Belgium cuts conscription period to two years
Belgium's Brussels government on Wednesday cut the 24 month conscription term to two years amid strikes. Gen Ridgway, U.S. NATO commander, pressed for two years as the minimum. Belgian and European defense talks stress a common two year standard, with Britain already at two years though not in the European Community.
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Belgium
Mathew
Ridgway
Brussels
European Defense ‘Community
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Netherlands
France
Italy
ENC
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EDC
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Market Report Mixed Trading Across Commodities and Stocks
Stocks showed a dull session with fractional gains and little breadth. Grain and livestock markets featured uneven moves, with cattle and hogs steady to higher and wheat and corn edging lower or mixed in Kansas City and Chicago reports.
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Ralis Iead
Kansas City
USDAI
Texas
Editor and wife die in head on crash near Lawrence
In a Kansas City area crash, editor Thad Kramer and his wife were killed when their car collided with another vehicle at a Lawrence filling station area. The couple, both KU alumni, were en route from Kansas City to Lawrence for football games and had recently engaged in a membership drive. Survivors include their son Elmer, siblings, and extended family. Authorities and a highway patrolman investigated the scene at Memorial Hospital.
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Lawrenes
Rasphie
Cation
Bee
Kramers
Kansas City
Alvar
Kramer
Lawrence
Altho
University of Kansas
Alward
KK. U2
Colege of Liberary Arts and Sciences
Epperson
Scott City
Scott County
Rumsey Muneral
Cinecago
Birdie Clark
Laura Filson
Scott Cry
Allert Epperson
Plainview
Effie Moore
Eldon
Ocean
Toneganoxie
Oni
Teyke
Eudora
U. S. Highway 50
Balbir
Valley Women Lead Telegram to Ike in Dam Protest
Valley watershed group sends telegrams to President Truman and Eisenhower opposing the Tut Ye Creek Dam project. Grange meeting in Manchester County plans to inform delegates for the state convention, as officials study the watershed impact. Local notes mention plans for a conference and potential Eisenhower visit. The column also notes a theatrical play by African natives reaching nineteen feet.
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Manhattan
Bye Valley
Sulilary
Eisenhower
Tut Ye Creek
Puttman
Truman
Raneas
Keoneth Katian
Katnsas City
bin Didays
Derver
Memorial Hospital Notices and Local Announcements
A list of names and addresses appears for memorial hospital entries and residents in Sunflower Herington and nearby areas. Entries note births, affiliations, and residences with several parentage references. The piece also covers a Mineral Club meeting details and an upcoming field trip discussion.
Deaths and Funerals Touch Kansas Area Residents
Obituaries note deaths and services for Mrs. Mable Watkins 82 of Lawrence area widow of Dr. E. Watkins with services at Rumsey Funeral Home and burial in Maple Grove Cemetery. Also listed: William T. Gallamore 76 of Route 2 with service at Rumsey, burial Oak Hill. Thelma Pauline Andrews 43 of Harrisonville Mo. Thomas James Van Nice Route 5. multiple survivors and locations including Topeka Humboldt and Ti sonville. An atom center sentence explains protons in an atom.
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Mable Watkins
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Rumsey Funeral
H. M. Sippel
First Christian Church
Maple Grove Cemetery
Tonganoxie
3. E. Watkins
Lawrence
William T. Gallamore
Arnold Mitchell
Mason
Flora Franklin Gallamore
John Surene
Mass
Mitchell
Ted Gallamore
Aurora
Cole
Cressie Tustison
Thelma Andrews
Thelma Pauline Andrews
Harrisonville
AR. Cook
Barker
Providence Hospital
Kansas City
Edwin M. Andrews
Wanda Jean
Nina Deline
Medgin Cook
Baldwity
Tisonville Methodist Church
Moriah
Thomas James van N
Thomas James van Nice
Route 5
Charles
Topeka
Hart
Rumsey Funeral Home
John Anderson
DeWitt Cemetery
Humboldt
Old Maid Day Celebrated in Denton Texas for Third Year
Old Maid Day returns to Denton on August 15 with Miss Dorothy Babb and Amelia Anthony leading the event. The celebration funds Girlstown through donations in old maids’ names, plus a free movie, soda pop, popcorn, and merchant gift certificates for attendees.
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Denton
Tex
Texas
Dorothy Babb
North Texas State College
Mic Amelia Anthony
Girlstown
U. S
Prairies
Miss Babb
Plan for Katy Railroad recapitalization submitted to stockholders
In financial circles Thursday plans for a Katy Railroad recapitalization were discussed as a possible fall submission to stockholders. Donald V. Fraser and Joseph T. Mahaney met with experts to craft a plan acceptable to the Interstate Commerce Commission and stockholders, despite over 60 percent of shares registered to brokers. Katy earnings near 400,000 monthly into 1952 while dieselization is expected to complete by year’s end.
