Plans for city water expansion face private tract hurdle
City officials consider bearing the full cost of expanding water facilities to a private tract owned by Warren Zimmerman or under option to the Kansas Color Press. Industrial interests argue opposition to city funding without private ownership, citing potential higher insurance rates and profit motive. Delegations from the city, Chamber of Commerce, and the core corporation attended the discussion, naming representatives including Warren Decker, Dewain Lmen, Russell Decker, Roy Andersen, Jaos Hager, and others.
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Inndestrial
Warren Zimmerman Ano
The
Kansas Color Press
Warren Decker
Dewaneilmen Russe
Decker
Roy Andersen
Chamber of Commerce
Coreporation
Wonter, Zook
Simeon Hedectr
George Lawrence
Reenard Warber
Thas Stockton
Emory Scott
Tivui Husted
Sandpaper Benches Become Focus of Denver Prep
In July the finals of a regional competition lingered as workers sanded benches in Denver near Deer Creek Caron. Local nudists and campers faced damaged seating while Rural Electric workers labored stringing lines as foremen complained of distracted crews and injured fingers.
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Denver
Deer Creek
Caron
Kansas Governor Describes 1949 Leg Program Challenge
Wichita July 29 19 Guy Frank Carlson said Kansas faces a great self challenge from the 1949 legislature to lead government for citizens. He cited a vast long range forward looking program spanning schools welfare highways health safety civil rights and state finance funded by wartime money and indirect taxes easing property tax burdens as needed. He will address the state convention of World War II veterans in Wichita tonight.
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Wichita
Guy
Frank Carlson
Kansas
Kiwanis Club
Kgmess
Escapes From State Prison Lansing Kan
Gordon Gaede, 27, an inmate confined from Wyandotte County, escaped yesterday from the Kansan state penitentiary near Lansing. He was serving a sentence of one to seven years for cattle rustling and was working at the prison farm. Officers reported a pursuit near Wyandotte County Lake as Gaede fled into the weeds, with search continuing late last night.
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Lansing
Kan
Gordon Gaede
Corvert
Reoks County
Othe Kansan State
Gaede
Wyandotte County
Kansa
Memorial Hospital births and injuries reported
At Memorial Hospital Dwight Regnier 217 Mississippi Elbert Tuttle 1140 Rhodeshind Mrs Esther Cross Sunflower Dr COOL Crawford Overbrook Mrs Gwen Poeverlein Route 5 Mrs Mary Stewart Sunflower Mrs Nellie Allan 1321 Tennessee Mrs Mary Hammer and baby girl 425 Alabama Mr and Mrs Neale Shaw 1245 New York a girl yesterday Mr and Mrs Ralph Cross Sun a girl yesterday Otis Hall Oklahoma City Okla suffered lacerations of the scalp in se from a horse Weir six year old son of Weir 1817 Tennessee cut on a tin can while playing Jerrison 333 Arkansas decorated both arms while rolling op steel reinforcement matting for at the site of the new ig Color Press building on way 10
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Dwight Regnier
Elbert Tuttle
Esther Cross
Sunflower
Cool Crawford
Overbrook
Gwen Poeverlein
Otis Hall
Oklahoma City
Okla
Weir
Tennessee
Jerrison
Arkansas
Ig Color Press
Lawrence bank building roof line sparks talk in town
Lawrence residents note the first story ceiling sits a foot below window tops to ease heating. varnished venetian blinds will hide the face board once finished. Bank hopes to move in around September 1 as Riley Burcham shows a new $3 bill bearing Georgia Neese Clarke’s signature.
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Lawrence National Bank
Riley Burcham
Burcham
Georgia Neese Clarke
Richland
U. S
Finder is Keeper finds £1794 at hospital, girl awarded money
In Topeka 1945 the hospital room drawer held £1794 found by Cecilia Blodgett then 19. After a year of search and a contested claim by the estate of Joseph Schmitz, Judge McElhenny awarded the money to Blodgett as finder. Also listed are marriage licenses issued to Kenneth Edmonds and Oska Joona and to Leora Cooper and…
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Topeka
Kan
Cecilia Blodgett
Michael Blodgett
Joseph Schmitz
Blodgett
Seboudt
Dean McElhenny
Schmitz
Prebate Court
Kenneth W. Edmonds
Oska Joona
Leora Dane Cooper
Lawrence
Deaths and Funerals in Kansas and Texas
Ira El Love, 6, born and raised near Lawrence, died after a hospital stay in Amarillo Texas. Funeral services and burial occurred in Dalhart Texas where he had lived 26 years. survived by mother Mandy E Love and nine brothers and three sisters. Mary Souders Grant, 57, of Lawrence died at home. rosary tonight, funeral Saturday at St John's in Lawrence, burial Sacred Heart Cemetery in Tonganoxie. survived by husband Thomas, three daughters Katharine Johnson Ruth Hess Ruby Chance, two sons John Souders and others, four Hill brothers of Lawrence.
