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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1941
Page
3
The Kansas social welfare outlay nears 16 million dollars with a projected 3 million increase. Breakdown covers old age, dependent children, blind, and general assistance, plus state and county administration. Federal share totals about 4.4 million with state and counties funding the rest.
Social welfare program shows slight increases in actual amounts over three years but falls as a share of total expenditures. Administration costs totaled 1,772,831 last year. 1,543,319 in 1939. 1,551,421 in 1938. State and county shares shifted accordingly. Legionnaires to London: American Legion mission to study civilian defense in England under Milo J. Warner aims to inform U S defense efforts.
Topeka date February 6 1941 January 1941 ranks as the cloudiest month in Kansas weather data and the second wettest January. Only nine clear days eighteen fully cloudy and four partly cloudy. State average moisture 2.00 inches about three times normal. Overland Park reported 6.16 inches while Smith Center had 0.34 inch. Mean temperature 33.4 degrees, 3.6 above normal.
Favorable for wheat but fields were too wet to be pastured. Farm work was held at a standstill by wet soil and unsurfaced highways were practically impassable.
Rev. Ambrose Huebner aged 92, founder of St Benedict’s Abbey in Atchison Kansas, died yesterday of pneumonia at St Mary’s Abbey. He established the abbey in 1877 and served as procurator for five years.
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