Water conservation urged as city faces dwindling Barker pool supply
City Manager Ross Cooper urged residents to use water only for necessities as drought pressures rise. Crews work to pump Neosho River pool water from the Gordon Barker site toward the city pumping plant, with pumping expected to start soon. Evaporation losses and uncertain pool duration complicate forecasts for future restrictions.
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Ross Cooper
Cdan
Neosho River
Gordon Bark
Chanute
Barker Pool
Ed Sloan
Municipal Electric Plant
Tribune
Left Hand Pitch Left Hand Pitch
Police headquarters report 332 dogs registered since the program began with 280 tagged before brass plates ran out. Stray animal roundups have taken 160 cats and 62 dogs to the city pound, with tags available after a new supply arrives. A. E. Clark, pound keeper, coordinates the effort.
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A. E. Clark
Nicaraguan President Slightly Improves After Relapse
In Panama at Gorgas Hospital Somoza, 60, injured by an assassination attempt, shows partial left side paralysis but better reflexes and breathing after doctors operated on his windpipe and his condition improved overnight.
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Panama
Nicaragua
Anastasio Somoza
Gorgas
Canal Zone
Transatlantic Cable Opens Connecting US Britain Canada
New York hosts the 42 million dollar transatlantic telephone cable opening ceremony. Cleo F. Craig of AT and T and Telegraph Co. initiates direct calls to London and Ottawa linking the United States Britain and Canada. Officials note potential atmospheric interference and jamming in emergencies.
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New York
Old World
Cleo F. Craig
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
London
Ottawa
United States
Britain
Canada
Cleo Craig
Charles Hill
George Carlyle Marler
Europe
Kansas REA Borrowers Have Good Record
Washington reports Kansas rural electrification borrowers maintain a strong repayment history. By July 1 the REA approved 95.56 million dollars in loans to 37 borrowers, 36 cooperatives, advancing 86.18 million. They repaid 13.84 million of principal and paid 7.33 million in interest with 3.82 million ahead of schedule.
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Washington
Kansas Rural Electrification
Rural Electrification Administration
REA
Kansas
If you don’t get your Tribune notice
If the newspaper fails to arrive contact your carrier and, if unreachable, call 700 after 6 p.m. for assistance.
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Tribune
Honor Court At Humboldt For Scouts
Five Chanute troops are represented as Boy Scouts receive awards at a district court of honor in Riverside Park. Humboldt and Independence figures led the event, with Brian Haller of Troop 27 earning the life award and multiple merit badges as a transfer from Troop 3.
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Humboldt
Chanute
Riverside Park
Robert Stadler
Wiley Tracey
Independence
Iola
Brian Haller
St. Patrick's Church
First Christian Church
Leland Raney
Chris Coots
Bill Schupbach
Lynn Defebaugh
Larry Steeves
First Methodist Church
Ricky Hammer
Danny Slane
Frank van Gotten
Bill Dean
Ricky Fitch
David Phillips
Terry Pittser
James Rubow
Tommy Twedell
Forrest Junod
Adrian Dalton
Jimmy Bedenbender
Dennis Dodd
Ellis Potter
Kenney Winters
Terry Sutcliffe
Troop
First Baptist Church
Allen Booe
Charles Lowe
Jerry Redden
Zion Lutheran Church
Larry Seefeldt
Alvin Seefeldt
C. D. Sperry
Clifford Sperry
Marvin Aikens
Donald Dodd
LaVerne Albertson
Dean Albertson
Oct 15 Target Date For Opening Turnpike
TOPEKA report shows 96 percent of the concrete slab section and 90 percent of the asphaltic portion of the 236 mile Kansas Turnpike completed by August end. The line is slated to open in the last half of October with a construction rush to finish remaining paving and prepare service areas. Gale Moss says Oct 15 remains the target date though minor work could push it up to ten days.
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Topeka
Kansas
Gale Moss
KTA
High Taxes Seen Persisting for Long Time Say Treasury Aide
LA report quotes Laurens Williams assistant secretary of the Treasury addressing the tax executives institute. He warns that ongoing world defense demands will keep the nation’s tax burden high for years with limited relief in some areas.
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Los Angeles
U. S. Treasury
Laurens Williams
The
Tax Executives Institute
Nurse Hurt in Hit and Run Crash Near Wilson County
Neodesha Kansas Mrs Orba Hutson a nurse's aide at Wilson County Hospital left her shift shortly after 11 pm and was back as a patient at 1135 pm after her car was struck broadside by another vehicle She was bruised and shaken and expected to be released from the hospital today
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Neodesha
Kas
Orba Hutson
Wilson County Hospital
Republicans Pay For Use of Ike's Plane
The White House said the Republican National Committee sent the U S Treasury a 3971 check to cover the operations of the presidential plane Columbine III. The aircraft carried President Eisenhower to Peoria Illinois and back for a major farm speech tonight.
