OU football star rallies students at Plaza Theater pep rally
One OU football player urged the student body to back the team from the Plaza Theater stage, saying the team is only as strong as its supporters. In Los Angeles, construction boss Charlie McCullough survived a sewer trench cave in Friday after being buried for minutes in a 20 foot deep trench and later drove himself to a hospital.
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Plaza
Los Angeles
Charlie McCullough
McCullough
Smog Prompt Leads LA Messengers to Bonus
Twenty messenger boys in Los Angeles demanded a smog day bonus. Herman Levy of Action Messenger Service agreed to pay time and a half on smoggy days after the group threatened not to ride their bikes. The city was experiencing its worst smog attack of the year.
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Los Angeles
Herman Levy
Action Messenger Service
Eisenhower to reject Khrushchev letter on Formosa threat
President Eisenhower is expected to reject Khrushchev's warning demanding the United States abandon Nationalist China or face expulsion by Red China. Khrushchev insisted Formosa belongs to Red China and urged withdrawal of American forces to avert further crisis in the Far East.
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Eisenhower
Khrushchev
United States
Formosa
China
Richard Davis
U.S
Moscow
Redg
Premier Sami Solh Flees Beirut In Turbulent Lebanon
Premier Sami Solh slipped from Lebanon amid four-month unrest after two assassination attempts. Reports place his destination as Turkey or Switzerland. With a government changeover near, rebels intensified tensions with kidnappings prompting a Beirut curfew at 8 p.m. until further notice.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Sami Solh
Turkey
Switzerland
Weather county forecast summary
Low clouds and fog linger this morning with light drizzle. Rain is expected later this afternoon as skies remain cloudy through the day.
Quenemo School Patrons Approve Building Bonds
Voters in Quenemo two districts approved a bond plan not to exceed 265000 dollars for a new school building site construction and equipment. High school district favored 168 to 159 while common district backed 163 to 134. Bond would fund site and building costs per contracts from 1954. Boards plan to meet Sept 22 to decide next steps.
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Quenemo
Joint Commons
Joint High
Common School
Merchant's Lash-Soup and Pie at Reno's Main Street
Local ad lists lash-soup pie coffee and Se offerings at Reno's on Trad and Main, with Se and Adv branding. Trade names tied to Se Reno's, promoting a traditional shop atmosphere and daily specials.
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Merchant's
Reno's
Trad
Main
Kansas State Name Change Sparks Regents Action
AP dispatch reports Kansas State’s name change proposal gains support as the Regents back renaming the Manhattan campus to Kansas State University and consider dropping the Pittsburg Teachers College title. Also covered are budgets, loans for Emporia State and women’s housing, and a student body poll result. A separate incident details a 14-year-old assault victimized in a park.
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Kansas State
Regents
Kansas State Teachers College
Pittsburg
Emporia State Teachers College
Congress
Board of Regents
Girl Found Badly Beaten in Newark Street
A severely injured 14 year old girl, Theresa McHugh, was found in Newark, struck, burned, teeth knocked out and hair cut. A juvenile boy confessed to beating her with a rock but denied burning her, and is unnamed due to age. She remains in serious condition at Martland Medical Center.
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Newark
N. J
Theresa McHugh
Martland Medical Center
White students urge regular classes as Little Rock schools reopen
In Little Rock Arkansas tensions rise as a TV educational broadcast targets students from closed high schools while white students demand regular classes even if integrated. Over 200 Central Hall and Tech High pupils have left. Horace Mann remains open for Black students. A Hall High student group calls for reopening as a public school and plans to mail their resolution to Governor Faubus and federal officials.
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Little Rock, Ark
Little Rock
Orval E. Faubus
Central High School
Central
Hall High
Tech High
Horace Mann High School
Hall
Hhe
Faubus
Hold Brothers In Murder Case
Philadelphia officers took custody of brothers Anthony and Edward Scoleri after they waived extradition. They are tied to the August 28 Philadelphia drugstore killing during a holdup and to robberies in Cleveland Columbus Springfield and Chicago. They admitted sharing an Philadelphia apartment with waitress Ida Jocco who introduced them to William Woods and Woods died in the Philadelphia holdup.
