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News briefs cover hospital admission for Harry Stern in Topeka, address update for Forrest W. Ledom, a historic ice jam photo from 1910, a snake bite recovery near Hartford, a McPherson choke plant coming, minor vehicle collisions in Ottawa, bids for Ottawa garbage system, school financing talks in Topeka, a Sertoma picnic, and continued drought in Franklin and Osage counties. The items mention local people, places like Topeka and Ottawa, and events with dates and numbers where provided.
Hospital Notes Admits Several Local Residents Today
Admitted Paul Lowe of New Cambria Kansas David A. Reekie of Pomona Billy Kahle of Overbrook Mrs Nettie Burgoon 324 E 2nd Gale Gilbert of Rantoul today Births Mr and Mrs Duane Dickinson Princeton daughter born Tuesday weight 8 lb 702 Mr and Mrs Elmer McConnell Wellsville daughter born Tuesday weight 8 lb 9 oz Mr and Mrs Wayne Bruner 611 Cleveland daughter born today weight 6 lb 4% oz Dismissed Mrs Ralph Allen and baby daughter route 2 Pomaria Mrs C C McFann 828 N Cedar Mrs Max King and baby daughter route 2 Williamsburg Mrs Lloyd Stiffler and baby son 509 S Mulberry Mrs Ruby Crain 832 S Cedar Mrs Alline Hughes 126 Willow today
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Lowe
New Cambria
Kas
David A. Reekie
Pomona
Billy Kahle
Overbrook
Nettie Burgoon
Gale Gilbert
Rantoul
Duane Dickinson
Princeton
Elmer McConnell
Wellsville
Wayne Bruner
Cleveland
Ralph Allen
Route 2
Pomoria
C. C. McFann
N. Cedar
Max King
Williamsburg
Lloyd Stiffler
S. Mulberry
Ruby Crain
S. Cedar
Alline Hughes
Sale Dates From C A Myers & Son Listings
The notice lists upcoming sales including Roberts Market Sale East 11th Street Lawrence Kansas on July 28 and August 1 Overbrook Livestock Sale Overbrook Kansas on August 2 Mrs Bert Brock Williamsburg Kansas on August 4 Roberts Market Sale East 11th August James Gabbert Baldwin Kansas August 14 J W Beers Baldwin Junction 3 miles south and 2 percent west.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. A. Myers & Son
Centropolis
Ottawa
Roberts Market
East 11Th St
Lawrence
Kas
Overbrook
Bert Brock
Williamsburg
James Gabbert
Baldwin
J. W. Beers
West Baldwin Junction
Deaths mark two Ottawanings in brief notices
Burial services for former Richmond resident Mrs Olive Weidman were held in Oak Hill cemetery Lawrence. She died July 18 in Los Altos California at 79 and is survived by daughters Dorothy M Weidman Arah Nieman and Bertha Fields and brother Curtis Tippin. Funeral services for Mrs Owen Hill will be held Friday in Kansas City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Olive Weidman
Oak Hill Cemetery
Lawrence
Weidman
Los Altos
Calif
Dorothy M. Weidman
Arah M. Nieman
Bertha I. Fields
Santa Rose
Curtis Tippin
Denver
Owen Hill
Kansas City
Kas
Ralph Emerson
S. Oak
Ottawa
Hill
Franklin County
Will Drenner
John Drenner
Woodland Park
Colo
Stassen Future Appears Clouded in Disarmament Role
Harold Stassen’s push for Gov. Christian Herter as GOP vice president candidate casts doubt on his prospects as Eisenhower’s disarmament adviser. He says he won’t resign and Eisenhower hasn’t shown plans for his future as he prepares to chair U.N. disarmament talks this fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Harold Stassen
Nixon
Eisenhower
Stassen
Russia
Christian A. Herter
Massachusetts
United States
United Nations Committee On Disarmament
U. S
Denies Charge of Segregation in Wichita HQs
Gov. Fred Hall’s Wichita headquarters are not segregated, campaign manager Everett Fettis says. Fettis notes three Wichita branches are used by white and colored alike. Warren Shaw, Republican nominee rival, claims one Wichita site is split by race, with separate spaces for blacks and whites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Kas.p
Fred Hall
Wichita
Everett Fettis
Hall
Fettis
Warren Shaw
British official disputes Washington birthplace claim in Alexandria note
Mary J. Childs, Alexandria city personnel director, sought a job applicant’s information from a British bureaucrat. The official praised the candidate but argued that George Washington was born in Durham County, England and was only on lend lease to the United States, writing the remark on a personnel form margin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexandria
Mary J. Childs
Childs
George Washington
Durham County
England
Vet Congressman Lost In Oklahoma Runoff Result
Toby Morris defeated Rep. Victor Wickersham in a western Oklahoma runoff to regain a House seat, with unofficial totals showing Morris 37,761 to Wickersham 32,979 as Morris set up a November match against Fred L. Coogan Sayre. Absentee ballot disputes surfaced in Wagoner County, while Harold Freeman won the Democratic nomination for the Corporation Commission and Kirksey M. Nix secured the Democratic nomination for the Criminal Court of Appeals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Toby Morris
Victor Wickersham
Congress
Oklahoma
Morris
Wickersham
Fred L. Coogan
Sayre
Wagoner County
Senate
Harold Freeman
Corporation Commission
Kirksey M. Nix
McAlester
Criminal Court of Appeals
GOP Smothers A Power Plan
Washington reports a 400 million dollar experimental atomic power program bill dies in the House after a Republican landslide. Democrats pledged it would back a long range AEC program to prove commercial atomic power, while Republicans argued it would threaten existing weapons priorities and hinder progress already made by the AEC.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Atomic Energy Commission
