Seining Efforts At Tongatoxie Lake Yield Mixed Results
The Tongatoxie Lake fishery shows poor bite and variable yields as crews count bass crappie and catfish, with plans to relocate overpopulated species and plant new vegetation on dried banks. Officials warn conditions may improve with warmer weather and contemplate fertilizer use to stimulate feeding.
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Anderson
VanDulwem
Tonga
Tongatoxie Lake
Fisherman's Utopia
Kanaaa
State Commission
Lone Star Lake
Kansas
Lelveworth
Hi ‘Tha
Brown County
Grant
Recnrc
Caretaker van
VanDaleem
Bushela
TRY TO RESTORE ORDER IN CALCUTTA AS VIOLENCE CONTINUES
Calcutta reports police efforts to restore order amid Hindu Muslim clashes entering a fourth day. Authorities logged 17 incidents including stabbings assaults looting and shootouts with 23 rounds fired and 43 arrests between 1 and 11 am. Hospitals showed eight dead and 59 wounded yesterday.
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Calcutta
Cp—Troopa
Hospitala
Chicago Alumni Drive Opens Sixth annual drive for Chicago alumni
Misa Ada Swineford of the State Geological Survey and Misa Anna D. McCracken head the local sixth annual University of Chicago Alumni Foundation drive starting in April. About 1,000 Chicago alumni in 400 cities nationwide participate in the 1947 gift effort expected to reach $200,000.
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Misa Ada Swineford
Ohio Street
State Geological Survey
University of Kansas
Misa Anna D. McCracken
Marsachusetts Street
University of Kansas Extension Division
University of Chicago
United States
Paroled Wichita woman confesses to kidnapping
Verna Grace Gibbons Kiger was sentenced in district court to two years on parole after pleading guilty to kidnapping Jerry Hendrix, 4. She claimed she did not kidnap for money and cited her attachment to the boy, with defense counsel presenting her statement. The case was handled at the Lansing industrial farm for women and related to the parents Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hendrix.
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Wichita
Kan
Verna Grace Gibbons Kiger
Lansing
Jerry Hendrix
Paul Hendrix
Kiger
Pensom
Tax assessment reveals varied property levies in Lawrence area
County budget director Mildred LeSuer reported a $36.58 levy divided among city of Lawrence Douglas county district 60 schools and state of Kansas. Intangible properties taxed one third to schools and Lawrence, one sixth to Douglas county and one sixth to the state. In 1948 total taxes reached $1,143,031.10 with over $954,000 collected to date.
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Mildred LeSver
City of
Lawrence
Douglas County
Atate
Kansas
Honda
Alpha Delta Pi Honors Two Grand Officers in Lawrence Visit
Two national Alpha Delta Pi officers visited Lawrence for a weekend including a luncheon at the Memorial Union Old English room. Mrs. Thomas W. Harris Jr. of Berkeley directs national building, while Mrs. H Lawrence Shipman of Kansas City, longtime Tau chapter leader, now serves as first vice president overseeing collegiate chapters. They recently installed four new Alpha Delta Pi chapters at Oklahoma, Miami, Memphis State, and Mt Union College.
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Alpha Delta Pi Sorority
Lawrence
Memorial Union
Thomas W. Harris, Jr
Berkeley
Calif
Alpha Delta Pi
National
United States
Haris
Tau
St. Louis
Tthe Grand Council
H. Lawrence Shipman
Janet Strong
Kansas City
University of Kansas
The
Building Corporation
Priince
Kansas
Issouri
Colorado
Estes Park
Colo
Harris
Shipman Tave
University of Oklahoma
Norman
University of Miami
Miami, Fla
Memphis State College
Memphis, Tenn
Mt. Union College
Alliance
Ohio
Lawrence voices mix with Broadway names and city planning
In Lawrence the chccnical job and Jolson era parallels show singing by Paras stand in for a Broadway voice. City planning debates middle Midtown school siting, land sales, and Ninth Kentucky street block development, plus concerns over building codes and unsafe walls downtown.
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Paras
Jolson
Parke
Steve Hinshaw
Ninth and
Kentucky Streets
Ninth Street
Kentucky
Tennessee Street
K. U
Midtown
Massachusetts
Hollywood group arrives for Trail Street event at Granada
A Hollywood group arrives at noon and, starting 3 40 p m, actors will appear at the Granada theater for Trail Street crowds. Theater manager Stan Schwahn says no contestant won the film pass prizes. all receive two passes to any Lawrence theater. A telegram from RKO confirms the correct contest answers listing Madge Meredith Billy House Bill Williams Nan Leslie Ray Witsley.CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our friends and relatives for their cards flowers and kindness shown during the death of our husband and father. Mrs Chris Meuffels and children.
