort targets equal educational opportunities, trained teachers, population shifts, financing, district organization and transportation.
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Independence
Neosho County
Chanute
Buford Fisher
Walter Poor
Floyd Naff
Floyd Potter
Marlin Blackston
Fisher
Clark Fleming
Erie
State Department of Public Instruction
Freight derailment halts Frisco train near Pleasanton
Thirty-four of the 105 cars on a southbound Frisco freight train derailed about five miles north of Pleasanton Kansas. No injuries were reported as cars piled up in a heap along the tracks.
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Pleasanton
Kan
Mind Changed- Woman Rejects Police Re. Aurora Chief
Patti Counts, a press agent, declined appointment as Aurora police chief at a Cloister Inn press conference in Chicago. She cited complexities and state of affairs in Aurora as reasons to decline, despite Mayor Paul Egan’s earlier selection. Curran and the 68‑man force remain in place while Counts defers.
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Chicago
Patti Counts
Aurora
Miss Counts
Cloister
Hotel Maryland
Near North Side
Paul Egan
Donald Curran
Curran
Thhough
Egan
Patti
Don Graham
Kansas official grants spark recalls and suspensions
In Topeka AP report, Alt General John Anderson ruled the Kansas Industrial Development Egan four decade service, noting a payment commission can approve grants. The Small Business Administration chief is under recall as Aurora Council challenges Egan’s suspension orders.
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Topeka
Alty
John Anderson
Kansas Industrial Develop
Egan
Payment Commission
Acor
Curran
Aurora Council
St Paul urged as site for county home
Four St Paul businessmen urge the location of a proposed county home for the aged in St Paul with free or donated sites. The advisory committee supports building but no site is chosen. a $225000 bond issue to fund the 50 bed home will go to voters on Nov 4. Erie is offered as an alternate site if St Paul fails.
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ST. Paul
the Tribune Today
Erie
R. C. Buchanan
F. S. Hopkins
Paul H. Munding
James G. Owens
Munding
Buchanan
Neosho County
Kansas
Drop in Polio Cases Peak Appears Passed
Washington AP reports polio cases in the nation dropped last week, suggesting the 1953 peak may be passed. State health departments revised the weekly total down to 0.8 cases and the overall revised total to 431 for the preceding week.
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Washington
Sale of three school properties by new District 83 auction
The East district 83 consolidation will auction the buildings and ground equipment of three schools tomorrow. Oak land school sale at 10 a.m. Jed do at 1 p.m. Scotland at 3 p.m.
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Humboldf
Here
Oakland
Jeddo
Scotland
Reed assails Docking attacks on schools in Kansas
Clyde Reed Jr. denounces Governor Docking for allegedly reckless attacks on schools and educators at an Ellis County Republican dinner. He criticizes the portrayal of education as a luxury and urges a climate of support with adequate teacher salaries to boost enrollments.
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Hays, Kas
Clyde Reed Jr
George Docking
Ellis County
Reed
Kansas
Police Court Bonds Fines Increase in September
Police court bonds and fines rose to 1430 in September up 586 from August with Oct 1 year total 8861. Offenses driving while intoxicated boosted arrests from one to four while total calls dropped from 263 to 194. Traffic and nontraffic arrests varied as records show 21 accidents, 5 injuries, 196 year to date. Parking meter tickets fell from 1166 to 765.
Fire forces 500 firefighters to battle 320 acres near Monrovia
Five hundred fire fighters battled a blaze that scorched 320 acres of tinder dry brushland on the outskirts of Monrovia California. Crews fought through the day to contain the fast moving fire in the foothill area. The effort involved multiple units and aimed to prevent spread toward nearby residential areas.
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Monrovia
Calif
Wheat price average reported for Kansas farmers in mid-September
AP reports Kansas farmers averaged 1.68 per bushel for wheat in mid September. Wasser for insurance and Federal State Agricultural Agencies provided the figures in a filing noted by AP.
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Topeka
Kansas
Wasser
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McGregor
Tribune
R. 1
Beday
Oklahoma
Neosho
George J. Frey
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