Jet ace Chandler sets Bendix air race speed record
Air Force Captain Seth D. Chandler, flying a Convair F102, averaged 679 mph over 620 miles from Chicago O’Hare to Andrews AFB and set a Bendix record, finishing 13 mph faster than last year’s mark. He landed with minimal fuel and reported his engine flamed out during taxiing after the flight.
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Osage City
Inner Cod
Washington
Burlingame
Seth D. Chandler
Bendix
Lyndon
Chicago
O'Hare Field
Andrews Air Force Base
Maryland
Chandler
Air Force
Maj
Manuel
Pete) Fernandez
Compton
Calif
Duluth
Train Crash Injures 86 Near Winnipes Manitoba
Ninety miles east of Winnipeg 86 people were hurt when an unlocked siding switch sent 16 cars of a transcontinental CN passenger express off the main line at Nourse Manitoba. Twenty four remained hospitalized, two in critical condition. The Montreal bound train left Friday night, five hours late, striking the switch which opened under the train. Eight cars jackknifed, one overturned, with passengers and wildlife scattering along trackside. Investigators reported the switch not properly secured.
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Winnipeg
Canadian National Railways
Nourse
Man
Winnipes
Montreal
CNR
Foreign Students Take Course At KU
The University of Kansas hosts a six week orientation for 50 foreign students new to the United States. Nine programs run with State Department sponsorship at a total cost of 103000 dollars. The course teaches English and American culture before these students enroll in other colleges this fall.
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Lawrence
University of Kansas
United States
State Department
Aluminum price hike adds costs for railroad and workers
A Missouri court case alleges negligence after a locomotive seat caused injury. Alcoa and Alcoa Aluminum Pig pricing shift 1 cent per pound effective Aug 1 with alloy pig and ingot price rises around four percent. Wage and benefit changes totaling 21 cents per hour accompany the move.
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Kansas City
Missouri Pittsburgh
Salumi-Pacific Railroad
Imum Co. of America
Jackson County
Frank Russell Martin
Saline
Esseges
Claflin
Kas
Martin
Alcoa
Arena
Stones in the hubcap diagnosis in car noise
Kalmbach reported a strange car noise at the garage. The mechanic asked for a description and Kalmbach replied it sounded like stones in the hubcap. When Kalmbach asked what it was, the mechanic confirmed stones in the hubcap as the diagnosis.
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Milwacker
Kalmbach
Employee Of State Home Charged In Assault
Dewey Miller, an employee at the State Soldiers’ Home in Dodge City, was charged with assault with intent after a 56 year old resident, Fernest Harmon, sustained lung and arm wounds in an altercation Saturday. Harmon, a World War I veteran from Independence, Iowa, had lived at the home with his wife for about two years.
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Dodge City
Dodge
Fernest Harmon
Independence
Ias
Dewey Miller
Harmon
Two Men Involved In Cottage Shooting Incident
The Ottawa Herald reports from July 29 1957 that Douglas Myers testified Miller fired shots through a locked screen door of a cottage with an old .22 caliber revolver. Myers noted long standing bad feeling between the two men.
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County
Alty
Douglas Myers
Miller
Myers
iDriver Is Killed in Newton Crash
A car on U S 1 plunged through a barricade into construction equipment, killing 25 year old Claudel Whitehead of Newton. The crash occurred yesterday and details remain limited.
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Newton
U. S
Claudel Whitehead
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Chuck Langdon
Osage County
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Ieee
UMS
RED Cross
Paine
J. Dean Nossinger
North American Bldg
Merle Paul
N. Main
Ottawa
Kansas
Ottawa PLC
K.C
Nelce Isham
Mer
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Ottawa Herald
John G. Kaiser Drug Store
Rexall Store
Pho
Masonic
Sheaffer
Parker
Tafide
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Victor Adding Machine
Stafford
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