Violence Rages as British Put Lid on Cyprus
Cyprus plummets into fourth day of general strike as British authorities crack down. Abbot Chryssostomas of Kykkos Monastery was arrested, police find arms hideouts, and violence wounds two officers in Nicosia where a sergeant died a day earlier. Eden wins confidence vote as Britain asserts control. Curfew imposed on Pakhna after police attack, and a broad strike cripples commerce with few Turkish shops open.
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Nicosia
Makarios
Chryssostomas
Kykkos
Kyklos Makarios
Dedler
Cyprian
Caperro Peaekos
Nicosit
Eden
Evier
House of Commons
Mediterranean
Britain
Middle East
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Lanarca
Pakhna
City plans temporary paving and drainage along North Second Street
Hodges outlined 1956 plans including a temporary surface east past Haskell Avenue to Memorial Park Cemetery and drainage channels to curb frequent floods. The State Highway Department would supply pipe if the city builds an eastward channel. Also listed are masonry dugouts for Municipal Ball Park and repaving brick alleys in the business district. The city previously asked downtown owners to approve alley paving, but most declined.
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Haskell Avenue
Memoril Park Cemetery
Hodges
North Second Street
State Highway Department
Ball Park
Municipal Ball Park
Massachusetts Street
Red Cross Drive Lags in Business Area
Rural workers meet at the Community Building tonight with Charles Edmondson as rural chairman to receive instructions and supplies. Douglas County total stands at 517,581.33 toward a 516,732 goal with residential collections leading at 51,200 toward 54,800.
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Red Cross
Douglas County
Wuh
Missing Bomb Recovered as Eight Lawrence Youths Arrested
Police recovered a paratheon poison bomb stolen from a Kansas University green house. Eight Lawrence youngsters were arrested amid investigations into burglaries. The device weighed about 70 pounds, enclosed in a steel cylinder. Arrows and hand weights were also found.
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Poin
Kansas University
Nate Peel Wathy
John Havelel
Dick Stanwix
Lawrence Police Departments
E.W. Fenstemaker
I. C. Police
Youth Arson Blamed For $250000 Stable Fire
In Savage Maryland three youths faced arson charges after a Laurel barn fire destroyed an indoor track and 100 stalls. The blaze killed two thoroughbreds and other horses, with losses pegged at $250,000. Accused include William Murray 16 Jerry Kinsely 22 and Thomas O Keefe 18.
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Savage
Wilton May
Laurel
William Murray
Howard County
James MacGill
Sgt
May
Jerry Kinsely
Thomas O'Keefe
Waterloo State Price Barracks
Obituaries From Lawrence Area Deaths and Funerals
Bertha Scott Moore of Kansas City Missouri dies after short illness in Lawrence native. Survived by sister Zuella Hines and brother Jesse Scott. services in Kansas City with burial at Maple Grove. Charles Kolaeny dies at Baldwin home after long illness. Survived by widow and five children. services in Baldwin with Oakwood Cemetery burial. James C Nelson Route 2 funeral at St Luke AME Church with burial Oak Hill Cemetery. Bowser Lee Mortuary calling hours. Twila Saley of 308 Century Dr dies after lengthy illness at 33. Funeral at Trinity Episcopal Church with burial Memorial Park Cemetery. family survivors listed.
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Bertha Scott Moore
Kansas City
Lawrence
Charles Scott
North Lawrence
Zuella Hines
N. 8Th St
Jesse Scott
Moa
Alice Bailey
Maple Grove Cemetery
Charles Kolaeny
Baldwin
Lamb
Oakwood
Duff Wagoner
H. E. Ebright
James C. Nelson
St. Luke's A.M.E
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W. R. Anderson
Oak Hill Cemetery
Bowser-Lee Mortuary
Twila Saley
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Trinity Episcopal Church
Robert C. Swift
Memorial Park Cemetery
Rumsey Funeral Home
Archie W. Saley
Russell Gieber Sr
Has
Charles Norton
Jack Elden
Ottawa
Leonard Sweetwood
Bernard Walters
Kansas Ciity
Kas
Russell Gieber Jr
Cleo Allen Gieber
Rodney Dale Gieber
Marvin Dwayne Gieber
Kansas Couple Arrested For Kidnaping Robbery
A Kansas couple Max Franklin Allen 22 and Mary Alice 17 remained in the county jail in Klamath Falls awaiting a U S marshal from Portland. They face a federal warrant for kidnapping and robbery of a Johnson County Kansas man forced to lead them to a Kansas City dance hall and open a safe from which $516 was taken on March 5.
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Ore
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U.S
Portland
Max Franklin Allen
Mary Alice
Johnson County
Kas
George ‘Tidona
Kansas City
Nixon Favored for renomination after Eisenhower boost
Eisenhower praised Nixon during a news conference and New Hampshire write in results show broad GOP support. Senators from both parties view the president’s remark as signaling Nixon’s potential renomination while Nixon avoided committing himself publicly.
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New Hampshire
Dick Nixon
Schoeppel
Kansas
Senate Republican Campaign Committee
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Capitol Hill
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Knowland
California
Bricker
Ohio
Tickets Issued For 1955 Plate Noncompliance In Douglas
Lawrence law enforcement reports over twenty tickets issued this morning to motorists still displaying 1955 license plates despite a deadline of midnight Wednesday. Officers said many had bought new plates but failed to display them, leaving old plates as in use.
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Douglas County
Hoae
Hospital births and dismissals listed by patients
Memorial Hospital records show multiple dismissals and births. Names include Marie Maones Estella White Linna Houk Dorothy Easum Shirley Brown and many others with addresses across Sunflower Richland Baldwin Eudora Overland Park and Tonganoxie. Berths note Orville Burns a daughter Richard Brown a son Alexander Mitchell a daughter Vernon Harris a son.
