Disagrees With Docking On Treatment Of Insane
A report bundles several brief items. Dr. Sylva Lofgreen and her husband fear for their Yellowstone trip family but learn they are safe after a quake. A 96 year old Raleigh man plans to marry a 60 year old partner next month. A Morristown burglary steals 31 radiators from a vacant house amid scorching heat. Dr. George Jackson conflicts with Gov. Docking over confinement costs for the criminally insane.
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Sylva Lofgreen
Victor Lofgreen
DeWayne Lofgreens
Yellowstone
Livingston
Mont
Park
Takes Over Practice Here Dr. B A Gillen Joins Local Medical Staff
Dr B A Gillen takes over the practice of the late Dr John N Carter starting Monday. He arrives from Baltimore where he completed a two year general practice residency at University of Maryland Hospital after KU Medical School graduation in 1954 and Navy service. He is married and his wife will assist in the office. They reside at 515 S Oak. Discussion centers on location for the criminally insane unit and whether security or treatment should dominate planning with talks favoring Lansing or Topeka depending on staffing and facility needs.
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B. A. Gillen
John N. Carter
Baltimore
University of Maryland Hospital
University of Kansas School of Medicine
U.S. Navy
Gillen
S. Oak
Jackson
Larned
Lansing
Topeka
The Bird Man Does It Again in Mount Vernon
Otto Standke, 71, known as a starling chaser, used a homemade device of metal flappers and a chime to scare thousands of August starlings from Mount Vernon neighborhoods. After 45 minutes of noise, the birds dispersed. Standke plans further demonstrations tonight and tomorrow night, warning a $4,000 fee if silence prevails. Standke previously copied Great Bend Kansas methods with aluminum owls, which failed.
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Mount Vernon
N. Y
Otto Standke
Standke
Midwest
Great Bend
Kan
Grout Nomination Approved for U.S. Parole Board
Washington AP reports the Senate Judiciary Committee approved President Eisenhower's nomination of Lewis J. Grout of Kansas to serve as a member of the U S Board of Parole.
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Grout
Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Eisenhower
Lewis J. Grout
Kansas
U. S. Board of Parole
Weather Forecast Fair Warm Through Saturday
County forecast calls for fair skies and warming trend through Saturday. Highs this afternoon and Saturday in the middle to upper 90s, overnight lows around the lower 70s.
Living Costs Rise in July to New High
The Labor Department reported July consumer prices rose three tenths of a percent to a record index of 124.9 relative to 1947-49, with food costs leading the gain. Eggs jumped 18 percent while beef and poultry rose, offsetting declines in some produce. The increase is expected to trigger a two cent hourly wage boost for about one million workers in auto, farm equipment, and aircraft industries.
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Washington
Labor Department
Hersey C. Riley
Riley
Buzzards Hint At Hidden Body North Of Fredonia
Labette County jail prisoner Truman Bentley Jr. said he struck and killed a hitchhiker June 12 six miles north of Fredonia and buried the body in rugged country. Deputies, aided by birds circling the area, planned another search to locate the body near the side road.
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Fredonia
Kas
Buzzards
Labette County
Truman Bentley Jr
Parsons
J. R. Vail
Bentley
Railroad Union Sets Up A Strike Fund
Cleveland AP reports the Advisory Board of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers approved a strike fund assessment for about 50 000 members. A $2 monthly levy is set to build a strike fund of several million dollars as railroad agreements with 100 railroads expire on November 1. Chief Engineer Guy L Brown and SecretaryTreasurer H F Hempy will decide when the assessment takes effect.
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Cleveland
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Union
Guy L. Brown
Brotherhood
Brown
H. F. Hempy
Pioneer Parsons businessman dies at 92
Parsons Kansas William H Martin a 92 year old pioneer businessman and longtime civic church and fraternal figure died today He served as grand commander of the Kansas Commandery of Knights Templar and chaired its education loan fund He held numerous offices and was active in Masonic bodies
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Parsons
William H. Martin
Kansas
Indian Graves Near Pomona Revealed in Reservoir Dig
Archaeologist Roscoe Wilmeth of the Kansas Historical Society reports uncovering 100-year-old graves and an Indian village near the Pomona reservoir site northwest of Pomona. He notes remains and beads tied to Fox and Sac Indians likely disrupted by a smallpox epidemic in the 1860s and plans a winter report with possible summer work.
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Roscoe Willmeth
Wilmeth
Alfred Masenthin
Pomona
The
Kansas Historical Society
Intelligence official details Soviet Cuba penetration plan
In a speech to the American Legion, CIA deputy director Gen. C. P. Cabell said Moscow sent a Soviet intelligence officer to Cuba last May to guide Cuban Communists on penetrating Castro's government. Kotchergin, under a false name, advised Cuban Communists while in Cuba. Primary targets include agrarian reform, unions, and the army as Red China propaganda grows with a Cuba newspaper and broader Latin American communist activities.
