Eisenhower Pushes UN Disarmament Path to Russians
President Eisenhower told the Soviet Union the United States will pursue further disarmament moves at the United Nations while rejecting five power talks for now. He welcomed Bulgaria’s apparent willingness to consider limited aerial inspections and urged addressing disarmament and Hungary through the UN.
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Washington
Eigenhower
United States
United Nations
White House
Eisenhower
Nikola Bulganin
Bulganin
Russia
Britain
France
India
Moscow
Bulgaria
Hungary
Police Find a Clue In K C Bomb Case
Kansas City police identify a fake bomb device found on a trolley bus as a barometer used in high altitude weather balloons. Maj. Eugene Pond says the finding could trace the device to its source and urges sightings reports. He notes violators face fines up to 1000 dollars and one year in jail.
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Kansas City
Eugene Pond
Mass Invitation Sent For Demo Inauguration In Topeka
Douglas County Democratic Central Committee chair Frank McDonald invites all state residents to George Docking’s inauguration in Topeka on January 14. Events at Municipal Auditorium begin noon with a 7 pm public reception and 9 pm inaugural ball tickets $8 from McDonald. Headquarters will be at Hotel Jayhawk.
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Douglas
Central Committee
Frank McDonald
George Docking
Topeka
Docking
Kansas
MacDonald
Municipal
McDon
Jayhawk
McDonald
Two India Quints Die In Landmark Births
MADRAS India two of India's first quintuplets are dead with little hope for a third girl. Hospital authorities say the remaining two babies are in normal health. The five girls were born New Year's Eve to 23 year old Kamalam a servant woman at Pendughery near Marag.
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Madras
India
Kamalam
Pendighery
Marag
West Germany drafts new note on Soviet talks
Bonn sources report West Germany seeks no direct negotiations with the Soviets while Chancellor Konrad and aides study several proposals. The plan envisions a demilitarized core in Europe and a European security system based on commitments to refrain from force.
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Bonn
Germany
West Germany
Konrad
Europe
Traffic Toll in USS Faced With Tough State Crackdowns
A 1956 traffic toll estimated at about 40 000 deaths prompts calls for stricter enforcement nationwide. States test patrol boosts, harsher fines, stricter licenses and inspections, radar speed checks, and mandatory driver education amid planned crackdowns and National Guard support during peak travel periods.
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USS
Associated Press
Ouf National Guard
Kansas
General tax cut is unlikely in new Congress
Washington report says no general income tax reduction is expected as Congress opens its session. Some relief for select taxpayers may be considered, while bipartisan support grows for business excise tax revisions and aid to small businesses. The 1959 budget proposal to be sent by President Eisenhower could fix federal spending around 72 billion dollars for the next fiscal year.
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Washington i
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Capitol Hill
Eisenhower
Bullet Hits Parked Car Near Lawrence Accidentally Fired
Kansas Highway Patrol says a bullet struck a Manhattan family’s car at a road block near Lawrence and was fired accidentally. Trooper Carl Gray Jr. reports a man cleaning a .44 revolver caused the discharge. no injuries or arrests.
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Kansas Highway Patrol
The
Journal World
Lawrence
Carl Gray Jr
Manhattan
Gray
Billy Hodson
KU Students Return After Holiday Break Amid Finals Rush
Lawrence Kansas University resumes with 8,864 students back on campus at 8 am following a lengthy Christmas recess. Final week runs January 17 to 24, spring enrollment starts January 28, and second semester begins January 31. Foreign students must report addresses by January 31 to immigration authorities.
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Kansas University
United States
Immigration and Nat
Don Alderson
K.U
Teacher Fired By Hazel Park Board Over Fitness
In Hazel Park Michigan a teacher named Manyela Hine 51 was fired by the Hazel Park School Board after 17 months of full pay for signing in daily at the superintendent's office. She had not been given a classroom assignment since September 1955 and plans to contest the dismissal before the State Tenure Commission.
