Crawford County State Park A Playground From Kansas Plains
Pittsburg Kansas recalls Crawford County State Park once created almost by accident as a scenic area north of Fourth Street. The region transformed with coal mining, steam shovels and modern machinery revealed rich deposits. The area became a popular drawing card for locals and tourists despite early zoo plans failing.
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Pittsburg
Eas
Fourth and Broadway
Crawford County State Park
Kansas Prairie
Mississippi
Pittsburgh
Patton Coal & Mining Co
From coal pits to a state park in Pittsburg region
Describes a long abandoned coal tract in the Pittsburg area that filled with water and became a scenic state park weathered by nature. The landscape evolved into lakes and hills with a zoo once planned, shelters built by the Kansas Forestry Fish and Game Commission, and winding trails that attracted visitors despite limited facilities.
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Nature
Pittsburg
Kansas Forestry, Fish and Game Commission
Barker Wins Melcher Scholarship for Children’s Librarianship
Celia Louise Barker of Oskaloosa Kansas, recent Stanford graduate, received the Melcher scholarship for study in children's librarianship at a convention dinner of the American Library Association in Kansas City.
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Kansas City
Celia Louise Barker
Oskaloosa, Kas
Stanford University
Melcher
The
American Library Assn
Benson to Try Plugging Gap In Soil Bank
Secretary Benson signals a plan to require reduction of total plantings of soil depleting crops to qualify for soil bank payments. The move aims to prevent shifting surpluses between crops as Congress debates the program. A conference committee meets to resolve differences over the acreage reserve feature.
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Benson
Congress
House
Senate
Farm plan to restrict crop acreage faces tight timetable
Congress may extend the program for another year and Benson is expected to announce new restrictions within weeks. Winter wheat farmers must act as planting time nears. The department would set a soil depleting acreage base per farm based on past acreages, with all crops except hay, pastures, grasses and legumes labeled soil depleting.
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Congress
Benson
Department
Treasure Key Promotion Triggers Prize Booth Confusion
A curious man at the Oklahoma Semicentennial Exposition briefly caused confusion by using a car key to try three locks on a giant treasure chest cake. Half a million golden keys distributed statewide under operation Okie Dough-Key offered $500 prizes inside vaults.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Exposition Officials Refuse to Honor Certain Prizes
Exposition president Dean A. Mc Gee protested that the spirit of the key idea was violated and asserted that only official Okie Dough Keys would receive the money. Attendance at yesterday’s show for the state's 50th anniversary reached 75,821, pushing the total since June 14 to 680,328.
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Dean A. McGee
Marines Face Atomic Blast At Yucca Flat Exercise
A force of 1 900 U S Marines prepared to face an atomic blast from 4 000 yards distance at Yucca Flat. The operation includes vertical envelopment with troops from trenches, 32 transport helicopters, 24 F9F Panther jets, track vehicles using the On Tos antitank weapon, and four observation planes. Brig Gen Harvey C Tschirgi supervised the briefing.
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U. S
Yucca Flat
Mojave
Calif. Marine Air Base
Harvey C. Tschirgi
Atomic test details at Nevada proving grounds outlined
Newsmen reported on the 4th Marine Corps Provisional Atomic Exercise Brigade participating in the sixth atomic test of the 1957 series and the 51st overall at the Nevada proving grounds. The explosion is expected in the 10 to 15 kiloton range, equating to 10 000 to 15 000 tons of TNT.
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Marine Corps Provisional
Nevada Proving Grounds
Rockets Clinch 7-5 Victory Over Braves in Little League
The Rockets beat the Braves 7 to 5 in the senior division at Highland Park Diamond yesterday. Lindblad earned the win as the pitcher for the Rockets.
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Rockets
Braves
Highland Park
Lindblad
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