Ith Anniversary of Royal Arch Attended by 200
The 70th anniversary celebration of Chanute Chapter 21, Royal Arch Masons, drew more than 200 from across the state to the Masonic Temple. A full day of conferences and degree work included a class of 38 from distant towns. local Chanute candidates numbered nine.
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Chanute Chapter
Royal Arch Masons
Masonic Temple
Atchison
Kansas City
Council Grove
Iola
Ottawa Masons
Neodesha Masons
Pittsburg
Chanute
Washington No. 1
Fort Scott
Girard
Ottawa
Osawatomie
Fredonia
Independence
Coffeyville
Yates Center
Cherryvale
Oswego
Emporia
Baxter Springs
Weather Update From Topeka Kansas
Fair skies and a warming trend spread across Kansas today after showers and cloudy weather on Sunday Rain fell across the Kansas River valley and counties including Saline Sedgwick Colby and St Francis First freezing temperatures were reported in northwest Kansas Friday morning with readings as low as 30 degrees in Attwood 34 in Colby and St Francis Scattered frost was noted and forecasters expect warmer conditions to continue into Tuesday Overnight low near 60 with Tuesday highs in the 80s to lower 90s and possible scattered showers continuing tonight.
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Topeka
Kansas
Kansas River Valley
Saline
Sedgwick
Weather Bureau
Attwood
Colby
St. Francis
Humboldt Biblesta Parade Draws Thousands on Saturday
Thousands lined Humboldt streets for the third annual Biblesta parade with 31 Biblical floats and 10 bands. Pharoah's Army won the traveling trophy. grand prize went to The Return to the Empty Tomb by Monarch Cement Co. Judges included Giles Thielmann and Charles Pratt.
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Humboldt
Pharoah
Monarch ‘Cement Co
Ruth and Boaz
Humboldt Chapter
Christ
Humboldt Methodist Church
Giles Thielmann
Topeka Public Schools
Charles Pratt
Topeka State Journal
Dwight McCreight
the Tribune
Robert McKenzie
College of Emporia
Chanute
Moran
Pharaoh's Army
Humboldt Rotary Club
Tribune
Monarch Cement Co
Pet and Bike Parade Arrives Saturday Sponsored by Lions Club
The Chanute Lions Club hosts a Pet and Bike Parade Saturday starting at 1 30 p m Entries judged at Royster Junior High at 1 p m Then participants march east on Main to City Park Open to elementary students in grades 1 6 with three prize tiers per category and a special most unusual pet award Prizes total 38 and each entrant receives a prize Horses and unsafe animals barred
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Chanute! Lions Club
Royster Junior High
Main
City Park
Fall in Car Fatal To Springfield Tot
A two year old boy named James LeRoy Barlow died Sunday after a fall in the back seat of the car he rode in. He was the son of Rothel Polk. Vernon Browers and his wife cared for him while the mother worked. Browers said the boy fell to the floor after he applied his brakes. Coroner Ralph Thieme ordered an autopsy.
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Springfield
James LeRoy Barlow
Rothel Polk
Vernon Browers
Wasser
Ralph Thieme
Mrs Reba Jones Involved In Traffic Collision
Mrs Reba Jones 54 of 217 FE 11th was shaken but not seriously injured in a collision at the North Kansas and West Cherry intersection on highway K39 about 525 pm yesterday. Charles Beck 50 of R 2 drove a 1951 Ford east on Cherry while Jones drove a 1957 Mercury north on Kansas. Both front ends were damaged with an estimated $200 in damage to each vehicle.
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Reba Jones
North
Kansas
West Cherry
Charles Beck
Beck
Cherry
Jones
Traffic Fatalities Log Shows 1954 to 1959 Periods
Kansas traffic death log details 48 hours to 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. figures for 1954 through 1959. AP notes a comparable period in 1959 shows higher counts.
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Topeka
Kansas
State Directors Of GI Forum Meet Here
The Kansas State Board of Directors of the American GI Forum met in Chanute at the Tioga Hotel. Delegates from Chanute Parsons Wichita Topeka Kansas City Arkansas City Garden City Hutchinson and Emporia attended. A workshop was planned for October 15 in Hutchinson and the next board meeting for December in Kansas City. The state convention will be held in Topeka May 26-28, 1961. A committee was formed to work with the Kansas Centennial Committee.
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Kansas
Kansas City
Topeka
Kansas Centennial Committee
Accident Victims Improved After Friday Collision
Ronnie Joe Lock remains unconscious with somewhat improved condition after a car tractor crash west of here and is treated at Neosho Memorial Hospital. Joy Conn, also injured, was transferred to the University of Kansas Medical Center in fair condition.
