Western Kansas rodeo weekend return in Leon
Western Kansas draws rodeo crowds for a third straight weekend with events in Leon. Cowboys will perform bulldogging bull riding calf roping saddle bronc and bareback bronc riding. Night shows begin at 8 p m and matinee at 2 p m with an entry fee of 10 dollars and a 150 dollar added purse. Local politics show no primary or general election contests for eight candidates and no state representative or county attorney candidates yet.
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John Frazier
Grant County
Doris Duckworth
Kansas
Leon
Harold Smith
Satanta considers removing Main Street trees
Satanta city officials push tree removal along Main Street with the first target the trees in front of the State Bank. The council favors the plan if the bank provides cement for the area between curb and sidewalk.
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Main Street
Satanta City
State Bank
Julia Hoppes Heads to Mu Phi Epsilon Convention Tour
Dighton grade school marm Julia Hoppes will attend a national Mu Phi Epsilon music sorority convention in Rochester New York next month. She then travels to New York City and then Europe visiting 11 European countries before returning to Western Kansas.
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Julia Hoppes
Dighton
Marm
Rochester
N.Y
New York City
Europe
Kansas
European
Scoti hosts rodeo and high school reunion event
Glenn Dickey, longtime resident, will attend the rodeo and golden anniversary reunion for the first four year high school graduation class. Bertha Classon of Ashland may also join. About 600 people are expected for one of the county’s largest events this year.
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Glenn Dickey
Dickey
Bertha Classon
Ashland
Sky Watch Tower Rising at Scott City Hall
Scott City makes progress on the sky watch observation program with a tower completed at Ed Hast’s cabinet shop to soon crown the city hall. Materials and labor were donated by volunteers, and Sgt. Dale Saunders, based in Scott City, will mark off another Western Kansas city when the 24 hour alert spot begins.
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Scott City
Ed Hast
Scott City Hall
Dale Saunders
Kansas Cities
Colorful Tinting Adds Color to Scott City Main Street
John Boyer notes thanks as Scott City merchants adopt tinted display windows on the east side. A Liberal crew persuaded the merchants to curb the Kansas sun from the west on summer afternoons, adding color to the street.
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Scott City
John Boyer
Kansas
Japs Have The H Bomb Jitters Now
Tokyo reports three cases of hydrogen bomb jitters after the Bikini test. Stevedores refused to unload the British freighter Arafura at Kobe until officials assured it was not radioactive. The ship had sailed from Brisbane on May 6 with wool and scrap. A fishing boat owner said a skipper may have been affected by radioactivity, showing yellowish bumps in Indonesian waters. Coast guard says it is not worth investigating given distance from test area.
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Tokyo
Japan
Kobe
Brisbane
Australia
Kiyoshi Yoshida
Coast Guard
Police Hunt a Slayer Suspect
Carson City Nevada police hunted a New York to California suspect for strangling Anne Harris Van Ryne a Philadelphia heiress. The body was found in the closet of Bartender William E Boswell in Reno pregnant and garrotted with a housecoat belt. Boswell’s parents placed him in Kansas City and he left for New York a day before the body was discovered. Fingerprints tied to the victim’s car and effects. Deputy Sheriff Butner said she planned to sell one car to Boswell and hand him the title.
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Carson City
Nev
New York
California
Nevada
Philadelphia
Anne Harris van Ryne
William E. Boswell
Kansas City
Boswell
William E. Boswell Sr
Lester Smith
van Ryne
Prince Hawkins
Vani Ryne
Reno
Erwin K. Butner
Butner
Algerian Issue Referred to UN Security Council
The U.N. African-Asian group plans to ask the Security Council to discuss the fighting in Algeria. Group chairman Paw Htin of Burma announced the move after a private caucus, with 20 of 23 member states attending and a majority in favor. Hussein Alt-Ahmed, Algerian nationalist spokesman, proposed it.
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United Nations
N.Y. Im
U.N
Security Council
Algeria
U Paw Htin
Burma
Hussein Alt-Ahmed
State Receives Safety Award Certificates
Topeka Kansas has received national award certificates for achievement in 1955 accident records public safety education and safety organization. Gov. Fred Hall said the awards were made by the National Safety Council.
