Wilson and Radford dispute Ridgway army cuts
In a clash of views on 1954 55 Army manpower cuts Gen Matthew Ridgway disputes a joint chiefs plan while Secretary of Defense Wilson and Adm Arthur Radford insist Ridgway agreed to reductions. Ridgway says he did not concur and faced pressure to fit a party line. The exchange follows Eisenhower's State of the Union framing of unified support for reductions.
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Matthew B. Ridgway
State of the Union
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Saturday Evening Post
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DeSoo
Harriett Ploor
LeRoy Watkins
Robert Searmans
Barker Ave
Elizabeth Walkyer
Local births and residents listed at Memorial Hospital
Memorial Hospital reports numerous newborns and resident updates. Names include Elizabeth Bouton Route 2 Guenther Gnosa Route 3 Mary Ridgway 610 West 4th Rosene Pine Route 3 Will Steine Route 3 Caroline R Lubach Sunnyside Al lene Prosser Route Vin ton Peters Route 2 H O Rock 117 Mass St George Sizer 1346 MY i barry Al Myers Tongas nasiv Shirley Givens Lavatrice Lewis 826 Cum St Herschell Glover 1819 Ind St Samuel Logan 1819 Tenn St Leland Hartman Lecompton a son today and another son Thursday.
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Guenther Gnosa
Mary Ridgway
St. Rosene Pine
Will Steineer
Caroline R. Lubach
SC. Sunnyside
Allene Prosser
Vinton Peters
H. O. Rock
Mass
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Barry al Myers
Tongas Nasiv
Shirley Givens
Lavatrice Lewis
Cum St
Herschell Glover
Ind
Samuel Logan
Tenn
Leland Hartman J Lecompton
Leavenworth Soil Conservation Meet Set at Junior High
The Leavenworth Soil Conservation District will hold its annual meeting at 7 pm Thursday February 2 at Leavenworth Junior High School. The program includes electing one board member and awarding Banker and Chamber Commerce honors. Tom Kelly of Milwaukee Wisconsin will present an illustrated talk on watershed soil conservation.
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Soil Conservation District of
Leavenworth
Segregation battles slow in Southern states push interposition
A broad Associated Press report notes Southern legislatures strengthen picket lines to resist federal court orders on school segregation. Alabama lawmakers approve a harsh interposition resolution. Mississippi bills seek to curb federal interference and expand libel and anti integration laws. Virginia debates compromise interposition while challenging Supreme Court authority.
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Cyestriday
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Market snapshot shows mixed grains and steady cattle
Eat Markets At a Glance reports stocks lower with a late selloff. Bonds mixed with narrow changes. Cotton lower due to selling by trade and commission houses. Wheat weak with possible Plains storm. Corn easy but unsettled by wheat drop. Cattle steady with steers and heifers near unchanged. hogs steady to 25 cents higher, top $12.50.
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Plains
Grain and livestock market report from Kansas City and Wall Street
KC market notes show wheat prices for No 2 hard and dark, No 3, and futures with Mar May Sep closes around 2.11 2.07 and 1.99. Corn bids range from 1.35 to 1.48 with White and Yellow varieties. oats and rye also listed. Hogs, sheep, and cattle activity described with input prices and weights. Wall Street closes lower after third straight decline led by steel and oils including Texas Co with a proposed split.
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New York
Ford
Texas Co
Peace Efforts Fail In Bombay Riots Persist
Riots raged in Bombay for a fifth day with looting and shootings. Leftist leaders urged peace while Marathas clash with Gujarati communities amid threats to government plans. Death toll reported at around 40 with widespread property damage and officials besieged. Poona councilmen resign after mob action. Police armory attacked as gunfire repelled the mob.
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Harekrushna Mahtab
Nehru
Poona
Municipal Corporation
Nigaum
KU Plans Second Annual Executive Development Program
Enrollments for the second annual Executive Development Program at Kansas University run by the School of Business from June 11 to July 13. Limited to 24 participants, about 18 attended the first course, which was considered highly successful. The program uses case studies and covers policy formation, administration, industrial relations, communications, finance, and accounting control. Visiting professors include Robert N. Anthony of Harvard and Samuel V. Smith of Ashington University, with KU staff members William Conboy and five others.
