Yank Troops Hit Han River Banks
American forces pushed to the Han River banks near Seoul as allied shells hit the city. Task Force Myers battled to the southern Han shore with ridgway praising the drive though heavy red losses were not easily counted amid bitter cold weather and limited air support.
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Han River
Tokyo
Seoul
Matthew B. Ridgway
U. S
Eighth Army
Myers
Ridgway
Karang
General MacArthur
U.S
Korea
Mail embargo lifted signals mail rush ahead
The Lawrence post office has lifted all mail restrictions and plans a large parcel post delivery rush on Monday as rail stations expect embargo cancellations this weekend. Postmaster Roger Williams notes a big incoming Valentine mail and candy boxes, with four parcel post trucks back in service and no need for extra help while Express deliveries face a few days of delays.
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Lawrence
Monar
Roger Williams
Kansas City
Williams
Parcel Post
Union Pacific
John H. Robinson
Santa Fe
E. P. Addy
Addy
F. N. Penner
Railway Express
Michigan Fire Paralyzes State Office Building
A 24 hour blaze at Michigan's state office building caused about 4 million dollars in damage and halted state government. Fire crews from five cities battled sub zero conditions. 12 firemen and one officer were injured or overcome by smoke as authorities worked to restore operations. Governor Williams convened an emergency meeting of state department chiefs. No cause is yet known.
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Lansing
Mich
Michigan
Pahonere Fee
Armolder
Renner
Heale
G. Mennen Williams
State Department
Government imposes strict slaughter quotas on meat
Washington reports the OPS barred new slaughterers and set quotas based on 1950 figures to curb black market meat. From now through April 1, only existing operators may slaughter under prior baselines. By March 15 farms excepted must register with OPS. post April 1 registrations and volumes will be quota regulated.
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Washington
OPS
Critics push to shake up RF C as Truman plans reorg
Senate critics drawn from both parties demand a house cleaning of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation with 80 day deadline. President Truman says he will submit an RF C reorganization plan and explains a subcommittee report alleging outside influence was inaccurate. Fulbright urges abolishing the five member board for a single administrator and tighter loan safeguards. Truman contemplates placing RF C under the commerce or treasury department.
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Washington
LPI
Senate
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
R.F.C
Truman
Capehart
R.-Ind
Congress
Senate Banking Subcommittee
Donald Dawson
White House
Walter I. Dunham
William E. Willett
G. Edward Rowe
Fulbright
D.-Ark
Subcommittee
Miami
Fla
Fullbright
Sunflower Ordnance Works hires processing of apps begun
Lt Col Walter D. Rogers and Hercules official George H. Ripley announced that employment applications filed at Sunflower installation and Hercules office in Wilmington are being processed. Paul Davies confirmed this step as part of plans to partially reactivate the Sunflower site. Kenneth W. Franks said no further action will occur until old applications are finished, then new applications may be sought.
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Sunflower Ordnance Works
de Soto
Walter D. Rogers
U. S. Army
George H. Ripley
Hercules Powder ;S Company
Ripley
Rogers
Thhat
Paul Davies
Hercules
Sunflower
Wilmington
Dela
Kenneth W. Franks
Ripley-Rogers
Hoover Comments on Radio Foreign Policy Address
Former President Herbert Hoover comments on his upcoming foreign policy radio address stating there is no war hysteria in Europe, urging careful, open discussion before decisions affecting American life for a century. He will speak at 8 p.m. CST tonight on Mutual Broadcasting System in a 30 minute program titled We Should Revise Our Foreign Policies.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
Europe
United States
Hoover
Mutual Broadcasting System
Kansas City Philharmonic in Louisiana Story concert at KU Hoch
The University of Kansas Concert Course presents the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra in Hoch Auditorium on Monday February 12. Guest conductor Virgil Thomson will lead his Louisiana Story suite, from the documentary film about Louisiana oil life, in a first Kansas hearing alongside Schubert unfinished symphony Strauss Till Eulenspiegels Pranks and Rachmaninoff Symphony No 2 in E minor.
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University of Kansas
Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra
Hoch Auditorium
Virgil Thomson
Thomson
Kansas City
New York
New York Herald Tribune
Gertrude Stein
Louisiana
Bayou
Lawrence of Thomson
Schubert
Till Eulenspiegel
Richard Strauss
Rachmaninoff
Four Die In Fire in Kansas City Residence
Four persons perished in a city residence blaze in Kansas City Kansas early today. Victims were Jim White 78 Lula White 82 Mary Cox 76 and Edward F Hamilton 8. Edward’s 10 year old brother David escaped from a second story bedroom. Police forced entry but heat and smoke prevented rescue attempts.
