Leavenworth County Fair Opens Aug 31 at Tongoxie
The 29th annual Leavenworth County Fair runs Aug 31 to Sept 2 at Tongoxie Fair Grounds with 4-H clubs and Future Farmers. $1,500 in agricultural prizes and $500 in 4-H premiums. Officials include Dale Rawlings president and Walter Denholm treasurer. Livestock entries close noon Wed. judging starts 9 a.m. Thurs. parade Wednesday 6:30 p.m.. talent show 8 p.m.. dances nightly on a new platform. Hugo's Exhibit midway. parade manager Joe Sheriff.
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Leavenworth County Fair
Tonganoxie Fair
Fair Association
Dale Rawlings
Walter Denholm
Walter Neibarger
Ernest Cook
W. Y. Druley
Veterinary
Association
Gifford Beckwith
Leavenworth
William Lindel
Baselior
George Baker
Joe Sheriff
J.C. Haigwood
L. R. Mitchell
H. F. Geib
Hans Frienmuth
Lon Pomeroy
Neibarger
Rawlings
Tonganoxie
M. F. Black
Stranger
Maurice Heywood
Linwood
William D
Hugo
Deaths and Funerals in Southeast Douglas County
George Ralph Breithaupt 65 a farmer died Tuesday morning of a heart attack while riding in a car near Wellsville. Survived by two sisters and two brothers. Funeral at Schubert Chapel Thursday at 2 p.m. Burial in Clearfield Cemetery. Edwin G. Steele 17 died when a tractor turned over at home in Sigel. Funeral at Rumsey Funeral Home Thursday 2 p.m. Rev. Byers officiating. Burial in Clinton Cemetery. Pallbearers listed.
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George Ralph Breithaupt
Douglas County
Teddy Brecheisen
Wellsville
Katherine Glaser
LeRoy
Blanche Godman
Kansas City
Burtle Breithaupt
Cifford Breithaupt
Lawrence
Edwin G. Steele
Sigel
Rumsey Funeral Home
David Byers
Clinton Cemetery
Leslie Deméritt
Jesse Sutton
William Johnson
Leslie Clough
Don Breithaupt
Glen Cox
Shipman Gentry
Funeral services for Joseph R. Pearson of Corisicana
Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. at First Methodist Church for Joseph R. Pearson of Corisicana Texas who died Monday at Methodist Hospital in Rochester Minnesota. Rev Albert F Bramble officiated. Burial followed at Oak Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers named J L Constant A B Weaver Walter Keeler Ray Coolidge C B Holmes Keith Layton Irvin Youngberg and J J Wilson.
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First Methodist Church
Joseph R. Pearson
Corisicana
Tex
Methodist
Rochester
Minn
Albert F. Bramble
Oak Hit Cemetery
J. L. Constant
A.B. Weaver
Walter Keeler
Ray Coolidge
C. B. Holmes
Keith Lawton
Irvin Youngberg
J. J. Wilson
Teens Admit Shooting No Hunting Sign
Two teen-age boys admitted firing at a no hunting sign at the Russell Rinken farm on Route 1. They were turned over to Juvenile Court after sheriff's officials reported the incident on Tuesday.
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Russell Rinken
Balgh Farm
Route 1
Sheriff's Office
Droodles at the United Nations Goof Turns Frustrating
The narrator describes taking an imaginative drawing to the United Nations building to show it to the Arab delegation. A guard refused entry despite an explanation about cleaning. He eventually reached a room near the Dutch delegation and saw a man with a tiny black badge taking photos of the doodle.
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Ars
United Nations
Kansas Extends 1955 Duck Season Oct 9 to Dec 22
Kansas will host a 75 day duck season this fall from Oct 9 through Dec 22, extended 15 days to fit Central Flyway quotas. Daily hours start before sunrise to sunset, with 5 ducks and 10 coots bag limits. Goose season runs 60 days, Oct 9 to Dec 7, with five geese max. Jacksnipe season also opens Oct 9 with an eight-bird bag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pratt i
Kansas
Dave Leahy
Kansas Forestry, Fish and Game Commission
Leahy
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Kansas Hunters
Kansas Commission
Actor Names Six As Red Cell's Members
New York actor George Hall testified before the House Un American Activities Committee that he was once a card carrying Communist and named six actors he said were members with him in a Midtown branch. He listed John Randolph and Sarah Cunningham Joshua Shelley Alan Manson George Keane and Betty Winkler. Randolph and Miss Cunningham invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer questions about communism. The remaining named actors, except Miss Winkler, were subpoenaed as witnesses. Hall received thanks from the committee and applause from spectators after his testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
George Hall
Communist Party
Hall
House Un-American Activities Committee
John Randolph
Randolph
Sarah Cunningham
Alan Manson
Joshua Shelley
George Keane
Keane
Betty Winkler
Miss Cunningham
Miss Winkler
European Heritage Tour Inspires Local Students Travel Diary
A group of boys from a judging class recounts a European journey that began with studies of land use and equity, then traversed Normandy Mont Saint Michel Perigord Carcassonne Avignon Rome Florence Zurich and Paris. They reflected on heritage and freedom, comparing European traditions to the United States.
