Hero of Korean War dies in jet collision explosion
Lt Charles Shortle 27 of the 5th Fighter Group Niagara Falls Air Base died when his F86 Sabre exploded after a midair collision during a mock interception. Lt Ene von Schweinitz and Lt Fohn Murffe parachuted to safety and were treated for burns. The crash lit up skies over five counties. survivors reported the explosion and ejecting pilots.
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Waregaw Community
5Th
NiagaraFalle Air Base
iThey
von Schweinitz
Niagara Faille
Murtie
Buffalo
Shortleived
Niagara Falls
H. Donald McCall
Sone
Air Force
Three Men Dead in B47 Plane Crash Near Station
Shoat describes a B47 crash four miles from the station. Harvey arrived to find bodies among debris scattered over about a quarter mile. Farmers Scott and Pearson identified the aircraft as a B47 and reported two air sounds followed by a ground explosion.
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Harvey
Rubiple
W. L. Scott
2. W. Pearson
Scott
Parson
Navy P2V Neptunes witness Fat Stratojet bomber explodes
Navy Lt Maurice R Boyack of Wichita says a nearby FAT Stratojet bomber exploded during a training flight at 5500 feet. He observed a ball of ice in the center and debris as the B47 ripped apart and crashed, killing its crew.
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Wichita
Hutch- Anson
Kas
Naval Air Station
Navy
Maurice R. Boyack
Owe
Malenkov Praises Kids and Scenery on British Tour
London report: Georgi Malenkov, back from northern England and Scotland power stations, extols the joys of friendship and scenery. He calls the trip wonderful via an interpreter during a three week tour of British electrical plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Georgi Malenkov
England
Scotland
Malenkov
Emier Bulganin
Commuist
Nikita Khrusheve
Sweden Prime Minister to tour Stalin’s native Georgia
Sweden's Prime Minister Tage Erlander will undertake a goodwill tour of the Soviet Union visiting Georgia and Armenia. He travels with Sweden's ambassador to Moscow and embassy staff, amid a Pravda denunciation of Stalin's leadership. The trip follows Pravda's 7,000 word critique of Stalin's cult of personality.
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Moscow
Tage Erlander
Sweden
Stalin
Georgia
Armenia
Kremlin
Erlander
Communist Party
Pravda
Urlander
Soviet Union
Sukhumi
Tiflis
Yerevan
Rolf Solman
Col‘ures
Lenin
Reverend Allen Named Pastor at First Baptist Lawrence
Rev. Allen New Baptist Pastor will arrive Thursday in Lawrence to begin duties at 801 Ky. St. He replaces Rev. Harold Lundgren who left in September to become chaplain of the U S Indian School in Phoenix Ariz. Interim duties have been held by Rev. Ernst E. Kjein. He will preach his first Easter sermon and comes from Clemson South Carolina where he led the Clemson Baptist Church. He is a Furman University magna cum laude graduate 1937 and Yale Divinity School 1940 with further study at Fordham Theological Seminary and Andover-Newton. He was ordained 1940 in Waterbury Conn and has served Bristol Conn Beaufort S C and Clemson S C churches. He and wife Eleanor Burt have four children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. C. Allen
Lawrence
First Baptist Church
Ky. St
Harold B. Lund‘gren
U.S
Clemson Baptist Church
South Carolina
Allen
Furman Univerrsity
Greenville
D. C
Yale University Divinity School
Fortford
Moultrie
5. C
Waterbury
Conn
Bristol (Conn
Beaufort
S. C
Eleanor Burt
Bristol
Papers Attack Duke Unfairly Sketch Alleges
London reports the Daily Sketch argues a plot to diminish the public influence of the Duke of Edinburgh, citing criticisms of royal spending and comparisons to Prince Albert. The piece claims attacks aim to discredit the duke in public eyes.
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Duke
Sketch
London
Daily Sketch
Duke of Edinburgh
Elizabeth I
Victoria
Prince Albert
Albert
Sunday Express
Daily Mirror
The
Daily Herald
Elizabeth
Deaths and Funerals in Local Area
Dorothy Harrison longtime Leavenworth County District Court clerk died after a heart attack at Cushing Memorial Hospital. Funeral services set for Thursday at Sexton Funeral Home in Leavenworth with burial in Mount Muncie Cemetery. Hugh L. Wingfield 55 of Lecompton died at home. survivors include widow Zola and daughters Cynthia and Florence Ann Wingfield, plus siblings. Funeral at 2 1p.m. Friday at Evangelical United Brethren Church in Lecompton. burial in Underwood Cemetery. Gustave C. Walter, Lawrence native and former orchestra conductor, died in Brooklyn last month. born July 28 1865 in Lawrence. survivors include four stepchildren.