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Philadelphia
Anthony Scoleri
Edward Joseph Scoleri
Max Goridon
Cleveland
Columbus
Ohio
Springfield
Ill
Chicago
Ida Jocco
William Woods
al Negro
Scoleris
Woods
Iocco
Switch To Dials In Ottawa Telegraph Service
Local manager Jack T. Morrisey of Southwestern Bell says final plans are set to switch to the dial system. At 1 a.m. Sunday a man with an axe will cut the stable into the present office at 114 West 3rd while workers in the new Main land Park building trigger the dial system. The operation should take under a minute with momentary service interruption only. Ottawa subscribers will hear a dial tone as soon as the switch is complete.
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Jack T.morrisey
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Mainland Park
Ottawa
Braves Open Football Season at Home With Parade
Ottawa University Braves host William Jewell Cardinals tonight at 7 30 p m at Cook Wield field to start the season. A freshman pajama parade winds downtown before kickoff followed by a pep rally during the day and a snake dance rally downtown last night.
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B. J. Boucek
Bill Boucek
Cook Field
William Jewell
B. J
O. U
Clausie Smith
Ottawa University Braves
Cook
Victory Over Common Cold In Sight
KANSAS CITY AP Victory is in sight in the battle against common colds caused by viruses, Dr. Thomas G. Ward said Friday. A former Johns Hopkins physician now at the Lobund Institute, he spoke to 500 doctors at the University of Kansas Medical Center symposium. He noted Army vaccines cut hospitalizations by 80 percent and said vaccines against types 3 4 and 7 Viruses were added this month for recruits. Further research will determine involved viruses and optimal vaccine use.
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Kansas City
Thomas G. Ward
Ward
Johns Hopkins University
Lobund Institute
Notre Dame
University of Kansas Medical Center
Womanpower Is Essential in Labor Force Forecast
Washington AP reports the National Manpower Council says if working wives quit, the economy would collapse. About 18 million married women work now, with more to be drawn into the labor force. The Ford Foundation study notes no link between mothers’ employment and juvenile delinquency, and stresses childcare needs as women’s work rises.
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Washington
National Manpower Council
Council
Ford Foundation
Ottawa teen to take Navy science cruise aboard USS Bennington
Bill Bemmels a 15 year old Ottawa High School student will fly from Olathe Naval Air Station to San Diego and board the USS Bennington for a week long tour of naval installations and a cruise. He earned the Navy Science Cruiser Award for his rifle ballistics project at the Ottawa Science Fair. about 80 other boys are slated for the voyage.
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Bill Bemmels
Olathe Naval Air Station
California
Ottawa High School
W. D. Bemmels
S. Hickory
San Diego
Calif
Bennington
Olathe
Young Bemmels
Navy
Ottawa
Bemmels
Glenview
Ill
St. Louis
Dallas
el Paso
Tucson
Canaries
Lloyd Ballhagen
GM offers three year contract with 21 cents rise
General Motors proposed a three year contract with three annual pay increases totaling at least 21 cents per hour and eight cents more for skilled workers plus a 3 cent boost in cost of living allowances. The offer, effective Sept. 1, comes as GM seeks a settlement amid UAW strike threats. UAW chief Reuther pressed Chrysler talks while Chrysler declined comment on union actions.
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Detroit
General Motors
United Auto Workers
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Chrysler
Reuther
International
Recovery To Keep Going Into Next Year
Washington AP reports that the Commerce Secretary and his Business Advisory Council heard that steel, auto, and textile sectors show improving conditions. Industrial leaders expect a prolonged recovery into next year with rising steel production, fewer strike threats, and better third quarter textile results.
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Washington (Ap
Secretary of Commerce
Weeks
Industralists
BAC
Syracuse teacher and student die in crash near Lakin
Richard G. Stephenson a Syracuse High School math teacher and 15 year old student Charles Ronald George were killed when their foreign car struck a bridge abutment on U S 50 west of Lakin as they rode to the Syracuse Lakin football game. Stephenson died at Lakin Hospital and George died later from skull fracture and internal injuries.
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Lakin, Kas
Syracuse
Lakin
Stephenson
Lakin Hospital
George
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