Teen Canteen Reopens With New Supervisor Ovid Gray
The Teen Canteen will reopen at 7 tonight with Ovid Gray, 1014 N Steuben, as supervisor replacing Mrs G F Tier. The center will host Junior High from 7 to 9 and Senior High from 9 to 11 with a juke box dance, then run five nights a week excluding Wednesdays and Sundays. Membership dues are 50 cents, 35 cents for former members for three months.
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Ovid Gray
N. Steuben
Floyd Bray
Gray
G. F. Tier
Rose
Chanute
Bray
the Tribune
S. Highland
Santa Fe and Unions In Separate Meetings
Federal mediator Francis A O Neill Jr planned separate talks today with Santa Fe officials and 15 non operating unions to avert a strike. He said yesterday's meetings failed to progress toward an agreement. Union spokesmen seek a standard union shop agreement similar to other U S railroads as 50 000 members began a strike vote after direct talks broke down.
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Chicago
Francis A. O'Neill Jr
Santa Fe Lines
Way
O'Neill
National Railway Mediation Board
Fire Destroys Barn At Richard Booth Farm
Spontaneous combustion believed to have started a fire that destroyed a barn and its contents at the Richard Booth dairy farm 1715 West Main. Loss not yet estimated. items included 25 to 35 tons of prairie hay milking machines a milk cooler grain and tools. Fire Chief C W Brennan said George Brieger of Chanute discovered the blaze and firefighters fought it from 12 15 am to 2 45 am.
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Richard Booth
W. Main
C. W. Brennan
George Brieger
Chanute
TB Association Institute Held Here October 3
One of eight tuberculosis association institutes in the state will be held here October 3 at the Southeast Kansas Tuberculosis Hospital. County chairman Mrs. Bruce Burris announced the purpose is to strengthen the control program by instructing association members. A new film Are You Positive will be shown. Other institutes will be at Topeka Garden City Pratt Wichita Osborne Colby and Salina.
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Tuberculosis Association
Bruce Burris
Southeast Kansas Tuberculosis Hospital
Topeka
Garden City
Pratt
Wichita
Osborne
Colby
Salina
Welfare and Social Workers Meet at TB Hospital
The Southeast Kansas Association of Welfare and Social Workers holds a quarterly meeting at the Southeast Kansas Tuberculosis Hospital. Seventeen counties represented with about 100 attendees. Afternoon speakers include Dr. Robert Loudon and others. association president is Robert Cherry.
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Southeast Kansas Association of Welfare and Social Workers
Southeast Kansas Tuberculosis Hospital
Robert Loudon
Ethel Green
Maxine Duckworth
Independence
Roberta Foot
State Board of Health Association
Robert Cherry
Pittsburg
Expressway Groundbreaking Linking Johnson County to Turnpike
Kansas City officials led by Governor George Docking broke ground on the 192 million dollar 18th Street Expressway project. The new route will connect Johnson County with the Kansas Turnpike, improving regional access and traffic flow.
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Kansas City, Bast
George Docking
Johnson County
Two-Pound Baby Cries Loudly At St Luke’s Hospital
In Kansas City a three day old premature baby named Jeffrey Lynn Montgomery weighing two pounds and about eight inches long cried for the first time after an urgent hospital arrival. The infant, born early to Mrs Vernon Montgomery, improved after admission to St Luke’s incubator, with doctors hopeful yet cautious about his recovery.
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Jeffrey Lynn Montgom
Jeffrey Lynn
Vernon L. Montgomery
Penny
Warm Trend In Forecast For Kansas Thursday
Forecasters expect a variable cloud cover through Friday with a few scattered light showers tonight. Lows near 60 and highs 70 to 75. Topeka reports mostly fair conditions after a two day rain event leaving up to 1.54 inches in Coffeyville and 1.30 inches in Topeka. Northwest Kansas warmed yesterday while cool air lingered in the east and south.
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Topeka
Kansas
Coffeyville
Thrall
Lecompton
Independence
Lyndon
Howard
South Central
Weather Bureau
Wichita
Dodge City
Hill City
Chanute
Goodland
Rev Pittinger Named TB Hospital Chaplain
The Rev. Claude E Piggy pastor of the Church of the Nazarene is named the new Protestant chaplain at the Southeast Kansas TB Hospital. The Rev. J Rolland Christianson of St Pauls Lutheran church completed his six month appointment August 1. Protestant chaplains at the hospital are appointed to the post by the Ministerial Alliance of Chanute.
