Local Briefs Include Army Soldier Honor and Village Notices
Mrs. Jack Prather of 1122 S Mulberry is set for visits after surgery at Ransom Memorial Hospital. Army Specialist Maurice A. Wiederholt, 20, Princeton native, earned a $15 award and was named outstanding soldier of the 263rd Field Artillery Battalion in Baumholder Germany. Wiederholt entered the Army in January 1956 and is a Princeton High School graduate. County Superintendent Jay Scott returned from a three day workshop at Emporia State Teachers College, while H A Willis of Williamsburg was named to fill an unexpired trustee term for Homewood township. Notices of West 15th Street surfacing with blacktop were mailed. payments due August 12 carry 6 percent interest if unpaid. Pomona Picnic awards announced as eight prizes given. event continues with dances and talent show. Minor traffic collision on 2nd and Hickory caused major damage to two vehicles. Zenith Hearing Aids ad and local business notices complete the brief.
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Maurice A. Wiederholt
Leo Wiederholt
Princeton
263Rd Field Artillery
Baumholder
Germany
Princeton High School
Wiederholt
Army
Shock Is Fatal TOPEKA
Alexander Szafran a 34 year old man was electrocuted while wiring his home in Topeka yesterday a fatal accident recorded by local authorities.
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Topeka
Alexander Szafran
Hospital Notes Births and Admissions Listed
Admitted Mrs. Harry Smith at 4 Cypress and Mrs. Don Linden of Pomona plus several births including Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur G. Barnes at 704 S Mulberry a daughter weighing 6 4 born Thursday. Also Mr. and Mrs. Verle Sheeemaker 711 S Poplar a son weighing 7 8 born Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Don Madison 1215 S Hickory a son weighing 8 22 born Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Evan Phillips Wellsville a daughter born today weighing 3 1b 9 a2. Dismissed Rick Winchester 405 E 12th. Mrs. Larry Wassmer and baby daughter 313 Ash. Mrs. Robert Hay 1040 N Hickory today.
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Harry Smith
Cypress
Don Linden
Pomona
Wilbur G. Barnes
Verle Sheeemaker
S. Poplar
Don Madison
S. Hickory
Evan Phillips
Wellsville
Rick Winchester
Larry Wassmer
Ash
Robert Hay
Hickory
Higher Interest Rates Attack Treasury Offerings
Congress debates the 4 percent yield on $24 billion in new government bonds due August and October. Democrats call the rate immoral and inflationary while Senator Edward Martin says the government must compete for funds. Treasury cites this as the lowest rate possible to sell these maturities amid the administration’s tight money stance.
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Washington
Congress
Treasury
Martin
Treasury Department
Deaths of Mrs Ella R McGlinchy and William Newcomb
Mrs Ella R McGlinchy aged 90 longtime Emerald and St Marys resident dies in Kansas City at 6 45 am after ill health funeral set Emerald Monday burial Emerald Cemetery. Survivors include one son and three granddaughters all in Kansas City. William Newcomb 70 of Greeley dies last night at 10 00 pm widower and St Johns parish member. Survived by daughter Olive Phares Garnett three sons and brother Isaac Newcomb.
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Ella R. McGlinchy
Ela R. McGlinchy
Larry McGlinchy
Norwood
Kansas City
Ottawa
Lady of Mercy
MecGlinchy
Emerald
St. Marys
McGilly Funeral
Linwood and
Woodland
Farris Funeral Home
Garnett
Emerald Cemetery
William Newcomb
Greeley
St. John’s Catholic Church
Olive Phares
Edward
Harlan
Iowa
Bernard
Detroit
Kenneth
Omaha
Neb
Isaac Newcomb
Record Surplus of $1.6 Billion
Washington reports a surplus of 1.645 billion dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, with federal receipts at 70.989 billion and expenditures at 69.344 billion. It marks the second consecutive year in the black, as a third balanced budget proposed by President Eisenhower awaits Congress.
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Washington
Treasury
Budget Bureau
Eisenhower
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey
Percival Brundage
Funeral for Mitchell Wigglesworth in Ottawa church
Memorial service for Mitchell Muir Mike Wigglesworth who died suddenly at his Lawrence home will be held at Ottawa First Baptist Church on Saturday at 2 p.m. Rev. Roger Fredikson officiates. He is survived by his parents Mr. and Mrs. Russell Wigglesworth and his baby twin sister. The family suggests gifts to Carnegie Public Library. burial at the Wigglesworth family lot in Durango Colorado.
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Mitchell Wiggleworth
Mitchell Muir
Mike” Wigglesworth
Lawrence
Ottawa
First Baptist Church
Roger Fredikson
Russell Wigglesworth
Wigglesworth
R. W. Mitchell
Carnegie Public Library
Durango
Colo
River Firms May Get Flood Insurance
Topeka industrial firms in the Kansas River Valley may gain flood insurance as a Kansas insurance department official says a Kansas City firm might meet state requirements. Flood Insurance Associates, Inc. could be approved after legal research on one or two points, becoming the first such insurer in Kansas if authorized.
