Eskridge Mayor and Wife Listed in Fair Condition After 4 Sunday Car Crash
Eskridge Mayor William Waugh Jr and his wife Mary Jane are in fair condition at Stor mont Medical in Topeka after their car crashed into a centervert about 12 miles west of Topeka on Highway K-4. The car suffered about $1500 damage. Mr Waugh, a former Kansas University graduate and Phi Iota Theta member, sustained forehead cuts and possible concussion. Mrs Waugh had a fractured left foot and fractured nose.
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William Waugh Jr
Kvstice
Mary Jane
Stormont Mail
Topeka
Kansas Unit 4
Woh
Tskrilge
Ares
Farm Surpluses Persist Amid 1956 Turmoil and Policy Battle
Washington reporting on 1956 farm conditions shows continuing surpluses despite curbs and government disposal efforts. Department economists forecast about a 4 percent rise in net income in 1956 versus 1955 with prices up about 2 percent by year end. The piece notes battles in Congress over farm aid policy, the veto of a rigid price support plan, and Eisenhower administration backing of flexible supports amid a decisive 1956 electoral gain for farm states.
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Washington
Agriculture’ Department
Agriculture Department
Batiica
Menmare
Peernuey Tee
Eisenhower
Memorial Hospital Admissions and Birth Notices
Hospital entries show Bee Connley and Vera Brubaker admitted with addresses in St Robert Gortill and Wichita, plus Carol Mitchell and Elaine Kaufman listed with multiple street addresses. Births noted for a son, with mentions of Mr and Mrs Mitchell and Mr Kaufman. Also included is a Royal Arch notice announcing a special meeting on January 9 and a February title page reference.
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Bee Connley
N. J
Robert Gortill
Wichita
Vera Brubaker
Tenn
Carol Mitchell
DeSoto
Elaine ‘Kaufman
Ohio St
Wanda Garner
Louise Dorang
Rich Weela
Gayle
Tennyson
Carolina
Ruth Bower
McLouth
Larry Mitchell
Ed Kaufman
Ohio
Apes or Ancestors in a 2057 Vision of 1957
An anthropologist in New Mirami imagines 1957 aborigines being called apes in a 2057 tale. He recalls rituals, dress, and drunken rites tied to a Great Atom Explosion of 1968. The piece mocks sensationalism and ends with a quip about a civil war anniversary.
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New Mirami
Mdesty
Mtn
Herrumph
Mr. Muggs
Pogo
Dogo Animiadus
Tragic killing of 12 year old in Dallas store trip
In Dallas a 12 year old girl Jeannette Irene Mangan was found dead after a store trip. Her one month old brother Dick Dean was found safe nearby with blood on his fingers. Police arrested two latin American youths aged 16 and 19 who deny involvement.
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Dallas
Jeannette Irene Mangan
Dick Dean
Carl Hansser
M. D. Mangan
Jeannette
Parkland Hospital
Joe Pena
Pena
German Flag Raised Over Tiny Saarland
Saarland becomes West Germanys tenth state at midnight after ratifications and a long Franco German dispute over coal and steel rich region ends with political integration to Germany though economic ties remain phased in until 1959 and residents vote to join.
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Saarbruecken
Germany
Saarland
Saar
West Germany
France
1956 Driest Year on Record for Hays
The 1956 year yielded only 9.21 inches of moisture in Hays, marking the driest year on record and the driest five-year period in the area.
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Hays
Kansi
Boy Unafraid After Ordeal In Wasteland
Seven year old Jack Hodges walked away from a Seligman ranch with his dog and endured two days in freezing northwestern Arizona. He survived a 50 mile looping trek on Mt. Floyd slopes near Seligman, sleeping under a tree and later succumbing to mild exposure. Cowboys Oscar Pannick and Alvin Wagner found him near the canyon, and he was flown to a Williams hospital where he requested chicken soup and talked of seeing deer and antelope.
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Mt. Floyd
Seligman
Jack
Lloyd Hodges
Cireles
Dulles Sees Hope Yet Warns of Dangers Ahead
Secretary of State Dulles in a year end statement cites reasons for hope in the fight against Russian communism while warning the future holds dangers. He calls on the United States to assume growing responsibility to aid free nations in the Middle East and beyond to uphold freedom and welfare. He notes rising patriotism in Poland and satellite states and says Communist parties seek to speak for themselves, but Soviet rulers remain powerful.
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Washington
Dulles
United States
Middle East
Poland
Fancy Party by Texan Proves Something on Coast
Hollywood coverage of David Feldman hosting a 125000 New Year party to display Texan gentility. Guests included Conrad Hilton Clark Gable Bing Crosby Edith Piaf Jeanne Crain Paul Brinkman and Jack Warner. The event featured Delmonico styled rooms and period costumes with a late showing of the Grant film.
