Ordinary good in a troubled world saves a life
A feature profile praises ordinary people who act kindly as a 15 year old St Paul girl Marilyn Lesby receives life saving surgery for coarctation of the aorta. Readers donations funded the operation after columnist Paul Light publicized her case, with Elks lodge support and a trust fund forming to cover costs. Marilyn survived a five hour operation in Boston and lives well today thanks to generous strangers.
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Hal Sovle
New York
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Diogenes
Andrew Carnegis
Acta
Indijexa
Marilyn Lesby
St. Paul
Minn
Marilyn
United States
Children’s Hospital
Boston
Paul Light
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Elks Lodge
Paul Light Wrote Later: “the Hardest Pet of Our Job Was Ghee Ey
Botshas
Children's Hospital
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
High School Art Conference Set At KU In Feb
The seventh annual high school art conference will occur February 20 and 21 at the University of Kansas with the Kansan Arts and Crafts festival. About 400 students and teachers are expected to register to compare work and learn how art subjects are taught at KU. Entries from juniors and seniors statewide may cover design, commercial art, water colors, crafts, jewelry, metal, leather, pottery, sculpture, and weaving. The program includes demonstrations by university staff, a visit to the Community building arts exhibit, a preview of the play A Cry of Players, and special exhibitions. A performance of the operetta Sunny is planned for Liberty Memorial high school. Critics include Julie Keeler, Robert Conk, and Margaret Wasver.
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University of Kansas
Kansan
Misa Marjorie Whitney
Department of Design
Mise Whitney
Sunny
Deal Six
Liberty Memorial High School
Mien
Julie Keeler
Des Moines
Robert Conk
Wichita University
Margaret Wasver
Thayer Miogram
Denmark Cuts Police Costs After Tenfold Rise
Denmark reports police costs rose 500 percent over ten years to £21,000,000 with 1,000 cars falling to 500 and 2,000 assistant policemen to be dismissed. A spokesman recalls 1938 29 as idyllic, while noting current cuts.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Kansas Highway Commission Approves 59 Contracts
The Kansas State Highway Commission approved fifty nine highway contracts totaling 1.54 million dollars for 337 miles of federal aid state urban and secondary roads in 29 counties. Major awards include 13.3 miles of concrete on U S 77 in Butler county to Ross Construction Co for 622351.99 and 1.7 miles on U S 24 near Reno in Leavenworth county to C H Atkinson Paving Co for 166565.75. A bridge went to Constant Construction Co in Lawrence for 25791.60 and seeding to Deer Landscape Co for 2024.50. Bids for certain sections were rejected as too high.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas State Highway Commission
Washington
Kansas City
Eldorado
U.S. 77
Butler County
Ross Construction Co
Des Moines
Cowley County
Augusta
Douglas
Reno
Leavenworth County
Lawrence
Tonganoxie
C. H. Atkinson Paving Co
Chillacothe
Constant Construction Co
Deer Landscape Co
Esha
Bida
Wyandotte County
Arkansas City
Farmers in Willow Springs Palmyra Hear Soil Program
The 1948 soil conservation program will be presented to farmers in Willow Springs and Palmyra townships next Wednesday evening. Willow Springs meeting is at 7 30 in the township hall, while Palmyra farmers gather at the Fellowship Hall of Baldwin First Methodist church half an hour later. Lecompton and Kanwaka townships will hold meetings next Thursday at Lecompton high school and Kanwaka township hall respectively.
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Willow Springs
Palmyra
County Deal
L'Almyra
Fellowship
First Methodist Church
Baldwin
Lecompton
Kanwaka
Lecompton High School
Kanwaka Township
Crown Jewels Are Displayed Again in London
The Crown Jewels of England, valued at about 25 million dollars, have been recovered from a wartime hiding place and are on display at the Tower of London. The collection includes the imperial state crown, the royal sceptre with the Star of Africa diamond, and the jewelled state award. The last major ceremony using the jewels was King George VI’s coronation.
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London
England
Tower of London
George VI
Bloch Water Color Show At KU Museum Of Art
Twenty two water colors by Albert Bloch are on display at the University of Kansas Museum of Art through February 16. Bloch formerly headed the University painting department and, since retirement last year, devotes his time to painting. The exhibit features imaginative landscapes with notable works such as Mask in a Garden and Falling Water. The article also notes the weight of leg bones from snapping turtles being about half the weight of a live specimen.
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Albert Bloch
University of Kansas Museum of Art
Bloch
University
Lisbon disaster recall 1755 tidal wave and fire
A couple in a few hours earned $40 shoveling up four tons of dead fish after Lisbon suffered a devastating 1755 tidal wave and ensuing fire that killed about 30,000 people.
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Lisbon
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