Sorority Drives New Eyes Glass Recycling in Lawrence
Lawrence and Douglas County residents may donate discarded eyeglasses and salvageable jewelry next week to New Eyes for the Needy. Alpha Omicron Pi alumnae organize the drive with multiple local deposit sites and pickup, supporting a program that has aided over 70 000 people since 1933.
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Lawrence
Douglas County
Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
United States Assay Office
Rusty's
Cole's Markets
Stowits Drug Store
University Memorial Union
Alpha Omicron Pi
Warren Lesh
Frank Nelick
Edgar Harrison
New Eyes For the Needy, Inc
Short Hills
N. J
Arthur E. Terry
Red Cross
New York City
Short Hills Junior Service League
Storage crisis looms as grain agencies meet in Manhattan
Representatives of federal and state grain agencies met in Manhattan to discuss Kansas storage woes amid a 22 million bushel expansion in facilities and a predicted small crop. Don Smith of CCC warned of a 100 million bushel carryover, while idle ship holds limit relief to country elevators. Wendell Becraft cited 28 million bushels on farms under CCC loans and Paul Griffith warned storage space will tighten with a large sorghum crop.
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Manhattan
Kansas
Don Smith
Commodity Credit Corp
Kansas City
Kansas Committee of Agricultural Agencies
Kansas Agricultural, Stabilization and Conservation Service
CCC
Smith
Wendell “Becraft
State
ASC
Paul Griffith
Kansas State College
Tito Acrees to Alliance For Defense With Turkey
Ankara Turkey President Tito is reported to press for a military alliance with Turkey and seek Greece to join. Yugoslav foreign minister Roca Popovic announced the plan during Tito's state visit, signaling a regional security shift in the Balkans and the eastern NATO area.
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Anbkara
Turkey
Yugostia
Tito
Tur‘oy
NATO
Greece
Anrhey
Bal
Forner Roca Popovic
Cust
Devod
Arthur Weaver One of 8 New Trustees Appointed To the White Foundation
In Washington D C Burton W Marvin announced eight new William Allen White Foundation trustees including J Montgomery Curtis Don Davis Henry B Jameson Earl J Johnson Ernest W Johnson Grove Patterson Angelo Scott and Arthur B Weaver The breakfast coincides with the ASNE convention and aims to unite trustees from across the United States for the KU journalism program and foundation objectives.
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William Allen White Foundation
University of Kansas
Washington, D. C
Burton W. Marvin
Foundation
William Allen White School of Journalism
Public Information
J. Montgomery Curtis
American Press Institute
Columbia University
New York
N. Y
Don Davis
WHB
Kansas City
School of Journalism
Henry B. Jameson
The
Abilene
Kas.) Reflector-Chronicle
Associated Press
Earl J. Johnson
United Press Associations
New York City
K. U
Ernest W. Johnson
Chanute Tribune
Grove Patterson
Toledo Blade
American Society of Newspaper Editors
William Allen White
Angelo Scott
Iola Register
Kansas State Historical Society
Arthur B. Weaver
Lawrence
Washington
United States
ASNE
Desa Marvin
Japan fears Pacific radioactivity from Bikini tests
The Japan Fisher Board said on Friday that U S hydrogen bomb tests may have contaminated the Pacific across 3,000 miles. Japanese fishing boats within 2,200 miles southwest and 1,000 miles northeast of Bikini atoll have become radioactive.
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Tokyo
Japan Fisher Board
U. S
Pacific
Bikini Atoll
Perjury Conviction Ties Police Lt in Greenlease Case
Federal jury convicts Lou Shoulders former St Louis police lieutenant of perjury over two money case suits tied to the Bobby Greenlease kidnapping. Also convicted patrolman Elmer Dolan. both linked to the missing 303720 dollars from the 600000 ransom. Greenlease was abducted in Kansas City on Sept 28 and killed the same day.
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Ferrara
Italy
Mario Tabelini
Kansas City
Federa
Loui
Greenlease
Shoulders
St. Louis
Carl Austin Hall
Bonnie Brown
Bobby Greenlease
Hall
Robert C. Greenlease
Elmer Dolan
Dolan
Bobby Green- Lease
Mrs. Heady
Missouri Penitentiary
Around the World Travel Contest Promises Free Trip
A promotional note from Tom Maupin Travel News invites readers to join the Around-the-World Shoppera Club for a chance to win a free trip around the world or one of 476 other prizes including a 1954 car. Details and membership info are at Tom Maupin Travel Service, 1015 Mass, phone 3661.
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Tom Maupin
Travel News
Origin of Topeka Name Still A Mystery To Historians
Topeka marks its 100th birthday amid a long standing question of how the city got its name. Most scholars link Topeka to a form of wild potato used by Indigenous people along the Kaw river. The oldest known use is a Dec 17 1854 letter from Cyrus Holliday, founder of the city, which does not reveal the name’s origin.
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Steve Underwood
Topeka
Kansas
Kaw
State Historical Society
Society
Cyrus K. Holliday
Mary
Holliday
Alrieta
Town Company
Word adoption debate sparks historic term origin view
In OLATHE KANSAS a public discussion cites F. Giles and itinerant preacher Myr lam regarding the first use and English form of a word. Historians note uncertainty whether Holliday or another introduced the term. A separate local photo feature shows an Air Force plane tied to a Kansas event and reports on responders from Hunter, Missouri.
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C . L di Giles
Ras An Ing
Giles
Bum
Myr Lam
Holliday
Hunter
Kiville, Mo
Duo Plane Spotters at Rainbow Station Near San Diego
Carter aged 37 nearly blind and Thatcher aged 59 hard of hearing work as aircraft spotters at the Volunteer Ground Observer Scope station in Rainbow near San Diego. Carter hears the planes while Thatcher spots them, with supervisor M Larna Blankenship praising the pair's teamwork.
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San Diego
Calif
Carter
Thatcher
Rainbow
Tatcher
M Larna Blankenship
Ol.ver
Eeun Iv
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Arthur Weaver
White Foundation
Carr
Joneses
Capitol Federal Savings
Tith
Vermont - Lawrence
Federal Savings Loan
Mount Hope
West 4Th Street
Dom
Buick
Hing
The _ Lawrence National Bank
Massachusetts
Amar
Suick-So
Rivieras
Parker Buick Company
New Hampshire
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