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Ian
Haskell
Granada Theater
Trail Street
Stan Schwahn
Lawrence
Artore
Schwahn
RKO Studios
Hollywood
Madge Meredith
Chris Meuffels
U S Ships to European Waters on Tramming Crane
Commander L Conolly of U S naval forces in Jerrapeen will lead ships including New Jersey Wisconsin Essex class Kearsarge and Ran Sol with destroyers Cone Stribling Oars and Meredith and the dock Fort Mandan to European waters on a mission amid guarded dispatches and training.
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L. Conolly
U.S
Jerrapeen
New Jersey
Wisconsin
Kearsarre
Deaths and Funerals From Baldwin To Lawrence
Obituaries and funeral notices list Earl Hobson of Baldwin died after a stroke and funeral moved to Monday at Ives chapel with burial in West Baldwin. Dr E G Wood of Holston Hills Knoxville died from cerebral hemorrhage after 15 years as Tennessee medical leader. Curtis Eugene Adams, 45, of 925 Alabama, dies with services Tuesday at Rumsey funeral home and burial in Maryville Missouri. Naomi Alice Sill, 84, dies at 1135 Ohio street with services Monday at Rumsey funeral home. Surviving relatives listed for each.
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Earl Hobson
Baldwin
Ives Chapel
Willis Warner
West Baldwin Cemetery
EG. Wood
E. G. Wood
Holston Hills
Knoxville
Tenn
Wood
University of Tennessee College For Medicine
Memphis
Knoxville Academy of Medicine
American Medical Asociation
South East Surgical Society
International College of Surgeons
Kansas City Southwest Clinical Society
St. James Episcopal Church
Virginia Melvin Wood
Wrence
Edith Wood
W. P. Wood
Strawberryplains, Tenn
Curtis E Adama Curtis Eugene Adams
Alabama Street
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Rumsey
C. Fosberg Hughes
Maryville
Henrietta Schropp
Santa Barbara
Calif
Alice Ruth Adams
Lawrence
William T. Adams
Amsterdam
Mra. Frank Berry
Kansas City
Howard Adams
Madison
Kan
Earl Adams
Baldwinville
N.Y
Naomi A. Sirl
Naomi Alice Sill
Ohio Street
M. F. Bess
Rumsey Funeral Home
John W. Sillson
Michael Allan
Earl W. Thompson
Emporia
Elmer Thompson
Lyons
Earl
Edgerton
John
Independence
Edgar
David
Allan
Mra
Ray Churchman
Cleo Morris
Stafford
James Gibson
Mere
Benny_Rhoades
Great Bend
Theita Thompson
Conference sets April 2 target for German unity talks
The talks center on unity, provisional government, and industry and reparations with a mid April deadline. Officials expect possible new deadlines as discussions progress. A secret ministerial report shows the U S Britain France and Russia tangled over reparations and economic unity, with stark steel of western and Soviet positions.
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Tog 1
Marshall
Hight
Germany
Austria
Tamsin
Ministers’ Coordinating Committee
U. S
Britain
France
Russia
Coordinating Committee
Ernest Bevin
Europe
Sugar Price and Rationing Controls Extended
Washington reports a bill to extend sugar price and rationing controls to October 1, transferring authority from the OPA to the Agriculture Secretary. It would permit a home use ration up to 50 pounds per year and may rise to 54 pounds if supplies warrant. Congress aims to pass the extension for President Truman’s signature before midnight Monday.
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Washington
House
Senate
OPA
Secretary For Agriculture
Truman
Livestock Market Report Kansas City March 14
Cattle prices mixed with steers and heifers steady to weak, cows down, vealers steady. feeders up slightly. Hogs uneven, lighter weights lower. sows about 1.00 lower. Sheep scarce, week’s firm to lower with lambs and ewes softer. Texas spring notes appear in market summary.
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Manaas City
Kansas City
Ap-Usdai
Steddy
Crocker
Delvers Tragen
Texas
Hay Market Notes And Mixed Stock Ticker Summary
Kansas City March reports show mixed hay prices with two alfalfa sales at 327.08 while quality sellers remain steady to firm. Wall Street closes with a slow session and fractional declines, with many key stocks unchanged or only slightly off.
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Kansas City
Kansas Ciy
Mar
Wall Street
New York
Wro
TR A Een
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Ever
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Ruth Hussey
Pricea
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Bill Williams
Leslie
Ray Whitley
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Great For
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