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Kansas City
Kan
Jim White
Lula White
Mary Cox
Edward F. Hamilton
David
Wherry Named to State Superintendent’s Land Book Panel
Principal Neal M. Wherry was elected by the Kansas Association of Secondary Schools in Wichita to represent first class city high schools on the state superintendent's land book committee. Open evenings and Sundays. Cole's Food Center, 2nd & Line. The banks of Lawrence will not open Monday February 12 1951 Lincoln's Birthday legal holiday.
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Neal M. Wherry
Kansas Association of Secondary Schools
Wichita
Cole’s Food Center
2Nd & Line
Banks of
Lawrence
Lincolns
Rail Strike Nears End All But Over Today
All mail and railway express service were restored as a long costly strike dwindled. The army pressured switchmen to return, with Chicago leading the quick return. Tens of thousands went back to work as embargoes lifted and production edges resumed nationwide.
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Chicago
Four from K U to Take Part in Engineer s Meet
Four engineers from the University of Kansas and Geological Survey of Kansas will attend the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers meeting in St. Louis February 19 and 22. About 2 500 members will attend the 171st general meeting. Papers will be read by Norman Plummer and John C. Frye of the Geological Survey and Walter Schoene, assistant professor of geology at the university. Earl K. Nixon, consulting mining geologist with the survey, will be associate chairman of the session on the economics of industrial minerals.
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University of Kansas
Geological Survey of Kansas
American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical
India Leads Rural Schools Polio Drive Totaling 126.35
Thirteen rural schools, under Emma Berg, have raised 126.35 for the March of Dimes Polio Fund since January 20. India school tops with 83.89 from 39 students and two teachers Mae Turner and Cecile Roney, aided by noon hour home visits and a community meeting collection. Other contributors include Riverside 4, Black Jack 3, Kanwaka 5.36, Apple Pie 1.50, Twin Mound 2.75, Union 5, Lecompton elementary 7.50, Baldwin rural 5, Cargy 1.50, Oakridge 2.10, Central 2.75, Big Springs 3.00.
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Emma Berg
Bob Docking
India School
Mae Turner
Cecile Roney
Riverside
Black Jack
Kanwaka
Apple Pie
Twin Mound
Union
Lecompton Elementary
Baldwin Rural
Cargy
Oakridge
Central
Big Springs
Network of airbases drawn around the Mediterranean
Paris reports that the United States and Atlantic allies are blueprinting a new network of fighter bomber bases circling the Mediterranean. Jet fighters to B-50 bombers will spread from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf, aimed at advancing forward positions for high speed aircraft against any possible enemy. Some bases may lie within 500 miles of Russia.
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Paris
United States
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Russia
Tribute to Scout leaders in Lawrence area events
Lawrence area marks 41st anniversary of Boy Scouting with Eagle Scout John Wilson 15 to travel to Topeka for Kaw Council report at a governor luncheon. Wilson will represent about 5,000 Kaw Council Scouts across eight counties and be accompanied by Scoutmaster Ewing Ketchum and other leaders.
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Lawrence
America
John Wilson
Bryan Wilson
Topeka
Kaw Council
Ed Ann
Wilson
Kaw
Kansas
Ewing Ketchum
First Baptist Church
Riley Burcham
Tom Denny
Kansas City
Liberty Memorial High School
Supreme Court
Kansan
Crusade For Liberty
Pelathe
Chamber of Commerce
Marion Barlow
Barlow
Denny May
C. B. Grothaus
Peluthe
National Council
Burcham
Clinton and Linwood Wolf Drives to Be February 18
Three wolf drives, two at Linwood and one at Clinton, set for Sunday February 18. Proceeds from Linwood drives go to the March of Dimes. Linwood hunts begin at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., meeting at the Union Pacific garage 12 miles east of Lawrence on Kansas highway 32. lunch at noon. Hunters may carry shotguns. planes will fly the lines. Clinton drive sponsored by the Clinton Athletic club follows lunch at noon in Clinton township hall, covering a 25 square mile area with no roads split. shooters to carry shotguns.}
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Linwood
Clinton
Lindwood
Union Pacific
Lawrence
Kansas Highway 32
Lawrence Flight Service
Clinton Athletic Club
Clinton Township
Rifle Team to Firing Line at K U Next Week
The Kansas women's rifle team under Master Sgt. Harold Swartwood will begin a schedule of at least one match weekly through March. February 12 to 17 features postal matches against LSU Penn State Cincinnati Cornell and New Mexico A and M with teams shooting on their home ranges and scores later matched. Last year KU's women defeated the KU men, drawing nationwide attention.
