Quick Dixie Campaign Swing On Ike Agenda
Eisenhower plans a swift plane tour into about a dozen Southern cities across seven states starting Sept 2. He aims to flip Dixie states for Republicans with stops in Richmond Atlanta Birmingham Miami Jacksonville New Orleans Dallas Fort Worth Houston and Memphis, tied to a world peace speech in Philadelphia Sept 4 and farm policy remarks in Indianapolis.
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Denver
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
New York
Dixie
Key
Herbert Hoover
Eisenver
Severe storm floods Lawrence area with downed trees and outages
Lawrence endured the largest single rain in 11 months tallying 1.58 inches over six hours Sunday night while a damaging wind and electrical storm struck for more than two hours. The underpass flooded, a tree blocked South Park Street, and crews repaired blown transformer fuses, broken poles, and telephone lines into Monday.
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Lawrence
Athhe
Douglas County
Worden
Baldwin
Lecompton
South Park
Massachusetts
New Hamsphire Streets
Second Street
Kaw River Bridge
Kansas Power and Light Co
Cecil Hough
J Company
Eudora
Owen Smith
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Saunders Widow Dies at 97 in Leavenworth
Mrs Mil dred J Saunders aged 97 died Monday in Leavenworth leaving seven children 45 grandchildren 111 great grandchildren and 42 great great grandchildren. Her husband and three children preceded her in death.
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Saunders
Leavenworth
Mildred J. ‘Saunders
Burglars Target Southeast State Bank Vainly
An Associated Press report from Kansas City notes burglars stranded a Southeast State Bank crime over the weekend. They forced a rear window, ransacked a storage room, climbed to the second floor, and drilled into a brick wall above the vault but abandoned the attempt on the concrete vault wall. They then rifled tellers cages for a total loot of two dollars.
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Kansas City
Southeast State Bank
Typhoon hits Korea's West Coast amid rains and air clashes
A typhoon packing up to 100 mph struck Korea's west coast near Kunsan eighty miles from Seoul, bringing torrential rains across South Korea. Four to five inches were forecast for battlefront areas as planes and ships faced disruption. US air force weather officers warned of gusts on the battlefield and possible renewed strength near the Sea of Japan.
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Seoul
Korea
Kunsan
Sea of Japan
South Korea
U.S. Air Force
Air Force
Hokkaido
Japan
Okinawa
U. S
Republika
Shanghai
Pukhan River
Bunker Hill
Peakes Judged a Lunatic and Sent to Institution
New York police report Bayard Peakes, famed for claiming to seek immortality, killed 18 year old Eileen Fasey on the Columbia University campus. A court ordered confinement as a lunatic at Mattewan State Hospital after psychiatrists diagnosed paranoid schizophrenia.
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New York
Bayard Peakes
Columbia University
General Sessions
Edward J. McCullen
Mattewan State Hospital
Beacon
N.Y
NLRB ruling pending on Stoke ly Foods election
The 130 workers at Stoke ly Foods Inc East 10th Street voted Wednesday on forming a union with the AFL as bargaining agent. The result awaits the National Labor Relations Board ruling after AFL officials protested the election procedures. The NLRB ordered and directed the election. the AFL and the United Construction Workers of America have sought to organize the plant.
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Stokely Foods Inc
Douglas County 4-H Fairgrounds Birth and Early History
The creation of Douglas County 4-H fairgrounds began with 1926 4-H work in the county and grew through girls cooking and sewing clubs. Early leaders, 4-H contests, and the shift to county-wide competition led to the first fair plans and a clothing and foods exhibit in the Chamber of Commerce, with county agents and teachers guiding the drive.
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Robert Miller
T. R. Warren
J. B. Taylor
Chamber of Commerce
A. I. Gilkerson
W. R Essick
Liberty Memorial High School
George Hed
Stevenson outlines Democratic nationwide campaign plan
Gov Adlai Stevenson and a nine member strategy board sketch broad tactics for the Democratic presidential year campaign. Major speaking tours by Stevenson, traveling by train and airplane, are geared for a television time table. A team of 10 Democrats coordinates country wide speaking engagements and barrage of campaign efforts.
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Adlai Stevenson
Stevenson
Barrage
Boy Scout knowhow helps 13 year old survive Sierra trek
Brent Bradberry of Lynwood California told how he endured seven days alone in the High Sierra after vanishing on a fishing trip. He followed Cherry Creek downstream using woodcraft, crossed falls, swam and waded, survived by a rock and a hollow redwood bed, and ate pine nuts juice wild peppers and dried apricots before reappearing at a fishing camp.
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Sonora
Calif
Brent Bradberry
High Sierra
Lynwood
Brent
Cherry Creek
Tomhindeanand
Bradberr
Douglas County 4-H Fairgrounds Chief Builder Elmer Ousdahl
Douglas County Commissioner Elmer Ousdahl led planning and directing of the new 40 acre Douglas County 4 H and Vocational Agriculture fairgrounds on East 19th Street financed by a two year tangible property mill levy. He says his sole interest is the county children and notes he spent nine weeks overseeing construction. He visited Valley Falls Council Grove and Emporia to study needs and planned expandable facilities with jointed steel. The tract cost 9000 dollars from Judge Hugh Means and the site offered a favorable city view and location.