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Ira EL Bays
Lawrence
Amiuvule
Tex
Dalhart
Mr. Love
Mandy E. Love
Raymond
Alonzo
Ralph
Logan, N. M
Gurney
Clarence
Hudson, N. M
Mary Souders Grant
West Fourth Street
Rumsey
St. John's Catholic Church
George Towle
Sacred Heart Cemetery
Tonganoxie
Grant
Thomas Grant
Katherine Johnson
Ruth Hess
Ruby Chance
Kansas City
John Souders
Florence
Oders
Ormund L. Grant
Toka
Leona Domman
Ekajonsa
Willian J. Hill
C. E. Hill
L. J. Hill
B. J. Hill
KU student killed in private plane crash near Grandview
Kansas City July 29 six men killed in crash of a private airplane half a mile southwest of Grandview Missouri Morris F Becker 20 Shawnee Kan and Herbert Joe Vogel 21 Kansas City were the two University of Kansas students both unmarried Becker home for summer vacation. The plane took off from Kansas City Municipal airport at 1115 p.m. radio contact lost later the wreckage found this morning by farmer Robert Walton near the scene. Two sheriff planes reported seeing the wreckage from the air. The craft struck ground 100 yards south of the Jackson Cass county line in Cass county. The Kansas City Aviation Association was listed as owner of the aircraft by the CAA.
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Kansas City
Grandview
Morris F. Becker
Shawnee
Kan
Herbert Joe Vogel
Becker
University of Kansas
Robert Walton
Jackson County
Jackson- Cass County
Cass County
Kansas City Aviation Association
Lsted
CAA
Modernized parity formula eyed in farm bill talks
Washington senators reached a compromise on the farm bill proposing a modernized parity price formula. Sen Anderson noted near unanimous support, with the new method using a recent 10 year period to set parity values. The plan would raise protein food supports and slightly lower grain and cotton supports, with discussion centering on implications for government loans and purchases.
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Washington
Anderson
D.-N.m.d
Senate Agriculture
Aiken
R.-Vt
Hickenlooper
Iowa
Agriculture Department
Brannan
Republican National Committee
Sioux City
Des Moines
Mother Dies of Polio in Salina Civil Hospital
A Salina hospital delivered a baby by Caesarian section 30 minutes after the mother, Mrs Don Allen, 20, Lebanon Kan died of bulbar poliomyelitis at about 9 10 p m A son weighing five pounds ten ounces was born at 10 10 p m and is reported in good condition The mother is survived by her husband another son and her parents Mr and Mrs Ralph Rorabaugh of Lebanon The death toll from polio in Salina this summer reached six including three locals and three out of town patients.
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Salina
Kan
Don Allen
Lebanon
Allen
Ralph Rorabaugh
Sedgman Wins First Davis Cup Match in Delicate Five-Set Thriller
Frank Sedgman, 22 year old freshman on the Australian Davis Cup squad, defeated Armando Vega of Mexico in the opening set 12-10 in Wilmington. The match lasted 1 hour 20 minutes under a broiling sun with temperatures in the high 90s. Vega's brother Armando Vega was to meet John Bromwich in the day’s second match as Australia was favored to win.
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Wilmington
Del
Frank Sedgman
Armando Vega
Mexico
Armando
Vega
John Bromwich
Australia
Personal notes from Lawrence farm meeting and visitors
Don Evans news editor of the Weekly Kansas City Star and former Journal World reporter attended an afternoon farm meeting in the Chamber of Commerce rooms in Lawrence. Richard Caulk of Omaha, former pupil at Pinckney school, arrived last night to visit his grandmother Mrs. B. B. Hill at 814 Alabama street for a week or two.
