Nixon and Rockefeller display unity amid 1960 bid talks
Vice President Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller breakfasted together in New York while denying any joint strategy for 1960. Democrats fault Eisenhower over school integration and internal party squabbles surfaced as Butler complained of being overwhelmed by Smathers calls. Rockefeller dismissed talk of a presidential run and emphasized his NY governorship aims.
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Associated Press
Nixon
Nelson Rockefeller
New York City
Rockefeller
Wisconsin
Eisenhower
Paul M. Butler
George Smathers
D-Fla
Butler
Averell Harriman
Onlgin
Sticky Road Oil Traps Mice and Rats
McPherson County highway crew sprayed a three mile road with thick oil delaying traffic for three days. Foreman Gus Peterson reported thousands of dead mice and rats caught on the sticky surface with no ability to move.
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Mcpherson
McPherson County
Gus Peterson
Two Masked Men Rob Manhattan Store
AP reports two masked men, one tall and one short, robbed a Safeway in Manhattan. They fled in a car, abandoning it two blocks away, while revolvers were shown. The vehicle had been stolen earlier from a Kansas State College parking lot from a student who kept the keys.
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Manhattan
Safeway
Kansas State College
Directors Elected at Cha nute Farmers Cooperative Meeting
Two new directors, Glen Strack and Leo Fairchild, were elected at the Cha nute Farmers Cooperative annual meeting in the Memorial building last night. Fifty six persons attended, including 32 members.
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Glen Strack
Weeks Quits Cabinet Post as Strauss Heads Commerce
Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks resigned effective by Nov 10 for pressing business. Admiral Lewis L. Strauss will head the Commerce Department after a recess appointment by President Eisenhower. The White House released Weeks’s Oct 22 resignation letter and a letter from Eisenhower accepting it with regret.
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Weeks
Strauss
Washington (Ap
Commerce
Sinclair Weeks
Adm. Lewis, L. Strauss
Boston
Eisenhower
Fisherman Ends Five Day Afloat After Sea Ordeal
Alvin Turner, rescued after five days aboard a yellow raft, is in good condition at Mound Park Hospital. Skipper Frank Devane died when the Virginia Mac sunk 65 miles off St. Petersburg after a storm, with Turner surviving on the raft by catching fish with his hands. The Jackie C. recovered Devane’s body and Turner was brought to safety by the Coast Guard cutter Nemesis.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Alvin Turner
Mound Park Hospital
Virginia Mac
Frank Devane
Jackie C
Gulf of Mexico
Coast Guard
Nemesis
Turner
Devane
Tampa
Cmdr
W. G. Patridge
Virginia Mae
Patridge
Cedar Key
Steinhatchee
Gulf
Wife Opal Applegate Testimony Read in Murder Trial
Opal Applegate testified in the third trial of Warren Applegate for the 16 month old Dana Laraine’s death in Mulvane Kansas. She previously refused to testify and had given testimony in prior trials, the first resulting in a second degree murder verdict and the second ending with a hung jury.
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EL Dorado
Kan
Opal Applegate
Warren
Dana Laraine
Kaw
Applegate
Kansas Supreme Court
Housewife Hospitalized After Hula Hoop Incident
Mrs. Ann Mask, 27, of near Fayettesville, is hospitalized in Atlanta in traction with eight-pound weights on her legs every other hour. Doctors fear a slipped disc and may operate after she started hula hooping for more exercise and found herself unable to walk.
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Atlanta
Ann Mask
Fayettesville
Truck Driver Cuts Off Own Arm in Ohio Wreck
Richard Wulfert, 27, of Ballwin Missouri, sleeping at the wheel, drove into a bridge abutment on Ohio 29 six miles west of Celina. His left arm was amputated after it was pinned by the truck cab wreck. Doctors at St. Rita’s Hospital Lima report possible right leg amputation. Local authorities note the arm was severed after attempts to free him failed.
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Celina
Ohio
St. Louis
Richard Wallert
Ballwin
St. Rita’s Hospital
Lima
Aid sought for injured driver in east Earlton crash
Harold Dean Wasson remained in critical condition at Neosho Memorial Hospital after a collision with Walter Poor of Chanute on a county road four miles east of Earlton. Poor, shaken but not seriously hurt, could recall little of the moments after the 1956 Ford station wagon toppled and Wasson was thrown from his car.
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Harold Dean Wasson
Walter Poor
Chanute
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Wasson
Poor
Earlton
Jack Reynolds
Reynolds
Shaw
Charles McCoy
Boots
Collie
Couple Is Killed In Traffic Crash Near Robinson Kansas
In Robinson Kansas a two car collision two miles north of town killed Clyde Straub 78 and his wife 72 as they returned from a fishing trip. David Twombley 22 a local school teacher was driving the other car and suffered multiple injuries.
Artillery Duel on Quemoy
On Quemoy the day-long exchange pitted Chinese Communist and Nationalist forces. Nationalists used U S made eight inch howitzers and other artillery to counter fire. AP reports say both sides traded shells with sporadic firing continuing into night.
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Taipei
Formosa
Quemoy
Fire Chief Brennan to Speak at 4-H Club Meeting
Fire Chief C. W. Brennan will address the Neosho Valley Busy Bees 4-H club during a meeting at 8 p.m. Monday at the Neosho Valley School.
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C. W. Brennan
Neosho Valley
Busy Bees 4-H Club
Montgomery blames United States for Suez fallout and world tension
Field Marshal Montgomery accused the United States of sabotaging the 1956 Suez operation and blamed Washington for the present global state. He argued Allies failed to seize opportunities after wartime victory and urged a broader fight against international communism beyond regional scope.
