Salk vaccine study reviews Kansas areas vaccination data
Readable table summary shows per county and grade breakdowns of vaccination status and paralytic versus non paralytic polio cases in Missouri and Kansas. It lists A through T categories with counts for Boone Cay Green Jackson Kansas City Pemiscot Johnson Sedgwick Shawnee and other counties, detailing vaccinated non vaccinated and partial injections among second graders and other grades.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
Missouri
Boone County
Cay County
Green County
Jackson County
Kansas City
Pemiscot County
Kansas
Johnson County
Sedgwick County
Shawnee County
Annual K U Festival of Foreign Students in Memorial Union
Overseas students at Kansas University stage the Foreign Festival with 30 more participants than last year. Eighty eight students from 45 countries display geography customs art and artifacts from 1 to 4 30 p m in the Memorial Union Ballroom. Brian Dunning will MC the 75 minute program and Chancellor Franklin D Murphy will give a welcome address.
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Kansas University
United States
Memorial Union
Sam R. Butler
K.U
Brian Dunning
England
Franklin D.murphy
Butler
Eisenhower Eyes Match With Masters Champ
President Eisenhower wields a golf club in Augusta aiming for a planned 18 holes with Cary Middlecoff, Masters champion, as Middlecoff may return for a weekend challenge. Hagerty notes bursitis pain limits the president but practice continues amid a busy foreign aid push. Snow blizzards isolate Clayton and cap off a rugged travel day across New Mexico.
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Augusta
Eisenhower
Cary Middlecoff
Middiecaff
White House
James C. Hagerty
Salk Vaccine Deemed Easier to Use by Health Officials
Medical teams report the Salk vaccine is simpler to administer than traditional vaccines with minor reactions in last year’s tests. Under the mass inoculation plan for Douglas County six teams will vaccinate in Lawrence Lecompton Lone Star Baldwin and Eudora, each team comprised of a doctor two nurses a recorder and two assistants.
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Douglas County
Lawrence
Lecompton
Lone Star
Baldwin
Deaths and Funerals in Kansas City and Nearby
Obituaries list Orville D Copeland 59 Kansas City Mo died Friday services set 2 30 Thursday St Luke AME with burial Oak Hill Cemetery body lie in state Bowzer Lee Mortuary today until funeral. John D Doyle 12 retired farmer services 9 Thursday at St Johns Catholic Church burial Maple Grove Cemetery Tonga nop. rosary tonight at St Johns. Surviving Doyle brothers Ed Daniel Leo. Samuel Earl Wampler 71 Topeka died at Santa Fe Hospital born Greenwood Franklin Co survived daughter Katherine Duke and sons Harold and Harry. arrangements later. William Earl Foster 45 Route 4 died Lawrence Memorial Hospital survived by two sons William Paul Emmett LeRoy and daughter Mildred Lewis plus three brothers four sisters and one grandchild. Emmett Laster 72 retired farmer Williamstown died at KU Medical Center services Williamstown Community Church burial Underwood Cemetery survivors wife Isabel Oliver Virginia Page sister Margaret Scott. Andrew F Erwin 60 Topeka died unexpectedly at home survived by wife Tillie Erwin son Earl Erwin daughters LaVerne Disney Violet Stober four sisters and late brother Earl Erwin funeral arrangements not completed.
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Kansas City
St. Luke's Ame
W. S. Sims
Oak Hill Cemetery
Bowzer-Lee
John D. Doyle
St. John's Catholic Church
Msgr
George Towle
Maple Grove Cemetery
Tonganoxie
St. John's Church
Ed Doyle
Daniel Doyle
Leo Doyle
Route 3
E. Wampler
Samuel Earl Wampler
Vt. St
Santa Fe
Topeka
Santa Fe Railroad
Greenwood
Franklin County
Lawrence
Wampler
Katherine Duke
San Diego
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Durango
Colo
Harry Wampler
Wichita
William E. Foster
William Earl Foster
Route 4
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
William Paul Foster
U. S. Navy
San Francisco
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Mildred Lewis
Charleston
S. C
John Foster
Fred Foster
Jim Foster
St. Joseph
Ella Ray
Susie Jambois
Albion
Mont
Bernice Holliday
Edith Hoffman
Oskaloosa
Emmett
Laster
Emmett Laster
Williamstown
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Perry
Virginia Page
Norton Ville
Margaret Scott
McLaouth
Andrew F. Engin
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Frank Hatch
Vicar Lawrence
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Earl Erwin
California
LaVerne Disney
Los Angeles
Violet Stober
Honolulu
Hawaii
Rose Bardin
Santa Monica
Calif
Avia Chase
Bell
Edna Cameron
Compton
Hatch
City Officials Note Athletics Win As New Mayor Elected
Lawrence reports Tuesday events mix city business with sports as the Kansas City Athletics won a game while a new mayor was chosen. A commission room scoreboard tracked the inning by inning action near the meeting’s end. Also noted are local milk firm management change, fountain prankings, a stockholders quorum issue, and tax filing hours at the post office.
