Big Constitutional Changes Proposed in Kansas
The Kansas Commission on Constitutional Revision approves amendments to cut executive offices, extend terms to four years, require joint gubernatorial tickets, and create a comptroller general. Legislative reapportionment would move to a governor attorney general and comptroller general panel, while districts aim for equal populations. The Legislature would keep size but counties gain at least one House seat. 20 extra seats go to larger counties. Senate debate on deficit spending resolution and real estate assessment reform also noted. age for nonhazardous work lowered to 14 with no permit requirement.
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Topeka
Executive Branch
Commission On
Commission
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Board of Education
House of Representatives
Senate
Congress
Sens
Worden Howat
D-Wa- Keeney
Charles Joseph
DP Ot Win
State Tax Appeals Board
Iowa Plans Embargo on Kansas Cattle
Des Moines AP State Secretary of Agriculture Clyde Spry announced an embargo on shipments of cattle from Kansas into Iowa starting Monday due to a cattle plague outbreak in six Kansas counties. cattle from Kansas found in Sioux City stockyards were isolated and treated while Colorado and Nebraska already barred Kansas cattle.
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Des Moines
Clyde Spry
Iowa
Kansas
Spry
Sioux City
Grant Blake
United States
Colorado
Nebraska
Final tally reaches goal for Neosho County home site
Donations totaling 10 077 75 push past the 10 000 goal for the Neosho County home for the aged site purchase. Don McCune reports the final figure with contributors including American Legion Flying Service James Cooper and William Phillips among others.
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Neosho County
Don McCune
Dickerhoof Flying Service
American Legion
James Cooper
Ee Dunne
John Williams
William F. Kennedy
Clyde W. Russell F. Phillips
Floyd Stacy
William Phillips
Arthur Cochran
Spirit of the Job Wine Tasters Aim
In Sacramento AP report, 76 tasters including 75 men and one woman tested as potential State Fair judges. They spent eight hours identifying white wine varieties and evaluating five brandies. Lead researchers noted no tasters get drunk during work.
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Spirit of the Job Wine Tasters
Sacramento
Calif
Sanford Plainfield
Alameda
Salvatore Lucia
Department of
University of California
Dr. Marsh
District Increase In Store Sales in 10th District
Department store sales rose 16 percent in the 10th Federal Reserve District for the week ending Jan 24 from a year earlier. The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City reported a 6 percent gain overall. St Joseph led with a 3 percent advance.
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Kansas City
Federal Reserve District
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas
New Capitol Truck Line Names Gerald Thompson New Manager
Gerald Thompson, 22, of Ottawa will replace Jack Thompson as terminal manager for Capitol Truck Lines here. Jack Thompson leaves for Pueblo Monday to join Horn Transportation as operations supervisor after nine years with Capitol. Gerald, a Capitol driver for five years, is married with a 15 month old boy and will reside at 314 N Wilson. the Thompsons are unrelated. Jack plans to establish Pueblo operations while his Chanute family stays two months.
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Gerald Thompson
Ottawa
Jack Thompson
Capitol Truck Lines
Horn Transportation
Pueblo
Colo
Capitol
Chanute
N. Wilson
Gerald
CBS Drops Quiz Show Not Free of Control
The CBS network cancelled the weekday program For Love or Money after officials determined the decimal prize machine used to size cash awards was not free from control. CBS cited network management findings and involvement by studio personnel in operating the machine. Framer Productions protested, saying he was shocked by the statement. The show offered prizes ranging from 2.50 to 2,500 dollars depending on decimal placement.
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New York
Columbia Broadcasting System
Hubbell Robinson Jr
CBS
Walt Framer Productions
Framer
Robinson
Rest Home Fire Fatal to Nine in Glen Ellyn
A Glen Ellyn Acres nursing home fire killed eight elderly patients and a volunteer firefighter. Twelve residents were saved. two hospitalized with serious injuries. Fire damaged the two story Italian villa style building, estimated over $50,000, with cause under investigation.
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Glen Ellyn, Ill
Glen Ellyn Acres
du Page County
Glen Ellyn
Donald Stoffregen
Chicago
Crash Near Lawrence Claims Woman and Injures Family
A collision near Lawrence Kansas killed Mrs Matney 32 and critically injured her husband William and their two daughters Connie 11 Billie Sue 8. The crash involved a station wagon stopping to aid a stalled truck, a cattle truck and a pickup. Drivers Ralph Rankin and Marvin Taylor were uninjured.
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Lawrence, Kan
William Matney
Lawrence
Matney
Connie
Billie Sue
Richland
Kaw
Ralph Rankin
Eudora
Marvin Taylor
Traffic Fatalities Reported in Kansas
AP report shows Kansas traffic fatalities from the State Accident Records Section. In the last 24 hours there are 2 deaths and to date in 1959 there are 36. For the same period in 1958 fatalities were 54.
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Topeka
Kansas
Three Year Old Fires Kitchen Oven Blizzard
A 3 year old boy in Kansas City area started a fire by lighting paper in an oven. The living room kitchen and upstairs bedroom burned before firefighters arrived. The 15 year old babysitter Sharon Duncan rescued him and they escaped unhurt in Johnson County suburb.
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Kansas City
Sharon Duncan
Stanley
Kan
Mitch MceCracken
McCracken
Johnson County
Mitch
Sharon
Bond Posted for Charles Bartholomew in DUI Reckless Driving Case
Charles Bartholomew of 717 North Steuben posted a $150 bond today on charges of driving while intoxicated and reckless driving connected to a traffic accident early yesterday at 211 East Walnut. His hearing is scheduled for 4 p.m. Thursday in police court.
