Harris Quits as Democratic Leader Triggers Party Tension
Top Democrats express confusion over Harris resignation from the state chairmanship amid talks of a shift toward a "chosen few" at the top. Montgomery and Theis note uncertainty and loyalty to the party structure as Harris cites long building issues and resists public debate.
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John Montgomery
Lecrney Docking
Frank Theis
U.S
Montgomin
Know Why
Democratic Women’s Club
Rainy weekend forecast hits Lawrence with fifth straight wet spell
The State Weather Bureau predicts thunderstorms tonight and Saturday in Lawrence marking another rainy weekend. Cloudy skies persist with a 78 degree afternoon temperature at 2 pm, the sixth consecutive wet weekend not seen since May 1915.
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State Weather Bureau
Lawrence
Bomb Attack On Venezuelan Chief Fails
An explosion during an army day parade injured four, including Betancourt aides and his wife. Betancourt survived as authorities claimed control with armed forces and coalition party leaders backing the government.
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Peces
Betancourt
FTN
Cure
Eneies
Enezuela
Dominican Republic
Dubuc
Democracy
Fortuna
Lopez Henriquez
Rose clearance dominates New York nursery ads
New York markets closed with a 224.2 average and a 0.4 rise. Advertisements promote Rose Clearance at Metrecar and Raney Drugs. Blair's Landscapes Nursery offers 3 to 40 percent off all potted roses as part of a seasonal sale.
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Blair's Landscapes Nursery
City KP and L's building sale to Lawrence investors announced
The Kansas Power and Light Co building at 700 Mass in Lawrence will transfer to a local investor group led by R. B. Oyler with a four-man local stake. The sale price matches its original $75 000 cost, with KP & L leasing back space and planning occupancy on upper floors, while third floor to be rented. The deal, announced by KP & L president Balfour S. Jeffrey, targets late this year for title transfer.
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Kansas Power and Light Co
Mass. St
Lawrence
Balfour S. Jeffrey
Topeka
KP & L
Jeffrey
The
Journal-World
KP Eea
R. B. Oyler
Oyler
Perkins Loan and Trust Co
Citizens State Bank
C. B. Holmes
Kansas Electric Power Co
American Legion
Weather snapshot from cities across the nation
The report lists daily conditions and temperatures for cities including Albuquerque Denver Los Angeles New York Omaha St Paul Portland Seattle and Seattle. Readings show clear and cloudy skies with high temperatures ranging from the mid sixties to the low hundreds and lows from the forties to the sixties.
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Albuquerque
Denver
Los
St. Paul
New York
Omaha
Portland
Ore
Seattle
Herter criticizes Khrushchev over successor remarks
Secretary of State Christian Herter denounced Premier Khrushchev for meddling in U.S. politics by commenting on Eisenhower’s successor. He refused to discuss whether Nixon or another candidate would alter U.S.-Soviet relations. Herter, 65, said he plans to leave office after the Eisenhower administration. He noted Japan’s West alignment amid political turmoil and hinted at new Cuba evidence to the Interamerican Peace Committee in August.
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Christian A. Herter
Nikita Khrushchev
Eisenhower
White House
Khrushchev
U.S
United States
Herter
Japan
West
Nixon
Castro
Cuba
Interamerican Peace Committee
Fidel Castro
Caribbean
NATO
LMH Introduces Six Pack Baby Formula Service
Lawrence Memorial Hospital begins a new home care program giving first day mothers a ready to heat six ounce bottle pack of sterilized baby formula. The service includes bottles with nipples rings and caps costing 1.50 and is aimed to ease the first day home feeding for new mothers and dads.
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Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Rodger Johnson
Hallmark
Johnson
Robert Lee Barber
18Th St
Michael Robert
LMH
Lois Smith
Ings
Helena Stahl
Barber
Journal-World
Too Tight a Turn Blamed for Crash of Erhart Craft
Wayne Harper escaped serious injury when his Erhart Flying Service Aeronca Champ crashed in a field about 214 miles south of K-10 on Haskell Road. Alfred Seele Jr. witnessed the wreck near his Route 2 home after Harper had completed a wheat field spraye against Bill Rice’s property. Neighbors assisted and an ambulance was summoned.
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Wayne Harper
Lawrence
Harper
Dale Chappell
Earl O'Brien
Journal-World
Haskell Road
Erhart Flying Service
Bill Rice
Alfred Seele Jr
Route 2
Seele
Sara Rodewald Wins Second District Dairy Princess
Sara Rodewald 19 of Eudora was chosen as Douglas Miami Franklin Johnson Leavenworth Counties Second District Dairy Princess at Ottawa. She will compete in September for the Kansas State Dairy Princess title at Hutchinson State Fair. Her alternate is Karen Averill of Wellsville.
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Sara Rodewald
Douglas County
Ottawa
Douglas
Miami
Franklin
Johnson
Leavenworth
Miss Rodewald
Mary Rodewald
Eudora
Karen Lynne Averill
Maurice Averill
Wellsville
Franklin County
Ellen Cowles
Ernest Cowles
Paola
Miami County
Jane Lee Gordon
Harold Gordon
Olathe
Johnson County
Karen Kay Toedter
Edward Toedter
Easton
Rodewald
Sandra Warner
Arlington
Hutchinson
Vacation Pak service guides local happenings
A brief notice describes a service labeled Vacation Pak offering readers a way to receive all local happenings during their vacation. The ad suggests asking your carrier for more details about this program.
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Adv
Ike Nixon Talks May Show Worry On Demo Attacks
President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon spoke by telephone from Hawaii amid Democratic criticism of administration foreign policy and the Japan visit collapse. The talk covered the Far Eastern tour, the Japan trip cancellation, and Eisenhower's Monday night TV address from Washington. Nixon faces opposition attacks as the Republican presidential nominee.
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Ike Nixon
Honolulu
Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Hawaii
Nixon
Washington
Japan
Tokyo
White
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Senate
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Docking Ignoring Law Allegations Rally Report
Atty. Gen. John Anderson charged Gov. Docking with ignoring the law at a campaign meeting. Anderson, seeking the Republican nomination, linked the Coffeyville Loan and Investment Co. collapse to political charges and said the governor shuns legal advice. He accused state Democrats of concentrating power among a few favored figures.
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Anderson
Democratic Party
Ruby Ki Ro
Ing Tun
Cost of Living Rises to New May Record
The Labor Department reports May CPI at 136.3 versus the 1947-49 base, a one tenth of a percent gain and a record for the third straight month. Higher food costs drive the rise, triggering cost of living pay boosts for about 200,000 workers in aircraft, meatpacking, chemical, trucking and metal trades, typically one to two cents an hour. Despite higher prices, a factory worker’s take home pay after taxes edged up, with dependents earning $80.91 and single workers $73.36 weekly.
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Washington
Labor Department
Overbrook Faces Fire Department Upgrade to Avoid Insurance Hike
Kansas inspector C N Clanton warns Overbrook must expand its fire department and install automatically controlled pumps to prevent a 20 percent surge in fire insurance rates. Shortage of trained firefighters and low water levels in the tower are cited, with a plan for reorganizing the department and training.
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Overbrook
R. E. Tutcher
C. N. Clanton
Kansas Inspection Bureau of
Topeka
Clanton
Elk Township
Friesen
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