Physical training to high standing in future schools
Dr. R A Schwegler of Kansas University told the NEA delegation in Denver that future high schools will emphasize physical education as a core subject. He urged turning from mass teaching to personalized guidance, testing through doing, and cultivating robust, emotionally efficient students.
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Denver
Colo
R. A. Schwegler
Kanas University School of Education
Department of Secondary Education
Schwegler
W. M. van Slyck
Topeka
Kan
Dean Schwegler
Europe
Kansas State College names historian successor
Release of Dr. J. T. Willard from the vice presidency to become college historian takes effect January 1, 1936, with no new vice president named yet. He will devote his time to writing the college history, aiming for 1938 completion during the 75th anniversary year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manhattan
Kan
J. T. Willard
Kansas State College
FP. D. Farrell
Farrell
Willard
Test Your Knowledge Quiz on Classified Page Answers
Seven questions ask capital of India the meaning of Elah Cepheus in Greek myth absinthe color native Berkshire game birds long narrow lake in eastern New York foothills Adirondack moon foundling hospital literary Rowe Meissonier Mount of Olives nearest city.
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India
Cepheus
Berkshire
Connecticut
Long Narrow Lake
New York State
Camp Day Highlights at Girl Scouts Event
The report covers a Girl Scouts camp day with flag hoist at 9 am, bird poems, a bird song phonograph, and Hollywood guest Mae West invitations. Girls rode permits, practiced archery, rehearsed a Our Gang play, and made crafts. Lunch featured biscuits in a reflector oven and broiled steak. The day ended with a flag lowering and closing circle. Gypsy Pirate day is set for next Friday for registered Scouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Mae West
Enire
Wichita cooperative bank reports large June commitments
Pi Ralph Snyder, president of the Wichita bank for cooperatives, said commitments totaled 2,153,208 by June 29, with June alone at 665,306 the largest month since founding. Cotton and grain coops were the heaviest borrowers, others include truck crop handlers. Applications from 254 cooperatives totaled 3,575,964 by July 1. A farm credit act change allows borrowing coops to keep stock and voting rights during loan repayment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Kan
Ralph Snyder
Wichita Bank For Cooperatives
Snyder
George Kirby Promoted To Manager At Davenport Store
George Kirby promoted to manager of the J. C. Penney store in Davenport Town. He has six years with Penney, previously assistant manager in Omaha Neb. He won a nationwide suit sales prize and started at the Ober store. Born Perry, he attended Lawrence schools and the University.
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Ward
Walter Kirby
George
J. C. Penney Company
Davenport
Town
Kirby
Penney
Omaha
Neb
J. C. Penney Organization
Ober
Perry
Lawrence
The
University
Muscotah Gets New Lower Wholesale Electric Rate
The Kansas Power and Light company filed with the state corporation commission a new wholesale rate for Muscotah that engineers say will cut electric and power bills by about $2,000 annually. Muscotah runs its own distributing system and retail rates will approach those in larger Kansas cities on KP&L lines.
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Topeka
Gpi
Kansas Power and Light Company
State Corporation Commission
Muscotah
Commission
Dr Allen to Texas for Sam Houston coaching school
Dr F C Allen director of athletics at the University of Kansas will leave July 10 for Huntsville Texas to join the coaching school staff at Sam Houston State Teachers College July 12 18 He will conduct basketball classes and classes in treatment of athletic injuries Other staff members include Harry Viner Missouri Andy Kerr Collgate John Jacobs Oklahoma Harmon Norton Texas A&M and R L Browne Southwestern Louisiana.
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F. C. Allen
University of Kansas
Huntsville
Texas
Sam Houston State Teachers’ College
Allen
Harry Viner
Missouri
Andy Kerr
Colgate
John Jacobs
Oklahoma
Harmon Norton
Texas Aggies
R. L. Browne
Southwestern
Louisiana
Battle Royal Delayed by Tarantula Death in Oklahoma City
A staged battle royal involving two black widow spiders a tarantula and a centipede was postponed due to the tarantula's death. Referee Forest Taylor said the fight will resume once a replacement tarantula is located. Oscar Ray and Anthon McManus pleaded guilty in police court to stealing gasoline from a parked car. Ray’s license was suspended and McManus received a $6 fine with weekly payment to the chief for a month. Summer art studio classes begin July 4 at the junior high school with regular sessions on Friday.
