Sputnik worries and local church history notes in Deerfield
A compressed column recalls Sputnik I fears and insurance implications, noting an all risk policy could cover a landing on a house while a car crash would depend on policy details. It then catalogs Deerfield pastors connected to the pulpit, listing Rev Ira Woolard, Rev EB Rogers, Rev Leonard Cowan, and Rev M B Hickman and their service years.
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Salina
Porter
Sputnik
Methodist Church
Deerfield
Visitation
Ira. Woolard
EB. P. Rogers
Leonid Cowan
The Three Little Men Of Mittenpoo's Watermelon Kingdom
Three tiny men Noodle Tiggle and Taving stone live off teesh and acorn stew in a watermelon house that doubles as a workshop. The princes of Mittenpoo arrive, wise rulers with courage, guiding a sleeping prince on a quest as the trio toils through days and nights until a strange tale of magic and sorrow unfolds.
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Noodle
Tiggle
Tavingstone
Mittenpoo
Mitten
Thex
Harvest nears finish as dry spell aids stretch in Kansas
Southwest Kansas farmers report harvest at roughly 75 percent complete with a favorable dry spell aiding progress. Agriculture experts say the crop is moving along well despite lingering moisture concerns. Some milo remains in fields, with grain moisture around nineteen percent as trucks deliver produce to elevators.
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Police Car Dodges Auto Hits Window in Crash
Patrol officers chased a drunk driver when Mickey Hawkins swerved to help and struck a plate glass window at Sprenger Implement Co on 2nd and Fulton. No injuries, police car extensively damaged, Walls’ car $20 damage, Dale Stanley Simonsen charged with DWI Horace Milan Jr charged as drunk on a public highway. An earlier Deerfield crash injured Pedro Maastas. two vehicles totaled at county road intersection six miles southwest of Deerfield.
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Mickey Hawkins
2Nd
Fulton
Norman C. Walls
E. Emerson
Hawkins
Springer Implement Co
2Nd and
Walls
Dale Stanley Simonsen
Great Bend
Horace William Milan Jr
Deerfield
Pedro H. Maastas
Maastas
Kearny County Hospital
Lakin
Studebaker
Wayne Henry Rieth
Pierceville
Banks Pick Top Farmers
Five Finney county farmers Louis Lobmeyer Lowall McGraw George Fowler Kenneth Burg and Mike Marrill were named soil conservation awards recipients by the Kansas Bankers Association in cooperation with local banks. Certificates will be awarded next month at the district meeting. A tour of winning farms is planned next Tuesday departing the courthouse at 9 a.m.
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Finney County
Kansas Bankers’ Alsn
Louis Lobmeyer
Lowall McGraw
George Fowler
Kenneth Burg
Mike Marrill
Soil’ Conservation District
Danny Trayer
Trayer
Six Killed in Plant Inferno at Porter Glass Co
Martins Ferry Ohio reports a severely tragic blast at Porter Glass Co when a heater toppled, turning the plant into a fire. Firefighters recovered six bodies, five previously found. all victims were company employees. Names of missing presumed dead include Francis Good BeHale Ohio Mary Jane Byard Martins Ferry Goldie Gibbons Yorkville Ohio Rose McMahon Martins Ferry Hazel Stocia Martins Ferry and Matthew McElroy Martins Ferry.
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Martins Ferry
Ohio
Porter Glass. Co
Francis ‘Good
BeHale
Yorkville
Rose McMahon
Martins, Ferry
Hazel Stocia
Matthew McElroy
Weather outlook tonight and Thursday milder
Tonight fair and mild with low near 30 and variable winds. Thursday expects fair and warm weather with southwesterly winds 15 to 20 mph and afternoon temperatures in the 60s.
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US ‘Weather Bureau
Wind delays at Cape Canaveral for satellite launch
Defense officials warned wind gusts around 23 miles per hour could affect the tall rocket as engineers monitor conditions. The tentative launch time moved to 4 55 p m with several holds reported during the countdown. Navy researchers cautioned the 11 hour countdown is a benchmark not a schedule, and late changes were possible as Patrick Air Force Base led the watch.
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Navy “Research S Laboratory
Nav
Auarters
Patrick
Air
Force
Aul
Walsh
Vanguard
PCA Meeting Tomorrow At Garden City Credit Association
Weather outlook promises sunny skies and mild temperatures for the Garden City Production Credit Association annual stockholders meeting and dinner at the State Theater starting at 10. Attendance may vary with harvest progress.
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Weatherman
Garden City
PCA
Local high school hosts seventh annual debate tournament
About 100 area students from 11 schools will debate next week at Garden City High School. The topic is whether the federal government should cut foreign aid to disaster relief and technical assistance. Judges will include Bill Brooksgaard. The event starts at 7:30 p.m with a broadcast planned for December 3.
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U.S
Garden City
Imient Shold
Oreign
el- Hawood
Ulysses
Sell
Dodges’ City
Hutchinson
Empo Meade
and Garden
Bill
Brooksgaard
Sudge
Ee Sao
Audges
Future Farmers Feed Fathers at Dad's Night
About 100 fathers attended Dad's Night at the Future Farmers of America meeting last night. Freshman members received green Land degrees elevating them to sophomore rank. Supt. Leroy Hood spoke and a movie titled In The Beginning was shown before wrestling and boxing by chapter members closed the evening. Kenneth Henderson, faculty instructor for the organization, led activities.
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America
Bob Corn
Mark Brown
Marvin Burnett
Teddy ‘Crist
Phil Dick
Bobby
Finley
Lée
Greathouse
Kent
Higgs
Dennis ‘Kleysteuber
Duane
Koster
Richard Martinez
Bill McMillian
Martin
Nusser
Jim Oeding
Sterling Smith
Mark Scott
Donald
Towns
Vyrl Warren
Bobby ‘Jones
Leroy Hood
Kenneth Henderson
Draft Board Sends Satanta Man to Service
A Satanta man, Melvin G. Fillpot, will be sent to Denver next week for induction into the armed forces. Local Selective Service board No. 22 clerk Hezel Moora said the denial occurred Monday.
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Melvin G. Fillpot
Denver
Armed Forces
Hezel Moora
Selective Service Board No. 22
Fragmented OCR summary of a local notice item
A damaged OCR fragment mentions addresses and names in a stray legal notice style. The readable bits show 514 N 11th and references to a day and time, but essential details are unclear. No coherent event or action is discernible from the fragment.
Salk Shot Advises Booster For Next Spring
A University of Pennsylvania doctor advised that the so called 4th Salk shot or booster should be given next spring to all people who have previously had the usual three shots. The Coriell w fed. all unclear but noted in the same report.
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Dodge City
Million Motor Co
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Russans Esteem
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Lumbisa Marie Co
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