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Detroit
Hazel Park
Manyela Hine
Mera
State Tenure Commission
Man Flees Flint Pinochle Club After Bluff Robbery
Police seek a man who joined a poker game at the Flint Pinochle Club and won a pot by bluff. He walked in announced a robbery, took $60 at the cash register, and left as club employee John Morgan and others watched in shock.
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Flint
John Morgan
Morgan
Polie
Helicopters Save Eight From Mt Blanc Slopes
Rescue pilots plucked eight marooned alpinists from Mt Blanc slopes after a 12 day ordeal but abandoned hope for two others, Jean Vincendon and Francois Henry, believed dead. The operation began at dawn with improving weather, delivering the eight to safety within three hours.
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Mt. Blanc
Chamonix
France
Europe
Jean Vincendon
Francois Henry
Lawrence area building activity shows private work down in 1956
The report notes private construction in Lawrence totaling about four million dollars in 1956 a roughly ten percent drop from the prior two years. Public works included the Lawrence Memorial Hospital expansion a portable school classroom and a new post office annex with December permits listing new houses commercial dwellings and sign and remodeling projects across the city.
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Kansas University
Lawreace
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Alien Mohter
Fearnard Aye
Nell Harris
Weigth Terr
Schaake Brothers
W. 2Uth
Sun
Moore Aranciatork
Harper St
James Midgett
MH. 1Th St. $9, Wi; L. L. Brown
19Th
Don McConnell
Socony Mobl Ot Co
Cy A. Hemphill
Tid Mans St
Edmonds Construction Co
Erary
6Th St
Capital Federal Savings and Loan Co
All Organization
Projets
Otmarend
New Salvation Army Huilding
16Th
N. H. Sen
Carl Noble
Great Heights Baptist Church
Gpitioesthy Street
Haskell Ave
Stunsinner
N. J. Sty
Young
J. A .Turkle
Me St
Walter Lemon
Owens Lane
Constant Construction Co
Willside City
Richard Pank
Raging
7Th Vi. Se
Cayton Prust
Pard St
Arthur Rinelert
Amare Ak
Garfield St
Erking
Wallace I
Plersom
Appeals Court Rules for Congress on Witness Authority
A U S appeals court upheld Congress power to compel testimony. The ruling affirms the contempt finding against Lloyd Ravenblatt, a former instructor at Wa College, who received a sixteenth year sentence and a $240 fine in district court.
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Washington
Lta
L Agsnepatina
Chet
Mas
AMS
Hig
Betes
Assueti
Conyitan
Raventlath
Wa College
Ravenblatt
McCuish Names Hall to Succeed Governor in Kansas
The article details Kansas politics as McCuish would name Hall to fill the unexpired term of Governor Hall after talk of a federal appointment. It notes Hall would seek no further honors and would face re election in 1958 if he stayed on the court. Wunsch questions the need to leave the Senate presidency.
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Ing
Joseph Henkle
McCuish McCuish
Sue Tax Commission
Kansas
Newton
Paul Wunsch
R-Kingman
Prolem
Senate
Parker
Thiele
Jay 3
Alfred Schroeder
Hall
Eisenhower
GOP
Harry. Darby
Darby
McCuish
F. ~. Hagaman
Frank Carlson
U.S. Senate
Nehemiah Green
Manhattan
Samuel J. Crawford
Wunsch
McCulsh
Birth Announcement and Dismissals From Memorial Hospital
A list shows births at Memorial Hospital for Mr. and Mrs. Thane Robinson on 2019 Vt. St. a daughter born today. Several individuals are dismissed or listed with addresses including Dorothy Zimmerli Lin wood Bessie Morris Tim Curry Eunice Robinson Huey Galloway Kathryn Griffith Rita Bates J E Croy Frances Andrews John Bumgardner William Lane Ton ganoxie Delaine Filkins Vera Brubaker and others from multiple streets and towns.
