House Shelves a Pension Proposal
By a nine vote margin the House shelved the Rankin veterans pension bill after a 208 to 207 full roll call, sending it back to the Veterans Committee for study. Rankin said the vote kills the legislation for this Congress. The bill would have granted 440 a month pensions at age 65 to World War I and II veterans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mar
House
Veterans Committee
Veterans
Hut
Rankin
Congress
Bill Alredy
Teague ¢O-Tex
McCormack
R.mass
Rayburn
Clerka
Teague
Slowl
Rent Control Plan Remains Split as Conferees Set to Meet
Washington March 24 UP Senate House conference group to negotiate a rent control bill as existing measures near expiration. Senate approved an 8 to 10 amendment erodes home rule decontrol while House aims for 12 to 15 months with local option. Truman urged 24 months, but Democrats largely oppose strongest extensions and one bid to extend two years failed 74 to 10.
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Truman
Senate
House
Capitol Hill
Banking Committee
Spence
D.-Ky
Brown
D.-Ga
Patman
D-Tex
Monroney
D.-Okla
Wolcott
Rmich
Gamble
Kunkel
R.-Penn
Kiwanis Visit Highlights Local Club Meeting in Lawrence
Gordon Teall of Hiawatha Kiwanis lieutenant governor spoke at the Lawrence club luncheon. A six member Ottawa delegation attended. May 12 spring convention in Ottawa invited. The traveling gavel was passed to the next club. Teall awarded a ribbon for Lawrence sponsorship of Ottawa Iola and McLouth clubs and presented a service certificate to C W Pollom. Teall quoted Roe Fulkerson on money versus friendship as the message. Junior high school orchestra directed by Joe Weigand performed to applause.
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Gordon Teall
Hiawatha
Kiwanis
Pade
Lawrence Club
Eldridge
Ottawa
Randolph Bundy
WD. Remmels
Lawrence
Kiwanis International
Teall
Iola
McLouth
C. W. Pollom
Roe Fulkerson
Fulkerson
Joe Weigand
Vatican approves Liverpool atom plant at cathedral site
The Vatican has authorized Liverpol university to build an atomic usting machine on the grounds of a new Roman Catholic cathedral under construction in Liverpool. The device is described as generating 400,000,000 electric volts and is said to be the largest outside the United States.
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Liverpool
Eng
Vatican
Liverpol University
United States
Farmers At Work In Douglas County Fields
Wet soil keeps spring work slow yet many farmers resume seed bed preparation and early plantings. Alaska pea acreage expands in Lawrence as 125 acres are set to go. Alfred Heck plans 190 acres of potatoes plus 25 acres oats while Walter and Arthur assist. Dale Babbitt uses a plane to seed 100 acres of lespedeza near Richland.
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Douglas County
Stanley Fenstemaker
Barteldes Seed Store
H. H. Tiler
Stokely Foods Cannery
Alaska
Lawrence
Fiedomale
Alfred Heck
Route 5
Heck
Walter
Arthur
Richland
Dale Babbitt
Lawrence Flying Service
Irwin Kanziz
KU Commencement to Reach New Record in 1949
The University of Kansas expects a record 2100 plus graduates at the 1949 commencement, covering the 1948 summer and fall sessions and June seniors, with gowns stocked for 2400 and ceremonies set for Memorial Stadium on June 5 and 6.
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Mount Oread
Memorial Stadium
University of Kansas
James K. Hitt
K. U
Hitt
Frank Owen
Kansas State Teachers College
Emporia
Books to Close for City Registration Ahead of Election
The city vote registration books will close tomorrow at 10 pm in the city clerk’s office at City Hall, ten days before the April 4 election. Sixteen people have registered since March 1, with four using extended hours. Re registration required for movers or new voters, and those coming of age since last vote. After any general election, only names of those who voted are kept on the registration list.
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Kansas Stitute
Harold Fisher
DIES IN RAIL CRASH NEAR JESUP GEORGIA
A head on collision of a passenger train and a freight train in heavy fog two miles west of Jesup Georgia killed 51 year old Savannah train engineer James Paul Parrish and seriously injured a fireman. Several others were hurt though passengers sustained only minor injuries as three Atlantic Coast Line coaches derailed. The incident occurred about 7 20 a m with a train en route from Montgomery Alabama to Savannah Georgia.
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Jesup
Atlantic Coast Line
Montgomery
Ala
Savannah
Georgia
James Paul Parrish
Full House Expected at Liberty Memorial High School Play
Ticket sales show a full house for Heaven Can Wait the annual senior production at Liberty Memorial High School tomorrow night in the school auditorium at 8 p m. A cast of 28 characters includes a large senior technical team led by Joyce Emick with posters citywide.
