Municipal Finance and Local Youth Employment Notes
The article cites a University of Kansas study showing third class Kansas cities spent more per capita on cemeteries than parks or libraries in 1953, with streets costing five times fire protection. It notes debt service absorbed about a third of income, though half the cities had no debt. It also mentions a Little Black Sheep act in a Dorothy Haines Dance Revue and details about local summer youth employment, with 44 students signed up and 21 renewal applications at Senior High, totaling 129 enrolled under the Jobs for Youth program.
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Kansas
Governmental Research Center
University of Kansas
Harry OO. Lawson
Jimmy Babcock
Dorothy Haines
Charlene Pullman
Humboldt
Bo Peep
Nancy Stanley
Leah
Rex Babcock
Jimmy
Kansas Employment Service Office
W. C. Markley
Markley
Jobs
The
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Employment Service
Gas Producers Attack Plan Against Escalator Clauses
Russell B. Brown of the Independent Petroleum Association urged Senate officials to limit federal control of natural gas price escalation. He testified to a Senate Commerce subcommittee, opposing FPC authority over escalator clauses amid a Supreme Court ruling on wellhead pricing. The House Commerce Committee earlier voted 17 to 4 for FPC regulation of certain escalator provisions.
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Washington
Russell B. Brown
Independent Petroleum Arm. of America
Senate Commerce
Brown
Supreme Court
Federal Power Commission
FPC
House Commerce Committee
Bids Total 176341 For Plummer Project
Bids total 176 341.76 for West 14th Street Plummer project. Freeto Construction Co. Pittsburg is apparent low bidder for grading and bridge work. Nelson Brothers LaHarpe bids for surfacing. Other bids cover K39 Hiattville cut off and multiple state routes.
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West 14Th Street
North Plummer
Memorial Building
Freeto Construction Co
Pittsburg
Nelson Brothers
LaHarpe
Ash Grove
Plummer
Freeto
New Village Creek
Hiattville
Kansas
Harry Henery, Inc
Ctawa
District Music Club Festival Sat in Chanute
The National Federation of Music Clubs festival for Junior Clubs and special members will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. in the Senior High School auditorium Chanute with district chairman Mrs. Gilbert Borland in charge. Entrants come from Neodesha Altoona Parsons Chanute Iola Garnett Independence Stark and Erie ages limited to 18 for juniors. Notable junior piano entrants include Jimmy York Roy Marks Nicki Jeanne McGuire Carol Sue Tebow Phillip Carter Michal Ann Gibson and Sherrill Rush. St Cecilia Youth club entries include piano by Jack Kensinger Freddie Primmer Patty Bell Carolyn Loveaul Barbara Balch Evelyn Dormois Karen Earnest and ballet by Donna Lou Moon. Junior St Cecilia Music club piano entrants include Laura Lee Redden John Doydston Alice McCune Mary Kay Hargrove voice Nancy Donaldson Rosemary Nation.
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Gilbert Borland
Altoona
Neodesha
Parsons
Chanute
Iola
Garnett
Independence
Stark
Erie
Jimmy York
Roy Marks
Nicki Jeanne McGuire
Carol Sue Tebow
Phillip Carter
Michal Ann Gibson
Sherrill Rush
St. Cecilia
Tornado Damages Three Farms Southeast of Girard Kansas
A tornado struck six miles southeast of Girard damaging outbuildings on the Roy Hunsiker Oscar Smith and E G Pratt farms. No injuries reported and none of the farm homes were hit. Earlier a tornado tunnel was sighted near West Coffeyville with no damage.
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Girard
Kas
Roy Hunsiker
Hunsiker
Oscar Smith
E. G. Pratt
West Coffeyville
Power Increase For KOAM TV
KOAM TV general manager R. E. Wade announced the station now operates at 245000 watts, about two and a half times the original 98000 watts. Channel 7 programs reach farther with an improved picture in fringe areas.
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Pittsburg
R. E. Wade
Koam-Tv
Channel 7
Traffic Fatalities In Topeka Record 1955 Update
State accident records list Topeka traffic fatalities in the last 24 hours as 0. To date in 1955 the total is 184, compared with 176 for the same period in 1954.
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Topeka
Kansas
Little Tinkers contest attracts entrants across counties
Rainy day influx brings 1256 entries before deadline for No 2 Little Tinker contest. Forty two late cards disqualified. Tribune readers from Allen Neosho Wilson and Woodson counties plus others mailed in from about two dozen towns. A Buffalo batch of 57 late entries arrived yesterday afternoon.
