60 Men Remain On Texas Tower As Connie Approaches
Coast Guard cutter McCulloch brought ashore 43 men evacuated from a radar platform 190 miles off Cape Cod. A dozen fell into the Atlantic during transfer. 60 workers remain aboard the submerged Texas tower awaiting Hurricane Connie, with rescue craft deterred by heavy seas.
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Boston P
Coast Guard
McCulloch
Air Force
Texas Tower
Cape Cod
Connie
Louis F. Sadruk
Dedham
Mass
Georges Shoal
Cmdr
Sudnik
Hospital Birth Announcements List Several New Arrivals
Memorial Hospital reports multiple births and new arrivals including baby boys and girls for Peggy Spencer, Thelma Strong, Betty Chand lee, Elie Schrable, Audrey Craw paugh, Mary Lou Shepard, Edward Fetty Jr, Ell Coffee, Howard Hood, Thomas England, James Gower, Leonard Bagby, Robert Heald, Raymond Wingepach, Margn Stewart and others with residences across St St Ind St 13th St River towns and suburbs.
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Robert Chucrh
Lyons St
Donna Oden
Ind. St
Charles D. Howe
Mass. St
Elie Fae Schrable
Route 2
Halsey Cowles
Baldwin
Bernard Schmitz
Williamstown
Audrey Crawpaugh
Sunnyside
Mary Lou Shepard
Lake St
Edward Fetty Jr
Wis
Ell Coffee
Howard Hood
Tenn. St
Thomas England
Maple St
James Gower
Eudora
Leonard Bagby
Richland
Robert Heald
Barker Ave
Raymond Winge- Pach
12Th St
Margn Stewart
Tonganoxie
Talbott Attacks Wilson Over Defense of Him
In Washington the retiring Air Force Secretary Talbott accused Defense Secretary Wilson of not defending him. The exchange occurred in Wilson's office as photographers filmed Talbott's successor Donald A. Quarles. Talbott grabbed Wilson's sleeve and demanded action, saying he disliked Wilson’s remarks about resignations.
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Washington
Air Force
Talbott
Defense
Wilson
Donald A. Quarles
County court fines for passing in prohibited zones
Two people were fined ten dollars each plus costs in Topeka County Court on Wednesday for passing in prohibited zones. Fined individuals are Marion G. Tharp and Dale R. Kring.
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Marion G. Tharp
Riley
Dale Robert Kring
Topeka
Modern Moose Population and One in Each City?
Approximately 200000 moose inhabit North America with many in the Rockies and parts of Canada. The piece notes their size, habitat, and a quirky remark about seeing one’s head in a saloon image, plus a mention of a trading post offering as little as 75 dollars for something related to buckshory.
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North America
Rockies
New Marks for Farm Volume and Surpluses in U S
The Agriculture Department foresees a 1955 wheat harvest matching 1948 record levels and a broad rise in crop and livestock output. Prospects include soybeans oats hay sorghum and sugar beets with near record corn and potatoes. possible new surplus risks from feed grains. Favorable weather and better farming inputs lift production despite hot dry spells in some regions.
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Washington & — American
Agriculture Department
Department
Rockies
Bee Becomes Evidence In Mishap Verdict
Mrs. Henrietta B. Hewitt, 63, pleaded guilty in Recorder's Court to speeding after an accident caused by swatting a bee. A squashed bee stuck to a slip she wore was admitted as evidence, and Judge Henderson Riggs fined her five dollars instead of twenty.
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Elmira
N.Y. T
Henrietta B. Hewitt
Recorder's Court
Henderson Riggs
Deaths and Funerals in Lawrence and Kansas City
Jeffries B. Jeffries 62 former custodian at Junior High died Wednesday night in a Kansas hospital. He and his wife both worked for the city schools and lived in a Route 2 trailer. Mrs Jeffries will custodian at Junior High this year but his illness prevented re employment. Nicholas Hunsinger 90 died Tuesday in Kansas City after living there about 10 years and previously in Knowledge Hill. Graveside services set for 3 p m Friday at Mt Hope Cemetery in Kansas City.
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Jeffries
B. Jeffries
Kansas Cry
Lawrence
Missouri
Route
Nicholas Hunsinger
Kansas City
Knowledge
Hill
Mt. Hope Cemetery
Temperature rise expected in Kansas with scattered storms
Topeka reports peak temperatures in Kansas edging upward over the next 24 hours. Scattered thundershowers possible in the extreme west late today with fair skies in the east and cloudy conditions in the west tomorrow. Lows near the upper 60s and highs in the 90s are forecast.
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Topeka
Kansas
Recovery suit filed against Franklin Life Insurance Co
Gladys C Elston of 1143 Pa Li filed a 1091 recovery suit in District Court against Franklin Life Insurance Co of Springfield Michigan. The petition states the money is due as an insurance payment after the death in May of her husband William H Elston.
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Gladys C.elston
Franklin Life Insurance Co
Springfield
William H. Elston
Kansas Governor Proposes Mental Health Authority
Gov. Fred Hall of Kansas announced a plan to create a Mental Health Authority. He outlined three approaches including a new commission studying penal and correctional institutions and closer coordination of mental health activities with county welfare agencies and the division of institutional management.
