0th annual Fat Stock Show set for Wichita dates
J Harold Johnson announces the 0th annual Fat Stock Show in Wichita October 8 to 10 with Kansas State College Manhattan Kansas Livestock Association Wichita Chamber of Commerce and Extension Service backing. The event features two official tests including sheep, judging, and team competitions with trips to Chicago and Kansas City for winners. Entries due September 13 via county offices. exhibition rules require top quality stock and a purple ribbon award replaces a single grand champion. Exhibitors aged twelve and up may participate and all entries are organized into blue red and white ribbons. A separate note mentions the black widow spider venomous bite accounting for about 5 percent mortality.
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Wichita Chamber of Commerce
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PMA Elections Set for Autumn in Kansas Counties
Wendell Becraft announces that 1953 PMA elections will occur in September and early October across 105 counties with farm-by-farm voting to select committee members. Eligible voters include farm owners tenants and sharecroppers participating in or carrying out program practices, including ACP price supports and crop insurance. Delegates to the 1952 county convention will also be chosen.
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Wendell Becraft
Kansas State
PMA
Morris County
Becratt
State Getting U S Aid On 647 Miles of Roads
Washington reports 647 miles of federal aid highways under construction as of July 31 with an estimated cost of 16.545 million dollars, of which 58 thousand 629 dollars comes from federal funds. Plans for 554 more miles cost 6.321 million with 3.18 million in federal aid. An additional 972.8 miles are programmed, costing about 9.11 million with 4.404 million federal funds. Kansas shows a remaining federal aid balance of 6.665 million.
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Wansag
Commerce Department
Kansas
NPR Lifts Ban on Tracks and Recreational Facilities
Washington reports the government plans to lift a two year ban on building tracks pools and recreation facilities effective next April as part of broader construction curbs liberalization. NPA said it will increase steel copper and aluminum for the construction industry and may implement earlier than April due to steel strike constraints.
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National Production Authority
NPA
Rufe Newman
Construction Controls
House GOP Floor Leader Seeks Fourth Term Speaker
TOPEKA Donald C. Lunt of Pratt County plans to run for speaker of the house in 1953. He is currently serving his third term and is among several Republicans named as potential candidates including Immel, Berryman, Stough, Bentley, Murrhy, Rinehart, and Ferguson. The speaker is chosen by a majority party caucus at the session start in January.
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Donald C. Lunt
Pratt County
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Howard M. Immel
Iola
Jerome C. Berryman
Ashland
Charles D. Stough
Lawrence
Howard Bentley
Kinsley
John H. Murrhy
Leavensworth
Lower D. Rinehart
Paola
W. M. Ferguson
Wellington
Ancient Gates Unearthed at Beth Yerah Tel Aviv WA
Israel Antiquities Department reports new finds from excavations at the 4.0Mb year old Beth Yerah site on the Sea of Galilee shores. House walls a pebbled street and part of city gates were uncovered as researchers study ancient water use patterns through time.
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Tel Aviv
Israel Antiquities Department
Beth Yerah
Sea of Galice
Paris Knew Greatest Glory On Liberation Day 1944
Veterans recall Paris liberation in 1944 with memories of Charmaine at sidewalk cafes and the joyous fall of Nazi control. The piece recounts street fighting, uprisings, and celebratory scenes as Allied forces, led by Omar Bradley and a French armored division, entered Paris on August 25.
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Charmaine
J Allied
Epreat
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Charmaines
Imo
Fourth Infantry
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