Lawrence teachers attend five day orientation workshop
About 180 teachers gather at Lawrence public schools for a five day orientation and departmental meetings. Miss Joie Stapleton and Dr. Keith Ant lecture on physical education and emotional health. Elementary and high school staff plan ongoing sessions with parallel meetings across Baldwin Lecompton and Vinland schools.
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Lawrence Public
Law- Series
gias-County Teachers’ Institute
Joie Stapleton
Atas University
Keithant
Southard School
Stapleton
Bryant
Elin Jorgensen
Mu!ic
K.U
McMichael
Bert Nash Mental Health Clinic
Sawa
Baldwin
Eudora
I Lecompton
Vinland
Polio Incidence Reported in Kansas for 1954
Topeka reports polio activity in Kansas with 138 new onsets over the week following a duplication elimination. Four onsets occurred in the Salk vaccine age group with unclear vaccination status. Counties Barton Neosho Coffey reported two cases each while single cases appeared in Greenwood Harper Sumner Shawnee McPherson Cowley Saging Geary and Harvey.
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Topeka
Kansas
Pete
Board of Health
Teates ifaThe
Polioshots
Coffey
Barton
Neosho
Greenwood
Harper
Sumner
Shawnee
McPherson
Cowley
Sa- Ying
Geary
Harvey
Northeast flood losses rise to forty nine thousand four hundred forty one families
The American Red Cross reports 49 441 families suffered losses in the Northeast floods, with relief costs likely over 10 million dollars. 13 169 families will seek rehabilitation aid, while 143 flood deaths are confirmed. In Durham North Carolina Robert Floyd Crank begins a one year prison term after pleading no contest to assault with a deadly weapon.
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New York
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Reds Cross
Jared
Durham
N.C
Robert Floyd Crank
Crank
North Carolina
Duke University
Superior Court
C. W. Hall
Isabel Hartman Crank
W. H. Murdock
Lawrence residents exceed Red Cross flood fund quota
Lawrence residents contributed 1174.50 to the Red Cross Flood Fund surpassing the 1010 quota. Funds will go to the area office in St Louis then to Washington for use in flood damaged areas. Officials urge continued contributions with no deadline.
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Tdaustas County
Red Cross Flood Fund
Area
St. Louis
Washington
National Disaster Fund
Red Cross
County Traffic Fine For Reckless Driving
Shellenberger of 308 E 5th Street was fined 50 dollars and assessed court costs in County Court for reckless driving.
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Tsse
Shellenberger
E. 5Th St
Ing County Court
Acardi Pleads Innocent to Lie Charge in WWII Death
Acardi Pleads Innocent to charges he denied complicity in the World War II death of Maj William Holohan. Cardi, 45, appeared in U S District Court on a $10 000 bond. Judge McGarraghy set a trial date in about two weeks.
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Ewashington
Aldo Icanti
Maj
Willam Holohan
Cardi
U.S
Ient
Reed
Dee
Joseph C. McGarraghy
Sleardi
Abntia
Italan
Tfe
Plohan
Prac
Tests Await Carrier Forrestal Aboard
The 60,000-ton carrier Forrestal steamed from News, Virginia, for four days at sea. Rigorous tests will determine how easily this mighty warship can join the U S fleet, with her great engines and complex machinery in operation during the voyage.
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Estal
U. S
Octopus tale from Winston Salem food club note
A fragment mentions Mrs Claude rson of Winston Salem sending an item about an octopus. It references adaptibility and a humorous pastry with eight sides, an Animal эксп experience, and odd details about an octopus in a small apartment and playing the piano.
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Clauderson
Winston Salem
N. A
Oeare
Nderson
Public outcry over Lee stamp sparks letter campaign
A heated exchange arises over a proposed stamp honoring Robert E. Lee. Critics argue it insults Union veterans and descendants, while supporters push ahead with printing despite calls to withdraw. The controversy continues as first-day plans advance in Norfolk and national philatelic groups prepare events.
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Means
Robert E. Lee
Washington and Lee University
Lee
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Union
G.a.rs
Department
Postal Department
Norfolk
American Philatelic Society
French Urge Algerians To Return To Villages
French authorities in eastern Algeria distribute hundreds of thousands of leaflets urging villagers who fled during disorders to return home and resume normal village life. Police and troops continue to pursue Nationalist rebels after the August insurrection and ongoing terrorism.
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Algiers
Algeria
Dulles to Take Vacation at Duck Island Retreat
Secretary of State Stan Dulles announced a two week vacation this weekend at his Duck Island retreat in Lake Ontario. He has visited the island between international meetings but this marks his first full scale vacation there since taking office three years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Stan Dulles
Duck Island
Lake Ontario
Wreck Injuries Reported In Topekan Paul Hunsinger
Topeka resident Paul Hunsinger, formerly of Lawrence, spent Monday night in Lawrence Memorial Hospital after a traffic crash near Lansing. His injuries were not serious and he was released today. Hunsinger is state superintendent for Cities Service Gas Co. Lawrence firefighters later responded to a gasoline spill at Rapid Transit Inc. at 10th and Mass after a tank truck overfilled an underground storage tank.
