PTA Meeting Opens School Year With Orientation Theme
The Junior-Senior High PTA will hold its first meeting of the school year Monday at 7 30 p m in the auditorium. The program includes group discussions by grade level on homework outside activities and social guidance with named leaders for seventh and eighth grades and two senior high sessions led by Rev Roger Fredrikson and Robert B Wellington. In Hutchinson Kansas officials at the state fair report space for 400 hutches but entries already exceed that number with an Arizona entrant bringing 154 rabbits and a Denver entrant 120.
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PTA
William Wright
Floyd Coffman
al Williams
Ralph Gage
Howard Doman
Roger Fredrikson
Robert B. Wellington
Hutchinson
Kan
Arizona
Denver
Virgil Miller
Branch County Hospital birth marks 10000th baby
In Coldwater Michigan Branch County Memorial Hospital celebrated its 10 000th birth since opening in 1939 Mrs Ehrle Crandall gave birth to twin boys making history for the hospital Two newborn twins arrived as staff prepared duplicate prizes for the milestone event
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Coldwater
Mich
Branch County Memorial Hospital
Ehrle Crandall
Union Rejects Four Year Terms For Union Officers
Kansas City AP reports about 3000 delegates at the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen convention voting down a plan to extend officers and district chairs from two to four years and trustees from six to 12 years. Senator Symington urged cooperation for prosperity as unemployment remains high. Rail retirement board head Habermeyer noted 600 million dollars in benefits paid last year, with a faster pace since the first billion in nine years.
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Kansas City
Brotherhood of Railway
Carmen
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Labor and Management
Symington
Howard W. Habermeyer
Chicago
Railroad Retirement Board
Habermeyer
County Weather Forecast Shows Warm Weekend Ahead
Generally fair through Saturday with warmer temperatures today. Highs mid 80s, tonight lows 60s to 65, Saturday highs upper 80s. River stage this morning 1.38 feet. Yesterday's high reached 87, low 53, with records noted for high and low on this date.
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Bop
Seers
Sasarees
Atomic Power To Be Tested In Airplanes
A U S scientist reports that the United States will test atom powered space rockets and airplanes this fall using small atomic reactors with uranium cores under a foot in diameter. Dr. H L Reynolds says tests will heat hydrogen to provide thrust for rockets, with Nevada tests on a Los Alamos reactor and Livermore radiation lab reactor also planned.
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Geneva
United States
H. L. Reynolds
University of California
Dr. Reynolds
Nevada
Los Alamos N.M
Radiation Laborae
Livermore
Calif
Missouri farmer freed in baby trade case
District Judge Leslie Webb released a Missouri farmer who allegedly traded a pickup truck for a baby. A charge of aiding and abetting child desertion against Jesse L. Burger was dismissed for lack of evidence. A jury trial was set for Oct. 6 for Mr and Mrs Richard Readdy of Shamokin, Pa.
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Tulsa
Okla
Leslie Webb
Missouri
Jesse L. Burger
el Dorado Springs
Richard lReaddy
Shamokin
Burger
Joplin
Air Force scrubs Atlas missile test at Cape Canaveral
The Air Force canceled a planned Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile launch at Cape Canaveral due to technical trouble detected in countdown. The Atlas, considered the nation’s most powerful war missile, sat under floodlights for hours before the malfunction was found. The attempt will be rescheduled at an early date.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Air Force
Oklahoma State Dairy Chief Norton to Join Kansas State
Dr. C L Norton head of the Oklahoma State Dairy Department will leave OSU next month to take a similar post at Kansas State. He resigned yesterday.