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Chicago
Fred Hall
Kansas
Noted Song Writer Dies in Stamford at 80
Andrew B. Sterling, famed songwriter of hits including When My Baby Smiles at Me, died at St. Joseph's Hospital Stamford Conn. He had been an invalid since a fractured hip two years ago.
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Stamford, Conn
Andrew B. Sterling
St. Joseph's Hospital
Baldwin man released on bond after assault charge
Warren Gaswint aged 23 of Baldwin was released on $500 bond after pleading innocent in County Court to an assault charge. The hearing is set for 2 p.m. on Sept. 15. Sheriff Billy Hodson said the charge stemmed from a family disturbance.
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Warren Gaswint
Baldwin
Billy Hodson
Fort Leavenworth housing aid eyed by Lawrence officials
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce executive secretary E R Zook informs Maj Gen Davidson that about 190 families will join the College Command and General Staff College and that Lawrence can help with housing. He cites 75 new apartment units under construction and local housing services to accommodate 30 or more families. The general may visit to review facilities and needs.
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Lawrence
Ft. Leavenworth
Command and General Staff College
Garrison H. Davidson
Fort
E. R. Zook
Chamber of Commerce
Zook
Leavenworth
College Command and General Staff College
University aid office recruits part time student workers
Lawrence Kansas University officials announce an employment bureau in Strong Hall offering 24 job types from dishwashers to stenographers. Dr Dennis Trueblood says letters to local business leaders seek part time jobs for students and information on placements. Weather and dialing mixups noted in brief.
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Dennis Trueblood
Aids and Awards
Kansas University
Lawrence
Office of Aids and Awards
Strong Hall
Traffic court fines for running a stop sign
Mrs. Anthony Smith of 1010 Sunset Drive was fined 10 dollars in police court for a stop sign violation. Four dollars were suspended with a six month probation.
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Anthony Smith
U S H-Bomb Power Question at Atoms for Peace Meeting
AEC chairman G. Lewis Strauss said the United States seeks peaceful uses for fusion energy but warns on progress. He called it a long-range project with no breakthrough yet. Soviet scientist A L Kursanov claimed Russians near solving photosynthesis and harnessing it to boost food production.
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Geneval
Lewis L. Strauss
American Atomic Energy Commission
United States
Strauss
Nature
A. L. Kursanov
Kursanov
Local Man Attends Roosevelt Rough Riders Reunion
Dirk Shanafelt of JG Pa St attended the 36th reunion of Teddy Roosevelt Rough Riders in Las Vegas New Mexico. The event featured a parade banquets and a Dead Horse Ranch visit. Shanafelt wore the original Cuba 1898 uniform and met Ed Loughmiller and Gen Patrick Hurley among others.
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Dick Shanafelt
Lawrence Deft
Las Vegas
Nev
Teddy Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Patrick J. Hurley
Shanafelt
Hurley
Dead Horse Ranch
Roosevelt Rough Riders
Dirk Shanafelt
JG Pa St
Teddy Roose
KLU
Vanderbilt
Ed Loughmiller
Oklahoma City
Shan
Afelt
Loughmiller
Billy Mee Ginty
Ripley
Okla
Baldwin Area Calendar Highlights Local News and Death
Local families plan travel to Estes Park Cols and review church activities at Ives Chapel. Delta Delta Delta hosts a Baldwin rush party and a summer swimming program reports 186 enrolled with 92 passing. The Rev Joseph Groh formerly of Baker dies after a fire at Methodist Home. survivors include wife and children. A school friend group visits Baker amid alumni connections. Mrs Virginia Burton Hargett recovers from surgery in Lawrence. Dr O E Allison and Rev Willis Warmer attend services. H K Ebright officiates funeral of Mary Quaintaine in Gardner.
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Frank F. Wolf
Estes Park
Cols
W. A. Saucier
Lawrence Mae Moral Hospital
Lambda Chapter
Delta Delta Delta
Baldwin
Donna Lawrence
Nelson P. Horn
Duane Henre
Baker Treasurer's Office
HK. Ebright
Rotary
Lawrence
Ives Chapel
Joseph P. Groh
Topeka
Methodist
Baker
Ione de Tar Groh
Mervin Gron
Wathena
D. W. Seidel
Trenton
Baldwin Rotary Club
Stanley Johnson
Georgann Malicky
Charles Odarberg
Rot ‘Ary Club
Ant Irs
Lawrence F. Almond
David
Johnathan
Peter
Priciila
Stephen
Helen Jarvis
Pawtucket
R. J
Friends
Yates Center
Almond
Epworth Methodist Church
Srg. Almond
Juanita Ralston
Neodesha
Jar
Virginia Burton Hargett
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
O. E. Allison
Alison
Willis Warmer
J. J. Kloster Vis
Weather Across Regions Reports Varying Conditions
Rain and gale winds along Atlantic coasts as hurricane Connie stays 200 miles southeast of Myrtle Beach. Most areas enjoy pleasant summer weather with lighter falls. stronger thunderstorms limited to Buffalo area. Northeast sees warmer temps while Ohio Valley and Great Lakes cool slightly. Early readings include Chicago 69 and Needles 91 with mixed cloud cover across the nation.
