Snowstorm Grips Eastern States With Heavy Snowfalls
A winter storm swept the East bringing up to 8.14 inches of snow in parts of New York State. Adirondack regions bore the heaviest accumulation while Boonville and central Vermont saw several inches. Syracuse Utica Rome area reported 2 to 4 inches with others flurries. Cold air spread across the nation aside from the northeast and southwest corners.
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New York State
New York
Adirondack Mountains
Boonville
Vermont
Hudson Valley
Long Island
Syracuse
Utica
Rome
Buffalo
Rochester
Upper Plains
Ohio Valley
North Atlantic States
Mercury
Leadville
Colo
Trinidad
Bemidji
Minn
Lone Rock
Wis
U S Marine Kidnapped by Chinese Consulate Staff
State Department reports an American Marine guard at the U S consulate in Bombay was kidnapped and held for several hours by staff of the Chinese Communist consulate. Sgt. Robert Armstrong of Martinez, California, was released after Bombay police demanded his return. The would be defector Chang Chien-yuh, tied to the Chinese Import-Export Corp in Bombay, was also involved.
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Washington
State Department
U.S
Bombay
India
Robert ‘Armstrong
Martinez
Calif
China
Chang Chien-yuh
Chinese Import- Export Corp
National Council Condemns Teaching-Listing Legislation
In Kansas City the National Council for the Social Studies approved a resolution condemning laws in several states that require teachers to disclose the organizations they belong to.
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Kansas City
National Council For the Social Studies
Topeka Police Officer Emerson W Kusack Dies At 46
Emerson W Kusack of Topeka died Wednesday afternoon at his home at age 46. He had served as a mechanic for the Topeka Police Department for 18 years. Funeral services are set for 11 a.m. Saturday at Parker Mortuary with burial at Memorial Park Cemetery. Survivors include his wife Aldred Bohnsack, a son Wallace, a daughter Emmagean Romine, four sisters, two brothers, and two grandchildren.
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Emerson W. Kusack
Topeka
Eudora
Parker Mortuary
Memorial Park
Aldred Bohnsack
Wallace E. Bohnsack
Emmajean Romine
H. G. Daugherty
W. 22Nd St. Terr
Jerome Brown
Richard Hart
Keith Gleason
Opera
Marvin Pohnsack
Yuba City
Calif
Harold Bohnsack
Billings
Ment
Births at Memorial Hospital and Area Names
Birth notices list Mrs. Alvin Thost of Eudora with a daughter today and names several new babies and their families across Memorial Hospital and surrounding towns including Tonganoxie Eudora Baldwin and Bonner Springs with multiple baby boys and girls announced. Names include Janice Beverlin Patricia Stevens Lee Kennedy Wanda Thost Jon Davis Kenneth Wiles Wendell Kasson Bruce Nilsen Clarence Stewart Roger Carter Mary Kaul Marguerite Kitt Mary Hughes Joe Cindy Smith Jake Walker Darlene Musick Lois Leitner Laurece Thompson Gladys Martin Nancy Meils Rosseleta Riley John Jarrett Debra Gurley.
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Janice Beverlin
Patricia Stevens
R.I
Lee Allan Kennedy
Bernard Uhlrich
Tonganoxie
Wanda Thost
Eudora
Jon Davis
Kenneth Wiles
Bonner Springs
Wesley A. Kasson
Wendell Kasson Jr
Bruce Clyde Nilsen
Clarence C. Stewart
Roger L. Carter
Oxford
Mary K. Kaul
Fair Lane
Marguerite Kitt
Route 1
Mary Hughes
Baldwin
Joe Smith
Cindy Smith
Jake A. Walker
Darlene Musick
Lois Leitner
Laurece Thompson
Gladys Martin
Nancy Meils
Ind
Rosseleta Riley
Route 5
John Wesley Jarrett
Alan Freed to appear before New York grand jury
Disc jockey Alan Freed says he will comply with a subpoena to meet Monday before a Manhattan grand jury investigating payola in television and radio. Freed was served with the subpoena Wednesday night after failing to appear at District Attorney Hogan's office. He says he will not volunteer and has denied taking payola.
