Life of Pius XII Fades After Second Stroke
The 82 year old Pope, head of the Roman Catholic Church, suffered a second stroke at Castel Gandolfo Italy and slipped toward death with fever and a rapid pulse. Vatican officials reported a grave decline and reports of death were denied as relatives and church leaders prayed in his ante chamber.
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Castel Gandolfo
Italy
Pius XII
Vatican
Italia
Vatican Radio
Christ
Eight Inch Centipede Captured In Neosho County
W H Payton, 517 West Fourth, found a bright eight inch centipede with twenty leg pairs in his yard and brought it to The Tribune. Miss Martha Stoltz of the Junior College biology department identified it as one of the largest seen in Neosho County and noted similar southern insects are increasing as Kansas warms. The creature has a black body with orange legs in each of twenty segments and venomous fangs. It was preserved for the reptile collection.
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Tribune
W. H. Payton
W. 4Th
Martha Stoltz
Junior College
Neosho County
Wilson County
Camp Cauble
Benedict
Fair and Mild Area Forecast for Kansas
Forecast calls for generally fair weather in Kansas tonight and Thursday with early morning cloudiness. Highs near 69 to 91 yesterday, overnight lows from 40 to 69. no major flood threats as heavy rains ended and creeks returned to banks.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Pittsburg
Olathe
Garden City
Goodland
Chanute
Accident Near Bayard Claims Fourth Victim
The death toll in a car train collision a mile south of Bayard rose to four. Barbara Jo Van Buskirk, 9, died in Allen County Hospital in Iola. Her mother Edith Van Buskirk, 31, brother Dale, 3, and twin Barbara Ann died in the crash as the family returned to their home two miles from the scene.
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Iola
Kan
Bayard
Barbara Jo van Buskirk
Allen County
Edith van Buskirk
Dale
Barbara Ann
Fall in Wichita Fatal to Worker
A construction worker, 32 year old Donald N. Patterson, died in a fall at the Wichita South West High School site. He plunged about 45 feet when a quarter inch steel plating tore loose and struck him.
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Wichita
New Southwest High School
Donald N. Patterson
Traffic Fatalities in Kansas Reported by State Records
AP dispatch shows Kansas traffic fatalities tallied by the State Accident Records Section. In the last 24 hours two deaths. to date in 1957 total 417. Compared to the same period in 1956 the figures were 420.
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Topeka
Kansas
Oklahoma City woman testifies in Georgia murder case
Sheriff reports a 28 year old woman named Loraine Icey Tate Stanga told him her male companion killed Virgil Glenn Gray 49, a Lawrenceville funeral home worker. Gray's body was found on a logging trail northeast of Van Buren Arkansas after a confrontation in Decatur Georgia.
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Oklahoma City
Bob Turner
Georgia
Loraine Icey Tate Stanga
Bethany
Okla
Hoyt Ledford
Turner
Virgil Glenn Gray
Lawrenceville
Funeral Home
Gray
van Buren
Ark
Ledford
Decatur
Tennessee
Arkansas
Telegraphic Tribune Delivery Note
If you do not receive your Tribune contact your carrier and if he cannot be reached call 700 after 6 p.m. for assistance.
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Tribune
Braves Take Early 2-1 Edge In Key World Series Game
Milwaukee Braves lead New York Yankees 2-1 after two innings in Game Six of the 1958 World Series. Hank Bauer homered for the Yankees, while Red Schoendienst and Hank Aaron drove in a run for Milwaukee in the bottom of the first. Warren Spahn contributed an RBI single in the second as the Braves rally to top the Yanks.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee Braves
New York Yankees
Hank Bauer
Yankees
Braves
Red Schoendienst
Hank Aaron
Warren Spahn
Wes Covington
Carey
Pafko
McDougald
Mathews
Bauer
Schoendienst
Mantle
Howard
Logan
Berra
170 Area Officers In FFA Contests
The six local Future Farmers of America officers and four more members joined 170 officers and sponsors from 23 Southeast Kansas chapters at the FFA leadership school in Kansas. Top teams and individuals in information and ritual tests were named with medals awarded for placing in the top six, ten, and last eight in each contest.
