Highway Safety Drive in Midwest Expands Reach
A Midwest regional push to mobilize a 14 state safety corps begins two days of planning with the Presidents Committee for Traffic Safety led by Harlow H. Curtice. The effort aims to form citizen groups across states to support official traffic safety programs amid high road casualties.
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Chicago
Midwest
Harlow H. Curtice
General Motors Corp
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Louisiana
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Curtice
Local visits and community notes across Kansas towns
Walnut residents hosted relatives from Kansas City and Cherryvale. Grange members cleaned Fowler cemetery south of Mildred. Several families, including McClinticks and C ox family members, visited relatives in Cherryvale Pittsburg Fort Scott Wichita and Erie.
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Milt McClintick
Chanute
Nell Bowles
Carrie Buss
Lafontaine
Paul Houdashelt
Charlie Kensinger
Kensinger
George Butler
Ed Carson
Frank Mitchell
Jerry
Girard
Joe van Leeuwen
Kansas City
Verle Tredway
Betty
Fred Kennedy
Leroy Puckett
Loyola Little
Ernest Puckett
Ben Reissig
Joe
Erie
Bert Watls
Connie
St. Louis
Ellen Dowling
Hattie Scheffendecker
Walter Perkins
Keith
Leba
Myra Hess
St. Paul
Bessie Eaton
Belleflower
Calif
William Shattuck
Wayne Wright
Wichita
Bert Insley
Burrton
Wright
Emma Wright
Hobart Wadsworth
Fort Scott
Frank Wadsworth
Kansas
Ronald Johnson
Gus Kalbe
Grange
Fowler Cemetery
Mildred
Thelma
Patricia McClintick
Cherryvale
Walter Green
Pittsburg
Clara Cox
Mary Markley
Joe Johnson
Carter Faces Summerlin In Detroit Heavyweight Bout
Johnny Summerlin puts an 11 fight win streak on the line at Detroit’s Olympia against 22 year old Harold Carter in a 10 round heavyweight elimination bout. Carter has fought 21 bouts and was rushed in.
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Detroit
Johnny Summerlin
Olympia
Harold Carter
Carter
Heavyweight Bout Sets Stage For Right To Work Debate
Last Friday a substitute for Republican gubernatorial hopeful Bob Satterfield of Chicago withdrew, citing his right to work stance and a shoulder injury. Michigan doctors noted the Supreme Court opinion would not alter his position, while critics called the fight a prove‑out for national right to work laws. The bout, billed as a major national telecast on ABC at 8 p.m. CST, features Summerlin with 29‑4‑2 and Carter at 18‑1‑2.
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Bob Satterfield
Chicago
Michigan
Supreme Court
Hall
Satterfield
ABC
8 Laws
Right to Work Laws Doomed by Supreme Court Decision
Gov. Fred Hall says the Supreme Court ruling upholds a 1951 railroad union shop provision that trumps state right to work laws. He notes the decision targets railroads now but will likely affect all interstate commerce, while state laws stay intact outside the railroad industry. Warren Shaw opposes Hall.
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Topera
U. S. Supreme Court
Fred Hall
National Railway Labor Act
Hall
Supreme Court
Warren Shaw
National PTA Names Regional VPs Including Mrs. Gagliardo
In San Francisco regional vice presidents of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers were elected without opposition. One winner was Mrs. Ruth Gagliardo of Lawrence Kansas, who previously chaired the national congress action committee on comics motion pictures radio and television in 1954 and 1955.
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San Francisco
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Ruth Gagliardo
Lawrence, Kas
National Congress Action Committee
Storm Hits Kansas City Causes Death and Destruction
A severe Kansas City storm brought rain hail and 70 mph winds with tornado funnels reported in Johnson County. Leonard Groves 40 was electrocuted by a fallen power line while firefighters disconnected a severed 2300 volt line. A Johnson County vegetable market was blown over causing about 3000 dollars in damage.
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Kansas City
Leonard Groves
Johnson County
Olathe
Bonner Springs
Garfield school bonds approved for auditorium and gym
Garfield Kansas patrons approve a 48000 bond issue to fund a high school auditorium addition and a gymnasium. The measure passed 120 to 31 yesterday.
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Garfield, Kas.p
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University of Kansas
Joseph M. Kelley
Nellie Barnes
Harry R. Wahl
Francis P. O Brien
Jose M. Osma
Guy W. Smith
E. A. Hunter
Bill Bowers
Ft. Collins
Colo
Bowers
Gary 5
Mary Carolyn Wright
John Orville Brothers
Tulsa
Chanute Discount Co., Inc
Ham
Bexei
McCune Drug Store
W. Main
Chenute, Kansas
Summerlin
Bucy ‘Lay
McCune
Lincoln
Torrence Jewelry Tioga Hotel Bldg
National Pta Post
Mrs. Gagliardo
Riverside
Blackwell
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