Youth fugitives captured after 40 mile, 105 mph chase
Seven teenagers escaped Amarillo Texas Juvenile Detention Home by threatening the superintendent's wife and stealing a car. Sheriff Arlie Johnson pursued them from Meade Kansas to Bloom, found them in a private garage, and fired shots as they surrendered. The group carried three pistols, six boxes of cartridges, six knives, and a file, and claimed to head to Canada. No charges filed yet.
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Right To Work Laws To Face Legislatures In Many States
A back to work season begins for state legislatures with many preparing to consider right to work bills. Seventeen states already have such laws and AP finds steps to enact or modify laws in nine or five other states respectively. Legislatures open in six states today and 39 more will convene. Strong party shifts after last fall’s elections shape the legislatures.Existing laws span Arizona through South Dakota, with campaigns by CIO and AFL to overturn or block changes. Bills likely to be introduced in California Vermont Connecticut Colorado Kansas Missouri Wisconsin Maryland and Washington.
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Solons Head For Capital
Washington opens the 84th Congress with Democrats set to lead the House and Senate. Sam Rayburn will become speaker, Lyndon Johnson majority leader, replacing Martin and Knowland as Republicans shift to minority posts. Democrats hold the House 231 to 203 and the Senate 48 to 47 with one House vacancy and one independent Senate seat.
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Cold War rhetoric warns on Communist peace deceit
A congressional committee urged the United States to reject Communist peaceful coexistence as propaganda and to wage a bipartisan political offensive against international communism. The nine member House panel based on 50 hearings and 335 witnesses, led by Rep. Kersten, calls for stronger U S information programs and a joint overseas information committee.
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Seek Release Of Prisoners In Moscow Note
U S officials expressed confidence Russia will free two long missing Americans William Marchuk and John Noble without demanding the return of 11 Russian children in the West. The note to the U S Embassy linked their cases, but Moscow said release of the Americans is not conditioned on the children’s return.
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Detroit
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Ottawa Families Return From Florida Christmas Visit
Ottawa families spent Christmas in Florida and have returned home. The Leonard Kelleys visited daughter and son-in-law Carol Pauls in Key West, where Paul serves in the U S Navy submarine division. The Kelleys missed their grandson Richard Dean born December 31. Machins Linda and Ann vacationed at Ft Lauderdale Ocean-Side resort for about two weeks. Webbs traveled through St Petersburg and Springfield Missouri where Mrs Webb’s parents joined. Mr and Mrs Jones remained longer in Florida. Leader Lessons Mrs Winona Starkey of Manhattan will teach home furnishings at two Ottawa area homes, Williamsburg and east of Ottawa. Starkey, longtime Home Furnishings specialist, organized several units during her Franklin County HDA tenure.
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Don Machins
Claude Webbs
Winona Starkey
Manhattan
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George Turrell
Williamsburg
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Starkey
Kansas State College
Franklin County Hda
Parishioners Read Entire New Testament in 17 Hours
The Rev. Charles G. Berry and Central Baptist Church members completed a church project by reading the New Testament in 17 hours and 4 minutes starting at the first minute of the new year in Portsmouth New Hampshire.
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Navy pilot to bring home adopted daughter from Greece
Helen Donahoe, wife of Lt Norman K Donahoe, says she is thrilled by the postponed Christmas gift a foundling daughter, 17 month old Roni Marie, will join their Brooklyn home. Donahoe, a Korean War veteran, travels 13 000 miles to Greece and Athens awaits his return.
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Moose) Donahoe
Roni Marie
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Women Make Dramatic News In A World Of Change
Miscellany highlights the rise of women in 1954 55 with Genevieve de Gal lard Terraube hailed as Angel of Dien Bien Phu Mamie Eisenhower christening the Nautilus and reshaping White House receptions Senator Margaret Chase Smith becoming the first to win a second full Senate term and a Moscow trip seventeen women elected to Congress Jacqueline Cochran setting aviation records while Queen Elizabeth visits Jamestown Virginia and Margaret Truman grows into a public figure.
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First Woman Flies Sound Barrier Then Vermont Elects Bailey
The piece notes a woman breaking the sound barrier in flight, and Vermont elects Consuelo Northrop Bailey as lieutenant governor. It references Perle Mesta’s major social event for women in the press, plus a White House invitation, and a light verse about Ottawa’s shoveled path.
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White House
Luke Neely
Special Room For Mediation In Congress
Capitol plans a private meditation room for senators and House members, the first of its kind in 167 years. Architect George Stewart said it will be ready when Congress convenes, offering a quiet, restful space amid political pressures. The room will be sterilizable with nylon tumblers combs and brush backs.
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Pope In Another Plea For Peace
Pope Pius XI, aged 79, urged East and West to seek peaceful coexistence in his delayed Christmas message. The Roman Catholic leader called for true coexistence, saying the world's current calm rests on fear and emphasizing peace despite illness.
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Carlson Opens Topeka Office in January
Senator Frank Carlson will open a Topeka office January 12 with former executive secretary Frank A. Paschal in charge. The move establishes a state contact point for Carlson’s Kansas constituents.
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Topeka
Frank Carlson
Kas
Frank A. Paschal
Socialettes A-le and Mrs Reekle return to Selma Ala
A-le and Mrs. W. J. Reekle arrived back in Selma after a ten day furlough visiting Princeton Greenwood and Ottawa. A-le and Mrs. Robert Knight depart to Amarillo Texas to resume duties at the air force base after a ten day leave with the Knight and Reekie families in Princeton and other relatives. A meteorite is simply a meteor that hits the earth.
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