Eisenhower touts unprecedented prosperity and strong defense
President Eisenhower told the GOP National Convention that the nation enjoys unprecedented prosperity and the strongest military system in the world. He defended his record on national defense and economic growth and challenged critics and opponents about free elections under UN sponsorship and Soviet intent.
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Chicago
Eisenhower
White House
Nelson A. Rockefeller
America
Rockefeller
Ike
GOP
Kremin
United Nations
United States
U S Victory After UN Vote Over RB47 Incident
United Nations Security Council votes 9 to 2 against Soviet charges and blocks an international probe into the RB47 shoot down. The Soviet veto also defeats an Italian bid to have the Red Cross contact two U S crew members held by Moscow for trial as spies.
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United Nations
N.Y
Security Council
United States
U.S
International Red Cross
U.N
Soviet Union
Poland
Ceylon
Tunisia
Henry Cabot Lodge
Red Cross
Barents Sea
Lodge
Arctic
Deaths Funerals Mrs Florence Webster White
Mrs Florence Webster White of New York City died Tuesday while visiting her sister in Delaware Ohio. Daughter of Lillian Webster former Lincoln School principal North Lawrence she studied at KU music school and taught at LeMoyne College. She married Jack White in Russia and earned a master of education at Columbia University. Survivors include her husband a son Johnny her mother and two sisters.
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Florence Webster White
New York City
Lillian Jones
Delaware
Ohio
White
Lillian Webster
Lincoln School
North Lawrence
Russia
Jack White
Chicago
Columbia University
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Johnny
Jones
Miriam Webster Porter
Los Angeles
Calif
Lodge Notice for Acacia Lodge No 9 Meeting
Special communication of Acacia Lodge No 9 A F and A M at 7 pm Thursday July 28 discusses second degree work for Master Masons. Members are urged to attend and participate in the listed ritual agenda.
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Acacia Lodge
A. F
A. M
Master Masons Wel
Memorial Hospital Births and Names Across City Area
A list of births and parents noted from Memorial Hospital and local homes includes Amos Westerhouse and Florence Yates with baby, Charles Hanan and Minnie Barber households, and several other families in Eudora Tonganoxie Baldwin Pomona Topeka and Stouffer Place. Additional entries note couples welcomed sons and daughters Tuesday and today.
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Amos Westerhouse
Eudora
Florence Yates
Tonganoxie
Audrey Hanan
Minnie Barber
Pomona
Emma Roller
Baldwin
Irene Silvers
Linda Wiggins
Broad Platform Seeks GOP Convention Endorsement
Chicago reports a 10,000 word Republican platform with a rebuilt civil rights plank ready for convention approval. The platform moderates voting housing schools and public facilities discrimination and urges strengthened defense including missile production while pledging procedural overhauls to advance racial equality.
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Chicago
Richard M. Nixon
Jacob K. Javits
New York
Nixon
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
G. Harold Alexander
Florida
GOP
Eisenhower
Marriage Licenses in Kansas and Nearby States Listed
A list of marriage licenses shows couples from Lane Lawrence Topeka Baldwin Louisburg and Seymour Iowa receiving licenses. Names include Kyle O LaFallette Jr Judith Anne Pearson John W Harding Ardis Gay Harmon Kenneth R Ragan Virginia Ann Shaw Donald H Yurak Barbara S Gallogly Edward Walter Coon Loretta May Carbonneau Clell F Todd Mary A Bryan John R Vankirk Janice Trendel Richard R Park Carol Louise Rowe.
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Kyle O. LaFallette Jr
Lane
Judith Anne Pearson
Lawrence
John W. Harding
Topeka
Ardis Gay Harmon
Kenneth R. Ragan
Virginia Ann Shaw
Bonner Springs
Donald H. Yurachek
Chicago
Barbara S. Gallogly
Edward Walter Coon
Baldwin
Loretta May Carbonneau
Clell F. Todd
Mary A. Bryan
John R. Vankirk
Louisburg
Janice Ann Trendel
Richard R. Park
Seymour
Iowa
Carol Louise Rowe
Bazine
World Presbyterian Alliance to discuss religious liberty in Cuba
The World Presbyterian Alliance will send a representative to Cuba to confer with church leaders about religious liberty under Fidel Castro's regime.
