ICC Seeks to Ease Midwest Boxcar Shortage
The Inter Interstate Commerce Commission reports a boxcar shortage across the Midwest and West, hindering grain movement. Chairman Richard F. Mitchell cites a three week Western truck strike, high demand for boxcars on the West Coast for lumber, and CCC wheat in storage as key causes, with insufficient cars to meet demand.
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Inter- Interstate Commerce Commisation
Midwest
Richard F. Mitchell
Sen. Young
R-Ndiich
Young
Schel
ICC
Middle West
Far West
Congress
Mitchell
C Am Modity Credit Corp
KU First Preview Meet Sees About 100 Graduates Attend
About 100 high school graduates attended the University of Kansas first preview meet. They took placement tests and had conferences with school reps this morning and planning talks and physicals are scheduled for Tuesday. This is the program's second year with previews on July 11-12, July 25-26, and August 1-2. Boys housed in Carruth Hall and girls in Corbin Hall.
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K.U
Carruth Hall
Corbin Hall
Plane Halts at Salina For Smoke In Cabin
A TWA Chicago to Oakland flight made an unscheduled landing at Smoky Hill Air Force Base Salina last night after crew detected smoke in the cabin. All 55 passengers and crew remained safe, spending six hours in the Air Force base service club while another plane was brought from Kansas City to complete the trip. Cause of trouble not yet determined.
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Kas
Chicago-to- Oakland
Calif
TWA
Smoky Hill Air Force Base
Fhe
Afb Service Club
Kansas City
President Signs Pay Hike Action
President Eisenhower signed a bill raising pay for 1,073,262 federal employees by 71 percent, an average of about $325 annually. The measure completes a round of pay increases this session totaling about $14.4 billion, retroactive to March 1, with lump sum payments totaling about $110 million. The payroll now stands near $4.35 billion yearly, last raised in 1951.
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Washington
Eisenhower
U. S
Ahe
Civil Service
Polio cases in Kansas total 38 in 1954
The State Board of Health reports 38 polio cases in Kansas for 1954, down from 42 at the same point last year. Eight cases were reported in the past week with no indication any victims had received the Salk vaccine. Early NYC theatergoers used servants to hold seats due to unreserved seating.
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Topeka
Kansas
State Board of Health
Molotov Praises Chicago On Quick Second Look
Russian Foreign Minister Molotov, en route to a United Nations meeting, made a brief Chicago visit on the South Side and later toured the Museum of Science and Industry. He remarked Chicago is prettier by the lake and said the second visit looked very good, matching the first.
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Russia
Molotov
United Nations
San Francisco
South Side
U.N
Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
Patrick McGrady Jr
The
Sun-Times
McGrady
Car Radios Convertible Into Geiger Counters
Los Angeles. Frank C. Strebe of the atomic energy project at UCLA says car radios can be converted into Geiger counters for 30 dollars. The device would display radiation on a dashboard dial and emit audible clicks from the radio speaker. Strebe has assembled and tested a unit.
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Los Angeles
Frank C. Strebe
Atomic Energy Project
University of California
Strebe
iMan Admits Getting 4000 in Robberies
Denver detectives were told by parolee George C. Spaulding that he and Richard C. Hoffman extorted nearly $4,000 in holdups burglaries and frauds during a three month trip from Buffalo New York to Salt Lake City Utah. They staged holdups at Wichita and Kansas City among other places. Spaulding said they arrived in Denver in June and bought guns used in robberies in Omaha Council Bluffs Kansas City and Wis. He was paroled from an Indiana prison last December after serving one year of a 12 year sentence. Hoffman was arrested in Salt Lake City for investigation of robbery.
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Clifford Stanley
George C. Spaulding
Crawfordville
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Junket
Buffalo
Salt Lake City
Wichita
Kansas City
Spaulding
Hare
Richard C. Hoffman
Omaha
Neb
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Kansasity
Wisi Stanley
Hoffman
Robery
Indiana
Benson confirms report on language used in Ladejinsky case
Secretary of Agriculture Benson acknowledged remarks that his announcement of Wolf Ladejinsky's dismissal as agricultural attache in Tokyo used language that was probably too harsh. He agreed Hagerty attributed the comment, declined further talk, and noted the release cited security and technical grounds for Ladejinsky's removal despite his prior and later clearances.
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Benson
Wolf Ladejinsky
Tokyo
James C. Hagerty
Eisenhower
Ladejinsky
Cadejinsky
State Department
Foreign Operations Administration
Indochina
Desk Dilemma Sends Boy to Metal Shop
In Toledo Fulton School a seventh grader Stephen Vass could not remove a finger from a hole in his desk. Oil soap and grease failed. Police were called and the desk and boy were taken to a metal shop where metal shears freed him.
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Toledo
Ohio
Stephen Vass
Fulton
Tonganoxie Names Park After W J Heynen
The Tonganoxie Improvement Association votes to name the new park the William J. Heynen Park on Masonic Lodge land. Heynen, longtime resident and former president of the Tonganoxie Building and Loan, retires this year. Events support the park include a July 4 street dance and an ice cream social at the Reading Club. Citizens donate gifts, benches, rock, swings, and 125 hours of work toward park preparation.
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Wiliam
Tonganoxie Reading Club
Reading Club
Joe Sheriff
Elsie Hunter
Elmer DeLude
Tonganoxie
German laborer detonates house killing family then himself
Wiesbaden police say 31 year old Adolf Hartlieb a German laborer threatened to destroy his home if forced to move for nonpayment of rent. He carried out the threat blowing up the house with homemade explosives, killing his estranged wife their two young daughters and himself.
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Wiesbaden
Germany
Adolf Hartlieb
Senators Predict Debt Limit Bill Will Pass
Senators Byrd and Millikin forecast quick Senate approval of a six billion dollar temporary debt limit expansion after the House cleared the measure 226 to 56. Byrd heads the Finance Committee and would prefer a slightly lower ceiling, while Millikin expects the Senate panel to approve the House version with no major changes.
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Washington
Byrd
D-Va
Millikin
R-Cole
Senate
House
Senate Finance Committee
Aittle
Queen and Duke Return From Norway Visit
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh returned to Britain after a three day state visit to Norway. Thousands braved light rain to greet the royal couple along the River Tay as Britannia steered through a harbor of small boats.
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Scotland
Elizabeth II
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Britannia
Judge Rules Cedarhurst Flight Restriction Unconstitutional
A federal judge in New York ruled that Nassau County Cedarhurst’s 1000 foot minimum altitude rule near Idlewild Airport is unconstitutional. The ruling, by U S District Judge Walter Bruchhausen in Brooklyn, involved 10 airlines and related groups challenging the village ordinance. The decision pins down that border communities cannot ban low flying as planes approach or depart the airport.
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10 Airlines
Nassau County
Cedarhurst
Idlewild
Long Island
U.S. Dist
Walter Bruchhausen
Brooklyn
K U student injured in car truck collision
A KU summer session student, Marion E. Ketterman, 30, is hospitalized at Providence Hospital Kansas City with injuries from a Sunday car truck crash. Police report describe the collision occurring near the campus area.
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K.U
Marion E. Ketterman
Providence Hospital
Kansas City
RAF Jet Claims Mark On Ottawa London Run
The Royal Air Force set a jet record for the 3,330 mile Ottawa to London flight. A Canberra bomber arrived at West Malling Airport near London hours and 48 minutes after departing Ottawa yesterday marking a historic air record.
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Ottawa-London
London
Royal Air Force
Ottawa
West Malling
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