Deaths and funerals in Finney and nearby areas
Edwin A. Daw of Wichita former Garden City resident dies at 51 from a heart attack after a hospital stay. Born May 3, 1903 in Oakley, he worked as a store manager and later sales agent, with memberships in the Christian church and lodges. Survived by wife, two daughters, a sister and a brother. Funeral Tuesday at Hall Chapel Oakley. Also noted are funeral services for Anna May Peoples, 84, of Garden City, who died after illness at Goodwill nursing home. She taught in Holcomb and Hartland, born July 9, 1869 in Graham Missouri. Surviving daughters and sons and grandchildren. burial at Valley View cemetery.
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Wichita
Edwin A. Daw
Garden City
Wesley Hospital
Wichta
Daw
Oakley
Robinson Equipment
Slo
Christian Church
Lois Peddicord
Wichits
Amber Wycoff
Robert Daw
Hutchinson
Hall Chapel
Anna May Peoples
Phillips’ Chapel
Franklyn Edwards
Peoples
Goodwill Nursing
J. D. Adams
R. J. McClain
Birmingham
Ala
J. R. Gingiich
Topeka
Earl
Rock Island
H. Denton
San Mateo
Calif
Valley View, Cemetery
Elly Elmer Meyers Funeral Services Held
Funeral services for Elly Elmer Meyers age 42 will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Phillips' chapel. Meyers died Saturday after two weeks in hospital. He lived at McDonald court on E Fulton. A retired Santa Fe Railroad employee born May 15, 1914 in Olmitz, Kansas. Surviving are sisters Savilla Lee Ila Wright Anetta Wright and brothers Grant Wilse ae Vern Irvan. Interment in Gove County cemetery.
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Phillips’ Chapel
Elly Elmer Meyers
Meyers
McDonald Court
E. Fulton
Santa Fe Railroad
Kansan
Olmitz
Savilla Lee
Ila Wright
Garden City
Anetta Wright
Scott City
Grant
Wilse
Ae Vern
Bealer
Irvan
Koweta
Okla
Gove County Cemetery
Tito mobbed by crowd in Stalingrad arrival
STALINGRAD Tito of Yugoslavia with Khrushchev and Mikoyan arrived to a 200000 strong crowd around the railroad station. Betty Mase of Bronxville New York, traveling as a reporter, was swept into Deputy Premier Mikoyan's car amid the chaos and described the crowd as wildly enthusiastic and friendly.
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Stalingrad
Tito
Yugoslavia
Nikita Khrushchev
A. I. Miksyan
Betty Mase
Bronxville
N. Y
Mikoyan
Pope Pius XII Attacks Vice Books at Editors Congress
Pope Pius XII denounced books focusing on vice calling their influence akin to narcotics. He spoke to hundreds at a World Congress of Editors audience in Florence, condemning secular, sensationalist literature and urging moral restraint.
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Pope
Vatican City
Pius XII
Florence
President Rejects a New Soviet Invitation
Wichita Live stock and grain prices report cattle and hogs with steady or varied movement across categories. Slaughter steers and heifers steady to mostly steady, good to choice ranges noted. grain across wheat corn oats milo and barley listed with price bands. Kansas City USDA markets show similar activity with cattle, hogs, and sheep details and price levels.
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Wichita Livestock
Wichita
USDA
U. S
Kansas City
Wheat Drops As CHICAGO u Rapid Expansion Shifts Prices
Winter wheat harvest expansion pushes prices down a few cents on the board. Trading active at times as hedging pressure rises. Wheat July futures fell about two to four cents with nearby quotes around 2.07 and 2.04. Other cereals slow. Oats up 14 to 54 cents, rye up about 0.44 to 1.12, soybeans up around 4 to 14 cents. Open interest stood near 61.15 million bushels.
