Presentations to Be Kansas Leaders in Public Relations Awards
The Public Relations Association of Kansas will honor outstanding public relations by organizations or individuals in a February awards series to be announced February 25-26 at the University of Kansas. Twelve awards in four fields will be split between commercial and non commercial groups with three internal and three external programs in each class. Deadline for entries is February 1, 1955. rules are being mailed statewide and entries may be submitted by organizations or individuals themselves or nominated by others.
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Als
Public Relations Association of Kansas
Hamlin Welling
Kansas City
Kansas Public Relations Institute
University of Kansas
Welling
Association
Chambers of Commerce
Kas
Kansas
ICC approves bus line extension from Osawatomie to Tulsa
The Interstate Commerce Commission granted Kansas, Inc. of Coffeyville permission to extend passenger bus and express service from Osawatomie to Tulsa, creating direct Kansas City to Tulsa service and a Topeka to Tulsa link. The action was conveyed to the Kansas Corporation Commission, which had backed the extension in a joint hearing with Oklahoma. The ICC denied Southern Kansans Greyhound’s bid to operate directly between Garnett and Kansas City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peka
Interstate Commerce Commission
Kansas Jis Inc
Coffeyville
Osawatomie
Kas
Tulea
Oklo
Kansas City
ICC
Tulsa
Topeka-Tulsa
Topeka
Kansas
Points
Kansas Corporation Commission
Oklahoma Corporation’ Commission
KCC
Garnett, Kas
Military Weapons Budget May Be Boosted for 1955
Secretary of Defense Wilson stated 1954 cuts were large but the 1955 budget, from 29.6 billion dollars, could rise to 34 billion. He told Dinols Manufacture in Asia that spending would increasingly fund faster higher planes with heavier loads while stressing that force alone cannot solve world issues and cooperation with free peoples matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Wilson
Asia
United States
Dog Biscuit Cat Flavor Stew Aims at Canine Market
Inventions by Dr. Schwine and Dr. Kitzenger include Peppermint Carroway seeds and Filter Tipped Macaroni with a new Dog Biscuit stew. They claim 40 percent of dogs prefer cat flavor, 60 percent prefer mailman, and note a profit link to mink coats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Schwine
de. Kitzenger
S&k
Doctare
Schwine
States Extended as Emergency Loan Areas Through 1955
The Agriculture Department extended emergency loan designation for Arkansas Kansas Missouri New Mexico Oklahoma Tennessee and Texas through 1955 due to continued severe drought and adverse agricultural conditions. Farmers suffering losses and unable to obtain credit may receive loans from the Farmers Home Administration to sustain normal farming operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Arkansas
Kansas
Missouri
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Texas
Farmers Home Administration
Schmidt to Solo During Festival at Friends U
Reinhold Schmidt, KU voice professor, will perform two Bach festival soloists at Friends University Wichita. He sings Sunday in Christ mas Oratorio with the Friends music department and Monday recitals baroque works including Cross-Staff Cantata. Marian Jersild will accompany. Schmidt, once a leading opera baritone, now accepts limited engagements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reinhold Schmidt
University of Kansas
Friends University
Wichita
Friends Music Department
Marian Jersild
K.U
Kansas
Schmidt
Births and dismissals noted at Memorial Hospital
At Memorial Hospital a list records births and dismissals. Entries name individuals from Sunflower Eudora DeSoto and nearby locales, with new babies and discharged patients. Specifics include Baby girl for Virginia Raymo, Baby boy for Maxine Jackson, several births with addresses and dates noted as today or Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sharlyne Daniel
Sunflower
Mary Atwell
Conn
Earl Klebenstein
Ky. St
Robert Morley
Eudora
Michael Evange
Hillcrest Trailer Ct
Virginia Raymo
Maxine Jackson
DeSoto
Hilary Annette Stanbrought
Sylvia Nitcher
Route 4
Richard Saunders
la. St
Newton Man Paroled On Bakery Robbery Charge
Robert N. Brady, 24, Newton, Kansas, paroled for five years after pleading guilty to the October 30 bakery robbery at Ark Bakery in Wichita. Brady, once an accountant for the bakery, admitted taking checks and cash during the employees Halloween party. He was paroled from an indeterminate sentence to the State Reformatory at Hutchinson and must make restitution within two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Robert N. Brady
Newton
Kas
Brady
Dist
Clair Robb
State Reformatory
Hutchinson
Asphalt Work on 23rd Street Nears Completion
