All-America Cities honor 11 municipalities for citizen action
Eleven U S municipalities including Manhattan Kansas Baltimore Bemidji Minneapolis Newburgh Owensboro Roanoke and others won National Municipal League citations as All-America Cities for self-improvement through energetic intelligent citizen effort. Manhattan earned the award for overcoming a 1951 flood with private cooperation building a new city within 18 months after the flood receded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U. 5 S
National Municipal League
The
Awords
Look
Manhattan
Kas
Baltimore
Bemidji
Minn
Brookfield
Compton
Calif
Miami and Dade County
Fla
Minneap
Hood
Two Major Talks Due From Capital
President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles prepare major speeches outlining the new administration's foreign policy. A White House reshaping of top agencies into a civilian high command is planned. Dulles will broadcast to the nation and a 10 day Western Europe tour with Stassen will seek on the spot insights into European unity and defense needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eisenhower
Dulles
Toncress
Harold E. Stassen
Bes
Mutual Security Agency
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
European Unity and Defense Organization
Stassen
Senate Committee
Taft Proposes Five Bills To Change Taft Hartley Act
Senator Taft proposed five bills to amend the Taft Hartley Act, extending the anti communist oath to employers and workers permits for replaced strikers to vote in union elections, expanding the Labor Relations Board to seven members, and allowing union contracts before work begins in the building trades industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Taft
Eisenhower
Labor Relations Board
Collins Clark Lee Meet Gen Van Fleet in Seoul
In Seoul Army chiefs Collins and Clark Lee arrived Monday for a meeting with retiring Army commander Gen James A Van Fleet. Collins stopped briefly in Tokyo and was joined there by Clark. He said Van Fleets retirement need not mean policy change in Korea and would meet his successor Lt Gen Maxwell Tastor on arrival.
Squaw Corn and Egg Dishes From a Whimsical Menu
A jumble of recipe fragments and local notice items describes Egg and chili preparation with hints of corn and havon in a dish. A Pittsburgh report notes a suitor charged after twice triggering the fire department with false alarms amid a weekend misunderstanding. Fern growth mentioned as tall as 80 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kuki Morris
Oklahoma A & M
Pittsburgh
Fire Department
Swain
Citizenship Essay Winners to Tour Topeka and Legislature
The Kansas Federation of Women’s Clubs announced 21 high school juniors as winners in its Citizenship Essay Contest. They will tour Topeka March 8 9 and dine with Gov and Mrs March 8. District winners include Edith Lancaster Sabetha Phyllis Fowler Perry Karen Cohorst Marysville and others. Alternate Janice Haskin Olathe. The trip covers visits to the State Historical Society Museum and both houses of the Legislature with district officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita A
Topeka
Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs
Federation
Ann
State Historical Society
United States of America
Edith Lancaster
Sabetha
Phyllis Fowler
Perry
Italian Airline Crashes Killing 19 On Flight To Rome
A two engine Italian airliner on a Sardinia to Rome flight crashed in the mountains east of Cagliari. All aboard, including 15 passengers and four crew, were killed. Rescue teams faced a difficult trek to the burned wreckage with initial reports indicating no survivors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Sardinia
Cagliari
Sinai Mountains
Elmo
Carabinieri
Wichita Man Killed in Ellsworth Car Crash
Kast Leonard Suppes 24 of Wichita was killed when a car overturned near Ellsworth on Saturday night. His companion Robert Lee Knoetten 23 of Russell Kansas was injured in the wreck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellsworth
Leonard Suppes
Wichita
Here
Robert ‘Lee Knoetten
Russell
Baldwin Vinson Eugene Dies. Services Held At Lawrence Memorial
The infant son of Mr and Mrs Alfred Harrison died at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Funeral services were led by Rev Willis Warner. In Oskaloosa, Mrs Walter Robinson mother of Mrs C C Clarridge had been ill for months. services were conducted by Dr Gordon Thompson with attendees including Mr and Mrs Clarridge and Clifford, Mr and Mrs Robert Lawson, and Mrs Wilson Counts. Franklin Mitchell of Lawrence will become Baker University’s second semester organ instructor replacing Fred Thompson. Mitchell, organ consultant at Reuter Organ Co, also serves as organist at First Methodist Church. Baker’s music head Prof William C Rice notes Mitchell as outstanding, with studies at Missouri Valley College Marshall MO, University of Michigan, and residence work for a PhD at Union Theological Seminary NY. Leon Wilgus will teach Man and Fine Arts next semester, as Georgann Malicky will be Baker’s Sunday organist and choir accompanist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vinson Eugene
Alfred Harrison
Thhe Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Willis_ Warner
Methodist
Oskaloosa
Walter Robinson
C. C. Clarridge
Robinson
Baldwin
Gordon Thompson
Clarridge
Clifford
Robert Lawson
Wilson
Franklin Mitchell
Lawrence J
Baker
Fred Thompson
Mitchell
Reuter Organ Company
Lawrence
First Methodist Church
William C. Rice
Baker School of Music
Missouri Valley College
Marshall
Mac
Michif University
Union Theological Seminary
New York
Leon Wilgus
Rice
Georgann Malicky
Baker Choir
Clyde Robinson
Harold Hollister
Robert Rock
Kansas City attendance at Dealers Association week
The text notes attendance in Kansas City this week at the Dealers Association convention. It records the death of the baby son of Mr and Mrs Russell Reed last Saturday at Lawrence Memorial hospital with graveside services held Sunday at Oakwood cemetery in Baldwin conducted by Rev Willis Warner. It also mentions Ms Rosa Barkley learning of her granddaughter Donna Louise Barkley’s engagement to Paul Giovannetti of Los Angeles on December 27, 1952. The remainder references school lunch finance and a planned plate lunch price brief.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Omnnendy
Olis
Newburgh
N. C
Owensboro, Ky
Roanoke
Woorancket
R. I
George Gallup
American Institute of Public Opinion
Blonde Reld
Cafe Society
Diane Harris
Criminal Courts
Minot
Mickey) Jelke
A. J. Liebler
Case Society
AP Wi
Ephoto
By John M. Hightower
Karen Cohorst
Marysville
Madalyn Neff
Spring Hill
Robert Henson
Jon
Barbara Spencer
Paola
Janice Haskin
Olathe
Nadine Huntington
Moline
Rena Messenger
Pittsburg
Dorothy Goshert
Girard
Bill Connell
Fall River
Shirley Switzer
Dwight
Duane Hoover
Overbrook
Phillys Burdorf
Mr. Hope
Marion Moore
Douglas
Jack Kater
Sedgwick
Pascal Celery
Wholesun
Dane Parker
Plain Tanty
Vienna Bread
Libby
State Haute
Rin
Tress
Kansas
Chicago
Chicagoan
Kansas City
Fred Harvey
Santa Fe Ticket Office
Lawrence, Renees
P. Addy
Farrel Taboe
Tane
Hy-Line Poultry Farm
Department of Pioneer Hi- Corn Co
Mary Rodewald
Chas, Honsicker
Merle Heckler
Clarence Houseman
Coombes & Son
State Distribut
Norris Bros
New Hampshire
Cote
Kansas Public Service Co., Inc
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!