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Washington
White House
Republican National Committee
U. S. Treasury
Columbine
Eisenhower
Peoria
Woman Drowns on Dodge City Farm Tank
Mrs. Leo King, 53, drowned last night in a livestock tank on the King farm about 15 miles northwest of Dodge City, authorities said. The incident occurred on the King property under unclear circumstances. Local rescue crews responded but efforts were futile.
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Dodge City
Leo King
King Farm
Group Elects Kansas Title Association Leaders
Wichita J H Keller Garden City elected president yesterday. William Finley Oskaloosa elected vice president. Clem H Silvers El Dorado was re elected secretary treasurer.
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Wichita
J. H. Keller
Garden City
Kansas Title Assn
William Finley
Oskaloosa
Clem H. Silvers
el Dorado
Hurricane Flossy Fans Out Over Georgia After Fatal Toll
Hurricane Flossy eased into a broad rain system over southern Georgia as it drifted inland from the Gulf of Mexico. It caused nine deaths and damaged property along its path from Fort Walton Beach Florida to Albany Georgia while helping drought relief with heavy rainfall. The Coast Guard reported the motor vessel Carport with 15 aboard near Grand Isle as located and safe.
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Associated Press
Flossy
Georgia
Gulf of Mexico
Florida
Albany
Fort Walton Beach
Fla
Dothan
Ala
Alabama
Coast Guard
Carport
Grand Isle
Body of Missing Man Found in Missouri River
The body of Harold Hodge, 37, missing since Friday night after a tavern altercation in St. Joseph Missouri, was found in the Missouri River about two miles south of Wathena Kansas. Sheriff Charles I Clary said the body showed no cash or checks found on him. Fisherman Carl Dunn located the body.
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Wathena
Kas
Harold Hodge
Missouri River
Charles I. Clary
Doniphant
Hodge
St. Joseph
Carl Dunn
Fair Mild Weather Forecast With Sunshine Through Wednesday
Topeka forecasts call for fair weather and warming through Wednesday with highs in the upper 80s to around 90 and lows in the upper 50s. The Kansas River in Topeka falls to a record low of 1.2 feet as drought persists. Topeka remains about 6.2 inches short of normal rainfall since January.
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Topeka
Kansas
Goodland
Hutchinson
Wamego
Concordia
Traffic Fatalities Reported for 1956 To-Date
State Accident Records Section lists 466 traffic fatalities in 1956 to date versus 420 in the same period of 1955. The figures cover the last 24 hours and year-to-date totals for Topeka.
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Topeka
Kansas
Parsons Third District Democrats Elect New Officers
Wilbur Marten of Cedar Vale was chosen as chairman at a reorganization meeting in Parsons. Ruth Davis of Bartlett was re elected district vice chairman and Wilma Charlesworth of Coffeyville re elected secretary. David Doyne of Parsons named treasurer. Speakers included Georgia Neese Clark Gray of Richland and state committee members Frank Theis, Ruby Harris, and Tommy Corcoran. A Neosho County dinner to back George Docking is planned for Oct 12, time TBA. Denver Hargis named Robert Briley campaign manager.
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Parsons
Wilbur Marten
Cedar Vale
Ruth Davis
Bartlett
Jand Miss .Wilma -Charlesworth
Coffeyville
David Doyne
Georgia Neese Clark Gray
Richland
Frank Theis
Arkansas City
Ruby Harris
Marion
Tommy Corcoran
Clay Center
St. Paul
Neosho County
Denver Hargis
Robert Briley
Chanute
Kelley
Floyd N. Kelley
John E. Moriarty
Kansas
United States
W. L. Webber
Kansas City
R. B. Medlin
Topeka
George Montgomery
F. W. Umbarger
John M. Gorton
Allen
Bourbon
Chautauqua
Cherokee
Egypt asks UN to take up Suez dispute at council
The United Nations Security Council will consider Egypt's bid for intervention over the Suez Canal. France and Britain pressed for action after Egypt nationalized the waterway on July 26, with the council to decide whether to address the complaints together or separately.
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United Nations, N. Y.P
Bernard Cornut- Gentille
Egypt
U. N. Security Council
France
Suez Canal
United Nations, N.Y. P
U.N. Security Council
Council
Cairo
Britain
Selwyn Lloyd
Antoine Pineau
Mahmoud Fawzi
Dulles
Omar Loutfi
Emilio Nunez-Portuondo
Cuba
United Kingdom
United Nations
Bankers Urged To Promote Industry At Kansas Meeting
C W Starr of Hiawatha Kansas Bankers Assn urged support for community industrialization to stabilize rural economies and provide supplementary income and jobs. The Group III session at Tioga Hotel featured talks on Livestock trends Farm machinery financing and farming economics with attendees from Neosho and surrounding counties.
