Orphans to Haven in Korean War evacuation
Nearly a thousand Korean street orphans were flown to a island sanctuary in an operation called kiddie car. Fifteen twin engine American transports landed at Kimpo air base to evacuate 964 children, ages six months to 11, many malnourished and sick, aided by Lt Col Blaisdell and American nurses.
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Seoul
South Korea
Kimbo
Blaisdell
Grace Chicken
Buffalo
Voluntey
Mary Wilfoeng
Selma
Als
Jane Murphy
Milton
Murphy
Kansas utility gains restraining order over city license fee
Great Bend Kansas December 21 Kansas Power Light Co sought a temporary injunction to block enforcement of a $10,000 annual license fee ordinance set to take effect January 1 The city council passed it December 4 after lengthy talks The company claims the city would usurp powers of the Kansas Corporation Commission The restraining order names Mayor Joe A Mermis Jr city attorney Horton Caruthers and eight council members for hearing January 4 and for possible injunction action
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Great Bend
Kan
Kansas Power & Light Co
Roy J. McMullen
Kansas Corporation Commission
Joe A. Mermis, Jr
Horton Caruthers
Hold Investment Day by Jefferson County Cancer Society
The Jefferson county chapter of the American Cancer Society hosts an Investment Day educational program at the township hall near Valley Falls on January 23 from 1 a.m. to 3 30 p.m. Special guests include state commander Mrs Stewart of Wellington and district commander Mrs Ed Abels 2032 Massachusetts street. A noon covered dish luncheon is provided by the Valley Falls Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars which also supplies the coffee. A cancer film will be shown in the afternoon and Jefferson county organizations are asked to send representatives.
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Jefferson County
American Cancer Society
Valley Falls
Stewart
Wellington
Ed Abels
Massachusetts Street
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Former Banker Dead in Iola Kansas at 85
M L E Horville ages 85 former president of the Iola State Bank died yesterday in Tola Kansas He served on the Allen County Fair board for 50 years and led the organization as president about 25 years His father Daniel Horville was a pioneer stockman in Allen county The Journal World ad suggests gift subscriptions at Christmas time
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Tola
Kan
L. E. Horville
Iola State Bank
Allen County Fair Board
Daniel Horville
Allen County
Prices Down as Food Costs Drift After Price Freeze
Food industry and shoppers brace for impacts of the government price freeze while prices on items like turkey beef eggs and produce vary from last week. Turkeys down two to seven cents a pound, beef and pork mostly unchanged, eggs fall up to nineteen cents a dozen, fruits and vegetables mix slight gains and losses, oils and staples rise modestly.
Domesticated Chickens Thought to Derive from Red Jungle Fowl
Fragmentary note suggests domestic chickens trace origin to the red jungle fowl of India. The text hints at evolutionary lineage but provides limited evidence or context. Further historical or zoological details are not present in the readable portion.
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India
Grant to Fund KU Museum Southern Mexico Expedition
A $500 grant from Alford J. Robinson and Shawnee Sportsmen, Inc. of Topeka finances a KU Museum of Natural History collecting trip to southern Vera Cruz, Mexico. Dr. Rollin Baker, George Young, J. R. Alcorn, Walter Dahlquist, and Robinson join the three week expedition departing January 2 by train, car, and boat to gather specimens and film for the great panorama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alford J. Robinson
Shawnee Sportsmen, Inc
Topeka
Vera Cruz State
Mexico
University of Kansas Museum of Natural History
Robinson
Rollin Baker
Museum of Natural History
George Young
J. R. Alcorn
Guadalajara
Walter Dahlquest
K. U
Louisiana State University
North America
L. L. Dyche
Chicago
Dyche
Dahlquist
United States
Dr. Baker
Shawnee Sportsmen
Dr Baker
AL Gordon Eliot
Walter Resser
H. H. Brower
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Hal Boyle
R. L. Blaisdell
Hofield, Minn
Fifth Air Force
E. L. Brock
Salina
Jefferson County Cancer Society
Lawrence
Journal- World
Adv
Weldon
Trav l
Bermuda
Loafer Sox
Ripon
Massachusetts
U. S
AIR Force
NAVY
Korea
The
Associated Press
K. U. Museum
Brilliant
Poinsettias
Michican
Aol
ARI
Mass
St. Ph
Golf
Oxfords
Engineer Boots
Bird Boot
Kirkendall” Engineer
Boots
Weyenbergs” Engineer Arch Boot
Gordon Sorks
Wolverines
Weyenberg Arch
Romeos
Haynes & Keene
America
Chevrolet
American Beauty Design
Fisher
Las
Oved
Winter Chevrolet CO
New Hampshire
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