Smear Group Blamed for Nazi Graffiti Across Germany
Police suspect a roaming smear group behind Nazi swastikas and anti Jewish slogans sprayed overnight across West Germany including on bridges near Frankfurt Nuremberg and on houses in Lauda Auersberg. A 22 year old Ludwig Vogel was arrested in Scheinfeld for similar vandalism. Nazi symbols also appeared in Austria Norway Belgium and a London Anglican church.
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Mernberg
Germany
West Germany
Bavaria
Austria
Norway
Belgium
London
Frankfurt - Nuernberg
Hitler
Lauda
Wuerzburg
Auersberg
Hessen Lower Saxony
Ludwig Vogel
Scheinfeld
Oslo
KU Will Compete Sunday in Bowl
Kansas University's team will appear Sunday in the G I College Bowl broadcast on CBS at 4 30 p m The KU brainbuster team includes Elinor A Hadley Allan D Latta Fred L Morrison and Cherrl A Payer They vie against Chicago University for top prizes including 1500 school scholarships with ongoing appearances and 500 for the loser sponsors are General Electric Co
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Kansas University
CBS
Chicago University
Elinor A. Hadley
Kansas City
Allan D. Latta
Wichita
Fred L. Morrison
Colby
Cherr'l A. Payer
Fl Dorado
General Electric Co
Bevan Remains On Danger List After Major Operation
Aneurin Bevan, 62, deputy leader of the British Labour party and former Welsh coal miner, kept on the danger list four days after a major stomach operation at the Royal Free Hospital. He passed a fair night and remains under careful observation.
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London
Aneurin Bevan
Labor Party
Royal Free Hospital
Deaths and Funerals in Eudora and Nearby Areas
Ward 48 Casper death announced with services in Casper Monday. Survivors include wife Julia sister Ruth Wood brother Hubert Woodard and late Eugene. Philip H Wight 86 Arling ton Kentucky to be buried Oak Hill after Monday service. Arlington Ky resident C P Davis 93 Arlington Kentucky former Lawrence resident dies with burial today. daughter Marie Coleman and grandchildren survive.
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Ward
Paul H. Woodard
Casper
Wyo
Hesper Community
H. O. Woodard
Eudora High School
Hesper Friends Church
Julia
Ruth Wood
Vt. St
Hubert Woodard
Eudora
Eugene
Philip H. Wight
Ky. St
Cooper- Warren Chapel
Paul Davis
Wight
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Oak Hill Cemetery
C. P. Davis
Arlington
Lawrence
Lee Coleman
Endora
Marie Coleman
Albert
Keith
Meeting Notice for Lawrence Chapter No 4
Stated meeting set for Tuesday January 4 at 7 30 p m. Chester Curice H P O Anderson Levy Adv scheduled.
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Lawrence
Chester Curuice
H. P.O. O. Anderson
Levy
Political year ahead in Kansas and national races
The Saturday Column notes the 1960 political year will feature local Kansas elections and national races. It argues the press must inform voters while maintaining independent news coverage and separating editorial policy from news reporting.
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Kansas
House of Representatives
State Senate
U. S
Chicago
U.S
Gaucho Runner First For Sao Paulo Event
Oswaldo Suarez of Argentina won the New Year’s Eve four mile and 490 yard street race in Sao Paulo for the second straight year with a 21 55.8 finish. Doug Kyle of Canada was second in 22 00.5 while Billy Mills of Kansas University was listed to race but no finish record appeared.
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Sao Paulo
Brazil
Oswaldo Suarez
Argentina
Car Tags On Sale Beginning Monday in Douglas County
Douglas County license tags go on sale Monday at 8 a.m. in the courthouse. This year residents may mail registration cards and payments to receive tags by mail, while No 1 and other low numbers require in person visits. The new system is being piloted by the state and three other counties but may expand next year.
