New X Ray Units for Kansas Boost State Screening
The Kansas State Board of Health accepted delivery of a new mobile chest x ray unit with a second unit due within weeks to replace older machines from 1945. The program, using 70 mm film since the 1950s, has screened thousands of Kansans and identified hundreds with possible illnesses, guiding them to physicians for care.
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Kansas State Board of Health
Kansas
Hood
State Board of Health
Division of Preventable Diseases
Woman fined for moonshine found in yard on Temperance Street
In Knoxville Tennessee a city court fined a woman $25 after police testified to finding 14 half gallon jars of moonshine whisky in her yard on Temperance Street.
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Knoxville
Tenn. m
Temperance Street
Coopers Inc. Receives State Charter To Import Firm
A state charter was issued Friday to Coopers Inc. of Lawrence to operate as an import firm handling merchandise from abroad. Raymond E. Cooper is named resident agent at 945 Highland Dr. The firm is authorized for $100,000 capitalization. Cooper, a former Army Korea veteran, has managed foreign orders from home and will continue to do so while employed by Phillips Petroleum Co., with plans to relocate later.
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Coopers Inc
Lawrence
Raymond E. Cooper
Highland Dr
Corporation
Cooper
Japan
Korea
Phillips Petroleum Co
Cooper Brothers Aim to Build Full-Time Import Firm
The plan seeks to establish a full-time import business with office and warehouse facilities. Brothers James Cooper of 2008 Learnard Ave and Elmer Cooper of New Smyrna Beach Florida are connected to the corporation.
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James Cooper
Learnard Ave
Elmer Cooper
New Smyrna Beach, Fla
Wife May Miss Ceremony As Pneumonia Hits Senator-Elect
Mrs. John A. Care roll—wife of the newly elected U S senator—suffers pneumonia and may miss his swearing in. She is listed in good condition at a Denver hospital. Care roll, a former Denver congressman, defeated ex-Gov Thornton in last month's senate race and is set to be sworn in next Thursday in Washington.
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Denver
John A. Careroll
Colorado
U. S
Thornton
Washington
Stalin Era Purgers Face Indictment In Hungary
In Budapest a father and son team of Stalin era purgers faces indictment alongside former high AVH officials. Mihaly Farkas the defense minister and three star general, and his son Vladimir, a former Russian army officer, are named. Vladimir is accused of torturing Premier Janos Kadar in 1950 during the Soviet backed period.
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Budapest
Hungary
Mihaly Farkas
Vladimir
Secret Police
AVH
Janos Kadar
Rakosi Titoist Plot Tangles in Communist Party
A fragment notes Matyas Rakosi linked to a Titoist plot within the party and mentions arrests of Vladimir and Laszlo Rajk. It references a supposed treason trial and a claim about planetary circumference attributed to a minister in a vague, noncredible context.
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Matyas Rakosi
Red
Communist Party
Vladimir
Laszlo Rajk
Jupiter
Duncan and Mellon Institute Pioneered Industrial Fellowships
The article chronicles Duncan’s idea of industrial fellowships started during the 1906 Rome congress and adopted by Kansas University. It notes Duncan’s leadership at KU Pittsburgh and Mellon Institute with Andrew W. Mellon and Richard B. Mellon establishing a research hub. It highlights epoxidation leading to ethylene glycol and antifreeze, and credits Mellon Institute for future plastic-coated culture innovations.
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Duncan
Rome
K.U
Redman
Pittsburgh
Andrew W. Mellon
Richard B. Mellon
Pittsburgh Industralists
Mellon Institute
Weidlein
Institute
Petroleum Industries
Mellon
Kansas University
New Year dress up campaign boosts formal wear market
Retailers florists cabbies and hotels join a nationwide push urging Americans to go formal for New Year’s Eve. The movement backed by suit makers aims to lift after Christmas sales with tuxedos tails and accessories while forecasts point to a record fashion surge across hotels theatres and flights.
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New York
Manhattan
Warwick
Eastern Air Lines
New Orleans
Chamber of Commerce
Paign
Florists
iMarion Fisher
Syracuse
N. Y
Metropolitan
Taxi Board of Trade
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Memphis
Louise Landon
Huntingdon
Tenn
T. H. Landon
U. S. Air Force
Caribbean
University of Tennessee
United States
Europe
Norris Bros
New Hampshire
Humble Project
John Neweer
The
Wall Street Journal
Rankin Drug CO
Muse
Henry A. Bubb
Capitol Federal Savings and Loan Association
Capitol Federal
Capitol Federal Savings
Tith End
Vermont
and Licoan Association
Home Office
Topeka
Ray L. Culbertson
Mgr
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