Phillips Firm Wins Major Kansas Turnpike Contracts
The Phillips Petroleum Co. secured operations at four of six Kansas turnpike service stations, with rates of 8.15 cents, 7.85 cents, and 7.75 cents per gallon for Lawrence Towanda and Emporia, while Sinclair Oil and Socony Mobil won the Wellington and Topeka stations. KTA projects include a $604,549 revenue share, a $2,544,538 Lawrence bridge by Maxwell Construction, and 17 additional bridge contracts in Sedgwick County totaling $1,295,652.
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Wichita
Phillips Petroleum Co
Phillips
Kansas Turnpike Authority
Lawrence
Gale Moss
KTA
Towanda
Emporia
Sinclair Oil Co
Wellington
Topeka
Socony-Mobil Oil Co
Moss
Maxwell Construction Co
Columbus
Kas
Kansas River
Sedgwick County
Pittsburg Editor Named Public Relations Director
Wichita Louisiana? Louis Stroup handling editor of the Pittsburg Headlight and Sun has been appointed public relations director for the Kansas Turnpike Authority effective June 22. Moss, turnpike general manager, said Stroup will work from the Topeka headquarters.
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Wichita
Louis Stroup
Pittsburg
Kas
Headlight
Sun Newspapers
Kansas Turnpike Authority
Gale Moss
Stroup
Turnpike Authority
Topeka
Foreign conflicts and Antarctic expedition News Briefs
Ten people were killed in eastern Algeria and three in Morocco amid ongoing anti French actions. Sir Edmund Hillary will lead New Zealand's Antarctic expedition next year. Fifteen American Catholic missionaries remain imprisoned in Chinese Communist prisons. Belgium’s House passes a bill cutting state aid to Roman Catholic schools by about five percent despite a boycott by Catholic party members.
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Paris
Algeria
Morocco
Auckland
New Zealand
Edmund Hillary
Antarctic
Hillard
C. M. Bowden
Ross Sea
Hong Kong
The
Catholic Center
Brussels
Belgium
House of Representatives
Chamber
Senate
Child Killed When A Car Overturns
ALTAMONT Kas A car struck a culvert and overturned near here yesterday killing Dwaine Ware. The driver was Wesley Eugene Smith 12 The boys fathers the Rev Clarence W Smith of Altamont and Kenneth Ware are partners in a truck gardening project. They had sent the boys after equipment at the Ware farm when the accident occurred.
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Altamont, Kas
Dwaine Ware
Wesley Eugene Smith
Clarence W. Smith
Altamont
Kenneth Ware
Ware Farm
Ma Ferguson 80 Years Old on Birthday Dinner
Ma Ferguson celebrated her 80th birthday with a dinner in Austin attended by nearly 300 government officials relatives and friends. Senator Lyndon Johnson would have traveled ten times farther to attend and President Eisenhower sent congratulations.
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Austin
Tex
Ma Ferguson
Miriam A. Ferguson
Texas
James E
Farmer Jim) Ferguson
Lyndon Johnson
Senate
Eisenhower
Steel inputs would form a train 38228 miles long
A fact about U S steel industry shows that if all iron ore coal and limestone consumed in one year were loaded into railroad cars and attached to one train the length would reach 38228 miles. A separate UK stat notes 16 percent of the population is over 60.
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U. S
United Kingdom
Udall Toll Tops 80 From Tornado Aftermath
The death of 71 year old Zack West in a local hospital raises the Udall tornado toll to 80. The tornado struck the town on May 25, with West dying from exposure and pneumonia complications.
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Winfield
Zack West
Udall
West
Insists Reds Are Friendly
London describes Soviet Ambassador Jacob Malik easing Cold War tensions by informal lunches at the Moscow embassy on Millionaires Row. He and Moscow diplomats drop guards, invite Western envoys to meals, and pursue talks with Japan amid a visible shift from the past rigid security posture. Malik leads by example, even meeting Matsumoto at the embassy over drinks.
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London
Jacob Malik
Russia
Britain
Kremlin
V. M. Molotov
Malik
Kensington
Shunichi Matsumoto
Matsumoto
Moscow
Escapee Lester Smith sought by multiple states in Texas jail break
Eureka Kansas sheriff requests guidance from the attorney general as Lester Omer Smith, 26, a Canton Texas jail escapee, is held in Greenwood County jail after a 110 mph highway chase. Smith faces burglary charges in Texas, a car theft case in California, and holds from federal authorities. three Kansas cities and the FBI are involved.
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Eureka
Kas
Ray Lindamond
Texas
Kansas
Greenwood County
Lester Omer Smith
Kansas Highway
Charles Williams
Smith
Canton
Tex
Bernessa McAllister
Etta McAllister
Maize
Lindamood
Williams
Wichita
Parsons
Newton
California
Myrtle Springs
Lindawood
Library Receives Approval to Preserve Eisenhower Records
Washington House Government Operations Committee approved Rep Rees bill to keep important Eisenhower administration records in a privately built library near Abilene Kansas. The Eisenhower Foundation would maintain the facility, mirroring preservation setups for Truman at Independence Missouri and Roosevelt at Hyde Park New York.
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Washington
House Government Operations Committee
Rep
Rees
Car Into Pond Claims Driver in Russell County
William N. Carlisle aged 43 from Russell Kansas died when his car left a country road, overturned, and settled upside down in five feet of water in a farm pond. Firemen removed the body after the accident occurred yesterday.
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Beaver
Kas
William N. Carlisle
Russell
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Clarence McFadden
Cleveland
Clyde Harber
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Kansas Highway Patrol
Kansas Atty
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Pickwick Coffee
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