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University of Kansas
Harold Swartwood
Louisiana State University
Pennsyyvania State College
University of Cincinnati
Cornell University
New Mexico A
M. College
Swartwood
K. U
Housemothers Attend Counseling Workshop at KU
Housemothers of women housing units at the University of Kansas are attending a two day workshop on counseling and guidance techniques. Dr S A Hamlin of Northwestern University is leading the sessions, with sponsorship by the dean of women office. House mothers from residence halls and sororities participate. For car huo, contact Cotton Goff at 217 Mercury Lincoln Adv.
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Aatserety of
Kansas
S. A. Hamlin
Northwestern University
Mercury-Lincolln
Lindley speaks on Yalta lessons at Kansas convocation
Newsweek's Ernest K. Lindley warned a 1500 crowd at the University of Kansas that Moscow breaks any pact it can violate and urged maintaining U S strength. He praised Dean Acheson, argued force over clever treaties, and supported mobilization for defense as sound policy. (Continued on Page 2) New York stock averages closing.
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United States
Russia
Ernest K. Lindley
Washington
Newsweek Magazine
University of Kansas
Lindley
Yalta
Moscow
Kremlin
K.U
E. H. Lindley
William Allen White Foundation
Foundation
Memorial Union
Germany
Japan
U. S
Dean Acheson
Acheson
May Go On 18 Year Draft Teens
The Senate preparedness subcommittee signaled approval of Defense Secretary Marshall's plan to draft 18 year olds. Chairman Lyndon Johnson said two points remained unsettled: service length and guard/reserve officers retaining the option for 18 year olds to be exempted.
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Washington
Senate Preparedness Subcommittee
Secretary of Defense
Marshall
Lyndon Johnson
D.tex
Pentagon
National Guard and Reserve
Promoters seek one mill tax for 4 H fair in Douglas County
A county promotional committee for a Douglas County fairgrounds proposal plans to meet the board of commissioners to seek a two year one mill levy. If approved by voters the tax would fund site purchase and building for 4 H club use livestock shows and civic activities. Committee members were announced yesterday with publicity leads chosen.
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County Board of Commissioners
Douglas County
Board of County Commissioners
Big Springs
Fred Rothberger
Eudora
Fred Flory
Lindley recalls introduction from late William A White
Ernest Lindley delivering the William Allen White Foundation lecture at the University of Kansas recalled his acquaintance with the Emporia editor. He recounted White’s brief two sentence introduction letter and shared stories of his Kansas days, languages, and friendships including Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
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Hank Brown
Ernest K. Lindley
Washington
Newsweek Magazine
Deane W. Malott
University of Kansas
Lindley
E. H. Lindley
K.U
Kansas
Idaho University
Ernest Lindley
William Allen White
Emporia
Newsweek
Wichita Beacon
New York
White
New York World
Emporian
University
of Kansas
K. U
University of Idaho
Rhodes
Malott
K. A
Cornell University
Kansas legislature frames 1952 53 university building plan
The Kansas Senate Ways and Means panel tables a 5,006,646 appropriation for new construction at state educational institutions for 1952 53. Primary item is 1,863,000 for a KU fieldhouse and armory, with total funds to be raised from the educational building fund.
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Topeka
Kansas
Senate
Ways
University of Kansas
Kansas Educational Building Fund
K.U
Surprise cold snap hits Kansas with sharp temp drop
A sudden reversal in a north central air mass chilled Kansas with lows Monday night. Topeka fell to 8 degrees, Olathe 5 above, and northeast parts bore the brunt as many readings slipped below 20. Snow traces were seen in Topeka and Chanute, with a warmup forecast for the weekend.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Mercury
Olathe
Wamega
Liberal
Dodge City
Concordia
Chanute
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Office of Price Stabilization
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Mound Valley Experiment Station
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