Kansan to Oversee Olympic Cooks for Melbourne Games
Norman Carlyon, head of the Olympic Touring Committee, travels to interview and select 130 to 160 cooks from dietetic regions worldwide to feed 69 nations at Melbourne from November 22 to December 8. Cooks are to be immigrants with possible permanent Australian residence and jobs guaranteed after the Games.
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Dolfh Co
Simons JA
London Times
London
Melbourne
Velvh
Norman Carlyon
Carlyon
Savoy Hotel
Israel
Russia
Connisseur
Rome
Australia
Adlai Distorted Facts in Farm Blast
Republican chairman Leonard W Hall accused Adlai Stevenson of distorting farm policy facts in a campaign attack. Hall said Stevenson uses gloom tactics to win farmer support and cited Treasury and Labor data contradicting Stevenson’s claims of shrinking Minnesota deposits and job cuts at a Minneapolis farm equipment maker.
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Washington
Republican National
Leonard W Hall
Adlai Stevenson
Busenhower
Hall
Stevenson
GOP
Minnanta
Minnesota
Treasury “Department
Minnegota
Minneapolis
Labor Department
Demo Aspirant Sees Kansas Voter Switch
Burdett Kansas Martyn Kort seeking the Democratic nomination for U S Senator said Kansans can vote Democratic this year despite Eisenhower’s renomination. He cites farm price declines and rising living costs, noting Republicans may lose farmers and workers to Democrats next November. Kort planned talks at Marysville Leavenworth and Hiawatha this week.
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Burdett
Martyn Kort
U. S
Kansas
Eisenhower
Kansans
Kort
Marysville
Leavenworth
Hiawatha
County Extension Office Plans Tour to Exhibit Swine Quality Controls
Douglas County Extension Council sponsors a Swine Quality Program on March 21 inviting Jefferson and Douglas County farmers. The tour starts at 10 a.m. with a Duroc herd at Raymond Ice farm eight miles west of Lawrence, then visits Gerstenberger and Ott farms en route to the 4H Fairgrounds for 1:30 p.m. talks by Wendell Moyer and Dr. M. W. Osburn on swine management, market outlook, diseases, and parasite control.
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Jefferson
Douglas County
Douglas County Extension Council
Raymond Ice Farm
Lawrence
Lecompton Road
Carol Gerstenberger
M. W. Osburn
The
Greater University Fund Board Meets at Kansas University
The Greater University Fund advisory board will hold its spring meeting and elect officers on Saturday at Kansas University. About 35 of 48 members are expected to attend with Lawrence residents Mrs. M J Getto and Skipper Williams named among attendees. Robert B. Riss of Kansas City will preside. A tour of Watson Library and Malott Hall and viewing exhibits funded by private gifts will follow, highlighting research projects financed by the fund.
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Greater University Fund Advisory Board
Kansas University
Lawrence
M. J. Getto
Me. St
Skipper Williams
Robert B. Riss
Kansas City
Watson Library
Malott Hall
Lawrence library expands reading program and book hits
The Lawrence library reports 1,123 pupils joined the PTA summer reading program from about 2,700 elementary students. A book carnival starts Saturday with more than 200 new children's books on display. About 2,000 new books boosted youth services and total holdings reached roughly 47,000 volumes with 5,000 phonograph records circulated annually.
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Dren's
Parent Teachers Association
Fox
Lawrence
PTA
Deaths and Funerals Chester Schrader
Chester D. Schrader of Spartansburg died aged about 70. He served in the war, worked in textiles, and held posts with the American Legion Forty and Eight Elks and Masonic groups. Survived by wife Susan, three sons, a daughter, three grandchildren, and his brother Harry M. Schrader of Dodge City.
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Chester D. Schrader
Spartansburg
E. E. Schrader
Miss. St
Richard D. Schrader
Schrader
Stafford
American Legion
Elks
Susan Schrader
Harry M. Schrader
Dodge City
Poland's top Communist Bierut dies in Moscow
Soviet Russia declared in Moscow the death of Poland's top Communist Boleslaw Bierut from heart disease. He would have turned 4 April 12. The first secretary of the Polish United Worker Communist party died late Monday night. Meeting at Vinland: election of two directors at the Vinland Cemetery Association annual meeting set for Saturday evening at the Vinland Grange Hall. All members urged to attend.
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Moscow
Russia
Poland
Boleslaw Bierut
Polish United Worker Communist Party
Vinland
Vinland Cemetery Association
Vinland Grange Hall
Association
Former Wisconsin Dean To Speak in Green Hall
Oliver Rundell dean emeritus of Wisconsin University Law School and visiting professor at Kansas City University will lecture at 12 a.m. Wednesday in Green Theater at Kansas University on the role of fiction in the development of law. His specialty is property and he led Wisconsin Law School for eight years before retiring in 1953 after 43 years on the faculty.
