Side Swipes and Toastmasters in Local News
Side Swipes invited carpenters to help remodel the Boys Club starting 6 30 p m Monday with materials at the club and Lin dell Chism directing work to follow plans from the national boys club. Dick Nichols of Topeka a WIBW staff member and Topeka Toastmasters Club president competes in Dallas today after semi finals. Ottawa Legion baseball hosts a 7 p m chicken dinner at Forest Park shelter house for players and supporters. Franklin County Fair officials announce 10 cent carnival prices for Friday and Saturday afternoons upcoming.
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Boys Club
Owen Shofner
Lindell Chism
National Boys Club Organization
Shofner
Dick Nichols
Topeka
R. D. Nichols
Elm
International Toastmasters Club
Dallas
Nichols
Wibw Radio and TV
Midwest
JTC
Toastmasters Club
Ottawa American Legion
Forest Park
Franklin County
Papa
Mama
Safe damaged at Sacramento tire shop with note left
In Sacramento a tire shop safe showed marks on the dial face plate and handle from an attempted break in. The note left beside it read You have a very good safe, suggesting a failed burglary attempt.
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Sacramento
Calif
Bomb hoax at three more stores across Kansas
Telephone threats followed by demands for money disrupted Mammels in Hutchinson and J S Dillon stores in Newton McPherson and other towns. Police found no bombs and dummy packages were left at culverts or tree lines. Similar hoaxes had hit Kingman Wellington Junction City Wichita and Abilene recently.
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Hutchinson
Kansas
Harry Etherton
Mammels, Inc
Etherton
Jim Schefler
J. S. Dillon North
Newton
J. S. Dillon
McPherson
Elmer Dalke
Dalke
Kingman
Wellington
Junction City
Wichita
Abilene
Weather County Forecast Shows Scattered Showers
Scattered showers and thunder storms spread across the county this afternoon and evening, with mild, partly cloudy conditions continuing. Tonight becomes cooler with lows near 60 and a high around 80 Saturday. Highs today in the middle 80s.
Docking Draws Large Crowd To Richmond Fair
A massive crowd packed the Richmond Fair at its 33 year run with Gov. George Docking and Mrs. Docking in attendance. Winners were named in tractor events and baby show, with a 4-H display and a Little League game highlighting the three day fair wrapping up tonight.
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Docking
Richmond Fair
John Roeckers
George Docking
Edwin Horstick
Richmond
Melvin Stockard
Princeton
Marvin Gretencord
Gretencord
Claron Sobba
George Broyles
Quenemo
Stockard
Broyles
Roger Keith
J. C. McClosky
Floyd Brock
Ernest Wolken
Berea Boosters
Princeton Jolly Workers
Richmond Juniors Hdu
Randall Bodenhamer
Greeley
Chris Rockers
Raymond Carey
Ottawa
Johns Richard Strobel
Garnett
Wesley Dyer
Douglas Mery] Roeckers
Rantoul
Charles Feuerbarn
Renew Battle For Shaw Funds To Reform Alphabet
New York attorney Clara S Richter allies with British alphabet reformers led by Isaac Pittman to appeal a court ruling on George Bernard Shaws will. The plan seeks to study and possibly simplify English spelling and sentence structure as part of Shaw's estate provisions. The Chancery Court had redirected the funds to institutions in Britain.
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Shaw
London
Clara S.richter
New York
George Bernard Shaw
Chancery Division
High Court
Isaac Pit
British Museum
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
National Gallery of Shaw
Treland
Cool Weather Dominates Ottawa Area With Scattered Showers
The Ottawa area remained cool after a high of 82 and a low of 68. A morning shower dropped .08 inches, measured by John Kelsey. Kansas saw scattered overnight showers, with St Francis reporting 53 hundredths inches, and a western cold front likely to trigger more light showers tonight and Saturday.
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Ottawa
John Kelsey
Kansas
St. Francis
Topeka Weather Bureau
Reuther And Head Of GM Square Off In Verbal Fuss
Washington and Detroit headlines clash as Dulles eases press access to Red China for six months, prompting praise and cautious optimism from senators about ending the eight year blackout. In Detroit, Harlow Curtice and Walter Reuther trade blows over inflation remedies with GM offering a two year contract extension while union leaders push for $100 car price cuts and wage talks.
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Reuther
Washington
Dulles
Congress
Red China
China
Detroit
Harlow Curtice
General Motors
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers
Jon
Curtice - Reuther
Curtice
United Auto Workers Press Company
Deat
Chrysler
Ford
UAW
Curtice- Reuther
Welcome for Americans in Red China
Forty one young Americans arrived in Peiping amid cheering crowds after a nine day trek on the Peiping Express from Moscow. Reuters said the visitors sought American reaction to Eisenhower’s remarks and pledged to respond. The group, many students, received flowers and songs as they entered the station, while a large peace dove and crowds watched from platforms and the bus.