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Ronnie Joe Lock
Here
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Joy Conn
Lock
University of Kansas Medical Center
Burglars Hit Two Lumber Firms Netting 630 Dollars
Thieves cracked safes at Long-Bell Lumber Co. and Chanute Lumber Co. securing 339.13 and 291 dollars plus a new watch. Entry at Long-Bell used a roof opening. Chanute Lumber was entered through a south window. Police dated the break-ins to before 12:30 a.m. with rain timing.
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Long-Bell Lumber
N. Grant
Chanute Lumber Co
S. Forest
Long-Bell
Chanute Lumber
Hugh T. Jones
Long Bell
Jones
Long Bell Yard
City Dads Consider TV Cable Franchise
City commission holds special session to consider Iola Cable TV Inc. for a non exclusive franchise to erect a tower and provide community coaxial television service on a fee basis. Larry D. Hudson, VP and manager, filed the application. a similar system exists in Iola.
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Iola Cable Tv, Inc
Lola
Larry D. Hudson
Gordon Is Considered As New A's Manager
Kansas City Athletics said they would talk with Joe Gordon about becoming manager after Parke Carroll, the general manager, announced the plan during the World Series prep. Gordon, former Detroit manager, denied being hired, while manager Bob Elliott and three coaches were fired.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Athletics
Joe Gordon
Parke Carroll
Gordon
Detroit
Carroll
Pittsburgh
Bob Elliott
A's
Three Women Slain in Ashland Grocery-Singing Family Tragedy
Three women in an Ashland household were found stabbed to death in a grisly weekend killing. A 10 inch knife and bloody footprints led investigators to a barefoot suspect, the estranged husband of one victim, jailed for questioning. The victims are Mrs. John D. Martin 31 her mother Ethel Ogle 63 and her grandmother Everlena Ogle 82. Police described the case as the work of a sadistic killer or one bent on revenge.
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Ashland
Ala
John D. Martin
Paul G. Levie
Ethel Ogle
Marvin Brown
Higgins
Barton County
Allen
Buffalo Youth Killed in Crash
A 17 year old rural Buffalo resident, Robert W. Thielenhaus, died when his 1955 Chevrolet failed to negotiate a curve, left the road, hit a tree. Four more fatalities, three over the weekend and one today, raised Kansas traffic deaths to 354 for the year.
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Buffalo
Here
Robert W. Thielenhaus
Buffalo R
The
Highway Patrol
Thielenhaus
Kansas
Associated Press
Khrushchev Demands U.N. Shake Up as Nehru Opposes
Premier Khrushchev challenged Dag Hammarskjold to resign and urged a three person executive for the United Nations, risking charter changes. Nehru defended the current system while urging caution and seeking no immediate amendments. Khrushchev warned he might withdraw from talks. Nehru urged a slow, agreed approach. King Hussein condemned Soviet tactics against the U.N. and Hammarskjold prepared a reply at the afternoon session.
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United Nations
N.Y. Iap
Nikita Khrushchev
Dag Hammarskjold
U.N
World Organization
India
Nehru
Hussein
Arab Jordan
U.S.S.R
Security Council
General Assembly
Hammarskjold
Khrushchev
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Armand H. Bishop
Parsons
Grand Lodge of Kansas
Ray W. Kinzie
Wichita
Grand Lodge
Harry E. Crosswhite
Holton
Grand Chapter of
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Grand Council
R&sm of
J. LaVerne Dickey
Knights Templar of
Charles S. McGinness
Ben S. Paulen
Washington
Walter H. Steffey
Cecil M. Ward
New Orleans
Steffey
Seattle
Clifford E. Smith
DeVere Love
Mirza Shrine
Harold N. Nichols
Glenn E. Williams
J. Henry Reb
Ralph Mitchell
Ollie R. Norman
James G. Duff
S. Lewis Smith
Earl R. Brown
Floyd Davidson
Mound Valley
Robert M. Riley
Charles C. Blanchard
Francis J. Meeker
Robert B. Perry
Robert E. Taylor
O. H. Bates
Emanuel Anderson
Charles L. Broadwell
Osage Mission
St. Paul
Larry Mathews
Samson
Humboldt First Baptist Church
King Solomon
Arthur Carlson
First Baptist Church
GI Forum
Francis Moore
Alvin Leroy Doty
Meriden
Kas
Santa Fe
Maiden
Lawrence
Donald Taylor
Kansas Turnpike
Harold T. Plank
McLouth
Klaus J. Holsch
Washington, D.C
Great Bend
B. F. Higgins
Claude Gaylon Clayton
Mary
Clayton
Richard D. Kirkpatreick
Day
Eisenhower
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