Senate
United States
AEC
Low bids for Parsons cottages exceed budget
TOPEKA. Low bids for four cottages at the Parsons State Training School run about 29 000 above the 650 000 budget but contracts may be awarded. State Architect Dwight Brown says contracts can be let using alternate construction to house 128 children. Apparent low bidders were C A Doo little Jr Wichita 484 000 for general construction Brune Plumbing Heating & Electric Co Lawrence 152 751 for plumbing and heating and Hertweck Electric Coffeyville 42 464 for electrical work. A 700 000 legislative appropriation is available, some for site work and furnishing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Parsons State Training School
Dwight Brown
C. A. Doolittle Jr., Construction Co., Inc
Wichita
Brune Plumbing Heating & Electric Co
Lawrence
Hertweck Electric
Coffeyville
Woman Communist Evokes Arms Reduction Call in London
Mrs. Ekaterina Furtseva, 46, world’s top woman Communist, urged arms reduction and ban on nuclear weapons as the era’s urgent international issue. She spoke at the airport before returning to Moscow after two weeks in Britain with a party of 15 Russian deputies observing English life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Ekaterina Furtseva
Moscow
Paris
Oil Attorneys Indicted For Lobbying Attempt
Two oil company attorneys John M. Neff of Lexington Nebraska and Elmer Patman of Austin Texas were indicted on six charges for attempting to influence Senate passage of a natural gas bill last winter. The grand jury also named Superior Oil Co. of California in a conspiracy count. The men allegedly offered a 2500 dollar campaign contribution to Senator Francis Case to sway his vote, and they allegedly failed to register as lobbyists. Case supported the bill after the offer surfaced. the bill passed the Senate but was vetoed by President Eisenhower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
John M. Neff
Lexington
Neb
Elmer Patman
Austin
Tex
Francis Case
R-Sd
Brownell
Superior Oil Co
California
Superior Oil
Howard B. Keck
Los Angeles
Neff
Patman
Sen. Case
Eisenhower
Sugar Spill Clogs Boston Traffic On Central Artery
A tank truck released 1500 gallons of liquid sugar yesterday along a central artery in Boston, creating a lengthy traffic jam. Firefighters arrived to wash away the sticky spill and restore flow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Bail Set For Salina Teacher On Assault Charge
Miss Frances Lindblom a 33 year old Salina teacher was arraigned in New York on a charge of assaulting a policeman after a traffic stop on an expressway in Queens. Bail was continued at 1000 dollars pending grand jury action. The magistrate noted mitigating circumstances and dismissed a charge of driving an improperly registered vehicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Frances Lindblom
Salina
Lindblom
Corning G. McKennee
McKennee
Miss Lindblom
Queens
Miss .Lindblom
George Washington Herz
Walter Lindblom
National Bank of America
Columbia University Teachers College
Hewlett
Long Island
Greenwich Village Teacher Recovers From Stabbing
A Wichita schoolteacher Maria Weigand has been removed from the critical list at St. Vincent's Hospital after surgery for a deep stab wound in the back of her neck. Doctors called her progress amazing as police continue to search for the intruder who entered the Greenwich Village apartment where she lived with a cousin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Greenwich Village
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Maria Weigand
Urges Merchants To Obtain Forms For New Highway Tax
Wichita dispatcher notes that Internal Revenue Director Gus Koehler urged merchants to obtain Form 2265 for the federal highway program tax on floor stocks held July 1. Returns are due October 13. The tax increase covers gasoline by one cent per gallon and tires by eight cents per pound, with excise taxes rising on trucks, trailers, and buses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Internal Revenue
Gus Koehler
Koehler
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Herld Office
Herald
Herald Circulation Department
Jay Ellis
Harry Stern
N. Poplar
Winter General Hospital
Forrest W. Ledom
Raymond C. Ledom
Forrest W
Ledom
APO
San Francisco
Herald Monday
Ollie Baxter
Oak
Marais Des Cygnes
Main Street
Miss Baxter
Kate Hildebran
William Later
Mamie Lawler
Hartford
Kansas
McPherson
Jarvis Manufacturing Co., Inc
Richard H. Larkin
S. Cherry
Carrie J. Ruph
Rt. 2
South Hickory
Larkin
3Rd and Main
Carl E. Thompson
JoAnn Nichols
Don Capper
Bruce Spears
J. J. Scott
State Commission On Revenue and Taxation
State’ Superintendent of Public Instruction
Sertoma Club
Theron Clark
Lee Bonar
Iover
Osage County
Paca
Sadie M. Brown
Charles P. Knight
Highland Cemetery
American Cancer Society
Louis H. Dengel
Clara Thurs
Saf
Kongotanga
Africa
Te Rea
Peter Locorre
TRE
Cameron
Jack Nelson
Anderson County
East Central Kansas Holstein Breeders Association
Waverly Sale
Waverly
Jake W Albert
Albert
Phillips
Ruby Firast
Franklin and Locust Stree
N. Main
Olivet
Hart & Son Rt
Harold
Tate
Tremont St
Guy
By Bales, Wilson
Son
Matinee Daily
Cus
John Ireland
Marta
Eepit Williams
Hugh Beaumont
Wits
Scor Ty Pathe and
Pepsi
Mrs
Technicol
Hillcrest
Gop
Bowe
F.dil.c
John L. Sullivan
the Gas Service Company
The
Gas Service Company
I. W. McKee
Lamb Funeral Home
Vaar
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