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Kansas City Athletics
City Commission
Commission Room
Commission
Athletics
Backfire Starts Blaze in Lawrence Alley Fire
Firefighters at 6 p.m. Tuesday responded to an alley east of Massachusetts Street in the 1000 block where a car belonging to Tom Hall of 1017 N H Street backfired and leaked gasoline, causing an estimated $50 damage.
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Lawrence
Massachusetts Street
Tom Hall
N. H
Condition Still Far for Overbrook Man After Injury
Otho Brentlinger of Overbrook remained in fair condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after being critically hurt Sunday evening while helping a wrecker operator near Overbrook.
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Otho Brentlinger
Overbrook
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Santee Receives Award as Top Marine Racer at KU
West Santee, Kansasville star receives plaque and achievement certificate in a Military Science Building ceremony at the University. Capt Virgil Gordimier presents. Santee was named outstanding athlete in the All Marine Corps sports program last summer at Quantico Virginia, winning the mile and the 880. Certificate signed by Gen. Lemuel Shepherd, Commandant of the Marine Corps.
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West Santee
Kansasville
Virgil F. Gordimier
Naval Science
K.U
Drunkenness Fined in Topeka Police Court
William Lyons of Topeka was fined ten dollars today in police court for drunkenness.
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William Lyons
Topeka
Enness
Crown Is Chosen and City Projects Advance
The city council discussed appraisals for property on Centennial Park Addition at St and Iowa, annexation readings for the Park Heard area, and approved a $4700 digging machine purchase for the Water Department despite a lower bid. They approved $10,840.57 in claims, directed studies on metal awnings and parking meters, and gave final approval to paving Nineteenth Street from the KP&L substation to Iowa Street.
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Byron Sheegas
Pawnee Ave
J. H. Burckhalter
Owens
Bob Mounsey
Water Department
New Hampshire Street
Kp&l
Oqusdahl
Iowa Street
Lawrence Resident Hurt In City Accident
Claude E. Smith age 64 of 2200 Tenn St suffered bruises to his forehead shoulder and arm in a collision at 21st and Ky Sts. He was admitted to Lawrence Memorial Hospital for exam and X rays. Mrs Martha M. Mason 38 of 1622 W 22 Terr collided with Smith. Mason uninjured and cited for failure to yield right of way.
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Tenn
21St
Ky. Sts
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Smith
Martha M. Mason
Mason
Local Births Marriage and Divorce Records Highlight Community News
A list of new births across towns includes Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Hand of Tonganoxie with a son and Mr. and Mrs Roy Schribener of Route 5 with a daughter. A marriage license was issued Tuesday in Probate Court to Harold C. Allen and Virginia Marie Bulla both of Topeka. A divorce suit Clifford v Smith vs Alice B Smith was filed Tuesday in District Court.
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Stanley Hand
Tonganoxie
Roy Schribener
Route 5
Harold C. Allen
Virginia Marie Bulla
Topeka
SIIT
Clifford v.Smith
Alice B. Smith
District Court
Partnership Dissolved Between Stouch and Allen Attorneys
The law partnership of J. Stouch and Milton V Allen is dissolved though offices remain in the Capitol Federal Savings & Loan building. Formed in April 1955 and ended in October 1954, both will operate separately from the same site. Stough, a former speaker of the Kansas House, and Allen, ex county attorney, will continue to practice in Lawrence with Navy service noted for both.
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J. Stouch
Milton Vallen
Capitol Federal Savings & Loan
Stough
Servier
House of Representatives
Lawrence
Alien
Kansas University
Torney
Wortham Named Vice President of County Health Council
The Douglas County Health Council elected Mrs. Janes L. Wortham as vice president to complete the unexpired term of Charles Warriner. Miss Evadne M. Laptad praised Warriner’s leadership on the Lawrence hospital study committee. Nominations for vacancies included Kanwaka and Willow Springs townships and Lawrence. G O Lindgren of Trinity Lutheran Hospital spoke on planning hospital services and finances.
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Douglas County Health Council
Janes L. Wortham
Charles K. Warriner
Warriner
Evadne M. Laptad
Lawrence Hospital
League of Women Voters
The
Health Council
Kanwaka
Charles R. Topping
Clinton Township
Leslie Demsetitt
Willow Springs
Fremont Hornberger
Lawrence
Simon Hurwitz
Paul Roofe
WC. Boardman
G. O. Lindgren
Trinity Lutheran Hospital
Kansas City
Trinity Lutheran
Westvaco Plant Earns National Safety Awards
Westvaco Chemical Co presents three safety honors to its 118 staff plant. William Yates notes there has been no lost time accident since the May 14 1951 opening, and the site earned the National Safety Council award for 1954 plus FM and C Corp presidential and best-record honors under 250000 man hours.
