Ex-Con Arrested for Kidnap Death of Illinois Girl
FBI agents arrested Joseph Milani 33 near Herrin Illinois on a federal complaint charging assault with attempt to murder Mary Lily Ellen Roberts 17 the slain girl's fiancé Bryant 20 identified Milani as the gunman He was ordered held on 50000 bond after arraignment at 2 30 am at Jackson County jail in Murphysboro Milani has prior murder and auto theft convictions and had just been released from prison last April 5 The body of Mary Roberts was found in a well at an abandoned farm near Herrin
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Joseph Harry Milani
Herrin
Ill
John Bryant
Mary Lily Ellen Roberts
U.S
Everett Lewis
Milani
Jackson County
Murphysboro
Miss Roberts
Carbondale
Bryant
FBI
Deaths and Funerals for Mrs Della Sparks and Edward Peterson
Funeral services for 90 year old Mrs Della Sparks of 1305 Tenn St will be at Cooper Warren Chapel at 10:30 Saturday with burial in Oak Hill Cemetery. Edward Peterson 68 a former Lawrence resident died in Kansas City Missouri with services at Newcomer Chapel there and graveside at Oak Hill in Lawrence. He was a Trinity Lutheran Church member and survived by three daughters, a brother, two sisters and ten grandchildren plus a great granddaughter.
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Della Sparks
Tenn. St
Cooper-Warren Chapel
Harold Hamilton
Oak Hill Cemetery
Edward Carl Peterson
Lawrence
Kansas City
Newcomer
Trinity Lutheran Church
Peterson
Trinity Lutheran Church of
Mildred Nelson
Vernice Evans
Dorothy Gibson
Blue Springs
Earl Peterson
N. Y. St
Ruby Ramsey
Hazel Bobo
Fort Worth
Tex
Jayhawks rally around Kansas football drive and animal antics
The Kansas University football season fuels enthusiasm as fans hype the team while quirky incidents appear. A coyote was shot near coach Jack Mitchell’s house after calls for more speed in the backfield. A pony was found in assistant coach Bobby Goad’s yard, prompting humorous talk of mules joining the defense under coach George Bernhardt.
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Kansas University
Jack Mitchell
Mitchell
Bobby Goad
George Bernhardt
Dr. Leroy A. Calkins Dies at KU Medical Center
Dr. Leroy A. Calkins 66 of Kansas City died Thursday at the Kansas University Medical Center after an illness. He served 30 years as professor and chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at KU School of Medicine. Survived by wife Virginia and seven grandchildren, his family requests donations to the KU Endowment Association for the L A Calkins Memorial Lectureship.
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Kansas City
Kansas University Medical Center
School of Medicine
Calkins
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
Minnesota University
Sigma Xi
Alpha Omega Alpha
Phi Beta Pi
Virginia Calkins
Larry Calkins
James P. Calkins
Tucson
Ariz
David Calkins
John
Kathy Calkins
Julius Calkins
National City
Calif
Charles Calkins
Spring Valley
Donald Cowan
Minneapolis
Kansas University Endowment Association
L.A. Calkins
KU Medical Center
Ellsworth Meets Ike At White House GOP Nominees Conference
Robert F. Ellsworth of Lawrence conferred with President Eisenhower at the White House to open a two day conference of GOP Congressional nominees nationwide. The meeting preceded orientation sessions on national and international policies legislative procedures and campaign techniques.
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Robert F. Ellsworth
Lawrence
Eisenhower
White House
GOP
Clown Charlie Survives Rigors of High-Risk Rodeo Act
Sad faced clown Charlie endures injuries from bulls and horses while protecting riders. He shows a taped leg from a recent show and recalls a 10 gauge cannon blast that burned him. He performs 15 acts unique to each town and travels about 50 000 miles yearly with Donnie the dog Skeeter the mule and a mobile dressing room. Charlie hopes to clown at the Dallas rodeo next year.
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Charlie
Dallas
Tex
Clown Prince
Donnie
Skeeter
Wakarusa School Opens September 9 in New Consolidation
The Wakarusa Valley School opens September 9 serving 215 students from nine districts. The $194 698 facility sits a mile south of Banning's Corner on Lone Star road five miles southwest of Lawrence. Half day for students with 7 30 am bus pickup and 11 45 am dismissal.
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Banning's Corner
Lone Star Road
Lawrence
Pleasant Valley
Pleasant Grove
Washington Creek
Apple Pie
Lone Star
Cliton
Sigel
Weybright
Veda Stanton
Disappointing End to Post-Convention Congress Session
The 8th Congress adjourned after a three hour bid for a 50 member quorum. Senate failed to pass a radio and TV fair broadcasts funding proposal and a sugar quota measure affecting the Dominican Republic. Kennedy and Nixon faced each other in the Senate chamber as adjournment ended.
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Washington
Eisenhower
House
Senate
Senate Dea
Dominican Republic
United States
Senate House
John F. Kennedy
Richard M. Nixon
Cancer drive totals announced for Douglas County
A county drive raised two thousand two hundred fifty five dollars with sixty one dollars and seventy cents sent to Topeka for the ACS Kansas division. Churches and civic groups participated including St John’s Catholic Trinity Episcopal Plymouth Congregational and groups like Jaycees Kiwanis Optimists and the Business and Professional Women’s Club. Local and rural co chairs and many volunteers were listed as participants.
