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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1957
Page
5
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Treasurer Edythe Norman warns weather slowing tax collections and license plate sales. Taxes by mail remain encouraged to ease workload. February 15 is the deadline for personal property taxes and for license plates without penalty. Afterward, delinquent taxes go to the sheriff with a 50 cent fee. Sometime late February or early March the Highway Patrol will begin arresting users of 1956 plates.
A freight train and four cars of a passenger train derailed in two separate wrecks a half mile apart in Rahway New Jersey. Five of the six mainline tracks were blocked. No injuries reported. Causes not yet known, but equipment dragging suspected in the freight derailment.
New York The Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Foundation awarded Dr James A McCain president of Kansas State College an exchange fellowship to study in Europe. He will depart about April 1 for seven months studying university administration cultural exchange programs and the role of universities in economic development.
Only 54 refugees from Russian occupied Hungary reached Austria in the last 24 hours the lowest daily total since the Oct 23 revolution. Tightened Hungarian police guards from Budapest across the country to the Austrian border slow refugee flow and drive many Hungarians southward to Communist ruled Yugoslavia.
Coffeyville mayor Denver Hargis, completing his second term, filed for renomination in the March 19 city primary. The 35-year-old Democrat was the party nominee for Third Districts congressman last November, losing to Republican Myron George of Altamont.
Lawrence High seniors Bob Driscoll Deane Teobans Albert Palmerlee and Lint Shahan Mill take the second round of Navy ROTC scholarship tests. Seven Lasperee seniors took the first round last year. Navy scholarships worth over four thousand dollars are at stake.
Maj. Gen. G. E. Galloway, basin division engineer, warned at an Associated General Contractors meeting that Missouri River Basin flood control lags in places. He cited Kansas and Missouri as still facing uncontrolled sections and limited reservoir progress, with flood central work and military construction totaling about 294 million dollars this year, roughly double last year.
In Nicosia Greek Cypriots began a 24 hour general strike to protest clashes between Greek and Turkish factions on the troubled island. The Turkish speaking minority opposes unification with Greece as violence surrounds the British colony. More than 65 000 Navy planes have landed aboard the USS Valley Forge.
A special event will honor the founder of DeMolay with citations and multiple presentations on land. Notable attendees include Truman, Sea F Corie of Natitas, and former Kansas senator Urry Derby. Mayor T fine hark chairs the sponsoring committee.
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