Math and Gumption Team Wins Prize For Students
In New York three Staten Island college youths Lewis Mandell Jeffrey Michaels and Arthur Sher used math and slide rules to win a prize in a fuel oil jar guessing contest at the Staten Island Ferry terminal Their entry was within 3000 BTUs of 24889000 and earned them top or second and third prizes totaling nearly 1800 They spent hours measuring and calculating with memories and attended a 4 a m skull session at Michaels family kitchen
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Lewis Mandell
Jeffrey Michaels
Arthur Sher
New York
Ad Michaels
New York Borough
Richmond
Staten Island
City College
Brooklyn College
Michaels
Eisenhower Defends Gift Etiquette and Budget Plans
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower urged judgment and restraint in accepting gifts by public officials at a Detroit news conference. He defended gifts as common and warned against becoming a kept man, saying income goes to accountants and noting past fund contributions to his Gettysburg farm. He praised any move to reduce federal spending and curb deficit borrowing.
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Detroit
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Johnson
Senate
Bobby Baker
Hisenhower
Gettysburg
Angler-tinged Dismissal in Wrong-Way Street Case
Bert Lester Brown, 62, was found not guilty when he appeared on a charge of driving the wrong way on a one way street. He told Municipal Judge Harry B. Grund I guess I was thinking about going fishing. The judge dismissed the case.
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Des Moines, Iowa
Bert Lester Brown
Brown
Harry B. Grund
Grund
Hoover Opposes TV Coverage of Courtroom Trials
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover opposes televising courtroom trials. He says commercial jingles and camera panning undermine dignity and solemnity of procedures while widening press coverage raises issues about public right versus public curiosity in judicial matters.
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
First Wheat Shipment to Soviet Sails from Norfolk
The freighter Exilena, carrying 6,500 tons of wheat, prepared to depart Norfolk for New York for shipment to the Soviet Union. The vessel finished loading wheat Tuesday night and added military and general cargo on Wednesday.
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Norfolk, Va
Soviet Union
New York
Interior Service To Back Measure To Disperse Fund
The Interior Department will back a bill to distribute 6.439 million dollars awarded by the Indian Claims Commission to the Pawnee Indian tribe of Oklahoma. Senators Monroney and Edmondson said the tribe can decide fund use with Interior Secretary approval. The measure plans a family-based distribution and possible reserve in the U S Treasury to earn interest.
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Washington
Interior Department
Oklahoma
Sens
Mike) Monroney
J. Howard Edmondson
Secretary of Interior
Indian Claims Commission
Congress
Kansas
Nebraska
United States
Pawnee Tribe of
Pawnee Business Council
U.S. Treasury
Tribal Self-Help Programs Promote Scholarships and Jobs
A plan proposes finance for tribal self-help measures including scholarship grants employment assistance a loan program and industrial development plus housing projects to aid tribal communities.
Sailor Dies of Spinal Meningitis at San Diego Base
An 18-year-old apprentice sailor, Robert Leland Smith, stationed at the U S Naval Training Center in San Diego, died from spinal meningitis nine ammonia hours after reporting ill. He was a radiomen student from Topeka Kansas. Officials called the death isolated and quarantines not needed. The center had 26 cases with four fatalities last year during an epidemic.
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San Diego
Calif
U. S. Naval Training Center
Robert Leland Smith
Marvin H. Smith
Topeka
Kan
Snffith
Radiomens’ School
Navy Hospital
Reno Church Events Set for Late January and February
Reno Sunday School Adult Class hosts a party at 8 p.m. Friday January 31 at the church with host families the Lyman Frosts and J. W. Grinters. Busy Bee Club gathers at 1 30 p.m. Wednesday February 5 in the Reno Church Fellowship Hall with hostesses Mrs. Nancy Dehoff Nadine Moore and Ruth Glidewell. Mr and Mrs Lawrence Peet and their baby daughter of Kansas City Kansas were Sunday afternoon attendees.
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Reno
Lyman Frosts
J. W. Grinters
Busy Bee Club
Nancy de- Hoff
Nadine Moore
Ruth Glidewell
Lawrence Peet
Kansas City
Kan
Social visits and open house in Leavenworth area
The report lists multiple local residents visiting friends and relatives across Leavenworth and surrounding towns. Attendees include Grace Coleman Herbert Pearson family Fannie Pearson DeHoff Garrett Timmerberg and others at various Sunday and weekday calls and the Leavenworth County Highway Shops open house.
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Grace Coleman
Herbert Pearson
Fannie Pearson
Ed Korb
Nellie Wooten
Leavenworth
Mary Halladay
Florence Eaton
Lawrence
C. L. DeHoff
Bill Moore
J. W. Grinter
Charles Strong
Leavenworth County Highway
Pete DeHoff
Tonganoxie
Bill Garrett
Harry Timmerberg
Vinland
John Grinter
William Stevens
Independence
Ira Higginbotham
Ida Coffelt
Atchison
Bill Lindel
Ronnie
Manhattan
Lindel
Clyde Bigford
George Hinz
Oskaloosa
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R. H. Stohl
Optometrist
Hoover
Lawrence Paper CO
6Th & N.H
Eer Uitte
Lawrence Typewriter
Interior Service
California
Nelson Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Happy
Rockefeller-for-President
Los Angeles
Sailor
San Diego Naval Base
Iowa
Hiway
Aio
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