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Murphy
U.S
France
Normandy
Mont St. Michel
Perigord
Carcassonne
Avigone
Rome
Florence
Edward Maser
Museum of Art
Maser
Switzerland
Zurich
Burgundy
Paris
Child Burns Listed In Good Condition At Hospital
Janice Musick two-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs Merritt Musick of Eudora is listed in good condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. She was treated for burns after falling into a tub of hot water her mother was preparing for family wash.
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Janice Musick
Merritt Musick
Eudora
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Vagrants Address Linked to Kansas City Larceny
The Journal World reports Luther A. Byford jailed for vagrancy Monday, with police listing 129 Vermont Street as his address, though he is not a resident there.
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The
Journal-World
Luther A. Byford
Vt. St
Vagrant Sentenced in County Court for Vagran cy
Jesse G Crabb aged 30 was sentenced to 30 days in jail in County Court after pleading guilty to vagrancy The defendant listed as 71312 MA Mass Sr appeared in the county court on Tuesday for sentencing following the guilty plea in a vagrancy case
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Jesse G. Crabb
Mass. Sr
Court disputes over governor and state officials
The governor seeks to oust Trusler and Gilmore amid charges of political coercion of state employees and improper duties. Hearings were set for Aug 29 on Hiatt's dismissal as state purchasing director. The court dispute questions governor discretion versus due process and legal bounds, with both sides signaling appeals toward the Kansas Supreme Court.
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Trusler
Gilmore
Trusier
Eugene Hiatt
Hall
Hiatt
Charles Fisher Jr
Kansas
Javy Scovel
Ball
District Court
Kansas Supreme Court
High Court
Irish Gang Still Active Threats Warn Britain
Irish Nationalists waged a nerve war as authorities comb Britain for terrorists who raided an army depot last week. Anonymous phone calls warned of more raids on camps nationwide. Detectives and army agents rushed to each target, but all calls and rumors proved false.
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London
Britain
FBI Nab Suspect After Eight-Year Manhunt
FBI agents and Pennsylvania state police arrested 42-year-old Charles Falzone ending an eight year pursuit. He was captured in New Bedford Pennsylvania where he had been living since September under the alias James Laelle.
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Washington
FBI
Pennsylvania
Charles Falzone
Tonawanda
N.Y
Falzone
New Bedford
James Laelle
Nebraska Prisoners Stop Revolt After Armed Men Arrive
Lincoln prison riot ends as armed troopers and National Guardsmen move in with orders to shoot if needed. About 225 inmates back in cells after six shops burned and furniture damaged overnight. three convicts hurt. Governor says unarmed guards left yards caused misinformation and riot began over two segregation cases. No guards injured.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska State Penitentiary
Victor Anderson
Joseph Bovey
Gov. Anderson
Bovey
Nebraska
Community 4-H Fair Booths Highlight Team Effort
Palmyra displays a revolving platform on the Head Heart Hands and Health theme. Jayhawk presents Which Barn is Yours with barn models. 4-Leaf Clover spotlights Have You Improved Your Farm with farm improvement themes. Glenn Springs Club shows tractor safety. Clyde Husted runs the refreshment stand with 4-H and FFA help. crowding at noon signals a likely countywide big turnout.
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Palmyra
Jayhawk's
Glenn Springs
Fairgrounds
Clyde Husted
4-H
County fair entries flood in for judging contests
Hundreds of contestants advance in foods, clothing, and crops at the fair. Judges include Helen Hendrix Barnes and Jerome Seck for foods and crops, with clothing judges Helen Ramsour Cubit and Raymond Wagner. Entries list shows 482 clothing, 422 foods, 118 crops and gardens, plus numerous divisions such as dairy cattle beef cattle swine sheep poultry home improvement and more.
