Fair Hustles Repairs After Windstorm Hit Hutchinson Exposition
A windstorm last Friday damaged the Hutchinson State Fair grounds with an estimated 100000 dollars in losses. Officials Everett Erhart and Virgil Miller say funding must come from the Kansas State Emergency Fund board as rebuilding begins less than three months before the Sept 14 19 fair. Grandstand roof, horse barn wall, feed barn wall and an agricultural hall roof suffered damage. An Abilene man Paul Fassbinder age around 50 drowned in the Smoky Hill River west of Abilene yesterday. the body recovered.
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Premier Passes First Hurdle In Tax and Union Ratification
Premier Bourges Maunoury survived a 251 to 210 confidence vote as he pushes a tax plan to fund France’s near bankrupt treasury and battles Algeria unrest. July 2 will mark a pivotal ratification debate on the Euratom Euratom Common Market treaties, with expected rapid follow from neighboring parliaments.
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Barker wins Melcher scholarship for children's librarianship
Celia Louise Barker of Oskaloosa Kansas recent Stanford graduate was awarded the Melcher scholarship for study in children's librarianship. She received the award at a convention dinner of the American Library Association last night.
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Expect Testimony Start in 2nd Galbraith Trial
In Fcalester Oklahoma the second murder trial of Dr Ben T Galbraith begins with selection of the twelfth juror and opening testimony. He is already serving a life term for killing his wife and is charged in the deaths of his three children including five year old Jere. The court drew a second list of 50 jurors after exhausting 11 candidates. The trial concerns alleged poisoning of the children with rat poison and their deaths in the family home in March 1955. A previous jury convicted him of murdering his wife and the children.
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First Hurricane Audrey Approaches Gulf Coast
New Orleans reports the season’s first hurricane, Audrey, nearing the Louisiana and Texas coasts with winds around 100 mph. The Weather Bureau updates place the center about 350 miles south of Lake Charles and forecast a north-northeast turn, with gales 150 to 200 miles out and advisories for small craft to stay in port.
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Ex Coach Named Tulsa Police and Fire Commissioner
William R. Peterson, 33, former FBI agent and Cascia Hall football coach, won unanimous approval to fill Tulsa’s police and fire commissioner's post for the unexpired term of Jay L. Jones until May 1958. Jones resigned after a county grand jury ouster indictment. he had been sentenced in April to one year in prison and fined $1000 for conspiring to violate a federal liquor law. Fifteen others were convicted in the same case.
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