Harkins begins KU personnel admin internship
Joseph F. Harkins son of Mr and Mrs A T Harkins 422 W Std starts a five week internship in personnel administration in the office of Charles A Hark ness III KU personnel director after completing his junior year. He will work two and a half weeks in the personnel office then spend 12 weeks in the Marine Corps Platoon Leader course at Quantico VA before returning to Lawrence for two and a half more weeks of internship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph F. Harkins
A. T. Harkins
Charles A. Harkness III
University of Kansas
Harkins
Deaths of John D New 44 in Overland Park
John Darwin New 44 brother of Mrs S S Bergsma of Ottawa died yesterday at his Overland Park home. Born in Lenexa he lived in Johnson County all his life. Survivors include widow three daughters a son his mother Mrs Mary Effie New La Feria Texas two sisters a brother and one granddaughter. Services set for Saturday at 11 a.m. at Overland Park Presbyterian Church with burial at Johnson County Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
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John D
John Darwin New
S. S. Bergsma
Ottawa
Overland Park
Lenexa
Johnson County
Mary Effie New
la Feria
Tex
Overland Park Presbyterian Church
Johnson County Memorial Gardens
Newton Man Violated Contract Ruling
Federal Judge Willis W. Ritter ruled Oscar Sutorious former head of Sutorious Bread Co in Newton Kansas violated a 1957 contract with Texas Research Corp. He was to be a consultant earning 12000 dollars a year for 10 years with a 6000 dollar yearly widow’s benefit if he died. He allegedly filed receivership suits and met with disgruntled Texas Research staff, breaking the agreement. Receivership suits remain in state court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Oscar Sutorious
Sutorious Bread Co
Newton
Kas
Texas Research Corp
Kansas City
Sutorious
Willis W. Ritter
Salt Lake City
Sotorious
Texas Research
Ritter
Ready For Debate On Lewis Strauss
Washington AP The Senate readies debate on Lewis L Strauss nomination as secretary of commerce. Commerce Committee reports split 9-8 in favor of confirmation, setting up a likely close vote. If all 98 senators vote a 49 or 50 needed, Nixon could break a 49-49 tie.
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Washington
Senate
Lewis L. Strauss
Senate Commerce Committee
Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Cause Of Dis Coverer III Failure Remains Uncertain
At Bandenberg Air Force Base California Air Force reports Discoverer III failed to reach orbit due to an unknown malfunction. The rocket re entered the atmosphere several thousand miles from the West Coast base and the four mice aboard were cremated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Air Force
West Coast Missile Base
US Funds For Sewage Plant In Larned Kansas
The Health, Education and Welfare Department approves a federal grant of 30339 dollars toward a 375000 dollar sewage treatment plant project in Larned Kansas. Senator Andrew F Schoep pel (R Kansas) was advised of the action.
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Washington
Health, Education and Welfare Department
Larned
Kas
Andrew F. Schoeppel
R-Kas
Marriage Licenses for Ottawa Wellsville and Colby Couples
Harold E. Myers 21 and Nancy Ann Heed 17 both of Ottawa. Rollaund P. Ferris Jr. 22 and Shirley Ann Foulk 18 both of Wellsville. Rex E. Browning 19 of Shawnee and Jeanie L. Telvis 17 of Melvern. Sidney Lynn Harrison 22 of Colby and Raydell Roge Hodson 21 of Ottawa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold E. Myers
Nancy Ann Heed
Ottawa
Rollaund P. Ferris Jr
Shirley Ann Foulk
Wellsville
Rex E. Browning
Shawnee
Jeanie L. Telvis
Melvern
Sidney Lynn Harrison
Colby
andRaydell Roge Hodson
Let 'Em Stay Says Warden
Pottstown AP report: at Graterford State Penitentiary two inmates climbed from a maintenance job to the top of an 185 foot water tower and stayed there. Warden Myers called them nuts and offered no rescue plan. Prisoners Raymond E Thompson 26 and Donald Brady 24, both from Philadelphia, are serving burglary related terms.