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Tribune
Allen
Neosho
Wilson
Woodson
Buffalo
District Court Docket Set for May Term
Erie docket announced by Judge Dunham for the May term. Jury panel to report May 23 at 9 a.m. State cases against Jimmie Morris Alma Wray and Delorez Thompson, all Tulsa, on grand larceny charged. separate trials requested. Wray represented by Richard Da Ashley. Thompson by Joe Balch. Morris by John Sherman Jr. Cars held whisky and clothing tied to Chanute Iola thefts. Civil action McKernan v Chanute Country Club tentatively set for May 25. Ike Jones and Henry Fields Chanute face assault with intent to kill. Jones mistrial earlier. Three divorces dismissed.
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Jimmie Lee Morris
Alma Bernice Wray
Delorez Thompson
Tulsa
Richard da Ashley
Miss Wray
Joe Balch
John Sherman Jr
Morris
Ike Jones
Henry Fields
Chanute
Jones
Applegate Sentenced For 2nd Degree Murder
Applegate Warren El Dorado Kansas 32 Mulvane man convicted of second degree murder in the death of his 16 month old daughter died October 25 at Douglass. He received up to 40 years in state prison after judge W N Calkins denied a new trial motion. Defense plans appeal with bond continued at 25 000.
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EL Dorado
Kas
Warren Applegate
Mulvane
Applegate
Douglass
W. N. Calkins
Walter F. McGin
Armed Man Robs Wellington Liquor Store
In Wellington Kansas an armed robber stole 150 dollars from a liquor shop owner, tied him on a porch two blocks away after forcing him into his car, then fled. The owner Robert D. Robinson untied himself, called police, who questioned a man later.
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Wellington, Kas
Wellington
Robert D. Robinson
Robinson
Big Four Reach Agreement on Austrian Independence
Western sources report the Big Four nations reached a treaty to make Austria independent for the first time in 17 years. U S Secretary of State Dulles, British Foreign Secretary Macmillan, French Foreign Minister Pinay, and Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov plan to sign in Vienna as ambassadors resolved Moscow concessions into an annex, including return of the Zisterdorf oil fields and the Danube Shipping Co. to Austria.
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Vienna
Austria
United States
Britain
France
Soviet Union
Russia
West
Moscow
Zisterdorf
Danube Shipping Co
Harold Macmillan
Paris
U. S
Dulles
Antoine Pinay
V. M. Molotov
Warsaw
Leopold Figl
Figl
Flash Floods Damages Oklahoma City Homes
Rains up to six inches drenched Oklahoma with a heavy storm late yesterday causing a 2 inch downpour in 48 minutes. Deep Fork creek ran waist deep through a northwest district, damaging carpets and furnaces in about a dozen homes. a five month old baby narrowly escaped drowning when dropped by a fleeing mother. Floodwaters subsided quickly.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Taloga
Deep Fork
302 Are Candidates For Emporia Degrees
Emporia State Teachers College will award degrees to 302 candidates at commencement on May 21 announced by Dr. John E. King president. An additional 71 students finishing bachelor’s requirements by August will be recognized.
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Emporia, Kas
Emporia State Teachers College
John E. King
Dedication Planned for New First Baptist Educational Building
The dedication service for the new First Baptist educational building will be held Sunday at 2 30 p m in the church sanctuary with a tour of the structure to follow Located at 118 N Forest the building will host Ottawa University president Dr Andrew B Martin as dedicatory speaker His talk titled The Witness of the Church Today reflects his long leadership in Baptist education and the Middle West sector
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First Baptist
W. Gayel Bender
N. Forest
Andrew B. Martin
Ottawa University
Middle West
Martin
Ireland
America
Colgate University
Marquette University
Milwaukee
Ottawa
la Crosse
West Allis
Waukesha
Wis
The
Association of American Baptist Educational Institutions
32 Red MGs Jump U.S. Jets in Korea Air Clash
Lt Col Robert E Dawson said 32 Red Chinese Mig jets were in the Yellow Sea area when eight Sabre jets were attacked at Kunsan. He placed half the MiGs in protective cover and described an eight minute air battle in which U.S. pilots shot down two MiGs and probably two more. General Maxwell D Taylor ordered a protest to the Military Armistice Commission.
