Kansas House Approves Crash Building Program at State Schools
The Kansas House passed a 3.91 million crash school building plan by 77 to 39, with 60 Republicans and 17 Democrats voting yes. It funds a speech and music center at Fort Hays State College, a dairy plant and poultry building at Kansas State University, and an engineering building unit at the University of Kansas, boosting total state school building funding this session to 7.497 million.
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Topeka
George Docking
House
Docking
Ft. Hays State College
Kansas State University
University of Kansas
Emporia State Teachers
Pittsburg State Colge
Kelso Deer
D-Augusta
Kansas State
Emporia
Pittsburg
George Jelinek
Ellsworth
Ft. Hays
Anderson
State General Fund
State Schools For
Educational Building Fund
Jess Taylor
R - Tribune
Havana Shooting Seen As Guard Crackdown On Students
In Havana the shooting that disrupted Mikoyan's Soviet exposition visit is blamed on trigger happy Cuban guards and police. The silence from police and progovernment papers fueled belief security forces broke up an anti Communist student demonstration. Reports vary on how many were detained.
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Havana
Anastas I. Mikoyan
Diario de la Marina
Revolucion
Fidel Castro
Communist Hoy
Mikoyan
Peiping
China
Traffic Fatalities Clash With University Arrests
Reported arrests range from 10 to 20 with 24 detained including 4 from Villanueva University and 20 from Havana University. Police remain silent as Havana endures sporadic gunfire linked to festive occasions like a July 26 night game at the International League park.
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Villanueva University
Havana University
Havana
International League Baseball Park
Beating by Bandit Fatal to Victim
A 47 year old filling station attendant was fatally beaten by a robber at a station on K-18. Anthony Troncone of Woodbine died several hours after the attack in a hospital. About 140 dollars was taken, the assailant using a broken shovel handle as a weapon.
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Junction City
Anthony Troncone
Woodbine
Four Die in Philadelphia Fire Tragedy
A Philadelphia fire killed four members of the Danksha family, a Norristown machine operator Peter Danksha, 44, his wife Jane, 40, and their children Kathleen, 5, and Mary Ellen, 10. The blaze started in a living room sofa, and the fire was confined to that room with no survivors.
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Philadelphia
Peter Danksha
Norristown
Jane
Kathleen
Mary Ellen
Thomas Gleason
Danksha
Welfare Operation is Big Business in Neosho County
Editor Larry Mathews previews a multi part look at Neosho County Welfare Department. The 1960 budget tops $648 707 50. Old age assistance accounts for over 60 percent of welfare costs with 500 cases involving about 600 people. Aid to dependent children costs about 96 023 and services include adoption studies and juvenile court support. Administrative costs run 48 000 with 3 000 for farm and home.
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Larry Mathews
Neosho County
Welfare Department
Bud
General County
Adeline Fortney
Kansas
Department
Sneak Attack by Dog On Suburban Detroit Mail Route
Mail carrier Lorne Winbigler was bitten through a door slot by a terrier named Tinker in Mount Clemens. He received a tetanus shot at a hospital and returned to his route wearing gloves.
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Detroit
Lorne Winbigler
Mount Clemens
Winbigler
Tinker
Windigler
Partly Cloudy Warmer Ahead In Kansas Forecast
Topeka AP reports clouds limited warming today in Kansas with mild readings. Partly clearing expected Sunday with highs reaching 40s to mid 50s. tonight’s lows near 25 to 30 and weekend highs from around 40 in the northeast to 55 in the southwest. Friday lows ranged from 20 at Goodland to 34 at Pittsburg.
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Topeka
Kansas
Emporia
Lawrence
Dodge City
Goodland
Pittsburg
Frisco Plane Crash Fatal for Three in San Francisco
A light plane crashed in mid San Francisco injuring Joseph Pardo 34 Redwood City trapped eight hours before dying. Killed instantly were Anthony Kirsimagi 27 Santa Clara the pilot and John Drew 24 Redwood City. The men were returning from a Napa housing tract job for American Shower Door Co. of San Carlos.
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San Francisco
Joseph Pardo
Redwood City
Anthony Kirsimagi
Santa Clara
John Drew
Napa
American Shower Door Co
San Carlos
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Tribune
Graham wins generous leper gift in Nigeria visit
Billy Graham calls a leper colony donation the nicest offering to Christ. An elderly resident of the Al Barka leper colony gave two Afri can pounds for his crusade while British missionary Phoebe Lewsey notes months of saving. Graham thanks donors through an interpreter and tours a $1.176 million Kaduna hospital funded by the Southern Baptist Convention. He then meets with the Sardauna of Sokoto, who warns against political meddling by missionaries.
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Kaduna
Nigeria
Billy Graham
Christ
Al-barka Leper
Phoebe Lewsey
Graham Crusade
Graham
Kantagora
Southern Baptist Convention of America
J. E. Low
Commerce
Tex
Sardauna
Sokoto
Sardauia
Neosho River Recedes After Surge Here
The Neosho River rose to 12 feet overnight, reaching 11.65 feet at 6:30 p.m. and 12 feet before dawn, then fell to 11.13 feet by 8 a.m. Bankfull is 20 feet. Cadence of rain across the Neosho watershed contributed to the rise. Carl Wortman, water plant superintendent, reported the peak and retreat as precipitation lingered.
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Neosho
Carl Wortman
Wortman
U S Says It Will Hold Second Place in Missile Race Through 1961
Air Force Lt. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever told the House Space Committee the United States will remain in second position for missiles through 1961 due to production lags. He warned the USSR could gain numerical superiority next year, while stressing total deterrence rests beyond missile counts. He also backed keeping a large fleet of armed bombers in constant flight to deter a surprise attack.
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Washington
United States
Air Force
Bernard A. Schriever
Research and Development Command
Schriever
House Space Committee
Soviet Union
U.S.S.R
Thomas S. Power
Strategic Air Command
300 Expected At PCA Meet.
More than 300 farmers ranchers their families and guests are expected Tuesday for the 26th annual stockholders meeting of the Chanute Production Credit Association. The event at the Masonic Temple begins at 11 a.m. with Dr. P. H. Stephens as principal speaker.
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Chanute Production Credit Assa
Masonic Temple
P. H. Stephens
Farm Credit Banks of
Wichita
John Wingrave
Yates Center
M.C. Highbaugh
Bronson
Sunflower Chapter
The
Eastern Star
Kansas
Arthur Solomon
Solomon
Yarborough to keynote Kansas Junior Chamber dinner
Senator Ralph Yarborough will be the keynote speaker at the Kansas Junior Chamber of Commerce annual awards dinner in Junction City on February 21. The event highlights local leaders and community achievements.
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Junction City
Ralph Yarborough
D-Tex
Kansas Junior Chamber of Commerce
Doctor testifies as his wife dies in murder trial
Dr. R Bernard Finch told jurors he kneeled by his dying wife Barbara and heard her whisper take care of the kids before she went limp He described wrestling with Barbara and a gun going off in a garage confrontation He implicated his mistress Carole Tregoff and a Minneapolis socialite man in prior plans to gather evidence for a divorce not murder
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New York
Eleanor Searle Whitney
Africa
Graham
Whitney
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Dover
Ohio
Los Angeles
R. Bernard Finch
Finch
Carole Tregoff
Barbara Jean
Barbara
Dr. Finch
West Covina
Marie Anne Lidholm
Carole
Mrs. Finch
Miss Tregoff
Jack Cody
Minneapolis
Cody
Sary
Barbara Finch
Marie Ann
Miss Lidholm
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Fine Arts Palace
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Elizabeth Brasuell
Anna J. Wheelock
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