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Chicago U
Board of Trade
Eisenhower Rejects Joint Chiefs Visit to Soviet Union
President Eisenhower personally rejected a Soviet invitation for all U S joint chiefs of staff to visit the Soviet Union. The decision, announced by James Hagerty, keeps some chiefs free to visit later if they have ample time to study activities of interest to their services while Gen Nathan Twining proceeds to Russia for Aviation Day June 24.
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Washington
Eisenhower
U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Soviet Union
Sherman Adams
Walter Reed
Russia
Moscow
White House
James C. Hagerty
U. S
Nathan Twining
Air Force
Twining
United States
Unwatched Watchman Fled State Pen Mine Escape
Melvin L. Shrewsbury a 40 year old convict night watchman at the State Penitentiary coal mine escaped between 5 p.m. Friday and 6 a.m. Saturday. Guards found he was gone when escorting prisoners to work. He was sentenced in Raleigh County last November to 1 to 10 years for grand larceny.
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Moundsville
W. Va
Melvin L. Shrewsbury
State Penitentiary
Shrewsbury
Raleigh County
Army Stays Execution Of Convicted Murderer
The Department of the Army granted an indefinite stay of execution for Pvt. Richard A. Hagelberger, 23, and Pvt. John F. Vigneault, following a court martial in 1952 for murder and robbery near Diebach, Germany on April 19, 1952. Col. Jamey W. Davis of the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks received a telegram to disregard prior hang date instructions.
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Ft, Leavenworth
Department of the Army
Richard A. Hagelberger
Jamey W. Davis
U.S
Hagelberger
John F. Vigneault
Rudolph Vigneault
Goffe Falls
N.H
Diebach
Germany
KU Creates Mabel McLaughlin Beck Journalism Scholarship
Lawrence KU will honor the late Mabel McLaughlin Beck with a journalism scholarship funded by Will T. Beck, former Holton Recorder publisher and husband of Mrs Beck. A $5,500 endowment to the University Endowment Association will finance an annual award to one or two women journalism students.
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Lawrence
Mabel McLaughlin Beck
William Allen White
University of Kansas
Franklin D. Murphy
Will T. Beck
Holton Recorder
Beck
Kansas University
Will Ike Run Again After Operation?
Washington reports a renewed wave of speculation over President Eisenhower’s candidacy for a second term after his operation. Republicans downplay politics while Democrats weigh chances against a possible rival. Doctors see no need to alter his plan and expect a four to six week convalescence.
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Washington
Eisenhower
James C. Hagerty
Paul Dudley White
Boston
Tors
Isenhower
New Hemorrhoid Relief Promises Non Surgical Shrinkage
New York special report announces a healing substance that shrinks hemorrhoids and relieves pain without surgery. The product Preparation H comes as suppository or ointment from a world famous research institute with a money back guarantee.
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New York, N. Y
Cass
Moat
Pool Closed For Cleaning This Week
The municipal swimming pool is closed today and Tuesday for cleaning. Pool will reopen at the usual time Wednesday. Two delegates from Garden City, J H Devold and W E Wilson, will attend a regional business conference of Prudential Insurance Company of America sales reps in Houston, Texas, in June 2022.
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Claude Owens
Garden City
J.H. Devold
W. E. Wilson
Prudential Insurance Company of America
Houston
Tex
Army Opposes Any More Unity
Washington officials voiced opposition to full unification of the armed services. Secretary of the Army Brucker urged each branch to develop independently while officials Robertson and Burke offered cautious remarks. They did not back the single service plan pushed earlier by Thomas Finletter in separate TV interviews.
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Washington Wi
Army
Brucker
Navy
Air Force
Reuben Robertson Jr
Defense
Adm
Arleigh A. Burke
Naval Operations
Thomas K. Finletter
She Is Particular About a Job
A London advertisement from Advertisers Weekly seeks a Brunette attractive 5 foot 11 inch tall with vital statistics 34 22 35. Well dressed with ability to charm and subjugate, she offers sound knowledge of fashion trade and advertising for an overpaid job as assistant to an account executive in fashion or textile at odds with him when opportunity arises.