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Oklahoma City
Forest Taylor
Oscar Ray
Anthon McManus
Ray
Oscar Learnard
McManus
Will Johns
Western harvest slowed by week of rain in plains
Rainfall across the western plains west of the Mississippi dampered winter wheat harvests though spring wheat cultivation remained favorable. The Weather Bureau bulletin warned moisture concerns rising in the western Great Plains including North Dakota while rust damage varied by state, with moderate stem rust in Missouri Valley hard winter wheats and lighter impacts elsewhere.
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Washington
Mississippi Valley
Weather
Oro
Weather Bureau
Great Plains
North Dakota
Department of Agriculture
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Missouri Valley
South Dakota
Minnesota
N. D
Young Attorney Strikes at Huey Long at Terrace Dance
Washington July 3 Huey P Long narrowly avoided a blow from Burr Tracy Ansell a Washington attorney at the Shoreham hotel terrace. Ansell said he resented Long's approach and that Long ran when Ansell's arm was held. Long said the terrace was crowded and he may have stepped on a foot apologizing afterward. He did not realize the man at the table was Ansell until reading in the morning paper.
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Washington
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Shoreham Hotel
Burr Tracy Ansell
Tong
Long
Ansell
Samuel T. Ansell
Army
Senator Long
War Department awards 26 training planes contract to Stearman Wichita
The War Department awarded a contract for 26 primary training airplanes to Stearman Aircraft Company of Wichita Kansas for 243000 dollars. Mrs J J Kistler returned from a ten day trip to Yellowstone National Park and attended the Phil Omega Pi national convention at Old Faithful Inn. She was reelected Pan-Hellenic delegate to the December meeting in Gulfport Mississippi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Washington
War Department
Stearman Aircraft, Company
Kan
J. J. Kistler
Yellowstone National Park
Phil Omega Pi
Old Faithful Inn
Citroen Founder Andre Gustave Citroen Struggles With Receivership
French car builder Andre Gustave Citroen known as the Henry Ford of France is 57. Creator of the Citroen works valued at 400 million francs faced receivership on December 21, 1934 to keep the plant operating. Citroen becomes a technical adviser to the business he founded.
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Andre Gustave Citroen
Henry Ford
France
Citroen Automobile Works
Citroen
Lawrence man nets 217 chigger bites in summer record
A Lawrence resident reported 217 chigger bites after a recent fishing trip, a possible summer record. The piece notes various local travel, civic happenings, and a July Fourth event at Noble Messer’s Pleasant Grove store with a Veterans of Foreign Wars band. It mentions Mayor Alfred Lawrence’s early-morning departure and a Red Cross committee’s flood needs assessment praising investigators.
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Noble Messer
Pleasant_Grove
Veterans of Foreign Wars Band
Messer
W. Owen
Red Cross
Sues on gold clause suit seeks damages in claims court
Washington reports John M. Perry a New York lawyer filed in the court of claims to recover 21912 50 on 16931 25 Liberty bonds claiming actual damages from devaluation of gold content. The supreme court had upheld the government's right to cancel gold clause in private contracts.
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Washington
John M. Perry
New York
Court of Claims
Supreme Court
File Damage Suits Over Poison Hemlock Seed Purchases
Alfred and Alberta Taylor sue McKesson Faxon Drug Co and Round Corner Drug Co for 30000 each claiming illnesses from cumin seed used as poison hemlock flavoring. Alberta’s case moved to federal court and was dismissed. Alfred’s suit filed recently. Plaintiffs’ lawyers named. defendants to be represented by Kansas City firms.
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Alfred Taylor
Alberta Taylor
McKesson Faxon Drug Co
Round Corner Drug Co
Topeka
McKesson, Faxon Company
Round Corner
Round Corner Drug Store
McKesson Faxon Drug Company
McKesson Faxon
Taylor
George K. Melvin
J. B. Wilson
Ed Riling
Round Corner Drug Company
McKesson Faxon Company
Kansas City
Regional Director Outlines Kansas Soil Conservation Plan
Dr. F. L. Daley regional director of soil conservation for Kansas will discuss the ongoing soil conservation program in north central Kansas and plans for Douglas and Franklin counties. The illustrated talk covers terracing water storage ponds and fertility restoration. The program is supported by the Farm Bureau and the Chamber of Commerce agricultural committee with a July 9 meeting at 8 p.m. in the Chamber rooms.
