Salina Journal editor named to State Board of Regents
Whitley Austin, Salina Journal editor, is appointed by Gov. George Docking to a four year term on the State Board of Regents effective Jan 1. He succeeds Oscar Stauffer, Topeka publisher, who declined reappointment. Both Austin and Stauffer are Republicans. In New York, a federal court trial of James R Hoffa and two others ended in a hung jury with 11 to 1 in favor of conviction. The defendants included Owen Brennan and Bernard Spindel, accused of conspiring to tap Detroit Teamsters building telephones to learn information given to investigators.
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Whitley Austin
Salina
New York
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Hoffa
Owen B. Brennan
Detroit Teamsters Local 337
Bernard Spindel
Detroit Teamsters
Police Briefs and Local Notices From Garden City
Police briefs note a two-vehicle crash at 8th and Chestnut involving Leo Rudolph Michel and Mrs. Sam Niblock with damages of 3001 and 40 dollars respectively. County briefs mention Harold Chandler Haight and an overload issue for 20 dollars. Births report a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Jack J. Randolph of Lakin at St. Catherine’s after 12:20 a.m. Friday, and twins to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hurd of 514 Summit at Leopold hospital with weights 5 lb 15 oz and 6 lb 1 oz. Hospital admissions include Oscar Downing of Deerfield. Discharges list Michael Deaver, 314 N 10th, and Niam Carl Kore, Ingalls se Sarmagios, Holcomb, and Niam Harrison Fant of RFD 1. A warranty deed records P A Burtis et ux to the Board of Education for lot 29 block 15 Jones addition. Twelve railroads visited New York City. five lines actually enter Manhattan.
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Leo Rudolph
Michel
Lakin
Sam Niblock
Chestnut
Niblock
Harold Chandler Haight
P. A. Burtis Et
Board of Education
Jones Addition
Oscar Downing
Deerfield
Eugene Hurd
Summit
Santa mixup and Bucklin fatal crash in same report
Chico resident William A Gardenhire regrets telling children he is not Santa after a prank call chain from the Chico Junior Chamber of Commerce. In Bucklin, Edwin Johnson 52 dies as a car swerves after being blinded by headlights on US 154 four miles west of Bucklin. Forrest Smith 32 and George Unruh 44, both Coldwater, suffer minor injuries.
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Santa Claus
Bucklin
Basi
Edwin Johnson
Edwin Smith
George Unruh
Coldwater
Radio Schedule Promises Holiday Favorites On NBC
The station KIAL plans a Christmas season of musical programs from 7 to 9 p.m. featuring William Warfield as baritone soloist with the Westminister Choir and Garden City school singers in a 1:30 p.m. Friday program. rebroadcasts of local choir performances, a 11:40 p.m. Christmas Eve Mass from St. Marys, and 7 p.m. Christmas carols with a Messiah opera for television fans. Christmas day will include Dickens and Loretta Young readings, plus broadcasts by Fred Waring Lawrence Welk and Bing Crosby. NBC News will air, and a Handel Messiah high point from the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein will close the night.
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Garden City
Hope Auditorium
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Gian-Carlo Menotti
NBC News
New York Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein
Kansas Crop Value Higher Says Ag Dept
The Agriculture Department reports Kansas crop value in 1957 at 484,321,000, up from 1956. Wheat value fell from 286,584,000 to 195,216,000 as prices averaged 1.95 per bushel. Corn value rose from 43,290,000 to 50,925,000 despite prices dropping to 1.15 per bushel. The Ceylon note mentions population 8,384,000 and island location off India.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Kansas
Tryouts Set for Sunday for A Connecticut Yankee
Fine Arts association conducts auditions for the operetta A Connecticut Yankee at Community church from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Julius Hultquist will conduct. Nine roles exist in a 25 member cast. Casting to be announced in early January. anyone may audition.
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The
Fine Arts Assn
Julius Hultquist
Vocal Committee
John Hendry
Big Meeting And Mob Ties At Apalachin Convention
Albany probes focused on the Apalachin gathering as mob figures and delegates faced a panel. Witnesses denied wrongdoing or claimed coincidence, with many invoking the Fifth Amendment. Names tied to the event include Joseph Barbara and attendees from Auburn, East Islip, and New York City. The hearing was set to continue at the state capitol in January.
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Albany
N.Y
Apalachin
Scelba
Nixon
Washington
Montana
Patsy
Sam Monachino
Patsy Sciortino
Auburn
Patsy Turrigiano
Close Roads Near Rockets at Cape Canaveral
The Air Force moved to enclose approaches to the Missile Test Center. Lt. Col. Sam Bruno said a coastal observation post three miles north will be blocked as barricades and no trespass signs are installed. A northern post inside government property remains the only private site for clear pictures of intercontinental ballistic missile launches. Earlier, the road to a shoreline observation post four miles from the Center was closed to all with cameras and related gear.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla. An
America
Sam Bruno
Ony
Cear
Atas Intercontinental
Earier
Cape
Elvis Presley to report for Army induction
Memphis the U S draft board expects Elvis Presley to report January 20 for induction into the Army unless Hollywood can delay eight weeks. Presley accepts with quiet resolve saying it is a duty to fill. Paramount fears losses of about 300000 if he cannot appear for King Creole filming.
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Memphis
Tenn
Elvis Presley
Hollywood
Idol
Paramount Pictures
Paramount
Y. Frank Freeman
Presley
Elvis
Tom Parker
Nashville, Tenn
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Garafolo
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