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Conrad “Hieton
Clark Gable
Rhet Butler
Bing Crosby
Nancy Elland
Delta Airlines
Drew
Miss
Edith Piaf
Jeanne Crain
Paul Brinkman
Jeanne
Brinkman
Jack L. Warner
Warner Bros. Studio
Grant
Feldman
Hall Names Two Regents Appointees and One New Member
Gov. Fred Hall announced three regents appointments and one reappointment. Harry Valentine of Clay Center and Claude Bradney of Columbus were named for four year terms on the board of regents. J. S. Broilier of Hugoton was named to the forestry fish and game commission for four years. Kaup of Manhattan was reappointed to the forestry commission. Valentine and Bradney replace long time GOP figures. Kaup is the lone Democrat appointee.
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Topera
Fred Hall
Harry Valentine
Clay Center
Claude Bradney
Columbus
Board of Regents
State University
Charles Kaup
Manhattan
Board of ‘Regents
Hall
Boards of Education
Kansas
GOP
Valentine
Walter Fees
Iola
Bradney
Venter McCoy
Garden City
Kansas Senate
Spencer Chemical Co
Broilier
Kaup
Edwards AFB mobilizes for full search after boy vanishes
Airmen fan out across Edwards Air Force Base to locate 3 year old Billy Ray Tryce who wandered from a GI housing area yesterday afternoon. General Holtoner canceled all passes and New Year’s Eve parties and ordered a base wide search.
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Edwards
Calif
Edwards’ Air Force Base
Billy Ray Tryce
Gen. J
Holtoner
Inauguration Question Deepens as Court Ruling Looms
The article discusses the looming Supreme Court decision on the governor race and legislative control. It notes Justice Wy Flenn and Associate Thomas He Roberts involved in the case. Rhode Island Senator Theodore Green is cited as a potential vacancy trigger, with party balance implications and possible impacts on the US Senate. The governor warns his staff to act if the court favors the former Democratic office holder who switched parties in 1947.
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AL Roberts
Seay
Walter Peariae
Oeateas
Fiow
Roberts
Heather
Hitsuee
Thoms
Fis
State Supreme Court
del Sisitn
Paper Tries Out Telephonic News In Montgomery
Montgomery Advertiser Journal tests a telephonic news service with three news machines. From 6 am to 1 am about 727 calls per hour request a 30 second capsule of headlines and weather. Since Dec 24 the system logged 3,121 first 24 hour calls and 6,481 dismissed calls.
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Montgomery
Ala
Montgomery Advertiser-Journal
R. F. Hudson Jr
Southern Bell Telephone Co
Hudson
Sunflower Village buildings to be sold January twenty eight
Bids will be opened January 28 by Army engineers for the sale of the last seventy four Sunflower Village buildings near De Soto. Two prior sales have raised about seventy eight thousand dollars for units. Sunflower Village housed around fourteen hundred ninety three units at one time.
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Sansas
Cops Fight Wave of False Bomb Threats in New York
Police suppress a nationwide surge of false bomb alarms after a string of calls since last Monday. One real bomb threat at Parameoriat Theater in Times Square prompted a cautious response. authorities say hoaxers face up to three years in prison.
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New York
Nas York
Parameoriat
New York Area
Dallas
Tex
Kansas City
Wichita
Kane
Haverhill
Mass
Hartford
Conn
Philadelphia
Newark
Rahway
Now
KU and Lawrence schools resume after recess with finals looming
Lawrence grade and high schools and Kansas University return Thursday for the final stretch of the fall semester. KU faces 12 class days before finals begin January 17 with a three day intersemester break and spring term starting January 31. The Lawrence United Fund board meets Wednesday in the Wren Building to review the 1956 drive after UF contributions totaled 240 dollars under a 46,424 dollar goal.
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Lawrence
Kansas University
K. U
Lawrence United Fund ‘Board of Directors
Wren
Russell Moser
Community Chest Board
Fires Charcoal Many Churches in Year Across Several States
A wave of church arsons has damaged or destroyed more than twenty churches this year across New Jersey Connecticut Massachusetts and Ohio. Investigations point to deliberate acts with St Josephs Cathedral Hartford among the costly losses at roughly five million dollars in damage. In Trenton a string of blazes including St Marys and a First Methodist church yielded significant losses and multiple investigations. Police and fire officials say several arsons remain unsolved while December saw fires in Cambridge and Springfield.
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Toba
Hartford
Secona Tier
Sid Hartford
Henry Th
St. Joseph's
Nick's
Joseph's
Springfield
First Methodist Church
First Congregational Church
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Fred A. Bremer
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