Crackdown plan on KC criminals
Kansas City officials plan heavy policing after a Jackson County grand jury warned of a rising bold criminal element. The city budget includes 150000 for 35 to 40 more police and 9290 for liquor control officers, while Gov Blair urged action on liquor violations and police shortages. Seven men indicted over strike violence at the Sugar Creek Standard Oil refinery posted $1000 bonds each as they await circuit court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Jackson County
Grand Jury
James T. Blair
Blair
St. Louis
Bernard C. Brannon
Standard Oil
Sugar Creek
Clint O. Tolliver
Marvin L. Wood
Frank Kluska
Steve Kluska
Charles E. Allen
Garlon Hale
Tony Manners
W. F. Noell
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union
Area Crops Tour Set for Monday
A Monday area crops tour titled Business men’s Bumper Fall Crop Tour will visit farms across Allen and nearby counties to view outstanding fall yields. Sponsored by Rotary Kiwanis Lions clubs and the Chamber of Commerce, the 1 pm start from South Lincoln parking lot includes stops at Glen Hanson Moore brothers farms McCoy feed lot Shaw Frank Stich farm Taylor brothers farm and a K-39 highway radio tower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chanute
Rotary, Kiwanis and Lions Clubs
Chamber of Commerce
South
Lincoln
Allen County
Glen Hanson
Moore Brothers
Leanna
McCoy
Shaw
Frank Stich
Austin
Taylor Brothers
Earlton
Wilson County
First National Bank
Bank of Commerce
JayCee District 8 Meet Draws 125 Members
About 125 JayCee members from 15 Southeast Kansas clubs and their wives will attend the state JayCee district 8 meeting at the Tioga Hotel. The program includes business sessions from 1:30 to 4:30, a senate from 5 to 6, and a banquet at 6:30 with speaker Jim Lowder of Kansas City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Kansas
JayCee District 8
Carl Nordt
Chanute JayCees
Tioga
JayCee Jaynes
Jim Lowder
Kansas City
JayCee
North
Dodge City
Jaynes
Cindy Harris
Walt Howard
Coffeyville
Nordt
Fulps Fund Grows After Home Explosion Burns
The Eddie Fulps fund reached 466.73 by 10 30 a m as donations from Disney's Market and The Tribune increased aid for Mr. and Mrs Fulps hospitalized with serious burns from a Monday explosion. New contributions include 151 73 at Disney's Market and 57 at The Tribune with a 100 gift from an unnamed donor. Additional donors listed include Mrs T R Evans Mrs F E Sales H B Williams B M Eastburn and D R Steinman.
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Eddie Fulps
Disney's Market
the Tribune
Fulps
Disney’s Market
Disney’s
Double Blow By Tragedy In Chester Family
Oscar Veith 69 suffers double tragedy within 45 minutes. His son Carl Veith 41, co owner of a Chester auto repair shop, is shot to death while lunching at home. Forty five minutes later his wife Susan 71 dies of a heart attack in Asbury Park not knowing of the son's death. Hazel Veith 21 in Chester faces murder charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester
Oscar Veith
Carl
Veith
Susanna
Asbury Park
N.J
Hazel
Youth Injured As Car Overturns Near Chanute
Bernard Hansen 16 of R 1 was admitted to Neosho Memorial Hospital for observation after his 1949 Chevrolet overturned on a county road four miles west and half a mile south of Chanute. Trooper Duane Houck said loose gravel caused Hansen to lose control. the car was declared a total loss.
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Bernard Hansen
R. 1
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Chanute
Duane Houck
Highway Patrol
Hansen
Houck
Fred Hansen
Schultz to Attend State Real Estate Commission Meeting
Ebur Schultz, appointed last July to the State Real Estate Commission, will attend the commission’s second monthly meeting in Topeka Monday. The group will handle general business including about 40 license applications for brokers and salesmen in Kansas. Mrs. Schultz will accompany him as they travel Sunday to visit the State Fair at Hutchinson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ebur Schultz
State Real Estate Commission
Topeka
Schultz
Kansas
Hutchinson
Fourth-Floor Fall Fatal Claims Young Home Resident
In Kansas City AP reports a 4 year old boy, John F. Agnew, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Evans Agnew, died Friday night after a fall from the porch of his fourth floor apartment home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
John F. Agnew
Jack Evans Agnew
Traffic Fatalities In Topeka State Report 1959 Figures
Kansas traffic fatalities reported by the State Accident Records Section show 411 deaths in the 24 hours ending 9 a.m. for 1959, compared with 367 in the comparable period of 1958.