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U.S
Moscow
Cuba
Fidel Castro
C. P. Cabell
Central Intelligence Agency
American Legion
National Security Commission
Cabell
Kremlin
Vadim Kotcher
Gin
Kotchergin
Kotcergin
Red Chinese
Red
Cabal
Confederation of Workers of Latin American
World Federation of Trade Unions
Mexico
Mouse spotted after desert shelter blast in jet test
AP reports test pilot Al Blackburn blasted from a cave like shelter at Holloman AFB New Mexico in a rocket boosted F100 jet. A desert mouse was inside the shelter and staggered out alive after the launch. Blackburn noted the mouse appeared stunned but unharmed and scampered away.
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Los Angeles
al Blackburn
Blackburn
Holloman Air Force Base
N.M
Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Absolved In Fatal Crash Near Wellington Ends Case
WELLINGTON AP Harry W Greene of Wellington was acquitted of negligent homicide in a four car crash that killed Carmen Martinez 19 and Louis Martinez 16 and another person. A fourth degree manslaughter charge against Greene was dismissed after a habeas corpus hearing. Robert D Johnson also faces a pending negligent homicide charge in the death of Edward Minihan.
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Wellington
Harry W. Greene
U. S. 81
Greene
Carmen Martinez
Arkansas City
County
Wendell Ready
Robert D. Johnson
Junction City
Johnson
Edward Minihan
Ponca City
Iokla
Western Cold Front Fails to Reach Kansas
The cold front stalled before reaching Kansas and no cooling is anticipated. The Weather Bureau forecasts generally fair and warm conditions through Saturday with widely scattered west wide thunderstorms. Tonight low temperatures near 70 to 75, Saturday highs in the 90s, with Thursday readings from 91 at Olathe to 99 at Russell and Ottawa at 93 yesterday.
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Kansas
Weather Bureau
Olathe
Russell
Ottawa
Premature rocket fire disrupts space escape test at Wallops
NASA said a Little Joe booster rocket fired early during a test off Wallops Island wrecking a full size space capsule and its escape system. The premature firing occurred 20 minutes before launch, with no injuries reported.
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Washington
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Wallops Island
Virginia
NASA
Princess Margaret Turns 29 at Balmoral Castle
Princess Margaret reaches age 29 while Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family vacation at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. The princess’s birthday is marked during the family holiday in the Scottish estate.
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London
Margaret
Queen Elizabeth
Balmoral Castle
Scotland
Hawaii Joins Union With Ceremony Today
Washington AP Hawaii becomes the United States fifty state with a 2 PM CST White House ceremony marking statehood after a 56 year effort by about 585000 residents The president also proclaims a new 50 star flag to take effect next July 4 and Alaska’s 49 star flag remains in use until then Gov William F Quinn to be sworn in Honolulu and Hawaii’s first congressional delegation to be seated in Washington on Monday
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Eisenhower
White House
Alaska
William F. Quinn
Honolulu
Quinn
Washington
Hawaii
Driver Killed In Rock Quarry Crash
Mau rice Mitchener, 47, of Winfield, died in a truck accident at a rock quarry southwest of Winfield. He was driving a stone truck when the driveshaft failed causing the vehicle to jackknife as he backed down a ramp. Mitchener, an employee of Daniels Stone Co., was thrown from the truck and the vehicle fell on him.
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Winfield
Kas
Maurice Mitchener
Mitchener
Daniels Stone O
Kennedy Faces Catholic Governors Cooling Support
Labor leaders and Catholic governors threaten to block Kennedy's path to the 1960 nomination. California's Pat Brown Ohio’s DiSalle and Pennsylvania’s Lawrence may deny votes at the Los Angeles convention, with Ohio possibly voting May 3 and Pennsylvania undecided. Kennedy weighs a May primary bid despite tensions.
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Washington
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Kennedy
Los Angeles
Edmund G
Pat) Brown
California
Michael V. DiSalle
Ohio
David L. Lawrence
Pennsylvania
Brown
DiSalle
Lawrence
Adlai E. Stevenson
Nuclear Power Book Is Banned From Publication
The Defense Department barred Gen. Thomas S Power from publishing a book on nuclear striking power titled Design for Survival. McElroy ruled it inappropriate for a commander to author a book on his area while on active duty. Random House had pitched the project, but Power had only provided an outline and chapter synopsis.
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Washington
Defense Department
Strategic Air Command
Thomas S. Power
Defense
Neil H. McElroy
Pentagon
Army Navy Air Force Journal
McElroy
Power
Random House
New York
Navy
Toll Rises in Kansas City Gasoline Line Fire
The toll from the Southwest Boulevard gasoline line fire climbs to three with the death of Capt. George Bartels, 33, at General Hospital. A relief fund for the dead and injured surpassed $25,000, aiding families through the Lamb Insured Payment Plan.
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Kansas City
Southwest Boulevard
George Bartels
General Hospital
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