Mammoth bones found at Cedar Bluff Reservoir site
Three Hays High School students led by Kirk Wasinger discovered mammoth bones along the north shore of Cedar Bluff Reservoir in Trego County. Fort Hays State College Museum curator M. W. Walker evaluated them as aged one to one and a half million years, suggesting a prehistoric graveyard for woolly mammoths.
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Hays (Ap
Cedar Bluff
Trego County
Hays High School
Jack Hamburg
Kirk Wasinger
Mike Rhoads
M. W. Walker
Fort Hays State College Museum
Northwest
Kansas
Young Wasinger
Jack
Mike
Walker
Cedar Bluff Reservoir
WaKeeney
Wasinger
Boy Diagnoses Own Illness
Kansas City AP report notes Merle and Mrs Ruse bring 6 year old Tommy to hospital for tonsil surgery. While there their 12 year old Steve, already anxious about his merit badge in physical fitness, later reveals he has appendicitis. Steve informs doctor after parents leave. Both boys recover in Baptist Memorial Hospital.
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Kansas City
Merle Ruse
Tommy
Steve
Ruse
Baptist Memorial Hospital
Alaskan Coed Becomes Second Woman To Summit McKinley
A 19 year old Bucknell coed at the University of Alaska has become the second woman to climb Mount McKinley, 20320 feet. She and five companions started April 16 from the north side and completed the ascent Sunday as Merrill Wren observed them waving from the air. The first woman to reach the summit was Mrs Bradford Washburn in 1948.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Anore Bucknell
University of Alaska
Mt. McKinley
Miss Bucknell
North America
Merrill Wren
Bradford Washburn
Boston
Kansan Writer Kathleen Hite Shapes Gunsmoke Tales
Kathleen Hite, a Wichita native and Dodge City devotee, writes ten hour long Gunsmoke episodes this season. Her Kansas roots fueled her Western lore expertise and she also wrote for Wagon Train Laramie Lawman Hitchcock Presents Mystery Playhouse and Thriller. She notes the challenge of mood over gunplay in Gunsmoke and recalls family cattle ranch ties in New Mexico beginning her rise in radio and TV writing.
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Miss Hite
Kathleen Hite
James Arness
Marshal Dillon
Wichita
Hutchinson
Hollywood
Kansas City
Cbs-Tv
Dodge City
Dodge
Kansas
Colorado
New Mexico
Laramie
Mystery Playhouse
John Meston
Sity
Meston
Paris
CBS Radio
San Fer
Nando Valley
Encino
Mur
Moonshine Still Hidden Under Sawdust Buried Near Dead Cattle
In Nashville Georgia officers found a moonshine still buried beneath a sawdust pile near a sawmill. A room was built under the pile with sawdust replaced to hide the operation. Police arrested a man with five jugs of moonshine flecked with sawdust as cows were used to mask odors.
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Nashville, Ga
Walter Gaskins
Gaskins
Not Married and Sharp A Midway Between Swinger and Conservative
The speaker explains being fortunate to remain unmarried and describes themselves as sharp rather than retiring, aiming for a happy medium between a swinger and a conservative.
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Elgin
Hamilton
Ladies’ Watch
Max Thompson
S. Allen
Chanute
Tioga Hotel
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Ben Franklin
WARDS
LEA
Carlton Beach
Bermuda
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Sheraton
Royal Hawaiian Hotel
Hawaii
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