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Charles Bartholomew
N.steuben
E. Walnut
95 Aboard Danish Ship Feared Lost After Iceberg Collision
The Hans Hedtoft, with 95 to 130 aboard, sank after a collision with an iceberg in the North Atlantic near Greenland. A US Navy radar plane, German trawler Johannes Kruess, and other vessels searched through heavy seas and fog as rescue efforts continued.
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Associated Press
Halifax
N.S
Hans Hedtoft
North Atlantic
Johannes Kruess
Greenland
School Robbed of 400 Dollars Then Set Afire
Thieves blew open a safe at Clearwater High School in Wichita taking about 400 dollars and setting fire to the building. Fire crews battled a blaze in two office rooms, destroying typewriters and furniture. Investigators found explosive charges used on the safe and evidence of arson with liquid fuel.
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Wichita
Clearwater High School
Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office
Charge Dismissed for 17 Year Old Over Check Payment
A no fund check charge against Ronnie Calvin Thompson 17 of 12 N Grant was dismissed after payment of the $5. Two 15 year old associates face juvenile hearings on check violations and a recent theft of a car battery and parts.
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Ronnie Calvin Thompson
N. Grant
Census Center Set at Kansas Ordnance Plant for 1960 Farm Data
U S Senate leader announces conversion of Kansas Ordnance Plant facilities at Parsons for the 1960 farm census. About 1,000 workers to be hired in southeast Kansas, with data processing starting December after a 18 month to two year project. A 125000 square foot space, admin area and warehouses, will house the census bureau.
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Washington
Senate
U.S
Eisenhower
Defense McEvoy
Overton Brooks
D-La
House Space Committee
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Kansas Ordnance Plant
U. S
Andrew F. Schoeppel
Topeka
Kansas
U. S. Bureau of Census
Parsons
Schdeppel
Ordnance Plant
Census Bureau
Kop
Walter D. Beck
Frederick C. Mallory
National Gypsum Co
Beck
Len Schoeppel
Myron V. George
Pittsburg
Detroit
Appeal Filed Over 481 Acres In State Wildlife Refuges
An appeal from the appraisal award for 481 acres in the State Forestry Fish and Game Commission condemnation to set up a wildlife refuge near St Paul is filed in district court. Appellants Anna Frances Martin Alice Clare Baker and Patricia R O'Brien Rice are represented by Charles Forsyth of Erie. The record shows a total appraisal of 108985 50 including crop damages and three cabins not payable to the appellants with specific payments listed to Pete LaForge Casey O Bryan Albert Pitchard and Charles Mingori. This is the sole appeal from the game preserve proceedings covering about 3000 acres.
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ERIE
Pete LaForge
Casey O'Bryan
Albert Pitchard
Charles Mingori
Fort Scott Driver Killed in Timber Truck Crash
Henry Coulter, 53, of Fort Scott, was killed when a timber truck overturned at Fulton Kansas. Harold Hurd, also of Fort Scott and driver of the truck, was injured. John Hurd, another driver, said his brother swerved to avoid a dog. They were hauling timber to a Deerfield Missouri sawmill.
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Fort Scott
Kan
Henry Coulter
Fulton
Harold Hurd
John Hurd
Deerfield
Kow Town Cow Pool planned at Altoona site
At Altoona Jan 22 a final organizational meeting approved the Kow Town Cow Pool project to stock up to 1000 cows. The old smelter site north of Altoona will host the facility with all weather access and rail boundary. Cows signed by farmers by Sunday start initial construction on the signed number. Partners include Cecil Pryor Roy Harkader Jr Sterling Short Alfred Erbe and Allen Nunnenkamp.
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Altoona
Kow Town
Alfred Erbe
Snow and cold outlook for Kansas with light accumulations
Forecast calls for mostly cloudy and cold conditions with snow starting this afternoon and continuing through Sunday. Tonight's low around 15 and Sunday’s high near 30. Light snow began in western Kansas and spread eastward, with readings from 11 to 21 degrees across the state yesterday.
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Topeka
Kansas
Goodland
Hill City
Russell
Pittsburg
Concordia
Garden City
Iceberg Crash by Titanic Top Disaster
New York AP reports the Titanic collision with an iceberg on April 14 1912 near Newfoundland sank after three hours with about 1517 fatalities. The liner carried 2224 passengers and crew on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. The accident spurred formation of the International Ice Patrol under the U S Coast Guard financed by fourteen nations.
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New York
Titanic
Atlantic
White Star
Hans Hedtoft
Southampton
Newfoundland
John Jacob Astor
Benjamin Guggenheim
Isador Straus
Quebec
England
International Ice Patrol
U.S. Coast Guard
Death Strikes Couple in Heber Utah
In Heber Utah a man and his wife died within hours of each other from heart events. Orson M. Lee 67 died of a stroke about noon. His wife Jona 60 followed three hours later of a heart attack. Police report a collision occurred at 7th and Highland with a Ford pickup and a Dodge sedan damaged.
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Heber
Utah
Orson M. Lee
Jona
7Th and Highland
C. C. Norman
S. Grant
Howard
Cutter
S. Evergreen
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S. Gretchen
Tribune
Home For
Sereeeenee
George L. Marsh
Department of Food Technology
Maynard Amerine
Department of Viticulture and Enology
Cal
Rest Home
Johnson
McElroy
Roy Johnson
Pentagon
Advanced Research Projects Agency
U. S. Coast Guard
Campbell
Navy
Argentia
Nfld
Royal Canadian Air Force
Greenland Navy Command
Coast Guard
Godthaab
Copenhagen
Greenland Department
Denmark
Sen. Schoeppel
U. S. Civil Service Commission
DHIA
Erbe
Cecil Pryor
Fredonia
Roy Hark
Rader Jr
Benedict
Sterling Short
Allen Nunnenkamp
Wasser
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