Workmen were to finish a double course asphalt surface on Twenty Third Street today enhancing width to 49 feet between Town and Learnard Streets. Grading remains for road shoulders, and sidewalks will be added on the south side between Vermont and Louisiana and on the north side between Barker and Massachusetts. Safety signs and devices will be installed after completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twenty- Third
Clyde Woods Jr
State Highway Commission
Town
Learnard
Woods
Vermont
Louisiana
Twenty-Third
Barker
Massachusetts
State Highway Department
Safety Office
Red-CRC Link Up Cited At Hearing
An FBI informant testified that the Communist Party and the Civil Rights Congress worked closely and shared mailing lists. R. J. Hardin, 53, of Large, Pa., testified at a Subversive Activities Control Board hearing on the Brownell petition to require Civil Rights Congress to register as a Red front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Communist Party
Civil Rights Congress
FBI
R. J. Hardin
Large
Activites Control Board
Atty
Probation Granted in Shawnee Federal Savings Burglary Case
Robert J. Wilhelm, 20, pleaded guilty in Federal Court to burglary of Shawnee Federal Savings & Loan Assn in Topeka. U.S. Dist. Judge Delmas C. Hill issued a three year suspended sentence and placed him on probation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichitaff
Robert J. Wilhelm
Shawnee Federal Sayings & Loan Assn
Topeka
Federal Deposit Insurance
U.S. Dist
Delmas C. Hill
New England
N.C
Co-Op Official Ordered to Produce Records in Wichita
U S District Judge Delmas C Hill ordered Joe Firmin manager and resident agent of the Stevens County Cooperative Equity Exchange at Feterita Kansas to produce the co op records in court at Wichita on December 14 and to answer contempt charges. Internal Revenue agents sought access to books in a tax investigation involving a third party not the co op or Firmin personally, with a summons issued in November. Firmin said he was too busy to deal with the matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Joe Firmin
Stevens County Cooperative Equity Exchange
Feterita
Kas
U. S. Dist
William Farmer
Delmas
C. Hill
Firmin
Internal Revenue
Farmer
U. S
Feterita Co-Op
Internal Revenue Code
Hugoton
Internal Revenue Bureau
Douglas County road program slows after 1951 flood
Ousdahl described county finances in Kansas as debt free except for a 5 mill levy for road construction and maintenance. He noted major postwar work includes Lecompton Bridge rehabilitation and Eu dora bank protection, with full funding through pay-as-you-go measures. 1954 projects cited include asphalt resurfacing south of Eudora, Lakeview Road work northwest of Lawrence, U S 40 north to Lecompton gravel road resurfacing, and several concrete bridges.
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Douglas County
Kansas
Commission
Lecompton
Eudora
Ousdahl
Ousdah
Lakeview
Lawrence
U. S. Highway 40
Deaths and Funerals for Saunders and Calhoun
Funeral services are set for Mrs. Mabel Hertzler Saunders wife of Philip Saunders at 3 30 p m Saturday at Rumsey Funeral Home with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Howard Edward Calhoun a 33 year old chief petty officer at Olathe Naval Air Station killed in a car crash will be buried at Mt Moriah Cemetery after services at Frye Chapel in Olathe at 2 p m Saturday. Calhoun son of Bertha Curtis formerly of De Soto High School and a Navy veteran of World War II and Korea served as an athletic official in the Kansas City area while stationed at Olathe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel Hertzler Saunders
Philip Saunders
11Th St
Rumsey Funeral Home
Albert F. Bramble
Memorial Park Cemetery
Howard Calhoun
Howard Edward Calhoun
Olathe Naval Air Station
Frye Chapel
Olathe
Mt. Moriah
Calhoun
Bertha Curtis
DeSoto
Navy
DeSoto High School
Kansas City
Three Finalists Elected For K U Military Queen
Janis Hartell of Delta Gamma from Plattsburg Missouri Jane Henry of Kappa Alpha Theta from Topeka and Phyllis Landeene of Pi Beta Phi from Topeka were named finalists for the University of Kansas Military Ball queen. The queen will be revealed at intermission during the Saturday dance in the KU Student Union Ballroom. Attendants will accompany the queen and Maj. Gen. Jarred V Crabb will crown her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janis Hartell
Delta Gamma Sorority
Plattsburg, Mo
Jane Henry
Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority
Topeka
Phyllis Landeene
Pi Beta Phi Sorority
University of Kansas
K.U. Student Union
Jarred V. Crabb
Central Air Defense Command
Grandview Air Force Base
Water Control Groups Form Legislature Plan in Kansas
A Topeka action group formed by flood control and water conservation associations will work with the 1955 Kansas Legislature. Frank Haucke of Council Grove said the group will focus on all flood control and soil and water conservation legislation and is linked to the Missouri Arkansas Basins Flood Control Assn. in Kansas City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
