Man Shot Recently In Mexico May Be A Resident of Salina
A Monterrey murder case may involve Cary A. Weis of Salina Kansas. The unidentified, shoeless body bears the numbers 58 34 20 and 37 28, with a possible surname Wels stamping. Investigators seek fingerprint and photo matches, while a motive of robbery is suspected.
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Mexico
Salina
Monterrey
Mex
U. S
Tate
Cary A. Weis
Kas
Theodore Hohenthal
Wels
Edinburg
Tex
Billie Joy Day
el Porvenir
FBI
Washington, D.C
Texas
Weis
Unii
Boy Who Saved Train Has Bike 100 Bond
Kenneth Thorne of Sutton North Dakota, age ten, alerted a brakeman about a broken rail on an eastbound mail train, preventing a potential wreck. He received a new bicycle and a $100 savings bond from the Great Northern Railway President, with a note praising his quick action.
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Sutton
N.D. W
Kenneth Thorne
Thin Prairie
Kenneth
Great Northern Railway
John M. Budd
Kansas Univ Student Hurt In Highway 96 Crash
Donald Pat Smith 21 a Kansas University junior in engineering and architecture was critically injured Thursday when his car overturned on Highway 96 south of Eureka. Passenger Scott Marlin 15 and John Willis 15 of Eureka were also in the car. Willis ran a mile to seek help after sustaining a broken arm and cuts.
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Donald Pat Smith
School of Engineering and Architecture
Kansas University
Eureka
Smith
Scott Marlin
John Willis
Willis
Wreck damages estimated after collision near Lawrence
A Thursday evening collision about nine miles west of Lawrence caused about 200 in damage. Drivers were William M. Wheeler Jr. 20, Forbes AFB, and August Hildenbrand 22, Lecompton. No injuries were reported according to the Highway Patrol.
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Lawrence
William M. Wheeler Jr
Forbes Afb
August Hildenbrand
Lecompton
Highway Patrol
Christmas Ego and a 364 Day Holiday Idea
The writer jokes about people pretending to be kind on Christmas but argues true nature shows on 364 other days. They suggest a year round holiday named Christpees or a July 18th holiday to allow selfishness and aggression to surface openly.
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Eid
Local Wife Joins Chorale on Overseas Tour
Mrs. Krehbiel, wife of a University of Kansas music professor, joins the Chorale on an overseas tour after only recent approval. She plans to leave soon with Shaw directing, while her husband stays to handle duties at school and care for their three daughters. Other KU connections and alumni may join, as the tour marks the ensemble's final voyage for at least two years.
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Clayton H. Krehbiel
Robert Shaw Chorale
Lawrence
Krehbiel
Maurice Casey
Bethesda
Robert Tebow
Marysville
K.U
Cleveland Symphony
George Szell
Hospital Discharges and Births Highlight Local Obituaries
Memorial Hospital reports multiple discharges including Mrs Ella Schneck and Mrs Ethel Johnson. Several births noted with parents in Sunflower Eudora Richland and nearby towns. Names include Phoebe Sullivan Frieda Reddell Nora Nash and Kraus family among others. Thursday entries mark new arrivals and family announcements.
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Ella M. Schneck
Haskell Ave
G. Lloyd Webster
Lathrop B. Read Sr
Tenn
Juanita Gilmore
Peach Orchard
Ark
Claude’ W. Lewis
Linwood
Phoebe Sullivan
Joycelyn Berry
Miss. St
Marjorie Bates
Tenn, St
Sam Wiley
Mass
Ethel Johnson
Marcine Shockley
Eudora
Shirley Pontius
Frieda Culbertson
Lucille Kinslow
Conn
Elza Holmes
Ala
Jesse Haney
Arlene Kraus
Land
Tonganoxie
Topeka Couple Receives Marriage License
A marriage license was issued Thursday from Probate Court to Clarence McNeal Jr. 27 and Rosie Lee Cox 36 both of Topeka.