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Stillwater
Okla
C. L. Norton
Oklahoma State Dairy Department
Kansas State
Author Of The Shooting Of Dan McGrew Dies In France
Yukon poet Robert W. Service died in Lanciuex France at 84 after a heart attack Wife by his side at his Robert Service Street home in Brittany He earned about 500000 from 130 lines of the Dan McGrew verse He wrote in the Yukon bank when not reciting at church socials He later printed a book of verse with Toronto publishers after a bank bonus Then a flurry of works followed including novels and a two volume autobiography
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France
Lancieux
Robert W. Service
Yukon
Robert Service
Brittany
Service
Toronto
Nationalists pull back as Quemoy blockade persists
In the Formosa Strait crisis that enters its third week the Nationalists dodged another attempt to run the Communist blockade of Quemoy. Offshore shells strike Little Quemoy Ehrtan and Tran as Nationalists, pressed by Red artillery, abandon a fresh supply push. Some call for greater American help including air drops and direct action to break the siege.
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Taipei
Quemoy
Formosa Strait
Little Quemoy
Ehrtan
Tran
U.S
Associated Press
James Cary
Shoesmith Greenspan dies with belt of cash
Abraham Greenspan, 70, a frugal downtown Los Angeles shoe maker known for eccentrics, died Thursday. Police found he wore a worn money belt containing 25,496 in cash and bonds, suggesting he was wealthier than friends believed.
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Los Angeles
Abraham Greenspan
Greenspan
Free Wash and Dry at new coin amatic Laundry
Free wash and dry offered at the new coin operated Amatic Laundry located at 1129 North Mali. Durbin's Pilog Shop advertises this promotion to attract customers and showcase the facility.
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Mali
Durbin
Pilog
Kansas State Fair Opens With Expanded Poultry Show
The 1958 Kansas State Fair begins Saturday with six days of events after a preview tonight. Secretary-manager Virgil Miller says the fair is in top shape as exhibit space fills. Poultry show is a major feature with over 2,000 entries, about triple from a decade ago. Tomorrow is Press and Wichita Day with Kansas editors attending a luncheon and the third annual newspaper contest winners announced.
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Virgil Miller
Press
Wichita
Kansas
County Board Names Seven To Zoning Group
Franklin County Commissioners signed two resolutions to adopt a 3 mile zoning around Ottawa and to appoint seven men to a planning commission. Names include Haverty Peffly Good Allen Edwards Keith Koontz. Terms range one to four years. A public hearing will precede action.
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Franklin County
Ottawa
Don White
Clifford D. Haverty
Harold Peffly
Clarence IT
Good
James L. Allen
Marvin N. Edwards
Clarence J Keith
Ray F. i\Koontz
Haverty and
Peffly
City Planning Commission
Homer Reeves
Discharged grain inspector appeals in Topeka
Howard J. Weinman former chief grain inspector at Atchison has appealed to the State Civil Service Board after being fired by Harry Dole the state chief grain inspector. Dole said an Atchison employee cashed state checks from private firms for after hour charges. Atty. Gen. John Anderson is investigating.
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Topeka Gap
Howard J.weinman
Atchison
State Civil Service Board
Weinman
Harry
Dole
Atchiison
Atty
John Anderson
Anderson
Landon to speak on three Kansas amendments in swing
Alf Landon, turning 71, plans a one day campaign swing through six Kansas cities to discuss three state constitutional amendments. He opposes two measures including a right to work and judicial selection change, while backing one on flood control and water conservation. He funds and schedules the tour himself and may add more appearances if crowds grow.
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PEKA
Alf Landon
Kansas
Landon
Kansas Supreme Court
Kansas Cities
Faubus silent on next step after court ruling
In Little Rock Arkansas Gov Orval Faubus refused to comment on how he will respond to the Supreme Court order to admit Negro students at Central High School. Capitol officials expect immediate action possibly closing the school and lawmakers prepared for swift moves. In Newport Rhode Island President Eisenhower urged Americans to avoid defiance of court orders on integration.
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Ark
Orval Faubus
Supreme Court
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State Capitol
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Capitol
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City Board of Directors
U. S. District Attorney's Office
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Eisenhower
District Court
Arkansas
U.S. Dist
Harry J. Lemley
Lemley
Richard C. Butler
Butler
Virgil T. Blossom
Faubug
Arkansas Democrat
Associated Press
Blossom
Ottawa 13 year old delinquent to BIS study
Judge Floyd Coffman in Ottawa denied an appeal by a sandy haired 13 year old, upholding a Franklin County Juvenile Court ruling that the boy is delinquent and should be committed to Boys Industrial School in Topeka. The three and a half hour hearing followed a prior BIS sentence after four youths admitted breaking into Eugene Field School. One boy was paroled, another sent to a Newton church school. the motion to dismiss was overruled.
