Nixon Signals U.S. Possible Indochina Intervention
Vice President Nixon suggested U.S. troops might be used if French forces withdraw to prevent a Communist victory in Indochina. He said such action would only be if necessary, and he believed Indochina could be saved by other means. The remarks, made off the record to editors, drew mixed reactions from lawmakers and raised questions about administration policy.
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155 K U Air Cadets To Summer Camps
The Kansas University Air Force ROTC unit sends 155 cadets including 14 from Lawrence to seven bases in California and Texas for a month of training. Groups will observe and participate at bases with base pay, flights, lectures, and demonstrations. Early camps include Hamilton California Long Beach California Webb Texas Bergstrom Texas Norton California. later Bergstrom and Castle California are listed. Names and addresses of Lawrence area cadets are given among the 30 at each site.
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Delaware River Valley Group Fights Perry Dam
A Delaware River valley residents group met Friday in Ozawkie to oppose authorization of Perry Dam. They adopted a resolution against the dam and named Claude Brey and Ray Wegner to appear before the House Public Works Committee when the reservoir authorization is discussed.
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Delaware River Valley
Washington
Perry Dam
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Ray Wegner
House Public Works Committee
Two Judges Enter Race for Supreme Court Seat
The retirement of Justice Hugo T. Wedel prompts a quick entry. Spencer A. Gard of Iola and Clair G. Robb of Wichita file for the Republican nomination within hours of the announcement. Gard is a 37th District judge and former state senator. Robb presides over Sedgwick County's four division court.
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Woodson
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Air Force Dismisses 78 for Communist Links
The Air Force reports the dismissal of 24 civilians and 54 uniformed personnel for Communist or related affiliations. An additional 150 personnel were separated for related security reasons, with 104 more cases under study. Secretary Talbott and officials describe varied evidence of Communist leanings and emphasize stricter screening to prevent service by those with such ties.
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Joseph F. Carroll
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Lomborg Receives Ticket After Confronting Officer
In Oakland Lomborg, while getting a haircut, spotted a policeman about to tag his car. He crossed the street to argue the ticket, failed, and was also cited for jaywalking.
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Lomborg
Walkout Delayed At Four Atomic Plants
About 4,000 production workers at three atomic plants in Oak Ridge Tennessee and one in Paducah Kentucky will keep working while a presidential panel reviews their demand for a substantial wage increase. The planned strike would have begun Friday midnight but was called off after the Atomic Energy Labor Relations Panel agreed to intervene. Federal mediator Whitley P. McCoy asked for hearings to present a settlement basis, with possible proposals returned to bargaining if rejected.
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Paducah
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Boy 11 Dies After Trampled by Horse in Missouri Crash
An 11-year-old boy from near Bronaugh Missouri, Wayne V Wyckoff, died after being trampled by a horse and later in a traffic accident. He was in a pickup driven by his father J M Wyckoff when the crash occurred with a car driven by Dr W W Davis, a Nevada physician.
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Grindstaff Injured Faling From Tower at Local Plant
Phillip Grindstaff, 40, of 758 Maple Street, was admitted to Lawrence Memorial Hospital in fair condition after a fall from a tower under construction at the CCA fertilizer plant east of Lawrence. He sustained multiple broken ribs a broken back and a broken left shoulder blade.
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Top Official Calls Oppenheimer Loyal American
A high level Eisenhower official says J Robert Oppenheimer is a loyal American despite a voluminous security file. The source, who spoke to newsmen anonymously, notes Oppenheimer has faced a three man Atomic Energy Commission review after being barred from access to atomic data.
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Former State Senator Dies in Kansas City Hospital
Rolla Wand Coleman, 87, former Kansas state senator and Republican, died in a Kansas City hospital Friday night. First elected in 1916, he served multiple terms including 1944 to 1948 and helped pioneer Kansas tax assessment reform. A Baker University alumnus with a Stanford law degree, he is survived by his wife, Mrs Ling Burgner Coleman.
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Kansan readers urged to send $1 for scam fundraiser
Larry Lawrence warns about a $1 donation request received in the mall last month. He notes a return envelope, with most funds reportedly going to a cerebral palsy project of the Kansan Society for Crippled Children.
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Santee Aims for Mile Victory at Kansas Relays
The 29th Kansas Relays opened in Memorial Stadium under bright sun and near 80 degree heat. Wes Santee, KU’s famed miler, faced six rivals in the Glenn Cunningham Mile with expectations high for a sub four-minute clocking, though he publicly aimed to beat the Relays mark and boost Jayhawker relay efforts.
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Marker for Oregon Trail Presented at KU Ceremony
Dr Howard Driggs of the American Pioneer Trails Association formally presented the Oregon Trail Marker to Kansas University during a Lindley Hall ceremony. Chancellor Murphy accepted the plaque as part of dedications noting the trail’s historic routes and pioneers.
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K.U
Franklin D. Murphy
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Robert Taft
K.A
Easter Promenade Forecast Says Umbrellas Unneeded
Topeka area weather outlook predicts partly cloudy skies and cooler Easter temperatures. Highs from 55 to 65 degrees in the north and around the 60s in the south, with overnight lows 35 to 50 across regions.
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Topeka
Hill City
Wamego
Kansas
Mila
Siege of Dien Bien Phu Sees Reinforcements Dropped In
Waves of Dakotas and Flying Boxcars dropped troops and equipment to the besieged Dien Bien Phu garrison. Vietminh attackers cling to dugouts 800 yards from the fort as French counterattacks press the airstrip. French reserves prepared for a third assault before Geneva talks.
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Indochina
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Paris
Education ministry orders expulsion for unsaluting students
Nationalist China’s Education Ministry decreed on Saturday that students who refuse to salute the national flag or bow before Sun Yat-sen’s portrait will be expelled. Some Christian students objected, arguing the act is idolatry.
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Traffic Deaths In Topeka And Statewide 1954 Update
State Accident Records Section reports Topeka traffic fatalities and overall Kansas totals. For the 24 hour period ending July to date in 1954 the numbers show state and local totals with year over year comparisons to 1953.
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Topeka
Kansas
Civil Engineering Exhibit Wins Sigma Tau Trophy at KU
The 34th annual Engineering Exposition at the University of Kansas awarded the Sigma Tau trophy to the Civil Engineering display, praised as the best show in the 1954 section. Honorable mentions went to Chemical Engineering and Architecture displays as about 8,000 visitors viewed exhibits April 16 and the show continued today.
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Sigma Tau
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Kansas Relays
Sigma Tau Selection Committee
Civil Engineering Department
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Marvin Hall
Marshall Brown
Lindley
Dean Glasco
Whief
Holyfield
Dean T. DeWitt Carr
Scientists Explain Windshield Damage Myth In Seattle
A University of Washington team debunked reports of a mysterious windshield damage wave. They found pits relate to car age and mileage and ruled out radioactive causes from hydrogen bomb fallout.
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Pacific Northwest
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