Racial integration efforts show tentative progress in the South
National Guardsmen escorted two African American children to a previously all white school in Clay Kentucky. Governor Williams noted the move as a tactical show of calm as guardsmen withdraw from other sites in Tennessee and Kentucky. In Mississippi and South Carolina governors warned against forced desegregation while protests persisted in Maryland and West Virginia.
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Kentucky National Guard
James Gordon
James
Teresa
Williams
Providence
Gordon
Clay School
Texarkana
Tex
Texarkana Junior College
Clifton
Tenn
Sturgis
Tennessee Guardsmen
Clinton
Kentucky
Sturgis High School
Washington
Eisenhower
Omer Carmichael
Louisville
South
J. P. Coleman
Mississippi
Jackson
George Bell Timmerman Jr
South Carolina
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
National Guard
Easton
U S Plans Suez Role With Britain and France
London reports Prime Minister Eden says the United States will join Britain and France in forming a provisional users association to protect Suez Canal traffic. The plan, discussing broader participation, includes pilots, traffic coordination, and possible payments to Egypt for facilities, while Egypt and Nasser face pressure over transit.
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Britain
France
London
Eden
United States
Suez Canal
House of Commons
Suez
Egypt
Nasser
Kansas Corn Crop Is One of Smallest On Record
A 1956 Kansas corn crop is forecast at 33,432,000 bushels, one of the smallest on record. Since 1875 only four years have had smaller production: 1913 1934 1936 1937. The state saw a record decline of 259,824,000 bushels in 1889.
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Kansas
Federal
State Departments of Agriculture
Watermelon Toss Crashes Car Windshield in Pittsburg
In Pittsburg Mrs. Carlyle was cut on the face and her glasses broken when a watermelon thrown from a passing car shattered her windshield during a two-car pass. Officers are investigating the incident. In Girard copper wire worth unknown was reported stolen from the Compton coal tipple over three weeks, per Sheriff Stevens. In Iola the city commission will not adopt courtesy meter violation tickets for out of town cars at this time per the planning commission.
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Pittsburg
Harry Carlyle
Carlyle
Girard
Compton
Ernie Stevens
Iola
Ben Ellis
Chennault Operated On At Walter Reed
The Air Force said Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault retired, famed Southeast Asia air commander in World War II, was operated on recently at Walter Reed Medical Center for a lung lesion. He is expected to leave the hospital perhaps tomorrow or Friday, a spokesman said.
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Washington
Air Force
Claire Chennault
Southeast Asia
Walter Reed Medical Center
Food costs claim a quarter of family budget
A report notes American families allocate roughly 25 percent of income to food. The finding highlights ongoing pressures on household budgets amid prices and supply dynamics.
Iola Aviator W C King Dies in Texas
W C King longtime manager of Iola Municipal Airport died suddenly of a heart attack in Lubbock Texas He was WWI veteran and well known to Midwest and Southwest pilots He developed crop spraying service and ran charter repair and aircraft sales He and his wife had no children and funeral arrangements were pending Pineapple growers use hormone applications to boost fruit matur ing dates.
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Iola
W. C. King
Lubbock
Tex
King
Midwest
Southwest
Kansas City
Team Pulling Called Cruel In Complaint
Shawnee County Humane Society president alleges a Kansas Free Fair team pulling contest violates cruelty to animals law. County Attorney Roy Bulkley believes no offense exists without evidence of mistreatment. Fair manager Maurice Fager says horses merely do what comes naturally and none have been harmed. Twenty six teams of horses from...
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Topeka
Kansas Free Fair
Shawnee
Maurice Fager
States Entered in Contest and Leavenworth Test Halted
Mrs Hunt says Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma entered in the contest. A similar cowei test at Leavenworth was called off recently after a warning from law enforcement officials.
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Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Bear grabs little girl in Collinsville Oklahoma
Four year old Jan Stewart of Bartlesville wandered to a chicken wire bear cage behind a meat packing plant in Collinsville. The bear seized her leg and bit her left thigh. Employee James Bray beat the bear with a stick and pried open its mouth to free the child.
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Collinsville
Okla
Jan Stewart
Bartlesville
Jan
Eloise Stewart
James Bray
Broy
Governor Names Nurse to State Board in Topeka
Governor Fred Hall announced the appointment of Sister M. Miriam of Great Bend to the State Board of Nurse Registration and Nursing Education. The term covers the unexpired portion ending July 1, 1957, replacing Sister M. Germaine Heiman of Garden City who resigned.
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Topeka
M. Miriam
Great Bend
State Board of Nurse Registration and Nursing Education
Fred Hall
M. Germaine Heiman
Garden City
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