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Dorothy Harrison
Leavenworth County District Court
Cushing Memorial Hospital
Leavenworth
Olie
R. Parsons
Barker Ave
Sexton
Mount Muncie Cemetery
Hugh L. Wingfield
Lecompton
Zola Wingfield
Cynthia Wingfield
Florence Ann Wingfield
Harry Westergren
Lawrence
Celia Peterson
Topeka
Hazel McLaughlin
George Huling
Dallas
Tex
Elmer Wingfield
Oliver Wingfield
Warren
Gustave C. Walter
Brooklyn
William Walter
Mass. St
Edward Walter
Gustave Walter
Leipzig
Germany
Royal Conservatory
New York
Catherine Butt
John D. Butt
Anna B. Klee
Marie Kuesel
August Butt
Births at Memorial Hospital Births show numerous newborns across area homes
A list from Memorial Hospital records details births and newborns including Velma Martins baby boy at Route 1 and Donna Carpenter with a baby girl at 232 It St. Other couples welcome sons and daughters with names and addresses such as Charles Weers Baldwin Icenogle in Baldwin and phone line notes.
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Pearl Baker
Conn
Velma Martin
Route 1
Wilma Woods
W. 23Rd St
Leo Williams
Baldwin
Estele MacDaniels
Linwood
Bell Burchett
Donna Carpenter
Helga Kursk
Mitchell Rd
Marie Wilson
Baby Boy
Lake St
Lloyd Davidson
Sunflower
Opal Scott
St. Bly
Cent stamp marks Booker T Washington birth centennial sale
The new cent stamp honoring Booker T. Washington’s birth centennial goes on sale April 5 at the Booker Washington Birthplace Va Post Office. First day cancellations available via mailed envelopes with a money order. Nearby, a street power outage north of the Kaw River affected North Lawrence and surrounding areas for about an hour. News items note condemnations in Lawrence and a courtroom indictment involving ex convicts in a separate case.
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Booker T. Washington
Booker Washington
Kaw River
N. 2Nd and
Elm Sts
Powter
North Lawrence
Lecompton
Ferry
Williamstown
Lawrence High A Cappella Choir previews for national conference
The Lawrence High School A Cappella Choir gave an hour long concert Tuesday in the High School Auditorium as a preview of its program for the National Music Educators Conference in St. Louis next month. The group will travel April 12 to 14 to perform at the convention and a fund raising drive by choir members will cover trip expenses. A police court note recalls a man paying a five dollar fine by check but it bounced. The KU All Student Council rejected an honor system and a Europe trip scholarship and set spring elections for April with a primary on April 11 and general on April 18.
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Lawrence High School
Music Educators Conference
St. Louis
University Veterans Organization
Kansas
University
All Student Council
Europe
ASC
City debate over 1945 bond proposals and segregation
The article recounts 1945 bond items including a segregated pool plan that failed and was ruled invalid on a legal technicality. It notes later attempts to revive pool and airport improvements, with a potential 30 year airport site lease pending Kansas Board of Regents approval and possible November ballot appearance.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Jayhawk
Kansas Board of Regents
Alpine Town Buried by Flood Mud in Italy
Flood mud and stones flowed into the Alpine town of Zambana as residents evacuated. Authorities report the alide has buried much of the town in muck up to 20 feet deep, with no casualties due to prior evacuation of about 800 residents.
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Zambana
Italy
Gruenther Says Russia Leads Submarine Race
Gen Alfred M Gruenther Allied commander in Europe says Russia builds more submarines than the rest of the world combined and sees no reason to ease defense measures despite Russia's talk of relaxing tensions. He notes Russia is adding planes airfields and subs yearly.
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Paris
Alfred M. Gruenther
Europe
Russia
Buit
KP&L to Repair Rural Power Lines Damaged by Shots
KP and L will repair 70 plus damaged insulators on the 13 200 volt Lawrence to Perry Lecompton line with night work over the next 30 days. Service will be interrupted for about three hours starting midnight Friday and likely on Friday nights for two weeks if weather allows. Crews will also fix nearby 12 000 volt lines once the Lawrence Perry line is repaired. The damage is caused by shooting at birds and insulators, harming industries, businesses and residents. Report any further destruction to KP and L in Lawrence.
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C. T. Hough
Kp&l
Lawrence
Perry-Lecompton
Perry
Lecompton
Williamstown
Midland
Hough
Lawrence- Perry
Hults pledges Senate bid to aid schools and growth
Kansas state senator candidate Hults releases a statement to the Journal-World detailing his re election bid from the district He argues for continued support of education primary and secondary schools colleges and universities and warns against tax increases while pursuing economy in state government He cites Ways and Means Committee experience and calls for eliminating duplications and unnecessary spending to finance progress.
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Hults
Senate
Journal-World
State Senate
Kansas
Ways and Means Committee
Rural Fires Near Here Damage House and Bridge
Fire damaged a county bridge about three-fourths mile east of Midland and a house near Lawrence on Tuesday evening. The 60-foot bridge was charred and closed. brush and rotten timber were near the site as investigators study the cause. Sparks from a chimney set fire to the Ed Davis residence six miles south of Lawrence on U S Highway 59. Roof damage was heavy. No exact loss estimate yet.
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Midland
Lawrence
John Miller
Miller
Ed’ Davis
U. 8
Highway 59
Sab Traffic Deaths Topekap Kansas 1956 Record
State Accident Records lists traffic fatalities in Topeka and Kansas for the last 24 hours and year to date. In 1956 the totals show 0 for the last day and 134 year to date, compared with 120 in the same period of 1955.