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Pottstown
Graterford State Penitentiary
David M. Myers
Myers
Raymond E. ‘Thompson
Donald Brady
Philadelphia
Here
Plastic Sheeting Fatal To Babies
Two infants in New York state died after suffocation by plastic sheeting Nancy Lynn Walton aged 2 months in the Bronx and Migdalia Perez aged 4 months in Staten Island A plastics industry warning urged keeping plastic bags from children The National Safety Council logged 20 child deaths from plastic bags in the first quarter of the year
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New York
Bronx
Staten Island
Nancy Lynn Walton
Migdalia Perez
National Safety Council
Haleys Held in Parsons on Arson Charge
BEULAH Mich AP Mr and Mrs Elvah Haley arrested in Parsons Kan charged with arson and conspiracy to burn a Bendon Mich house for 9000 insurance money Sheriff Jerry Pelton said the Haleys joined George E White to burn White s house while he was away on April 5 State Police said White admitted hiring the Haleys to set the fire Parsons police said the Haleys were arrested while visiting relatives in Parsons They agreed to return to Michigan Michigan authorities expect to take custody over the weekend
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beulah, Mich
Elvah Haley
Parsons
Kan
Bendon
Mich
Jerry Pelton
Haleys
George E. White
White
Michigan
Negro ministers sue Dallas hotel over refused rooms
Two Negro ministers from Birmingham Alabama and Detroit Michigan filed separate suits against the Statler Hilton Hotel in Dallas seeking 15000 damages each. They allege the hotel accepted their reservations for the June 1957 National Baptist Convention then denied them rooms when they arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Tex
Statler-Hilton
J. Lowell Ware
Birmingham
Ala
C. H. Williams
Detroit
Mich
National Baptist Convention
Hospital Notes Admits Multiple Patients Across Town
Hospital notes list admissions including Grace Warner and John L. Wallace at 723 W 6th and 231 Ash respectively, Joseph C. Muecke in Humboldt, Michael Hudnall at 531 S Cherry, Randall and Michael Harris at 925 S Hickory, Nancy Gause RFD 4, Walter Bush Pomona, Anna Marie Pristil Baldwin, with dismissals of J S Weethee RFD 2 Ursula Featheringill Independence, Roy McIntosh RFD 3 Lee Meredith 612 N Poplar and Dixie Heinitz and baby daughter Pomona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Warner
W. 6Th
John L. Wallace
Ash
Joseph C. Muecke
Humboldt
Michael Hudnall
S. Cherry
Randall
Michael Harris
S. Hickory
Nancy Gause
RFD
Walter Bush
Pomona
Anna ‘Marie Pristil
Baldwin
J. S. Weethee
Ursula Featheringill
Independence
Roy McIntosh
Lee Meredith
N. Poplar
Dixie Heinitz
Po‘mona
Van Horn Receives Fellowship To Ames
Harold Jack Van Horn Jr. a Kansas State University dairy nutrition master’s graduate will pursue a doctorate at Iowa State College Ames on a fellowship from the Alumni Research foundation. He will present a paper on cattle bloat control at the National Dairy Science Convention at the University of Illinois Urbana on June 15. He and his wife visited relatives near Pomona before departing for Ames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold
Jack) van Horn Jr
Kansas State University
Iowa State College
Ames
Iowa
Alumni Research Foundation
University of Illinois At
Urbana
Harold van Horns
Herbert Wolfs
Pomona
Escapee youths recaptured near Kincaid by Kansas officers
Two 15 year old boys from the Boys Industrial School at Topeka were nabbed by Franklin County Sheriff Max Gilmore and Undersheriff Bill Gattalmin near Kincaid. Captured after a brief chase with air support from Gay Harris, the pair had previously escaped custody from Topeka and were held in Garnett. They admitted prior crimes including a grocery store theft in Harris Wednesday night and will be transported on state orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellsville
Ray Hall
Franklin County
Don White
Hall
Max Gilmore
Joe Ferns
Topeka
Kincaid
Bill Gattalmin
Anderson County
Lonezim
Kas
Garnett
Gay Harris
Harris
Garnett Man Plans Appeal to High Court in DWI Case
Leonard A. Feuerborn, 34, filed a notice in District Court to appeal his drunken driving conviction to the Supreme Court. He was found guilty by a District Court jury May 12, with a $100 fine and 30 days in jail. Bonds totaling $600 accompanied the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garnett
Supreme Court
Leonard A. Feuerborn
Boy Driving Tractor Killed In Peabody Crash
Peabody Kansas. Ray Wegerer nine-year-old was killed when a car struck the rear of a tractor he was driving. Undersheriff Earl Pancratz said the tractor was turning off a road when hit. Ray had been allowed by an older brother to drive the tractor home from the field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peabody, Kas
Ray Wegerer
Earl Pancratz
Ray
Funeral services for Mrs Louis H Gilley
Funeral services for Mrs Louis H Gilley, who died yesterday, will be held at Main Street United Presbyterian Church tomorrow at 9 a.m. Dr William E Sperger and Rev Charles P Knight will officiate. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery. Friends may call at Lamb Funeral Home this afternoon and evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis H. Gilley
Louis
H. Gilley
Main Street United Presbyterian Church
William E. Sperger
Charles P. Knight
Bruce Spears
C. A. Hawley
R. C. Capron
W. C. Harding
Bruce Allison
Fred Kaiser
F. R. Bennett Sr
Milo M. Hewitt
J. R. Cheney
George H. Spears
Phil A. Hart
J. R. Henning
Highland Cemetery
Lamb Funeral Home
Urges Retention of FAA Money
Washington AP report says Rep. Newell A. George urges Senate to restore FAA funds for air traffic control construction. He warns that cutting 74 million could halt key safety projects including traffic control centers such as the planned one at Olathe Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Federal Aviation Agency
Newell A. George
D-Kas
Senate
George
House
FAA
Olathe
Kas
Little Girl On Shopping Spree
SEATTLE W ash AP Rich ard O Haynes watched his daughter Charlotte 12 enjoy a department store spree that blew his estimate. The bill reached 215 dollars and 37 cents as clerks rang up toys clothes and stuffed animals during the hour long shopping event for her birthday. The insurance executive and his wife anticipated a fifty dollar cap but the child spent freely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
Richard O. Haynes
Charlotte
Haynes
Insurance Company
Three Die in East of Oberlin Traffic Crash
Three people were killed and two seriously hurt in a two vehicle collision on U.S. 36 east of Oberlin Kansas. Victims identified include John H. Davis 36 of Belleville Vernon Simmons 38 of Mankato and Florence B Winsatt 43 of Portland Oregon. Mrs Winsatt husband Russell E Winsatt 43 and daughter Nora Lee about 14 were treated at Decatur County Hospital. The Oregon family were in a pickup while the others were in a station wagon. The Winsatts were traveling to Richmond Missouri for funeral services for Elvin Lavern Thomas 44 of Richmond.