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Atlantic
Carolina
Myrtle Beach
8.C
Rockies
Central Plains
Virginia Capes
Jacksonville
Fla
Cape Ann
Mass
Carolinas
New England
Buffalo, Ney
Ohio Valley
Great Lakes
Gulf States
Texas
Plains
Pacific Coast
Great Basin
Far West
Southwest Desert
Chicago
Salt Lake City
Needles
Calif
San Francisco
Seattle
Boise
Idaho
Syracuse
N.Y
Nantucket
Minot
Tkis
Wichita, Kan
Harrisburg
Austin, Tex
Springfield
Governors push for highway priority in road tax plan
At the 47th annual governors conference in Chicago, a proposal to tag more than two billion dollars of excise tax revenue for highways gains momentum. Kansas Gov. Fred Hall, a Eisenhower road program supporter, calls the idea “kicked ground” in a closed resolutions committee meeting.
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Chicago
Congress
Fred Hall
Kansas
Eisenhower
Conference Resolutions Committee
Markets At a Glance Stocks Edge Higher Amid Selective Rally
Markets show gains in stocks with selective leadership from aircraft, steel, copper, rails, oils and chemicals. Bond trading slow with mixed activity. Agricultural prices varied with wheat strong on spring wheat buying and hogs and cattle holding steady. Wall Street cools after a midday rally as volume stays light around 1.55 million shares.
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Kansas City
USDA
Castle
Wall Street
New York
Soviet Eases Travel Ban for Citizens Abroad
The Soviet government will allow citizens to travel abroad as tourists not only to Red China and East European Communist states but also to Sweden and Finland. A short note in Trud, after Premier Bulganin’s statement, suggests Western tourism to the USSR may rise, with speculation about Americans visiting iconic U.S. sites.
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Moscow
Red China
Sweden
Finland
Kem
Jong
New York
Empire State Building
Trud
Nikolai A. Bulganin
U.S.S.R
Two Youths Die in Car Crash Near Radley Kansas
In rural Pittsburg Kasai two youths George Raymond Hill 17 of Girard and Robert Conrad Mittlesteadt 18 of Appleton Wis died after a one car accident near Radley. Hill died at the scene Mittlesteadt died in a hospital Bennett 18 of Girard suffered minor injuries. The car struck a culvert on a county road.
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Pittsburg
Kasai
Radley
Kan
George Raymond Hill
Girard
Kas
Robert Conrad Mittlesteadt
Appleton
Wis
Hill
Mittlesteadt
Robert Bennett
K C Firm Low Bidder For Topeka Pike Work
Apparent low bidder K C firm List and Clark of Kansas City at 516 803 for 5.7 miles of grading on a highway link from a new Kansas River bridge to a new location of U S Highway 40. J W Frisbie Kansas City was low bidder at 137 927 for seven small bridges along the link.
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Topeka
Clark
Kansas City
Kansas River
J. W. Frisbie
Subpoenas Threaten Secrecy in Commerce Advisory Council
Rep. Caller of New York vows to subpoena “everybody in sight” to penetrate what he calls the aura of secrecy surrounding the Commerce Department’s Business Advisory Council. He leads a House Judiciary subcommittee probing the role of unpaid business executives serving in government while drawing salaries from private firms.
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Washington
Caller
D-Ny
Commerce Department
Business Advisory Council
Celler
House
WOC
Card of Thanks for Supporting Family After Death
We express sincere thanks to friends neighbors and relatives for flowers food cards and sympathy shown during the death of my husband and our father.
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Peggy Spencer
St. St
Peggy Lindstrom
Ind
Cleo Ferguson
W. 13Th St
Charles Arthur
Seburn
Hall
Thelma Strong
Laura St
Betty Chandlee
Grave Herz
W. D. Wilson
Antioch Baptist Congregation
Janie Mervine
Lowa Sts
Janie
I. W. Mervine
W. 9Th St
Journal-World
U.S
Gov. Hall
Lecompton
Newkirk
Ohio
Onme
Ozarks
H. K. Ebright
Gardner
Mary Quaintaine
K. C. Cash Grain
K. C. Livestock
K.C
Union Carbide
Standard Oil
du Pont
Chrysler
Rock Island
Hiram Walker
Briggs Manufacturing
N.W
Blacks
Admiral
Allied
Allis
Cory Eid
Dow
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Elec
Gen Motors
Goodyear
P&l
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Ul Lone
Martin
Mont Ward
Penney JC
Phill
Proct & G
RCA
Reyn Met
Jos
Sears Roed
Sinclair O
Sacony
Air
UN Pac
US Steel
Woolworth
Soviet
K. C
Paul K. Kincaid
Mark Amott
23Rd & Barker
Farmers’ Insurance
JRUCK
Fire Insurance Exchange District Sales& Claims Office
Andy” Anderson
Schubert
New Hampshire
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