Highway Commission bids on large northeast Kansas road program
The State Highway Commission announced a bid invitation for a major set of highway and county secondary road improvements across Douglas and 16 other northeast Kansas counties. Bids open April 4 in Topeka, with 16 miles of concrete, 9.3 miles of new location work, 22 miles of asphaltic surface, 8.3 miles of sheet asphalt, 210 miles of bituminous sealing, plus eight miles of grading and several bridge and resurfacing projects.
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State Highway Commission
Douglas
Kansas
Topeka
Us-Id
Gardner
Douglas County
Baldwin Creek
Lake View
Leavenworth County
Williamstown
Alma
Leavenworth
Reno
Service members listed with furloughs and training updates
The column lists Pfc John H. Goff arriving on furlough to his parents at 2045 Mass. St and heading to Camp Pendleton on March 26 for further duties. It notes Pfc Keith L. Kolars heading to Sheppard AFB Texas after basic at Samson AFB New York, Lt. Pvt Harold V Willey from Fort Meade to Ft Sam Houston for an X-ray tech course, Edmund C. Lenahan serving with an airborne photo team in San Diego, and other sailors and Marines stationed from Guam to San Diego and Korea era training. It mentions promotions and unit assignments along with hometowns in Kansas and nearby areas.
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John H. Goff
Roy Goff
Mass
Camp Pendicton
Oceanside
Calif
Keith L. Kolars
Joe G. Kolars
Lyons St
Sheppard Air Force Base
Texas
Samson Afb
New York
Harold. V_ Willey
Fr. Meade, Md
Willey
Ft. Meade
Ft. Sam Stouston
Medial Field Service School
Detective junior gathers clues in car theft case
In Burbank California nine year old Disler Ganner and his mother Ina reported a stolen car. The boy spent a day pedaling his bicycle through town to locate the abandoned vehicle, eventually finding it after tracking the thief.
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Burbank
Calif
Disler Ganner
Ina Ganner
Ander son named student promotion field representative
Gerald C. Anderson, a Dunlap High School teacher, has been named student promotion field representative for the College of Emporia. He will start work June 1 in Emporia.
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Emporia
Gerald C. Anderson
Dunlap High School
College of Emporia
Kansas Servicemen Return Home From Far East
Gen Hase announces twenty two Kansas servicemen among the group returning to the United States from the Far East. The list includes Sgt James N Allen Kansas City and First Lt Wesley Uoth Antioch, among others with addresses in Eureka Topeka Merriam Hutchinson and Kansas City. The contingent also contains Cpls Harold Czirr Kenneth Egeen Loren Gunkel John Poskey Donald Stroup Harvey Unruth Melvin Walker and more.
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Nrn
Far East
Kansas
James N. Allen
Kangas City
Newell F. Applegate
Kenneth L. Egeen
Walnut
Ste
Charles F.flinn
Merriam Dr
Merriam
George L. Gregor
Loren N. Gunkel
Ringley
John D. Martin
Burr Oak
John H. Mixon
ATV
John Poskey
N. 8Th
Herington
Edwin C. Pralle
E. Th. Topeka
James E. Roeth
Waterville
Jack L.saker
N. Marmaton
Ft. Scott
Robert E. Stockdale
Rt. 4
Onawa
Donald R. Stroup
Kirwin
Harvey
G. Unruth
S. Td
Kansas City
Melvin L. Walker
Robert E. Wells
Ray L. Wilson
Rt. 1
Jetmore
J. Arington
Radar for Weatherman Chicago
Radar may soon aid forecasters by spotting distant rain clouds and helping predict sudden storms. The Public Service Co. of Illinois plans to test enhanced weather observation tools and improve warnings for residents in Chicago and surrounding areas.
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Chicago
The
Public Service Co
Illinois and Edison cooperate on radar weather experiments
Commuter weather planning involves Illinois and Commonwealth Edison Co cooperating with the Chicago weather office and the Weather Bureau on radar experiments to determine cloud location density altitude and direction to supplement data. Traffic on Kansas highways rose 29 percent since 1947.
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Ern Illinois, and
Commonwealth Edison Co. ‘i
Chicago‘ Weather Office
Weather Bureau
Kansas
Kansas selects 32 NROTC scholars with 8 alternates
Kansas state selection committee meeting in Lawrence chose 32 principals and eight alternates for NROTC scholarships. Names will be announced by the Navy Department in a late April 1952 national release from Washington. Committee members are Angelo Scott James F Nicherson and Capt W R Terrell.
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Kansas
Lawrence
NROTC
Navy Department
Washington, D. C
Kansas State Selection Committee
Angelo Scott
Iola Register
Iola
James F. Nicherson
University of Kansas
W. R. Terrell
USN
Navy
Regular
Marine Corps
Naval Academy
McPherson Lad to Be Batboy For a Day with N. Y. Giants
Kermit Hawley of McPherson will serve as bat boy for the New York Giants in an exhibition game in Wichita. He has a 1000-signature autograph collection including Ty Cobb and Joe Louis and even Ike Eisenhower sent an autograph. Giants staff invited him after letters to Leon Durocher and Frank Bergonzi, highlighting a remarkable rise from a hobby to a club gesture.
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Kim Thorpe
Ty Cobb
Joe Louis
Jack Dempsey
Cy Young
Ike’ Eisenhower
Kermit
Leon Durocher
Giants
Durocher
Young Hawley
Frank Bergonzi
Eddie Logan
Snowshoe Postman Hopes for Early Spring in Snowbound Route
In Rawlins Wyoming Jack Bech, a Dixon mail carrier, recalls painting a realistic barn scene that stayed untouched after a landowner decided the view was too pretty to tear down. Snowbound conditions forced him to deliver his route on snowshoes through Medicine Mountains.
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Rawlins
Wyo
Jack Bechtold
Dixon
Bow National Forest Travel Timeline Noted
A fragment notes a four day journey covering 25 miles to deliver mail to five ranches near Bow National Forest. Details are sparse, but the item records a remote mail route and its travel time.
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Bow National Forest
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Edmund C. Lenahan
Frank W. Lenahan
Tonganoxie
Navy Squadron
San Diego
Gilbert, QO
Baker
Oscar 1
Clayton W. Stephens
Oskaloosa
Servier Squadron Wi
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Ted W. Snavely
USMC
T12
Ervin I. Steele
WSN
E. G. Steele
Naval Construction Battalion
Guam
Marianas Islands
Steve
Liberty Memorial High School
Enlsted
San Diage
C of E
Dean
John Brown
Trading Post
Pleasanton
MIT
Royal Collage
America
Reg
Frank Strong
Wichita
Bergonzi
Eetai Mail
Pontiac
Hannah Gallup
Armory
Esuers
Mee
Wing Step Casuals
Mack
Sises
Carol Brents
Denier
Carol Brent
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