Community Concert Drive Kicks Off In Chanute
A community concert drive started with a luncheon in the Tioga Hotel Santa Fe room, aims to recruit members by Saturday 15 p.m. Headquarters at Evans Music store. Richard Leibert will perform in Chanute on November 6 at 3 p.m. and two more out of town concerts are planned in Joplin and Bartlesville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amy Wilcox
Ann Arbor
Mich
Santa Fe
Tioga Hotel
Evans Music Store
Boyd Latimer
O. H. Cunningham
J. Leroy Barker
David Parker
Blackston
Dale Painter
C. H. Pankratz
Chanute Community Concert Association
Jerome Hines
Metropolitan Opera
Joplin
High School
Charles K. L. Davis
Bartlesville
Civic Center
Anna Mae Brooks Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter
Anna Mae Brooks pleaded guilty to second degree manslaughter in the stabbing death of her husband Roscoe C. Brooks on Sept. 3. She was sentenced to three to five years in the Lansing state industrial farm for women, with a bench parole motion set for 10 a.m. next Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Mae Brooks
Roscoe C. Brooks
State Industrial Farm For Women
Lansing
Royster Junior High Discusses Halloween Vandalism Plan
The executive committee and 28 room representatives at Royster Junior High organized group discussions to shape a school wide stance on Halloween misdeeds. They favored positive actions like gym games Teen Canteen and UNICEF drives while urging students to act with integrity and community cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royster Junior High
Unicef
Boy Dies After Penicillin Shot in Miami
A 13 year old boy identified as David L. Shoopman collapsed moments after receiving a penicillin injection for an earache and died two hours later in Miami Florida. Police quoted Dr Orion V Carr saying he administered 20 000 units of penicillin and that death likely resulted from a penicillin reaction given the boy had a weak heart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Orion V. Carr
David L. Shoopman
Carr
Skindiver Believed Victim of Sharks
Miami AP reports wife of missing professional skindiver John Taylor Wilson believes he was eaten by sharks after his car was found near a bridge and his diving equipment missing. A helicopter and searchers spotted a what appeared to be a shark attack on a white object about 15 feet deep, 300 yards offshore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
John Taylor Wilson
Three Million Dollar Burglary Hits Los Angeles Home
Sheriff's deputies report a three million dollar loot from Raoul Fernandez a West Hollywood retiree and Coca Cola fortune heiress widow Katherine Johnson Candler Fernandez. The $1 million in jewelry and $2 million in non negotiable stock were taken from a Bel Air apartment with no forced entry and a window screen removed from a third floor sun deck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Sheriff's Deputiies
Raoul Fernandez
West Hollywood
Katherine’ S Johnson Candler Fernandez
Coca- Cola
Lee Bergman
Sheriff's Detective Bureau
Fernandez
Atlanta
U.S
Car Hits Tree After Jumping Curb in Wilson County
A 1947 Chevrolet with a Wilson County tag jumped the curb on West Main at about 1 30 p m yesterday and struck a tree. The driver fled before police arrived. license records traced to Leota Hallbauer of Neodesha. Francis Mock reported backing a delivery truck and lightly bumped a parked 1957 Chevrolet owned by Alex Pitts on Garfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson County
West Main
Leota Hallbauer
Neodesha
Francis Mock
W. 3Rd
Mock
Alex Pitts
Garfield
Husband Held After Murder Of Wife In Miami
Dale C. Lawrence 43 is jailed on first degree murder charges after allegedly shooting his wife Betty Jo Lawrence 35 in Maule Industries a secretary and mother of three. Witnesses say she moved toward his .22 rifle prompting multiple shots as bystanders tried to intervene. Lawrence had prior court orders after she sued for divorce accusing cruelty and threats to the children and his home. Mrs Lawrence survived by her mother sisters and brother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Dale C. Lawrence
Betty Jo Lawrence
John Williams
Lawrence
Maule Industries Chemical Laboraory
Frank Negron
Five Chanute Teachers Attend Guidance Meeting
Five Chanute teachers attended the Southeast Kansas Guidance Assn fall meeting in Coffeyville to discuss quantitative evaluation of guidance. From Chanute were Hazel Russell Ethel Davidson Royster Junior High and Robert Geiger Elizabeth Pieper and Wendell McMurray Senior High. Miss Pieper is past president. Dr. E G Kennedy of Pittsburg was speaker. Charles Yoos Kennedy and Pieper formed a panel on evaluation criteria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chanute
