Eisenhower Reexamines Campaign Plans Amid Minnesota Write-Ins
General Eisenhower indicated he may campaign for the Republican nomination after Minnesota voters write in his name. He cited mounting support and noted New Hampshire and Minnesota voters are prompting him to re-examine his past decision not to seek a nominating bid. Taft withdrew from the New Jersey primary, accusing Governor Driscoll of political meddling, while Eisenhower’s status remained under SHAPE release.
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New Hampshire
Minnesota
Eisenhower
Robert A. ‘Taft
Truman
Henry Cabot Lodge
Lodge
Hexisn
Tam
Jed
Shape Public Information Office
Theener
Ker West
Fla
Misenhower
Liberty
United States
Taft
N. J
Driscoll
Washington
Robert A. Taft
New Jersey
Ohio
Alfred E. Drisvell
Dwight D. Inhow
Tait
Inriscoll
Jan Eisenhower
Orefrain
Benhower
Senhowers
Ohto
New Lampshire
Republicana
Hower xxx
Lesi Marsh
Harold EF
City to Clean Kentucky Street One Side Parking Is Asked
The city will clean Kentucky Street tomorrow and Saturday. Hugh Sheridan, city engineer, asks residents on the east side between the Six and Seventeen Hundred blocks to move cars there during cleaning to allow the west side to be swept. Saturday parking will be on the west side only to permit east-side cleaning.
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Kentucky St
Kentucky Street
Hugh Sheridan
Deadline for Kansas motor license plates and licenses
Col. Hugh F. Edwards, superintendent of the Kansas Highway Patrol, warned motorists that April 7 is the deadline to obtain motor vehicle license plates and drivers licenses. Penalties for late plates have been in effect since February 18 and the patrol chief said penalties will start the first of next month.
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PEKAP
Hugh F. Edwards
Static Highway Patrol
Kansas
Strain Ties Up Steel Dispute Amid Board Fatigue
Washington and the Wage Stabilization Board failed to break deadlock in the steel labor row as fatigue hit leading figure P Feininger and others. The midnight strike threat loomed with workers scarce, while experts warned of plant closures if a deal could not be reached. Feininger later anticipated resuming talks, though the panel remained split on shop terms.
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Washington
Wage Stabilization Board
WSB
P. Feininger
Tounace
Tors
Feinsinger Anpar
Earlive
Ue. Indusive
Frei Ballen
Jen
Red jets down Communist MIGs in Korea air battle
An American pilot scored five aerial victories and assisted damage on five more MIG-15s in Korea, bringing a two day tally to twelve damaged aircraft. Spokesmen described a new communist plane seen over Korea, a high wing design with lower altitude efficiency and slower speed than the MIG. The account notes light probing thrusts on western and eastern fronts as markets closed.
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Sequl
Korea
James Carey
Ordefing
Chance for Showers Tops Topic in Kansas Weather
Springlike weather eases across Kansas with mild highs in the 60s and 70s. Showers expected mainly in the east Thursday night and Friday. Garden City reported 72 degrees Wednesday, while Goodland stayed cool near freezing and Blue Rapids saw rising river levels from recent rains.
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Mercury
Garden
Robertson Reappointed to Kansay Corporation Commission
Jeff Robertson of Ramus City was reappointed to the Kansay Corporation Commission by Governor Edward F. At. The four year term runs to March 29, 1956, with Robertson serving as present chairman, a role he has held since his 1942 original appointment during Senator Andrew P. Schoeppel era.
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Topeka
Jeff Robertson
Ramus City
Kansay
Edward F. At
Robertson
Raminisstay
Andrew FP. Schoeppel
United States
Secret Sessions For Truce Talks In Korea
United Nations officials discuss off the record prisoner exchange talks to break the deadlock in Korea. Key issues include port access for troops, prisoner repatriation terms, airfield construction, and a neutral inspection plan. Brig. Gen. Nuckols stressed no secret clause and said details on inspection areas would be clarified soon.
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U .N. Command
U. N
Korea
Ise
Poe
William P. Nuckols
Nuckols
Panmunjom
Red Iince
U. N. Command
Andrew J. Kinney
Kinney
Taft Withdrawal In N J A Clever Move Says Forbes
Newark report notes Senator Forbes backed Taft withdrawal as a clever political maneuver to cast Taft’s reduced showing as a victory. Eisenhower Stassen and Taft are listed in the GOP presidential preference election set for April 15.
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Newark
Isenhower
New Y
Taft
Malcolm Forbes
Eisenhower
Harold E. Stassen
GOP
Leavenworth Prisoner Wins His Case in Court
Murray R. KronGald, 53, Chicago, freed by U S District Judge Luther M Swigert at South Bend Ind upholding his motion to vacate a five year sentence for a worthless check. KronGald had served 19 months and was released but then arrested on a fugitive warrant in Chicago and held on $5,000 bail for hearing April 3.
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Leavenworth
U. S
Murray R. Krongold
Chicago
Luther M. Swigert
South Bend
Ind
Krongald
Air Force to Call ROTC Graduates to Active Duty
The Air Force said it will call 5,000 ROTC graduates to active duty within 120 days after spring graduation. An additional 1,800 reserve graduates who will not finish college this summer will be ordered to active duty before May 1953. At Kansas University about 50 ROTC graduates in June may not all be eligible due to prior service. Lt. Col. Lynn R Moore notes total calls will be at most half of national ROTC graduates.