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Gardens
Helen Hendrix Barnes
Mounds City
Jerome Seck
Gardner
Willis Colman
Route 1
Helen Ramsour Cubit
Garnett
Raymond Wagner
Richmond
Kansas Traffic Deaths Summary 1955 1954
Kansas traffic fatalities reported by the State Accident Records Section show 330 deaths to date in 1955 and 339 in the same period in 1954, with zero new fatalities in the last 24 hours in Topeka. The figures reflect statewide traffic deaths through the current reporting period.
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Topeka
Kansas
Chuck Mather
Missouri
Don Faurot
Herb Cormack
Kansas State
Kansas City Press Club
Oklahoma
Colorado
Sooners
Mather
K. U
Lormack
Wildcats
Faurot
Michigan
Utah
Stritch Urges Madonna Ideal for Women Restoration
Cardinal Stritch of Chicago urged restoring the Madonna concept of womankind at the National Catholic Women's convention in Rochester New York. He condemned sex obsessed culture and urged an end to suggestive advertising and obscene publications harming homes and youth.
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Stritch
Rochester
N. Y
Samuel Cardinal Strich
Chicago
Madonna
Cardinal Stritch
Mother of God
Lawrence Drivers face license renewal crunch at courthouse
Lawrence motorists face a looming deadline as the license renewal office at the courthouse may close within a week due to low applications. George Allen, in charge of license sales, estimates 5 000 to 6 000 Douglas County residents still need to apply before August 31 to avoid arrest and mandatory exams for those with prior licenses.
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11Th
Mass. Sts
George Allen
Allen
Douglas County
Two City Fire Calls in Lawrence Leaves No Damage
Lawrence firemen were sent to the 1000 block of Vermont Street at 1 15 p m today to extinguish a blaze on a pile of leaves along the gutter with no damage reported. They also responded Tuesday afternoon to wash down gasoline leaked from a car in the city parking lot at 7th and Vermont Streets.
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New Hampshire Street
Patee Theater
Lawrence
Vermont Street
7Th and
Vt. Sts
Police Court Fine for Drunkenness in Ottawa
Robert Eugene Shadie of Ottawa was fined $15 Tuesday in police court after being charged with drunkenness.
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Robert Eugene Shadie
Ottawa
Market News Averages Mixed Across Commodities
Market at a glance shows stocks lower and erratic moves while bonds hold steady. Cotton and wheat weaken amid liquidation. corn and oats ease with corn stronger in spots. Hog and cattle futures mixed with hogs steady to 25 cents higher, cattle steady to 50 cents up, and livestock markets at Kansas City and Nebraska fed bids noting specific price ranges for steers heifers cows bulls and vealers with varying demand.
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Kansas City
USDA
Nebraska
Wheat futures and grain prices in Kansas City market
The Kansas City market lists wheat futures with Sep Dec Mar May and spot prices across grades. Corn oats millet and soybeans show varying bids, with bran shorts and a detailed breakdown of egg butter poultry and other produce prices and weights in the regional produce report.
Local Market Prices Briefing
Local markets show Wheat at 1.90, Kaffir 2.30, Corn 1.42, Barley 0.90, Oats 0.53, Milk mile 2.20. Poultry prices list Hens under 43 lbs at 8, over 414 Ibs at 13, Cocks 6. Eggs graded A large 36, B and A medium 29, C 17, current receipts 24. Butterfat 0.46 and 0.49. Hogs at 16.50.
Copper prices spike as Anaconda raises copper to forty cents
Wall Street reports a lower market with copper shares fluctuating around small gains after Anaconda Co. raised the price of copper to 40 cents from 36 cents. Trading volume was about 1.5 million shares, slightly below yesterday’s 1.52 million. Copper remains in tight supply amid higher world prices and recent strength in anticipation of price increases.
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Wall Street
New York
Anaconda Co
Two More White Men Face Charge in Negro Death
In Brookhaven Mississippi two more white men are charged with murder in the courthouse slaying of a Black man who allegedly urged others to cast absentee ballots in the gubernatorial race. Coroner's jury met four hours and charged Mack Smith and Charles Falvey with the shotgun death of Lamar Smith on the courthouse lawn last Saturday. Noah Smith had already surrendered and been charged. Ages not provided.
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Brookhaven
Miss
Mississippi
Mack Smith
Charles Falvey
Lamar Smith
Noah Smith
India Police Official Kills Family and Self
A police inspector in Uttar Pradesh shot and killed his eight children and himself after a family quarrel. The incident began when he tortured his wife over alleged infidelity. The eldest daughter, 15, tried to intervene, and the inspector then killed her and four other children before turning the gun on himself, ending the massacre.