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Douglas County
Besse Bennett
State Vehicle Department
Entomology Adviser Fred Butcher Returns From Vietnam
Fred D. Butcher of 824 Miss. St. has returned to the United States after two years in Saigon as an entomology adviser with the ICA Agriculture Division. He and his wife plan to visit his mother in Lawrence this month before resuming ICA duties there.
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Fred D. Butcher
Miss. St
United States
Saigon
Vietnam
International Cooperation Administration
Lawrence
F. S. Butcher
Washington, D. C
ICA
Butcher
French Indochina
Kansas University
Far East
Memorial Hospital Admissions and Dismissals List
Memorial Hospital admission and discharge ledger noting individuals: Frank Rogers, Lillie Stone, Hattie Pierson, Donna Johnson, Lorrie Moore, and others with addresses. Dismissals include Betty Jo Miller, Geraldine Anderson Lecompton, Bonnie Ireland, Charlotte Ann Simon and baby boy, Ana Crown and baby boy, Carole Cassity, Cecile Streeter, LaVesta Banning, Linda Kay Kelley, Carl Loree, Walter Stine, Gary Foust, Annetta Casey, Jean Reynolds and baby boy, Naom Smith and baby boy, among others.
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Frank Rogers
Lindenwood Lane
Lillie Stone
N.H
Hattie Pierson
Mass
Donna Johnson
Lorrie Moore
Perry
Betty Jo Miller
Oread
Geraldine Anderson
Lecompton
Bonnie Ireland
N.Y
Charlotte Ann Simon
Tenne
Ana Crown
Edgerton
Carole Cassity
Ohio
Cecile Streeter
Ala
LaVesta Banning
Linda Kay Kelley
Eudora
Carl H. Loree
Baldwin
Walter Stine
E. 19Th
Gary Foust
Orankie
Annetta Casey
Barker
Jean Reynolds
Centennial
Robert Eggert
Haskell
Naom Smith
Bonner Springs
Integrated Housing Damaged by Vandalism in Deerfield
In Deerfield Illinois vandals damaged a new integrated housing project with 18 metal window frames and lumber. Police say the $1,000 loss occurred at a two story model home site amid local opposition to the 51 home development planned to include 10 to 12 homes sold to Negroes.
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Deerfield
David Petersen
Chicago
Max Weinrib
Farm prices in 1959 fall short of parity goals
The Agriculture Department reports 1959 farm prices averaged 80 percent of parity, down from 85 percent in 1958 and the lowest since 1939. Declines in livestock prices drove the drop. Ezra Taft Benson calls parity obsolete, urging greater efficiency to raise incomes.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Ezra Taft Benson
Benson
KU Final Stretch Begins as Semester Ends January Thirtieth
Kansas University students resume classes on Monday signaling the start of the final stretch before term papers and exams. Final examinations begin January 25 and the spring semester starts February 8 with spring break planned after April 13 and classes resume April 19.
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Kansas University
Birmingham Murder Scene Ties to Earlier Beheading
Police report an eight year old girl found strangled near the YWCA three miles from the site of a recent beheading. Investigators say Pauline Blaney a factory worker was raped before the attack.
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Birmingham
England
YWCA
Stephanie Baird
Pauline Blaney
Caution urged after fatal crash at blind railroad crossing
Sheriff warns drivers to stop at blind tracks after a fatal collision. Vision was blocked to just over 20 feet, and cold conditions likely prevented hearing the train whistle. Officers say patrols will continue through the holiday period to prevent similar accidents.
13 Year Old Girl Dies After 74 Year coma
Beverly Nilsson died at St. Joseph's hospital aged 13 after lying in a coma since a 1952 brain injury from an automobile crash in Keller Virginia. Medical efforts at Johns Hopkins and in New York had failed to restore consciousness. Her parents Ernest and Mrs Nilsson, both devoted to her care, kept vigil as doctors fed her via tube and used a rocking bed and standing box for daily exercise.
