For The Sake Of Doing It editorial Kansas on parks
The Saturday Evening Post notes Kentucky spent eight million on parks over seven years and attracts five hundred million yearly in visitor spending. Kansas should not chase tourism for profit but build for Kansans own use and satisfaction. If we plant a tree for its own sake it will grow for us and for profit.
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Kansas
Kentucky
Saturday Evening Post
the Post
Garden City
Finnup Park
County Fair Highlights Farm Youth Investment in Tomorrow
The county fair stands as a showcase for farm youngsters with livestock clothes foods and studies in farming and community living. The adult hand guides, but youths drive the effort to improve the community. The upcoming fair promises a more dramatic presentation than before, inviting all to enjoy and learn about the future of farming.
Kansas Scrapbook snippets spark satirical punch lines
The clippings compile quips from Kansas papers mocking sports speed, space travel talk, TV excess, weather indifference, fashion headlines, laundry habits, and Kremlin secrecy. Notable quotes reference Wichita, Topeka, Moscow, and national outlets, illustrating a caustic blend of local wit and cultural critique.
French in Open War on Rebels in Morocco
French armored columns under air cover struck mountain strongholds of Berber tribesmen near Oued Zem as 4000 rebels raided the area. Reinforcements from Rabat and Meknes joined the drive to contain the insurrection amid reported French casualties and a rising weekend death toll possibly reaching 1000 in Morocco.
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Casablanca
Rabat
Meknes
Kasba Talda
Oued Zem
Sheriff and detective bluff over Bermuda shorts banter
In San Antonio Texas Sheriff Owen Kilday and Detective Captain Joe Hester spar over wearing Bermuda shorts. Kilday says he would wear them if Hester did, Hester counters he would too, while Kilday insists it was only a bluff.
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San Antonio
Tex.r
Owen Kilday
Joe Hester
Kilday
Hester
Garden City Telegram Editor Names Superintendent and Managers
Garden City Telegram notes leadership changes with the editor and key municipal roles identified, listing positions as editor and superintendents for commercial and business management. The fragment emphasizes organizational titles rather than events.
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East Chestnut
Vineyard Gazette founders choose small town life over fame
Henry and Betty Hough built the Vineyard Gazette from a tiny weekly to a world reachable paper with 6500 circulation. They value town life, record town meetings faithfully, and prize independence over wealth, noting the paper’s mission is life in a small community rather than crime or big headlines.
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Martha’s Vineyard
Mass
Henry Beetle Hough
Betty
America
U. S
Columbia University
Henry
Ventura
Vineyard Gazette
Gazette
Tokyo
Trinidad
Hough
William Allen White
New England
India
The
Tripoli
Prayer text and blessing from a faith reading
Prayer excerpt repeats biblical verse from Hebrews 11 16 and asks for blessing. It thanks God for meeting spiritual needs in this life and beyond, entrusting self to God through Christ Jesus, in a concluding amen.
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God
Christ
KCC Chairman Reportedly Out
Topeka Daily Capital reports Kansas Corporation Commission chairman Jeff Robertson has submitted his resignation after 1942 tenure. Gov. Fred Hall silent on the claim as he plans a formal statement after Colorado trip. The three member panel already lacks one seat due to DeWitt Stiles resignation on July 31 for health.
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Topeka
Jeff Robertson
Kansas Corporation Commission
Robertson
Fred Hall
Hall
Colorado
DeWitt Stiles
Bank teller confronts would be holdup man in Ashland
In Ashland Kentucky a bank teller faced a would be robber pointing a toy pistol and told him to scram. The man fled through a side door and escaped as Gay Price filed the report with police.
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Ashland, Ky Ua
Gay Price
Weeks Faces Fresh Conflict of Interest Accusations
Harold Talbott’s exit echoes in Washington as Sinclair Weeks, secretary of commerce, battles alleged conflicts of interest involving the Business Advisory Council and “without compensation” advisers. Weeks deflects questions as Congress probes links with major firms such as Du Pont, General Electric, and Pacific Gas and Electric, while critics demand scrutiny of offical duties and private consultancy.
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Washington
Harold Talbott
Air Force
Sinclair Weeks
Talbott
Commerce Department
Weeks
White House
Business Advisory Council
Wall Street
Eisenhower
Defense
Reuben Robertson
WOC
Crawford Greenwalt
E. I. du Pont
General Motors
John Biggers
Libby Owens
Harold Boeschenstein
Owens-Corning Fibre Glass
James Black
Pacific Gas and Electric
John Collyer
B. G. Goodrich
Ralph Cordiner
General Electric
Donald David
Harvard
T. V. Houser
Sears and Roebuck
Fred Lazarus, Jr
Federated Department Stores
Cincinnati
George Love
Pittsburgh Consolidated Coal
J. P. Spang, Jr
Gillette Co
Boston
John C. Virden
John C. Virden Co
Cleveland
Sidney Weinberg
Goldman-Sachs
Giant
Ike
Eugene Holman
Standard of of New Jersey
Averell Harriman
Union Pacific
New York
Ed _ Stettinius
U.S. Steel
Roosevelt
Congress
John G. Ball
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
National Association of Electric Companies
Com
B. F. Goodrich
Judiciary Committee
House of Representatives
Sunny Weeks
Advisory Council
Hugh Scott
Philadelphia
Distant Side Neighbors Noted Inquirers And Hints
Clipped column mentions Leonard and Irene Smith returning from California with Davy Crockett bird call flutes for neighbors. It lists a humorous mix of local anecdotes, newsy asides, and a long random puzzle-like block including August 26 birthdays and a cryptoquip teaser. The tone mimics a small town newspaper’s light, chatty feature page.
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Leonard
Irene Smith
California
Davy Crockett
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Wichita Eagle
Wellington
el Dorado Times
Clark County Clipper
Emporia Gazette
Moscow
Kansas City Star
Kremlin
Garden City Telegram
Gerry
Telegram Publishing Company
sUyi al Carta
Rete Nates 2
BOE
Vance Paysiente
Eee
Sarrior
Inser
Lane
Wichita
Horace Hamm
Jimmy Hatlo
Bayle
KCC
Drew Pearson
Manny Cellier
Brooklyn
Manny Celler
Leonard E. Pasek
Kimberley-Clark Paper Company
Scott Paper Company
Reynolds Ing Kaiser Aluminum
Qaibott
Walter McVey, Jr
State Corporation Commission
Harrison Smith
Smith
Walter
Willie
John Anderson
Mark
Anderson
Pearl
al) Regan
Culbertson
Harriet Stinemetz
West Chestnut
Susie
Hart) Owston
Leatha
Carroll) White
Raymond Stinemetz
James Embree
Good Will Nursing Home
Lyle Embree
Eliza Vincent
Shadylawn Nursing Home
Adam's
N.Y
Sewell
Justice of the Supien Court
Otmir
Tibet
Nelson
Houston
Dever
Bo Eee
Montgomery
Justice—— J. Roberts
Saucy
Hing Features Syndicate
Betyor
Eugene Sheffer
Fas
Peri
Ravo
Sinta
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