Liquor legalization tops Kansas year end poll
A Kansas year end poll of 20 editors ranks the 1949 news by impact with legalization of liquor first. It notes Governor Carlson’s July 19 opening, death of Senator Clyde Reed, weather disasters, the Meade train wreck, and the Axton mayoral ouster case among other items shaping the year.
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Sunflower
Kansas
Associated Press
Clyde M Reed
Minaouri
Janary
Vernon C. Axton
Parsona
George Neff
Cecelia Deane
Hays
Meade
Georgia Neese Clark
U. S
Hugh A. Hope
Hunter
Colorado Etate
Southwestern Bell
Abilene
Blair
Ronald Finney
Bill Odem
Honolulu
D. Flora
Tewe
Kansas State College
Colorado
Reed
Frank Carlson
Harry Darby
Kansane
General Assembly
Carlson
Lawrence Kansas employment office reports shifts in 1949
Kansas State Employment Service office in Lawrence saw 30 percent more contacts in 1949 than 1948, with total placements down slightly. Non agricultural openings reached 2,854 and 2,378 placements, farm placements up 39 percent to 638, while service and clerical jobs fell. Applications rose 11 percent to 1,343. visits to employers declined five percent to 1,133.
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Kansas State Employment Service
Lawrence
W. T. Johns
Johna
Altho
Johns
Sunflower
General Electric
Fatal ram attack kills 2 year old near Bentley Kansas
A ram charged into two year old Robert Dosien at his grandparents farm near Bentley Kansas. His father Lt. Robert W. Dosien of Pensacola Florida watched as the animal struck the boy against a barn, causing fatal injuries.
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Bentley
Kan
Robert Dosien
Here
Robert W. Dosien
Pensacola
Fla
Senator Schoeppel Supports Tax Reduction Approach
Senator Schoeppel after a vacation pledges support for repealing wartime excise taxes. He argues the tax cut should come through government economy rather than shifting funds via a name change in levies.
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Washington
Schoeppel
R.kan
Lawrence Business College Closed for Holidays
The Lawrence Business College remains closed for the holidays and will reopen in the new year on January 3.
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Lawrence Business College
Will Start Second Half of Century On New Year s Morning
HAL BOYLE notes New Year 1951 marks the midpoint of the century by some counts but observers disagree. He recalls past century debates and cites experts, historians, and calendars while planning his own toast to the coming mid century.
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New York
Santa Claus
Naval Observatory
Washington
Hayden Planetarium
World Calendar Association
Webster
Mark Sullivan
Time Magazine
Dionysius Exiguus
Christ
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U.S
Clyde M. Reed
Parsons
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Kansas City
Wiles
Missouri
Bluff
Atchison
Kansas Fields
Rozel
University of Kansas Medical Center
Topeka State Hospital
Axton
Harold R.fatzer
Fatzer
Frank Williams
Parsons City Commission
State Supreme Court
High Court
Perth
Kas
Wellington
Kenneth Wynn
Neff Alan
Olevia Wynn
Wynn
Neff
Springfield
Clarence Walker
Topeka
Mark Hadley
Ellis County
Hadley
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Rock Island
Truman
Richland
United States
Richland State Bank
Journal-World
Lad
Hal Boyle
Kuppenheimer
Massachusetts
Lawrence Merchants
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