Jury Denies Smokers Damages in Philip Morris Suit
Kansas City AP report: a federal jury deliberated 50 minutes and denied a 50,000 damage claim by John T. Ross who blamed his 1952 throat cancer on Philip Morris cigarettes. Ross, 62, an ex-BBB officer, argued implied warranty and negligence. Neurological experts contradicted cancer-smoke links. Attorney Lyman Field said plans include a motion for new trial and possible appeal.
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Norman Knuth
Lyman Field
Gault Copeland Sell Tank Wagon Service in Garnett and Richmond
C E Gault and M E Copeland Land will discontinue their tank wagon service from Garnett and Richmond effective July 16 and have sold their farm business including tanks and equipment to the Consumers Cooperative Association. Copeland and Gault will still sell Phillips products at Gene's and Art's stations on Highway 59 and at Millers station on 169 east of Garnett. This ends Gault's 33 years of service at the Richmond Main Street location.
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C. E. Gault
M. E. Copeland
Garnett
Richmond
Consumers Co-Operative Association
Copeland and
Main Street
Principal Killed In Fall On Summer Construction Job
Michael B. Sullivan a 39 year old elementary school principal at Wea Kansas was killed on his first day of a summer construction job He fell 12 feet from a ladder while removing bolts from a metal wall at a partly finished tire shop near Linwood Boulevard and Robert Gillham Road An autopsy was ordered He had a forehead laceration Murphy Guillory of Olathe said Sullivan shouted as he fell He lived in Stanley Kansas taught history and social sciences and coached at Stanley High School before becoming Wea principal for 1961 62 He was born in Solomon Kansas earned a bachelor’s degree from Kansas Wesleyan and completed work on a master’s at the University of Kansas He leaves a widow two daughters and a son
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Robert Gillham Road
Murphy Guillory
Olathe
Sullivan
Stanley
Stanley High School
Solomon
Kansas Wesleyan
Salina
University of Kansas
Williams' New Play Applauded in Spoleto
In Spoleto Italy AP reports American playwright Tennessee Williams has seen his latest work praised amid the festival crowds. Audiences responded to the new play The null with favorable notices and critics noted Williams' continued impact on contemporary drama.
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Spoleto
Italy
Tennessee Williams
Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More world premier at Spoleto
The American play Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More opened Tuesday night at Spoleto's Two Worlds Festival. Audiences, mostly Americans, gave it a cordial reception with enthusiastic applause during intermissions and at the final curtain. The plot follows a widow who has married six times and now lives in a villa on the Amalfi coast, dictating her memoirs to a young secretary.
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Spoleto
Amalfi Coast
New Medical-Surgical Plan To Be Available In Ottawa Kansas
Kansas Blue Cross Blue Shield announced a new Blue Shield Service Benefit program for physicians in Franklin County including Ottawa. The campaign runs July 16 to July 27 with endorsements by the Franklin County Medical Society. Physicians must have no other medical surgical insurance and hospitals in semi private rooms. Local Ottawa organizing committee to be announced.
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Franklin County
Ottawa
Kansas Blue Cross-Blue Shield
Franklin County Medical Society
Meical
Kansas
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Medical Society
Butler County
Tax Cut Into Effect Thursday
Washington AP reports a $1 billion tax cut will take effect Thursday as the Treasury announces liberalized depreciation guidelines for plant and equipment investments. The new rules, developed since the Eisenhower era and sped up last year, will reduce the tax burden on business.
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Washington
Treasury
Eisenhower
New Tax Depreciation System Sets Industry-Wide Lives
The new system establishes a single average useful life for all plant and equipment in each industry. This replaces per-item life estimates and should reduce bookkeeping, easing tax administration for the Internal Revenue Service and for businesses claiming capital investment deductions.
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Internal Revenue Service
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