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Elmer Ousdahl
Douglas County
East 19Th Street
Ousdahl
Fairgrounds
Valley Falls
Council Grove
Emporia
Quidahl
T Tound
Altha Ousdahl
Hugh Means
Judge Means
Tourney Success in First Lawrence City Golf Invite
The Lawrence City Invitational golf tournament reported strong turnout with just over 100 entrants for the 38-hole qualifying rounds over the weekend. Final flights decide prizes and trophies with practice rounds available for entrants who did not play 18 holes yet. Fred Frey and B R Bus Zook of the Chamber of Commerce praised the event as representative and well organized.
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Lawrence City
Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence Country
Fred Frey
C. of C
Fr R.bus Zook
Zook Saint
Stock Market Index Drops Amid Broad Decline
The closing average for 60 stocks stood at 107.2, down 1.9 points as overall markets faced a broad decline. Investors watched notable moves across sectors and weighted by variety of earnings news.
Storms, casualties sting Kansas as rains arrive
Skies cleared and rain spread across Kansas after a weekend of severe weather. Abolt 55 year old Maggie Grissinger died from lightning near Harveyville. A Topeka firefighter, Charles Zarker, was injured by a falling barn roof during a blaze sparked by lightning. A T 33 jet trainer from Bryan Air Force Base crashed near Centrali a trainer was killed. Power outages hit Topeka Wichita Lawrence Pittsburg Coffeyville with shattered plate glass in Pittsburg during a crowded game. Lightning knocked out Coffeyville water plant transformer, hampering pumping for hours. Miller's Barbecue on U S 49 and 24 advertised reopening September 2.
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Great Bend
King‘man
Arkansas City
Wichita
Harveyville
Maggie Grissinger
Topeka
Charles Zarker
Air Force
Bryan
Tex
Air Force Base
Centralia
Kas
Lawrence
Pittsburg
Coffeyville
Pitsburg
Water Department
Two locations pull 15 year old double duty at fair
James Mohr of Hutchinson aged 15 faced a clash between the High Plains Music Camp tryout at Ft. Hays State College and a junior league baseball championship in Hutchinson. A sponsor arranged flights to Hays and back via Nebraska due to Kansas storms, but the Hutchinson game was rained out. County's Annual Three Day Agricultural Affair Opens Wednesday.
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Hays
James Mohr
Hutchinson
High Plains
Ft. Hays
Kansas
Mohr
Hults Re-elected GOP Chairman in Douglas County Kansas
Hults was re-elected chairman of the Douglas County Republican Central Committee at a Saturday meeting in Lawrence. He began the post in 1950 and outlined plans for a September 6 meeting to appoint committee vacancies. He reported 30 volunteers as block workers and about $1,000 in advance contributions. He urged broad voter turnout for November and praised Eisenhower as a growing campaign figure.
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Don
Hults
Douglas County Republican Central Committee
Lawrence
Ethel High
Wilfred Hunsinger
George” Allen
Central Committee
Douglas County
Hulis
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Washington
Republican Party
Kansas
State Levy In Drop Shows Tax Cuts And Higher Valuations
The 1953 Kansas ad valorem tax levy was set at 1.62 per 1000 of assessed valuation by the state revenue department. Despite higher assessments, the state will collect nearly one million dollars less in 1953 than 1952. The 1952 levy stood at 1.83 per 1000, producing 7,069,469 for the general fund and related programs, with 1951 at 1.90 per 1000 yielding 7,976,742. Tangible and intangible assessments rose to 4,041,541,124 and 587,726,976 respectively. The 1952 levy allocated 60 cents to general fund, 27 cents to bonus bonds, and 75 cents to educational buildings.
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Topeka
Kansas
State Educational Building Fund
Calnavon
Death toll rises in Topeka traffic crashes in 1952 update
State accident records show three deaths in Topeka within the last 48 hours bringing the year total to 324. The update notes deaths from recent accidents not previously recorded, with 1951 figures listed for comparison.
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Topeka
Kansas
Douglas County 4-H and FFA Prepare For Three Day Fair
Douglas County 4-H Club and Liberty Memorial High School FFA members finish projects for the three day Douglas County 4-H and Vocational Agriculture Fair at the new East Nineteenth Street fairgrounds. The livestock show, style revue, and home economics judging begin midweek with entries accepted Wednesday and Thursday. final livestock and project judging occurs Thursday night and Friday, with prize money provided by the Lawrence Community Chest and the Al Bromelsick estate. A ban on hogs and cattle vaccinated for anthrax limits this year’s livestock shows.
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Birius
Douglas County
Nineteenth Street
Fairgrounds
Highway 10
Journal-World
Rich Clarkson
Future Farmers of America
Liberty Memorial High School
Lawrence. Community Chest
al Bromelsick
State official in Topeka collapses from heart attack
A. E. Sherley chief engineer at the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing collapsed of a heart attack Monday during a business visit to the state houses. He fell in the state architect’s office shortly before noon and was taken to Stormont Hospital where he was reported resting quietly. Miller's Barbecue at U. S. 40 and 24 closed advertised opening Sept. 2.
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Topeka
A. E. Sherley
Kansas State Penitentiary
Lansing
Stormont Hospital
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