Udall Damage Toll Tops Million in Tornado Strikes
Udall Kansas endures a deadly May tornado that killed 77 and caused estimated damages of 1.8 million dollars. Red Cross and Salvation Army mobilize aid as city rebuilds. a new high school and grade school are planned for fall. Federal Civil Defense aids, industry and volunteers assist in relief efforts across the town.
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Udall
Kas
Red Cross
Insurance Company
Earl Rowe
National Guard
Kenneth Lake
Denver
Federal Civil Defense Administration
Lake
Rowe
Kansas
Salvation Army
Three Killers to Die in California Executions
Three condemned men and Barbara Graham faced execution after a 45 minute delay for a last minute appeal to the state Supreme Court. The high court denied the appeal, Governor Knight signaled the go ahead, and U S Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Denman rejected final petitions. The trio were convicted of beating an elderly widow to death during a robbery, with references to other related murders including the Chester grocer case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Quentin
Calif
State Supreme Court
High Court
Barbara Graham
Bludge
Mabel Monnan
Goodwin Knight
San Francisco
William Denman
U. S. 9Th Dist. Court of Appeals
Graham
John Santo
Emmett Perkins
Robert Barber
Santo
Perkins
Chester
Blue Tongue Hoax Numbs Brooklyn Children
In New York Brooklyn a large group of children aged five to twelve developed blue tongues after a stray can of blue powder, later identified as methylene blue ink powder. Mothers panicked, but hospital tests found the powder harmless and doctors kept the children overnight for observation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Brooklyn
Cumberland Hospital
Navy Yard
Covered Wagon Journeys Back to Denver Each Year
Earl Metcalf and wife travel in a handmade prairie schooner pulled by a horse along Fulton street heading toward Denver to escape Oklahoma summers. They left Oklahoma City May 4 and aim to cover about 25 miles daily, facing rain and cold but noting plenty to eat. Metcalf, nearly 70, built the wagon from an old car chassis, with Highland K the pony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fulton Street
Earl Metcalf
Denver
Oklahoma
Metcalf
Oklahoma City
Garden City
Colorado
Beso
Parents Return Son's Medal in Korea Prisoner Case
Ottley R. Coulter and wife Ethel say their son First Lieutenant John R. Coulter, missing in Korea, is a Communist prisoner. They return his Purple Heart to the White House, calling the award an empty honor under current circumstances. The Air Force lists him on a prisoner of war list but he is presumed dead since January 1954.
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Lemont Furnace
Korea
White House
Ottley R. Coulter
Ethel
John R. Coulter
Coulter
North Korea
Air Force
Eisenhower
Hays Police Chief to Join Kansas Bureau of Investigation
TOPEKA The Hays Police Chief Clarence C. Duntz will become an agent of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation on July 1, according to KBI Chief Lou Richter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Clarence C. Duntz
Hays
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
KBI
Lou Richter
City Hospital Admittances and Discharges Roundup
Garden City notices list today's hospital admissions and discharges, births, police briefs, and county court actions. Names include Steven Koontz Eminence Route G William Lucas 2523 North Main Tom Jangula 2613 C Street Mrs Richard Reinelt Sublette Ricky Lynn Coffield 503 Balling Ricky W Hibler Pierceville Mrs Charles Coover Route 1 Mrs Eliza Hedges Pierceville and more. Births report three newborns at St Catherine Scott City and Route 1 families. Police notes feature Bord Forfeited Charles Richard Coover and others. County court actions cover reckless driving embezzlement and land condemnation cases.
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Steven Koontz
G. William Lucas
North Main
Tom Jangula
C Street
Richard Reinelt
Ricky Lynn Coffield
Balling
Ricky W. Hibler
Pierceville
Charles Coover
Route 1
Eliza Hedges
Vyrl Moore
Lakin
Anna Purdy
North 10Th
Moses Lipperd
Sublette
W. C. Becker
Lith
Frank McAdams
North
Betty Louise Randle
James Sinclair
New York Ave
James R. Renick
Garden City Ave
Lowell McGraw
A. W. Zick
Raymond Waters
North 3Rd
Kenneth Highberger
P. B. Smith
Dighton
St. Catherine
Richard Reimelt
Wilford Palen
Scott City
Eisenhower letter weighs in on Finn plane dispute
President Eisenhower in a May 31 letter to cousin Mrs. Sarah Ferguson said the Finn brothers set themselves above the law by seizing the war surplus plane and arresting a U S attorney, while their one year federal sentences for interfering with a federal officer draw ongoing appeals and a hunger strike at the Springfield Missouri prison. Attorney Joseph Scott plans to press for clemency and release as the twins endure force fed protest fasting.