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Ernest Nilsson
Nilssons
Khrushchev hints at unilateral Soviet force cut and disarmament move
At a Kremlin New Year reception Khrushchev suggested the USSR might reduce armed forces unilaterally and leave border defense to rockets. Western reaction in Washington was cautious, seeing this as a potential opening move to pressure Western powers at the Geneva talks opening March 15.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Khrushchev
Kremlin
Washington
Geneva
Thefts Across City During Holiday Break In
Police report several holiday thefts including cash totaling 275 dollars a 142.29 Hi Fi recorder a 22 dollar fire and a 60 dollar TV from Tom Akin Enterprises 23rd and Iowa Sts A basement window break in also linked to the crime A small TV was taken from a Laundromat at the Malls A rear door entry yielded 65 dollars in cash and a 25 dollar wrist watch from Delores Parker Police hold two Lawrence youths in relation to a 9.59 pop machine theft at Hatchells Trailer Rental 735 N 2nd St
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Tom Akin Enterprises
23Rd
Iowa
Delores Parker
R. I. St
Lawrence Boys
Hatchell
N. 2Nd St
Merkel Family Obituary Noted in Local Notice
One fatality and Mrs. Paul Robinson of the home, a sister, Georgia Lee Merkel of the home, three brothers, Robert Francis Merkel, William Earl Merkel and James Robinson, all of the home, and grandparents Mrs. Lottie Harris of 522 N. 4th St. and Richard Merkel of Tantha, Mo.
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Paul Robinson
Georgia Lee Merkel
Robert Francis Merkel
William Earl Merkel
James Robinson
Lottie Harris
4Th St
Richard Merkel
Tantha
Miami Child Bride Vanishes After Court Ordered Return
Miami police in four states issue an alert as Janet Winthrop 15 vanishes from home with Melvin Cook 29 a roller rink manager. A Juvenile Court judge had ordered her returned to her parents after eloping to Georgia on December 1. Janet says she still loves him. parents say she left with only a nightgown shoes sweater and a few dollars.
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Miami
Fla
Janet Winthrop
Melvin Cook
William Culbreath
Cook
Georgia
Robert L. Floyd
Janet
John C. Winthrop
Murder Charge Planned In New Year's Slaying
Twin Falls Idaho AP Chief Howard Gillette says he will file a first degree murder charge against supermarket employee Donald Leroy Schoonover 36 who admitted strangling his mother in law Grace Turner 49 on New Year Eve Schoonover blamed her for his broken marriage Ina Vera Schoonovers wife 24 told police she received a call from her estranged husband during which he described the slaying He had prior mental health issues and served prison terms for robbery escape forgery and parole violation
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Twin Falls
Idaho
Howard Gillette
Donald Leroy Schoonover
Grace Turner
Gillette
Schoonover
St. Joseph
Top U S Commander Backs Korea Denial
Gen. Carter B. Magruder, commander of the U N command in South Korea, supported South Korea's denial that a Korean warship attacked a Soviet survey vessel on December 28. He said information available confirms the Korean government’s statement that no Korean naval craft was involved.
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Seoul
South Korea
U.S
U.N
Republic of Korea
Republic
Carter B. Magruder
U. N
Magruder
Congressmen push new laws to curb TV radio deception
A group of lawmakers urge federal action to tackle payola and deceptive practices in broadcasting. They favor criminalizing payola, expanding FCC powers, and adding fines or license penalties, while some say existing regulators already hold authority and must act.
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Washington
Congress
William L. Springer
P. Ill
William P. Ropers
Rogers
Eisenhower
Federal Communications Commission
Springer
House
John E. Moss
Canf
FTC
FCC
Walter Rogers
D-Tex
John B. Bennett
R-Mich
KU Alum Diane Brewster Cast in Millionaire Episode
Diane Brewster a Kansas City native and Shawnee Mission High School graduate appears in The Millionaire on January 13 playing Sylvia Merrick. She attended the University of Kansas in 1953 and is set to receive a one million dollar check in the episode.
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Kansas University
Diane Brewster
Miss Brewster
Slyvia Merrick
Kansas City
Shawnee Mission High School
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Runsey Funeral Home
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