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C. W. Starr
Kansas Bankers Assn
F. W. Umbarger
Tribune
Hiawatha
KBA
Tioga Hotel
Starr
Ki. A. Mermis
Hays
Newt W. Jones
Kansas City
Jones
Mermis
13 New Polio Cases Reported in Kansas
Polio cases in Kansas declined after the peak season with 13 new cases last week, compared to 21 the week before. Kansas has 148 polio cases so far this year, with two deaths reported. The current total trails the late 1940s five year average of about 500 by this time.
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Topeka
Kansas
Water Resources Board Budget Raised for 1956 58
The Kansas Water Resources Board approved a tentative budget of 134 000 for 1956 58, a 59 000 increase. The rise funds new personnel for research projects including a study of Kansas involvement in federal water conservation programs and a three year study of a statewide water plan.
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PEKAP
Kansas Water Resources Board
Kansas
White Boycott in Kentucky Over School Desegregation
In Henderson Kentucky a white boycott reduced school attendance at Weaverton by about 75 percent as segregationists urged parents to keep children home until five Black students left. Five ministers from the Henderson County Ministerial Association attended the opening to urge continued enrollment.
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Henderson
Weaverton
Henderson County
Highway Flagman Killed Near Larned
Homer A. Dick 73 of Larned a flagman on a K19 resurfacing project was killed by a car seven miles south of Larned yesterday The driver Frank Anderson 83 of Hopewell Kas carried Dick’s body 219 feet Dick had worked for the state 15 years
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Larned
Kas
Homer A. Dick
Here
Frank Anderson
Hopewell
State
Timber Fire Battles Hying for Fifth Day in San Bernardino Mountains
Fifteen hundred firefighters including state prisoners fought a massive timber fire for a fifth day in the San Bernardino Mountains. Strong winds hampered efforts as crews battled flames threatening remote communities and timber lands across the region.
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San Bernardino
Calif
San Bernardino Mountains
Injured man dies in Kansas City traffic crash
Walter Frank Gardula age 46 died last night after being unconscious since Thursday from a head injury in a traffic mishap. It marks Kansas City's 29th traffic death of the year.
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Kansas City
Walter Frank Gardula
Twelve Die When C47 Crashes Into Mt Yale Peak
A Air Force C47 crashed near Mt Yale killing all twelve aboard including Col. Charles A. Miller Capt. J.A. Richardson Col. Frederic W. Ledeboer Staff Sgt. William E. MacKenzie Jr. WAF M Sgt Helen M. Schuyler and nine other civilians and service members. Rescue teams retrieved bodies after a five hour ascent and recovery at the crash site on the Continental Divide west of Buena Vista Colorado.
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Buena Vista
Colo
Air Force
Mt. Yale
Charles A. Miller
Kempner, Tex
J.A. Richardson
Shelby County
Tennessee
Frederic W. Ledeboer
Los Angeles
William E. MacKenzie Jr
Oakland
Calif
Oscar M. Rupert
Dayton
Ohio
Conad
William R. Carpenter
Colorado Springs
San Pedro Calif
Phillip Lenz
Japan
Ft. Carson
David C. Jacobs
Three Rivers
Mich
David W. Gill
William L. Simpson
Stanford
Tex
William R. Rooney
Riverdale
Ill
WAF
Helen M. Schuyler
East Brentwood
N.Y
Hamilton Air Force Base
San Francisco
Allen Fitzgerald
Colorado Reformatory
Continental Divide
Washington
Kempner
Texas
WAF M
Helen M. Schuyller
William E. McKenzie Jr
Secretary Remembered DETROIT
Miss Helen M. Eaton, longtime private secretary to Detroit financier Charles A. Bray, learned she inherited about 200000 dollars from his two million dollar estate when he died on September 12. The bulk of Bray’s estate went to his widow. Eaton called him the most generous man she ever knew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Helen M. Eaton
Charles A. Bray
Miss Eaton
Secretary Wilson Satisfactory After Surgery
Secretary of Defense Wilson was reported in satisfactory condition at Walter Reed Army Hospital following a surgical procedure. He underwent the operation today and is receiving medical care with no complications noted.
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Washington
Wilson
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Prisoners Reject TV Guard Test at Southern Michigan Prison
Inmate newspaper The Spectator reports strong opposition to a closed circuit TV guard system. Inmates call it a horrible thought and note the device remains prohibitively expensive while television sales engineers demo the setup for prison officials. Alcatraz reportedly uses a similar system nicknamed the automatic stool pigeon.
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Jackson, Mich
Southern Michigan
Spectator
Alcatraz Federal Prison
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Ike
Demos
UN Suez
Water Resources Board
Kentucky
Women's Army Corps
Continental Air Defense Command
the Spectator
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