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Long Beach
Calif
Eisenhower
Finn
Sarah Ferguson
Ferguson
Sarah
Ing
Finn Brothers
America
United States
Dwight
Springfield
Finn Twins
U. S. Atty. Laughlin Water
Los Angeles
Waters
Joseph Scott
Washington
Scott
Three New State 4-H Buildings Are Started
Ground was broken last night for three new state 4-H Club center buildings near Junction City. Contributions by Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Jellison funded construction of the auditorium meditation chapel and health center. Estimated cost is more than $40,000.
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Junction City
A. D. Jellison
Market report shows Kansas City livestock and grain prices
Livestock listings include steers and heifers at various bids with hogs active and steady, maturing calves offered. cattle tests scarce with hogs and sheep activity described. Grain prices largely unchanged to down with wheat, corn, oats, milo, kafir, rye, barley and soybeans quoted alongside by the Kansas City market column.
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Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City Inn
USDA
Kansas City Grain
Kansas Cit
New York
Courtesy Lines Produce Co
Admiral
Allied
Atchison
Ae Atlas Pdr
Avco Mfg
Bald Lima
Garden
Kansas City
Dayton
du Pont
Eagle
Uss Dec
Chicago
P&l
Lion Oil
Lowe
Martin, GL
McKess & R
Tex
Mont Ward
NY Central
Ohio
Reyn
St Jos
Sears Roek
Sinclair Oits
US Steel
Grains Fall on Chicago Board in Morning Selling Flurry
Grains slipped in mid morning trading on the Chicago Board of Trade as receipts of cash grain at terminals expected Monday weigh on prices. Wheat futures closed modestly lower with July at 1.9754 and nearby futures down about a half to three quarters. Oats also traded lower while soybeans moved within a narrow range. Open interest in wheat futures stood near 62.99 million bushels.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Pat dog attack proves fatal for 79 year old woman
A Kansas City woman Bessie W Howarth aged 79 died last night after being attacked and bitten by her own pet dog six weeks earlier. Howarth retired nurse who moved from Fort Scott Kas to Kansas City in 1947 owned the dog about eight years.
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Kansas City
Bessie W. Howarth
Fort Scott
Kas
Plans and Specifications Available From Architect for Bid
Copies of the Plans and Specifications may be obtained from the Architect upon request with a $5.00 deposit. The deposit will be returned in full if the Plans and Specifications are returned in good condition within five days after the scheduled closing time for receipt of bids.
No settlement of British rail strike as talks collapse
Britain faces a sixth day of rail strike with no progress reported by labor peacemakers. ASLEF leaders and the Trades Union Congress committee failed to break the deadlock, factories cut output, and 2,700 Welsh steelworkers halted furnaces as the government holds a national emergency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Rail
London
Britain
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
General Purposes ‘Committee
Trades Union Congress
Walter Monckton
Eden
ASLEF
National Union of Railwaymen
NUR
British Transport Commission
Plans Proposed in Case Farmers Defeat Quotas
Washington Farm Bureau spokes man urged Congress to provide an emergency program if farmers reject wheat marketing quotas in a referendum. Federation director Charles Marshall proposed a national wheat acreage allotment of 62 million acres and price supports at 63 percent of parity before a Senate agriculture subcommittee.
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Washington
American Farm Bureau Federation
Congress
Charles Marshall
Federation
Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation
Senate Agriculture
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Masgey Harris-Ferguson
EB. Fulton
Ddavid Helmke
Athletics
M-H
Lot
Jack R. Haydon
Sixth Street
Campbell and
Johnson Streets
City Planning Commission
City Commission
Block 25
Block 24
Holmes Third Addition
Orville Nanninga
Bob Schreiber
iHays
Sriefs Bord
Charles Richard Coover
Harold Shelly Brown
Moab
Utah
Ray R. Werner
Etux
J. Wasinger
Crown Heights
Ray H. Calihan
Etal
Ted Overton
J. B. Glassco
Copeland
Bennie W. Worrel
State of Kansas
John R. Sample
Richard L. Ish
Alias
Peterson
W. A. Haunschild
Hutchinson
Wich
Omaha
Enid
Salina
Worth
Deerfield
Norval Gray
Deerfield Rural High School
Howard T. Blanchard
Ang
Fansler Tires, Inc
Main
Pearl Drug Monthly News
Pearl Drug Store
N. Main
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