Bridge and road work contracts awarded across multiple counties
Frost Construction Co Hydro Oklahoma $426 290 fencing 18.6 miles Sumner Sedgwick Roy Lowrey Argonia 34 302 5.72 miles Sedgwick grading drainage Roberts Construction Lincoln Nebraska 363 540 14.2 miles Sedgwick fencing 27 189 Five continuous span bridges Sedgwick T F Marbut Emporia 310 595 eight continuous span Butler Rhoades Construction Co Newton 504 491 7.11 miles Lyon grading drainage Amis Construction Co Oklahoma City 5687972 9.54 miles Lyon Osage Wabaunsee M W Watson Topeka 638706 4.83 miles Leavenworth George Bennett Construction Co Kansas City 499 381 One continuous span Leavenworth List Weatherly Kansas City 218 030 11.2 miles Leavenworth fencing Gerlach Builders Topeka 24 619
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Sumner
Sedgwick
Frost Construction Co
Hydro
Okla
Roy
Lowrey
Argonia
Sedgwick County
Roberts Construction Co
Lincoln
Neb
T. F. Marbut
Emporia
Butler County
Rhoades Construction Co
Newton
Lyon County
Amis Construction Co
Oklahoma City
Lyon
Osage
Wabaunsee
M. W. Watson
Topeka
Leavenworth County
George Bennett Construction Co
Kansas City
List & Weatherly
Leavenworth
Gerlach Builders
Architects Hired By Turnpike Authority To Design Buildings
The Kansas Turnpike Authority hired architects to design buildings and service areas along the Kansas City to Oklahoma line. It awarded construction contracts around five million dollars and approved a state testing services agreement to resume after reexamination, with bids for concessions to be awarded to highest bidders.
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Topeka
Kansas Turnpike Authority
Kansas City
Oklahoma State Line
State Highway Commission
Highway Commission
Fred Hall
KTA
State Highway Department
Charles R. Marshall
Overend
Boucher
Wichita
Howard
Needies
Tammen
Bergendorf
ETA
Marshall
Matfield Green
Emporia
Admire
Bonner Springs
Wellington
el Dorado
Gale Moss
Lyon County
J. D. Armstrong
Ames
Wrenn and Taylor
Grand Island
Neb
Lyon
Osage
Wabaunsee
Douglas
Leavenworth
List & Clark Construction
J. A. Tobin Construction Co
Kas
Sumner
Sedgwick
Grosshans
England
Petersen
Marysville
Yorkshire
Amallest
Rutland
Local 4-H Clubbers Win 3 Top Awards at Paola
Douglas County 4-H members win three blue ribbons at the regional 4-H Festival in Paola. Allen Robb of Jayhawk Club earns blue for a promotional talk. Jayhawk Club also wins folk game and demonstration top honors. Other clubs receive red and white ribbons in vocal ensembles instrumental ensemble one-act play model meeting vocal chorus and promotional talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas County
Paola
Allen Robb
Jayhawk Club
Meadow Sark Club
Lone Star Club
Kanwaka Club
Evelyn Griffith
Four-Leaf Clover Club
Donald Cronk
Marion Boosters
Palmyra Club
Baldwin
Fruit Picker Aged 113 Plans for Future
Auburndale Florida report says Charlie Smith a longtime fruit picker who may be 113 plans for his future. He recently took a social security card and started pursuing a pension after 18 months of work. An affidavit in Auburndale records makes him 113. he says he was brought to this country from Africa aboard a slave ship as a boy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auburndale
Fla
Charlie ‘Smith
Smith
Ninth Grade Production Stages Wizard of Oz
Cast of sixth graders performs a nine grade version of Wizard of Oz with four songs including Over the Rainbow and We're Off to See the Wizard. Munchkin dances and palace guards appear with PTA costumes and rainbow stage decor at the Junior High Auditorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Land of Oz
Glenda
Suzanne Calvin
Dorothy
Kansas
Escapee 17 Captured After Hutchinson Return
Danley L. Burt 17 of Oxford was captured and returned to the Hutchinson reform school after an escape Friday. Alvin Phillips 20 of Pittsburg, who fled with Burt, was arrested nearby Saturday. Three Winfield police and the Oxford marshal found Burt hiding near a relative’s home in bushes.
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Oxford
Kas
Danley L. Burt
Hutchinson
Alvin Phillips
Pittsburg
Burt
Winfield
Bolivian Plan Seeks Gradual Peasant Migration to Eastern Lands
President Paz Estenssoro outlines a staged move of Bolivian Indian peasants from highland areas to eastern plains near Santa Cruz to farm sugar cane rice corn and yucca. The program relies on a one year military service assignment to recruit workers and accompanies ongoing agrarian reforms though surveyor shortages slow parcel distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LA Paz
Bolivia
Victor Paz Estenssaro
Intergovernmental Immigration Commission
United States
Paz Estenssorn
Paz Estenssoro
Santa Cruz
Chaco
Austrian Chancellor Raab Visits Kremlin for Talks Prelude
Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab and aides met with Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov at the Kremlin in preparatory talks on the Austrian independence treaty. No substantive business was discussed in the brief meetings.
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Moscow
Julius Raab
Kremlin
Nikolai Bulganin
V. M. Molotov
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M. F. Hudson CO
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