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New York
The
World Presbyterian Alliance
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Power Interruption Hits West Sixth Street Club Area
Lawrence electric service at the Olympic Swim Club and nearby properties paused about 9:30 Tuesday night due to multiple fuse failures. Kansas Power and Light Co. manager Austin Stedham cited an undetermined cause possibly linked to a lightning strike that weakened the fuses before the heavy usage.
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Olympic Swim Club
West Sixth Street
Kansas Power and Light Co
Austin Stedham
Stedham
Med Center Addition Bids Opened In Topeka
Bids for a five story addition to the Kansas University Medical Center Wahl Hall in Kansas City were opened Tuesday in Topeka. Apparent low bid totals 1 540 919 dollars, within state and federal funds. The project adds classrooms labs and research space to move all medical trainees from Lawrence by 1963.
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Kansas University Medical Center
Wahl
Kansas City
Topeka
Lawrence
Medical
Mt. Oread
Haworth Hall
Wahl Hall
39Th Street
John Brink
Winn-Senter Construction Co
Kan
Evans Electrical Co
Kenner Air, Inc
Wichita
Two Arrested In Theft Near Reno
Two men face armed robbery charges after a hitchhiker said they robbed him of seven dollars near Reno following a ride on U S 24 40. George A. Oakes pleaded guilty. Robert A. Franklin pleaded innocent with a preliminary hearing set for August 2.
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Kansas
Frederick A. Buyinsky
Kansas City
Kan
Leavenworth
Elmer Palmer
Tonganoxie
U.S
Reno
George A. Oakes
Fulton
Robert A. Franklin
Bugnitsky
Palmer
Oakes
Nixon delegates party scene and Kansas votes for Nixon
The New York delegation hosts a lively late night party at the Sheraton with a 1000 strong Southern crowd dancing to Dixieland music. Kansas finishes its caucus with 22 votes for Vice President Nixon, while Sam Mellinger declines to discuss possible candidates. Rockeller proposals drew criticism as platform language debate grows heated.
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New York
Kansas
Sam Mellinger
Nixon
Mellinger
Lloyd Ruppenthal
Bertha Hall
Kansans
GOP
Ruppenthal
Platform
Rockefeller
Platform Committee
Area Soldiers to Train at Fort Carson Colorado
Forty nine Reservists from Lawrence and nearby communities join eighty ninth division troops for a two week summer training course at Fort Carson Colorado August 7 to 21 Units train weekly in the local reserve building and include truck driving and field wire communications specialists Detachments will precede the main body by four and two days The group travels by train from Kansas City stops include Lawrence Topeka Manhattan Junction City Salina and Denver The Lawrence based units depart August 7 at 3 35 am from the North Lawrence depot and reunite at the Reserve building at midnight Local officers include Lt Paul F Jones Leavenworth company commander and Capt Clarence W Brown Leavenworth detachment commander with Detachment No 3 operated by Capt James A McConnell Kansas City Kansas The trip lists many named soldiers from Lawrence De Soto Gardner Tonganoxie Eudora Winchester and Gardner along with several detachments and sergeants reflecting a broad regional participation.
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U.S. Army
Lawrence
89Th Division
Ft. Carson
Colo
89Th Regt
CST
Kansas City
Topeka
Manhattan
Junction City
Salina
Denver
North Lawrence
Reserve
Ft. Carson, Co
Paul F. Jones
Leavenworth
Floyd W. Hild
Kan
Co. E
James A. McConnell
Clarence W. Brown
George E. Weber
Bill B. Crow
Donald E. Woolery
Franklin M. Beaver
Andy Gray
Thomas Jimboy
Curtis R. McClinton
Paul L. Ray
Perry C. Riddle
Delmar L. Woolery
Milton Denlinger
Elmer Gray
Theodore C. Schmidt
DeSoto
Lawrence W. Stroup
Lynn A. Johnson
Gardner
Lyle V. Fyre
Clifton E. Deal
Alfred Dietz
Paul D. Smith
John M. Drake
Tonganoxie
James N. Snyder Jr
David C. Loy
Kenneth A. Bryant
Eudora
Wayne E. Grisesel
David A. Wrooke
William F. Kane
Robert J. Dale
Richard E. Hummelgaard
Walter G. Kampschroeder Jr
Robert A
City pool split prompts state law integration debate
City officials weigh whether the public pool remains a public amenity or shifts to a private club status. If proven public, a state integration law would apply. health standards for private pools also receive attention. The commission also approved $88,000 in temporary notes for street and sewer projects including major street resurfacing and sewer construction in several neighborhoods.
