Family Records Safe in Great Vaults
Salt Lake City report details the Little Cottonwood Project, a Mormon vault system high in a canyon to protect over 500 million microfilmed genealogical pages. It notes 1.5 million dollar cost, three 600 foot vaults with bank doors, temp and humidity controlled storage, and ongoing microfilming and archiving work supported by volunteers worldwide.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormon
Church
United States
Social notes from a Kansas town and coastal visitors
Thayer Alicia Selmar of Greeley left for home after a month visiting the George and Smith families and Lawrence Head in Independence. Local visits include Mrs Roy Freels in hospital and calls on A D Elliott in Cherryvale. Ladies Bridge Club met with Bertha Adams. Country Cousins Farm Unit toured Topeka Capitol and cafeteria dessert. high bridge scores earned by Della Gelwix and others. Sunday guests were Lucille Johnston and Leonard Leake family. Also a note on nocturnal feeding of spiny lobsters avoiding daytime predators.
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Alicia Selmar
Greeley, Colo
Kenneth George
E. A. Smith
Lawrence Head
Harold Sutton
Independence
Country Cousins Farm Unit
Topeka
State Capitol
Mmes
Pat Stafford
Della Gelwix
Margaret Powers
Ardis Novotny
Sharon Kephart
Erma Leck
Velma John
Ramona Leake
Gladys Jeans
Shirley Powers
Lucille Duff
Frances Thornton
Leonard Leake
Bible Study and social notices from Urbana EUB church
Urbana area church weekly Bible study gatherings drew strong attendance. A covered dish supper followed Friday evening. Local families held a birthday and anniversary dinner for Edna Ewen and Mable Stich. Several residents visited relatives in Lawrence and Chanute over the weekend. A son, Jeff Joseph, was born Sept. 27 at Neosho Memorial Hospital in Chanute to Howard and Ruth Rutledge, with grandparents Ted Masters and Carl Rutledge. Nancy Zugmier from Pittsburg visited Urbana over the weekend.
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Eub
Ralph Heilman
Erie
Edna Ewen
Mable Stich
John Ewen
Ora Heilman
Milo Heilman
Council Grove
David Heilman
Randy
Royal Neighbor
Chanute
Ida McCoy
Emma Taylor
Olive Welch
Nancy
Sandra
Church
Wilson Rutledge
George Neely
Bertha
Ralph McMillen
Humboldt
Howard Rutledge
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Jeff Joseph
Rutledges
John Howard
Ted Masters
Petrolia
Carl Rutledge
Urbana
French Farmers Destroy Artichokes Over Prices in 1962
In 1962 French farmers burned and destroyed many artichokes to protest failing prices, choosing to discard the crop rather than sell at the offered low rates, highlighting agricultural market pressures in that year.
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van Camp
OU Sr
Ian
Sunshine Hydrox’s
PET Ritz
Chef Boy-Ar-Dee
Nancy Lee
Old Milwaukee
Cremos
U. S
N. Santa Fe
Ois
Seomma
Setul
Anderson Oil Co
S. Central
Chanute, Kansas
Vickers
S. Senta Fe
Ealogical
Canyon Wall
Salt
Lake City
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints
Rela
Thayer
Walter Leake
Long Beach
Calif
Mary Woods
Ora Leake
Cleveland, Oklo
Lucille Johnston
Bible Study
Urbana—The Bible Study Meet
Bill Triplett
Lawrence
Shirley Triplett
Bob Nordstedt
Wichita
George Nordstedt
Dick Neely
Clara Showalter
Los Angeles
Hillcrest School
Neely
K.U. Medical Center
Nancy Zugmier
Pittsburg
Harold Heilman
Ronnie
Betty
The
Chanute Tribune
Bugs
China
Kansas Turnpike
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