Sunflower War Dads Purchase Cigarettes for Overseas Troops
The Sunflower War Dads chapter approved a $1,000 purchase of 40 cases of cigarets for troops overseas at a Tuesday board meeting. Seventeen cases go to General MacArthur’s Pacific forces, eleven to Eisenhower’s Atlantic forces, five to the Pacific Attar area, five to the Indian area, and two to ships U S S Tangier and U S S Lexington plus U S S Jackson. Additional gifts include funds for Salvation Army facilities, floor linoleum for a Service Men’s club, a movable band stand project, stationery for Gardner naval base, and radios for Olathe naval air base and related facilities.
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Sunflower Ordnance. Works Chapter
American War Dads
War Dads
Tobacco Company
War Department
Douglas. MacArthur
Pacific
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Atlantic
U.S.S. Tangier
U.S.S. Lexington
U.S.S. Jackson
Salvation Army
Walnut Street
Kansas City
Service Men's Club
Persian Road
Service Men’s Center
Security National Bank
Seventh
Minnesota Streets
Kan
Junior Hostess League of
Nadine Brown
Hercules Acid
Gardner Naval Base
Olathe Naval Air Base
Hospital Bay
Bridge Worker Drowns Near Paxico During Flood
Paxico Kan June 11 Flooding Mill Creek receded after a record crest. Rock Island bridge worker George Sennett of Eldon Mo slipped into the swollen stream and drowned during repairs. his body recovered last night. The flood peaked about one foot above the 1935 high, washing out a steel highway bridge on K-10 and forcing evacuations of several homes.
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Paxico
Kan
Mill Creek
George Sennett
Eldon
Rock Island Railway
Duly Called Cellist Replaced by Weicher and Reuter Duo
Dudley Powers’ call to military service frees the opening summer concert. John Weicher and Rudolph Reuter replace the trio with a Violin and Piano program featuring Franck’s Sonata in A minor and solo works by Chopin Bach Liszt. Reuter’s virtuosity praised as dazzling and sensational. Tickets $1 at the School of Fine Arts. Fraser theater seating. University students with activity ticket admitted.
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Fine Arts Office
Dudley Powers
John Weicher
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rudolph Reuter
Cesar Franck
Reuter
Chopin
Bach
Liszt
Anton Rubinstein
Lawrence
Weicher
Sarasate
Paganini
Smetana
Grasse
Chicago
School of Fine Arts
Fraser Theater
OPA proposes department to gather mileage and conservation data
Davis outlined plans to supplement existing programs with OPA activities while not altering current measures. He noted visits to Topeka sites and questioned why seven officers were needed for the administrator request. A dessert luncheon, Flag Day, and a DAR meeting followed by a birth announcement at Memorial Hospital rounded out the item set.
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OPA
Davis
Topeka
ODT
State Defense Council
Schoeppel
Kansas
Mrs Harrison Hosts Thursday Whist Club Luncheon
Society notes say Mrs J R Harrison entertained the Thursday whist club at luncheon and cards yesterday at her home 741 Tennessee Street. Mrs C J Topping was hostess.
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J. R. Harrison
Tennessee Street
Local Personal Notes The Week’s Quick Updates
Mrs Ralph Baldwin departs tomorrow for Boulder Colorado for the summer. Mr and Mrs John J Henry of Philadelphia visit Kansas City then plan to return to Lawrence. Claude Gee arrives from Pittsburgh to stay with his mother Mrs Frank Gee. Mrs Harold Longenecker and Miss Louise Longenecker return from Fort Worth Texas. Mary stays in Joplin visiting friends and will return to Lawrence. Miss Jimmie Carroll has re-
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Ralph Baldwin
Boulder
Colo
John J. Henry
Philadelphia
J. B. Henry
Kansas City
Lawrence
Claude Gee
Pittsburgh
Frank Gee
Harold Longenecker
Louise Longenecker
Major Longenecker
Fort Worth
Tex
Mary
Joplin
Jimmie Carroll
L. H. Houston
Cora Sams
Herbert Hunter
Topeka
Jeanette MacDonald
C.E. Friend
Hiawatha
E. J. Bowen
Regional Social Roundup of Local Travelers and Visits
Various residents return from trips and visits across the region. Names include Miss Mary Lou Casey from Fort Smith to Camp Chaffee, Miss Peggy Sanderson from Bristol to Sul lins College, and Mrs. Harry Naramore visiting Los Angeles. other trips go to San Antonio, San Diego, Topeka, St. Joseph, Joliet, and Lawrence with family gatherings, reunions, or duty assignments noted.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Camp Chaffee
Mary Lou Casey
San Antonio
Tex
Pvt
Frank Casey
Fort Sam Houston
Peggy Sanderson
Bristol
Sullins College
Harry Naramore
Los Angeles
Calif
Betty Jane Moore
San Diego
J. A. Spayer
OPA Official Urges Statewide Mileage Conservation Administrator
C District OPA Director H O Davis praised the Kansas highway department and state units for strong mileage conservation work and urged appointing a statewide administrator to coordinate gasoline and rubber savings with county and city governments after meeting Gov. Andrew Schoeppel in Topeka.
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Wichita
Kan
OPA
H. O. Davis
Kansas Highway Department
Davis
Andrew Schoeppel
Topeka
Schoeppel
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Journal-World
Quentin Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Staten Island
N. Y
Maj
Kermit Roosevelt
Alaska
Quentin
Nik-O-Lettes
Bridge
Betty Washington
D.A.R
Ida Lyons
J. T. Meredith
West Fourth Street
Memorial Hospital
C. J. Topping
Dad
Joliet
Ill
Edwin
Alice Williams
Security Benefit Association
J. B. Carter
Wilson
W. T. Courtney
W. F. Shaw
Shawnee Mission
Kansas United States
Daughters of 1812
Witin
Connies
Paris
Haynes & Keene
LE Pru Hes
Suerch-Williams
Saerwin-Waliams
Sxerwm
WiIlLiamMs
Mar-Not
Mass
Pieri
Battle OF Transportation
Phillips 66
U.S
Uncle Sam
Montgomery Ward
Montgom
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