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London
Lord Montgomery
United States
Britain
Montgomery
Europe
Royal United Services Institution
Eisenhower
Suez
Middle East
Suez Canal Zone
U.N
Egypt
Labor
Clement Attlee
Hitler
Germany
Trapped Miners at Springhill Mine Face Little Hope
A gas filled collapse at Cumberland No 2 colliery near Springhill Nova Scotia traps 91 miners. Three bodies recovered 78 escaped two levels remain blocked by rock and gas despite rescue efforts.
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Spring Hill
N.S
Dominion Coal Co
H. M. C. Gordon
Dulles Sees Communists Facing Setbacks in Far East
Secretary of State Dulles told reporters at the White House that Chinese Communists are trying to block pacification efforts of the Formosa Strait. He praised Chiang Kai-shek and Nationalist China, saying free Asian nations will resist Communist aggression and that U.S. and Nationalists seek peaceful, defensive policies while the fate of peace rests with the Communists.
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Washington
State Dulles
Formosa Strait
Western Pacific
Far East
United States
Asia
Chiang
Dulles
Eisenhower
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Quemoy
Matsu Islands
GM and UAW Reach Local Labor Agreements in KC Area
General Motors and the United Auto Workers announced settlements at three Kansas City region plants including Delco-Remy in Olathe and Fisher in Leeds, ending idling of about 1450 workers. Delco-Remy ballots at 2 p.m. CST and Chevrolet in Leeds at noon tomorrow. About 2500 workers at the Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac plant in Kansas City, Kansas, had returned to work. GM total area workforce exceeds 5500.
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Kansas City
General Motors
United Auto Workers Union
Chevrolet
Leeds
UAW
Delco-Remy
Olathe
Kan
Fisher Body
Football Ticket Winners Named in Merchant Contest
Winners of tickets to a Blue Comet home game from last week's merchant sponsored contest include C. E. Wiles Humboldt R 1 Rusty Corbitt 611 S Malcolm Gene Jerome 619 S Malcolm. Other prize winners have been notified. An in progress series offers prizes such as a savings account throw rug phonograph record duck call shotgun shells two gift certificates a cash award and wall pictures.
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Blue Comet
C. E. Wiles
Humboldt R
Rusty Corbitt
S. Malcolm
Gene Jerome
Fair and Cool For Weekend Weather Outlook
FORECAST: Fair and cool through Saturday with low tonight near 40 and Saturday highs in the 60s to 70s. In northwest Kansas a hard freeze hit last night with Goodland at 22 while Pittsburg fell to 48 in the east. Garrett says cooler today with little rain so far this October and needs for rain in southern and western counties.
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Topeka
Kansas
Goodland
Pittsburg
Richard Garett
Garrett
Boeing Sues to Recover 10 Million in Tax Court
Boeing Airplane Co. in Seattle seeks ten million dollars from the government in a tax court case over 1952 profits deemed excessive by a renegotiation board. Lt. Gen. Kenneth B. Wolfe testified that Boeing opposed an Air Force 1948 decision to build the B47 bomber in a government plant at Wichita, aiming to show the firm faced an unfavourable position sharing jet plane information with competitors.
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Seattle
Boeing Airplane Co
Kenneth B. Wolfe
Los Angeles
Boeing
Air Force
Wichita
Kansas Traffic Fatalities Rise in 1958 Totals
In the last 24 hours two deaths were recorded. To date in 1958 fatalities total 440, compared with 447 for the same period in 1957.
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Topeka
Kansas
Theis presses for action over Cogswell fees
Democratic state chairman Frank Theis questioned Atty General John Anderson on why the office has not pursued recovery or prosecution over more than 2800 dollars in sanity hearing fees paid to former Shawnee County Probate Court judge Glenn Cogswell. Cogswell admits the fees but says a 1952 opinion and subsequent confirmations approved the practice before Anderson took office. Anderson reversed those rulings.
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Topeka
Frank Theis
Atty
John Anderson
Glenn Cogswell
Shawnee County
Cogswell
Anderson
Theis
Wichita
Montgomery County
Miami County
Montgomery
Roy Bulkley
Tribune Straw Vote Saturday Tests Local Preferences
The Tribune will conduct a Saturday straw poll in Chanute to gauge voter preferences on the governor race third district congressman and the three proposed amendments to the state Constitution. reporters will sample a cross section of voters who will mark printed ballots for their favorites.
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Tribune
Tribune Reporters
Chanute
Halloween Prank Calls Prompt Police Warnings
Police logged three rapid calls about Halloweeners last night. A park bench blocking South Forest street prompted an alert at 10 15 pm. Five minutes later tires were removed from a shop on North Lincoln and then dumped at 4th and Lincoln. Officers warned obstructions in traffic pose serious accidents.
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South Forest
North Lincoln
4Th and
Lincoln
Topekan Killed in Utah Car Crash
PRICE Utah UP reports a two car collision on U S 50 6 near here fatally injuring Clifford Emerson Steen 34 Topeka Kansas and Louis Stanton 42 Cedar Rapids Iowa who rode with Steen. Two others in the other car were seriously wounded.
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Atomic Energy Commission
Sunny
New England
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Wulfert
Ruth Horsley
S. Ashby
Hans Herold
S. Central
David Lancashire
Monty
Draegermen
Cumberland Railway and Coal Co
Dominion Steel and Coal Corp
Cumberland No. 2
Cumberland No. 4
New Brunswick
Canada
Hillcrest
Alta
Springhill
Maccan
North America
Gary Embree
Ralph Gilroy
Halifax
Truro
John Thompson
Charlie Bur‘ton
Frank Hunter
Fred
Percy
Emel Spence
Spence
Red
Topekan
Utah
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