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Liberty Memorial High School
Joyce Emick
Joanne Armstrong
Evelyn Barneard
Citty Crane
Melva Dene Hoover
Martha Wise
Ellen Jane Lupton
Eugene Brubaker
Grace Endacott
Nancy Gross
Doris McConnell
Jerry Hesse
Ada van Valkenburg
Bob Moore
Arlen van Gaasbeek
Shirley Winters
Virginia Zillner
Betsy Bowers
Art Manger
Stella Carney
Marilyn Metz
Douglas county 4 H spring festival schedule outlined
The annual Douglas county 4 H spring festival at Liberty Memorial High School on Saturday will run 9 30 a m to 3 30 p m with talks demonstrations dramas and musical numbers. Notables include 4 H members Donald Landis Dwane Schaake Joanne Armstrong David Kerns Rosemary Wade Donald Craig Vera Harden Caroline Wilbur Lou Mitchell Joe Tidd Velma Conger Beverly Kring Shirley Laughlin and Warren Parker. Judges listed are Jack Stephenson Wendell Olds C T Hall and N Le Harris. Promotional talks, dairy heifer feeding and jumbo raisin cookies will be featured in the morning with 4 H choral groups square dance teams and short plays in the afternoon.
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Douglas County
Liberty Memorial High School
Deal Six
4-H
Donald Landis
Dwane Schaake
Joanne Armstrong
David Kerns
Rosemary Wade
Donald Craig
Vera Harden
Caroline Wilbur
Lou Mitchell
Joe Tidd
Velma Conger
Bevery Kring
Shirley Laughlin
Warren Parker
Jack Stephenson
iMusic
Lawrence Public
Wendell Olds
Johnson County
C. T. Hall
N. le Harris
Leavenworth
Henry
Goslings
Legislators Move To Clear Calendar In Kansas
Legislators in Topeka move toward final adjournment as the senate kills six bills and 42 in committees while the house puts 20 calendar measures and 50 in committee into cold storage. Gov Carlson programs remain largely intact with administration bills advanced. several measures die including severance tax on oil and gas, cooperative earnings taxes, small loan regulation, and an anti closed shop law. The senate passes without opposition the elementary school finance plan distributing 12.5 to 12.75 million dollars in 1949 50 and 13.43 to 13.75 million in 1950.
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Senate
House
Frank Carlson
Kansas
State Fish and Game Commission
Capitol
Paul Wunsch
Kingman
Lloyd Ruppenthal
Weather and storm forecast shifts across Kansas
The report notes CP-Snow and high winds entering northwest Kansas with milder conditions in east and south Kansas. Goodland sees a morning snow and a 2 to 4 inch fall by evening, north winds. lows 25-35 in north and west, 35-40 in east and south. Temperatures rise to around 55 in east and south tomorrow. western highs near 45.
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Topeka
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Goodland
Goodland Weather Station
Nebraska
Flora
Dodge City
Hill City
Phillipsburg
Middle 402
Smtwt Fes Sutwtesa
Lewis Orders Miners Back to Jobs on Monday
John L. Lewis ordered 463,000 idle coal miners to return to work on Monday as the memorial period ends March 28. Production to resume. miners urged to be available. Shutdown cost about $30 million in wages. railroads laid off over 70,000 workers during the stoppage.
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Pitenburgh
John L. Lewis
Kansas Veterans bonus plan passes House in 94 to 20 vote
The Kansas House approved a veterans bonus plan 94 to 20 and sent it to the Senate. The measure would issue up to 100 million dollars in bonds to fund a maximum $425 bonus plus monthly stipends for World War II service, to be repaid over 20 years via property taxes. Amendments extended bond retirement time, altered service periods, and restricted eligibility to honorable discharges, with concerns over cost and interest.
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Topeka
Mar
Kansas
House
Senate
Special Study Committee
Turner
Liquor Shipments Reach Lawrence After Law Change
Several shipments of legal liquor arrived for Lawrence residents this week via Railway Express and F H Penner, marking the first shipments since single case or smaller lots became legal on March 9. Penner notes many bottles are single, and that residents near Missouri will still use nearby stores. Baggage handlers on trains are moving liquor to towns across central and western Kansas as mail advertising from Kansas City firms begins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Railway Express Agency
F. H. Penner
Penner
Missouri
Railway Express
Kansas
Kansas City
K U Law Dean Resting Comfortably After Wreck
F J Moreau dean of the K U school of law is resting comfortably at Watkins Memorial hospital after a Tuesday evening crash that left him with a fractured kneecap and three KU students with minor facial lacerations. The dean will be inactive for several weeks. Students Richard R Champ Don Powell and Marion R Cox from 803 Ohio street were involved. Powell suffered a concussion and knee sprain, Cox a back sprain, and Cox was driver of the other car at Twentieth and Louisiana streets.
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F. J. Moreau
Louisiana Street
K. U. School of Law
Watkins Memorial Hospital
K. U
Ohio Street
Richard R. Champ
Don Powell
Marion R. Cox
Two Alarma Firemen Respond to Trash and Grass Fires
Firemen answered two alarms today. At 12 33 p m a trash fire at 1327 Haskell avenue caused no damage. A second trash fire at 1611 Massachusetts Street spread to straw in a nearby rose bed, with damage undetermined, alarm at 12 50 p m.
