Ottawa Civil Defense Week Test Sets Sirens for Tomorrow
Ottawa will test sirens on the north and south water towers during Civil Defense Week. Willa Henderson will receive the alert from St. Joseph Missouri and notify police who will radio electricians at the towers. Public told not to alarm. Ottawa police and auxiliary units will participate, with regular procedures plus radio use.
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Ottawa
Willa Henderson
Maple
St. Joseph
Ottawa Police
Eugene Flaherty
Requests Submitted For Ottawa Community Chest Drive
The Ottawa Community Chest heard requests for funds from 15 or ganizations for the annual drive to be held at the Chamber of Commerce rooms. The biggest addition was 1500 for the Ottawa Boys Club while other agencies requested smaller increases. The drive last year raised 20475 toward a 20000 goal and a follow up meeting will study the proposals.
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Ottawa Community Chest
John Sheldon
Chamber of Com 1
Ottawa Boys’ Club
Dorking
Two Escaped Jail Breakers Captured Near Hugoton
Sedgwick County jail escapees Leo Howard Rogers and Allen Earl Doertler were captured at Hugoton after their car stuck. They faced car theft charges for using a farm truck to aid the escape. Two accomplices, James Ellis Hall and Charles Ray Scott, were recaptured earlier.
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Wichita
Sedgwick
Hugoton
Floyd Schroeder
Stevens County
Leo Howard Rogers
James H. Burris
Santa Ana
Calif
Allen Earl Doertler
Topeka
Logan Sanford
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Rogers
Doertler
James Ellis Hall
Charles Ray Scott
Fair and mild forecast for county with partial clouds
The weather forecast notes fair and mild conditions this afternoon and tonight. Thursday brings partly cloudy skies with occasional rain and cooler highs in the 75 to 85 range, with tonight’s lows around 60 to 68.
Flu Outbreak Hits Eight States With School Absences
The spread of Asian flu prompts widespread school closures and high absence rates. Mississippi reports 24 000 cases and 12 counties with outbreaks while New York Texas and Florida also report notable activity. In Hastings Oswego County N Y 400 students suspected ill and five Hastings schools closed. In Texas Dallas contemplates home nursing classes if needed. State health departments confirm multiple Asian flu cases nationwide.
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New York
Texas
Mississippi
Florida
Missouri
Parks
West Virginia
Oklahom
Board of Health
Hastings
Oswego County
N. Y
Niagara Falls
Conroe
Houston
Dallas
J. W. Bass
Jas‘Ipery
Southeast High School
Kansas City
Pennsylvania Health Department
West Virginia Health Department
Underground Phone Cable Work Starts in Ottawa
Work began this morning on laying underground telephone cable in east Ottawa as part of a national toll network. Rylie Equipment and Contracting Co. of Kansas City leads the crew under Adolph Jonas with main supervisor Bill Evey outlining the route from east Ottawa to near the west edge along 7th Street. The project will place cable in a clay conduit under sidewalks, with new sidewalks provided at no cost to affected property owners. Southwestern Bell Manager J.T. Morrissey says Ottawa will become a toll center, handling calls from surrounding communities in the new toll network.
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Arcadia
Fla
DeSoto County
Aew
Evey
Kissimmee
George Ledom
Ottawa
August Jonas
Rylie Equipment and Contracting Co
Kansas City
Kas
East 7Th Street
Adolph Jonas
Bill Evey
7Th Street
Park and Main
West i i
Emporia
Rylie
Cherry
7Th
Telephone Company
J.T. Morrisey
Southwestern Bell
Topeka Shaken By Loud Blast Reported
A loud blast unsettled Topeka and was heard in Valley Falls and Emporia around 10:50 a.m. Officials at Forbes Air Force Base suggested a sonic boom from a jet breaking the sound barrier. No evidence of a blast was found and residents speculated the noise came from a jet nearby.
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Topeka
Kansas Capital City
Valley Falls
Emporia
Here
Forbes Air Force Base
Emporia Wi
Rse
Neigh
Borhood
Butler Sees 3rd Party Threat
Oklahoma City Democratic national chairman Paul Butler warned a third party could emerge next year over civil rights. He rejected calls to resign, saying he won’t be fired and the party will not yield on enforcing court-ordered school integration. He spoke at a regional two day meeting with leaders from six Western states.
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Oklahoma City
Paul Butler
Neville Bennett
South Carolina
Butler
Bate
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Colorado
Kansas
Arkansas
Democratic Party
National Committee
Delay Dodger Decision
New York Brooklyn Dodgers agreed to defer action on their planned move to Los Angeles until Mayor Robert F. Wagner discusses a Rockefeller proposal to keep the team in New York with the City Board of Estimate.
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New York
Brooklyn Dodgers
Los Angeles
Robert F. Wagoner
City Board of Estimate
Nelson A. Rockefeller
United States Moves to Block China's UN Seat
At the United Nations in New York the United States led a push to block a seating for Red China in the General Assembly. India’s proposal to make the issue a formal agenda item prompted a planned Steering Committee debate, with Britain and several other delegations signaling support for deferring the issue. Dulles was listed among early speakers as assembly opens.