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Claude E Piggy
Church of the Nazarene
Southeast Kansas TB Hospital
J. Rolland Christianson
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Ministerial Alliance of Chanute
U.S. Opens Gates To 60 000 Immigrants
Washington reports the United States will admit more than 60,000 people under a new law signed by President Eisenhower. Consular offices abroad begin visa processing as 62,556 additional immigrants become eligible, including 14,556 refugees from Communist countries and 36,000 admitted under special nonquota status.
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Washington
United States
Eisenhower
U.S
State Department
Lightning blacks out Tulsa television stations
An electrical storm knocked all three Tulsa stations off air. KTVX went off at 6:25 p.m. due to a severed transmission line. KOTV stayed dark just over two hours and KVOO TV used emergency equipment for about 40 minutes.
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Tulsa
KTVX
KOTV
Kvootv
Eastern Kansas Oil and Gas Assn. Meeting Criticizes Tax
Members of the Eastern Kansas Oil and Gas Assn. met at the Municipal auditorium with 68 in attendance and criticized the state severance tax of one percent on gross oil and gas production and assessment valuations. No formal action was taken though some favored formal protest with each tax payment. Jim Couch was elected president amid announced ballot results. new officers include Pat Murphy and Albion Bailey as regional VPs, Jack McKelvey secretary, Carl Weiner Jr. treasurer. An executive board was named with multiple members from Iola, Neodesha, Seneca, and nearby towns.
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Eastern Kansas Oil and Gas Assn
Jim Couch
S. Wilson
Pat Murphy
Madison
Northern Region
Albion Bailey
Neodesha
Southern Region
Jack McKelvey
S. Plummer
Carl Weiner Jr
S. Highland
Wendell Weatherbie
Iola
Allen County
Art Brigham
Airman Indicted in $12 225 Bank Robbery at Whiteman AFB
A federal grand jury indicted Melvin James Stephenson a 19 year old airman from St Charles Minn stationed at Whiteman AFB yesterday for the $12 225 branch bank robbery. He waived preliminary hearing and bond was set at $20 000. He was arrested at the gate after the holdup and will be arraigned tomorrow.
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Kansas City
Air Force
Whiteman Afb
Melvin James Stephenson
St. Charles
Minn
Tueday
Stephenson
Wide Search For Escapees
Authorities widened the search for three dangerous convicts who overpowered two Minneapolis patrolmen and fled in stolen cars. The suspects Raymond Deford James Fitch and Harold Hendrickson were identified from their photos as Missouri escapees facing state-line car theft charges. Hendrickson was found after a maid identified a gun stolen from a disarmed officer.
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Minneapolis
Rockford
Minn
E. J. Milnes
FBI
Missouri
Raymond Deford
St. Louis
James Fitch
Kansas City
Harold Hendrickson
Menagha
Railroads Honored for Public Safety in Broad Recognition
CHICAGO The National Safety Council honored 15 U.S. and Canadian railroads for outstanding public safety programs. The Santa Fe and other carriers received the council's public safety activities award for efforts to stimulate community safety in the areas they serve.
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Chicago
National Safety Council Today
U.S
Fe the
Council
Kansas Woman Elected President of Farm Women Council
Mrs. Verne Alden of Wellsville Kansas was elected president at the 21st annual convention final session. The National Home Demonstration Council serves farm women.
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Columbus
Ohio
National Home Demonstration Council
Verne Alden
Wellsville
Kas
Faubus to Confer With Eisenhower Over Little Rock Standoff
President Eisenhower and Arkansas Governor Faubus plan a Saturday meeting in Newport Rhode Island to resolve the Little Rock school integration deadlock. White House press secretary James Hagerty said Faubus would come for counsel, not capitulation, amid claims of White House aides criticizing the governor.
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Newport
R.I
Eisenhower
Arkansas
Orval Faubus
Little Rock
James C. Hagerty
White House
Faubus
Brooks Hays
D-Ark
Hagerty
Hays
Sherman Adams
Adams
Washington
E. P. Aurand
Wayne Hawks
Newport Country Club
Jones Couple Plead Not Guilty in Forgery Case
ERIE Lucille Helen Jones and husband McKinley Jones were arraigned on forgery charges for a $48 forged check cashed at Chanute on July 27. Both pleaded not guilty and are held on 5000 bond each awaiting trial next month. A two year forging pattern was alleged. A telephone tip from Mrs. Jones' mother referenced a missing daughter and Tulsa hospital work.
