Local Briefs Highlight Meetings and Naval Training Plans
News items note EKLUND insurance and Hulda Parker Chapter 385 meetings, Shorthand Reporters convention in Hutchinson, Sorghum Valley Grange open meeting with dinner, and weekend visitors. Naval Reserve unit members to depart for two weeks of active duty training at Great Lakes. Olathe NAS offers two summer training tracks for 17 to 18 year olds with 56 or 85 day options.
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Naval Reserve Electronic Division
Olathe Naval Air Station
U.S. Naval Air Station
Olathe
Kansas State College honors Richard R Reinhardt with animal husbandry degree
Richard R Reinhardt will receive a bachelor of science in animal husbandry at Kansas State College Manhat tan on May 29 during spring commencement. He is a member of Alpha Gamma Rho and Alpha Zeta and has earned a Capper scholarship. He served as Collegiate 4-H club president and participated in junior Livestock judging at Ft Worth and poultry judging in Chicago. after graduation he plans to enter Air Force flight school as a second lieutenant.
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Richard R. Reinhardt
Ralph Reinhardt
Eric
Kansas State College
Manhattan
Reinhardt
Alpha Gamma Rho
Black and Bridie
Alpha Zeta Honorary Society
K-State
Ft. Worth
Chicago
Air Force Flight School
Hutchinson Attorney Heads Kansas Bar Assn
Hutchinson attorney Claude E. Chalfant was elected president of the Kansas Bar Assn at the convention closing. A. T. Burch urged慎 cautious approach to information flow on crime and trials. J. Willard Haynes was named president-elect with O. B. Eidson as vice president and George B. Powers as secretary treasurer. Next year’s meeting will be in Kansas City.
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Kas
Kansas Bar Assn
A. T. Burch
Chicago
Burch
Rousseau A. Burch
Kansas Supreme Court
Claude E. Chalfant
J. Willard Haynes
Kansas City
O. B. Eidson
Topeka
George B. Powers
Wichita
Predictions of Conservative Victory in Britain Election
London reports mounting bets on a Conservative win as a quiet election campaign nears its end. Strikes loom in ports and railways with 70 000 locomotive workers set to walk out next Saturday, potentially paralyzing the state railroad system. Public sentiment ties union unrest to Tory prospects, while Eden is forecast to form a five year government after Churchill's retirement.
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Britain
Stevedore and Workers Union
British
Liverpool
Manchester
Hull
Transport and General Workers Union
TGWU
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers
Labor Party
Eden
Winston Churchill
Legal War Pledged In Racial Trouble
The NAACP pledged a court battle against Mississippi voting laws after the death of a Black civil rights leader Rev George Lee. Roy Wilkins said the fight would begin at a mass meeting in Belzons attended by about 400 Black residents.
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Belzons
Miss
National
Assny For Advancement of Colored People
Mississippi
NAACP
Roy Wilkins
George Lee
Wilkins
New York
Slaying Cited as Result of Racial Tension in Humphreys County
Federal investigators noted buckshot specks around Lee’s face after a car crash into a house. Negro leaders say the presegregation Citizens Councils fueled hatred, targeting Lee for urging Negroes to register to vote in Humphreys County where Black residents outnumber whites.
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Lee
FBI
Humphreys County
Johnson urges defense chief to end national confusion
Senator Lyndon B. Johnson pressed Defense Secretary Wilson to unify defense policy amid claims Russia may threaten air superiority. Johnson urged clear facts as Congress probes the true story of U S air power, while Aviation Week questions official disclosures and Pentagon assessment. President Eisenhower dismissed claims of Russian air superiority as untrue.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Wilson
Senate
Democratic
Congressional
Russia
United States
Congress
Aviation Week
Pentagon
Sen. Symington
West
Eisenhower
Price Prop Hearings Planned by Senate Panel
The Senate Agriculture Committee announced hearings on farm price support policy to begin June 1. Advertisements call for public input and discussion on price support measures.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Johnson Attacks Eisenhower Highway Plan in Senate Fight
Senator Lyndon B. Johnson denounces Eisenhower's 21 billion bond plan to fund 40 000 miles of interstate highways and argues a Gore bill totaling 17.94 billion should guide federal and state highway construction over five years. He warns bonds would burden funds while GOP plans favor boulevards over farm to market roads. Both proposals require a 50 50 state match.
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Lyndon
B. Johnson
D-Tex
Eisenhower
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D-Tenn
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Byrd
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Southeast Kansas News Roundup From Coffeyville to Parsons
In Columbus mayor Theodore Hatton died after a heart attack. Coffeyville sees drownings and deaths including Clifford Mayfield and widow Luella Coverdale. Cherryvale and Coffeyville mull a $2 million Big Hill Creek reservoir project with federal aid. Parsons reports Louis Conger shot. in Fall River rains affect reservoirs. Hepler boy Charles Schubert injured when a truck ran over him. Fort Scott ambulance notes a Kansas City youth striking a cow on K7.
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Big Hill Creek
Coffeyville
Washington
Coffeyville Chamber of Commerce
Hepler
Charles Schubert
Bourbon County
Charles Sheehy
Main Street
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Fort Scott
K39
Claude Emrick
Lawrence Miklos
Kansas City
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Emrick
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Cow Kills by Ford Driver near Fort Scott
Miklos believed a cow bolted in front of his 1952 Ford four miles southwest of Fort Scott. The Kan sas Citions car sustained an estimated $500 damage, and his mother described the incident.
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Ford
Fort Scott
Kansas
Kansas Slogan Winner Leaves for Texas Church
Rev. Dean H. Wessels, pastor at Central Church of the Nazarene Coffeyville since 1951, resigns to lead First Church of the Nazarene Abilene Texas. Chosen from 3700 entrants for Kansas tourism slogan Kansas Land of Friendship, he and his wife won a two week all expenses paid tour of the state.
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Kas
Dean H. Wessels
Central Church of the Nazarene
Kansas
Texas
Wessels
First
Church of the Nazarene
Abilene
Tex
Kansas State Chamber of Commerce
Land of Friendship
Crittenden Dies at 88 in Sewickley Hospital
William Jackson Crittenden 88 a former American vice consul in Mexico City died yesterday in Sewickley Valley Hospital after years as a patient. Farmers near Phoenix Arizona boast prodigious yields with 740 watermelons per acre well above the national average.
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Pittsburgh
William Jackson Crittenden
Mexico City
Sewickley Valley Hospital
Phoenix
Ariz
Pogo Stick Champion Faces Retirement in Dearborn
Dearborn Michigan ten year old Eddie Kozlowski, the pogo stick jumping champion, retires from competition after years of title defense. He showcased skill and energy, finishing with a memorable performance before stepping away from the sport.
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Dearborn. Mich
Eddie Kozlowski
Dearborn
Eddie
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