Topeka Chiefs Calls For Probe Of BIS Administration
Topeka Police Chief S R Purdue urged an investigation into handling of boys sent to the Boys Industrial School arguing serious runaways and car thefts show flaws in the operation. School director Dr Dale Isaacs and state officials defended rehabilitation rates and urged support for better facilities and closer supervision rather than jail.
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S. R. Purdue
Purdue
Dale Isaacs
Isaacs
George Jackson
State Institution
Eisenhower Party Heads to Camp David Retreat
President Eisenhower and Mrs. Eisenhower will depart this afternoon for Camp David in the Catoctin Mountains near Thurmont Maryland for a weekend retreat. The White House said grandchildren Barbara Anne five and Susan three, and their mother Mrs John Eisenhower, will join the party. They are visiting at the White House.
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Eisenhower
Camp David
Catoctin Mountains
Thurmont
White House
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Susan
John Eisenhower
Marian Anderson Makes Met Debut as Verdi Figaro
Marian Anderson will debut at the Metropolitan Opera House tonight as the fortune teller in Verdi's Masked Ball marking the first Negro to sing there. She says she is unsure it is happening but regards it as the high point of her career. Maestro Arturo Toscanini once praised her voice as rare.
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New York
Marian Anderson
Metropolitan Opera House
Arturo Toscannini
Columbus group buys IL franchise in midwest move
A nine member Columbus, Ohio syndicate announces a half million dollar deal to place the city as the IL midwestern outpost. Ottawa franchise sold by Kansas City Athletics for 50 thousand dollars. Harold M. Cooper named IL Columbus general manager and plans a meeting on player personnel.
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Ohio
Ottawa
Canada
Kansas City Athletics
Harold M. Cooper
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German liner renamed in postwar move at Bremen
Germany's first postwar passenger liner the 19,100 ton Gripsheilm today was renamed Berlin in a ceremony at Bremerhaven Germany. The namesake vessel spans postwar revival and marks a new chapter for German shipping as executives celebrate the change.
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Bremerhaven
Germany
Berlin
Weather For . Other Areas Weather For . Other Areas
Skies cleared and temperatures dropped across most sections with no active storm centers. Light precipitation was reported overnight. snow flurries appeared around the Great Lakes, northern Appalachians, and parts of New England. Far West areas saw sharp temperature drops with 9 degrees below zero at Pocatello, Idaho, 18 degrees lower than yesterday morning. The eastern third cooled 15 to 30 degrees since yesterday, except New England where little change was noted.
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Pocatello
Idaho
Young Japanese Lovers Survive Plunge Into Volcano
In Tokyo two youths, Miss Setsumi Endo and Satoru Takayanagi, survived a suicide plunge into a volcanic crater after 33 hours. They tumbled hundreds of feet, narrowly avoiding lava. Police and volunteers rescued them. the man was largely unhurt, the woman critically injured. Two other involved in a love-triangle ingested poison but survived.
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Tokyo
Asahi
Setsumi Endo
Satoru Takayanagi
Takayanagi
Ichiro Suzuki
Suzuki
Democrat Women's Club To Be Formed in Douglas County
A new Democratic Women’s Club will be organized soon in Douglas County and affiliated with the Kansas Federation of Democratic Women’s Clubs. The first meeting for electing officers and adopting a constitution will be held later this month, said Mary Wortham, vice-chairman of the county Democratic Central Committee. The club aims to strengthen the party and support nonpartisan welfare measures in the community.
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Democratic Woman's Club
Douglas County
Kansas Federation’ of Democratic Women's Clubs
Mary Wortham
Democratic Central Committee
Republican Women's Club
Douglas County 1954 license tag receipts reach 186,693.02
Douglas County receipts from vehicle license tags and registrations totaled 186,693.02 in 1954, up from 174,738.04 in 1953. 1955 tags go on sale at the county treasurer and city offices, with final dates and categories listed. total tags include cap, truck, trailer, motorcycle, and dealer tags.
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Douglas County
Minnie Eudaly
Kansas
Mass
Baldwin
Rothberger Motor Co
Euedora
Euidaly
County retains portion of motor vehicle receipts
The passage notes specific accounting figures for receipts: 19H receipts totaling $6,923.80 retained by Douglas County and the rest sent to the State Motor Vehicle Division. It explains the law allowing counties to retain 20 percent of license tag and registration transfer receipts and 40 percent of title certificate fees to cover administrative costs.
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Douglas County
State Motor Vehicle Division
Economy debate tournament at McPherson College
Thirty six teams from eleven colleges will compete in McPherson College's annual economy debate tournament in McPherson Kansas. Each team pays its own expenses and no trophies are awarded. Participating schools include Fort Hays State Kansas State Wichita University El Dorado Junior College Hutchinson Junior College Garden City Junior College Sterling Southwestern Bethel Ottawa University and McPherson College.
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McPherson
Kas
Ex Yugoslav King and Princess Reconcile in Paris
Ex King Peter of Yugoslavia and Princess Alexandra announced a formal reconciliation to the French court handling their divorce case. The couple, separated since 1953, met at a Christmas party in Gstaad and decided to resume their marriage.
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Paris i
Peter of
Yugoslavia
Alexandra
Gstaad
Bigamist Kato Pursues Fatal Bigamy Solution
In Shimane Japan Shinobu Kato, 29, attempts to end his bigamy by detonating dynamite with his two wives, aged 19 and 39. He dies but the two women survive.
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Shimane
Japan
Shinobu Kato
Kato
County judge fines Brown for no passing zone violation
County Court fined J.C. Brown of Route 2 five dollars plus costs yesterday after he was found guilty of passing in a no passing zone.
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J.C. Brown
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