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Chanute
Tom Morehead
Attorney General Rules On Equalization Tax
A district with a junior high but no high school faces a five mill special high school equalization tax assessed in each county on property within districts lacking a high school. In a second opinion, Atty. Gen. John Anderson says pre 1957 trust companies may continue accepting deposits like banks, while new trusts must follow the 1957 law restricting deposit handling.
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Topeka
Atty
John Anderson
Anderson
11th Daughter Born No Sons in Family
Morristown New Jersey report says Mrs. William Beston delivered her 11th daughter named Madonna Grace. She and husband, a night watchman, already have 10 girls ages 2 to 12. hospital confirms mother and baby are well.
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Morristown
N. J
William Beston
Beston
Madonna
Boston
Morristown Memorial Hospital
Traffic Fatalities Listed by State Accident Records
TOPEKA Kansas traffic fatalities listed by the State Accident Records Section show 2 in the past 24 hours and 364 for the year to date 1957 versus 448 in the same period of 1956.
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Topeka
Kansas
C of C Plans All-Out Effort In Drive for 400 Members
The Chanute Chamber of Commerce launches a two-team membership drive aiming to reach 400 members. A kickoff at the Tioga Hotel precedes calls by about 40 workers, with 250 names already listed. O H Cunningham outlines an 11 point program to boost water supply, industry, highways, parks, museum efforts and more. Matthews notes the office fields about 50 information requests monthly.
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C of C
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber Builders’ Committee
Clarence Sievers
Chamber
Tioga
O. H. Cunningham
Chanute
Cunningham
Osa
Martin Johnson Memorial
Cuningham
Les Matthews
Matthews
Injuries Fatal To Bazine Farmer
WAKEENEY Kas Injuries from a car truck collision last Saturday proved fatal yesterday for Ralph Brown 62 year old farmer of Bazine Kas A companion in the car Jake Wittman 50 also of Bazine died Monday The accident occurred on U S 283 south of Wakeene y
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Wakeeney
Kas
Ralph Brown
Bazine
Jake Wittman
U.S. 283
Concert Drive Starts Monday for Chanute Association
The Chanute Community Concert Association opens its sixth season with a week long membership campaign led by co chairs Mrs. John Nation and Mrs. Howard Earnest. A kickoff dinner on Monday starts enrollment as Kenneth Tebow emphasizes affordable professional entertainment and civic value. The season begins November 14 with the Liebling Mastersingers replacing the Robert Shaw Chorale.
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Chanute
Liebling Mastersingers
Robert Shaw Chorale
Fifth Graders Show Music Talent in Chanute Plan
About half of Chanute's fifth graders are deemed musically able by a Glenn Peak administered test. The plan forms an elementary band and orchestra with 65 in the band and 35 in the orchestra, using school and student supplied instruments and three month rental options.
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Chanute
Glenn Peak
Murray Hill
Alcott and
Hutton
Peak
Royster Junior High School
Three Dead in Wichita Area Car Truck Crash
In a Wichita area collision three men were killed and a fourth injured. Victims Virgil Rhodes 40 and Francis Thompson 34 both Mulvane residents and Ernest Francis 50 of Rose Hill died. Injured Craig Barker 35 Mulvane. Rhodes Thompson and Barker were Cessna Aircraft engineers en route to work. Cause under investigation as observers noted total vehicle destruction.
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Wichita
Virgil Rhodes
Francis Thompson
Mulvane
Ernest Francis
Rose Hill
Craig Barker
Mulvane Rhodes
Thompson
Barker
Cessna Aircraft Co
Francis
Workers Delay Peace Talks In Phone Threat
In New York a union negotiators meeting with CWA President Beirne delayed talks with Western Electric over a new contract. The CWA warns of a nationwide walkout starting Monday, potentially idling 146000 telephone workers if no deal is reached. The dispute centers on wages and contract length with wages offered around 9 cents an hour and the union seeking about 11 percent, while WE pushes for a three year term.
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New York
Western Electric Co
Communications Workers of America
Joseph E. Dunne
CWA
Joseph A. Beirne
Beirne
Henshall toDiscuss Kansas Workman’s Comp Act
Charles Henshall of Chanute will discuss recent decisions and developments in the Kansas Workman’s Compensation Act at a talk to the Kansas chapter of the American College of Surgeons. The meeting is set for next Sunday in Great Bend.
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Kansas
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Tribune
Jan Holman
Santa Fe
Unions
Richard Booth Farm
TB Assn. Institute
Kansas City, Mo
Rev
Pittinger
TB Hospital
Lightning
Couch
Eastern
Kansas Oil, Gas Assn
Attorney General
Henshall
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