Ike Talks With Great Britain's Prime Minister
In England at Chequers Eisenhower and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan prepared for talks with Khrushchev, discussing Western strategy long the cold war, disarmament, and NATO ties. Crowds cheered as the leaders rode to the estate while demonstrators and supporters lined the roads.
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Wendover
England
Eisenhower
Harold Macmillan
Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev
Macmillan
Chequers
Scotland
Elizabeth II
Benson
League of Empire Loyalists
United States
Britain
Suez Canal Zone
West Berlin
North Atlantic
Chiltern Hills
Chinnor
Parslow
Corner House
the Swan
Ike
Topeka Youth Shot and Killed in Park Dispute
Douglas Jackson, 17, a Topeka resident, was shot in the chest Friday night in what police say started as a dispute between white and Negro youths at a park. Walter Griffin, 18, white, was held for questioning. no charges filed. Witnesses say Jackson and four others returned to Griffin home with tension over earlier words at the park.
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Topeka
Kan
Douglas Jackson
Walter Griffin
Jackson
Griffin
C. E. Laird
Laird
Weather County Forecast Continues Heat and Storms
The county forecast warns of continued hot and humid conditions this afternoon with scattered thunderstorms developing by late afternoon or evening.
No Settlement In Sight For Steel Strike
The nationwide steel strike is 50 days old with no settlement in sight as negotiations resume. About 28,000 New York State workers will soon be eligible for 45 dollars a week in state unemployment benefits, while other states keep bans. Pennsylvania Railroad cuts salaries for non union staff. steel unions demand a substantial wage increase though pre strike wages averaged 3.11 dollars an hour.
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New York
New York State
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Illinois
Pennsylvania Railroad
Lottery Claim Ties Fair To Franklin County
Franklin County Attorney Don ald White received a letter from state attorney general John Anderson Jr. alleging a bingo game tied to the Franklin County Fair. Anderson urged White to submit information on the alleged lottery, noting the office does not intervene without the county attorney’s side of the story. White argued enforcement could expose sponsors to claims of statewide prejudice.
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Franklin County
Donald White
John Anderson Jr
White
Anderson
Paper Urges More Globe Trotting by Ike
London based Telegraph urges American presidents to travel more widely to reassure allies and show the man who held their destinies in his hands. The paper cites President Eisenhower, praising his seven year popularity and royal reception by London crowds as proof of his appeal to the free world.
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London
America
The
London Daily Telegraph
Eisenhower
Installation For New Ottawa Pastor
Main Street United Presbyterian Church will hold an installation service tomorrow at 7 30 p m for Rev E E Caylor the new pastor A reception will follow Participating in the services will be Rev Frank J Worthington of Derby former pastor of the church Rev William O Pfeiffer of Paola Dr E G Froyd of Topeka Rev Howard D Johnson of Osawatomie and Rev M Todd Macdonald pastor of First United Presbyterian Church
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Main Street United Presbyterian Church
E. E. Caylor
Frank J. Worthington
Derby
William O. Pfeiffer
Paola
E. G. Froyd
Topeka
Howard D. Johnson
Osawatomie
M. Todd Macdonald
First United Presbyterian Church
Train Car Crash Fatal To Child near Abilene
AP reports a fast passenger train struck a farm family's car at a rural crossing six miles east of Abilene. A 5-year-old girl, Janice Karl, was killed. Her mother and sister Sandra, 12, were injured. The car crossed one lane of Union Pacific tracks near the Karl home.
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Los Angeles
Lloyd Nilson
Clarice Nilson
William W. Wilkinson
Abilene
Here
Janice Karl
George Karl
Karl
Sandra
Union [Pacific
Ottawa flood leaders react to Ike veto on river work
Ottawa flood officials and Rep Newell George voiced surprise at President Eisenhower's veto of the rivers and harbors appropriations for the current year. They expect Congress to override or revise the measure, urging continued orderly development of the national program. Messages were sent to congressional leaders to keep the project on track.
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Newell George
the Herald
Congress
Ottawa
Average American Paid 568 In Taxes In 1958
The Census Bureau reports the average American paid 568 dollars in taxes to federal, state, and local governments during the 1958 fiscal year. Total government revenue was 98.3 billion dollars, down from 1957, while federal debt rose to 276.3 billion and state local debt surpassed 58 billion.
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Washington
Treasuries
Census Bureau
Heavy Rains Dampen Kansas Heat Wave Across State
Central and eastern Kansas saw heavy rains Friday night into today, with Ottawa at .28 inch and a high of 96 F yesterday. Rain east of Salina and Hutchinson reached up to 3.5 inches near Clifton, while Junction City 2.22 and Manhattan 1.43 inches were reported. Temperatures returned above 100 in western Kansas as heat lingers but rain is expected to ease the heat briefly.