Southeast Kansas Guidance Assn
Coffeyville
Hazel Russell
Ethel Davidson
Royster
Robert Geiger
Elizabeth Pieper
Wendell McMurray
Miss Pieper
E. G. Kennedy
Pittsburg
Charles Yoos
Kennedy
Traffic Deaths In Topeka Log For October 28 1960
Kansas traffic death log records 24 hour period ending 9 am October 28 1960. Comparable figures show variations from 1959.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Two Navy Pilots Rescued After Jet Crashes Into Bay
Two Navy pilots Lt Cmdr Donald K Forbes and Lt Alexander R Burt were rescued after their jet trainer flame out crashed into the bay near Quonset Naval Air Station. Both suffered submersion and shock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quonset Point, RJ
Quonset Naval Air Station
Cmdr
Donald K. Forbes
Alexander R. Burt
Girls Football Game Delayed to Thursday at 7 30 PM
The Chanute Senior High School girls football game postponed from tonight due to steady rain will be played Thursday night at 7 30 at Royster Stadium. Junior and senior girls participate under regular football rules while boys provide cheerleading. Funds support filming varsity games.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royster Stadium
Chanute Senior High School
Kiwanis Spook Parade Back On For Oct 31
The 12th annual Kiwanis Spook Parade will be held Oct 31 at 6 p m starting Main and Forest with judging at 6 30 p m For each grade kindergarten through sixth five cash prizes range from 2 to 50 cents Prizes awarded at the Memorial Building Parade coordinators plan to enlist elementary teachers and expect about 400 entrants including Royster Murray Hill and Senior High bands into the event guidelines state no pets or bicycles permitted and only costumed children may march completion targeted for 7 15 p m
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne Umbarger
Kiwanis
Kiwanis Club
Umbarger
Main
Forest
Highland
First Street
Memorial Building
Pets Memorial Building
Royster Junior High
Murray Hill
Hut Rman
Paul Parsons
Prisoners Free Three Guards in Connecticut Hospital Takeover
Three guards were overpowered and held for more than six hours by convict patients in the Connecticut State Prison hospital ward. The guards were released after convicts met with attorney Roger Gleason and State Rep. Marshall Dudley, who said the session yielded no stated grievances. Walter Doolittle and Peter Kinosh met with the officials. Doolittle’s past crimes include armed robbery and riot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wethersfield, Conn
Connecticut
Walter Doolittle
Peter Kinosh
Roger Gleason
Marshall N. Dudley
Gleason
Dudley
Doolittle
Three men face preliminary hearing in Phillips crude oil theft
In Clathee Kansas the preliminary hearing for Ernest B. Watson 53 Drue B. Watson 45 and William Ray Churchman Edgerton is continued to Nov 3. They are free on $18 000 bonds. Watson and Churchman are charged with taking 6000 barrels of oil and Drue Watson with 260 barrels in a Phillips Petroleum Co. pumping station disappearance near Edgerton Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clathe, Kas
Phillips Petroleum Co
Edgerton
Kan
Ernest B. Watson
Drue B. Watson
Ottawa
Kas
William Ray Churchman
Ernest Watson
Churchman
Drue Watson
Park Park damages spike at Santa Fe Park
Police said a receiver was torn from a telephone in a booth at Santa Fe Park last night and a lavatory pipe was broken in the men's rest room. It marks the second damage incident at the park in two weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Fe’ Park
Turnpike Crash Fatal In Lawrence Involves Three Vehicles
AP reports John W Plybon 36 of Hickman Mills Mo died after a Kansas Turnpike collision that involved a car and two trucks. Lee Wasser for Insurance listed contact details after the incident Monday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
John W Plybon
Hickman Mills
Tribune
Lee Wasser
Assure UN Success Is Aim Of President
President Eisenhower called for a ceaseless push to strengthen the United Nations amid Khrushchev’s attacks, urging free nations to share the burden of resisting the Red threat. He spoke at the dedication of the Hiawatha Bridge over the Mississippi at the Minnesota Wisconsin line during a cross country tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Wing
Minn
Eisenhower
United Nations
Khrushchev
