Wadsworth Veterans Hospital listed for major modernization
The House Veterans committee listar 56 facilities including the Wadsworth, Kansas, veterans hospital as needing major modernization. Projects for the year starting July 1 1956 include air conditioning in building 33, elevators replacements, new boiler, and sewer connections. Funding totals reach about 788,000 with further items planned for 1957 and additional Wichita Topeka facilities.
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Washington U
Wadsworth, Kas
Veterans Hospital
House Veterans
Wadsworth Center
Veterans Administration
Neuro
Wichita
Topeka
Meieg
Topeka Pital
Wichita Hospital
Elderly Holton man leaves 400000 estate to nephew and charity
Holton Kansas elderly farmer Estey Custer Domer, who lived a quiet life on a 160 acre farm, died at 79 last month. His will awards half his estate to his nephew Robin Estey Domer, vice president and cashier at First National Bank Centralia, and the other half to the Kansas Children's Services League, known for aiding unwed mothers and their children. Probate Judge Winters Fund to hear the case Thursday. Official say Domer had steadily increased giving over the years.
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Holton
Kas
Estey Custer
Domer
Mayetta
Robin Estey
Two Kansas Counties Included in National Food Survey
Leavenworth and Harper counties in Kansas are selected for a national U S food consumption survey. About 6 000 households across 42 states will be contacted beginning in April by the U S Department of Agriculture to determine what specific foods families eat and to provide data for home usage insights.
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Manhattan
Kan
Kansas
Leavenworth
Harper
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Arab world seen as land of opportunity says Farley
Hugh D. Farley of the U S Foreign Operations Administration says Arab states have transformed from an economic desert into a land of opportunity. He cites government investment across Tripoli to Baghdad, with Libya Egypt Lebanon Jordan receiving aid and Iraq using oil revenues for irrigation and power. He notes Beirut airport growth, Tripoli port upgrades, Latakia roads, and a broad development board directing oil revenue into nationwide projects.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Hugh D. Farley
U. S. Foreign Operations Administration
Tripoli
Baghdad
Farley
Libya
Egypt
Jordan
Iraq
Litani
Orient
Farely
Mediterranean
Syria
Latakia
U.S
Araba
Spring brings cold rain and tornadoes across midlands
The Associated Press reports a harsh start to spring with snow in Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas, tornadoes in Missouri and Arkansas, and a violent wind event at Uvalde. Central and southern plains saw freezing temps and widespread drizzle, with heavy rain in Tupelo, Mississippi and a circus collapse at Uvalde but no serious injuries.
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Associated Press
Colorado
Nebraska
Kansas
Loveland
Colo
Missouri-Arkansas
Uvalde
Tex
Piedmont
Texas
Great Plains
Mississippi Valley
Chicago
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Mississippi ‘Valley
Great Lakes Region
Ohio Valey
Appalachians
Louisiana
Kentucky
Tupelo
Miss
Ccircus
Oklahoma City Girls Unconcerned on Worry for Cookies
Oklahoma City youngsters Betty Briggs seven and Vickie Mae Smith eight wandered on a cookie selling mission for the Girl Scouts on Saturday. After more than 17 hours, police found them asleep in an old barn. They had failed to find their way home and had eaten a package of cookies to pay for a mattress found in the barn.
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Oklahoma City
Betty Briggs
Vickie Mae
Smith
Ex-Hungarian President Dies at His Exile Home
VENCE France Count Michael Karolyi former president of Hungary died at his exile home Saturday at age 80. A scion of Hungary’s rich nobility he led a stormy political path choosing exile twice to avoid communism. His pro Allied anti-German stance at World War I’s start alienated him at home while he visited the United States and backed Wilson’s peace plan.
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Vence
France
Michael Karolyi
Hungary
Karolyi
United States
Wilson
Unhurt As Airliner Noses Over In Landing
An American Airlines DC7 with sixty passengers and six crew aboard escaped injury when its nose wheel collapsed on landing at Midway Airport after an engine sputtered near Chicago. Capt Patterson returned to Chicago for the landing. Entertainer Connee Boswell, polio crippled, sang from a wheelchair during the flight. Passengers later continued to New York on another plane.
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Chicago
Metphera
A. Big
Connee Boswell
American Airlines
Midway Airport
Los Angeles
New York
R. A. Patterson
Misa Boswell
Boswell
Harry Leedy
Bethany Alumni Award To Be Given In Lindsborg
W B Wilbur E Tilberg dean of Gettysburg College since 1927 will receive the 1955 Bethany College Alumni Award of Merit presented here April 9. Dr Tilberg and his wife graduated from Bethany in 1911. Award honors outstanding public service and achievement.
Area Has Radioactivity But Everything Is Under Control
Dr. Frank E. Hoecker of Kansas University explains daily radioactivity around us with a continuous chart at KU radiological defense HQ. He notes A bomb clouds would raise levels but not reach danger. teams test air food and water and guide evacuations if needed.
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Frank E. Hoecker
Heat of the Radioactive Isotopes Laboratory
Kansas University
K. U
Radiological Civil Defense Headquarters
Kansas
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Elsa
Beng
Bolena
Bethany
Hoecker
Indiana Insurance Department
Goverment Securities
Otter
Pike
The
Americas Lift Insurance Company of
Detroit
Cardin Bel Reservator Security
Sand Ford
American United Life Insurance Company
Spolis
Special Agents
Morris Kay
Richard M. Knowles
Lenglin Stites
Deineotapets
Ipetathe Aeatention
America
Kansas Natural Gas
Clark C.smith
East 10Th Street
Wichits, Kansas
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