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LPD
Charles Stough
Commission
Ninth Street
Tennessee
Mississippi
New York Street
Seventh
Ninth
19Th Street
Massachusetts
Barker
Rhode Island
Kentucky
Grandsview Heights
California Street
Four Day Music Clinic At KU Draws National Clinicians
In its second year the Midwestern Music Clinic at Kansas University nears a goal of 1,500 delegates. Prof. Russell L. Wiley says the new facilities at Murphy Hall and nearby buildings enable growth. A $150,000 industry display joins performances by Benar Heifetz and Henri Temianka with KU faculty and guest conductors.
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Kansas University
Russell L. Wiley
Prof. Wiley
Murphy Hall
Union
Wiley
Chicago
Hoch Auditorium
Benar Heifetz
Henri Temianka
Supervisors’ Clinic
University Theater
Clinic
Hoch
Lucien Caillier
University of Southern California
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Lloyd Plautsch
Southern Methodist University
Art Camp
Temianka
Heifetz
Fred Wilkins
Radio City Music Hall Orchestra
Dave Weber
New York Philharmonic
Fred Hemke
Marcel Mule
Byron Autry
Louis Stout
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Allen Ostrander
William Bell
Bill Hall
New Orleans Symphony Orchestra
Clayton H. Krehbiel
Gerald M. Carney
Five Hurt By Black Youths in Lincoln Park Incident
Police arrested four youths and wounded one after a group of five teens attacked pedestrians near Lincoln Park Chicago injuring two white men and two pregnant women and a 23 year old woman. The victims required hospital treatment.
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Chicago
Lincoln Park
Lake Michigan
Rdy Helmut
Helmut
Grauerholz Campaigns in Lawrence for Kansas Lieutenant Governor
Alvin Grauerholz of Coffeyville Republican candidate for lieutenant governor campaigned in Lawrence and attended a Republican coffee at Hotel Eldridge. He plans stops in Ottawa Garnett and Iola en route home and a Southwest Kansas tour ending in Liberal before Tuesday’s voting. He highlights unity and cooperation with a Republican governor and legislature.
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Alvin Grauerholz
Coffeyville
Kansas
Lawrence
Eldridge
Grauerholz
Ottawa
Garnett
Iola
Kansas University
Michigan University
Lawrence National Guard
State Park Authority
Recreation Council
Los Angeles
Docking
Nixon poised as Republican nominee amid convention windfall
Nixon urged Republicans to unite behind him with a bid for the presidency as he faced a nominating path toward November 8. Eisenhower delegated the spotlight to Nixon while Denver prepared for the convention and the civil rights plank drew praise from the VP.
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Lyndon
Jack
Nixon
Eisenhower
Chicago
Denver
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William Allen
Patricia Harrell
Ollie Zimmerman
Cleveland
Clifford Martin
George Mitchell II
Marlene Novotny
Clarence Winston
Haskell Gros
Bernard Miller
Myrtle Lewis
Robert Gilmore
Mitchell Gaylor
Joseph Glenn
Stouffer Place
George Frye
Jack Uhler
Marion Novotny
Toda
Journal- World
Rockefellers
Sheraton
Rumsey Funeral Home
Rav
Colorado Post
Negro Gang
Lawrence Memorial Co
East Wth
Wto
C. O
Andy” Anderson
Bob” Stewart
Alphas Wilson
Lawrence Office
West
W. S. McAlister, Baldwin
Don
Don Frandle, Perry
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