Collegians Take Yale Vacations During Christmas Week
Numerous guests gathered at the L. M. Gormly home for Christmas week with members of the Van Kirk Olson Powell and Walls families from Gregory South Dakota Ottawa Colorado and other areas visiting. College students and relatives spent the holidays with their families in Oklahoma Kansas and Texas. Shirley Bowers attended a Greensburg wedding. other visits included the Horsburgh Bush family and the Brookshire Ballard households along with several local ties and travel to Panama Spiro and Quinton.
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L. M
C. W. Walls
Ottawa
John Walls
Hotchkiss
Colo
Chalmers Clark
Connie
C. L. Marshall
Wichita
Maxine Utt
K-State
Russell Bowers
Ft. Hays
Shirley Bowers
Hutchinson
John Ingé
Panama
Okla
Nora Anderson
Spiro
Oklahoma
Guy Neal
Quinton
Lewis Neal
Tom Hasburgh
Medicine Lodge
Greensburg
Rex Palmer
Tawanna
George Taton
Jerry
Ronnie
Satanta
Shirley Haley
Wayne James
Emporia
Ulyssess Methodist Church
Larry Bates
Amarillo
Tex
Verlyn Brookshire
Brookshire
Dick Brookshire
Ulysses
R. L. Ballard
Ray Neal
Straight Station
Robert Pages
Homer Stucker
Higgins, Tex
George East
Kiowa
Waldron
Bill Skinner
Peculiar
K Stater Named Big 7 Student Chairman
Kansas State College student Patrick Wilkerson was elected chairman of the Big Seven Student Government Conference. The group met after a three year lapse and set next year’s meeting during the annual conference preseason basketball tournament.
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Kansas City
Big Seven
Patrick Wilkerson
Kansas State College
Segregation Issue Could Block Federal Aid to Schools
Washington report on 1956 federal aid for education facing likely Congress vote over amendments to bar funding to states that maintain racial segregation in public schools. NAACP pressure, Powell amendment, Southern Democrats opposition, and HEW responses shape the clash.
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James Marlow
Washington
Congress
National Assny For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Supreme Court
Rep
Powell
DNY
House
Bailey
D-Wva
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Clarence Mitchell
Harold C. Hunt
Department
Mitchell
Hunt
High Court
Mitchel
Crude Oil Pipeline Runs Decline in Kansas
Wichita oil data show pipeline runs at 336 009 barrels daily for the week ending December 26, a drop of 2 836 from the prior week. The figure remains 1 009 above the December allowable set by the Kansas Corporation Commission, per the State Conservation Division.
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Wichita
Kansas
State Conservation Division
Kansas Corporation Commission
Baby's Arrival Brings Wish for Many More
Whitesburg Kentucky report notes Uncle Eli Lucas, 91, celebrated the birth of his 19th child with hope for more. He had 13 children with his first wife who died years ago and six with his second wife whose age was not learned.
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Whitesburg
Eli Lucas
World Today Brief Notes From Abroad
Reports from Kobe, Cherbourg, Vatican City, Seoul, Berlin, and Rio de Janeiro outline international moves. Immigrants sail to Brazil aboard the Brasil Maru. the Duke and Duchess of Windsor voyage to New York for their annual winter visit. Pope Pius XII appeals to Polish clergy against Communist repression. The United States commits 25 million dollars in aid to South Korea this year, supplementing 277 million previously approved. East Germany signs a friendship treaty with Red China, and Juscelino Kubitschek plans foreign visits after taking office January 31 to seek capital for Brazil’s ailing economy.
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Seoul
United States
South Korea
C. Tyler Weed
U.N
Korea
Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Europe
Juscelino Kubitsichek
Sterling Votes Hike In City Water Rate
Sterling Kansas announces a water-rate increase effective January 15. The minimum rate rises by 60 percent and small-satlonage charges by over 70 percent to raise about $8,000 a year. Officials say the surplus will fund new mains and lines. some lines have dated back to 1887. This is the first rate hike since 1948.
Girl Lost in Dallas Juvenile Home Mixup
A 12 year old girl was held in juvenile detention for six days over Christmas due to misplaced records. Police could not locate her records or parents, and the juvenile department shut for holidays. A city detective eventually identified the girl and arranged contact with her family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Dallas County Juvenile Department
Low Bid Submitted For Bridge Near Meade
A bid of 38,998 dollars was submitted by Western Engineering Co. for a 200 foot bridge over the Cimarron River, seven miles west and 18 miles south of Meade. The project is among several secondary road improvements bid by the State Highway Department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Western Engineering Co
Harlan, Town
Cimarron River
Meade
State Highway Department
Pennsylvania GOP backs Eisenhower on primary ballot
Republican factions in Harrisburg united behind a move to place President Eisenhower's name on the presidential preference primary ballot for April 24. The decision was stated as not having been made in consultation with the President.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Eisenhower
Army tests one man aerocycles for foot soldier mobility
Washington report says the Army bought twelve aerocycles from Delackner Helicopter Inc. Mount Vernon NY for tests. The device resembles a small helicopter with a pilot stood on a platform over rotor blades. A lever throttle reaches speeds up to 65 mph as the user leans to steer.
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Washington
Army
Delackner Helicopter, Inc
Mount Vernon
N.Y
Navy
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Robert Werner
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Partment
Baby
Kobe
Japan
Cherborg
France
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
New York
America
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Polis
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Berlin
Otto Grotewohl
East Germany
Red China
Sterling
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Sunshine Home
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Low
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