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FFA
Future Farmers of America
Southeastern Kansas
Carl Hines
Bill Triplett
Don Chickadonz
David Swiler
Glen Swiler
Neal Gray
Southeast
Kansas
State Association
Frank Carpenter
Gary Harmon
Ellsworth
State Sentinel
Bill Chickadonz
Neodesha
Altoona
Caney
Erie
Fredonia
Altamont
Fort Scott
Chanute
Cherryvale
Erucka
Humboldt
Yates Center
St. Paul
Eureka
Girard
Football Winners Promote Weekly Contest in Chanute Tribune
The third weekly football contest by Chanute merchants offers three Blue Comet home game tickets to winners plus prizes such as a savings account leather dress gloves a throw rug a phonograph record a hassock three gift certificates and a cash award. Last week winners were Martha Mitchem Gerald Braden and Leroy Halsted. Further winners will be notified by participating stores.
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Chanute
Tribune
Blue Comet
Martha Mitchem
Gerald Braden
W. Malcolm
Leroy Halsted
W. Walnut
Beck Fined for Illegal Whiskey Manufacture and Possession
Charles O Beck of rural route 1 was fined 150 dollars plus five dollars in court costs and paroled from a thirty day jail sentence after pleading guilty in city court to illegal manufacture and possession of whiskey. He was arrested after authorities seized a 50 gallon still at his home south of Rural School.
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Charles O. Beck
Mowrey to Speak at Kansas Library Conference
Harvey S. Mowrey of Cha nute Public Library will join the 55th Kansas Library Assn fall conference at Parsons. He leads a Public Library Finance discussion in a problem clinic Friday morning. Langston Hughes will headline the authors banquet at 7 p.m. with poetry to the people.
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Harvey S. Mowrey
Chanute Public Library
Kansas Library Assn
Parsons
Mowrey
Public Library
Parsonian Hotel
Langston Hughes
Fall From Car Hood Fatal to Little Girl
A 4-year-old girl, Donna Sue Worthey, died of head injuries after falling from the hood of a parked car in a Kansas City area parking lot. She was treated at a hospital following a two hour brain operation after initially appearing well. The Wortheys have two other daughters and two sons.
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Kansas City
James Worthey
Donna Sue
County Officials Meeting Here
A semi annual gathering of the Association of County Commissioners and County Engineers of Southeast Kansas drew about 60 members to the Memorial building. The program featured firms such as A. O. Williamson Bros. Inc and Anderson Prince Oil Corp with inputs from the State Highway Commission and Eaton Metal Products. Luncheon was at the Tioga Hotel followed by group singing led by Kathleen McClung and Irene Naughton and a buffet at the Eagles Club hosted by equipment and contract firms.
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Association of County Commissioners and County Engineers of
Kansas
Memorial Building
Compaction
A. O. Williamson Bros., Inc
Minneapolis, Minn
Road Oils
Anderson - Pritchard Oil Corp
Arkansas City
State Highway Commission
Eaton Metal Products Corp
Hutchinson
Kathleen McClung
Walnut
John Nation
Robert Ward
Eagles Club
Irene Naughton
Opal Fielder
Footprints Thought to Prove Bigfoot Hunter Claims Wild Indian
Seattle AP reports taxidermists Al Corbett and Bob Titmus examined tracks 25 miles north of Westchpee, California. They describe 16 inch prints, 5 inch heel, 7 inch ball, with a reported 50 inch average stride. A logger also cast a clear footprint and locals recount an Indian boy who vanished decades ago after escaping chains. Corbett ties the tracks to a tall, heavy man who may have roamed at night for 10 years without harming anyone.
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al Corbett
Seattle
Bob Titmus
Westchpee
School Funds Drive by Faubus Narrows Aid War
Gov Orval Faubus leads a nationwide appeal for private school funds. Letters signed by Faubus and Dr T J Raney urge support for all white private high schools to replace closed facilities. Mailings to supporters will be printed on state stationery and offer pro rata refunds if state funds become legal later. The drive cites federal court action blocking public funds for private schools.
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Little Rock
Ark
Orvald. Faubus
Faubus
T. J. Raney
Youth Admits Drug Hoax At Local Senior High
A 16-year-old boy admitted creating a narcotics hoax at Senior High School and making threatening calls after a girl reported a hand written note offering drugs for sale. Investigators say he also confessed to writing several notes and turning white powder alleged to be oxide over to police. The case will be referred to juvenile authorities.
