World Typing Champion Stella Garnand Visits NYC TV Show
Garden City’s Stella Garnand, holder of multiple world and amateur typing titles, flew to New York to appear on CBS Ive Got A Secret. The Chicago 1946 ballroom contest crowned her fastest typist at 216 wpm. She donated $80 winnings to a scholarship and now works with IBM in an advisory role.
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Alton Garnand
Garden City
New York City
Stella
Sherman Hotel
Chicago
Garnand
Portrait of Rep Hope on oil painting schedule
Hope in Oil is next on the schedule for Rep. Cliff Hope. A North Carolina artist will paint a portrait for the House agriculture committee room, funded by gifts from Fifth district friends. The project, begun by Downing and Lester McCoy, quickly surpassed a $700 goal.
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Cliff Hope
Rep
Hope
House Agriculture Committee
North Carolina
Cooley
Downie
Lester McCoy
Fifth
Athens
He Thought He Knew One of Bank Bandits
WEST COVINA Calif John H Wallace entered a bank during a holdup yesterday mistook a man with a machine gun for a friend and slapped him on the back. The man ordered him behind a counter as four women tellers and several patrons hid. The bandits escaped with 16000 dollars.
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West Covina
Calif
John H. Wallace
Wallace
Police Almost Goofed On Towing Operations
Boston police ordered a tow truck to remove a car parked illegally outside City Hall. The driver rushed out claiming he was picking up the city paymaster to deliver police pay checks to headquarters. The officer halted the tow, saying this one cannot be towed.
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Boston
City Hall
Court Punishment Is Made To Fit the Crime
In Lexington Kentucky two juveniles broke into a storage warehouse and scattered 100000 feathers. Juvenile Trial Commissioner W Redes Clay chose to require the offenders to collect the feathers as punishment. The incident involved local shops Spee Prices and Dickinson's with the date 11 3.
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Lexington
Ky.uf
W. Redes Clay
Budget restores Dodge City Soldiers Home building item
Topeka budget actions reverse a deletion, restoring 127,500 for a multi purpose building at the Kansas Soldiers Home in Dodge City. Gov Fred Hall also restores about 8,000 of an 16,825 cut in operating funds, but sustains elimination of a 102,000 request for a 20 apartment home residents building. Budget totals rise to about 524,000. remaining agency appeals set for Monday before final budget recommendations.
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Topeka
Kansas Soldiers Home
Dodge City
Fred Hall
Santa's arrival at Garden City on Saturday
Santa lands at 1 30 p m by Colorado Interstate Gas helicopter piloted by Morrie Bonnie at Stevens Park. Traffic will be diverted for a safe landing and a large crowd of children awaits. Chamber members prepared 5000 stockings of treats as the high school band plays a concert before Santa greets the youngsters.
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Curtis Atario
Santa Claus
Pretty Jo Green
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Santa
Stevens Park
St. Nick
Garden City
Colorado Interstate Gas Company
Morrie Bonnie
Main Street
Pine
Stevens
Three Year Old Girl Burned After Lighter Accident
Three-year-old Irene Hearn suffered burns covering about 30 percent of her body when her clothing caught fire while playing with a cigarette lighter. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Join Hearn of four miles southeast of Paola and was taken to the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City.
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Paola
Irene Hearn
Join Hearn
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City
Kas
Surprise Snow Hits Eastern Kansas Weather Report
A night snowstorm brought ice and light accumulations to eastern Kansas creating slick roads for Safe Driving Day. Snow depths reached over an inch with Pittsburg reporting 2 inches. widespread drizzle and light snow were forecast through Friday with temperatures remaining mostly cloudy.
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Kansas
Weather Bureau
Pittsburg
Lecompton
Coffeyville
Parsons
Chanute
Atchison
Emporia
Wamego
Mahattan
Winfield
Fort Scott
Wamega
Manhattan
Salina
Hutchinson
AFL Approves Merger Plan Ends Labor Split
NEW YORK The American Federation of Labor won final approval to merge with the CIO into a 16 million member single labor federation. Delegates shouted approval at the AFL convention, with a similar OK expected at a CIO convention. The move ends a 20 year rift among major U S unions though some AFL leaders questioned terms and power distribution within the new structure.
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New York
American Federation of Labor
CIO
Labor Union Federation
AFL
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Woodruff Randolph
AFL International Typographical Union
Afl-Cio
A. Philip Randolph
AFL Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
George Meany
Police Seek a Maniac Killer in Lebanon Abduction
In Lebanon Illinois a 100-man search failed to locate carpenter Harold Smith and his wife Arlene amid a 15 to 20 mile radius. A brown leather belt found near the house is the only tangible clue. A prowler with a gun tried to force entry at a nearby farm three miles away the prior night, then vanished.
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Lebanon
III
Harold Smith
Arlene
Plans stressed at land session in Manhattan Kansas
Plans and zoning dominated the urban segment of the Land Use Conference at Kansas State college in Manhattan. City Manager Deane Wiley cited the need to extend planning into urban areas to avoid a hodge podge of buildings as cities grow. Wiley noted master planning issues, housing law, and industrial land use while stressing corrections of past planning errors. City inspectors and officials toured Manhattan's near million dollar municipal building before returning home.