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Topeka I — Kansay
Public Safety Education and Safety Organization
Fred Hall
National Safety Council
Two Injured In Collision Near Garden City
Two Garden City men were injured at 12 15 this morning when their car rear ended a loaded alfalfa truck on US 50 about half a mile west of the Finney Kearny county line. John Boyce Miller 19 of 306 North Ninth and Wilfred Herman 20 Eminence Route were treated at St Catherine Hospital for severe scalp lacerations described as good.
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Garden’ City
US 50
Finney-Kearny County
St. Catherine Hospital
John Boyce Miler
North Ninth
Wilfred Herman
Herman
Garden City
Chicago
Miller
Ballazary Guillen
National
Alfalfa Dehydrating and Milling Co
Guillen
Highway Patrol
Holcomb
Unions Seek Shorter Hours in Auto Industry
In Detroit the 500 man GM Council of the United Auto Workers endorsed a drive for a shorter work week with full 40 hour pay amid ongoing layoffs. Studebaker-Packard plans a one week shutdown at South Bend, idling several thousand, and Chrysler will cut operations to Monday and Tuesday next week, heavily impacting Plymouth plants and Detroit area body plants. The Michigan Employment Security Commission reports 220,000 unemployed statewide, 128,000 in auto making, with forecasts of 200,000 more idle this year.
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Detroit
General Motors Council
United Auto Workers Union
Studebaker-Packard Corp
Studebaker
South Bend
Ind
Chrysler Corp
Ployers
Plymouth
Michigan Employment Security Commission
UAW
GM Council
Norale
Firemen Lose Most Of Santa Maria Station Engines
In Santa Maria California three of the four fire engines burned at the station. The fire department faced limited aid as two regulars including the chief were away at a convention and the volunteer siren had failed. Outside units arrived to control the blaze, with property damage pegged at about $200000 after a gasoline spark started the fire.
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Santa Maria
Calif
Many Attend Local Mennonite Song Festival in Garden City
Delegates from a tri state area will attend the annual Mennonite Song Festival in Garden City tomorrow. The all day program at the auditorium opens at 10 with a general singing directed by Prof. Paul Ratzlaff. Rev. Ruben Goertz will be the morning and afternoon speaker. Choirs from 14 churches and schools will provide songs. Officers for 1957 include Clarence Penner and Revs Alvin Kleinsasser Chester Fast and Lynford Becker. Public invited.
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Tri-State
Garden City
Colorado
Oklahoma
Kansas
Paul Ratzlaff
W. E. Rutherford
Ruben Goertz
Youth For Christ Organization
New Jet Fighter Can Catch Any Bomber
General Earle E. Patridge testified before a Senate subcommittee that an advanced jet fighter now joining operational units will vastly improve our ability to intercept high altitude bombers. He noted two even newer interceptors have adequate combat ceilings to engage Russia's Bison bomber threat.
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Washington W
Earle E. Patridge
Continental Air Defense Command
Senate
Armed Services
Russia
Teacher Vote Favors Social Security Plan
Kansas City teachers vote 2535 to 326 to join social security alongside the Kansas City Teachers Retirement System. Superintendent James A. Hazlett says the maximum monthly retirement will rise to 233.50, with 108.50 from social security and 125 from the existing system.
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Kansas City
James A. Hazlett
Morton County Declared Drought Disaster Area
Morton County in Kansas has been designated a drought disaster area enabling reduced price feed purchases for farmers under the emergency feed program. Governor Fred Hall will meet with the State Drought Committee and agriculture officials next Thursday to review the state wide situation, followed by an inspection of the western region with Robbet Hall, a feed field representative for Secretary of Agriculture Benson.
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Topeka
Morton County
Fred Hall
Secretary of Agriculture
Kansas
Robbet Hall
Benson
Invitation Left Up to President
Senator Mansfield said he would leave it to President Eisenhower’s own good judgment on inviting Russian leaders to visit the United States. He commented after Senate Republican Leader Knowland urged against inviting Khrushchev Bulganin and others, calling the proposal a reflection by columnists and commentators. Knowland said he is shocked that good citizens would be taken in by the idea.
