Two Way Street Expands AFL Exchange Program Reach
The AFL runs a reciprocal international exchange, about 6000 students total, split evenly between American and foreign participants. This year 749 Americans will study abroad this summer, while 767 foreign students live in 44 U.S. states. Costs cover transportation with $650 for Americans and $950 for foreigners, funded by families, private contributions, and the State Department support for overseas branches.
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Galatti
United States
AFS
State Department
AFL
Ambulance Volunteers Grow Into World Youth Plan
The American Field Service founded in 1915 as an ambulance corps has become an international program guiding democracy and friendship among teenagers. Stephen Galatti leads AFS, stressing person to person contact to curb distrust between nations and nurture global understanding.
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John 0. B. Wallace
New York
France
Flanders
American Field Service
AFS
Stephen Galatti
International
Hearing Notice in Probate Court Neosho County Kansas
Rosario Gutierrez petitions for the descent of Eden Park Addition Lot 4 5 6 7 Block 15 Chanute and all property of Augustin and Calletana Gutierrez. Defenses due by July 27 1957 at 10 a.m. in Erie Kansas. Attorney Richard L. Ashley represents petitioner.
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Chanute Tribune
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Neosho County
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Augustin Gutierrez
Calietana Gutierrez
State OF Kansas
Rosario Gutierrez
Calletana Gutierrez
Eden Park Addition
Chanute
Erie
Neo‘sho County
Richard L. Ashley
State OF
Neosho
Joseph A. Carwile
Nina Carwile
Balch & Bailey Attorneys
Allen Counties
Joint Common School
Alien
Cree Mona
Marion Stevens
Kenneth Ingels
Claude Camp
Howard Parsons
City of
Chanule
Portable TV deemed deadly after 6 year old’s electrocution
Dr. Eric T. Gross tested an 18 inch General Electric portable TV in Skokie Illinois and said electricity at the top plate could kill. Cook County coroner Walter McCarron ordered the tests ahead of a jury probe into the incident.
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Chicago
Eric T. Gross
Illinois Institute of Technology
Walter McCarron
Cook County
Gross
Howard Erenstein Jr
Erenstein
Skokie
General Electric Co
Syracuse
N.Y
General Electric
GE Tests Safety Compliance of Merchandise Sets
GE asserts all sets meet Underwriters Laboratories safety standards and are manufactured under strict specifications. Engineer Mert Jones from Syracuse, NY attended the test but did not participate.
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Nvestigation
Syracuse
N.Y
Mert Jones
Plainsmen Quartet at Friends Church in Stark
An inspirational sacred music program by the Plainsmen Quartet of Friends Bible College Haviland will be at the Friends Church in Stark at 8 p.m. Saturday. The group backed by horn duets solos and a piano piece features Duane Day Jerry Louthan Ronald Worden and Rev. Marvin Murdock directing on tour across Colorado Kansas Nebraska New Mexico and Oklahoma. Public invited by Pastor Freeman Conant.
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Friends Church
Plainsmen
Friends Bible College
Haviland
Marvin Murdock
Duane Day
Jerry Louthan
Ronald Worden
Murdock
Colorado
Kansas
Nebraska
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Freeman Conant
Samoa Built Double Canoe for 500 People
In primitive Samoa the natives built a double canoe capable of carrying 500 people, while the Norsemen’s long boats carried about 200.
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Samoa
Global Briefs from Hong Kong to Seoul and London
Typhoon Wen dy in Hong Kong area caused two boys and a woman to die as heavy rains triggered landslides and collapsed homes. In Cyprus a 60 year old politician’s killer was sentenced to death. Saigon reports a restaurant attack near the Cambodian border killed 18 of 21 victims. Hankook Ilbo says the U S proposes cutting South Korea’s 700000 man force, a claim the U S Embassy would not confirm. A London advisory council suggests part time evening jails for older youths with attendance centers for 17 to 21 year olds.
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Hong Kong
Wendy
Kowloon
Seoul
Hankook Ilbo
United States
South Korea
U. S
Walter Dowling
Tokyo
London
French tobacco tax may fund smoking cancer study
In Paris deputy Charles Henru proposes using part of the new tobacco tax revenue to explore a possible link between smoking and lung cancer. The idea aims to fund research that could influence public health policy.
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Paris
Charles Henru
No Radioactive Milk From Oklahoma Cows
Durant Oklahoma farmers were assured cows would not yield atomic tainted milk. A local man using a Geiger counter reported his instrument became unreliable while examining rock formations.
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Durant
Okla
Hay Found with Mild Radioactivity Near Nevada Tests
Bryan County health officer Dr. Sears L. Whitely said an engineer tested nearby hay while active in the fields. The report noted a mild concentration of radioactivity, but considered it no more than what is normal for the area and not a danger.
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Nevada
Sears L. Whitely
Bryan County
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