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District Court
Ottawa
Franklin County
Boys Industrial School
Topeka
BIS
Eugene Field School
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Coffman
Eisenhower to reply within 24 hours to Khrushchev demand
President Eisenhower plans a quick reply to Soviet Premier Khrushchev after his message calling for U S forces out of the Formosa Strait area. Hagerty announced the plan as Eisenhower returned to vacation headquarters following a nationwide address urging Red China to negotiate or face war. Khrushchev linked a Red China attack to the Soviet Union and urged recognition of the Chinese Communist regime, a policy Washington has rejected. Also notes a rummage sale at Memorial Auditorium by Soroptimist.
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Eisenhower
Khrushchev
United States
Formosa Strait
James C. Hagerty
Washington
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Red China
Soviet Union
Unitedd States
Judge Rules Poem Is Valid Will
ST LOUIS AP Mrs Josephine E Laskowitz 73 died last year Her will uses a poem prose line items and names daughter Frances Mose ley as executrix without bond Probate Judge David Hensley ruled the verse a valid will The estate totaled 8904 dollars
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ST. Louis
Josephine E. Laskowitz
Frances Moseley
David Hensley
Electronic Brain Fouls Schedules At Beaumont High
In St Louis Beau mont High School deploys an electric brain to assign students to classes. By Sept 11 the system misrouted about 700 pupils causing classes to mix gender and subject groups. Principal Walter Gammeter calls it the worst scheduling snafu in 34 years.
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Board of Education
Beaumont High School
Walter Gammeter
Gammeter
Supreme Court rejects delay in Arkansas desegregation
Washington AP. The Supreme Court denies a 22 year delay and affirms the 8th Circuit ruling on Central High desegregation in Little Rock. Seven Negro students may rejoin immediately. Governor Faubus warns he may close the school rather than operate with forced integration.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Little Rock
Warren
Goverval Faubus
Court of Appeals
8Th Circuit Court of Appeals
CentralHigh
Jake
To Quiz Hoffa Next Week To Quiz Hoffa Next Week
Senate investigators prepare for another round of questioning of James R. Hoffa head of the Teamsters union. Hoffa is expected to testify Monday as hearings resume amid a long running feud with the Senate committee chaired by Sen. John L. McClellan. The panel also accused Hoffa aide Harold J. Gibbons of consorting with gangsters and using their services to build union power. Gibbons leads Teamsters operations in Missouri and Kansas.
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Washington
Senate
Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
Hoffa
John L. McClellan
Harold J. Gibbons
St. Louis
Gibbons
Missouri
Kansas
Colorful Kansas Politician Dies
TOPEKA AP A colorful Kan sas political figure in the 1920s Al F Williams of Topeka is dead Williams 82 who was U S District attorney for Kansas from 1921 to 1930 the longest anyone has held the office died in a local hospital yesterday After stepping down from the U S attorney s office Williams confined his activities to business interests and to speaking tours on behalf of Republican candidates in campaign years Williams was president of a lo cal d eve firm
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Topeka
Kansas
al F. Williams
Williams
U. S
U.s.attorney’s Office
Locsl Deve
Kansan Named To High Budget Post
Elmer B. Scott Staats was named assistant director of the Budget Bureau in Washington. He held the post previously for three years under the Truman administration and has 14 years as a bureau official. He left in 1953 to head research at Marshall Field & Co. and returned at year’s end to direct operations for the National Security Council before resuming his Budget Bureau duties.
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Washington
Elmer B.scott Staats
Budget Bureau
Staats
Marshall Field & Co
Chicago
National Security Council
Operations Coordinating Board
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