Bids on Kansas road projects top 1.1 million dollars
State highway department opened bids totaling about 1.1 million dollars for road work in several counties. Apparent low bidders include M W Watson Construction Co For Osage County 275 564 dollars and J A Tobin Construction Co For Johnson County 349 970 dollars. Other jobs cover U S 69 near Merriam U S 40 Maple Hill Paxico and more with various bidders.
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Kansas City
Kas
Elight
State Highway Department
Highway Commission
Topeka
Osage County
Lyndon
Merriam
J. A. Tobin Construction Co
Brookside Drive
Union Construc‘Hon’ Co
Lenexa
Dan Scherrer*Construction Co
Wahaunsee County
U.S. 40
Maple Hill
Paxico
Ross Construction Co
Des Moines
Tin Nursery
Osage City
Marshall County
Blue Rapids
Marysville
W. H. Bennett Construction Co
Tole Landscape Service
Independence
Nemaha County
Seneca
Heide Construction Co
Smith Center
Harry H.lambers
Hiawatha
Leavenworth
N. R. Hamm
Perry
Lyon County
Brown County
Grandeman Construction Co
Holton
Blue River
Insect Control Session Scheduled for March 11
County Agent Deal Six moved the meeting on farm insects and plant diseases from the 4H Fair Grounds to the Community Building. Dell E Gates Kansas State Extension Manhattan will report insect surveys and control measures. Claude King discusses resistant varieties and fungicides. Grasshopper and army worm outbreaks last season damaged many fields.
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Deal Six
Fairgrounds
Dell E. Gates
Kansas State Extension
Manhattan
Wil
Claude King
House defeats revival of county option liquor bill
TOPEKA The House defeated a bid to revive the county option bill that would let counties vote on liquor stores instead of cities. Rep John Bower sought a roll call, but failed to gain two votes. The body then voted to stand as a motion failed, and Rep John Madden argued reviving it would undermine the Legislature's committee system.
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Topeka. i
House
State Affairs Committee
John Bower
Sgt Olson Sentenced to Two Years for aiding captors in Korea
Sgt William H Olson, 40, convicted by a court martial on three of seven specifications for aiding the enemy while a POW in Korea. He received two years confinement at hard labor and a dishonorable discharge. He was found guilty of making an anti American speech praising enemy POW treatment and writing pro Communist articles for the prison camp newspaper. The sentencing followed his conviction.
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FT. Bragg
N.C
William H. Olson
Korea
Johoj Paseo Osse Soung
Olson
City in legal test over Kansas damages principle
Lawrence faces a Kansas Supreme Court test on municipal liability as city officials seek to dismiss a $25,000 damage suit by Mrs. Frank Whitcomb stemming from a collision with a police car. A prior case by A A Perkins challenges the long-standing rule that cities cannot be sued for governmental functions.
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Lawrence
Kansas Supreme Court
Charles Stough
City Commission
Frank Whitcomb
N. Y. St
Whitcomb
Earl Harris
Harris
14Th and
Ky. Sts
Stough
Supreme Court
A. A. Perkins
7Th and
N. H. Sts
Parker Standard Oil
Perkins
Floyd Coffman
Kansas Court
Pravda challenges Churchill on nuclear supremacy claim
Pravda reports today that the Soviet publication disputes Prime Minister Churchill's assertion of U.S. nuclear weapons superiority and warns Britain against continuing to host American weapons.
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Moscow
Pravda
Churchi
U.S
Brittain
Nuclear fears and political rhetoric highlight wartime press
An incomplete clipping shows a Commons speech on nuclear weapons and a Communist party newspaper blasting Churchill as an atomic threat. The fragment mentions a House self and H-bomb targets, indicating heightened wartime anxiety and political contention.
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of Commons
Communist Party
Churchill
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Kaneas’ Largest Savings Association
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Aan
Ee Centraky
Rynel
Tooke
Monte
Nero-Rose
Feo
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