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Dorothy Zimmerli
Linwood
Bessie Morris
Sunflower
Tim .E. Curry
Tonganoxie
Francis Skinner
Judera
Eunice Robinson
Huey Galloway
Ut. St
Kathryn Griffith
Route 2
Rita’ Marie Bates
Lecompton
J. E. Croy
Ill
Frances Andrews
Vt. St
John E. Bumgardner
Moundview Dr
William Gary Lane
Tim E. Curry
Delaine Filkins
Vera Brubaker
Tenn. St
Thane Robinson
KU Professor Named President of Math Association
Kansas University’s Dr G Baley Price, head of the Mathematics Department, is elected president of the Mathematical Association of America for a two year term. Bandleader Jimmy Dorsey remains in hospital for a lung operation to remove a wart on his left lung and is expected to stay about 30 days.
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G. Baley Price
Kansas University
Mathematical’ Association of America
New York
Price
Jimmy Dorsey
Tino Barzi
Dorsey
Barr
Wen
Florida
Firemen Strike Idles Large Portion of Canadian Rail
A nationwide strike by firemen halted nearly half of Canada’s rail network from coast to coast. Prospects for settlement were dim as Canada’s plan to remove firemen from some diesel engines faced strong opposition.
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Montreal
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canada
Atlantic
Pacific
Five Die in Fire Destroys a Rural Home
A rural home was destroyed by fire resulting in five fatalities. Authorities调查 indicate a rapid blaze with investigators pursuing causes while neighboring residents aided in evacuations. Firefighters battled the flames for hours before declaring the scene under control.
GOP to Back Corn Price Floor Plan
The Republican party signals support for a corn price floor as Agriculture Chairman Benson and fellow lawmakers discuss a new farm program. They argue the 1948 act is outdated and too rigid, urging a system to stabilize production supplies and prices while addressing voluntary acreage cutbacks and farm realities.
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Benson
Bingah
Senate
Louse Ayericwlture
Ike Responds to Soviet Disarmament Proposals
President Eisenhower delivered the U S reply to Soviet disarmament proposals to the Soviet Foreign Office via the Moscow embassy. The British and French embassies gave similar replies and all called for future talks in the United Nations. Prime Minister Eden and French Premier Mollet joined the U S in rejecting a five nation disarmament conference and urged UN talks.
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Moscow
Eisenhower
U.S
United Nations
London
Eden
Guy Mollet
United States
Poles Name Brain Trust To Aid Economic Planning
Warsaw reports a streamlined 25 member brain trust to assist chief economist Stefan Jedrychowski in steering Poland through the crisis. Planned members include Oskar Lange from the University of Chicago and Cyzeslaw Robrowski, an economist who returned from exile in France.
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Warsaw
Stefan Jedrychowski
Oskar Lange
University of Chicago
Cyzeslaw Robrowski
Poland
France
Obituary notices for Guilin Guinn McMullen and Willis families
Funeral services are planned for Virginia Frances Guinn of Oska loosa at 2 p.m. Friday at McLouth Baptist Church with burial in McLouth Cemetery. She died December 29 in Palo Alto while visiting relatives. Survived by eight daughters and four sons, plus extended family. Patrick Kevin McMullen, two months old, died at home. services Sunday at St Johns Catholic Church with Mt Calvary Cemetery burial. Belle Willis of Ottawa, former Lawrence resident, died today at Ransom Memorial Hospital. survived by daughter Leonie, son O G Willis, and one grandchild. Burial at Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Virginia Frances Guilin
Virginia Frances Guinn
Oskaloosa
McLouth Baptist Church
Palo Alto
Calif
Guinn
James W. Guinn
Bill Means
McLouth Cemetery
4Th of Dunkard
Hampton Funeral Home
Lois Koons
St. Joseph
Jimmie’ Merroist
Troy
Wailie McDowell
Gertrude Oxford
Myrtle” Laster
Naomi Kingsley
Ruth Hovey
Mountain View
Kathryn Watts
Sunnyvale
Jess Guinn
Clarence Guinn
Patrick Kevin McMullen
Robert’ McMullen
Cann, St
George Towle
St. John's Catholic Church
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Thild
F. R. McMulfen
Kansas City, Mo
J. T. Fitzgerald
Chicago
Belle Willis
Ottawa
Lawrence
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Quincy
Shehart
Ind
St. Here
Stnl
Rumsey
Memorial Park Cemetery
Leone
Willis
O. G. Willis
Waynesboro
New Faces On Best-Dressed Women's List
A 1950s era feature lists the top ten fashion figures and celebrities praised by designers and editors for style. Notable names include Mrs William Paley, the duchess of Windsor, Princess Grace of Monaco, Audrey Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Rosalind Russell, and Princess Margaret among others, reflecting postwar Hollywood glamour.
