Kansas Solons Do Good Job in 1945
Kansas congressmen completed a pivotal year shaping postwar policy. They backed farm and veterans programs and pushed devices to ease reconversion. Key figures Reed Capper Hope Carlson Schrivner Rees Cole Winter advanced water flood control rail car shortages and tax cuts while considering health insurance and national policy.
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Neighbors Aid Injured Farmer With Crop Haul and Dinner
In Faucett Missouri neighborly help shines as Charles Vaughn, sidelined for six weeks by a farm accident, sees more than 25 neighbors bring tractors and wagons to his field, harvest about 150 acres, and store it in his crib while they also cook him a large dinner. Canberra Australia faces a housing crunch with a Commonwealth Housing Commission report calling for 700,000 new units over the next decade to clear slums.
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Faucett, Mo
Charles Vaughn
Canberra
Australia
Commonwealth Housing Commission
Oil fortunes flow to Kansans as 1945 production tops goals
Kansas landowners received an estimated 121 million dollars from oil gas and refined products in 1945 with 1 832 wells drilled including 387 wildcats and 33 new oil pools. Production projections show crude output near 97 million barrels and natural gas around 121 billion cubic feet.
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Drug saved fish at Washington hatchery says sulfathiazole works
Brannon the hatchery nursemaid reports sulfathiazole stopped fish losses when disease hit the Dungeness river stock, with a ratio of one part drug to 35 000 parts food. In separate tests baby salmon were fed a 25 percent body-weight diet and grew from 1 1/2 inches to 8 inches in about four months.
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Sequim Bay
Poles Repatriated At Rate Of Ten Thousand A Day
Warsaw net dispatch reports the repatriation of about four million Poles from western and eastern Europe is increasing to over 10,000 per day. Daily arrivals include 4,500 from Germany at Szczecin and 6,000 from American occupation zones. Repatriation began at 3,000 daily and 200,000 have entered southern Poland in three months.
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Wladyslaw Wolski
Szczecin
Stettin
Germany
Soviet
Russia
Brazil Sends 20521 Books Overseas in Literature Campaign
The Brazilian National Book Institute reports sending 20521 books abroad to promote Brazilian literature, with more than 4000 delivered to the United States. The effort is part of a Ministry of Education outreach to expand access to Brazilian writings overseas.
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Rio de Janeiro
Brazilian National Book Institute
The
Ministry of Education
United States
Doctor Traces Private Number After Phone Co Refusal
Dr Orr Mullinax superintendent of a state hospital in St Joseph, Mo, sought his unlisted number after the telephone company refused to release it. He called every number on his monthly bill, prompting the private line to ring repeatedly as the story unfolds.
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St. Joseph, Mo
Orr Mullinax
Karen Brown Eats Christmas Light Sparks Alarm in Tacoma
In Tacoma Washington on December 29 two year old Karen Brown vomited and passed colored glass from an electric tree light after swallowing fragments at home. Doctors said she was out of danger.
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Karen Brown
Karen
Police sergeant gets lost watch back in snow
Kansas City report notes Police Sgt. William Galvin recovered the watch he lost while directing traffic in a snow covered street. The incident highlights the weather impact on duty and local traffic control.
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Kansas City
William Galvin
Christmas Visit Frail Timepiece Found After Slush
A woman found a timepiece after a car churned through slush during a press procession while Galata cleared the way. A sergeant said it will make a fine keepsake.
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