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Oliver Rundell
Wisconsin University Law School
Kansas City University
Kansas University
Rundell
Wisconsin Law School
Rev Bramble Speaks at Kansas Aging Conference
Rev. A. F. Bramble of the First Methodist Church was one of the speakers at the sixth annual Kansas University Conference on Aging. About 40 people attended the opening session. Other program participants included Mrs. Loudell Frazier and Miss Dorothy Gebart of the State Department of Social Welfare Topeka Rev. Thomas Klink chaplain at Topeka State Hospital Joe W. Ostenberg superintendent of schools at Iola and Harold Lathrop district representative of the National Recreation Association.
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A. F. Bramble
First Methodist Church
Kansas University
Bramble
Loudell Frazier
Dorothy Gebart
State Department of Social Welfare
Topeka
Thomas Klink
Topeka State Hospital
Joe W. Ostenberg
Iola
Harold .Lathrop
National Recreation Association
Topekans Will Lecture In K U Hospital Course
Topeka speakers Dr Alfred P Bay and Miss Elizabeth Clark headline the final session of the Topeka State Hospital Orientation Course at the Memorial Union Building Kansas University. Bay speaks on The Economy of Mental Health and Clark on The Psychiatric Social Worker and Community Resources. About 70 attended each of the prior sessions. The course began February 23 and is sponsored by Topeka State Hospital and local church groups along with KU departments.
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Topeka State Hospital
Kansas University
Alfred P. Bay
Elizabeth Clark
Memorial Union
7 Bay
Clark
Lawrence Church
Sociology
Social Work
Igne and Counseling Bureau
Kansas Traffic Deaths Reported in State Records
The State Accident Records Section lists three traffic fatalities in the last 24 hours. To date in 1956 the tally reaches 111, with the same period of 1955 at 100, including two earlier fatalities not previously reported.
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Topeka
Kansas
NCAA Regional basketball set in Allen Fieldhouse
Lawrence reports ticket demand for Friday and Saturday NCAA Regional games at KU Allen Fieldhouse with 7 000 to 10 080 Friday and up to 12 000 Saturday. Kansas State College of the Big Seven to meet the Oklahoma City-Memphis State winner in Wichita and Missouri Valley winner to face SMU- Texas Tech winner. City Commission cancels meeting. officials attend code revision in Charlottesville. Union Legionnaire case puzzles Ernest Klooz as un signed check prompts note. Larry Mullins praises Journal World coverage of K State basketball visit. Mullins to depart for Marquette. Civil Service posts stenographer-typist test weekly through June 20 at Post Office. tests pay 224 285 dollars monthly.
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K.U
Allen Fieldhouse
Karl Falkenstien
Kansas State College
Big Seven
Memphis State
Wichita
Houston
Missouri Valley
Fonicht
Texas Tech
Larry (Moon) Mullins
Lawrence
Journal-World
The
Mul- Hing
Mullins
Notre Dame
Kansas
K-State
Marquetta
H. B
Bebe) Lee
Colorado
U.S. Civil Service
Siam to Have Reactor
A SEATO area agreement signed by U S Secretary of State Dulles and Thailand's Foreign Minister Prince Wan Waithayakon will establish an experimental atomic reactor in Thailand for Southeast Asia. The accord marks a major step in regional nuclear research collaboration.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Southeast Asia
Dulles
Prince Wan Walthyakon
Deputy Warden Resigns For Kentucky Post
U Warden Arthur Hoffman of the state prison says L T Armatrong resigns as deputy warden to take a similar job at the Kentucky State Reformatory in LaGrange.
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Lansing
Arthur Hoffman
State Prison Today
L.T. Armatrong
Kentucky State Reformatory
LaGrange
Greek Week Rushing and Grades Discussed at Kansas University
Greek Week activities resume with a campus panel in the Memorial Union Building focusing on scholarship and member selection. About 1,500 fraternity and sorority members raised funds for the Multiple Sclerosis Drive during the kickoff. Raymond Nichols will speak at the scholarship event as other interfraternity activities wrap up the week.
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Kansas
Memorial Union
Prnvass
Bob Tre
Woimer W.isl
Raymond Nichols
University
GOP Here Names and County Officers Update
The list names Russ Mosser Robert B Oyler William Pendleton Olin Petefish and others as GOP delegates with alternates listed in order of replacement. Travis Glass was elected treasurer replacing Julian Immeroman. Other officers include Mrs Ethel High vice chairman and W C Hunsinger secretary.
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Russ Mosser
Robert B. Oyler
Wiliam Pendleton
Olin Petefish
Robert Price
C. C. Rankin
Dolph Simons
Trarold Snider
Chester Spray
George Noland
Paul Ulrich
Marry Craig
Rice Phelps
Ethel Harman
Charles J. Stough
E. Eustace
Dave McCreath
W. C. Hunsinger
Charles Banning
Richard Allen
Charles Stough
F. C. Lelmaker
Robert Haggart
D. C. Harris
Gertrude Clark
Ethel High
D. F. Smith
R. B. Stevens
Travis Glass
Julian “Mmeroman
Wichita
Allen
Birth Announcements From Memorial Hospital
Memorial Hospital reports multiple births and new arrivals with addresses for parents. Names include Wayne Woolfalk, Lu ther Baker, Fila Kapfer, Eric Erickson, Lucy Fitzpatrick, Deward Robinson, Esker Bell, Marie Bluespie and baby girl, Janice Hess, Scott Yoder, Cheryl Long, Martha Taul, Essie Rice, Debra Bowers and baby boy Schamle, Jo Siroky and baby boy, Jean Colhert and baby boy, Pie torie Vangemeren, Mavie Sawyer, Naomi Sports, Alfred Dover, C J Elliott, Marvin Fort, Ivan Percival, Kenneth Bryant with births noted as occurring today or Monday.
