Big Lift Airlift Advances Toward Quick Completion
Frankfurt reports Exercise Big Lift progresses rapidly with 150 four engine transports delivering 9,436 members of the 2nd Armored Division to bases in West Germany and France. Officials expect most of the transatlantic ferry to end within 63 hours after the first C135 jet departed.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Texas
Iron Curtain
West Germany
France
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Austin
Tex
U.S
Bergstrom
R. H. Safford
Europe
United States
U. S
Washington
Dean Rusk
Ludwig Erhard
Erhard
Rusk
Bonn
Rhein-Main
Savonburg WSCS Meeting and local notices
The Savonburg WSCS met Thursday with Mrs. Earl Albert, planning a November 9 bazaar and dinner at the city hall. Numerous social visits are recorded, including relatives and friends from Iola, Wichita, Lawrence, Parsons, Coffeyville, Erie, Pittsburg, and other towns, plus a hospital stay for Mrs. Ruth Mason undergoing recovery. The piece also notes the completion of the largest airlift in U.S. history with 234 planes leaving Bergstrom for Germany, highlighting mixed German concerns and U.S. assurances about European troop levels.
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Savonburg
WSCS
Methodist Church
Earl Albert
Roy Singer
E. A. Swanson
Leslie Norton
John
Iola
H. P. Lynskey
Wichita
John Jorden
Margaret Cahill
Lawrence
H. R. Adams
Cottage Grove
Ore
Gertrude Weddle
C. M. Barsby
Carl Albert
Clyde Hall
Parsons
Lawrence Singer
R. D. Babcock
Coffeyville
Jerome Albert
Fredonia
Mabel Lowe
Virgil Watts
Erie
Roland Kelsey
Regina
Stark
Clarence Lundberg
Ann
Pittsburg
Harold Lundberg
Liz
Ruth Mason
Walnut
Fort Scott Hospital
John Starliper
Richard Singer
Garnett
Lavenburg
Raymond Francis
Manhattan
Keith Daniels
Hiattville
Edna Potter
Arcadia
Gordon Erickson
Elsmore
Nell Cecil
Isabell Boo
Louise Starliper
Copper Liquor Still Goes on Display
In Thomaston Georgia Sheriff E T Bray says a copper liquor still seized in a raid is in good condition and will be shown to the public. Bray and state revenue agents recovered the device, praising its build and noting it could run.
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Thomaston
E. T. Bray
Bray
State Revenue
Club Testing Cases Dismissed by Judge
Topeka private club liquor case ruling dismisses two actions by Dist. Judge Beryl L. Johnson against the Buccaneer Club and Grace's Caravan Club. Assistant attorney general Edward Curry argued the law bans establishments where people resort to drink. Atty. Gen. William M. Ferguson said he will appeal to the state Supreme Court.
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Topeka
Kansas
Dist
Beryl L. Johnson
Attorney General's Office
Buccaneer Club
Grace’s Caravan Club
Edward Curry
Atty
William M. Ferguson
State Supreme Court
Burrs Stop Bicycle Trip in Kansas Sand Burrs Cause Flats
Pratt Kansas AP report describes cyclist Phil Lord from Rochester New York heading to Santa Monica California. He spent several hours in Pratt due to sandburrs jamming his bicycle and causing two flat tires.
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Pratt
Kan
Kansas
Phil Lord
Rochester
N.Y
Santa Monica
Calif
Urbana Ettaa Happenings Reflect Local Church Aid
Urbana residents attended the Urbana EUB Ladies Aid at Ida McCoy’s Chanute home with a meeting led by Ora Heilman and lesson by Glenda Knetzer. November plans, visits to El Dorado Springs, American Royal attendance, and a string of family visits and celebrations are noted along with local birthdays and hospital updates.
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Ida McCoy
Chanute
EUB
Ora Heilman
Jensen
Glenda Knetzer
Carl Bowman
Lois
el Dorado Springs
Mrs. Bowman
Emma Brown
Bowmans
Bowman
Glenn Brown
Rogers
Ark
Lawrence McRell
Myrtle McCoy
Ruth Pierce
Bartlesville
Bob Nordstedt
Wichita
George Nordstedt
Martha Neely
KU Medical Center
Ernie Mortimer
Garland Burdue
Glen
Cecil Hight
Thayer
Francis Bailey
Nathan Hole
Janice
Fred Hall
Hall
Burdue
Pittsburg
Truman Falls Into Shrubs During Grinnell Walk
Former President Harry S. Truman, 79, fell headlong into evergreen shrubs while on an early morning walk at Grinnell College. He was unhurt, helped to his feet, and continued at a brisk pace. He visited for a residency program with newsmen, students, and townspeople present.
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Grinnell
Iowa
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Grinnell College
United States
Des Moines
Drake University
Gulf Acquires Spencer Stock in Major Share Purchase
Gulf Oil Corp. said it owns more than 80 percent of Spencer Chemical Co. common shares and will continue to offer to buy the remaining stock at 41 dollars a share. Spencer Chemical, based in Kansas City, makes industrial and agricultural chemicals with a subsidiary coal mine operation at Pittsburg Kansas. The planned merger with Gulf was announced weeks earlier.
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Pittsburgh
Gulf Oil Corp
Spencer Chemical Co
Kansas City
Gulf
Spencer Chemical
Pittsburg
Kan
Spencer
Gulf Oil
Two Youths Paroled After False Pretenses Conviction
In Erie two youths, Jimmy Sample and Jerry Dix, were sentenced to a year in jail in district court on obtaining money under false pretenses and paroled for two years. They pleaded guilty after being charged with forgery for cashing a bogus check at Jeff's Foodliner in Chanute last May and were apprehended immediately after.
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Erie
Parsons
Jimmy Sample
Jerry Dixon
Jeff
Chanute
Window shatters at Enoch Pratt Library during talk
At the Enoch Pratt Public Library a wind driven crack echoes as Dorothy Sinclair recalls a window break in the reference room twenty years ago. Edward Mantler hears the same incident when a wind besets the building.
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Baltimore
Enoch Pratt Public Library
Dorothy Sinclair
Edward Mantler
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