Plane Crashes Off Rio With 51 Aboard
A Convair airliner carrying 51 people including an American vanished while approaching Rio de Janeiro. Searchers found wreckage and body parts in Guanabara Bay near Paqueta Island, with one congressman later confirming his travel and the pilot radioing the Santos Dumont tower before losing contact.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brasilia
Belo Horizonte
Navy
Paqueta
Rio
Dumont
Newton B. Thompson
Waterville
Maine
American Bond
Share Electric Co
Real Airlines
Hst
George Pfistern
Janet S. Latter
H. V. Lee
Thompson
Jose Gomes Talarico
Joao Belloc
Santos Dumont Airport
Paqueta Island
Radio Engineer Found Dead at KNCO Studio
Exagene Conjurske a 36 year old KNCO transmitter engineer was found shot to death near the control room at the northwest studio. Finney County coroner Dr. Robert Fenton ruled a self inflicted 22 caliber wound as the cause. Conjurske had last checked in at 6 30 a m and was discovered by Van Gilliam asleep in a private room near the studio door. He had returned to KNCO June 1 after a spell in Kimball Nebraska he was recently divorced and left a wife Lilli with two children Ray 10 and Karen 7 at 1007 N Ist Phillips Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
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Exagene Conjurske
KNCO
Finney County
Robert M. Fenton
Conjurske
C. O. Carm Ehael
van Gilliam
Carmichal
Earl Robinson
Ray
Karen
N. Ist
Phillips Funeral Home
Morrow
Telegram
Allen Holloway
Holloway
Robert Fenton
Frank Dunakey
Kansas
Plastic Pipe Cay
McAlester
Okla
Oil and Gas Reserves Hold Moderate Pace in Kansas
The Associated Press reports Kansas oil and gas reserves stayed at a moderate pace this week. Field men recorded 64 new well starts and 48 completions, including 19 oil wells at 1,524 barrels daily and one gas well at 10 million cubic feet daily. There were 23 dry holes, three old well workovers, one salt water disposal well, and one abandoned location. State conservation reports from prorated areas for the week ended Friday show 82 oil wells with a combined potential of 2,822 barrels per day.
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Associated Press
Kansas
State Conservation Division
Garden Swis Gas Garden Ends With Odd Quip
A quirky line about personalities echoing through a garden feature, noting that large men and large women both display acquiescent traits as spoken by the speaker. The remark stands as a humorous aside within the lawn chat.
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Gas Garden
Tonight's Weather Forecast Fair and mild
The weather tonight is fair with near 60 degree temperatures and light southerly winds.
Eisenhower Leaves Honolulu After Hawaiian Rest Stop
President Eisenhower ends a six day Hawaiian stay and returns to Washington. He drafted a speech denouncing Communists over Japanese student interference delaying his Tokyo visit. He plans a 6 30 p m EST national broadcast from the White House outlining success of his Philippines Formosa and Korea trips. He criticizes Democratic attacks on his mission and emphasizes gains in Asia.
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Honolulu
Eisenhower
Washington
Tokyo
Fisenhower
Travis Afb
California
Andrews Air Force Base
White House
Philippines
Formosa
Korea
Harvest Nears Full Swing In Wheat Harvest
Weather delays eased as cutting of the 1960 bumper wheat crop begins early next week. Garden City elevators report 270000 bushels received since harvest began, with dry land yields around 50 bushels per acre and irrigated up to 70. Hail damage in Greeley County cut 40000 acres and dented prospects, while protein tests range 11.5 to 13 percent and early yields look promising despite earlier pessimism.
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Garden City Co-Op
Garden City
Lowe Elevator
Holcomb
Greely-Wichita County
Greeley County
Cheyenne Wells
Lakin
Whitelaw
July Fourth Program Cut At Fairgrounds
Telegram photographer Darrell Morrow, once eager to capture Miss Southwest Kansas entries, faces a trimmed Fourth of July as ChamBer of Commerce cancels the afternoon bathing beauty contest for a band concert and fireworks at the Fairgrounds. He plans to shoot swimsuit layouts at the pool for upcoming publishings.
Dr. Barbara Moore Reaches West Virginia On Coast To Coast Walk
Dr Barbara Moore, a 56 year old British vegetarian and former surgeon born in Russia, crossed into West Virginia at 4 15 a m marking her 10th state in a coast to coast hike. She began from a motel near St Clairsville Ohio after spending the night and had covered about 40 miles from Cambridge Ohio on Friday.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Barbara Moore
West Virginia
St. Clairsville
Ohio
Cambridge
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la Junta
Mini Bree
Ron
Dodge
Gardinery
Goodland
Lamar
Rungell
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