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Westvaco Chemical Co
William Yates
National Safety Council
Food Machinery and Chemical Corp
FM & C
Yates
Westvaco
Vincent's grand opening draws 3500 visitors
Over 3,500 people visited Vincent's Inc on Tuesday for the first day of its grand opening. The store, which bought the former Journal-World building, has two months of renovations and will continue the formal opening through Saturday.
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Vincent's Inc
Bill Brewer
Vincent’s
Journal-World
Prof Hood to Receive Holley Medal for Engineering Achievement
Prof. George J. Hood of Lawrence will be presented the Holley Medal for outstanding engineering work tonight in Columbia Missouri. The award honors his invention of the dermatome a skin grafting device. Hood is professor emeritus at Kansas University School of Engineering and is attending the St. Louis and Kansas City sections anniversary meeting of the ASME at Missouri University with his son Henry Hood of Rochester New York accompanying him.
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George J. Hood
Lawrence
Holley
Columbia
St. Louis
Kansas City
American Society of Mechanical Engineeers
Missouri University
Hood
Kansas University School of Engineering
Henry Hood
Rochester
N. Y
Landscaping bids for Grace Pearson and Douthart dorms
Bids were opened at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the state purchasing director's office at Topeka for landscaping around Grace Pearson and Douthart women’s dormitories. Constant Construction Co. of Lawrence submitted the apparent low bid of 351.135.
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Dirrector
Topeka
Grace Pearson
Douthart
Constant Construction Co
Lawrence
Market roundup shows gains across grains and livestock
Markets report higher averages with grains firm and strong animal futures. Wheat and corn rally as processors and mills step in while oats see very strong short covering. hogs slip by 25 to 50 cents to top around 17.50. Castle steers hold steady to 1.50 lower, top 30 50.
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Ught
Castle
Kansas City Livestock and Market Report Highlights
Kansas City livestock prices show calves and hogs mixed with steady to weak demand. Cattle: cows mostly steady, heifers and some steers down, vealers steady to higher. hogs active with barrows and gilts steady, sows lower. Sheep: small lots steady to weak with truck springers 20 to 22. Wheat and corn futures mixed. stocks rise in New York led by motors and steel sectors amid copper selling pressure.
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Kansas City
Choice
Kansas
Chrysler
County Court Fines Five For Traffic Violations
Five persons were fined this morning in County Court for traffic offenses. Winkatlane James Boydston of Lecompton, running a stop sign and no driver's license, fined $12 plus costs. Kenneth Lynn of Topeka, running a stop sign, fined $10 plus costs. Gary Norris of Williamstown, passing in a no passing zone, fined $10 plus costs. William Hunter of Perry, speeding, fined $10 plus costs. Phillip Spencer of Lecompton, failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, fined $10 plus costs.
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William) James Boydston
Lecompton
Lee Naneeenenens Caney Les Kenneth Lynn
Topeka
Gary LaVern Norris
Williamstown
William Ray Hunter
Perry
Phillip Eve Fene Spencer
Nine More Schools Enter Kansas Relays Spectacle
Nine additional colleges and schools entered for the Kansas Relays on April 23. Oklahoma University leads with a 20 man team poised to yield top stars including Bob Derrick and Erwin Cook, while Nebraska Missouri Valley Pittsburg State and others add competitors in College and Junior College divisions.
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Kansas
Bob Derrick
Erwin Cook
Joel Sweattle
Hendrik Kruger
Rod Buchanan
Oklahoma Baptist
Jay Chance
Minnesota
Ring to Mrs McConnaughey in Lawrence Jubilee Prize
Mrs B E McConnaughey of Wil Hamstown receives a $1000 diamond ring at Cole's Food Center Lawrence on Saturday as a winner in a General Mills Jubilee Sweepstakes. Ring presentation by a General Mills official at 5 p m. Entry did not require purchases and was open to the public.
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B. E. McConnaughey
Wil Hamstown
Cole's Food Center
Lawrence
General Mills
McConnaughey
Cole’s
Hall OKs Two On Board Topeka Kansas Military Board
Gov. Fred Hall said he will ask Brig. Gen. Howard Searle Topeka and Col. Charles H. Browne Jr. Horton to continue serving on the Kansas Military Board. The board members serve at the governor’s pleasure.
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Topeka
Fred Hall
Howard & Searle
Charles H. Browne Jr. Horton
Kansas Military Board
In Memoriam Mrs May Shirk Remembrance Note
Mn loving memory of Mrs May Shirk who passed away three years ago on April 13. Her smiling way and Pleasant face are a pleasure to recall. She had a kindly word for reach. Sadly missed by all, Children and Grandchildren.
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May Shirk
Chidren
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