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Clarence McNeal Jr
Rosie Lee Cox
Topeka
Mild Weather Keeps Kansas Warm Through Saturday
Unusually warm winter weather continues in Kansas with highs near 78 degrees at Garden City and widespread 60s to 70s across the state. Forecaster Bland says skies stay partly cloudy into Saturday, with Christmas Day mainly dry and temperatures slightly above normal into next week despite a chance of light snow on the northern border.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Garden City
Chanute
Cathe
Concordia
Wichita
University Christmas Vacation Affects Lawrence Campus
Lawrence campus activities pause tonight as about 750 administrative staff begin a three day holiday. 8000 students and 700 faculty members also start a Christmas break, with offices reopening Tuesday morning. Immanuel Lutheran Church schedules two Christmas programs for children with songs and candy gifts.
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Kansas University
Wall Street Quiet As Market Edges Higher Before Christmas
The stock market in New York rose slightly on the eve of a three day Christmas recess. Trading ranged about two points with most changes in small fractions. Activity was subdued at roughly 2,000,000 shares. Higher leaders included steels, rails, rubbers, radio televisions, building materials, and several miscellaneous issues. declines appeared in aircrafts, chemicals, and oils.
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Wall Stret
New York U
Carriers Guests At Holiday Fete
About 70 of 80 Journal-World carrier boys attended a turkey dinner at the Hotel Eldridge Big Six Room, the first annual carriers party. No speeches, just food and fellowship, followed by a movie. Lawrence carriers listed include Jim Coates and many others. out-of-town carriers from Linwood, DeSoto, Baldwin, Eudora, Sunflower, Perry, Tonganoxie, and Williamstown also attended.
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Journal-World Carrier
Journal-World Carriers
Eldridge
Big Six
Lawrence Carriers
Jim Coates
Larry Dolifka
Doyle Willams
Vern Smith
Jimmy Large
Ronnie Barrett
Bill
Douglas Hunsinger
Oakley Schweda
Glenn LaRue
LeRoy Howard
Ronnie Hodges
Larry Brickner
John D. Walker
Ronald Norris
Bob Raffety
Margaret LaRue
Rodney Patch
Glenn Rothwell
Douglas Hargadine
Jim Schreader
Stanley Feist
Larry Heeb
Ed Alexander
J. D. Reid
Bill Snyder
John Standing
Robert Scott Winter
Sammy Garland
William Cottle
Cliff
Perry
Lynn Johnson
Tonganoxie
Richard Annis
Williamstown
Reverend Parker speaks on Christmas at Kiwanis Yale Session
Rev Albert Parker gave a Christmas talk at the Kiwanis Club meeting held Thursday at the Eldridge Hotel. Guests included Miss Dorothy Wilson and Mrs Frances Riggs, art instructors, and students Marie Wagner and Lois Van Liew, the latter a Kiwanis scholar.
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Albert Parker
Kiwanis Club
Eldridge Hotel
Dorothy Wilson
Frances Riggs
Marie Wagner
Lois van Liew
Parker
China
Christ
Former Arizona Governor to Speak for Kansas Day
Former Arizona Governor How ard Pyle, now deputy to President Eisenhower, will address the Kansas Day Republican rally in Topeka at the dinner Jan 28. The Kansas Day Club event follows the Kansas County Attorneys Assn meeting Jan 27 with Rush C. Clarke of North Platte Nebraska set to speak.
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Topeka
Howard Pyle
Arizona
Eisenhower
Pyle
Kansas Day Club
Kansas County Attorneys Assn
Rush C. Clarke
North Platte
Neb
Nebraska
Keel Rejects Publicity for Kids in Magazines
Howard Keel, the midwest born actor, says he opposes publicity involving his children and won't change his policy for magazines. He notes his kids Katje Kirstine and Gun ar have never been photographed for publicity. He reflects on his rise from a coal miner's son to a Barnum era performer and recalls staying calm when a drunken patron sang along with Old Man River.