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New York
Alan Freed
Manhattan
Freed
Dist. Atty
Frank S. Hogan
Hogan
Senate
Family to Allow Baby to Undergo Operation
In Crookston Minnesota Orville Erstad and his wife decide to let their three month old son Craig receive a heart operation deemed possibly never successful. Doctors say he will die before his first birthday without surgery. Admission date at University of Minnesota Hospital not yet set. The infant suffers from transposition of the great vessels causing oxygen depletion in the blood.
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Crookston
Minn
Orville Erstad
Erstad
Air Force ends search for two officers off Cape Cod
OTIS AIR FORCE BASE Mass AP The Air Force abandoned the search for two officers swept into the Atlantic Tuesday night when a cable snapped at Texas Tower II about 100 miles from Cape Cod Capt Lewis V Barker 34 Pocasset Mass and Chief Warrant Officer Owen L Morgan 45 Fairview Mass were swept from a basket carrier as they were moved from a ship to the tower deck Two civilians were rescued from the sea
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Otis Air Force Base
Mass
Air Force
Atlantic
Texas Tower II
Cape Cod
Lewis V. Barker
Pocasset
Owen L. Morgan
Fairview
Lawrence Jaycees Plan Christmas Shopping Tour
The Lawrence Jaycees will sponsor their second annual Christmas Shopping Tour for needy children on the night of Dec. 9 at Duckwall's Store. About 20 youngsters participated last year and the group aims to raise funds through donations by mail and local collection boxes.
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Lawrence Jaycees
Duckwall
Jaycees
Clinton E. Daniels
Daniels
Don Hunsinger
Don Welling
Bill Smith
Les Proctor
Charles Zook
Bob Georgeson
Ed Patterson
Bill Medlin
Jaycee
Lawrence
Payola Witness Fears Reprisals Escort Given
New York AP reports singer Don Anthony 31, fearing reprisals for payola charges, received police escort from his Bronx home to the district attorney for questioning. He alleges disc jockeys extorted $5,000 to air his record across multiple cities. He fears muscle men will assault him, following him at night.
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NEW York
Bronx
Don Anthony
District Attorney's Office
Anthony
Chicago
Philadelphia
Washington
Baltimore
New York Post
Recital by Chiapusso at Swarthout Hall
The KU School of Fine Arts presents pianist Jan Chiapusso in a Monday recital at Swarthout Recital Hall. This marks his final appearance on the Faculty Recital Series before the end of the current academic year. The program features Bach Brahms Chopin and Schubert and is open to the public free of charge.
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KU School of Fine Arts
Jan Chiapusso
Swarthout
Chiapusso
Bach
Brahms
Chopin
Schubert
Belt Tightening Planned in Cuba
Maj Ernesto Guevara took over as president of the Cuban National Bank amid vows of belt tightening and tighter imports while safeguarding foreign exchange. Officials denied a ministerial crisis as Cuba to boost Euro ties and reduce US trade dependence.
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Havana
Ernesto Guevara
Fidel Castro
Cuban National Bank
Revolucion
Guevara
Cuba
Osvaldo Corticos
Europe
United States
National Bank
Felipe Pazos
Guevar
Castro
Steele Is Chosen For Annual FFA Chapter Award
John Steele, senior member of the Jayhawk Chapter at Lawrence High School, was named Star Chapter Farmer at the 28th annual FFA Parent Son Banquet. He raised 18 acres barley, 12 acres wheat, eight steers and a half-interest in another steer and serves as vice president of the LHS FFA.
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John Steele
Jayhawk
Future Farmers of American
Lawrence High School
FFA
Steele
LHS
Board of Education
Lawrence
Ron Brink
Jarvis Brink
Steve Robb
Tom Stine
Stine
Ozark
Missouri University
Buddy Lawrence
Clarence Walker
Ben Rowing
Ken Breithaupt
Don Mitchell
Owen Mitchell
Breithaupt
Larry Tucker
Bill Sutton
Sutton
Alan Laptad
Dick Nehrbass
Tucker
Laptad
Denny Longstaff
Mitchell
Richard Dwyer
Nehrbass
Steel Union Leader Calls Public Walkout Negotiations
Joseph Germano of USW District 31 urged open talks between company and union leaders in the steel strike. He said there is confusion among readers about work assignments and insisted on transparent negotiations to clear public misconceptions.