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Don Evans
Kansas City Star
Journal World
Lawrence
Chamber of Commerce
Richard Caulk
Omaha
Pinckney School
B. B. Hill
Alabama Street
Card of Thanks Note for Family Loss
We thank friends and relatives for calls letters gifts and assistance during the final illness and death of our wife and mother. Frank Sellers Roy Sellers James Sellers Ida Bailey Jessie Warren Betty Sewell Nora Nore rias Minnie Chinn Adv.
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Frank Sellers
Roy Sellers
James Sellers
Ida Bailey
Jessie Warren
Betty Sewell
Nora Nore Rias
Minnie Chinn
Adv
Bound Over to Court in Kansas City Forgery Case
Gerald Maurice Jey aged 19 of Kansas City was bound over to the November term of district court after waiving preliminary hearing on a felony forgery charge. He was committed to county jail in default of 2500 bond after being picked up by Kansas City police and returned to Lawrence. The complaint alleges he forged and passed a $20 check using the name of Harry Wertz of Route 1 Eudora.
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Gerald Maurice Jey
Kansas City
Frank Gray
Joy
Lawrence
Will Johns
Travis Glass
Harry Wertz
Eudora
30 Reports Lose of $200 Coffeyville Kan
A Coffeyville resident, W. A. Souder, reported losing about $200 yesterday after his money was taken from a billfold left in overalls hanging on a door while he went to bathe. Police were informed.
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Coffeyville Kan
W. A. Souder
Souder
Man Fined Three Dollars For Loose Dog Charge
William W Copp of 1211 Rhode Island Street faced police court today charged with allowing a dog to run loose and refusing to pay dog pound charges. Judge Wayne Aliphin sentenced Copp to a $3 fine.
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William W. Copp
Rhode Island Street
Wayne Aliphin
Market News: Stocks and grains drift in July
Market notes from New York and Kansas City describe mixed activity. Bonds steady, cotton quiet yet liquidation offsets, oats and corn firm, hogs higher, butter prices steady, and wheat with modest gains. Livestock receipts and prices show cautious trading. prairie hay demand remains dull with some steady alfalfa.
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New York
Ohio
Kansas City Hay Market
Kansas City
Prairie
Kansas Wheat Prices and Market Movements Noted
Grain prices in Kansas City show mixed moves with No 2 hard red winter and No 3 dark northern futures quoted around $2.07 to $2.14. Reports include arrivals and shipments data, with prices largely steady to slightly firm amid general market activity in U S grains.
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Kansas
Cash
Kansas City
Bethlehem Steel Earnings Do Not Move Market Trend
Bethlehem Steel's first half earnings report, released after the close, had little impact on price direction, mirroring similar reactions to U S Steel and General Motors earlier in the week. Other steel-makers and major groups showed mixed movement as investors weighed the carnivore-tinged market cautions and related industry reports.
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Bethlehem Steel
U. S. Steel
General Motors
Montevimery
American Smelting
Dew Chemical
Johns-Manville
Santa Fe Atlantic Coast Line
Central Ad
New Jereer
Standard Gilln J. International Silver
Spowr Carnines
In Memoriam for Galen Day
In loving memory of our son and brother Galen Day who left us four years ago on July 28 1045. Despite heartache and tears his cheerful ways and memory live on. He was kindly to all and beloved by family and friends. We miss him as time fades life departs and remember him forever in our hearts.
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Galen Day
Secretaries Needed Train Young People for Key Roles
Business and professional men esteem the young men and women who serve as secretaries. Without secretaries business would revert to horse and buggy days. We train young people for these important positions.
Zinc concentrates rise on regional market in July surge
In Miami Oklahoma on July 29 7 zinc concentrate prices advanced 84 per ton to reach 57 per ton on the Kansas Oklahoma Missouri field market after a prior uplift in East St Louis Illinois. In Coffeyville Kansas infantile paralysis chairman E C Gore reported two children Garry Atkin five of Havana and Delores Pascaver nine of Independence were hospitalized in Wichita ill with polio.
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Miami
Okla
East St. Louis
Coffeyville
Kan
E. C. Gore
Montgomery County
Garry Atkinson
Havana
Delores Pascaver
Independence
Wichita
Starlings Spark Farce in Crown Point Night Fireworks
In Crown Point Indiana residents celebrate with sky rockets candles and firecrackers chasing starlings from trees. Rone ommitted to County Jail pleaded guilty to a dry charge in police court and was committed to the county jail in default of a 15 dollar fine.
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Crown Point
Ind
Rone
Wilter Co. Gfellow
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