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Oberlin
Kas
Here
U.S
Highway Patrol
John H. Davis
Belleville
Vernon Simmons
Manikato
Florence B. Winsatt
Portland
Ore
Oregon
Davis
Simmons
Winsatt
Richmond
Elvin Lavern Thomas
New York Hospital Strike Spreads to Flower & Fifth Avenue
The nonprofessional hospital strike in New York reaches seventh facility as Local 1199 of the Retail Drug Employes Union pickets Flower & Fifth Avenue Hospitals. The union says the hospitals abandoned a contract granting union recognition arbitration grievances wage increases and a no strike pledge. Hospitals continue operating with volunteers and substitutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Flower & Fifth Avenue Hospitals
Upper Manhattan
Flying Farmers Visit Austria from American Association
Forty members of the National Flying Farmers Assn arrived in Vienna to inspect Austrian agriculture. Tour director Fred Triplett said the group would visit experimental stations, coming from Denmark and planning to fly to Rome Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
National Flying Farmers Assn
Fred Triplett
Denmark
Rome
Probate notices for George Hay and Almond Shafer estates
In Franklin County Kansas Probate Court notices announce petitions by Mabel J Hay owner of real estate and by Richard O Skoog administrator seeking descent determination and sale of described parcels to pay debts. Hearings set for July 1 1954 and June 26 1959 with warnings of default and final judgments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorraine L. Kennett
Overland Park
Franklin County
Calvin Hicks
Patrons Cooperative Bank
Olathe
Reed Richardson
Beautyland
Mozelle Gagne
Riley-Bula Cummings
State of Kansas
Said
George & Hay
George Sheridan Hay
Ito
Mabel J. Hay
Brank L
Ottawa
Kansas
Mablel I. Hay
Bowers & Bowers
Almond Shefer
Williamsburg
Richard O. Skoog
Almond Shafer
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Ransom Memorial Hospital
Kat 'N Karl
Adv
William H. Hay
Manhattan
James R. Everson
King
Fred Tenny
Little Rock
Ark
Wilky’s Pottery
East Lane
Hiwy
Merrit McDonald
Lee Perkins
Albert Pickett
Clyde Berry
Richmond Lions Club
Hutchinson
A. O. Sigler
Virgil Smith
Robert Brown
Herbert McClure
Church of Christ
5Th and Cedar
Ben Nicholas
Centropolis First Baptist Church
Des Moines
James E. Springfield
Oak
Indiana University
Springfield
Otttawa University
Tthe University of Kansas
Lowell Dickinson
American Baptist Convention
James F. Corcoran
Seaman
USN
T. L. Corcoran
E. Logan
Conflict
Camp Pendleton
Rawleigh Products
S. Main
Paula Jean Ivey
Ofelita Ivey
E. 5Th
William Allen White
Kansas State Teacher's College
Emporia
Ottawa Carnegie Public Library
Miss Ivey
Emporia College
Drake's Bakery
Ady
Lewis Strauss
P. R. Jamison
College
John Macdonald
van Horn
N. Y
Austria
Ottawa, Kansas
General Services
Gustom Baling
Intanis
Henry Alban
LeRoheim
B. Wilson
Rayburna
Vini Poe
Pho
Lee Rollins
Tra Meade
Standard Rendering Co
Conrad’s Spray
McEcracken Electric
Wightman
John
Quenemo
Edgerton
Bob McDaniel
Ottive Magill
Ottive Masill
Tancred Commandery No
K. T
Order of the Temple
John W. Taylor
E. C
Charles W. Watts
Alcoholics Anonymous
P.O
Seare
Morton
Muehlebach
Missouri
Babson Bros. Co
Carl Mr Hybarger
Edmiston
Budge
John Deere
Oliver
Roderick Lean
Ottawa Tractor & Implement Co
Leeds
Fort
Swift
Sycamore
Singer
Edwin Moser
Goodyear
Sandaran
Armstrong Budge’s Hardware
den and Women Ltd
Aleo Dishwasher
Master Aerial Spraying, Inc
Lawn & Home Service
Livestock
Calle Hood
H. BE. Adell
Lane
Springer Holstein Heifer
Orville Floger
Greenswood School
Elmer Smith
Waverly
Pressonville
Ralph Wingert
International M
C. F. Norton
Francis Wilson
Montgomery Ward
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