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Wayne Woolfalk
Luther W. Baker
E, 13Th St
Fila Kapfer
Marie Bluespie
Janice Hess
R. I
Scott Yoder
Wth
Cheryl Long
Tonga-noxie
Martha Taul
Baldwin
Essie Rice
Conn
Debra Bowers
Murrow Court
Boy Schamle
Charles Schamle
Moundview Dr
Jo Siroky
Mich
Jean Colhert
Haskell
Pietoriie Vangemeren
Mavie Sawyer
N. H
Naomi
Sunflower
Alfred Dover
C. J. Elliott
Ky. St
Marvin Fort
Ivan Percival
E. Wash St
Kenneth Bryant
Last Meeting of Series On Health to Be Tonight
The final PTA Lawrence Adult Education session titled Good Sense About Child Health meets at 7 30 tonight in room 216 at the high school. A doctors panel led by Mrs. William Cottle will recap findings from five sessions on child health and safety with Dr Marie Cross Dr Helen Gilles Dr Beatrice Wright Dr Benjamin Lewis Vernon Branson and Miss Helen Ger Olson of the Kansas Health Department. Attendance is open to city PTA members per Ed Logsdon.
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PTA
Lawrence
William Cottle
Marie Cross
Helen Gilles
Beatrice Wright
Benjamin Lewis
Vernon Branson
Helen Ger Olson
Kansas Health Department
Ed Logsdon
Allen Files for Senator in Fifth District Nomination
Former Douglas County attorney Milton P. Allen filed at Topeka for the Republican State Senate nomination in the Fifth Senatorial District covering Douglas and Leavenworth Counties. He announced on February 3 that he would run, while the seat currently held by N.M. S. Hults is expected to seek re election.
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Douglas County
Milton P. Allen
Topeka
Senate
Douglas
Leavenworth
Allen
Non S. Hults
Topeka Woman Named Church Council Leader
Mrs. Ernest F. Tonsing of Topeka was re elected president of the Kansas Council of Church Women today. Other officers include E W McNeill of Syracuse first vice president William Blount of Kansas City Kas second vice president Rene Wells of Great Bend secretary and Mara W Gerstenberger of Eudora treasurer.
Market and News Market Roundup From Kansas City
Kansas City market notes show mixed grains and hogs steady to weak. Cattle steer prices rise to 23.50 with steady to 25 lower hogs and steady calves. wheat futures around 2.20 with May and March positions noted. Also reports on wall street trading activity and company earnings.
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Kansas City
M — Wheat
Shorts
LSB
Decree
Estack
Kansas
USDA
U.S
Wall Street
New York
Motors
Montgomery Ward
Reliable Stores
Rural Drive Adds Four Names to Lawrence Worker List
Four names were added to the Lawrence residential list of rural drive workers Mrs William Becks Mrs Robert Beer Mrs H Thuman and Mrs Jesse Lefmann. Donations through Monday evening totaled 4839.26 with a county goal of 16732. Rural workers begin Friday morning and township chairmen will name their own workers. The rural drive starts the 1956 campaign as Bald win Eudora and Lawrence begin drives this week. The Lawrence drive should near completion by March 15 with other school drives likely ending then.
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Lawrence
William Becks
Robert Beer
H. Thuman
Jesse Lefmann
Douglas County
Edmondson
Red Cross
Baldwin
Eudora
Summers Receives Command Pilot Rating At Air Force
Col. Thomas B. Summers, professor of air science at Beene University, earned the Command Pilot rating the highest aeronautical designation for Air Force pilots. The award requires 15 years of piloting and at least 3,000 hours of flight time based on demonstrated proficiency and experience.
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Col
Thomas B. Summers
Beene University
Topeka Soldier Injured In Williamstown Wreck
Sgt. Esker Bell 48 of Topeka was injured when his car overturned at Williams town Junction ten miles northwest of Lawrence. He was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital in fair condition with shock noted. He was eastbound and swerved to avoid a parked unidentified car. his car totaled about 1600 dollars. the other vehicle fled the scene.
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Topeka
Williamstown Junction
Lawrence
Esker Bell
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Bell
Highway Patrol
Commons Advances Bill to Abolish Capital Punishment
In London the House of Commons approved in principle a bill to abolish the death penalty by a 286 to 262 vote. The measure faces committee scrutiny and Lords' stages as the Conservative government opposes it. The text includes personal thanks from Mrs Laurine Votaw for hospital care.
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London
House of Commons
Britain
House
Murer
House of Lords
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