Local Servicemen and Community Notes Highlight June Events
Dawrance Wolf completes 20th Field Artillery course at Fort Sill after 170+ hours of home study while Kansas National Guard unit member peers in service since 1950. Jacob Dietz of Russell to celebrate 100th birthday with extensive Dietz family relatives. Robert C. Steen promoted to airman second class in Japan. Billie J. Knight to report to Elgin AFB after Korea tour. Three local girls gain extra screen time on Picnic film set near Hutchinson and Sterling.
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Set
Dawrance Wolf
Nations
Ingalls
Jacob Dietz
Russell
Derald Kauffman
Magnolia
Richard ‘Bortz
Inge
Dietz
Russell With Mrs. Kauffman’s Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sieg‘mund Dietz, Mr. Dietz
Robert C. Steen
Lawrence EB. Steen
Ulysses
Steen
Air Force
Johnson Air Base
Japan
Elgin Air Force Base
Florida
Billie J. Knight
Air of
Garden City
Knight
Korea
314Th Air Division
Jerry Curtis
Pearl Street
Churchill Not Too Hopeful About Geneva Talks
Sir Winston Churchill told reporters in London that complete and immediate success at the Geneva Big Four conferences is unlikely. A period of tension reduction may be possible, and even if brief it could allow science to demonstrate benefits over threats while he urged peacemaking through strength.
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London
Winston Churchill
Geneva
Winston
Churchill
Extension of Defense Production Act
Washington agencies asked Congress to extend the Defense Production Act for two years and grant new powers to handle a possible war emergency. The Defense Department stated that international tensions will require ongoing improvement and maintenance of a substantial national defense program for years to come.
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Washington
Defense and Commerce Departments
Congress
Defense Department
College of Emporia Receives 15000 for Dormitory Furniture
An anonymous donor gives 15000 for new furniture for Emporia Hall the men's dormitory at College of Emporia. President Luther Sharpe announced the gift today, highlighting support for campus housing and student life.
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Emporia
EmPoria Hall
College of Emporia
Luther Sharpe
Demos Plan To Block Out in Marine Corps Demos Plan To Block Out in Marine Corps
Kansas City market notes show cattle listings with calves, steers, heifers, and cows trading unevenly, hogs and sheep values, and futures for wheat, corn, oats, Milo, and soybeans. Prices span multiple weights and classes, with claims of steady to higher demand for select lots.
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Demos
Marine Corps
Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
USDA
Wheat Fares Higher on Board as Wheat Contracts Rally
Wheat futures closed mostly higher on the Board of Trade after a shaky start. July wheat at about 1.97, corn up modestly, oats down, rye steady to higher, soybeans up. Wichita livestock: cattle steady to strong, hogs mostly steady with some declines, spring lambs slow but mostly lower. A stray line notes a mistake that stifles chatter.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Wichita Livestock
Wichita
USDA
Macmillan Sees Tension Easing Ahead of Geneva Summit
British Foreign Secretary Harold MacMillan told 60 USN members in San Francisco that East West tensions seem to ease but declined to predict the Geneva summit outcome next month. He praised the UN but urged supplementing it with traditional diplomacy and urged leaders to find new inspiration to restore cross‑border cooperation.
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San Francisco
Harold MacMillan
Geneva
USN
World Organization
MacMillan
U. N
U.N
Funds Restore Marine Strength After Senate Battle
The Senate voted 40 to 39 to oppose Eisenhower’s Marine Corps cuts, restoring 46 million dollars and 22,000 troops. Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson led the move, signaling possible shifts against the president’s military plan. The bill, with 31.882 billion defense funding, faces House conference.
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Eisenhower
Senate
Marine Corps
Congress
Sen
Symington
D‘mo
The
White House
CIO Union Gifts $10,000 to Truman Library
In St Louis the CIO Communications Workers of America raised about 10,000 for the Harry S. Truman Library at a 15 per plate dinner attended by roughly 1,000 members. Truman said the Independence Mo library would house presidential papers and hoped for completion in 12 to 14 months. The union, with 325,000 members mainly Bell System workers, continues its convention through Friday.
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St, Louis
Harry ST. Truman
CIO Communication Workers of America
CWA
Truman
Independence
United States
Union
Bell System
Car Runs Wild Smashes Window and Boats in Hollywood Florida
John Plato, 57, lost control of his car in Hollywood Florida and crashed through a plate glass window at Van's Marine Service. The vehicle bowled over four boats and Plato suffered a possible back injury.
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Hollywood
Fla
John Plato
Van’s Marine Service
Flato
Watch Ordered For Suspects Of Bank Robbery
Interpol broadcast a Europe wide watch for four men and a woman linked to New York’s April bank heist at Chase Manhattan. The group led by Giuseppe de Taco is sought in Italy with others named in Milan Manchester and Montreal. The raid yielded mainly tens and twenties and was planned for six months with named bank staff targeted.
