Highway talk and rug show headline items noted
Rep Myron V. George addresses highway funding pace and Hoover Sherman Adams questions at a Chamber luncheon. He says states cover 1 percent with borrowings starting 1961, and no extra gas tax needed. Also Chanute rug display set for Sept 27 28 at Wichita Armory with 15 exhibitors led by Mrs Casey design winner. Hedge balls on Lester Grove’s tree described as unusually large for the year.
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Sherman Adams
Hoover
Rep
Myron V. George
Chamber of Commerce
Chanute
Wichita National
Hi Fi Explained by St Louis Sound Expert at Kiwanis Meeting
David P. Hargis of St. Louis spoke on stereophonic sound at a Kiwanis Club meeting in Tioga Hotel. He demonstrated dual recordings and TV visuals, tracing hi fi from early wax records to modern methods, and noted future word-by-sound transcription devices. He repeated the demonstration at 7 30 p.m. today at the old First Methodist Church sanctuary for the public and Boy Scouts.
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David P. Hargis
St. Louis
Kiwanis Club
Tioga Hotel
Hargis
Margis
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Charles Leavitt
Old First Methodist Church
Boy Scouts
Jet airliner Boeing 707 wins government approval
Washington AP reports the United States approves the Boeing 707 as the first jet airliner to meet performance and safety standards.
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Washington
United States
Accident With Lariat Fatal to Boy In Corncrib
Eu gene Campbell eleven years old died after his play lariat loop hung around his neck and caught on a nail in a corncrib. His mother Emily Campbell found him, ran half a mile for help, but he died at Falls City hospital.
Steinman Dale Steinman Elected to Finance Board
Steinman Dale Steinman vice president of the Chanute Discount Co. was elected to the board of directors of the Kansas Assn. of Finance Companies at the association annual meeting in Kansas City last Thursday. The association serves consumer loan and sales finance companies in the state.
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Dale Steinman
Chanute Discount Co
Kansas Assn. of
Kansas City
Kansans Urge River Projects for 30 Works Across Three States
A Kansas and Missouri delegation asked Budget Bureau officials to push Congress to appropriate 58.2 million dollars next fiscal year for 30 water and reclamation projects across Missouri Kansas and Iowa. The largest request is 22 million for Turtle Creek Dam on the Big Blue River near Manhattan.
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Washington
Kansas
Missouri
Budget Bureau
Congress
Iowa
Carerts By
Assn
Missouri-Kansas
Traffic Fatalities List For Topeka Area
Kansas traffic fatalities reported by the State Accident Records Section show one death in the last 24 hours. To date in 1958 the total is 383, compared with 398 for the same period in 1957.
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Topeka
Kansas
Adams Resigns Amid GOP Demands and Democratic Push
Washington reports show Sherman Adams departing as presidential aide after a dispute over his ties to Bernard Goldfine. Democrats vow to keep citing corruption while Republicans argue the issue ends with his exit. Paul Butler plans a national address challenging the timing and partisan use of Adams’ resignation.
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Sherman Adams
Eisenhower
Adams
Boston
Bernard Goldfine
Goldfine
Meade Alcorn
Republican National
Nixon
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Thruston B. Morton
Rhys
White House
New York
Paul Butler
Butler
CBS
Clemency Sought for Clayton Wells Sr Assault Sentence
Word from the state penitentiary at Lansing states Clayton Wells Sr. will apply for executive clemency on October 30. Wells, from Neosho County, is serving a term not to exceed five years for assault with intent to rape after a May 15 1957 Erie district court guilty plea.
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Lansing
Clayton Wells Sr
Neosho County
Erie
Tribune Phone Call Instructions
If you cannot reach your Tribune contact, call your carrier. If he cannot be reached, call 700 after 6 p.m.
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Tribune
Merchants showcase 1958 fall fashion trends
Chanute merchants present the Tribune Fall Fashion edition highlighting the 1958 season. Relaxed chemise looks, high and low waistlines in dresses and coats, pointed toe shoes, slim heels, and bold hats dominate. Men’s wear shifts to elegant businesswear with pencil stripes, narrower lapels, and elongated shoes.
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Chanute
Docking and Reed clash at Kansas Municipalities meeting
Democratic Gov. George Docking and Republican candidate Clyde Reed traded sharp lines at a Kansas Municipalities gathering. Docking urged broader home rule for cities and criticized using retirement plans as a campaign issue, while Reed defended a retirement program and criticized the administration’s fiscal policies and sales tax residue distribution.
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Topeka
George Docking
Clyde Reed
League of Kansas
Docking
Reed
Republican Party
Student Council Conference Draws 260 Delegates
About 260 student council representatives from roughly 20 area high schools attended the Kansas State High School Activities Association conference at the high school. George Mathes spoke on aims of student councils, introduced by Brice Durbin. Mike Jordan presided as assembly chairman, with Wendell McMurray giving the welcome.