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New York
Donald V. Fraser
Joseph T. Mahaney
Interstate Commerce Commission
Lawrence singer Mary Beatie stars in Connecticut summer operas
Lawrence voice alumna Miss Mary Louise Beatie, a KU student and Lyric soprano, headlines in a series of summer light opera productions in Litchfield Conn. Daughter of the late baritone Walter Zimmerman, she studied at Juilliard and previously starred in La Traviata and other operas. Separately, Douglas County officials resume fish moves for Lone Star Lake with 3,000 channel catfish received at Pratt hatchery and introduced to the lake, while crickets plague Lawrence sightings and election-board pay checks total around 280 to 285. The report notes the atomic bomb blast’s initial fireball temperature and vacuum conditions.
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Mary Louise Beatie
Topeka
University of Kansas
Litchfield
Conn
Beatie
Walter Zimmerman
Juilliard School of Music
New York Ciy
Monte Carlo Opera Co
Douglas County
Joe Rice
Lone Star Lake
Salina
Kansas
Pratt
Joca
Lone Star
Rive
Brutality of Korea Echoed by Screams
A vivid field report from Panmunjom describes brutal combat at Bunker Hill with Marines and soldiers under heavy Chinese assault. Wounded men arrive by helicopter and train to rear-area hospitals as doctors struggle through extended shifts and fatigue. The 19 year old Marine recalls the fierce night battle and frontline chaos, including a foe driven by a grenade and relentless enemy figures advancing from every direction.
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Bunker Hill
Panmunjom
Bamge
Edgar Hansen
Mansfield
Wash
Bunkers Hill
Lawrence Youth One of Two Held by Ottawa Police
A 19 year old Lawrence youth is one of two juveniles held in Ottawa on grand larceny charges for car thefts and accessories across Lawrence and Ottawa over several months. Charles New of Lawrence and George Kinley Brooks of Ottawa were transferred to Franklin County officials after Ottawa police seized a suitcase of car mirrors rear view reflectors radios aerials and other small parts along with a car radio steering wheel and binoculars.
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Presbyterian Church
Natonal Missions
Kansas
Hollywood
New York
Trith General Assembly
Whitman
Donahina Campion
Sheldon Jackson
Reinders
Gideon Blackburn
Daniel Boone
Missions
Dorothy Ballard
General Assembly
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Oklahoma
Janie
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church
New York City
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Clinton Presbyterian Church
Marion A. Barlow
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A. John Anderson
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W. C. Fisher
A. I. Decker
F. M. Merriam
First Presbyterian
Oscar York
A. G. Hammon
Vinland -Presbyterian Church
John Barber
Ruth Ann Charles
K. A. Westminster Fellowship
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Patton
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Topeka-lighland Presbytery
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Lawrence
Ottawa
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George Kinley Brooks
Franklin County
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Kansas Draft Heads to Set Farmer Plan
Congressional delegation outlined a farmer plan as a six week old proposal. The general said Selective Service aims to act through state efforts to address specific problems. A theoretical one candlepower light could be seen about 30 miles in perfect darkness under ideal conditions.
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Kansas
Selective Service Department
Two Kansans to Attend Chicago School Confab
Kansas officials Lewis H. Brotherson and Carl B. Althaus will join Midwest board leaders at the University of Chicago conference on effective school board membership August 11 to 20. The first national gathering of school board presidents and executive secretaries is sponsored by the Midwest Administration Center and the National School Boards Association with support from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.
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University of Chicago
Kansas
Lewis H. Brotherson
Kansas Association of School Boards
Kansas City
Carl B. Althaus
Lawrence
Midwest Administration Center
National School Boards Association
Midwest Center
State Departments of Education and Administrators Associations
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Iowa
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Nebraska
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Late Golf Results Kansas City Open Lead Field
First round scores show amateurs competing across Kansas and Missouri with players listed by hometown and score. Notable names include Rocaer Junction City Chanute Topeka St Joseph Ponca City Tulsa Salina Joplin and Don Nichols with varied scores. Also a brief science note on adrenal glands and adrenaline.
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Rocaer Junction City
Kas
Rob Tind
Chanute
Dick Renche
St. Joseph
Enworth
Charles Stolhand
Ponca City
Okla
Bill Smith
Tulsa
Don Nichols
Topeka
Don Sechrist
Everett Owens
R. E. Barnes
Salina
Ral
Lloyd Tate
Joplin
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Maple
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Green's Lake
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Route 4
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Korea
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Schubert Funeral Home
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