Hercules to Build New PE Plant in Missouri Phase
Hercules Powder Co. announces a six million dollar plan to construct a new pentaerythritol plant at Louisiana Missouri on the site of the former Missouri Ordnance Works. The facility will produce 24 million pounds of PE and 100 million pounds of formaldehyde annually, with anhydrous ammonia output maintained at 40 000 tons per year. The project increases Hercules PE capacity and positions it as a leading PE producer globally.
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Hercules Powder Co
Wilmington
Del
Hercules
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Lawrence
Midwest
Louisiana
Missouri Ordnance Works
Missouri Ammonia Works
Wyly M. Billing
10th Steelworker Meet Opens at KU Campus Weekend
The 10th annual Steelworkers Education Conference kicks off Sunday at Kansas University with about 80 attendees. Evening sessions bring together farmers teachers and ministers for exchange of ideas. Attendees come from the Kansas City district and all meetings are at Memorial Union with housing in Carruth and O'Leary Halls.
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Steelworkers
Kansas University
Kansas City
Memorial Union
Carruth
O'Leary
Emery Bacon
National Office of
United Steelworkers of America
Pittsburg
E. C. Buehler
K.U
John Caldwell
John McCollum
Chicago University
Chicago
A. F. Kojetinsky
St. Louis
Iden Reese
Kansas City Junior College
Curt B. Harris
E. A. McFarland
Frank T. Stockton
Frank T. Stockton, University Extension
Wnton
Kojetinsky
Local Dentists to Open New Offices July 25
Dr. Paul Kincaid and Dr. Mark Amott will open their new Cape Cod style dental offices at 23rd St and Barker Ave on Monday July 25. The air conditioned building houses four operating rooms with modern equipment and off street parking, following construction started last March.
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Paul Kincaid
Mark Amott
23Rd St
Barker Ave
Cape Cod
Kincaid
Antioch Baptist Church Sunday Schedule and Sermon Topic
Antioch Baptist Church presents Sunday school at 4 45 led by J Pendleton superintendent H H Belore pianist. Morning worship features sermon by Dr E G Wright on trusting God in dark days Habakkuk. Evening service includes evangelistic service and Wednesday prayer Bible study led by pastor Wright.
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Antioch Baptist Church
Community Budger
E. G. Wright
H. H. Belore
Pendleton
E Wright
America
God
Iola Student Wins KU Engineering Scholarship Award
James C. Remsberg of Iola, age 23 and Korean War veteran, a student in Kansas University's School of Engineering, received the $500 Atlantic Refining Co scholarship for the 1955-56 term. The award honors outstanding undergraduate work and promise in petroleum-related sciences, with emphasis on character and personality. Remsberg attended Iola Junior College for two years before KU.
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James C. Remsberg
Iola
Kansas University
Atlantic Refining Co
K.U
Dall Is, Tex
Iola Junior College
Gunmen Beat Up Cop in Kansas City
In Kansas City two gunmen beat motorcycle patrolman Robert H Holcomb 32 after stopping for careless driving. They abducted him, locked him in a car trunk, then fled in a second vehicle. He escaped. Holcomb sustained seven head lacerations. Police believe the pair intended to commit a crime.
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Kansas City
Robert H Holcomb
Holcomb
Money Man in Las Vegas Disappears with Mystery Cash
LAS VEGAS Nev B-Money man Frank Ellsworth has vanished taking with him a mysterious fortune of 87000 in cash Investigators for the US Internal Revenue Department sought to question Ellsworth soon after he was freed and his money returned by police last night His lawyer says Ellsworth left town but will return Monday Ellsworth and Ray Wilson 33 were booked for suspicion of robbery after flashing new 100 bills at Las Vegas casino dice tables Ellsworth was freed on 1000 bond and a writ returnable Monday Wilson remains jailed with 5000 bail and expected to gain freedom today Ellsworth claimed he sold magazine subscriptions while Wilson said he had been saving C-notes for years
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Las Vegas
Nev
Frank Ellsworth
U. S. Internal Revenue Department
Ellsworth
Ray Wilson
bodkMs
Wilson
C - Notes
Cracks in Iron Curtain Highlight East West Ties
The Soviet government paper Sevestia says cracks are appearing in the Iron Curtain signaling closer East West ties. An Izvestia editorial aired on Moscow radio accuses Western powers of provoking the cold war by stressing contradictions in capitalist and socialist systems, while urging peaceful coexistence.
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London
Sevestia
Izvestia
Moscow Radio
Two Inmates Escape Phillips County Jail
Two inmates fled the Phillips County jail through a ventilator window Thursday night. The escapees were Perry Smith of Trappers Den Alaska and William Smith not related. They had been held on burglary charges connected to a sale barn incident in July.
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Phillipsburg
Kas
Phillips County
Perry Smith
Trappers den
Alaska
William Smith
Adult Driver Course Begins at Junior High School
Archie Wolcott will instruct an adult driver training course at the Junior High School starting Monday August 1. The program covers classroom work and actual driving with enrollment by calling the school before the July deadline. weekday hours are 9 to noon and 4 to 6, and Wolcott can be reached at home evenings and Saturdays at 2304 L-1.
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Archie Wolcott
Wolcott
Coffeyville Trucker Killed When Truck Overturns
J. D. Mitchell aged 60 of Coffeyville an employee of Continental Can Co was killed in a truck wreck last night when his vehicle overturned on a county road 474 miles north of Coffeyville He was thrown from the cab and crushed by the truck authorities reported the fatality occurred on the road north of Coffeyville Kansas
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Coffeyville, Kas
J. D. Mitchell
Coffeyville
Continental Can Co
Cheers For The Master Of Nairne
Roark reflects on a London Daily Express front page about the Master of Nairne at an Oxford intake party. Debs cheer the scene as champagne flows, dancing Scots reels unfold, and old English frivolity returns with Evelyn Waugh era vibes amid Thames water antics and a crowd of debs.
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Robert C. Ruark
Londdon
Ty Daily Express
Thames
Trim
Savey
Richael Bigholm
M. of
Nairne
Visceount
Oxford
Primrose
Cecilia McKenna
Pensson
Flint
Trish Guards
Balliol
Evelyn Waugh
England
London
Girl Who Lost Memory Will Have a New Home
Shirley Farrell a 17 year old of Columbus Ohio who was injured in a schol bus crash last November has partial memory return. Friends in 48 states raised funds for a new house to replace her cramped trailer. Her motor memory remains limited but she can recall her parents and sister.
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Columbus
Ohio
Shirley Farrell
Betty
Hher
United States
Elmer
Shirley
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