Huge Blast Shakes II Chicago Region
A massive blast in a North Side tavern near Lawrence and Broadway shattered the Normandy Cocktail Lounge and Aragon Ballroom, damaging storefronts and sending fire through the buildings. No injuries reported. Police linked a bomb possibly tossed from a car. cause under review as internal or gas ignition remains possible. Damages estimated at 50,000 to the ballroom and 30,000 to the tavern.
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Chicago
North Side
Lawrence
Broadway
John Leonard
Uniformed
Raymond J. Daley
Louis Denet
Daley
Interest Rate Reduced On New Land Bank Loans
John Rosenbaum, secretary treasurer of the National Farm Loan Association of Lawrence, said new Federal Land Bank loans issued through the association now bear 5 percent interest, reduced from 5 percent. The Lawrence Association serves Douglas, Jefferson, Leavenworth, Johnson, and Wyandotte counties, financing farmers and ranchers. The rate cut follows a drop in money costs after last fall’s bond-driven expense surge.
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Tte
Rosenbaum
John Rosenbaum
National Farm Loan Association of
Lawrence
Federal Land Bank
Lawrence Association
Federal Land Bank of Wichita
Douglas
Jefferson
Leavenworth
Johnson
Wyandotte
Three Die On Kansas Highways Over Weekend
A car train collision and a pedestrian accident killed two adults in Kansas during the weekend. A 3 year old Salina boy, Michael Vance, died in a Wichita hospital from injuries after being struck last Tuesday. Police said Richard E Anderson, 52, stepped in front of a truck near Wichita in a confusion over an approaching vehicle. Five month old Patricia Moyer and her parents, Duane E Moyer and wife of Erie, were injured when their car hit a train at Chanute. One person was killed on Kansas highways during the corresponding weekend in 1957.
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Associated Press
Kansas
Salina
Michael Vance
Wichita
Richard E. Anderson
Anderson
Patricia Moyer
Duane E. Moyer
Erie
Chanute
Dogs Save Boy From Drowning At Missouri Farm
Mrs. George Davis says two family dogs saved her 22 year old son Glen from drowning at a farm near Mercer Missouri. Glen wandered off Friday as Mr. and Mrs. Davis visited. The dogs sat by a pond about 50 feet from the house watching ripples. Davis pulled him out and revived him in about two minutes.
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Kansas City
George Davis
Glen
Davis
Mercer
Khrushchev Seeks Soviet Support for Farm Machinery Plan
Khrushchev told a joint session of the Supreme Soviet that machinery would be moved from central stations to collective farms with credit for three to five years. He rejected gifts for poor farms, urging manpower and training instead to boost agricultural output and corn production. Foreign Minister Gromyko was expected to discuss nuclear tests and possible U.S. responses.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Khrushchev
Supreme Soviet
Andrei Gromyko
United States
Order of Lenin
Search Continues For Plane Missing in South
A dawn search in Macon Ga resumed for a twin engine Piper Apache missing after clearance to land at Cochran Field. Pilot was Alex Adomatis a Indianapolis businessman with two daughters aboard as planes from the 14th Air Force aid the hunt.
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Macon
Cochran Field
Alex Adomatis
Indianapolis
Ind
Adomatis
14Th Air Force
Rescue crews renew search from Robins AFB dawn patrols
A rescue squadron at Robins Air Force Base rose at dawn to resume the search with Civil Air Patrol units joining. Officials from the Civil Aeronautics Administration said the plane is believed down in an area west of Cochran Field and extending about 30 miles outward.
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Tescue
Robins Air Force Base
Civil Air Patrol
Avil Aeronautics Administration
Cochran Field
Funds Available In Douglas County Conservation Program
Douglas County has remaining funds from the Soil Bank 1958 conservation reserve to cover extra farmer participation. County ASC chairman David Noe urges timely applications at the county ASC office by April 15 for signup under the 1938 conservation reserve program. A $7,000 allocation supports annual land retirement and cost-share payments from new 1958 contracts, with contracts spanning three, five, or 10 years and factors including up to 80 percent cost coverage for five and 10 year terms.
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Soil Bank
Douglas County
David Noe
County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation
Noe
ASC
Accord Reached On Wages Boosts For Eastern Kansas Workers
A wage agreement reached Saturday raises pay for construction workers and general laborers in seven Eastern Kansas counties including Douglas. The 5 to 10 cent increases apply April 1 in Miami Osage Coffey Franklin Anderson and Linn counties and April 1 1959 for a further raise in those counties. In Lawrence and Douglas County the raise is 10 cents effective April 1 this year with another 10 cents on March 1 1959. Local leaders and union officials will explain and ratify the plan at a 7:30 p.m. meeting at the union offices.
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Kansas
Douglas County
Uilph Rupp
Construction and General Laborers Local 1290
The
Journal-World
Wnansas Contractors Assects
Greater Kansas Ciy Labor District Council
Rupp
Lawrence
Miami
Osage
Coffey
Franklin
Anderson and Linn
Kouslas
Leo Boesylan
Kansas educators visit KU on extension meeting plans
A group of educators visited Kansas University to confer with Gerald Pearson about plans for the National University Extension Association session July 7 9 in Salt Lake City Utah Pearson serves as program chairman The visitors were Richard Eastwood Edward Banks and Harold Alford including state and university officials from Alabama Colorado Minnesota Kansas and Denver Center notes Kansas traffic deaths in last 48 hours 3 and to date in 1958 8 and 118 in 1957
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Ahree
Kansas University
Gerald Pearson
National University Extension Association
Salt Lake City
Utah
Pearson
Richard Eastwood
Alabama University
Edward Banks
Denver Center
Colorado University
Harold Alford
St. Paul Center
Minnesota University
Kansas
Topeka
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Small Son
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Raney
Hillcrest Drug
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America
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Leonard Macy
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