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Paul Ingels
Jim Cheulakes
Haskell Avenue
William Wiedemann
Massachusetts Street
Ingels
Long View of Treaties Urged by Dorothy Thompson
Dorothy Thompson urged a long view of treaties in a KU Hoch Auditorium talk, blaming Versailles Yalta Teheran and Potsdam for Europe’s war conditions. She urged international binding agreements with an aggression clause a UN centered constabulary and small-state representation on the security council. She warned against Soviet expansionist tactics and stressed cultures over rigid ideology as the path to peace.
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Dorothy Thompson
Hoch
University of Kansas
Miss Thompson
Europe
Versailles
Yalta
Teheran
Potsdam
Vienna
Germany
Congress of Vienna
France
Russia
U.N
U. N
Security Council
Soviet Union
Sweden Ends Butter and Fat Rationing in 1945 Move
Stockholm reports Sweden has abolished butter and fat rationing today after over eight years. Meat in restaurants is removed from the ration list, though coupons still apply in stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Sweden
Mental attitude is key to slump mood warning
New York March 24. Secretary of Commerce Sawyer warns the possible danger is psychological as production this year runs ahead of last year but slackens since December. He says people must keep their heads to avoid swing from over optimism to pessimism among consumers, businesspeople, and investors.
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New York
Mar
Sawyer
Yesteraltho
Lawrence Colts Ticket Sale Opens For Home Games
An active campaign launches season tickets for the Lawrence Colts at Municipal Diamond. 20 games for 7 dollars including tax. general admission 40 cents. Tickets transferable. Season starts vs Decker Oilers June 3, then two games vs Cuban All-Stars. Roster adds Red Hogan, Hobby Talkington, Bud French, Dick Bertuzzi, Forrest Griffith. Talkington from Tyler Junior College.
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Lawrence Colts
Municipal Diamond
V.flw.o
W.E.W. Post
Gilbert Francis
Decker Oilers
Florida
Colts
Red Hogan
Hobby Talkington
Bud French
Dick Bertuzzi
Forrest Griffith
Talkington
K. U
Tyler
Tex
Carney Defends Open Discussion On Military Unity
Vice Admiral Robert P. Carney told about 500 officers at Fort Leavenworth that differences of opinion among unified forces are healthy not bickering. He urged frank expression to aid security and said Congress allocates the military budget among three branches, stressing loyalty and open dialogue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Carney
USS Denver
William F. (the Bull) Halsey
Official Ruling Limits Liquor Transport in Cars
Topeka March 24 Attorney General Harold Fatzer ruled that until Kansas liquor stores operate no person may legally transport more than one case three wine gallons of liquor in a private motor vehicle. The limit applies regardless of passengers and does not affect common carriers allowed to transport any amount if each case is consigned to a different individual.
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Topeka
Mar
Kansas
Harold R. Fatzer
Fatzer
Juniors Over the Top at Lawrence Memorial High
The Junior Red Cross service fund drive at Lawrence Memorial High School exceeded its quota this morning led by Doro Bailey as chair and Marian Welch as sponsor. Twenty one of twenty four homerooms met their quotas, totaling 124.02 dollars for the local chapter to buy supplies for veterans and children's hospital gifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Lawrence Memorial High School
Neal Wherry
Dorothy Bailey
Stock Market Snapshot and Local Businesses Mentioned
The stock index for 60 stocks sits at 63.6 with a 0.3 rise. Local ads note Acme Cleaners and Cash and Carry. Save located at 1111 Mass with phone 646. Advertisement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acme Cleaners
Bill Opposed by Cafe Operators in Kansas Oleo Ban
The Douglas County Restaurant Association protests a House bill banning colored oleomargarine in Kansas and bars eating places from serving it. Murhpy says the measure targets all public eateries and hikes costs for operators who cannot afford uncolored or blue-priced butter. Public sentiment among Lawrence housewives leans against the bill, with concerns over taxes and consumer choice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas County Restaurant Association
House of Representatives
Kansas
William Murphy
Association
State Senate
United States
Murphy
Lawrence
Douglas County
Roberta Doane
Kenetucky Street
George W. Stratton
Louisiana Street
Schoeppel to Speak at Illinois Oil and Gas Convention
Senator Schoeppel of Kansas will address the Illinois Oil and Gas Association convention in Mt Vernon on Friday, discussing imports and issues impacting the oil and gas industry.
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Washington, Mar
Schoeppel
R.-Kun
Illnois Oil and Gas Association
Mt Vernon
Ill
Police telephones cut as Tokyo police fail pay bill
Tokyo authorities shut off service to 73 police stations after nonpayment of telephone bills. Service was restored today after the police promised to settle the arrears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Mar
Tokeyo
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