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Kansas State College
Manhattan
Deane Wiley
Frank Graham
K-State
Dwight Nesmith
Engineering
Wolfgang Roeseler
Kansas City
Wiley
Garden City
R. L. Bethel
Karl Svaty
Bob
Changes in State Tax Committee Are Made
Lt Gov John McCuish announced shifts in the Kansas Senate Tax Committee after Sen Lawrence Gibson resigned. Sen Richard Becker will replace Gibson, and Sen Harry Miller becomes chair. Sen Laurin Jones is named vice chair, succeeding Miller.
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Peka
Kansas Senate
Lawrence M. Gibson
Pittsburg
John McCuish
Senate
Richard Becker
Coffeyville
Gibson
Harry Miller
Hiawatha
Laurin Jones
Dodge City
Miller
Banker buys antique dresser linked to family legacy
Stewart McBrayer, a banker in Lawrenceburg Kentucky, attended an auction and bought an old dresser. A note on the back revealed the furniture was purchased for W. S. McBrayer, his great grandfather, connecting the item to his family history.
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Lawrenceburg
Stewart McBrayer
W. S. McBrayer
Chuckle Sign in Bake Shop Prices Cakes at Cents
A humorous sign in a bake shop proclaims cakes priced at 66 cents and upside down cakes at 99 cents. The quip reflects the playful local spirit of the era and the shop’s simple menu.
Eisenhower pledges to help GOP report the record
In Chicago President Eisenhower told the Republican National Committee he will do everything to help report the party record accurately next year. Leonard Hall said there is no question the President will campaign actively. Goals include economic expansion and equitable sharing, rising health and education, and a just enduring peace.
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Chicago
Eisenhower
Republican National Committee
Leonard W. Hall
Hall
Adlai Stevenson
Averell Harriman
New York
Nixon
GOP
Gettysburg
No Wrecks in First Half of S-D Day
Finney County reports no accidents by 2 p m on S D Day with residents and law enforcement shouldering the responsibility. The 24 hour campaign aims to cut traffic deaths nationwide and is sponsored locally by the Up and Atoma 4 H club as Finney County seeks a second accident free day. Hutchinson records the first Safe Driving Day death in Kansas, James R Bartlett, 74, struck at 6 45 a m by Kenneth A Latta, 25, of Hutchinson. At least 10 deaths occurred nationwide in the early hours of Safe Driving Day with Ohio Michigan and Illinois among those reporting fatalities.
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Fine Foods
Garder City
Lucien Downing
Downings
North 7Th
Harry Cebale
Country Club
Southern Climes
Palm Springs
Fla
Finney County
Atoma 4-H Club
Hutchinson
Kansas
James R. Bartlett
Kenneth A. Latta
Ohio
Michigan
Illinois
Indiana
Louisiana
New York
Extension Plans Annual Meeting at Finney County
The Finney County agricultural extension council will hold its annual meeting on Wednesday afternoon December 7 at the 4-H building in the fairgrounds. Ed Scott of Kalysta will preside. The council has 27 members from townships and Garden City, with township reps for agricultural 4H and home economics. Elmer Blankenhagen Kansas State College district supervisor will attend. The meeting starts at 1 30 p m.
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Finney County Agricultural Extension ‘Council
Finney County Fairgrounds
Oscar Norby
Ald Executive Board
Ed Scott
Kalyesta
Garden City
Elmer Blankenhagen
Kansas State College
Norby
FBI Holds Two In Horse Swindle Case in Kansas City
Two men are in federal custody over a $20,000 horse swindle involving Shawnee widow Allie Crossland. Winnett Dean McCafferty, 30, was arrested in downtown Kansas City. Raymond Moore, 41, detained as he boarded a Tulsa bound plane. Moore carried $1,640. Both face interstate stolen property charges.
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Kansas City
Olda
FBI
Winnett Dean McCafferty
Raymond C. Moore
Tulsa
Moore
Allie Crossland
Shawnee
Fire helmet used to warn deaf mute resident
Dallas Battalion Chief A. Marable found a new use for his helmet while evacuating 20 residents from a burning rooming house. Shouts failed to wake a 45 year old deaf mute woman, so he shook her, then flashed his helmet light to reveal the lettering.
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Dallas Battalion Fire Chife A. 1
Marable
Crash Injuries Fatal To a Montezuma Youth
Dennis Dale Unruh a 17 year old from near Montezuma Kansas died from injuries after a car he drove overturned near Montezuma Sunday He died today at the Dodge City hospital He is survived by his parents seven brothers and four sisters
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Dodge City
Dennis Dale Unruh
Montezuma
Kas
Peter J. Unruh
EisenhowerAide backs six point farm plan for Congress
Secretary Benson announced a six point program to address the farm situation and export expansion. It includes surplus disposal, a vigorous purchase program, expanded soil conservation, rural development for low income families, more research, and market expansion. Nixon and Hall backed Eisenhower for 1956.
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Chicago
Benson
Congress
Republican National Committee
Eisenhower
Slum Clearance Law Tested by Kansas Supreme Court
The 1955 Kansas slum clearance act is being tested in the State Supreme Court. Atty Gen Harold R Fatzer and Wyandotte County prosecutor Donald E Martin filed suit to clarify constitutionality. Kansas City and its urban renewal agency are named as defendants.
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Topeka
Kansas
Kansas City
Wichita
State Supreme Court
Atty
Harold R. Fatzer
Donald E. Martin
Wyandotte
Aston
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