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New York
Howard Keel
Midwest
Keel
Hollywood Broadway
Kee
Kismet
Copacabana
Slugger
Hilllespie
Katje
Kirstine
Gunnar
Paratrooper Survives Long Trek to Warm Inn
A sergeant frostbitten and exhausted after three days walking through rain reaches an inn 324 miles from his cabin. Rescued by a passerby and treated for frostbite, he plans to rejoin his unit at Madigan General Hospital near Ft. Lewis. His wife and three children await news.
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Army
Madigan General Hospital
Ft. Lewis
Seattle
Repairs on art objects at Spooner Hall museum
Repairs valued at 10000 continued from pages for art objects mainly cleaning. No valuable pieces were destroyed. Spooner Hall, built in 1894 from a Spooner bequest, housed KU library for 30 years, later became a museum with art history classrooms.
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Spooner
K. U
William B. Spooner
Boston
Mass
Francis H. Snow
K. U. Library
Watson
Ex-Pow Says They Aren't Red Just Sympathetic
Ex-prisoners and seven former UN POWs in Peiping discuss why they stayed in Red China. They deny being Communist but say they sympathize with its philosophy and cite racial oppression in the United States, hoping to return home when conditions ripen.
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China
Lois Mitchison Peiping
United Nations
Red China
John R. Dunn
Baltimore
Andrew Fortune
Sonia
Mich
Scott L. Rush
Marietta
Ohio
Samuel D. Hawkins
Oklahoma City
Clarence C. Adams
Memphis
Tenn
Lawrence V. Sullivan
Omaha
Neb
Andrew Condron
Bathgate
Scotland
Adams
Sullivan
America
Rush
Condron
Hawking
Korea
Hawskins
Sen
Joseph R.) McCarthy
R-Wis
un-American Committee
U.S
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
House Committee On Un-American Activities
Americas
Dunn
South
Communist Party
Woman Repeats Exchange Into Tree Choice
In Little Rock a Christmas tree sales event demonstrates a woman's right to change her mind. She returned a tree and, after examining other options, ended up selecting the very tree she had originally bought.
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Little Rock
Ark
Yuletide
Kentucky Outlaw Faints Before Execution in Chair
Chester Merrifield, a Louisville man once crippled, fainted in the electric chair and was electrocuted despite loss of consciousness. He murdered Officer Alvin Keown in a 1953 nightclub parking lot gunfight, and aged 37, died in the Kentucky state prison while strapped to the chair.
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Kentucky
Endyville
Chester Merrifield
Alvin Keown
Louisville
Second Arrest for Minor Beverage Sale in Lawrence
Lawrence police report a second arrest in three days over alleged illegal alcohol sales to a minor. Erminia Garcia, operator of La Tropicana Club at 434 Locust St, charged with permitting beer sale to a minor and permitting gambling on a pinball machine. Leon Garcia charged with beer sale and permitting gambling. Both held for $100 bond each, trial set for 8 a.m. Tuesday in police court. A KU freshman testified Garcia served beer without checking age and witnessed a $2 pinball payoff. Pinball legally allowed only for play, no winnings. Earlier this week John Taylor of Locust St charged with selling liquor to a minor. trial set Jan. 4.
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Lawrence
Erminia Garcia
la Tropicana Club
Locust St
Leon Garcia
Kansas University
Garcia
Kansas
John Taylor
Ex City Resident Named Vice President of Insurance Firms
Russell H. Petefish, former Lawrence resident and son of Mrs. L. H. Petefish, was elected vice president of the Insurance Company of North America and the Philadelphia Fire and Marine Insurance Co. A KU alumnus active in the Philadelphia KU Alumni group, he joined North America in 1937 as an engineer, became branch office manager in 1941, assistant secretary in 1948, fire secretary in 1950, and assistant vice president in 1952. His brother Olin K. Petefish is a Lawrence attorney.
