Wild Kansas anecdotes spill from Great Outdoors column
A collage of humorous Kansas tales features Rexman and others near Syracuse and Ottawa. Reyman survives a bull encounter. Hereford routs a stubborn mule with a bulldozer. Jim Martin tries jug fishing with live frogs, while John Laws debates kindness to a skunk. Policing prowlers, a coyote bounty, an alligator in Chanute, a homebound cat aboard a salt truck, and a pheasant-duel trap tease Round out the slice of rural life amid Scott City power woes from starling interference.
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Caid
Revean
Syracuse
Reyman
FY. Scott
Lou Hereford
Hereford
Jim Martin
Wichita
Martin
John Laws
Ottawa
Laws
Salina
Claude W. Peters
Peters
Virgil Cruse
Mound Valley
J. D. Lightfoot
Chanute
Melvin Bailey
Garden City
Omer Dankel
Bailey
Daniel
Scott City
Army blasts ice jam to reopen Missouri River at St. Joseph
Army engineers dynamited a seven mile ice jam blocking the new Missouri River cutoff at St. Joseph. The jam formed in frigid conditions Saturday night, sending river water up four feet before two dozen charges created holes in the ice and reopened a 300 foot wide channel cut last fall after flood diversions.
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ST. Joseph
Missouri River
St. Joseph Suday
New York Episcopal Church Membership Rises to 2,715,825
The 1952 annual yearbook reports a 2.74 percent rise in Episcopal Church membership in New York, reaching a record total of 2,715,825 over the previous year.
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New York
Wnd Episcopalhurch
Prisoners Escape From Missouri River Prison Farm
Two outside trustees fled the state prison farm on Stiger's Island in the Missouri River. Warden Robert H. Hudspeth reported the escape occurred around 12:30 am. Escapees were identified as Bob Toland, 23, and Byron Turner, 22, both Montgomery County residents serving one to two year terms for wife and child desertion. The term nerve is described as tendon or sinew in historical usage.
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Lansing, Kas
Stiger’s Island
Missouri River
Robert H. Hudspeth
Bob Toland
Byron Troy Turner
Montgomery County
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