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Topeka
Kansas River Valley
Kansas Insurance Department
Kansas City
Frank Sullivan
Flood Insurance Associates, Inc
Kansas
Closes Stand To Set Up Own Toll Road
In Wichita Kansas Lyle Dixon closed his ice cream stand after motorists used his lot to bypass a closed street. He began charging a 10 cent toll to pass and residents protested while police ruled the drivers trespassing.
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Wichita
Kan
Lyle Dixon
Dixon
Year Ends With Record Public Debt Reduction Despite Higher Receipts
The year midyear receipts exceed January estimates by 361 million dollars while public debt finishes the bookkeeping year at 270 34,309,846, a drop of 2 190 592 278 from the prior year. The statement attributes the rise in cuts mainly to increased Defense Department spending not fully offset by cuts elsewhere.
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Department of Defense
Safer Cigarettes Possible With Effective Filters
Washington A cancer expert told the House subcommittee that some tobacco companies market filtered cigarettes with tar and nicotine levels similar to or higher than nonfiltered ones. Dr Ernest L Wynder of Sloan Kettering said a safer cigarette needs an effective filter and proper tobacco blend. He warned about increasingly ineffective filters and noted about 25,000 lung cancer deaths this year, with at least 80 percent preventable if people did not smoke.
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Washington
Ernest L. Wynder
House Government Operations Subcommittee
Wynder
Sloan-Kettering Institute For Cancer Research
Insurance Receipts Show An Increase In State Revenue
TOPEKA The state insurance commissioner's office turned over 5 447 855 to the state treasury during the fiscal year ended June 20 This is the greatest sum the agency has produced from fees and taxes collected from insurance companies licensed to do business in Kangas It is 363 731 greater than collections in the preceding fiscal year.
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Topeka
State Insurance Commissioner's Office
State Treasury
Kangas
Economic Aid Slash Is Voted
Washington The House approved a 154 to 74 vote to cut the economic aid fund requested by President Eisenhower by one third, setting a 66 million dollar ceiling for the coming year. The action reverses a seesaw battle as Congress debates his multibillion dollar aid bill to defend allied economies. Eisenhower sought 900 million for this fund to bolster Korea and Formosa against the Iron Curtain.
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Washington
House
Eisenhower
America
Korea
Formosa
Billy Graham To Extend Crusade In New York
Billy Graham's New York crusade will be extended to August 10 after a unanimous decision reached at a breakfast meeting with his team and the executive committee. The extension keeps the event running longer in the city.
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New York
Billy Graham
Graham
Republican Quits State Committee
TOPEKA 6 4 Sen James Porter Topeka only Republican member of the State Office Building Commission has resigned Porter said he submitted his resignation to Democratic Gov George Docking June 25 and that Docking accepted it but had not announced the resignation He said it was time the announcement was made Porter was reappointed to the commission by Docking April 1 when six Democrats were named to replace six Republicans Porter said he believed he had served during the transition period between the old and new com-
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
James Porter
State Office Building Commission
Porter
George Docking
Docking
Commission
Com
Period for which he agreed to continue his duties
The text notes the period during which he had agreed to remain in his duties. No further context or names are provided in the readable fragment.
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Jack Prather
S. Mulberry
Ransom Memoris
E. L. Wenderoth
Bloomington
III
Mattie Gingrich
Birch
West Coast
Jay Scott
Emporia State Teachers College
H. A. Willis
Williamsburg
F. R. Herron
Homewood Township
Franklin County
Jay Ellis
15Th Street
Bruce Spears
15Th
Willow Streets
Newfields
Drake's Bakery
2Nd
Nathan R. Light
Eudora
Allen J. Rubick
St. Mulberry
Light
Zenith
O. R. Norman
S. Main
Acme Hearing Center
K.C
Edward Martin
Pennsylvania
Aria
McVe' Dengel
Louis H. Dengel
Terminix
Ottawa Lumber Co
S. Main Ph
Pomona Lumber Co., Pomona
Gibbons
Matinee
Alan Ladd
Frankie Laine
Marlow
Alan Dale
Alan Freed
the Treasers
Little Richard
Dave Appell
Pai Newman
Angel
Aumbla
Walt Disney
Colombia
FORD
Borgnine
Steiger
Jubal
Techeacolor
Warner Bros
Eve Arden
Gale Gordon
James Stewart
Lucky Lindy
ST Louis
Frou
Warner Bros. Ws Cinemascope
Warnercolor
Olseo
Charles AL Lirobeach
Billy Milder
Wendell Waves
Hillcrest
Kronos the Killer
the She Devil
Sun
Pong Basanti Retary
Nndie Murphy
George Nader
Esate
At -O
Burgess Meredith
The
Ottawa Herald
Neral Chapel
Kodak
OK Photo Service
Shakespeare
Europe
Neta Mestrya
Organization of Safe Saving
Nnchordsavings Aced Loan Association
D. William Overton
North American Hotel Bldg
J. Dean Nofsinger
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