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Douglas County
Charles S. Arthur
Cancer Board
Topeka
ACS
Kansas
St. John’s Catholic
Trinity Episcopal
Plymouth Congregational
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Jaycee Jones
la Sertoma
HDU No. 56
The
Optimists
Kiwanis
H. Penfield Jones
Phillip Godwin
Russell Frink
Medical Society
R. N. Wolfson
Crusade
Norris H. Nahman
Lawrence
Viola Gerstenberger
John P. Metsker
Chanute state hospital to absorb all TB patients
Jackson said Norton must provide care for Norton patients before moving all acute tuberculosis cases to Chanute, a shift that could take two years or longer. He noted some prisoners might be moved to Norton before patients are fully relocated.
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Chanute
Jackson
Norton
Memorial Hospital Admissions and Births Report
Memorial Hospital lists admissions for Gloria Hastings and several others including Mrs Bernadine Nunn and Mrs Harriett Blocker across multiple addresses. Dismissals cover Nora Shirley Dorothy Payton and others with newborns for several families. Birth announcement notes Mr and Mrs Charles Haines of Tonganoxie welcomed a daughter today.
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Gloria Hastings
Powers
Bernadine Nunn
Eudora
Harriett Blocker
Ind
Josephine Eriksen
N. H
Frederick Coffelt
Prospect
Gary Lee Miller
Lecompton
Wilma Haines
Tonga
Noxie
Perry Pitchlyn
W. Std
Clarence Randel
Baldwin
Wansley Craven
Ohio
Mary Laptad
Nora Shirley
Mass
Dorothy Payton
Topeka
Pearl Finch
Tonganoxie
Lillian Schmitz
Williamstown
Khalid E. Samarrai
Stouffer Place
Williamete Fawbush
Haskell
Grds
Delores McClelland
Prairie
Hovey J. Hanne
Judith Johnson
Patsy Keaton
Ball
Neal Buffington
Nellie Haugh
Arlene Pritchard
Linwood
Judith Isern
Stouffer
Charles Haines
Kennedy Deplores Red Intervention In U S Election
In Boston Senator John F Kennedy denounced Soviet Premier Khrushchev for aiming to lead a United Nations delegation, saying outside interference in the U S election should be avoided. He spoke during a New England campaign swing and held a breakfast fundraiser with 200 businessmen. Kennedy noted polls showing a tight race and pledged hard work to win in states like Massachusetts.
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Boston
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
United Nations
Kennedy
Khrushchev
U.N
United States
New England
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Maine
Civic Clubs Set LHS Ducat Plan
Lawrence High School will host a season ticket drive for five home games as Jaycees and Optimists battle to fund the athletic treasury. Tickets at the games cost 1 for adults and 25 cents for youngsters with a 4 adult 1 youngster rate for advance sales. The opening game is September 16 against Manhattan in Lawrence.
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Jaycees
Optimists
Lawrence
Lawrence High School
Don Fisher
The
Irby Hughes
Gleason Gregory
Stan Harris
Don Dicker
Eldridge
Lawrence Lions
Manhattan
Fisher
Rumsey Funeral Home Ad Notice
Classified ad for Rumsey Funeral Home with phone number VI3-5111 offers funeral and obituary services.
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Rumsey Funeral Home
Wrestling Federation Charges Bulgarian in Olympic Fix Probe
Rome AP report says the International Amateur Wrestling Federation charged a Bulgarian wrestler with collusion in an Olympic match, disqualifying the Bulgarian. no action against Soviet gold medalist Avtandil Koridze.
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Rome
International Amateur Wrestling Federation Today
Avtandil Koridze
Soviet Union
Ichiro Hatta
Japan
Dimitro Stoyanov
Yugoslavia
In the Courts Drunk Sentences in Maynard Johnson M Thews
Police court records list Maynard Johnson of 645 Conn indicted for drunkenness with a $40 bond and Mark Matthews of Tonganoxie charged with drunkenness with a $25 bond.
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Maynard Johnson
Mark Matthews
Tonganoxie
Market News At A Glance
New York stocks slide on pre weekend dullness while bonds hold steady. Cotton is steady with narrow changes. In Chicago wheat mostly lower with distant months weak, corn lower with moderate liquidation, oats mixed with light trade, and soybeans mixed with little change. Hog prices rise 25 to 50 cents, top at 16.25. Slaughter steer cattle supply is meager with no sales reported.
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New York
Chicago
Kansas City Egg Market Sees 70 Percent A Grade Eggs
Kansas City reports wholesale egg prices climbing as 70 percent of exports shift to A grade. Industry sources note cooking eggs remain in tight supply despite price gains.
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Kansas City
Farmer's Co-Op prices for wheat to butter
Wheat 1.75, corn 1.03, ear corn 1.01, barley .75, oats .65, milo 1.40, soybeans 1.87. Poultry hens 4 lbs and up .09, hens under 414 lbs .06, old roosters .05. Eggs Grade A large 36, Grade A med and Grade B .27, undergrade .20, pullet eggs 16, current receipts 25. Butter Premium .48 No. L 45.
Pre-Labor Day lethargy grips New York stock market
Prices dipped irregularly in slow volume estimated at 2.6 million shares. Gains and losses were small with a few issues moving one point. Steel, motors, rails, oils, chemicals and aircrafts were mostly lower as traders stayed cautious.
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New York
Texas Instruments
Studebaker - Packard
Zenith
International Nickel
Air Reduction
Douglas Aircraft
Beckman Instruments
Goodrich
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Joe McCorgt
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N. W. Pettengill
Don Hay
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Harry Starks
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Warren Barrand
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Louis Stone
Frank McDonald
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Robert Mumford
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Mary Felter
Robert Green
Jack Dysart
Dale Kerr
Wistor Herrod
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Mildred Watson
Robert Good
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Clarence Buller
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