VA Direct Mortgage Loans for Sale by Veterans Administration
The Veterans Administration announced that its field offices hold complete listings of direct home mortgage loans available for sale to private lenders. About 25,000 loans totaling $95,000,000, plus $48,000,000 more approved, originate under the Housing Act of 1950 with 6.5 percent terms. Loans may not exceed $10,000 each and will be sold at par, with 60 percent guaranteed. The program is decentralized, with details from the Kansas City VA regional office and eligibility limited to non metropolitan areas in most cases.
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Loan Guaranty Service
King
Kansas City
United States
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Rhodeskind
Connecticut
New Jersey
Hawaii
New York City
Philadelphia
Washington, D.C
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Dry campaign aims to revive prohibition in Kansas
Kansas United Dry Forces launch a statewide effort starting with local option elections this spring as the first step toward restoring prohibition. Rev Roy S Holloman says the movement seeks to elect prohibition candidates to the next legislature and push another statewide vote in 1954. Local option elections are planned for Abilene August Beloit Burling Fredonia Kinsley Liberal Lyons Neodesha Oswego Paola Pratt Scott City Ulysses Wellington in April. In other news, the first annual George Washington Carver achievement award goes to Willie Lee Duckport for composing the World War II marching chant Sound Off while in training at Fort Drum.
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Topeka
Kansas
Abilene
Beloit
Burling
Once
Fredonia
Kinsley
Liberal
Lyons
Neodesha
Oswego
Paola
Pras
Scott City
Ulysses
Wellington
Joplin
Willie Lee Duckport
Sandersville, Ga
Fiacum
N.Y
Missing Canadian beauty vanishes on Florida Keys fishing trip
Miami dispatch reports Hughnette Lemay a 21 year old Canadian woman from Montreal vanished while fishing with her husband on the overseas highway near Tom's Harbor Bridge 4 in the Florida Keys. Authorities and family pursue every lead as the search continues at night on January 7.
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Miami
Fla
Florida Keys
Short
George Lemay
South Florida
Hughnette Lemay
Montreal
Raymond Daowst
James Barker
Hughnette
Tom's Harbor Bridge No. 4
Marathon
George
Key West
Atlantic
Gulf of Mexico
Schoolboy blamed for fatal farmhouse fire and shooting
In Martinsville Indiana a 14-year-old seventh grader Ronald Wayne Montgomery confessed to shooting Herman Taylor 66 last Friday night and asks whether fires were set. authorities believe he robbed a purse with $10 previously and was on probation for stealing $236. The farmhouse burn killed Taylor and left housekeeper Mrs Elvie Bradley 82 dead. Montgomery denies setting the fire and is held without charge.
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Martinsville
Ind
Marvin Skaggs
Ronald Wayne Montgomery
Herman Taylor
Taylor
Elvie Hlradley
Montgomery
Second and Third Triplets Arrive Late at West Runion
In West Runion Eng January 7 a mother delivered the second and third of a set of triplets, joining a first-born from 1951. The three are two boys and a girl, weights four pounds, four pounds five ounces, and three pounds eleven ounces. All are reported healthy. Mother is Mrs Emerald Gaui.
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West Runion
Eng
Emerald Gaui
Two Brothers Drown After Truck Crashes Through Slough
Hutchinson Kansas January 7 Two brothers die when their truck plunges into an ice coated slough one mile west of Nickerson Kenneth Deringer 30 and Louis 120 field workers are the victims Funeral services will be held in Leavenworth today for Miss Mat Mennison who died unexpectedly Friday night She had taught in Leavenworth schools since 1904
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Hutchinson
Jan
Nickerson
Kenneth Deringer
Louis
Leavenworth
Mat Mennison
Leavenworth Schooly
Six Airmen Die In Burtonwood Plane Crash
London January seven reports identify six Airmen killed in a collision at Burtonwood Air Base with eighteen others injured. A Navy Neptune struck a Dakota during landing. a seventh initially reported fatal was later located alive elsewhere.
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Burtonwood Base
London
U.S. Air Force
Burtonwood Air So
Mount Oread Snow Slope and Potter Lake Gladden KU Campus
Sun shines on Mount Oread and Potter Lake as about 150 people, families and students, enjoy sledding, skating, and skiing on a 28 degree Sunday. Sleds range from two runners to tandem models, with racers and new skiers alike. KU staff and students, including Margaret Hankins and Cindy Stevens, partake. the new Memorial Drive near Potter Lake frames the activity.
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Mt. Oread
Potter Lake
University of Kansas
Memorial Campanile
Margaret Hankins
John E. Hankins
Tenn. St
Margaret
Radocliffe College
Cambridge
Ite Mountains
Int
Cindy Stevens
Richard Stevens
la. ‘St
Skies Iunner
Jane Klooz
Rita Carl
Cindy
K. U
Gay Iblades
Lynne Myers
Judy Thompson
Lynne
Graves T. Myers
Little Judy
Rufus H. Thompson
Att KU
Winter Sports Fans Capture Action On Film
A crowded scene shows enthusiastic winter sport fans filming the scene as crowds and action unfold. Spectators, dressed for the cold, watch intently while cameras capture the climate of the event.
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