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Topeka
Kansas
Alabama Senate bills expands governor power over schools
A proposed Alabama Senate bill would grant the governor authority to close public schools and colleges to prevent racial integration, shifting power during race-related school disputes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Senate
Man Drinks Poison After Family Quarrel
GALENA Kan AP A man Ed Torix 33 drank rat poison during a Friday family quarrel and was said to be in satisfactory condition by his physician. Full effects are expected to be evident in three days. Torix disappeared after the fight with his estranged wife. police were alerted by Mrs Torix as twenty five officers searched before he was located and rushed to a Joplin hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galena
Kan
Ed Torix
Torix
Joplin
Bomb misfires at Idaho church injures none
A home made bomb misfired at a Seventh Day Adventist church in Boise, scattering shotgun pellets and glass but causing no injuries among 25 worshipers. The device, likely a beer bottle with blasting wire, appeared set off by battery contact. sheriff doubts religious malice and notes prior vandalism in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
Idaho
Myron Gilbert
Gilbert
Collett Visits Family in Italy After Fifty Years Away
Frank Collett, a Chanute resident who left Palermo Italy at 16, returned after 50 years and four months. He met four carloads of relatives at Palermo station and spent a month visiting about 50 kin. He flew Kansas City to New York Bermuda Paris Rome then train to Palermo arriving July 8. He enjoyed Italian food and family hospitality, plans a future, slower trip with sight seeing, and leaves behind souvenirs for his children.
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Cha‘nute
Frank Collett
United States
Palermo
Italy
Collett
Kansas City
New York
Bermuda
Paris
Rome
Palsermo
U.S
Spagetti
America
Ing
China
Colorado
St. Louis
Chanute
E. Main
Kansas
Tribune
Tragic Waseca Train Crash Claims Zimmerman Family
A Minneapolis & St. Louis freight train struck the Zimmerman station wagon near Sacred Heart School killing seven members of the family and injuring none. Michael 10 Connie 8 Barbara 7 James Jr. 5 Janice 2 Kathryn 13 died later at a hospital. A coroner's jury will deliver its verdict after the funeral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waseca
Minn
James Zimmerman
Minneapolis & St. Louis
Sacred Heart Catholic School
Michael
Connie
Barbara
James Jr
Janice
Kathryn
Mrs.Zimmerman
Clear mild area forecast for Kansas weekend
Topeka AP forecast calls for fair skies and warm temperatures through Sunday. Highs today near 80s with overnight lows mid 40s to mid 50s, Sunday highs in the low to upper 80s range depending on location. Manhattan record low Friday night 40, Dodge City 51. Top temperatures reached 81 in Goodland and Garden City.
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Topeka
Kansas
Jim Hosey
Manhattan
Dodge City
Olathe
Goodland
Garden City
Miss America Crowning Tonight in Atlantic City
A new Miss America will be crowned tonight in Atlantic City with 54 contestants vying for a $10 000 scholarship and about $75 000 in personal appearances. Preliminary talent and swimsuit winners include Ann Penelope Marston Miss Michigan and Mary Alice Fox Miss Wisconsin with three-way talent tie among Lois Janet Piercy Diana Klug and Virginia Noble Pails.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N.J
Miss Michigan
Ann Penelope Marston
Wyandotte
Mich
Wisconsin
Mary
Alice’ Fox
Sheboygan
Wis
Pennsylvania
Lois Janet Piercy
Springfield
Connec
Diana Martha Klug
Torrington, Conn
Soviet Moon Rocket Becomes Second Space Probe
Moscow announces the second space rocket launch aimed at the moon with instruments to study magnetic fields. The craft is expected to reach the moon by Sept. 14 Moscow time, while U.S. efforts with Pioneer IV continue in solar orbit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
Khrushchev
Moon
Eisenhower
Earth
U.S
Solar System
Congress Moves Toward Monday Adjournment Amid Civil Rights Fight
In Washington the Senate Civil Rights Commission clash slows adjournment while House leaders push for a Monday session to finish business. A conference on savings bonds eases timing as senators threaten amendments to cut foreign aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Civil Rights Commission
Congress
Commission
Allen J. Ellender
D-La
Senate Appropriations Committee
Senate House Conference
Treasury
The
Four Die In Plane Crash Near Sewanee Tennessee
A light plane crashed and exploded near Sewanee Tennessee killing four people including Maryland student Mark Thomas Walter age 18 from Middletown his father Roy Henry Walter his mother Doris Katherine Walter and pilot-owner Dwayne E Keller of Frederick Maryland.
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Sewanee, Tenn
Here
Maryland
Mark Thomas Walter
Middletown
Roy Henry Walter
Doris Katherine Walter
Dwayne E. Keller
Frederick
Motorcycle Fatality Near Wyandotte County Curve
An AP report from Kansas City says a motorcycle skidded into a ditch on a curve Friday night, killing rider Gilbert Francis Zimmerman, 48. The accident occurred near his Wyandotte County home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Gilbert Francis Zimmerman
Wyandotte County
White House Action Hinted In Steel Strike
The 60 day steel strike nears possible White House intervention as the National Governors Conference seeks to involve President Eisenhower. Governors plan to discuss meeting with the President to address rapidly worsening national health and safety risks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White House
New York
National Governors Conference
Eisenhower
Two Children Die in Ice Box Play Near Waynesville
In Missouri, two youngsters suffocated while playing in an outdoor ice box. Jerry Watson five and Joyce Elaine Carrol three, son and daughter of local families, were visiting relatives when the tragedy occurred on Friday.
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Waynesville, Mo
Waynesville
Jerry Watson
Tony Watson
Seattle
Wash
Joyce Elaine Carrol
Richard Carrol
Watsons
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Alex Presta
Presta
North Side
John B. Gage
JayCees
Meet
Fulps Fund
Wasser
James
Zimmerman Farm
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