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United Nations
N.Y
United States
China
U. N
General Assembly
India
Soviet Bloc
U.S
Britain
Peiping
Flood Threat From Esther Lingers After Gulf Storm
NEW ORLEANS Esther, a tropical storm that never became a hurricane, drives flood risk as she moves north. Tides reach three to five feet along southeast Louisiana and the Mississippi coast, with eight inches of rain possible in Mississippi. One death is attributed to the storm. Esther's 64 mph winds were recorded on the Lake Pontchartrain causeway. No widespread New Orleans damage reported.
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New Orleans
Esther
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Morgan City
Audrey
Bertha
Louisiana-Texas
Lake Ponchartrain
Shot Fatally At Drive-In Theater near McAlester
MALVERSTER Okla A 36 year old Texas oil field worker was fatally shot at a drive in theater near McAlester. Carroll Pennington of Dallas died at 2 25 am in McAlester general hospital from a chest wound. A Shawnee Oklahoma man is sought for questioning and an alert has been issued to officers in Oklahoma and surrounding states.
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Malcester
Okla
Texas
Pittsburgh
Ewing Sadler
Carroll
Sadler
Pennington
Tulsa
East Texas
Minor Car Repair Turns Costly in Blytheville Garage Incident
Blytheville resident Fletcher Womack backed into a garage while reaching for a 35 cent auto part. A wall hole, falling overhead door, and a jolt shifted the car into forward gear, causing a crash into another vehicle. He escaped injury and had insurance, but left without the part.
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Blytheville, Arkon
Blytheville
Fletcher Womack
Womack
Man Too Preoccupied With Tangibles Says Dr. Martin
Dr. Martin argues modern man overvalues tangible assets while undervaluing education and religion. He lists two value orders and says bricks are essential only as servants to intangible aims like truth, faith, and mind driven by values. An electric organ premiere followed the convocation with Mrs Kerr at the console.
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Andrew B. Martin
Hay
Ottawa University
Star
Ible
Seif
Martin
Edgar D. Kerr
Jal Part
Man
Air Force to Launch 4 Stage Research Rocket
The Air Force plans Phase 2 of Project Far Side to launch a four stage rocket to 1 000 to 4 000 miles altitude from Enwetok Atoll. A giant balloon will lift the vehicle to 20 miles before firing to study cosmic rays and the upper atmosphere.
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Baltimore
Air Force
Eniwetok Atoll
Pacific
Air Research and Development Command
Navy
Project Vanguard
ARDC
Project Far Side
Earth
Federal Officials Get Set For Little Rock Court Test
Federal officials prepared mass testimony and a secret report for court in the fight with Gov. Faubus over school integration. Faubus, smiling, met Rep. Hays and denied Time magazine claims about his motive for calling out the National Guard. Rockefeller declined to comment as Faubus sought a compromise with Washington, details still secret.
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Little Rock
Little Rock, Ark
Orval Faubus
Faubus
Rep. Hays
D-Ark
Time Magazine
National Guard
Rockefeller
New York
Arkansas Gazette
Washington
Report Carries Threat Hoffa Ouster from AFL CIO
The AFL CIO Ethical Practices Committee accused Teamsters Vice President James R Hoffa of associating with and promoting labor racketeers. The report served on the Teamsters union implied ouster from AFL CIO and cited violations by Hoffa retiring president Dave Beck and VP Frank Brewster, urging a clean union and stating the union failed to meet labor ethics standards.
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Washington
Aflcio Ethical Practices Committee
Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Afl-Cio
Hoffa
Dave Beck
Frank Brewster
Hoffa Perjury Claim Amid Senate Racketeering Hearing
McClellan labeled a key witness in the Senate Rackets Committee hearings as having committed perjury by claiming he could not recall details about recording devices and illegal recordings. The speech referenced Hoffa indirectly as the likely successor to Dave Beck and noted new hearings in Washington next week.
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New York IV
McClellan
D-Ark
James R. Hoffa
Senate
The
American Institute of Supply Assn, Inc
Hoffa
Midwest
I Teamsters Union
Dave Beck
Washington
New York
Johnny Dio
Justice Department
Army Grip On Thailand Tight
Bangkok reports a military coup ousted Premier Pibulsonggram and suspended the constitution. Lt Gen Surajit Charuseran said the junta has not named a successor or decided on Parliament’s future. Marshal Sarit Thanarat, named Bangkok governor, met officials on legalizing the coup and Western-aligned policy continuity.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Surajit Charuseran
P. Pibulsonggram
Sarit Thanarat
Phutiphon Aduldet
Surajit
Sarit
Salong
Fpibulsonggram
Traffic Toll In Topeka Area For 1957 Totals
State Accident Records Section reports Topeka Kansas traffic fatalities over the past 24 hours. To date in 1957 totals 376, compared with 460 in the same period of 1956.
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Topeka
Kansas
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S. Main
William Wheeler
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Basile
Louisville
Richard P. Clark
Clark
Cub Scouts
Salvation Army
Red Cross
Itumane Society
Humane Society
Service League
Goodly Chest
USC
Kansas Children's Service 500
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M. Tn
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A. L. Gray
Preventage Disease Control
J. R. Cook
Trinity
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Lamar Phillips
Dodger
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Sir Leslie Munro
Charles Malik
Lebanon
Storm Esther
Dr. Martin
Lamb
Winthrop Rockefeller
Arkansas Industrial Development Commission
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