Newton Store Prizes Trend to Couples
Newton Kansas AP reports a remodel reopening sparked prize drawings. Last week Mr and Mrs C E F Garrison won both major door prizes a sewing machine and a kitchen range from 5000 registration tabs. Last night Mr and Mrs W W Cannon won a carpet and pad and a bathroom scale.
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Newton, Kan
C. EF
Garrison
Newton
W. W. Cannon
Boy Scouts Aid Civil Defense Distribution In Chanute
Chanute Scouts will deliver 4000 Civil Defense emergency handbooks to every Chanute home Saturday as part of a nationwide Safety Good Turn. The guide covers family preparedness, wartime and peacetime disasters, warning signals, CONELRAD, fallout protection, and local government emergency plans. Fire Chief Bill Brennan oversees the project with 4.5 million Scouts nationwide distributing to 40 million homes.
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Chanute Boy Scouts
America
Chanute Scouts
Chanute
Bill Brennan
Conelrad
Boy Scouts
U. S. Halts Convoys to Quemoy Amid Cease Fire
The United States announced it has stopped convoy escort of Nationalist Chinese supply ships to Quemoy during a seven day cease fire. Officials said the escort could be resumed immediately if fighting resumes. Reports from Taipei indicate unescorted shipments and large supplies reaching Quemoy as the cease fire holds, with U. S. forces evaluating the extension to a permanent peace.
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Washington
United States
Quemoy Run
State Department
Lincoln White
Quemoy
State Dulles
Eisenhower Administration
Europe
U. S
Warsaw
Jacob Bean
Wang Ping-nan
Taipei
Formosa
U.S
Formosa Strait
Pescadores
Gene Kramer
Peiping
Adm
Roland N. ‘Smoot
Taiwan
Far East
Formosan
Keelung
Vynosa
Bernard Greenberg
Wilmington
Del
Young Pilot Seeks Stratosphere On High Balloon Flight
Lt. Clifton McClure, 25, rode a huge helium balloon from Alamogordo New Mexico aiming for 100000 feet. After a failed attempt Tuesday a substitute balloon lifted he rises to altitude to remain 24 hours as observers on the ground quiz his observations. Weather may push drift eastward then over the missile range by sunset.
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Alamogordo
N.M
New Mexico
Clifton McClure
Missile Range
Girl Scouts Elect Midwest Region Leaders
Audry House of Denver and Mrs Gertrude Fick of Mason City Iowa were elected to three year terms as president and secretary of the Midwest region of the Association of Girl Scout Professional Workers.
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Kansas City
Audry House
Denver
Gertrude Fick
Mason City
Iowa
Midwest
The
Assn. of
Girl Scout Professional Workers
Third Crash Victim in Hillsboro Collision Dies
Albert Becker, 46, of Galva, died in Newton Hospital yesterday, raising the death toll to three from a two car crash near Hillsboro on Sunday.
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Newton
Kas
Albert Becker
Galva
Hillsboro
Diesels Six Cars Derail at Lawrence
In North Lawrence two of three diesel units and six baggage cars of the Rock Island Imperial derailed while the passenger coaches stayed upright. No injuries were reported and the cause remains unknown. The train, from Chicago to Los Angeles, left Kansas City at 9 05 a.m. and derailed about 10 30 a.m. on Union Pacific tracks between Kansas City and Topeka, with only one track blocked.
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Lawrence
Kan
Rock Island
Imperial
North Lawrence
Chicago
Los Angeles
Kansas City
Union Pacific
Topeka
Electric Cord Fatal To Sooner Teacher
Jon A. Hitch 36, principal of Ne High School, was killed in Newkirk Oklahoma when an extension cord or short caused a fire under his home as he placed rat poison. Fire Chief George Engelking said Hitch pulled the extension cord and light under the building. Resuscitation efforts failed. Hitch is survived by his widow and a two year old daughter. He came to Newkirk four years ago from Decatur Arkansas.
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Newkirk
Okla
Jon A. Hitch
Ne High School
George Engelking
Hitch
Decatur
Ark
Homemade car stolen from Mrs Huffman’s garage
A homemade car powered by a washing machine engine was stolen from 411 W Ist last night. Mrs Chet Huffman reported a second motor also removed and noted a tire and a wrist watch had been stolen in the past year.
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Ist
Chet Huffman
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