WPA
Kansas
Frank Haucke
Council Grove
In Traffic Court Myroff Bernitz Fined for Wrong Way Arrest
Myroff K Bernitz of Eudora was fined 19 dollars in police court for traveling the wrong way on a one way street and ordered to attend one session of traffic school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myroff K. Bernitz
Eudora
Butler Says Ike Mac Row To Hinder GOP in Future
Washington report shows Paul M. Butler, newly elected Democratic National Committee chairman, believes the split between Sen. McCarthy and President Eisenhower could harm the Republican Party. Butler arrives at party headquarters for his first visit since the New Orleans election and reiterates his view that Eisenhower has not shown a capacity to unite the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butler
Ike Mac
Gop
Washington
Paul M. Butler
Democratic National Committee
Sen. McCarthy
Drive in curb mail box starts at Lawrence post office
Lawrence Post Office installs a curbside drive in mail box at east side of building near 7th and N Streets enabling letters to be mailed without exiting cars. Packages still inside. collections timed with train departures. three east side parking spaces designated. former front entrance box removed.
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Lawrence
7Th and
N. H. Sts
James Parsons
Parsons
Hall Denies Water Pipeline Plan to Great Lakes
TOPEKA i Gov elect Fred Hall says Kansas has no plans to promote a Great Lakes water pipeline despite a Chicago Tribune report. He recalls being asked at a Council of State Governments meeting if Kansas would be compelled to take water from the lakes and says he answered that maybe, but he has no plan to do such a thing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Fred Hall
Kansas
Great Lakes
Chicago Tribune
Hall
Chicago
Council of State Governments
Army Gift for Draftees Delays Inductions Until After Christmas
The Army postpones inductions of draftees who would have entered service during the Christmas period affecting about 10,000 men. If individuals insist on enlisting during the holiday period, arrangements can be made to proceed earlier.
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Washington W
Ike and Mamie Eisenhower Stay Overnight at Camp David
President Eisenhower and Mrs. Eisenhower depart for an overnight retreat at Camp David near Thurmont Maryland. They may stop at the new Gettysburg farm site en route. He plans to return tomorrow afternoon for the Gridiron Club dinner with newspapermen.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Camp David
Thurmont
Gettysburg
Gridiron Club
Vanishing small post office in Kansas prompts concern
Since May 1953, the Post Office Department cost cuts have led to 49 fourth class post offices closing in Kansas. The state has dropped from 1,100 post offices to 850 as modern transport makes small offices unprofitable, signaling a trend toward fewer rural outlets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pera UK
Kansas
Local KU students named new YWCA officers
Three Lawrence students at the University of Kansas were elected as officers for the student Young Women's Christian Association Thursday night. Marianna Anderson was elected vice president Katherine Westgate membership chair and Susan Montgomery was elected as a student religious council representative. Additional officers include Peggy Whitney president Eleanor Hawkinson secretary Barbara Mills treasurer Barbara Bininger program chairman Joyce Sejkora publicity chairman Jane Ratcliff district representative and Sue Sedgwick the other student religious council representative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
University of Kansas
Young Women's Christian Association
Marianna Anderson
Univerasity Dr
Katherine Westgate
Ohio St
Susan Montgomery
Tenn. St
Peggy Whitney
Topeka
Eleanor Hawkinson
Marquette
Barbara Mills
Olathe
Barbara Bininger
Kansas City
Joyce Sejkora
Chapman
Jane Ratcliff
Atwood
Sue Sedgwick
Overland Park
Deportation Sought for Writer Cedric Belfrage
The Justice Department announced an Immigration Service inquiry officer ordered Cedric H. Belfrage a British writer and editor of the National Guardian deported for Communist Party membership. Belfrage has 10 days to appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Justice Department
Immigration Service
Cedric H. Belfrage
New York
Belfrage
National Guardian
Board of Immigration Appeals
Communist Party
Topeka Man Injured in Head-On Highway 40 Collision
A Topeka man, Frank Garling, 59, was treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital for cuts and bruises after a head-on crash about 7:15 this morning on U.S. Highway 40, half a mile west of Lawrence. Opposing driver Dale L. Burns, Ft. Riley, was unhurt. Burns said he fell asleep at the wheel. Damages were estimated at 600 dollars to Burns’ car and 350 dollars to Garling’s.