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Associated Press
Washington
Air Force
Air Reserve Officers Training Corps
University of Kansas Air Force Rotc
Lynn R.moore
Air Force Rotc
K. U
Kansas bypass plan doubtful amid Westwood opposition
Harold Snider of Lawrence says the U S 59 bypass route near Lawrence is unlikely to change, as federal and state agencies back the current layout. Westwood residents oppose the belt line, arguing it would devalue property and affect parks and a septic tank, with a petition circulating for a western shift. Construction is slated to begin this summer, and officials vow to minimize disruption while pursuing agreement.
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Kansas Highway Commission
U. 59
Lawrence
Harold Snider
First District
Snider
Federal Bureau of Roads
Douglas County
Westwood Association
Westwood
Kansas University
Lawrence City Commission
Westwood Pana
Sniter
The
Highway Commission
Rossi | Vay
Westwood Group
Dist
Trucker Group Seeks TRO Against Local 41 Strike
In Kansas City a trucking firm petitioned for a temporary restraining order against the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Chauffeurs Local No. 41. Circuit Judge John R. James granted the request as unions roved pickets hampered interstate operations. About 2,500 drivers remain on strike with no further talks scheduled.
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Kansas City
Dri
Tempo
International Brotherhood of ‘Teamsters and Chauffeurs Local No. 41
A. FR. L
John R. James
Highway Carriers Association
State Council Approves Draft for Reorganizing
TOPEKA Kansas Legislative Council Thursday authorized drafting legislation for administrative reorganization of state government. It would consolidate fiscal accounting purchasing personnel and budget affairs into a single department and create an independent state post audit agency.
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Topeka
Kansas’ Legislative Council
State Post Audit Agency
Truman rebuts McKinney on Korea and 1946 loan claim
President Truman, at Key West, declares Korea has no bearing on his political decisions and rebuffs Democratic Chairman Frank E. McKinney. He dismisses McKinney’s Korea comments as not entering U.S. politics, and addresses Eisenhower’s return, 1945 loan to the Soviet Union, and other topics while keeping a generally cheerful tone.
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Truman
Korea
McKinney
New Hampshire
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
Soviet Russia
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
Newbold Morris
Congress
Senate
Ting Morris
House Judiciary
J. Howard McGrath
Joan
Tam
Case of the Sleepy Juror in Emporia highway suit
In Emporia a highway condemnation appeal involving A J Place seeks a new trial after a jury awarded $28 261 25 for land for a US bypass. Defense cites juror sleep during an afternoon session and argues verdict conflicts with evidence and sum awarded was excessive. Appraisers valued land at $13 423 25.
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Emporia
State Highway Commission
A. J. Place
Attorn
Rural Acquaintance Smoker schedules lively program
The 18th annual Rural Acquaintance Smoker runs 8 p.m. at the Community Building with Lawrence area farmers invited. Entertainment includes the Highlighters barbershop group from Topeka, a tumbling exhibition by Liberty Memorial High School, and a performance by Charles K. Ramsden of the University of Kansas Bureau of Lectures and Concerts. Refreshments will follow in the building basement.
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Lawrence
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Keith Lawton
Toepeka
Ernest Pontius
Chamber of Commerce
Liberty Memorial High School
L. R
Dad) Perry
LMHS
Charles K. Ramsden
University of Kansas Bureau of Lectures
Quick Action Prevents Serious Gasoline Fire at Station
Fire at Melvin's Service Station 600 W 2nd St could have been serious but was controlled quickly by the Laxerence Fire Department. Flames erupted when a spark ignited gasoline near a pipe feeding a pump. One pump was damaged. the blaze stayed in front of the station office with no injuries.
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Melvin
Laxerencs Bire
Superior jet engine boosts F86 against MIGI5 in test
Washington announced a new engine developed by U S forces that would render the U S built F86 superior to the Soviet MIGI5. Roswell Gilpatric, undersecretary, led the news conference in North America and said production should start next month.
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Washington
Air Force
Roswell L. Gilpatric
Shadow of Oscar the Metal Man Envelops Movie Capital
Hollywood hosts the 24th Academy Awards with top nominees absent. Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Katharine Hepburn, and others miss the event while Montgomery Clift travels from New York and Kay Mallten, Kevin McCarthy, Leo Genn, Peter Nero, and Peter Ustinov contend in acting categories. Best Picture hinges between Streetcar Named Destruction and Place in the Sun with a $1,000,000 box office prize on the line.
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Hollywood
Movieland
Vivien Leigh
Marlon Brando
Humphrey Bogart
Shelley Winters
Jane Wyman
Eleanor Parker
RKO Pantages Theater
Katharine Hepburn
Bogart
London
Montgomery Clift
New York
Fredric March
Tesihof & Salesman
Arthur Kennedy
Jamaica
Kay] Malten
Kevin McCarthy
Leo Genn
Peter Nero
Ustinov
Gig Young
Anybndy
England
Lee Grant
Joan Bilondell
No Official Word on Rent Control in Lawrence Area
Local officials remained uninformed about the Defense Production Administration approval of rent control for the Lawrence Olathe defense housing area. Mulliken, Topeka rent control official, speculated the door for rent control has opened but noted no immediate action and possible need for a local office, advisory board, and base date for rent tables.
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Washington
Defense Productive Administration
Lawrence-Olathe Critical Defense
Journal-World
Laprance Ri
Mulliken
To- Ppeka
Lawrence-Clathe
Ional Rent Coat Office
Chicago
DPA
Lawrence
Topeka
Sen. Schoeppel
Ren Control
Chamber of Commerce and Real Estate Board
Game Agency
Kans City
Kansas
Federal
Budget cut to Labor Department agencies by House panel
The House Appropriations Committee recommended a total budget of 1,796,086,161 for Labor and related boards, about 10 percent less than the 1,982,410,761 Truman proposed for the new fiscal year. Only the National Mediation Board kept its full 1,130,000 request.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Truman
National Mediation Board
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