Governor Docking Criticized Over Veto Power Threats
Kansas House Taxation Committee chairman and Rep Marlon Mathews condemned Gov George Docking for threatening to veto and for demanding higher revenue bills. Mathews called the proposed budget over 20 million dollars above prior records and labeled the governor's plan austere, urging bipartisan effort to balance it.
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Gether
Topeka
George
Docking
Os Seine
Marlon Mathews
Winfield
Mathews
Kansas
Becket Hanged in Effigy Near Union HQ in Seattle
A stuffed dummy bearing a plaque reading Dave Beck was suspended from a wire between two utility poles along a Seattle street near the Teamsters Union headquarters. The incident occurred late last night near the 19th Street Shopping Center, drawing attention to labor tensions.
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Seattle
Dave Beck
Seattle—and Western
Teamsters Union
Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Live Circus on Road
The Ringling group shifts to a streamlined traveling show heading to New York with a regular passenger train for performers and workers while animals tour separately. John Ringling North presents the idea after a midseason tent folding in Pittsburgh last July.
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Finch
Ringling Bros and
Barnum & Bailey
New York
Cas
John Ringling North
Pittsburgh
North
Cir- Asth Street
Circus Acts Featured in Coliseums and Large Fairs
The report highlights performances by seasoned circus shows playing inside vast coliseums and major fairgrounds. It notes grand rings, trained animals, acrobats, and musical acts drawing crowds across multiple venues.
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Catholic Missionary Freed After Six Years In Japan
Tokyo radio announced the release of Father Fide wenee viress a Roman Catholic missionary from Omak after six years of imprisonment and house arrest on spy charges. Father Gross of the Franciscan order was freed a day before completing his sentence after arrest on March 29, 1951. Bermuda imposes no income tax or inheritance tax and no direct tax except for the Church of England.
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Tokyo
Priping Radio
Tonicht
Fide Wenee Viress
Bermuda
Church of England
Farm Notes price supports for 1957 crops outlined
A government bulletin from the Department of Agriculture lists price supports for oats barley rye and grain sorghums for the 1957 crop. Rates vary by grade with oats at 85 cents per bushel, barley 94 cents, and rye 1.15 dollars. soybeans 2.19 a bushel and flaxseed 2.92. Parity references show supports at 30 percent of parity, with comparisons to 1950. Also notes safety concerns from Kansas State College urging farm families to improve accident prevention. Corner of Overland Park hosts visitors as Pleasant Grove Youth for Christ gathers. ministers Ralph George and Marion McNambles to speak Sunday.
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Wansas Agriculynab Stabrtiee Fon Aed Consersoten
Moesanartsny
Scar Beth
Flaxford
Overland Park
Robert Ulrich
Pleasant Grove
Youth For Christ
Ralph George
Marion McNambles
Kansas City
Pleasant Grove Social Notes and Festival Recap
Pleasant Grove residents Ndlon Gish and family visited Topeka with Mr and Mrs Jack Chewing. John Bowmen and Donna Kerns served as guest organists at the Methodist Church in Kansas City. Mr and Mrs William Keenan hosted Sunday dinner with Mrs Lynda Fuller and daughter Ella. Pleasant Grove school took part in the Rural Musical Festival. Everett Custer and daughters Janis and Linda of Lenixg and James attended with local families.
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Nelon Gish
Jack Chewing
Topeka
John Bowmen
Donna Kerns
Methodist Church
Kansas City
Kas
William. Keenan
Lynda Fuller
Ella
Pleasant Grove School
Everett Custer
Janis
Linda
Lenexg
James
Obituary for Margaret May Horsely Peaslee
Margaret May Horsely born July 10 1871 in Crozier Indiana died March 12 in a Lawrence rest home at 85. She joined Methodist then Church of the Nazarene after moving to Lawrence. She married Herman Wilson Peaslee April 1 1895, had six children. husband and two children preceded her. Survived by son Roy and three daughters along with many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Her family lived on a Baldwin area farm then DeQueen Arkansas before returning to Lawrence.
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James Horsely
Crozier
Ind
Lawrence
Methodist Church
Church of the Nazarene
Herman Wilson Peaslee
Peaslee
Kansas
Baldwin
DeQueen
Ark
Jason
Ohio St
Roy Peaslee
Murry Wilson
Topeka
Walter Spence
Fred Purvis
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