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Topeka
Lawrence
U.S. Highway 40
Frank Garling
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Dale L. Burns
Ft. Riley
Burns
Garling
KU Army ROTC raises cadets to ranks at ceremony
Ten University of Kansas ROTC cadets were promoted today. Eugene Gooding Edmund Mitchell Lowell Yadon Lawrence Klempnauer Ted Uhirich Lawrence Biggs Robert Rogrick William Hogan David Horr and Robert Shutt were raised to captain first lieutenant or noncommissioned ranks. The promotions occurred as part of ROTC unit ceremonies in Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Kansas
Army
Eugene Gooding
Ohio St
Edmund Mitchell
Locust St
Lowell Yadon
N. Park &J
Lawrence Klempnauer
Ky. St
Leutenant
Ted Uhirich
Lawrence Biggs
la, St
Robert Rogrick
Mass
William Hogan
W. 12Th St
David Horr
Robert Shutt
Lawrence
Oklahoma and Colorado bankers named to Topeka bank board
Two Oklahomans and a Coloradoan elected as directors of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka. New directors are Ray Spradling of Oklahoma City Federal Savings and Loan Assn. and B F Swan of Empire Savings and Loan Assn. Denver. Francis E Myers, secretary of Liberty Savings and Loan Assn. Fort Scott Kansas, was reelected to the board.
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Topeka
Federal Home Loan Bank of
Ray Spradling
Oklahoma City Federal Savings and Loan Assn
Oklahoma City
B. F. Swan
Empire Savings and Loan Assn
Denver
Francis E. Myers
Liberty Savings and Loan, Assn
Fort Scott
Kas
Bartholomew Named UPI President and General Manager
Frank H. Bartholomew is elected president and general manager of United Press succeeding Hugh Baillie, who becomes chairman of the board. Bartholomew has been UPI vice president in charge of the Pacific since 1938, a director since 1949, and first vice president since last August.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Frank H. Bartholomew
United Press
Hugh Baillie
Bartholomew
Pacific Area
Launch Under Way for Forrestal Supercarrier
The Navy began launching the 60,000 ton carrier Forrestal in Newport News Virginia as sea valves were opened to float the ship for the ceremonial christening planned for tomorrow at the graving dock.
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Washington
Forrestal
Navy
Newport News
Divorce suits granted in district court
Three divorce cases were granted this morning in District Court. Ruth J. Flink was divorced from Robert T. Fink, Grace Ella Ross from William B. Ross, and Eleanor Strunk from Clarence A. Strunk.
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Ruth J. Flink
Robert T. Fink
Grace Ella Ross
William B. Ross
Eleanor Strunk
Clarence A Strunk
BIS Fugitives Caught By Colorado Officials
Three teenage Kansas Industrial School escapees were charged with auto theft after a high speed chase through eastern Colorado. Officers fired over a dozen shots as Sheriff Bill Howard named Larry Williams 15 Lloyd Halsey 15 and Kenneth Kelly 14 all from Wichita who had been sent for armed robbery and escaped Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne Wells
Colo.ur
Kansas Industrial School
Topeks
Colorado
Officera
Bill Howard
Larry Lee Williams
Lloyd Halsey
Kenneth Kelly
Wichita
Fire kills elderly man in Missouri stove blast
An aging stove exploded igniting a fire that destroyed Riley Barrett's frame home in Santa Mountain, Greenfield area. Neighbors say Barrett, 82, was trapped inside. he had lived alone and was in poor health for months.
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Greenfield
Riley Barrett
Dade County
Barrett
Santa Mountain
Murphy Named Kansas Campaign Chief for Cancer Society
Pat Murphy of Topeka is appointed state campaign chairman for the Kansas division of the American Cancer Society. Dr Karl Voldeng, president, announced a state quota of $322,030 for 1955 as part of a national goal of $24 million. The Kansas drive is scheduled for April.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. P
Pat) Murphy
Topeka
Kansas
American Cancer Society
Karl 5. Voldeng
Freight cars derailed near Tina Missouri
Twenty four cars of an eastbound Burlington freight train were derailed fifteen miles west of Tina. No injuries reported. Cause not yet determined. Also noted is Miss Joanna March daughter of Mr and Mrs George March who will appear on the Peggy Wood show Mamia tonight on Channel 9 in New York City.