Eagles Elect New State Officers at Hutchinson
Hutchinson Kansas report on the Fraternal Order of Eagles three day convention names Emporia's Charles Faust as state president succeeding Newton's George Lord. Also elected were Joe Deame Topeka as vice president George Hammer Wyandotte as treasurer and John Shelton Prairie Village re elected secretary.
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Hutchinson
Charles Faust
Mporia
Order of Eagles
Faust
George Lord
Newton
Joe Deame
Topeka
George Hammer
Wyandotte
John Shelton
Prairie Village
Dulles and Pearson to Coordinate Policies
Hospital and public notices list admittances discharges births and licenses. Names include Gus Luebberts Agnes Eldred James Pickett Charles Lancaster Floyd Henry Mary Shloff D E Yount Hubert Sharp Herman Pruitt Lloyd Mucklow and Russell Guthrie. Births report a 7 lb 10 oz boy at St Catherine to Gus and wife. Police briefs note bond posting for Harman Tipton and a minor car accident in the 300 block of North Main. Deeds court divorce suit and marriage licenses are also listed.
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Gus Luebbets
Marienthal
Floyd Henry
Copeland
Agnes Eldred
Ted Doyle
Evans
Helen Keane
North
James Pickett
Charles Lancaster
Harman H. Tipton
N. Main
Claude R. O’brien
Mullen
Neb
John Joseph Kahl
Laura ‘W. Spikes
Laura W. Spikes
Boyd
Dorothy E. Morgan
Charles M. Morgan
Leonard Schiffelbein
Mildred Sperry
Garden City
Thomas F. Mosher
West Lierty
Jacquelyn Jol Adams
Grazing Land Improvement Amid Drought Report
A Department of Agriculture May report shows grazing conditions improved in northern plains with good west of the Rockies grazing, but central and southern plains and the Southwest remain poor to fair. Overall range and pasture feed remain low. Texas worst in 38 years, though late rains offered some relief to Panhandle and northeast. Nebraska Kansas eastern Colorado also report limited grazing due to late rains.
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Denver
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Southwest
Rockies
Texas
Panhandle
Nebraska
Kansas
Colorado
Vet Legislators Seek Leavenworth Senate Seat
Two veteran lawmakers from Leavenworth County announce bids for the Republican nomination to the county seat in the State Senate. State Sen. EK Bert Collard said Saturday he would oppose Rep. John H Murray for the post.
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Leavenworth
Leavenworth County
Senate
EK. Bert. Collard
John’ H
Texas Candidate Threatens Defying Court Ruling
J Evetts Haley, a former history professor and author, told a Democratic rally in Austin that if the federal government seeks to enforce an integration injunction against a Texas school board the state should resist to the point of throwing the U S marshal in the hoosegow. He labeled the Supreme Court a bunch of cheap politicians and urged impeachment by Congress.
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Texas
Austin
Tex
U—Cowboy
J. Evetts Halvey
Supreme Court
Congress
Haley
U.S
NATO Talks Expand Western Policy Coordination
Washington says Secretary Dulles will tell Canadian Foreign Minister Lester Pearson the United States will join efforts to coordinate Western nations' foreign policies. Pearson joins a Thames man committee under NATO to broaden alliance work, while Dulles plans talks with Senator George and Chancellor Adenauer about strengthening Atlantic ties beyond military aims.
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Washington
Dulles
Lester B. Pearson
United States
Pearson
Thresman
North Atlantic Treaty ‘Organization
Alliance
Sen. George
Eisenhower
NATO
Konrad Adenauer
Wst
Adenauer
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Beth Steel
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Chrysler
Dow Chem
du Pont
B. C. Christopher & Co
Hagle P _W
Chicago
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Kan P&l
M&m
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NY Central
Ohio
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