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Murray Fromson
Kunsan
Korea
Air Force
Yellow Sea
Robert E. Dawson
Dayton
Ohio
Dawson
U.S
Maxwell D. Taylor
United Nations
Military Armistice Commission
Taylor
Harlan C. Parks
U.N
Red China
Neosho County Polio Plan Halts Amid Health Agency Delay
The Neosho County polio vaccination program remains in doubt after U S Public Health Service and State Board of Health recommended a temporary halt. Mrs. Margaret Wood says second shots for first and second graders will proceed if clearance and vaccine are available. Shots are slated for May 24 25 and 25 with final decision pending health agency clearance and vaccine supply.
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Neosho County
U. S. Public Health Service
State Board of Health
Margaret Wood
Boy Finds Wallet and Is Rewarded in Chicago
An 8 year old named Michael Rice found a wallet outside a Chicago building containing 400 dollars while waiting for his father. After inquiries, the wallet owner was located in a nearby store and gave the boy a 50 cent reward for returning it.
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Chicago
Michael Rice
Michael
Rainfall records and flood warnings from a Kansas area
Two inches of rain drenched the region with 1.88 inches reported yesterday and 4.03 inches since Friday. Water in ditches and creeks swelled, Neosho River rose two feet, and Marmaton and Lower Marais des Cygnes rivers neared banks. A tornado damaged rural lines east of Girard causing farm-building losses. Temperature highs reached the 70s with lows in the 40s, and scattered thundershowers were forecast for the west and central sections tomorrow.
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City
Neosho
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Associated Press
Topeka
Marmaton
Marais Des Cygnes
Fort Scott
Dodge City
Girard
Crawford County
Divers Bring Up Dozens of Bodies in Ferry Disaster
Divers recovered dozens of bodies in Takamatsu Japan raising the toll to 159 dead with 54 still missing. A total of 775 people were rescued including 51 injured after the Shinn Maru sank five minutes after a collision with a second ferry. Parents and relatives crowded a temporary morgue seeking identity for the young victims lacking papers.
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Takamatsu
Japan
Cemetery Upgrades Planned in Perry Township
The Rose Sunflower HD Unit in Woodson County will begin cleaning and repairing the Oliver cemetery. A new gate and fencing with a name plate are planned. A cleanup day is set for May 23, and volunteers or donations may contact Mrs. John Lorance at Rose.
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Rose
Sunflower HD
Perry Township
Woodson County
Oliver Cemetery
John Lorance
Bandit Robs Hutchinson Drug Store for Cash and Narcotics
A lone bandit entered Wess drug store in Hutchinson late last night and robbed owner Leo Wess of 300 dollars in cash and narcotics valued at 100 dollars. Police are investigating the incident and reviewing security footage.
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Hutchinson
Kas
Wess
Leo Wess
City Zoning Ordinance Hearing Tonight at Memorial Building
The second public hearing on the proposed city zoning ordinance will be held at 7 30 tonight in the Memorial Building. The initial hearing occurred last Thursday.
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Memorial Building
Postal Pay Hike Veto Expected
Washington report notes a proposed 8.8 percent pay raise for postal workers likely to trigger a presidential veto. The Senate approved the compromise 66 to 11 and sent it to Eisenhower, while the House passed it 328 to 66.
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Washington
Sen. Carlson
R-Kas
Senate
Eisenhower
House
Carlson
White House
Congress
Diem Asks France to Withdraw Troops from Vietnam
Premier Ngo Dinh Diem requests France pull its army from South Viet Nam to the 17th parallel or withdraw entirely. Diem has authorized his brother Ngo Dinh Luyen to present the request in Paris. The 17th Parallel marks the line between non Communist South Viet Nam and North Viet Nam.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Ngo Dinh Diem
France
Diem
Ngo Dinh Luyen
Paris
North Viet Nam
Tot Quits Smoking for Ice Cream in Bethalto
In Bethalto Illinois Earl Welton age 343 has sworn off cigars and taken to ice cream after a schoolteacher warned he could not attend classes if he smoked. His mother says he has not smoked for six days and has eaten about 20 ice cream cones.
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Bethalto
Ill
Earl Welton
Earl C. Welton
Kids Due TO PEKA? State bids on Kansas animal industry project
The State Department of Administration will open bids on June 15 for a new animal industry building project at Kansas State College. The notice calls for bids from qualified firms and outlines the scope and eligibility requirements.
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Peka
State Department of Administration
Kansas State College
Concordia High School Wins Class A State Scholarship Honors
Concordia High School took first place in Class A at the Emporia State Teachers College scholarship contest. The event showcased top projects from across the state, highlighting academic excellence in Concordia, Kansas.
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Concordia
Kas
Conccordia High School
Emporia
Esa College
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