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Kansas
Ottawa
Weather Bureau
Salina
Hutchinson
Clifton
Junction City
Manhattan
Clay Center
Centralia
Belleville
Russell
Hill City
Abilene
Students Build Electronic Organ At Dickinson High School
Chapman Kansas AP A group of Dickinson County Community High School students and physics instructor Brice Reed built an electronic organ valued at over 7000. Beginning last August after school board approval, about 25 students contributed 1500 man hours to assemble 15 octaves with nearly 100 parts each. Dick Lee wired the organ and taught peers while Jim Tyndall completed the keyboard system. The finished stereophonic instrument uses four large amplifiers to mimic a pipe organ.
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Chapman, Kas
Dickinson County Community High School
Brice Reed
Dick Lee
Haml
Lee
Jim Tyndall
Dolores Wiley
Joyce Bezdek
Kay Boles
Paul Funston
Mike Wolf
Reed
Contempt Charge For Oil Workers
Kansas City AP reports strik ing oil workers and the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union were held in contempt of court for mass picketing at the Standard refinery in Sugar Creek. A judge fined the union and its local No. 5672 $1,000 while dismissing charges against 10 strikers. the court found violation of a restraining order limiting picketing to one per plant gate. The order followed demonstrations by unauthorized women pickets, many wives of strikers, some with children. The judge noted a concerted plan by the international and local unions to use women and children on the lines, which the union denied responsibility for. No further negotiations were scheduled in seven weeks.
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Kansas City
Standard
Sugar Creek
Richard C. Jensen
Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union
Hero
Jensen
Pomona Ottawa Jobs Included In Measure
Washington AP reports outraged Capitol Hill reaction to President Eisenhower's veto of a 1.206 billion water projects bill. Congress plans to attempt an override in the House Wednesday. Kansas projects include Abilene, Ottawa, Pomona Reservoirs, and others with funds for flood control, navigation, power, beaches, and arid land reclamation.
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Washington
Capittol Hill
Eisenhower
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
House
Neal Smith
Iowa
Olin D. Johnston
DSC
Europe
Johnston
White House
Senate Republcan
Thomas H. Kuchel
California
Senate
Kansas
Intensified Search for Fugitive Harlan Noble
Washington AP report says Harlan Lynn Noble, 42, a Kansas mental patient, is under a very preferential FBI classification as authorities describe him a sex offender. Since escaping Larned State Hospital in June, he faces charges of raping a six year old in Lincoln Nebraska and attempting to assault an eight year old girl in Atchison Kansas. The FBI seeks him on a federal warrant for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
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Washington
Harlan Lynn Noble
Kansas
FBI
Noble
Kansas State Hospital
Larned
Lincoln
Neb
Atchison, Kan
Jonathan apples ripen at Bitts Orchard sale
Bitts Orchard announces ready Jonathan apples for sale at one dollar per bit. Local customers can pick up fresh fruit from the orchard lobby.
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Jonathan
Hitler's 1939 Invasion Triggers World War II
A summary of events leading to World War II outlines Hitler's drive for territory from 1931 to 1939. It traces Manchuria, Ethiopia, the Rhineland, Anschluss, Sudetenland, and Czechoslovakia, highlighting failed appeasement by Britain and France and Soviet neutrality pacts before the invasion of Poland.
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Adolf Hitler
Poland
Danzig
Hitler
Manchuria
Ethiopia
Rhineland
Austria
Czecho- Islovakia
Japan
League
Italy
Benito Mussolini
Mussolini
Britain
France
Stanley Baldwin
Reich
Berlin
Schusch- Inigg
Vienna
Czechoslovakia
Czechojslovak Sudetenland
Sudetenland
Neville Chamberlain
Edouard Daladier
Germany
Moscow
Soviet Union
Four Missing on Flight From Lamoni to Kansas City
Civil Air Patrol and Air Force teams searched north of St. Joseph and Maryville for Garland Scott his wife and two children reported missing after a Lamoni Lamoni Iowa stop with a Beech Bonanza N5866C. They departed Lamoni at 2 15 p m yesterday in good weather en route to Kansas City.
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Kansas ‘City
Albuquerque
N. M
Lamoni
Iowa
Kansas City
Civil Air Patrol
Garland Scott
CAP
Air Force
St. Joseph
Maryville
Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base
Garlands
Wichitans Face Robbery Charges
NEW ORLEANS RP Two Wichita Kansas men were arrested on armed robbery charges after a tip from a 12 year old delivery boy Sammy Roberts. He saw Samuel J. Pruett and Melvin W. Pruett hold up a grocery store manager Ralph Kern and flee with 300 dollars. Investigations linked them to thefts of 4000 dollars in checks from a construction firm in Wichita.
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New Orleans
Wichita
Kas
Sammy Roberts
Samuel J. Pruett
Melvin W. Pruett
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Turtle Creek
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Perry
Frankfort
Carl C. Cranmer
Associated Press
Henry Puyi
China
League of Nations
U.S
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Popular Front
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