KU Sophomore Builds Own Car For Learning Experience
Kansas University student Paul Van Valkenburgh returns to campus with a home made 1923 roadster built from Ford Model T and A parts plus a 1954 Buick engine. The Topekan spent three years assembling it while planning a future in automotive engineering. The street car weighs 2000 pounds, is not built for racing, and cost about 1300 dollars.
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Paul van Valkenburgh
Topeka
Journal- World
Will Hess
van Valkenburgh
Topekan
Cuban Delegation Awaits Tractors for Freedom Decision
A 10 member Cuban prisoner delegation waited in Key West for the disbanded Tractors for Freedom Committee to decide whether to reform and resume negotiations. John Hooker Jr. reported possible action today or Thursday, while committee members and Eisenhower had unclear contact. The prisoners feared misinterpretation if a statement was issued.
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Key West
Fla
Cuba
Tractors For Freedom Committee
John Hooker Jr
Hooker
Eleanor Roosevelt
Milton Eisenhower
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers
Eisenhower
Frank Winn
Detroit
Reuther
Judge Rules for Dog in Mailman Bite Case
A St Louis city judge found that a trained watch dog was a victim of its training and environment and could not be destroyed for biting a mailman. The postman had charged the owner with harboring a vicious dog after being bitten on the right leg. The ordinance allowed destruction, but the ruling protected the dog.
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ST. Louis
Brown Aligns With GOP On Civil Rights Measure
Honolulu AP report says California Governor Edmund Brown backs a Republican bid to force a governors conference action on racial discrimination. Brown plans to vote in the resolutions committee to advance a 15 governor plan for affirmative action. Oregon Governor Hatfield says Brown’s vote plus four Republicans could push the measure forward.
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Honolulu
California
Edmund G. Brown
Brown
Mark QO. Hatfield
Oregon
Easter Seal Fund Supports KU Rehabilitation Research
The Easter Seal Research Fund awards a half-time grant to Dr Beatrice Wright of the KU Psychology Department for rehabilitation studies. Dr Wright, author of a 1960 book, will begin the project in September partly at the Children’s Rehabilitation Unit KU Medical Center Kansas City.
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Kansas University
Franklin C. Shantz
Beatrice Wright
KU Medical Center
Kansas City
Wright
M. Erik Wright
Western Australia University
Perth
Kansas University Senior Wins Fox Vitet Drug Scholarship
Galen Z Morris of Silver Lake will be senior in the Kansas University Pharmacy School this fall he has been awarded a 125 dollar Fox Vitet Drug Co Scholarship one of two awards established through cooperation with Wayne Dixon vice president and general manager of the Wichita firm.
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Galen Z. Morris
Silver Lake
Kansas University
Fox- Vitet Drug Co
Wayne Dixon
Wichita
Californian Appears Set To Head GOP Committee
Bob Wilson from California, 45, looks like the leading choice to become chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee. The post opened after William E. Miller was moved to lead the GOP National Committee. Wilson, in his fifth House term, reportedly has sufficient votes, though no firm agreement exists among party factions.
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Washington
Bob Wilson
Republican Congressional Committee
Rep
William E. Miller
New York
Wilson
House
Cow Sets Off Alarm at Deerfield Pasture
A cow scratched its neck on a pole topped with an alarm button, triggering an alarm in Deerfield Massachusetts. No fire was detected as residents and responders rushed to the scene at Gordon Ainsworth's pasture.
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Deerfield
Mass
Gordon Ainsworth
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