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York
Hollywood
New York
Tarese Pistighe
Anmyat
Shohis Seein Betuse
Bsa Tne
Arce Mote
Ike
Alps
Teor Tnt Hobby
Breland
Duchess of Kent
Countess Crespi
Rome
Confucia Q'Conpor
Alvs
Winston Guest
Lucy Cochrase
Boston
Hallewood
Selena
Seleopen
Princess Grace
Monica
Grace Kelly
Audrey Slepburn
Saih
Tere
Thopaichiaw Durhosas
Windsor
Margaret
William Paley
the Duchess of Windsor
Princess Grace of Monaco
Audrey Hepburn
Marlene Dietrich
William Randolph Hearst
Consurla Crespi
Rosalind Russell
the Duchess of Kent
Princess Margaret
Countess of
Market News and Kansas City Prices Mixed in Quick Trading
Traders watched a broad mix of commodities with wheat and corn showing varied moves while oats strengthened. Kansas City quotes reflected firmer corn and steady to higher wheat as livestock prices edged higher for select classes. Wall Street rose on late day gains led by crude oil and major producers with active volumes around two million shares.
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K. C. Cash Grain
Kansas City
USDAI
Matthey Son
Wall Street
New York
Humble Oil
Standard Oil
New Jersey
Lid Texas Co
Royal Dutch
Sinclair
Ailf
Amerada
America ends historic Hungarian refugee airlift at McGuire
The final flight of Operation Safe Haven landed at McGuire Air Force Base at 8:10 am with 45 refugees aboard. The last passenger named Peter was the final signer on the refugee manifest as the operation concluded amid a sparse welcome at a cold windblown airfield.
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McGuire Air
America
Air Force
Nonine
Peter
White House
Army
Military Air Transport Service
First State Road Death Of 1957 Reported Today
The first highway fatality of 1957 was reported in Kansas today as road deaths begin the year. A man identified as Robert Barney of Salina was badly injured in a crash on U S 40 about five miles west of Abilene. The State Accident Records Section noted 1996 figures for comparison and referenced prior year totals. A divorce suit was filed in district court by Alice Marie Rogers against Cecil Rogers.
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Topeka
Kansas
Robert Barney
Salina
U. S. 40
Abilene
Gary Gillispie
Grainfield
Kas
Gillispie
Alice Marie Rogers
Cecil Rogers
Three City Fire Crews Respond to Minor Blazes
The Fire Department made three calls Wednesday to minor fires at the Melvin Martin residence 2324 Ohio St where trash burned, the Lee Cobb residence 1712 Ohio St where a motor on the furnace overheated with damage limited to the motor, and the Emil Harp residence 329 Ind St where an overheated oven caused no damage.
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Melivin Martin
Ohio St
Lee Cobb
Emil Harp
Ind
Drunk Driver Dennie EF DeMoranville Sentenced
Dennie EF DeMoranville of De Soto was sentenced in District Court to 30 days in jail and fined $100 plus costs for driving while under the influence of liquor.
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Dennie EF
DeMoranville
DeSoto
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