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Chicago
United Steelworkers Union
Joseph Germano
USW Dist
Germano
UPWA Advises Kansas City Workers to Ignore Company Letter
Felix Hayes of UPWA said Thursday night that employees at Wilson & Co. Kansas City Kansas plant should ignore a letter from the Chicago office. John L. Cockrill, Wilson & Co. vice president, told striking workers they must return to work or risk replacement.
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Kansas City, Kan
United Packing House Workers of America
Felix Hayes
Kansas City
Kan
Wilson & Co
Chicago
John L. Cockrill
Hungarian Situation Not Visibly Changed
United Nations reports no change in the Hungarian situation warranting UN relaxation. Sir Leslie Munro, former General Assembly president, says trials and executions continue despite his denial of entry to Hungary and cites an imminent possibility of further executions.
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United Nations, N. Y
United Nations
U. N
Leslie Munro
New Zealand
General Assembly
Hungary
Munro
New Wellsville Girl Finds U S A Just Smashing
Janet Hall fourteen year old from Exmouth England arrives in Wells ville Kansas to spend Thanksgiving with her father Ernest Hall mother and brother Michael The family welcomes her after a decade apart Janet says the United States is smashing and she plans to stay Bunty the cat and a bicycle are being shipped to ease her transition as she adjusts to life in the United States.
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Wellsville
Kan
England
Janet Hall
Janet
Exmouth
Ernest Hall
Michael
United States
Hall
U. S
Halls
London
Mrs. Hall
The
Santa Fe
Bunty
Air Express
Police Warnings Rise Over Wrong Side Parking
Lawrence police have issued about 500 warning tickets for wrong side parking to curb head on collisions. Police Chief John Hazelet said the warning period will continue for another week before actual arrest tickets are issued to violators starting next Friday.
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Lawrence
John Hazelet
Hazelet
Jetliner lands safely at Chicago with 49 aboard
An American Airlines Boeing 707 flight from Chicago to San Francisco landed safely at O’Hare with one engine out. Pilot Ted Jonson shut the affected engine, circled Lake Michigan, jettisoned fuel, and landed. officials reported no fire and a likely malfunctioning warning.
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Chicago
O'Hare International
American Airlines
San Francisco
Ted Jonson
Lake Michigan
O'Hare
Fugitive Burgess Nabbed After North Carolina Escape
In Johnson City Tennessee police and federal officers trapped escapee John W Burgess Jr. outside a hotel room, wearing the guard hat and pistol from a slain North Carolina work gang guard. He named a split from accomplice James T Waller and noted other fugitives were captured elsewhere.
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Johnson City
Tenn
North Carolina
Jefferson
N.C
John W. Burgess Jr
James T. Waller
Burgess
Waller
Princeton
W. Va
Jackson
Ohio
Fields Absher
Hunter shot in back in Pittsfield incident
Harold C. Bornak, 38, was shot in the back while hunting and dragged himself to his car before driving to Pittsfield General Hospital. Surgeons removed a .22 caliber slug and Bornak said he had no idea who fired the shot.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Harold C. Bornak
Pittsfield General Hospital
Bornak
FTC chief warns TV reform needed to curb bad taste
Earl E. Kintner, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, says the public and Congress are fed up with commercialization on TV programs. He warned the Association of National Advertisers that failure to clean up would harm advertisers and the national economy. The ANA represents most major TV program sponsors.
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NEW York
Earl E. Kintner
Federal Trade Commission
Congress
Kintner
The
Assn
Association
Thanking friends for kindness after loss of mother and grandmother
Richard and Doris Schrader and family express gratitude to friends neighbors and relatives for flowers cards food and other kindnesses shown after the death of their mother and grandmother.
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Church of God
Mildred Ellen Percival
Ivan Percival
Gage
Jolene
Richard and
Doris Schrader
In Loving Memory of William Torneden
In loving memory of William Torneden who died November 27, 1954. His wife, son, and family sadly miss him with deep and beautiful memories of a loved one.
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Clarence Kiser
William Torneden
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