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School of Business
K.U
Robert N. Anthony
Harvard Gradate School of Business
Samuel V. Smith
Assistit
Ashington University
William Conboy
Aslant
Hool of Business
Ard Axe
Leland J. Chard
Keith West
Bert Trillich
Frank Pinet
Smog and Style Debate Unearthed in Neighborhood Banter
Local chatter reflects on fashion sense and urban trends as residents discuss whether stylish posts and attire could have influenced reactions to smog and public disorder.
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Madison _ Avenue
KPA Names Body To Eye Secrecy
The Kansas Press Association appoints a secrecy watchdog committee led by Merill Bash to monitor government openness. Past presidents and publishers from across the state will form the group, meeting January 23 in Topeka to organize and safeguard the people's right to know the facts about government.
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Merill Bash
Kansas Press Assn
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Boyd
Phillipsburg
Ravi
EPA
Rolla Clymer
el Dorado
E. A. Bries
Stafford
W. A. Bailey
Kansas City
F. W. Brinkerhoff
Pittsburg
R. G. Hemenway
Minneapolis
Dolph Simons
Lawrence
George W. Marble
Fort Scott
Albert L. Higgins
Linn
Richard M. Seaton
Coffeyville
Max S. Miller
Russell
H. A. Meyer Jr
Independence
Leonard McCalla Jr
Garnett
Harry Valentine
Clay Center
Wharton Hoch
Marion
Henry Jameson
Abilene
Residents debate legalizing betting and tax revenue
Interviews with Lawrence residents express mixed views on legalizing pari mutuel betting to generate state tax revenue. Some oppose gambling and question legality, while a few see potential open, regulated betting and tax benefits. others prefer changing the constitution only if enforcement improves.
Blazing Plane Crashes In Village Main Street
A blazing plane crashed into the main street of Wadhurst England setting fire to four buildings. First reports feared heavy casualties but four injured were admitted to hospitals. Two injured were firemen when their fire truck overturned. The fate of the RAF crew remained unclear.
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Wadhurst
England
Royal Air Force
Texaco Proposes Two for One Stock Split
Directors of the Texas Co. propose a two for one split of the companys common stock pending stockholder approval.
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Texaco
New York
The
Texas Co
Record Brick Production Seen for 56 in Kansas
Construction of a new brick plant and expansion of three others is expected to raise Kansas brick production in 1956 to a record high. Norman Plummer of the State Geological Survey at Kansas University notes about 10 million dollars in clay and clay products were made last year. The Hoisington area hosts the new plant. eight brick plants operate statewide.
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Kansas
Norman Plummer
State Geological Survey
Kansas University
Plummer
Hoisington
Eisenhower humor and winter weather in Lawrence
In Lawrence locals joke about Eisenhower possibly not seeking a second term and Nixon Ferris as a Republican ticket choice. The day also features snow forecasts, frigid temperatures with a low near 10 degrees, and plans for the Junior Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet on February 15 at Hotel Eldridge with the Key Man and Distinguished Service awards.
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Lawrence
Eisenhower
Nixon
Ferris
Ike
Coney Island
Lowell Thomas
Dale Silux
Jack Harris
Gene Haley
Gene Doane
Dave Arthurs
Herb Dah- Tene
Lyman Wiley
City Manager Wigglesworth Attends ICMA Meeting
Lawrence city officials report City Manager Jim Wigglesworth is in Cincinnati for the ICMA semiannual meeting. He will return this coming weekend. He has served as a vice president of the organization for two years. ICMA comprises North American city managers.
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Jim Wigglesworth
Cincinnati
International City Managers Association
Lawrence
Vagrant Earl M. Mitchell Sentenced in City Court
Earl M. Mitchell of Frederick Oklahoma, 45, received a 30 day city jail term in a police court on vagrancy charges after being arrested Thursday afternoon.