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Romeo
Italy
New York
Chase Manhattan Bank
Interpol
U. N
Giuseppe de Taco
John Michael di Tacco
New Yorker
John Timothy O’connell
Daniel William MacGuire
Peter Jerome Kirdam
Manchester
England
Jeanette Forest
Montreal
Canada
Queens
Army Succeeds Peron in Power in Argentina
In Buenos Aires Maj. Gen. Franklin Lucero heads the campaign to restore peace while President Peron stays in the background. An army minister said the situation is steadily normalizing with no clear date for government reorganization or junta plans.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Juan Peron
Franklin Lucero
Old Horses Favor Cold Weather Says Court Ruling
In Edinburgh a Scottish court upheld a claim that five elderly horses suffered unnecessarily after being kept in the snow last January by Donald Bowles, director of Edinburgh Zoo. Earl of Roseberry, head of Scotland's Royal Zoological Society and a noted racehorse owner, testified that horses enjoy cold conditions and dislike flies.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Scottish Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Donald Bowles
Edinburgh Zoo
Earl of Roseberry
Royal Zoological Society
Britain
Garden City Births and Police Briefs Report
Today in Garden City a 7 pound 7 ounce girl arrived at 11 15 p m Monday. Hospital admits list includes Viola Gattlin 1911 North Main Mrs Joseph Beaver Scott City and Mona Behymer 403 Davis Garden City Auto Court. Discharges mention Pete Witman Jr Scott City and Mrs C D Brown 620 North Tenth. Births note St Catherine couple Bob Smith 319 Emerson welcomed a 5 pound 9 ounce daughter. County briefs cover truck overload fined charges, police court penalties for drunk and disorderly conduct and multiple bond and license actions with local residents named. Building permits list Otto Sond er Teggar estate roof over basement entrance 50 and Phillips Petroleum erect service station 407 E Kansas 20000 plus Hold P Doty office building 103 N 11th 4000.
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Gattlin
North Main
Joseph. Beaver
Scott City
Otto Leiker
Deerfield
Herman Coerber
Robert Flynn
North
Nyle Hawkins
Copeland
Mona Behymer
Davis
L. Palmer
Garden City
Bob Smith
Emerson
Pete Witman, Jr
C. D. Brown
North Tenth
Eugene Venters
Dighton
Joe Nichols
Conkling
R. M. Kamp
Charlie Nelson
North Thirteenth
Otto Barnes
West Maple
George Saver
Lakin
St. Catherine
State of
Isidore Louis Saiz
Holcomb
Feliciano Mendoza Bribiesca
Haskell Harmon Reed
N. 10Th
Harmon Hyle Tipton
Lloyd Andrew Winters
Richard
Bulganin Pledges Efforts to Ease World Tension
In Moscow 100000 rallygoers hear Soviet Premier Bulganin pledge to lower international tension and build trust ahead of the Big Four conference. Indian Prime Minister Nehru announces a planned visit to India with no fixed date, noting winter travel is common. Nehru and Bulganin discussed broad topics like peace and disarmament, with no specific issues disclosed.
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Moscow
Nikolai Bulganin
Dynamo Stadium
India
Nehru
Bulganin
Communist Party
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Georgi Malenkoy
Lazar Kaganovich
Bulgania
Spiridonovka Palace
Kremilin
Molotov
Soviet Union
Indochina
Noted Cattleman Dies Following a Stroke
Wellington Kas Will Thomas Bill Stayton 77 a Sumner County cattleman and wheat grower died yesterday after a stroke a week ago He lived on the same Mayfield area farm for 57 years and 72 in the county He was formerly a mule trader before expanding into cattle and wheat with long local ties.
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Wellington, Kas
Will Thomas
Bill) Stayton
Sumner County
Stayton
Mayfield
Soviet Accuses United States of Complicity in Revolt
In London the Moscow radio claimed the United States aided the anti-Peron revolt in Argentina. It cited a report alleging some uprisings participants trained at American military bases, though the source was not named.
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London
Moscow Radio
United States
Argentina
Death of Charles Dick Garden City resident 72
Charles Russell Dick 72 longtime Garden City resident died suddenly Monday after noon at the Garden Smoker cause believed heart attack He headed the Merchants Police and was night clerk at Windsor Hotel Born 1883 Uniontown Pa survived by wife Emilia two brothers a sister seven grandchildren and several children Funeral services set for Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at the Church of the Nazarene Garnand Chapel in charge
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Garden City
Emilia K
John Dick
Uniontown
Lee Miller
Marionsburg
W. Va
Dan
Colby
Orrin
Stoeckley
Guy Smith
van Nuys
Calif
Jack Shurtz
Evans
Church of the Nazarene, Garnand Chapel
Minjarex Infant Dies at Local Hospital
Elizabeth Diana Minjarez infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Carlos Minjarez of 101 N 13th died this morning in a local hospital Born June 19 she died at 248 a m Survivors are her parents Funeral services are incomplete Phillips Funeral Home is in charge
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Elizabeth Diana Minjarez
Carlos Minjarez
Phillips Funeral Home
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