Visiting Grandmothers Ready for a Fling In the Big City
In New York for the 18th annual convention of the National Federation of Grandmother Clubs visiting grandmothers from across the country tour department stores theaters and TV venues led by Edith B Waddell of Corpus Christi Texas The 20 000 member group engages in community work and national issues with colors gold and brown and chrysanthemum as symbols of autumn.
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New York
Big City
National Federation of Grandmother Clubs
Edith B. Waddell
Corpus Christi
Tex
Mercury manned satellite flight plan announced
NASAs detailed plan outlines a Mercury capsule making three orbits at 100 miles altitude over 44 hours. The route crosses Europe Africa Australia the Pacific and finishes with a landing in the Atlantic near the Bahama Islands off Cape Canaveral. An astronaut confirmed the route.
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Langley, Va
Earth
Atlantic
Bahama Islands
Cape Canaveral
Fla
South Africa
Australia
United States
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mercury
North Atlantic
Canary Islands
Spanish West Africa
Algeria
Africa
Lake Chad
Lake Victoria
Kenya
Perth
Brisbane
Fiji Islands
Samoa
Baja California
Mexico
Texas
Austin
Houston
New Orleans
U.S
Charleston
S.C
Bermuda
Nigeria
Mozambique
Madagascar
Mackay
Australian
Solomons
Howland and
Baker Islands
Central Pacific
Tucson
Ariz
Carlsbad
N.M
Fort Worth
Dallas
Tex
Savannah
South Atlantic
Cape Verde Islands
Angola
Johannesburg
Geraldton
Gulf of Carpenteria
Cape York
New Guinea
Marshall Islands
Honolulu
Pacific
San Diego
San Angelo
Bahamas
Erie and Vicinity Social News Highlights
Parish and town residents share weekend visits and illness updates. Gale Mullen entertained a pinochle club. prizes awarded to Jack Shireman and Paul Beard. Several Erie natives and relatives were seen in Joplin Parsons Chanute Great Bend and Wichita.
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Gale Mullen
Jack Shireman
Paul Beard
Beard
Sam Ricketts
Inez Ashcraft
Gardner
T. E. Archer
Charles Heady
Parsons
Ethel Neal
Erie
Perry Yarnell
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Chanute
Will Locke
Daisy Walker
Locke
Fred Locke
Katy
Kyle Brillhart
Larry
Karen
Kay
Fort Scott
Wayne Brillhart
Hollis Dunham
Pershing Brady
Ted Kyle
Richard
Lonnie
Grace of
Charles C. Ratliff
Yarnell
Handy Man Arrested After Knife Slayings
A 48 year old handyman, Foster Bridges, was arrested in St. Louis on request from Webster Groves police in connection with the knife slayings of Alice Haas and her brother Cecil Giles in suburban Webster Groves. Bridges, using the alias Peter Eel, had worked for the Haas family.
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ST. Louis, Mo
Webster Groves
Foster Bridges
St. Louis
Bridges
Peter Eel
Haas
Alice Haas
Cecil W. Giles
David Haas
Ovid Yadon
Births and reunions cross path in brief wire items
AP briefs report a 71st birthday celebration leading to the birth of a 14th great grandchild in Bloomfield New Jersey. A Baltimore mother visits her quadruplets at Johns Hopkins Hospital. A Denver worker’s 11 children attend his funeral after a fatal auto crash. A San Francisco bishop notes Alaska homesteading needs and caravan missteps. An incomplete item ends with a California teen named Thomas hospitalized.
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Baltimore
Lorraine Graves
Annapolis
Johns’ Hopkins Hospital
Ki. Marie
Karen May
Katherine
Mary
Kevin Mark
Denver
Colo
Frank Sandoval
San Francisco
Alaska
William T. Gordon Jr
Accident after porcupine scare injures rider in fall
A rider was thrown when a horse reared after a porcupine fell from a tree. The horse stepped on the fallen rifle, causing the firearm to discharge and injure the rider in the leg. Further details not provided.
Area Clinic For Crippled Children Held At Parsons
A free diagnostic clinic for crippled children from Labette County and nearby areas will be held at the West Side Methodist church in Parsons on October 29 starting at 8 a.m. The event, sponsored by the Kansas Crippled Children Commission, Labette County Medical Society, and the Kansas Society for Crippled Children, will be conducted by four orthopedic surgeons from Kansas City. Examinations and diagnoses are free under the Kansas Crippled Children Law. no treatment is offered. The clinic targets new patients. it is not for existing patients seeking checkups or follow ups. Parents should mail or write for appointments to the Kansas Crippled Children Commission, 321 First National Bank Building, Wichita, with the child’s name and birth date. Appointment notices will be sent to those who apply.
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Labette County
Parsons
West Side Methodist Church
Kansas Crippled Children Commission
The
Labette County Medical Society
Kansas Society For Crippled Children
Leonard F. Peltier
L. C. Lutton
Philip C. Nolte
C. L. Francisco
Wichita
Society For Crippled Children
L. C. Swalm
G. 0. Gardner
Chanute
S. H. Shoemaker
Neodesha
Clinic exam plans for crippled children rollout
The notice outlines a screening clinic for crippled children with a Nov. 22 or Oct. 22 deadline, inviting walk ins if possible. Readers are told to contact the local chairman of the Society for Crippled Children or their family physician for information, with county chair contacts listed.
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