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Tina
Burlington Railroad
Joanna March
George March
Ky. Sr
New York
City
Peggy Wood
Mamia
Channel 9
Fined for Failing to Yield Right of Way
Byrl C. Denney of Baldwin was fined $20 and costs in County Court yesterday for failing to yield the right of way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Byrl C. Denney
Baldwin
Drunk Driver Financed? County Court Fin e Dit?
Gayle Elmo Culpen of DeSoto received a $100 fine and a 30 day jail sentence suspended on parole after pleading guilty to driving under the influence of liquor in County Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gayle Elmo Culpen
DeSoto
Christmas social and county records noted in Osceola
Mrs Vivien Truman from Grandview Mo visits daughter Mr and Mrs James Stover Jr and baby Carl Frederick at their home. C Saward recovering at farm west of town after corn picker accident. Orville Holford and partner audit county records at courthouse. Edith Morris hosts Past Matrons Club Christmas party in Presbyterian dining room with carol singing and sunshine gift under tree. WSCS meets in Fellowship Hall with Claire Rogers presiding and missions lessons. County Agent Stroud to hold Junior Leadership training Dec 15. Journal-World subscriptions popular gift for Lawrence residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. C. Saward
Town
Orville Holford
Hutchison
Court House
Edith Morris
Presbyterian
Morris
Lila Means
Ruth Long
Jennie Davis
Mesdames Engle
Handley, Henry
Rogers
Elizabeth Slade
Atchison
WSCS
Fellowship Hall
Lucile Means
Claire Rogers
Milton Rhodes
L. M. Gunselman
Lena Roberts
Charity Dunbar
Stroud
Legion Hall
Market News Summary From Kansas City and Wall Street
Market news shows higher activity with modest gains in stocks and firm but narrow bond moves. Livestock prices vary as hogs edge up to 18.85, steers hold at 27.00, while grain futures and cash markets in Kansas City report mixed quotes for wheat corn oats and soybeans amid steady to higher spot prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cash Grain
Kansas City
Shorts
Wall Street
New York
Pittsburgh Steel
U.S. Steel
Gimbel Bros
Boeing
McIntyre-Porcupine
American Can
Missouri Pacific
Southern Railway
Atlantic Coast Line
Superior Oil of California
Johns- Manville
Affiliated Gas Equipment
Magma Copper
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Droodles
Sd LS
TVE
HLM
Friends U
Memorial Hospital
James Lenehan
Robert Weible
Goldie Shrimplin
Dorothy Mason
Ronald Shemm
Larry Eugene Davis
Perry
Herbert Dahlene
Vt. St
Robert Moore
N. H. St
James E. Smith
N. J. St
Paul Stowe
Perry St
Newton Man
Lone Star Road
C. E. Decker
Seal Sale
Ike
Mamie
Lemar Ony Eit
YWCA
K. U. Army
Bank
BIS
Oldster
Oskaloosa
Vivien Truman
Grandview, Mo
James Stover Jr
Carl Frederick
The
Journal-World
A & P Grocery
Cole’s Food Center
Crows Drug Deluxe Cafe
Eldridgs Pharmacy
Gemmell’s Cafe
Greene's Newstand
Holt's Pharmacy
R.U. Student Union
Pine's Food Market
Raney Drug Store Drug Co
Rexall #2
Round Corner Drugs
Rusty’s Food Center
Stowite Rexall Store
USDA
F.o.b. Farm
Beltsville
Capone
Scotland
New Jersey
Admiral
P.m
Allied Chaos
Us Atchison
Beech Air
Beth Steel
Boeing Ai
Ti ‘Dow Chem
du Pont
Mach Eagle
Elec
Gen Motors
Kan
P&l
Lion Oil
Martin
McKess & R
Mont Ward
NY Central
Ohio Oil
Penney
Pa RR
Phil Pet
Proct & G . Radio Co
Reyn Met
St Jos
St Reg Pap
Sears Rocb
Sinclair O
Socony Vac
India
UN Pac
US Steel
Avice
Lawrence Mills
Karl Kreider
Esat
Ganta Claus
Ganta
M.r.gile
Agincy O
Santa
F.D.I.C
Douglas County State Bank
the Bank of Friendly Service
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