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Topekap
Kansas
Market News Roundup From Kansas City to Wall Street
Market notes show irregular trading across commodities including cotton and wheat with tentative gains in hogs and cattle. Kansas City reports mixed grain quotes and cattle and hog activity with higher live price ranges, while New York stocks end with an irregular session and a slight late uptick in steels motors and coppers.
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K. C. Livesook
Kansas City — Im
USDA
Wall Street
New York
Look Magazine Officer To Speak At Kansan Dinner
Lester Suhler of Des Moines Iowa director of Look Magazine subscription division will headline the annual University Daily Kansan Board dinner May 12 in the Memorial Union Ballroom at Kansas University. KU journalism awards and top student work will be announced along with rankings of journalism school scholars. Suhler KU graduate 1930 with journalism major and a past president of the Direct Mail Advertising Association.
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Lester. Suhler
Des Moines
Towa
Look Magazine
University Daily Kansan
Memorial Union
Kansas University
Suhler
K.U
Direct Mail Advertising Association
Advertising Federation of America
Leo Flanagan
Chicago
Kansan
John McMillion
Coffeyville
Lee Ann Urban
Lincoln
Gretchen Guinn
Delmar
N. Y
Larry Heil
Topeka
Jane Pecinovsky
Lea
Salina Senior Wins Delta Sigma Rho Oratorical Prize
Ted Barnes a Salina senior at The College at Kansas University won first place in the Delta Sigma Rho sponsored oratorical contest at KU. Second place went to John Eland of Topeka, with Manuel Jackson of Kansas City and Willis Moy of Mankato tied for third. Barnes advances to the Missouri Valley Forensic meet at Oklahoma University to compete in oratory.
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Ted Barnes
Salina
College At
Kansas University
Delta Sigma Rho
John Eland
Topeka
Manuel Jackson
Kansas City
Willis Moy
Mankato
Allen Crafton
Natalie Calderwood
Gerald Pearson
E. C. Buehler
Barnes
Oklahoma University
K. U
Heywood Davis
Hugh Bruner
Olathe
Bill Hagman
Pittsburg
John Fields
Hagman
Buehler
Capture Ends After Gun Battle in Virginia Creekbed
In Callands Virginia WW Pollos and deputies subdued a beserk suspect named Sum Harris after a ten hour siege. Harris fled when an armored car breached the home, was shot in the face and eye, and tackled by two state troopers after being found sleeping in a creekbed.
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Callands
Pollos
Sum Harris
Hema
Harris
Kentucky Commission Sets Session on Widening Project
The city commission schedules a Tuesday session at 2 p.m. in City Hall to discuss widening a street in the public right of way, stressing the project will not alter park property. Officials also set bond bid opening for 305,608 dollars, reviewed annexation of Town and Country Addition, approved sewer work, rezoning, and claims totaling 145 322 dollars.
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City Hall
Mass. Sts
Wigglesworth
Town and Country Addition
Memorial Park Cemetery
Fifteenth Street
Moore Associates
Elmwood Street
North Seventh Street
Walnut
Elm
New York St
Card of Thanks for Fire Help and Kindness
Card of thanks from Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rayton and family for aid after their home fire. They thank Monsignor Towle Drs Belot and Bittenbender and Lawrence Memorial hospital nurses, and Mrs Agnes Rapp. Also thanks to Mrs Margaret Kilefier for greetings and care.
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Harry Rayton
Monsignor Towle
Belot and
Bittenbender
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Mrs
Margaret Kilefier
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Johnerburg, V._ M
Wright
AFL &M
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Ora
Garpenter
A. Barlow
John ‘C. Clark
W. Ft O. Wright
Joe Stalin
Rev. Allen New
Memorial Hospital
Alice Blechel
Eudora
Barbara Powell
Ella Schneck
Haskell Ave
Jack Waugh
Eskridge
Delores Johnson
St Charles
Pauline Reed
Oscar Powell
Wallace Koster
Winona St
6Th
Koster
City Commission
4Th and St, Sts
4Th and
Mid. Sts
Jim Wigglesworth
George Bradshaw
Sixth and
Vermont
Thomas P. Mulrooney
West Hills
Mulrooney
William Hart
Hart
P.S
Gruenther
U. S
K. C
Admiral Pem
Allied Chat
Allis
Anac Co
Atchison
Beech Airc
Beth Steel
Uz Boving Air Bill
Sp&pac
Dirty Chrysler
Dow Chem
du Pont
Eagle
Gen Motors U
Homestic
He Kan P&l
Leh Val RR
Lone
Minn
M&m
Monsan Cn Mont Ward
Ohio Oil
Olin
U Pa RR Penney, JC U
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St Jos
St Reg Pap
Sears Roeb
Sinclair O
Socony
Spen Chem
Cal
Ind
Stoke van C Tran
UN Pac
US Steel
Os Woolworth
Douglas County State Bank
Bank of Friendly Service
F.d.i,c
Kentucky
Agnes Rapp
Noland’s Insurance Agency
Ine
Lyman Wiley
Carl's Clothing
George Noland
Noland
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