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Lawrence
Kansas
Paul Hunsinger
Topeka
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Lansing
Hunsinger
Cities Service Gas. Co
Rapid Transit Inc
10Th and
Mass
John Miller
Pike's Officials Update On Turnpike Construction Progress
Rain slowed work but heavy earthmoving continues on the Pike project. Crews grade ramps for the East Lawrence Interchange near U S 40-59 while cranes remove earth from the North Lawrence barrow pit. Travelers will soon see Lawrence from the toll road as work proceeds on bluffs, embankments, and Highway K-32 detours.
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East Lawrence
North Lawrence
Lawrence
Michigan Street
Kaw River
Miller’s Corner
Douglas County
Topekan Seriously Hurt In County Car Accident
A Topeka child Peggy Shane 2 was in satisfactory condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after a car overturned on U S Highway 40 detour works near the Douglas-Shinnee County line. Driver Robert Heatwode 21 and three other passengers were treated for cuts and bruises and released.
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Topekan
Peggy Shane
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Douglas-Shinhee
Lawrence
Heatword
Contol
Change Possibility On Alien Fingerprint Law
Secretary of State Dulles said changes may be desirable in the law requiring fingerprinting of all nonofficial foreign visitors to the United States. He has not decided, but the fingerprinting provision in the McCarran Immigration Law of 1959 creates obstacles. He will seek FBI views before asking Congress to ease or abolish the requirement.
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Washington
Dulles
United
Walter. McCarran
Congress
Federal Bureau , of Investigation
Camera Reported Stolen From KU Student in Lawndale
Naigzy Gebremedhin a Kansas University student from Ethiopia told the Sheriff's Office Monday that a 3 millimeter camera was stolen Saturday night from the Golden Arrow on N Ninth and Walnut Streets. Gebremedhin said the camera was taken while she was preparing to take a picture.
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Naigzy Gebremedhin
Sheriff's
Golden Arrow
N. 9Th
Walnut Sts
Gebremedhin
Kansas University
Ethiopia
Jazi
Tennessee Woman Killed In Bus Truck Collision
A northbound Greyhound bus overturned after being sideswiped by a truck near Lexington. Clara Hernhill, 51, of Knoxville, died after being partly ejected and pinned beneath the bus. Twenty four passengers were hospitalized with several treated and released.
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Lexington
Greyhound
Knoxville
Tenn
Fayette County
Clara Hernhill
Market News Mixed Signals On Stocks And Commodities
Wall Street showed heavy trading with aircraft shares leading gains while other sectors posted mixed results. Despite early rallies in rails and aviation, declines appeared in some groups as Boeing and Magma slipped and Republic Aviation and United Aircraft rose on dividend news. Cattle and hog futures in Kansas City reflected steady to soft moves amid regional price reports in corn oats soybeans and wheat futures.
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Eens Lowen
Wall Street
New York
Republic Aviation
United Aircraft
Phillips Petroleum
Boeing
Douglas
Bell Aircraft
Deaths and Funerals of McBride Breithaupt Noted Kansans
Alexander McBride 94 of Douglas and Osage counties died Monday in Osage City. Born April 27, 1861 in Boston, he was a violinist and the last of his family. Services in Overbrook with burial at Twin Mounds Cemetery. George Ralph Breithaupt 79, farmer near Clearfield, died Aug. 16 in Wellsville after a heart attack. Funeral Thursday at Schubert Funeral Home with burial in Clearfield Cemetery. Survivors include two sisters and two brothers.
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Alexander McBride
Alexander
Sant) McBride
Douglas
Osage
Osage City
Boston
Mass
Kansas
Dapers
Baker Funeral Home
Overbrook
Edward Caston
Washington Creek Church
Twin Mounds Cemetery
Georg Ralph Breithaupt
George Ralph Breithaupt
George
Emma Redding Breithaupt
Clearfield
Wellsville
Ted Brecelsen
Schubert Funeral Iome
Jacob Nelson
Clearfield Cemetery
Katherine Glasar
LeRoy
Blanche Godman
Kansas Cty
Bartle Breithaupt
Wellsvilfe
Clifford Breithaupt
Lawrence
Dulles Palestine Plan Deemed Impracticable by Egypt
Egyptian Revolutionary Council member Col Anwar Sadat criticized Secretary of State Dulles new Palestine peace proposals as impracticable. He argued the plan favors Israel and ignores its rejection of U N resolutions. The plan envisions multinational guarantees for borders Arab resettlement compensation and funding for Middle East water projects.
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Cairq
Egypt
Rung Revolutionary Council
U. S
State Dulles
Palestine
Israel
Anwar ‘Sadat
al Tahrir
Dulles
U.N
Middle East
Local births listed from Memorial Hospital area families
A hospital notice records births and parent names from Memorial Hospital William L. King Route 4 including Mr and Mrs Venel Shockley route 3 a daughter and Mr and Mrs Earl Seat 1343 Tenn St with one daughter born today. The list includes Peggy Shane Topeka Mrs Delores Capelle Sunflower Mrs Wilma Shockley Route 3 and others with babies of both genders.