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London
Peiping
Reuters
Red Capital
United States
Siberia
China
Moscow
Eisenhower
Dean Hoxsey
Los Angeles
Louis Alhonde
Brooklyn
John Brown
Paulette Goddard May Wed Novelist Remarque in Switzerland
Hollywood star Paulette Goddard said she and her novelist boyfriend Erich Maria Remarque may marry in Switzerland during the Christmas holidays. The 46 year old actress, thrice wed, denied definite wedding plans and said she believes in long engagements.
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Hollywood
Paulette Goddard
Germany
Erich Maria Remarque
Switzerland
Remarque
Erich
Close On Rights Deadlock May Yield Bipartisan Accord
Washington reports Representative Arends says Republicans and Democrats are near a solution to the civil rights deadlock and may reach agreement today. He notes minimal gaps between the parties and signals a possible congressional accord on civil rights measures.
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Washington
Rep
Arends
Institute For Teachers Opens Here Monday
The Franklin County Teachers Institute opens at Ottawa senior High School Monday and runs four days with 8 to 9 a.m. enrollment and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. sessions daily. Experts from Kansas educators, art, health, and curriculum discuss accreditation, textbooks, playground activities, and radio programs for elementary schools. About 85 teachers from outside Ottawa are expected.
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Franklin County Teachers Institute
Ottawa
Jay Scott
Guy Cross
Elma Ibsen
Kansas Tuberculosis and Health Association
W. C. Kampschroeder
Bruce McIntyre
Carlsbad
Calif
Walt Disney Corporation
Forrest Bond
Williamsburg
Curriculum Council
Eveyln Kinney
Ottawa University
Tom R. Hamilton
Department For Microbiology
Kansas University Medical Center
Miss Kinney
Old Chapel Hill School Auction Planned Near Centropolis
Old School To Be Auctioned. A one room Chapel Hill School three miles south of Centropolis will be sold Sept 23 as Patrons of School District No 57 vote to disorganize and join districts 101 58 and 49. Equipment includes desks projector screen water pump and pipe in a well and other items. Title to the acre may revert to heirs who donated the land. The building is over 50 years old.
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Old Chapel Hill
Centropolis
Jay Scott
Scott
Senate Rackets Committee halts Hoffa questioning
The Senate Rackets Committee abruptly ended its interrogation of James R. Hoffa as Sen. McClellan declared the witness had no memory, calling further questioning useless. The session paused with Hoffa’s testimony unresolved and no new developments reported.
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Washington
Senate Rackets Committee
James R. Hoffa
Sen
McClellan
D-Ark
13th Atomic Blast Set Off at Nevada Test Site
The 1957 test series saw the 13th blast erupt at 5:30 a.m. over Yucca Flat, 80 miles southeast of Las Vegas. A blood red fireball lit the sky as a balloon-held device 1,500 feet above the site detonated, producing a mushroom cloud while newsmen observed from 45 miles away.
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Nevada Desert
Las Vegas
Aballoon
Yucca Fiat
Russia Resumes Atomic Tests Says AEC Chief
Washington reports the Atomic Energy Commission says the Soviet Union resumed nuclear weapon tests at Siberian proving grounds. A detonation of substantial size occurred on August 22, with the April and August blasts noted as part of a series, totaling 24 tests announced or detected since last August. Strauss cautioned not all detections are publicly announced unless special interest exists.
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Washington
Russia
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Lewis L. Strauss
Soviet Union
Siberian
London
United States
Strauss
Hat Blown Onto Woman In Hutchinson Wind
In Hutchinson Kansas a gusty downtown wind sent a Panama hat sailing through the air and onto Mrs Frances Arganbright head. A man chased after the hat claiming it and Mrs Arganbright commented she had never seen a hat blown on before.
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Hutchinson, Kas
Hutchinson
Frances Arganbright
Prank Fatal to Teenager in Coffeyville
Rex Reese, 14, was killed by a shotgun blast during a prank at an abandoned farm house seven miles northeast of Coffeyville. Sheriff Huggins called the incident a practical joke that backfired as six youths were questioned and no charges filed. An inquest is planned in Coffeyville on September 3. Reese was the stepson of F B Kirkendall of Coffeyville.
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Coffeyville
Kas.pr
Rex Reese
Floyd Huggins
Reese
Cofley
Huggins
Robert Wood
F. B. i Kirkendall
Hoffa Says He Aims To Clean Up Teamsters Amid Mob Allegations
James R. Hoffa told the Senate Rackets Committee he is shocked by New York underworld figures in the Teamsters and plans a cleanup if elected president. Kennedy pressed Hoffa over alleged mob ties, while Hoffa defended his record and pledged actions against suspected criminals in Local 193 and other chapters.
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Hoffa
Underworld
Washington
James R. Hoffa
New York
Teamsters Union
Midwest
Senate
Dio
Kennedy
Detroit
Sen. McClellan
Sen. Ives
R-Ny
John McNamara
New York Teamster Local 193
McNamara
New York Teamster
United States
D- Ark
Teamsters
Dave Beck
Beck
McClellan
Union
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Associated Press
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