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Marie Maones
Sunflower
Estella White
N. J. St
Linna Houk
Richland
Dorothy Easum
LaSalle St
Shirley Brown
Jack Martin
Brooks St
Nadine Bryant
Ala
Paulette Gallegly
Victor L. Batson
Jack Fine
Baldwin
Orville Burns
Tenn, St
Sportsmen debate methods to obtain state lake site
Douglas County Sportsman's Club discussed how to acquire a state lake. Kan sas Fish and Game Commission head Bexen and Commissioner Berney outlined the application process to Pratt for state approval. The club has three lake sites under consideration and local and state study continues. A marriage license was issued to Robert C. Anderson and Bey Ann Brand in Probate Court.
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Hoss Bexen
Kansas Fish and Game Commission
S. Berney
Atchison
Fish and Game
Pratt
State Commission
Robert C. Anderson
Bey
Ann Brand
Lawrence
Mada
Motor Hotel Project Wins State Approval in Lawrence
The Kansas Corporation Commission in Topeka approved the financial setup for a Holiday Inn motor hotel to be built in Lawrence on a five acre tract near 23rd and Iowa Streets. The $400 000 two unit project will begin when weather permits and hopes to open by a later date with a 100 seat restaurant and an eventual swimming pool. Partners include Robert L. Brock Edwin R. Lindquist and John M Dickey with Robert Anderson also involved. Local businessmen assist financing and additions to the footprint are planned.
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Kansas Corporation Commission
Topeka
Lauwrence
Robert L. Brock
Edwin R. Lindquist
John ,M. Dickey
Phillipsburg
Robert Anderson
23Rd
Iowa Sts
Tagal Buenessmen
Local Girl Honored for Grades at KU Greek Week Dinner
Katherine Westgate a Kansas University College sophomore and Ohio State pledges honored as the top fall semester student in the Inter-Fraternity Council Panhellenic scholarship dinner held in the Memorial Union. About 120 attendees heard Raymond Nichols praise excellence as Pi Beta Phi and Beta Theta Pi earned top house averages for 1954 55 with Alpha Omicron Pi and Delta Tau Delta plus Lambda Chi Alpha cited for greatest grade improvement.
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Ohio St
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Miss Westgate
Ohi Omega Sorority
Inter-Fraternity Council Panhellenic Council
Memorial Union Building
Raymond Nichols
Pi Beta Phi Social Sorority
Beta Theta Pi Social Fraternity
Alpha Omicron Pi Social Sorority
Delta Tau Delta
Lambda Chi Alpha
Beta Theta Fi
Norman Home Entered But Nothing Is Missing
A thorough ransacking of the Stanley Norman residence at 919 Crestline Dr. occurred between 6:30 and 8 p m Wednesday but nothing was reported missing, police said. Entry was gained by tearing off a screen and breaking a southeast corner window. Mrs. Norman is county treasurer.
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Stanley Norman
Crestline Dr
Markets At a Glance and Wall Street Report
Stocks climbed to new highs with gains led by oils chemicals and metals. earnings and dividends supported broad advance. Trading volume neared 3.1 million shares as late-session profit-taking limited deeper losses. Agricultural prices showed mixed movements with cotton steady and corn and wheat steady to firm.
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Fligher
Wall Street
New York
Peak in Bull Market Promises Record Profits and Expansions
Department of Commerce forecasts firms will spend 35 billion dollars on new plants and equipment this year, 22 percent more than last year, as companies announce continued profit growth and large expansion programs.
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Department of Commercrs
Pew
Kansas Lensmen To Form Group
The Kan sas Press Photographers plan an init meeting on the University campus to form a Kansas group as a branch of the NPPA. The three day short course features speakers from Des Moines Minneapolis Wichita and Lawrence including George Yates Don Richards Rich Clarkson and Fred Wulfekuhfer.
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Kansas Press
Ken Wall
Hfth
Universey
New Assortation
National Press Photographers Association
Midwest
Lawrence
George Yates
Dés Moines Register and Tribune
NPPA
Bark Seubert
Minneapals Tribune
Aned
NPPAS
Baihinnie Corm Hon
Paul Threlhall
Krarke-Tv
Wichita
Don Richards
To the
Kansas Industrial Development Commission
Harold Vo Lyle
Popeka Daily Capital
Rich Clarkson
Lawrence Journal-World Phoiographer
Dean Burton W. Marvin
William Allen White School of Journalism
K.U
Fred Wulfekuhfer
Hutechinison News Herald
America May Revise Israel-Arab Policy
President Eisenhower signaled a shift in U S policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict noting that the administration has not ruled out arming Israel but emphasized a preference for a better solution. He suggested the possibility of permitting Israel to buy part of the 62 million dollars in weapons it seeks.
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Washington
Faisenhower
Dulles
Israel
Jaycees Sponsor Local Candidate for Miss Kansas Pageant
Lawrence Junior Chamber of Commerce will sponsor a local entrant for the Miss Kansas Pageant to be held June 7 in Pratt. The winner advances to the Miss America contest in Atlantic City next summer. Rankin invites nominations and notes entrants may be KU students or out-of-state residents. Local contest around May 1 will select the representative, judged on talent as the primary factor with beauty and poise secondary.
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Lawrence Junior Chamber of Commerce
Pratt
Jaycee
Lewis Rankin
Lawrence
Rankin
Atlantic City
Kansas University
Petermen
Lawrence Eere
Norman White
Roy Baker
Jaycees
Lions Club
K.U. Memorial Stadium
Harry Starks
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