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William L. King
Paul F. Hunsinger
Topeka
E. Thayer Gaston
Country Club
Terr
Guy M. Pennock
del. St
Peggy Shane
Delores Capelle
Sunflower
Dixie G. Scott
Tenn, St
Wilma Shockley
Cora E. Dobson
Alice E. Barnett
Venel_ Shockley
Earl Seat
Tenn. St
Army Cuts Red Tape to Help Soldier After Mother
Army officials eased delays to bring Pvt. Roger Crovis home from an outbound troopship to see his mother. A Red Cross telegram arrived at the Brooklyn Army Base hours after he boarded for Germany, prompting swift action to get him home.
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Army
New York
Brooklyn
Roger A. Crovis
Correctionsville
Towa
Wansport
Germany
Roasters Lift Wholesale Coffee Prices Across Industry
The two largest independent roasters General Food Corp and Standard Brands hike wholesale prices. Maxwell House and Chase & Sanborn rise three cents per pound to 91 cents. Trade sources expect others to follow, with retail passthrough varying by grocer as green coffee costs rise.
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New York
Romania to cut armed forces by forty thousand by December
Moscow and Tass report from Bucha that Communist Romania will reduce its armed forces by 40 000 men by December 1. This follows the Soviet Union announcing a 640 000 man cut and Czechoslovakia also stating military reductions.
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Moscow
Tass
Bucharest
Romania
Soviet Union
Oslovakia
Local carpenters urged to donate to Red Cross flood drive
Otis Wiggins business agent for the local carpenters union No. 2279 says members are being asked to contribute to a special Douglas County Red Cross flood relief campaign for victims in the Eastern United States. He notes annual support continues but this request calls for individual donations for the disaster relief effort.
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Carpenters’ Union
Douglas County
Red Cross
United States
Otis Wiggins
Wiggins
Eisenhower allocates additional flood relief funds
President Eisenhower announces 243 million dollars in initial grants for northeast flood relief with further federal money to come. Connecticut Massachusetts New York Pennsylvania Rhode Island and New Jersey receive allocations as White House officials plan a Washington conference to review progress.
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Denver
Eisenhower
Washington
Connecticut
Massachusetts
New York
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
New Jersey
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
White House
NLRB Votes to Bar Prior Approval for Strikes
The National Labor Relations Board voted 3 2 to bar an employer from requiring both union and nonunion workers to approve before a strike. The Wooster Ohio division of BorgWarner Corp failed to bargain in good faith by demanding a secret vote among all workers before CIO United Auto Workers could call a strike or seek changes.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
S.cike
NLRB
Wooster
Ohio
Borg- Warner Corp
All
CIO
United Auto
K U Group Presents Papers At Zoologists Meeting
Five members of Kansas University anatomy staff will present papers at the American Society of Zoologists meeting at Michigan State College East Lansing Michigan Sept 8. Dr Byron Wenger and his wife Dr Eleanor Wenger will speak. Dr William C Young will give two papers. Dr Robert W Gay and Harold R Antliff assisted.
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Kansas University
American Society of Zoologists
Michigan State College
East Lansing
Mich
Byron Wenger
Eleanor Wenger
William C. Young
Robert W. Gay
K. A
Ann Arbor
Harold R. Antliff
Sheppard
Alberta
Canada
Dr. Young
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Kansas Forestry, Fish and Game Commission
Dave Leahy
Leahy
Commission
Wichita
Santa Fe
E. 7Th St
Kansas City
Ad Club
Kansas’ City
K. U
Kansas City Athletics
New York Yankees
Odd Williams
Lawrence Quarterback Club
Lth
Mass. Sts
George Allen
Tth
N. H. Sts
West” Hills
Jim Wigglesworth
Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co
Traevic Fine
Acardi
Forrestal
Pike's Officials
Tennessee
K. C
USDA
Batley
City
Choting
Alfred Ch
Alarel
Atchison Teatime
Beth Steel
Boeing Air
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du Pont
RT Eagle P
Gen Motors
LIN Gulf Oil Goodyear
Herc Pdr Ba
Int
Shoe
Kan P& IL
Lion Oil
Marq Martin
Mont Ward
NY Central
Penney
Hs Reyn
St Jos
Sears Roeb
Sinclair
Memorial Hospital
Willis Young
Morris Ditty
George Beal
Ohio St
Richard Coffman
Ste. Nolan E. Wingert
Maple St
K. Warren
Clydia
Cleta Zantuyl
Elizabeth Duncan
Perry
Ella .MaeCofer
Del
Earl Kueser
H.C. Nelson
Route 4
Wanda Good
Bonita Lister
McLouth
the. Iglégram
Nea Agency
Ike
K.U. Group
Farmers Insurance Exchange Truck Ins Exchange & Fire Insurance
Andy" Anderson
New Hampshire
Calvin
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