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New ‘Delhi
India
Uttar Pradesh
Wreck Victims Reported Well After Indiana School Crash
The condition of a Monday afternoon wreck victim near Indiana School improved to good at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Marcellus Herman of Olathe is in stable condition. Leroy Fish of Kansas City, passenger in the Herman car, and Stanley H. Beecroft of are listed as fairly good.
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India School
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Marcellus Herman
Olathe
Leroy Fish
Kansas City
Herman
Stanley H. Beecroft
DeSoto Driver Loses Arm After Collision With Truck
A DeSoto driver who lost his left arm in a crash with a truck before striking the Herman vehicle is reported in a brief traffic incident. The report notes the collision involved a car and a truck and resulted in severe injuries.
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DeSoto
Herman
Farm Owner and Tenant Sue Over Underground Water Rights
Mrs. Marguerite Marie Jacobson and her tenant J. H. Baumann filed a suit against Robert V. Smrha chief engineer of the State Board of Agriculture division of water resources. They seek to block future orders allowing Wichita to take water from equal beds and to overturn prior orders. They also ask that the state's water appropriation law be declared unconstitutional under the due process clause of the Constitution.
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Topekap
Harvey County
McPherson
Harvey
Sedgwick
Robert V. Smrha
State Board of Agriculture
Division of Water Resources
Marguerite Marie Jacobson
J. H. Baumann
City of
Wichita
Med Students Receive $2,000 in Kansas University Scholarship Awards
Four KU School of Medicine students share a 1955 56 scholarship fund totaling 2000 from Dr. C E Boudreau El Dorado bequest. Kenneth Wiebe Whitewater Hugh Cox Augusta freshmen Jack Scott El Dorado sophomore James Barber El Dorado junior. Awards funded annually to Butler County medical students, named by the Endowment Association from staff nominations at Susan B Alien Memorial Hospital El Dorado.
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Kansas University School of Medicine
C. E. Boudreau
ElDorado
Kenneth Wiebe
Whitewater
Hugh Cox
Augusta
Jack Scott
el Dorado
James Barber
Butler County
Susan B. Alien Memorial Hospital
Local Women on Show in Lawrence TV interview
Three Lawrence women Mrs Margaret Starkey Mrs Shirley Harris and Mrs Delores White will appear on an interview program at 5 45 p m Thursday on WLBW TV The trio are members of the Jaycee Janes Lawrence Chamber of Commerce auxiliary The program features Jaycee or Jaycee Jane members once a month as a local promotion for Lawrence.
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Lawrence
Margaret Starkey
Shirley Harris
Delores White
Wlbw-Tv
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Memorial Hospital Births and Residents Listed
At Memorial Hospital Mrs. Margaret Johnson and several residents are listed with addresses in Lincoln Street R1 Willis Young Sunflower Eudora DeSoto Tonganoxie Ozawkie and others. The report notes a son born today to Mr and Mrs Robert Georgeson and a daughter born today to Mr and Mrs Arnold Van Meter.
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Margaret Johnson
Lincoln St
John Agnew
Willis ‘Young
Maudie Couch
Eudora
Fleanor Boegner
E. 17Th St
Robert Georgeson
Ky. St
Arnold van Meter
Ozawkie
In Memoriam for Lee Yoder One Year Later
In loving memory of husband and father Lee Yoder who passed away one year ago today. Mrs. Lee Yoder and children honor his memory with heartfelt tribute and remembrance notes.
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Lee Yoder
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Leavenworth Fair
George RK. Breithaupt
E. G. Steele
Droodles
Roger Price
Red Cell
Sage
Musick Child
K.U
Massachusetts Street
City
East Nineteenth Street
Emil Heck
Heck
K. C. Livestock
N. Y. Brocka
K. C. Cash Grain
K. C
Allis
Atchison
Bald Lima
Beech Aire
Beth Steel
Boeing Air
Chrysler
du Pont
Gen Motors
Goodyear
Gulf Oi
Kan P&l
Lion Oil Lone
Martin
Plough
Proct & G
RCA
Ihm Bee
AGN
di Reyn Metti
US Steel
Westy el
Woolworth
India Police
Memorial Hospital
Edith Bleakly
Route 3
Thomas McNulty
Frances Lucy
Memoriam
Paul K. Kincaid
Mark Amott
Mass
Ward & Barker
Douglas County State Bank
the Bank of Friendly Service
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