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Kansas State High School Activities Association
George Mathes
Denver
Brice Durbin
Kansas Association
Mike Jordan
Chanute
Royster Junior High School
Area Forecast: Cloudy Mild with Rain Likely Through Wednesday
FORECAST Mostly cloudy and mild through Wednesday with occasional rain late tonight or Wednesday morning. Low tonight near 15C and high Wednesday near 32C. Rainfall up to 7 am reported across central Kansas with several towns recording measurable amounts. northern Rockies snow and a shift to colder weather expected in western areas tomorrow. Top temperatures yesterday ranged from 28C to 33C with statewide lows between 16C and 22C.
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Topeka
Kansas
Rockies
Abilene
Miltonvale
Lyons
Ellsworth
Concordia
Lindsburg
Allegations Denied By Payne Ratners
Former Kansas governor Payne Ratner Sr and his son Payne Ratner Jr of Wichita deny soliciting personal injury suits in Oklahoma and claim they are properly approved to practice law. They filed the reply for the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen in response to the Oklahoma Bar Association filing to halt the alleged practice.
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Oklahoma City
Kansas
Oklahoma
Payne Ratner Sr
Payne Ratner Jr
Wichita
Mathers
Brotherhood of Railway Train Men
Oklahoma Bar Association
Supreme Court
Communications Workers authorize strike in Western Electric dispute
In New York AP reports 15,400 Western Electric installers in 44 states were authorized to strike in a contract dispute with the Communications Workers of America AFL-CIO. The action centers on wage, benefit, and job security terms awaiting renegotiation.
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New York
Communications Workers of America
Afl-Cio
Western Electric Co
Four Kansans Hurt In Versailles Plane Crash
A light plane crashed during takeoff at Versailles airport injuring four Kansas men. Pilot Glen A. Stearman, 51, and his son Ronald, 26, Wichita, were among the injured along with Curtis Unger, 52, Burden, and Phillip Miller, 28, Winfield. Unger suffered a compound skull fracture. Ronald Stearman had pelvis and left arm fractures plus a dislocated hip and head lacerations. Glen Stearman had head lacerations and chest injuries. Miller sustained facial injuries. The Stearmans were en route to St Louis for a cattle sale and were returning home when the crash happened.
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Versailles
Kansas
Glen A. Stearman
Ronald
Wichita
Curtis Unger
Burden
Phillip Miller
Winfield
Unger
Ronald Stearman
Glen Stearman
Miller
Bouuses
Stesmans
St Louis
Fall Fatal on Arkansas City Oil Rig
A 35 foot fall on an oil rig nine miles southwest of Arkansas City fatally injured Boby Keeble 26 of Blackwell Okla He died in a hospital after the fall on the rig yesterday verifying the incident and location and native home of the deceased.
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Arkansas City
Boby Keeble
Blackwell
Oklo
Keeble
Here
Land Judging Plans Discussed for Southeast Kansas Contest
A Chamber of Commerce agricultural committee meeting discussed a Southeast Kansas land judging contest set for October 25 with about 200 contestants from 18 counties. Vocational agriculture students from 20 to 30 schools and 4-H members will participate, with state and county extension offices involved and Chanute eyed as a potential permanent site.
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Kansas
Chamber of Commerce Agricultural Committee
Harold “Harper
State Agricultural Extension Service
County Extension and
Soil Conservation Service
Chamber
Sinclair Sr
Humboldt, Medical
Harper
Chanute
Crude Bomb Found Atop Eiffel Tower
A crude five pound dynamite time bomb was discovered atop the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Police said it could have blown off the top framework, part of recent television installations, as France faced increases in Algerian nationalist terrorism amid a constitutional referendum.
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Paris
Eiffel Tower
France
Charles de Gaulle
Ohio Housewife Wins 25000 Baking Prize
Mrs Don de Vault a 36 year old Delaware Ohio housewife won the 25000 first prize in a national baking contest with spicy apple twists. Her pastry twists cut baking time to 20 to 25 minutes from 45 minutes to an hour. The 10th annual Pillsbury bakeoff sponsored the event with twists resembling small eclairs.
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New York
Don de Vault
Delaware
Ohio
Pillsbury Flovr Mills
Yule Decoration Drive Kickoff by Chamber Group
The chamber of commerce retail committee started a fund drive for Christmas street decorations with teams assigned to solicit downtown merchants. Business contributions are 50 cents per foot of frontage, public containers and stickers were distributed, and new tree silhouettes approved as decorations after use in Hutchinson and other Kansas communities.
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Chamber of Commerce Retail Committee
Kansas
Hutchinson
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