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F. L. Daley
Soil Conservation For
Kansas
Chamber of Commerce
Daley
Lawrence
Mankato
Douglas County
Douglas
Franklin
Farm Bureau
Agricultural Committee of the
Deaths and Funerals for B. F. Cowles and Wesley Pickens
Funeral services for B. F. Cowles, who died Monday in Whittier California, will be held Friday at 10 a.m. from Rumsey Funeral Home with Rev. Theodore Astman presiding. burial in Oak Hill cemetery. Wesley Pickens of Joplin Missouri, died June 27 and was buried June 29, leaving parents C. S. Pickens of Lawrence route 5, four brothers, eight sisters, wife and five children. he served 18 months in the 85th Division overseas in the late war.
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BF. Cowles
B. F. Cowles
Whittier
Calif
Rumsey Funeral Home
Theodore Astman
Oak Hill Cemetery
Wesley Pickens
C. S. Pickens
Route 5
Lawrence
Joplin
O. H. Pickens
Tonganoxie
Pickens
85Th
Gulley found not guilty in hoop net fishing case
Otto Gulley was acquitted by a Justice Frank Dodds court jury for attempting to fish in the Kansas river with a hoop net and noodle hook. The defendant was arrested June 23 by district game warden Joe Concannon and trial included a juror asking for a description of a noodle hook.
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Otto Gulley
Kansas
Frank Dodds
Gulley
Joe Concannon
Warren
Justice Dodds
Islands of Amur River Are Cause of Friction
The Soviet explanation in Tokyo outlines Russia and Japan in a three year Russo Japanese dispute over Siberian frontier. It notes Moscow’s warning that grave consequences may follow if Japanese troops and Manchoukuan gunboats enter what is claimed as Soviet territory.
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Cofbsright
Associated Press
Tokyo
Amur
Russia
Siberian
Moscow
Young Stockman Enters Democratic Gubernatorial Bid for Senate
Topeka July 3 Robert George a 29 year old stockman from Emporia and Lebo announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for the U S Senate seat now held by Republican Arthur Capper He is believed the youngest Kansas candidate for the senatorship and previously ran for state senator in 1932 He served as a parole officer at Hutchinson state reformatory and last year was field organizer for Production Credit Corporation in Wichita He will be permanent chairman and keynote speaker at the Young Democratic rally tomorrow.
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Topeka
Robert George
Emporie
Lebo
Arthur Capper
George
Kansas
Lyon-Greenwood
Harry H. Woodring
State Reformatory
Hutchinson
Production Credit Corporation
Wichita
Young Democratic Rally
Vancouver flyer circles airport in Canada Mexico flight bid
Earl Ortman of Fort Gibson Oklahoma circled Vancouver airport at 11 06 a m as he started a non stop attempt toward Sacramento and Agua Caliente attempting to beat the Canada Mexico international flight record. He took off from Seattle at 10 26 a m and planned refueling stops en route. The record is five hours 22 minutes tied by Jimmy Wedell two years ago.
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Vancouver
B. C
Earl Ortman
Fort Gibson
Okla
Ortman
Seattle
Sacramento
Calif
Agua Caliente
Mexico
Jimmy Wedell
Second Marriage Fails in Kansas City Divorce
Mrs. Katherine May Dickey obtained a divorce from Kenneth M. Dickey in Kansas City on July 3. Judge Albert A. Ridge granted $100 monthly alimony. custody of two grown children was not requested. Dickey says they separated June 29, 1935, after a prior divorce nine years earlier. Also notes resignations from the President's advisory council and Salvation Army appeal for furniture, with Journal-World noting noon publication tomorrow for staff holiday observance.
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Kansas City
Katherine May Dickey
Kenneth McM. Dickey
W. S. Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company
Albert A. Ridge
Dickey
Oskaloosa Attorne y Ed Rooney Visits for Legal Business
Osakaloosa notes show attorney Ed Rooney of Topeka in town on legal business. Rev. and Mrs Albert Williams attended the 75th celebration of the Oskaloosa Methodist church founded in 1860 with a guest sermon by Williams.