International Organization
Mississippi River
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Detroit
Michigan City
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Hiawatha
United Nations Organization
America
Woodrow Wilson
League of Nations
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Congress
White House
Silver Dollar Day Promises Big Cash Prizes Thursday
The fourth monthly Silver Dollar Day sale by Chanute merchants via the Chamber of Commerce retail committee will occur Thursday. With no first place winner last month the top prize is $100, plus four smaller prizes of $10 and $5 each. Shoppers must register and be inside a participating store by 4 p.m. to win as merchandise specials are offered by each store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chanute Merchants
Chamber of Commerce Retail Committee
Astro-Mice In Long Term Observation
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP Sally Amy and Moe the Ameri can astro mice fly to Texas for prolonged observation to see if they develop any follow up effects from their 700 mile high space trip. The mice were introduced to newsmen at a press conference Monday. They will be observed for up to a year and mated within a week or two to study possible adverse effects on future generations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Sally
Amy
Moe
Texas
H. C. Clamman
School of Aviation Medicine
Brooks Air Force Base
Tex
Stengel Fired by Yankees Amid Age Claim
Casey Stengel announced his dismissal from the New York Yankees with説 officials citing age and a shift to a youth program. Dan Topping and Del Webb outlined retirement pay and the move toward a younger leadership as Stengel reflected on his tenure of 12 seasons with 10 league pennants and seven World Series titles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York (Ap
Casey Stengel
New York Yankees
Dan Topping
Stengel
Topping
Club
Zone School For Teachers Is Tomorrow
Chanute public schools dismiss at noon to allow teachers to attend a zone school at the Senior High School auditorium starting at 1 p.m. Eight Chanute representatives who attended a zone school at Parsons will report to the Chanute Teachers Assn. Local PTA council boards and Kansas legislature candidates are invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chanute
Parsons
Chanute Teachers Assn
PTA Council
Kansas
Teachers Association
Buford Fisher
Plane Demolished as Two Families Survive Crash
A small plane crash near Panguitch Utah injured pilot Charles Pittock and his wife while two young children, Curtis James and Roxy Pittock, survived unharmed. The craft struck brush during an emergency landing attempt in bad weather en route to Denver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panguitch
Utah
Curtis James
George Middleton
Roxy Pittock
Roxy
Charles Pittock
Merced
Calif
Curtis
Ronald James
Atwater
James
Denver
Pittock
Tractor Overturns Injures Local Farmer Joe Brazil
Local farmer Joe Brazil of 128 S Forest near Chanute was pinned under a tractor while opening a pit silo. The machine overturned trapping him with a broken back, multiple broken ribs, and cuts. He lies immobilized at Neosho Memorial Hospital for three weeks awaiting a back brace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Brazil
S. Forest
Chanute
Brazil
Joe Cole
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Collision damages cars on Main Street in Erie
The right rear fender and back bumper of a 1957 Chevrolet station wagon driven by Louis Edwards of Erie were damaged in a collision at 32 North Main about 7 45 a.m. Sheriff Jerry Sloan reported. Ann Wheelock, an Erie social welfare worker, was backing from a drive. a taillight was broken on her 1951 Ford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
Louis Edwards
Erie R
N. Main
Jerry Sloan
Sloan
Ann Wheelock
Erie Social Welfare
Ford
Weather turns colder with frost forecast for Kansas Wednesday
The Weather Bureau warns a mass of cold air from western Canada may bring frost and freezing temperatures to Kansas Wednesday and Thursday nights. Light rain moved into central Kansas Monday, continuing in northern sections with variable, light totals. southern areas saw heavier falls around 0.1 inch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Canada
Also Mentioned on This Page
M. J. Blackston
E In
Grees
Brooks
N. Malcolm
Boy
Navy
Ole Case
Yankees
Bucky Harris
Yankee
Glendale
Etta Blanche Smith
Kansas State Teachers Assn
Kansas City
Freda Betts
C. V. Crissman
Imogene Colaw
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!