Christmas Bazaar at Grace Church and town notices
Christmas Bazaar at Grace Episcopal Church features delicious foods, gifts, and needlework from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Various local notices include holiday work time adjustments, a revival series at United Brethren church through Dec. 16 with evangelist D. C. Davis, and community updates on Navy seaman Larry Dalton and Kansas State Teachers College concert band member Lorna Ashcraft. Public library story hour will feature George and That Red Bicycle tomorrow at 10:30 a.m.
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Grace Episcopal Church
United States Department of Bar
Walter W. King
Kansas City
King
United Brethren
Christchurch
15Th
Highland
Evangelist D. C. Davis
Oakdale
Calif
Lorna Ashcraft
Erie
Kansas State Teachers College
Pittsburg
Music Hall
Miss Ashcraft
George
Public Library
Legislature Faces $5 Million Annual Gap in Road Funding
Docking pressed for extra revenue as department forecasts needing about 5 million dollars yearly for three years to match stepped up federal highway aid and continue non federal projects. A one cent gasoline tax hike or alternative revenues were deemed necessary to prevent delays if action is delayed beyond the 1958 budget session.
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Ture
Docking
Kansas Inauguration Set For Docking Inside Ceremony
Governor-elect Docking, a Democrat, plans an open inauguration with a high noon ceremony and an evening ball at the Municipal Auditorium. His wife jokes about not following precedent and contrasts with Gov. Hall’s 1955 outdoor inaugural, noting January weather in Kansas makes an inside event preferable.
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Docking
Kansas
Municipal Auditorium
Fred Hall
Drought Designation Extends to Jackson County Kansas
The Agriculture Department designated part of Jackson County Kansas as a drought disaster area. The designation makes eligible stockmen in the area to participate in feed grain hay and roughage programs to support livestock herds.
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Washington
Jackson County
Kansas
Agriculture Department
Schools Next For Hearings By Docking In Topeka
Gov elect George Docking winds down budget hearings with state schools and major agencies. The State Board of Regents and schools districts face three days of hearings starting Wednesday. Penal Institutions officials also appear, while Highway Department traces cuts if 1957 Legislature cannot supply funds.
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Topeka
George Docking
State Board of Regents
State Board of Penal Institutions
Docking
Highway Department
George Docking Inauguration Open to All in Kansas
TOPEKA Kansas residents and visitors are invited to the George Docking inauguration on January 14. No engraved invitations will be sent. organizers say they have many friends in Kansas and want broad community participation in the ceremony and related events.
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Topeka
George Docking
Kansas
Global Briefs Chronicle Wartime Milestones and Policy Shifts
The 15th anniversary of the Moscow rout marks Soviet confidence as Japan’s Pearl Harbor anniversary is noted in the United States. Poland imposes factory closures and rail cuts to tackle coal shortages. Hungarian refugees return amid tensions, with Moscow denouncing mass deportations. Argentina fires its UN permanent delegate, with officials withholding reasons as criticism mounts.
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London
United States
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Soviet Union
Moscow
Tass Today
Austria
Aramburu Regime Feism Revealed by Oliveri
New archival note uncovers Oliveri’s report on the feism of the Aramburu regime, shedding light on political dynamics and wartime governance. The fragment suggests a critical assessment of regime actions and resistance.
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Aramburu
Oliveri
Ducks Play Possum in Oklahoma Duck Drive
Granite Oklahoma report describes Osborne Hunt and J B Reser bagging five ducks then firing on another flight. Two of the previously “dead” ducks suddenly flew away, revealing the ruse.
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Granite
Okla
Osborne Hunt
J. B. Reser
National Art Gallery Claims World’s Largest Air Conditioned Space
The National Art Gallery in Washington DC bills itself as the largest completely air conditioned art museum in the world, highlighting climate controlled galleries as a key feature.
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National Art Gallery
Washington, D.C
Poles Court Church Favor
The Polish regime under Gomulka pledges to allow religious teaching for Catholic children in public schools as part of church state normalization. Reports say about 1000 priests freed in Silesia, many returning to normal activity after imprisonment in 1953.
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Vienna
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Warsaw Radio
Poland
Silesia
Poand
Catholic Press Center
Rome
Julius Caesar Importing the First Giraffe to Rome
Julius Caesar introduced the first giraffe to Europe in 46 B C and exhibited the animal in Rome attracting curiosity from Roman citizens and visitors alike.
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Julius Caesar
Europe
B.C
Rome
Funeral rites for Lt. Gen. Lewis A. Pick held with honors
Lt. Gen. Lewis A. Pick former chief of Army Engineers was buried with full military honors yesterday in Auburn after dying Sunday in a Washington hospital. He was 66 a Virginia native who lived in Auburn since retirement in 1953.
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Auburn
Ala
Lewis A. Pick
Army Engineers
Pick
Washington
Virginia
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Gardner's
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Charles Tripp
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R. W
Universal Sewing Machine Sales and Service
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Global Briefs
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Yugoslavia
Secret
Buenos Aires
Pedro Aramburu
Adm
Anibal O. Olivieri
United Nations
Foreign Ministry
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Chevrolet
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Bill Young Chevrolet
South Evergreen
Chanute, Kansas
Ducks
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Guernsey
Jersey
John Deere
Allis-Chalmers
Jewell Hays
Harold Wadkins
Charles Clark
Walnut Methodist
Willsell
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R. C. Madill
Neosho Valley
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Bill Gough
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