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Russell H. Petefish
Lawrence
L. H. Petefish
14Th St
Insurance Company of North America
Philadelphia Fire and Marine Insurance Co
Lawrence High School
Kansas University
Petefish
K. U
Philadelphia
Olin K. Petefish
Russell Petefish
North America
Harrisburg Man Sentenced for Drunkenness
Howard Dean Patterson aged 23 of Harrisburg received a 30 day jail term and the revocation of a prior 15 day sentence in police court for drunkenness.
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Howard Dean Patterson
Harrisburg
Infant dies at birth in Lawrence Hospital
Lawrence memorial Hospital reports the death at birth of the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Tony Bermudez of 825 Garfield Sr Survived by parents and maternal and paternal grandparents Graveside services held at Mt Calvary Cemetery with Msgr George Towle in charge. Also listed are obituaries for Mrs Susan Frances Martin 79 and James C Firestone aged 88 with funeral details, survivors, and service times. Theodore Alt and Amanda Thornton obituaries noted with service plans and survivor lists.
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Garfield Sr
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Victor Rivera
Topeka
Felix Bermudez
N. J. St
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Msgr
George Towle
Susan Frances Martin
San Bernardino
Calif
Lloyd Bigsby
Haskell Ave
George Wofford
John Burris
Pomona
John Chezik
Waverly
Francis O. Martin
Aubrey W. Martin
Hammond
Ind
John Bell
del. St
Nevada
Clark
Conn
Rumsey Funeral Home
J. J. Krimmer
Oak Hill Cemetery
James C. Firestone
James Christian Firestone
Clarence Maichel
Overbrook
Jefferson County
Franklin County
Centropolis
Clarence Firestone
Ottawa
Earl Firestone
Idaho
Roy Firestone
Seattle
Wash
Cecil Firestone
Kansas City
Pearl Barnhart
May Pardon
Spokane
Malchel
Iva Davis
Belle Wadsworth
Beulah Smith
Lawrence
Appanoose Church
Theodore Alt
Fitzsimons Veterans Hospital
Denver
Memorial Park Cemetery
Lit Han Alt
Elizabeth Niebrugge
Huron
S.D
Anna Alt
Frieda Alt
Washington, D.C
Mary Mitchell
Dunedin
Fla
Edith Alt
Car Alt
Phoenix
Ariz
Market News Shows Varied Farm Prices and Weights
Kansas City market report lists wheat at minus 1.90 and corn at minus 1.20, with poultry weights and grades for hens, cocks, and eggs. Butterfat prices range around .55 to .58, while eggs and produce records feature several standards and receipts figures.
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Kansas City
F. C. B. Farmtoms
Beltsville
Minor Injury to Four In Wreck Near Linwood
Lawrence youth Charles Davenport, 14, and three unidentified passengers escaped serious injury when his car overturned on a rural road about ten miles northeast of Lawrence in Leavenworth county. Also involved were Charlotte Bryan, 21, of 630 North Fifth Street, and Cara driven by Davenport.
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Lawrence
Leavenworth County
Cara
Charles A. Davenport
Lyons St
Charlet Bryan
Car crash on hill injures four in Davenport area
Leavenworth Deputy Sheriff Don Brauer said two cars collided on a hill crest. Davenport’s car spun 210 feet overturned and was demolished on a bankment. All four occupants received cuts and abrasions but none seriously hurt. Damage to the Bryarrar was estimated at fifty dollars.
Kansas City Debt Totals Soar to 338 Million
The Governmental Research Center at Kansas University reports that total local government debt in Kansas is projected to reach 338 million dollars by the end of 1955. From 1945 to 1954 debt rose annually by 15 to 20 percent except 1946, and cities and school districts now hold the largest shares.
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Kansas
Governmental Research Center
Kansas University
In memory of Mom and Dad A R Oatman Dedication
Memorial notice from Betty Davis honoring Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Oatman not lost but gone before you live with me forever more sincere tribute from their daughter Betty Davis
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A. R. Oatman
Betty Davis
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