Two Men Not Sought Insurance Award at KU
Police say two men are sought on charges connected to a Wichita robbery last summer. Willam Joseph Martin and Frank Lee Morris are believed headed toward Texas or Mexico. FBI in Kansas City reports Velma Mae Long arrested in Joplin on unlawful flight charge. released on bond.
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Missouri Basin Water Plan 42 Percent Complete
Senator Symington released Bris Geng Potter's 1953 progress letter on the Missouri Basin Water Control Plan. It notes 42 percent completion and four projects operating as artesian systems. Total authorized program cost remains about 2.5 million? This summary covers expenditures through 1955 and project statuses in the basin.
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Corporation Tax Slash Opposed Without Balanced Budget
Rep Avery R Kas says a tax cut now would be inflationary and worsen farm hardship in Kansas. He notes corporate earnings are high and affordable prices for farmers would rise if taxes are cut before budget balance. He does not claim a single factor caused rising farm costs but opposes proposals increasing those costs.
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Washington
Avery R-Kas
Kansas
Weather shift shows warmer border states despite cold in South
The Associated Press reports a split in temperatures across the U S with Billings Montana at 48 while Chattanooga Tennessee endured 24. Cold air hit Georgia and the Carolinas with parts of Tennessee below freezing. Michigan to northern Florida cooled as Tampa reached 50. Mild conditions stretched across the southern western Great Plains and northern Rockies aided by Chinook winds. Reads across the Plains ranged 70s in Kansas Oklahoma northern Texas and 50s to 60s in Dakotas and Nebraska. The warming trend reached most of the north central region but northern Minnesota read near zero. New England New York remained fairly cold in the 20s and 30s with mostly dry weather across the country.
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Bus Segregation Arrest Sparks New Orleans Conflict
In New Orleans a confrontation over segregated seating on a city bus led to the arrest of 72 Negroes, including Xavier University students. Police responded after bus driver Francis Roux reported defying the sign. The group had refused to sit behind the white sign following a basketball game between Xavier and another Negro university. James J. Serpas was the lone white passenger aboard.
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Ahrens Engineering Scholarship Fund Created at KU
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy announced the Ahrens Engineering Scholarship at Kansas University. The endowment provides a $250 annual award to a Miami County high school graduate entering KU School of Engineering and Architecture as a freshman. Donors are Dellan A. Ahrens, Darwin W. Ahrens, Henry D. Ahrens and Don J. Ahrens of Paola. The first scholar will be chosen this spring for the September term.
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Franklin D. Murphy
Miami County
Baby Dead Four Chanute Residents Injured in Texas Crash
A Chanute family reported a fatality and four others hospitalized after a two vehicle wreck in Texas. The crash near a Texas town left Myers Crearalie and Larry Dale injured while a mother and others sustained critical damage. authorities are investigating and names appear in local notices.
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Vollis
Myers
Stouffer to Attend Sinclair Dealer Meeting in KC
Stouffer of 612 Alina Street invited to a two day dealer council meeting in Kansas City January 13. Sinclair Refining Co. district manager Tarald Nelson says Stouffer, a longtime dealer with an outstanding record, was selected to attend to share dealer views on promotions and advertising and to offer ideas to improve efforts.
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Sinclair Refining Co
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Stouffer
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Sinclair
Wichita Couple Robbed at Home by Three Armed Men
Don M. Easley, 61, and his wife Mattie, 59, were robbed of 122 dollars by three armed men who entered their Wichita home. The assailants bound the couple and ransacked the residence.
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Don M. Easley
Mattie
N. D. Woman Trades Dog For Washer
In Williston North Dakota a Gamble Store offers a trade in program promising to exchange unwanted items for goods. A cocker spaniel is reportedly traded for an automatic washer as shoppers embrace the policy. The sign reads We Trade Anything and the program runs in over 2,000 Gamble Stores across 21 states.
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Williston
Gamble
Sharyn Curnow
Incomplete OCR Summary of Reservoir Operations
The readable text references reservoir releases supplying about three fourths of the fish needs and mentions various unclear terms. Names, dates, or locations are not clearly identifiable due to corruption. The fragment appears to describe operational details of a water system and its effects on fish or basin supplies.
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Neg Taut Om
Molly Repthy
Powter
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