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Earl M. Mitchell
Frederick
Okla
Mitchell
Regional Banking Trends Signal Postwar Growth
The Kansas Business Review notes bank debit information as a reliable gauge of current dollar volume and changes over periods. New deposits at Lawrence bank rose to 23 314 691 by year end, up 2 percent from 1954 and 54 percent since WWII. Deeper savings and loans also climbed, with rising investments overall. Register of Deeds Harold Beck reports a sharp rise in credit purchases in 1955, with mortgages on personal property up 30 percent and Douglas County real estate mortgage values up 18 percent to exceed 1954 totals by 1 175 000.
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Lawrence
LAS Register of Deeds
Harold Beck
Douglas County
Supply Ship Sagitta Crashes Into Radar Island Off Cape Cod
The Military Sea Transport Service ship Sagitta, a 263 foot 5202 ton vessel, struck the Texas Tower radar island 100 miles off Cape Cod while servicing it. No casualties were reported as pumps controlled water and Sagitta proceeded to Boston under its own power.
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Texas Tower
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Cape Cod
Military Sea Transport Service
Sagitta
Kansas Seeks 1 Percent Draft for Armed Forces
State selective service director Gen. Joe Nickell said Topeka must supply about 1 percent of men in March and May. He noted quotas of 73 in January and 71 in February as comparison figures for the state draft effort.
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Topeka
Kansas
Joe Nickell
Nickell
Deaths and Funerals Mrs Irene Davis and Edward Doyle
Mrs Irene Davis 55 of Hutchinson died Thursday after a long illness at Bethel Deaconess Hospital Newton. Surviving husband a daughter a granddaughter four brothers and three sisters. Funeral Monday in Hutchinson. Edward Doyle 66 Route 3 died Thursday at Winter Veterans Hospital Topeka. Born Jan 1 1890 he was WWI veteran. Rosary Sunday at St Johns Church. Funeral Monday at 9am with Rt Rev George Towle officiating. Burial Maple Grove Cemetery Tonganoxie. Casket not opened at church. No flowers. Friends may call Rumsey Funeral Home by noon Sunday.
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Hutchinson
Bethel Deaconess Hospital
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W. E. Goldman
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Winter Veterans Hospital
Topeka
Daniel B. Doyle
Albert Lee Doyle
St. John’s Catholic Church
George Towle
Maple Grove
Tonganoxie
Rumsey Funeral
Lawrence Eudora Route To Get Asphalt Surface
The State Highway Commission will open bids on February 3 in Topeka for asphalt surface upgrades on K-10 from Lawrence to Eudora. The project adds two-foot shoulders to create a 24-foot roadway and lays a new hot mix surface from the Santa Fe overpass west of Lawrence to the Wakarusa River bridge near Eudora, six miles east. Other statewide projects are included in the bid opening.
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Topeka
U.S. 59
Lawrence
Santa Fe
Twenty-Third Street
Wakarusa River
Eudora
Bulganin on Vacation For Short Moscow Break
Western reports say Premier Nikolai Bulganin is on vacation and will return to duty by month’s end. Officials have not officially confirmed the trip.
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Moscow
Kansas House Proposes Bi partisan State Investigation Committee
The Assessment and Taxation Committee filed a resolution in Topeka proposing a bipartisan 7 member committee with 4 House and 3 Senate members to investigate all state government functions and agencies. It calls government costs an intolerable burden and requires 60 day progress reports and a final report to the 957 Legislature.
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Kansas
House
Senate
Baby Born in Car With Mercury at 10 Degrees
The daughter of Mr and Mrs Junior Ragsdale was born in a 1947 Oldsmobile en route to St Marys Hospital in Emporia on a 10 degree morning. A physician attended at the emergency door and both mother and child were reported doing fine. Cockroaches are found among fossilized winged insects.
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Emporia
Junior Ragsdale
St. Mary's Hospital
Kansas Traffic Deaths 1956 Toll Rises in State Records
Kansas traffic fatalities show 2 new deaths in last 24 hours and 28 to date in 1956, with 34 deaths in the same period of 1955. Earlier accident deaths not yet recorded. Separate note mentions California's population rise from 1940 to 1950 census by 4,922,000.
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Topeka
Kansas
California
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