Avalanches in Alps Kill Dozens Across Italy France and Switzerland
Large snow slides from the Italian Alps after a thaw strike roads and railways, isolating villages. In Italy two settlements report multiple deaths and several injured as crews clear wreckage from homes and barracks. Farther east avalanches on Great Saint Bernard and surrounding ranges kill workers and disrupt transport links across borders.
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Stan Carter
Rome
Alps
Taly
Great San Bernard Mountain
Italy
Switzerland
Aosta Valley
Rome-Paris
Lapraz
France
Onear Guillestre
Austria
Stork Watch Reveals 14 Centennial Babies
The Kansas Centennial Commission reports 14 babies born on Statehood Day January 29. Officials said certificates will be issued to all newborns and special recognition is planned for the first or babies born on that day.
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Tovrea
Kansas Centennial Commission
Kansas
Maurice Po Boeer
Kansas University theater opens new semester with plays and concerts
The KU season begins with Shetti Fring's Look Homeward Angel staged in Murphy Hall under Dr. Jack Brooking, featuring Kenneth Hill as Eugene and Eliza Gant played by Sharon Barlow. Gina Bachauer headlines a piano recital in University Theater with Bach through Brahms.
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Kansas Univerity Westwork
Span
Shetti Fring
Thomas Wall
University Theater
Bach
Haydn
Beethoven
Chopin
Brahms
Paganing
Mozart
Ravel
Swarthout Recital Hall
Murphy Hall
Household Goods Recovered In Kansas City Theft Case
Police recovered merchandise valued at nearly 26000 from two Kansas City homes. Suspects include Cecil Bud Clark 4 Kenneth A. Taylor 29 and his wife Barbara Fean 2. Items include 700 sewing machines valued at 21294 stolen from a Singer store in Moberly Missouri on November 1. Peter J Covella Singer chief investigator says 102 more machines still missing. Also 700 phonograph records and four record players.
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Kansas City
Cecil Bud Clark
Kenneth A. Taylor
Barbara Fean
Singer Sewing Machine Co
Moberly
Peter J. Covella
New York
Singer
Four Teens Arrested After Dragging Cat To Death
Sedalia Missouri four teenagers were arrested and given a stern lecture after being caught dragging a cat tied to a car through the streets until it died. Police found no city ordinance covering the incident and released the youths. Names listed: William Lloyd Hanenbratt 17 Vernon Dotson 18 Larry L. Ramey 18 Tommy Lilly 17.
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Sedalia, Mo
Sedalia
William Lloyd Hanenbratt
Vernon Dotson
Larry L. Ramey
Tommy Lilly
Christian Fellowship Group Dinner in Lawrence
The Christian Businessmen's Committee of Lawrence will hold a fellowship dinner at 6 45 p m Friday at the Little Bancue. Guest speaker Maynard Knutson organizer of Del Haven Kansas City and assistant director of the committee's work at Lansing State Penitentiary. Tickets $1 50 call Leonard Walker VI 3 5152 or Masien's Book Store with Thursday deadline.
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Christian Businessmen’s Committee of
Lawrence
Maynard Knutson
del Haven
Kansas City
Kansas State Penitentiary
Lansing
Leonard Walker
Masien
State's J.C. Body Changes Its Title To New Jaycees
A proposal to rename the Kansas Junior Chamber of Commerce to Kansas Jaycees won board approval and awaits a member-club mail ballot. Also approved were a wives group, a July Wichita meeting, and a June teenage road safety event in McPherson. Four Kansas young men earned Outstanding Young Men of 1960 honors: Lewis Porter, Bradford Wells, Bruce Karns, and Fred F Berry Jr. Each is linked to local firms or media and the awards were presented by Jos Wayne Matlock.
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Emporia
Kan
Kansas Junior Chamber of Commerce
Kansas Jaycees
Jaycee Jones
Wichita
McPherson
Kansas
Lewis Porter
Ulysses
Bradford Wells
Newton
Bruce Karns
Junction City
Trides
Fred FF. Berry Jr
Porter
Pan-American Petroleum Corp
Wells
Kohhn-Wells Construction Co
Wells-Oliver Insurance Agency
Karns
KJCK
Berry
Berry Tractor & Equipment Co., Inc
Eisenhower Heads to Palm Desert for Winter Sunshine
Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower depart Harrisburg by train for Palm Desert California to stay two months at the EE Dorado Golf Club. The party travels in two private railroad cars with dining facilities, awaiting connections through Chicago to the West Coast.
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Pal Cap
Dwight
Mamie Eisenhower
Pennsylvania
California
Palm Desert
EE Dorado
Pam
Eisenhower
Ernest March
Santa Fe Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania Limited
Chicago
Santa Fe
West Coast
Pennsylvanian Newsman and Florida Legislator Dies at 87
Fred Lewis Weede, 87, longtime newspaperman with the Philadelphia Times and former Erie Herald general manager, later a Florida real estate dealer and legislator, died Saturday. A native of Indianola, Iowa, his career spanned Pennsylvania and Florida.
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Asheville
N.C
Fred Lewis Weede
Pennsylvania
Florida
Weede
Philadelphia Times
Erie, Pa
Herald
Indianola
Towa
Two K leaders mirror Nixon debates in blunt humor
James Marlow notes parallels between John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev beyond debating Richard Nixon. Both are unpredictable, personable leaders who shun stiffness, with Khrushchev turning babies into a hobby and Kennedy mingling with reporters and guests, even at the White House.
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Washington
Kennedy
Khrushchev
Richard M. Nixon
United Nations
New York
U.S. Secret Service
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Georgetown
White House
Pierre Salinger
Cigarette lighter saves three after Colorado plane crash
Pat Floyd 28 Betty Floyd 19 and pilot Bill Bradley 20 survived 38 hours on Mt. Blanca after a Denver to Alamosa flight crashed in ice storm. A lighter lit engine oil to keep them warm until a tracked snow vehicle reached them. Bradley and Floyd had facial wounds. Betty Floyd sprained ankle. Two other private planes crashed in region Friday. one pilot died and another disappeared on flights from Rock Springs to Lander.
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Alamoso
Colo
Pat Floyd
Floyd
Betty
Bill Bradley
Alamosa
Mt. Blanca
Bradley
Jack
Miss Floyd
Denver
Colorado
William D. Kelley Jr
Cumberland
Brigham City
Utah
Rock Springs
Firemen rescue 10 children from Kansas City home blaze
In Kansas City a fire crew saved 10 children aged two weeks to 10 years from a burning house Sunday with minutes to spare. Captain Boyd said five to six more minutes would have doomed the structure as flames raced through ceilings and walls. The damage was estimated at 1500 dollars and three mothers escaped to alert neighbors.
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Kansas City
George Boyd
Boyd
Clara Darrington
Carrington
Bennie Imperiale
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