Satanta to Hold Annual School Meetings This Week
Satanta schedules two annual school meetings for Thursday and Friday focusing on district treasurer elections. High school patrons meet Thursday with grade meeting on June 1. Incumbent Wayne Lucas and Dale Blair face election for district treasurers as budgets rise from $68,623.18 to $82,450 in the high school and grade operations budgeting from $75,179.38 to $90,050, signaling levy changes.
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Ssatanta
Satanta
Friay
Wayne Lucas
Dale Blair
Saving Estimate Set by Chamber
Topeka reports that federal tax savings from the Hoover commission could reduce Kansas taxes. The State Chamber analyzes show Finney County might save up to 8506,900, with county revenue shares potentially 3.12 percent of all 1955 property taxes for 1956. Nationwide, Kansas could save about 53.9 million, over one quarter of state and local property taxes for 1956.
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Adlai Confident of Victory in Florida Primary
Adlai E Stevenson declares confidence he will win the Florida presidential primary as he flies to California. Senator Estes Kefauver continues a 17 hour campaign swing through Miami seeking votes and pressing for a Kefauver win tomorrow.
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Adlai E. Stevenson
California
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Stevenson
Swimming Classes To Start At Three Counties Scott City
Red Cross swim program for Scott Greeley and Wichita counties begins at Scott City pool on Monday with free instruction for first grade and up. Enrollment expected lower due to Dighton pool opening. divisions include beginners intermediates advances junior senior lifesaving. Schedule lists multiple age groups and times for weekdays and weekends. Experts advise two pounds fertilizer per inch of tree trunk diameter.
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Greeley
Wichita Counties
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Dighton
Wichita County
Greeley County
Scott City Rural Schools Sign 20 New Faculty for Next Year
Scott County announces 20 teachers signed for next year to staff the 13 rural schools. Mildred Conine, county superintendent, says Shallow Water will have four instructors led by principal Eugene Schulz. Other single assignments include Ohmart, Williams, Sterlin, Haverfield, Morton, Rhoades, Stroud, Cross, Gardner, Pruesch, Gruver, Sims, Blackburn, and Means. Manning and Modoc schools will have additional staff.
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Scott County
Mildred Conine
Shallow Water
Eugene Schulz
Emery Bontrager
Phyllis Kamp
Thelma Dague
Verte ¥. Ohmart
Vern Williams
Carthel Means
Manning
Minnie Walk
Morris Fosdick
Modoc
Bell Aircraft Secures New Army XH-40 Helicopter Contract
Bell Aircraft Corp. announced an追加 development contract worth 2,483,022 dollars for the Army XH-40 helicopter. Three helicopters are already being assembled under the contract for test flights at the Hurst Texas facility.
Kearny Vets Plan Memorial Day Observances in County
Kearny County holds three Memorial Day services in Lakin Deerfield and Kendall with a 8 a.m. start at the Veterans Memorial. Lakin American Legion VFW posts Boy Scouts Civil Air Patrol cadets participate. Commander John Henderson leads the program with a firing squad salute and ministers assisting.
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Kendall
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Court House
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The
American Legion
W. W. Powell
Thompson
Memorial
Ulysses Gears Up for New Dial Telephone System
Ulysses will switch to a dial telephone system at midnight Sunday. Pioneer Telephone Association manager Joe Chelen announced the changeover, with final equipment checks underway. About 1,100 patrons in the area will be affected as residents move from the battery hand crank phones used for years.
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Ulysses
Joe Chelen
Pioneer Telephone Association, Inc
Pioneer
Two States Hit By Flooding
Floods from torrential rains covered roads and thousands of acres of farmland in central Illinois and Indiana. Up to nine inches fell in Illinois, with Champaign De Witt and Logan counties hardest hit. Streams overflowed, flooding fertile fields along the Sangamon River and Kickapoo and Salt Creeks as roads and streets were inundated across Indiana and U S 40 suffered flooding.
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Ulinois
Indiana
Illinois
Champaign
de Witt
Logan
U. S. 40
Morocco France sign diplomatic freedom accords
Paris reports Morocco and France signed a pact granting expanded diplomatic freedom to Morocco and reserving Morocco's right to review 1950 accords about U S bases. Separately, Indiana faced blockages with 52 and 67 highways closed east and north of Indianapolis Crawfordsville isolation and two Indianapolis area schools canceled classes.
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France
Morocco
United States
Indiana
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