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Washington
Mansfield
D-Mont
Eisenhower
United States
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Knowland
Calif
American Congress
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikolai Bulganin
Georgia Zhukov
Eisenhower challenges private aid for global education
President Eisenhower urged universities and wealthy foundations to establish educational centers in nations lacking adequate schooling. Speaking at Baylor University, he framed the proposal as a private aid program alongside Truman era technical assistance. Carnegie and Ford Foundations, controlling over two thirds of a billion dollars, praised moves to advance international education and local teacher training.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Baylor University
Waco
Tex
Truman
Ford
Carnegie
John W. Gardner
Carnegie Corp
New York
Hig
Gardner
Ford Foundation
H. Rowan Gaither Jr
Garden City Population Figures From County Clerk
Garden City and township totals show unofficial counts with 10,008 in the city and 4,097 in the township, guiding a county total of 14,105 though figures are incomplete and not final. The 1956 city total trails last year by 57 and prior years show variability across decades with 1954 recount reaching 10,875 and earlier years listing 10,770 in 1953.
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Garden City
Missing Bowman Family Found in Seattle
The Donald Bowman family from Wichita, missing since May 11, is located in Seattle Washington. Bowman called his father Wayne Bowman in Hutchinson to say he is working on the west coast. Mrs. Fred Helsmeyer was informed of their whereabouts. Authorities had feared foul play but later determined the family left for personal reasons.
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Donald Bowman
Wichita
Seattle
Wash
Bowman
Wayne Bowman
Hutchinson
Fred Helsmeyer
Statue of Christ destroyed by vandals in cemetery
In Hays Kansas the statue of Christ and two angels at St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery was destroyed by vandals. The statue was a gift from the Aurora Kansas parish. Police report multiple grave stones have been defaced recently.
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Hays, Kas
Christ
St. Joseph Catholic
Aurora, Kas
Proposed Highway Bill To Senate On Monday
The Senate will consider Monday a bill to authorize a massive highway improvement program and to provide billions of dollars in new taxes to pay for the construction. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas said yesterday he will push for a final vote by Tuesday night.
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Washington UN
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Election Contests Are Slated Today
Kansas Democrats head into a state convention amid factional undertones as contests open for national committeeman and two delegates at large to the national convention. Six delegate at large posts are also on the ballot with 24 delegates named prior. Unopposed is Mrs. Georgia Neese Gray for national committeewoman. The gathering features harmony themes and a fundraiser with tickets at 10 dollars and a two for 56 offer under the slogan AG for Victory in 56.
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Wichita
aKnsas Democrats
Kansas
Ralph Gilchest
Lynn Brodrick
Marysville
Leigh Warner
Cimarron
Georgia Neese Gray
Richland
Frank Stillman
Council Grove
Mack Lee
Vera Heath
Merriam
Ruby Harris
Marion
Kansas Federated Women's Democratic Clubs
Eissenhower
Oklahoma
Raymond Gary
Eisenhowe
Kalvesta Elevator Adds 12 Bin Storage Expansion
Kalvesta grain firm nears completion of a 12 bin addition to the Bosse grain elevator, boosting capacity from 150000 to 330000 bushels. Construction by McPherson Concrete Products with six days per 50 foot bin, each 22 foot diameter and 15000 bushel capacity, under Howard Woody management for owner Milton Bosse of Ellinwood.
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Kalvesyia
Kansas
Kalvesta Grain Firm
McPherson Concrete Products
Carl Nestor
Milton Bosse
Ellinwood
Howard Woody
John Frazier
Kalvesto
Chuckle Wife Jokes About Cowardly Husband
A humorous exchange features a wife quipping that marriage revealed her husband’s cowardice while he retorts that everyone else knew it too, delivering a lighthearted punchline in classic coinage.
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John Boyce Miller
Dodge City
Goodland
Great Head
Liberal
Denver
el Guymen
la Junta
Demos
Wiliam ¢. Salome
Creorge Dorking
Lawrence
Docking
Witch
Dickinsons
Kalvesta Skyline
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