Immigration Act Becomes New Law
The nations new immigration act becomes law at 12:01 am as Congress and administration debate its ambiguities. McGranery warns of enforcement problems while Truman and Eisenhower contest the retained national origins quotas from 1920 amid protests from some foreign governments.
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Loan Loss Is Small For Agriculture Dept Loans
The Agriculture Department reports 52.1 billion in price support loans to farmers over seven years with expected losses near 100 thousand dollars, a tiny fraction of one percent. It tallied 863 shortages cases involving mortgaged commodities not repaid, totaling 1.072 million dollars, with collections foreseen to keep ultimate loss under 100 thousand. Higher losses, about a million, are projected for government grains in private warehouse storage and misused. Some warehouse operators have been convicted of fraud.
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Fire destroys hardware and farm building at Parsons
George Alderman reported a Monday fire that destroyed his hardware and farm equipment building in Parsons, with the loss estimated at 175000 dollars. The report notes possible equipment and structural damage across the site.
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George Alderman
Cadet Nelson Named Air Force ROTC Leader at KU
Eugene Clair Nelson son of Mr and Mrs Carl E Nelson of 1208 Ky St has been appointed cadet first lieutenant in the Air Force ROTC at the University of Kansas Col Lynn R Moore professor of air space and tactics announced Nelson will be commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air Force Reserve upon graduation in February 1954
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Carl E. Nelson
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Lynn R. Moore
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Air Force Reserve
Crash Kills 14 At Seoul Air Base
A Monday crash at a Western Korean Air base left 13 Greek crewmen dead and one gravely injured when a single engine plane struck a grounded U S Air Force C 47 while taxiing during takeoff. The Greek pilot later died in hospital. nationality and names of patients were not disclosed.
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U. S Air Force
Man Slaughter Charge In Auto Death In St Louis
Paul E Belleville 19 AWOL from Ft Riley Kas charged with man slaughter in the auto death of Charles P Nichols father of six children. A coroner jury found Nichols died from criminal carelessness by Belleville. Police say the soldier admitted driving about 60 miles an hour and striking Nichols car last Tuesday as Nichols and his wife were returning from Christmas shopping. Two other youths Donald H Blasingame 17 and Forrest A Parker 20 will be held as witnesses. The youths and a 16 year old girl admitted riding with Belleville the night of the crash.
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Paul E. Belleville
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Charles P. Nichols
Circuit Attorney’s Office
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Forrest A. Parker
Circuit Attorney's Office
Draftees from Korea Freed After 20 Months Service
Washington policy lowers active duty for draftees returning from Korea to 20 months, with exceptions for those already assigned or en route before January 1. The measure, announced by Secretary Pace, tightens the earlier 21 month rule and excludes regular army and reserve volunteers. The report also notes a Santa Claus satire column by HAL BOYLE and a Missouri farm tale about a rare pediatric brain disease.
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Secretary of the Army
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Army
State Traffic Deaths Soar in Topeka Area 1952 Update
State accident records list 3 recent traffic fatalities in the last 24 hours and 544 to date in 1952, with 586 for the same period in 1951. No prior records show these three deaths among recent accidents.
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Kansas
Gift marked by Eiffel Tower name in Danville
Betty Jean Weesner returned from Europe with a souvenir Eiffel Tower replica as a gift for a friend named Eiffel Tower Suther land. Her father had seen the tower in Paris in 1893 and named her daughter accordingly.
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Betty Jean Weesner
Eiffel Tower
Paris
Sutherland
Philippine spring heals many in Central Luzon village
Thousands seek care at a Philippine village near Manila as villagers claim cures from a spring discovered after a sick woman dreamed the patron saint guided her to the chapel waters. She was reportedly cured four days after bathing, restoring hope for ailments.
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Philippine
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