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Ed Rooney
Topeka
Albert Williams
St. Marya
Williams
Oskaloosa Methodist Church
B. P. Davis
Bernard Peterson
G. E. Tewell
Arlan Jikinson
H. B. Bradley
Hazel ‘Ahrens
New teachers hired and summer activities noted
Miss Creveling Miss Bowd and Mr Gragg joined as new teachers this year. Frank Leach arrived from Richmond CA visiting family. Eleanor Hannah Emporia previously studied business in college and now works in the Kansas State Teachers College library system. 4 H club met Irene Harbour June 24 with sewing and cooking lessons and refreshments. Roxie Alexander pursues summer courses at Dickinson business college. Eastern Star session held June 26 under Grace Leaverton and James Blevins with September restart planned. Willard Kirkpatrick Coyville checked property in town last week.
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Miss Creveling
Bowd
Gragg
Frank Leach
Richmond
Calif
Ethel Alexander
Jaba
Eleanor Hannah
Emporia
Nutwood Farm
Joe Hannah
Eleanor
Kansas State Teachers College
Irene Harbour
Irene
Roxie Alexander
Dickinson Business College
Eastern Star
Grace Leaverton
James Blevins
Willard Kirkpatrick
Coyville
Market News Kansas City Cash Grain Report
Kansas City markets show mixed grain bids with wheat prices down and corn mixed, No. 2 white at 86 74, No. 2 yellow around 86 70s, oats steady, milo and rye varied. Livestock closed unchanged. government bond quotes steady. hay and prairie prices noted. Chicago wheat futures and local grain, butterfat, eggs, and hogs listed with small movements.
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Kansas City
Ashe
Salle
Hee Close
Hay Market
Hay
Prairie
Wall Street Firms Late Session Amid Steel Rally
The stock market firmed in the final hour as steel shares and short covering among rails and industries lifted net losses to modest gains. Major movers included Allied Chemical Du Pont American Can and General Motors with mixed bonds and steady foreign exchanges. Traders awaited further guidance after holiday calm, noting possible year ahead adjustments in motor accessory firms and earlier auto line releases.
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Wall Street
New York
Allied Chemical
du Pont
American Can
Columbian Carbon
Marine Midland
Commonwealth
Southern Preferred
Northern
Teft
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J.T. Willard
Kelly
Earl Burns
Leroy Harris
O. J. Lane
Foundling Hospital
Rowe
Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier
Olies 2
Cooperative Bank Report
George Kirby
J. C. Penney Co
Kansas Light Company
DR. Allen
Will
Sam Houston College
Battle Royal
Huey Long
Emporia Weather Bureau
P—Althe
Mary Eunice Jones
Wilson Monroe Jones
Liberty
Mary Gay Jones
U.S.G. Plank
Ewart G. Plank
Ft. Peck
Mont
Plank
East Lawrence
South Lawrence
J. Williams
Turner
Pete Winn
Peterson
Andre G
Gitroen
Paris
Andre Citroen
Colorado
Alfred Lawrence
Manitou
Colorado Springs
H. Ober
Estes Park
Dr. F
Phog
Marvin's Grove
Memorial Stadium
Aowder
Grand Canyon
Arizona
California
George Pickens
Perry Street
Eighth
Massachusetts
Odd Fellows Lodge
Odd Fellows Hall
N.G
J. Runkle
W.G
C. E. Hundley
Will Gorrill
R. O. Burgert
Charles E. Jones
Henry Olson
L.G
M. Percellee
Tvorce
Vidal Reno
Nev
CPI
Nine Gora Vidal
United States
Thomas P. Gore
Eugene L. Vidal
Commerce Department
Bureau of Air Commerce
Sue
Justice Court
Cuyler
Chicago
P—Hazen
Kiki” Cuyler
Chicago Cubs
Cincinnati
Cubs
Edwin V. Dowd
Kansas Labor Weekly
Unitarian Church
Kipling
London
Rudyard Kipling
Canada
Katherine Dickey
Quits Advisory Council
James F. Bell
Minneapolis Miller
Finess Advisory Council
Roper
Salvation Army
Journal-World
Oskaloosa
Government Bonds
U. S
Liberty Fourth
Treasury
Dee Ace Asgent
City
USDA
Arkansas
U.S
Carolina Cobblers U
Pa Peters
Angel Foo
Gui Ay
Jenny
Wren
W. W. Burnett
Lawrence, Kansas
Funk’s Mortuary Ambulance Service
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