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Newspaper

Kansas City Star

Location

Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Date

Jun 29, 1948

Page

5

Grain workers threaten 1900 strike if wage talks fail

1900 mill employees in Greater Kansas City plan a 7 am strike tomorrow if wage talks fail. Elevator operators face a 1:30 pm ultimatum at the Board of Trade as unions seek 18 cents an hour, opposed by operators offering 10. A temporary restraining order blocks a local union picket amid ongoing negotiations.

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Two Fatal Falls Mark Vigilant Night Near College

A couple were hurled sixty feet from a campus road into a hedge after a car hit a curb near Em College. Etta Allen, 28, and Darlene May 308, 22, died from injuries while police reported another fatality. Norris Allen, father of one, sustained a broken back in the crash.

Roma Kas Revere Em‘ College Pert E. Allen Darlene May Ecole Orevele Stevenson Allen Norris Allen City

Warren Escorting Family to Broadway Show in New York

Governor Earl Warren and his wife and three daughters spent an evening in New York after the Republican convention. They attended the musical Finian's Rainbow, then hosted a post theater supper at the Hotel Pennsylvania. The Warren children, Virginia 19 Dorothy 17 Nina Elizabeth 14, toured the city while Earl and Bobby 18 stayed at home in Sacramento.

Pennsylvania New York Governor Warren California Warren Big City Virginia Dorothy Nina Elizabeth Honeybear Mrs. Warren James H. McCabe McCabe Bobby Earl Sacramento James

Kay Williams Sues Adolph Spreckles Jr

Los Angeles June 29 Actress Kay Williams announces plans to file for divorce from Adolph Spreckles Jr heir to a sugar fortune. They wed September 6 1945. Williams is Spreckles fifth wife.

Los Angeles Kay Williams Adolph Spreckles, Jr Miss Williams Spreckles

Mule Cars Remembered as Rosedale Trolley Ends

John Scholl recalls when Rosedale’s mule and electric trolley line linked the town to Kansas City Kansas. He notes a lack of sentiment for the move to buses, describing the era, the parade of the last car, and the community’s growth from the line to a paved Southwest boulevard.

Rosedale Kansas City Kansas John Scholl Southwest Boulevard Rosecale Scholl Blade John Ned Mike State Line Bell's Hill Seventh Street Lafayette South Mill Street

Co Op Buys Fertilizer Plant In St Joseph

The Consumers Co operative Association announces purchase of the Best Brothers Plant Foods facility in St Joseph Mo. The plant makes superphosphate and mixes high concentrate fertilizers for a 120 mile Missouri Iowa Kansas Nebraska radius. Enlarge plans lift capacity to 25 000 tons of superphosphate and 33 000 tons of mixed fertilizers annually.

St. Joserxh Best Brothers Plant Foods, Inc Howard A. Cowden Consumers Co-operative Association Kansas City St. Joseph Missouri Iowa Kansas Nebraska CCA Cowden

Study for Anti-Red Talks by Junior Chamber

The Junior Chamber of Commerce Speakers Committee holds a 7:30 pm study session at City National Bank as part of Democracy Beats Communism week. Clair H. Schroeder chairs the event with about sixty Jaycees in the group and plans to work in schools. John M. Phillips leads the anti Communist campaign.

Junior Chamber of Commerce City National Bank Clair H. Schroeder John M. Phillips Junior Chamber

City Board Urged to Tax Seventh Street Viaduct Traffic

F J Ackerman chief engineer of the Kansas City Terminal Railways renews a request that the city impose tolls or rentals on buses trucks and other commercial vehicles using the Seventh street viaduct. The proposal cites a 1924 contract clause and notes the viaduct is part of U S highways 69 and 169. The idea has drawn no city support and is being studied by City Attorney A H Skinner after referral by the commission. Also mentions Grand Canyon wildlife totals.

F. J. Ackerman Kansas City Terminal Railways Company J. O. Armstrong Seventh Street Rock Island Union Pacific Ackerman U. S A. H. Skinner

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