Columbia Missouri radiation reading not a hotspot
The AEC does not call Columbia a atomic hot spot despite gamma ray readings about 25 millirosentgens from puddle water after rain. Dr. W D Keller of the University of Missouri notes the spike, likely fallout from Nevada tests, while Las Vegas officials deem it below safe limits and uncertain.
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Local Job Office Lists 22 Openings This Week
Lawrence Kansas State Employment Service lists 22 openings this week with 20 firms hiring. Women fill two bookkeepers two stenographers a tabulating operator three salespersons five waitresses two laundry workers and a bakery worker. Men seek a fry cook a dishwasher a farm hand an electrical repairman an automobile serviceman and a routeman. Last week 34 people were placed, 18 men and 16 women.
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Kansas State Employment Service
Opera double bill at University Theater contrasts two eras
The University Theater and the School of Fine Arts present Riders to the Sea by Vaughan Williams and The Marriage Merchant by Rossini. The program emphasizes mood and orchestral interludes over melodic vocal lines, highlighting recitative and parlando with little distinctive singing.
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Opera Review of The Marriage Merchant and Cast Praise
The review lauds performances by Hart Parke Craft Coleman Wilcox Davison Hart Merrilyn and Reetz with strong praise for Mauryn as the star and an ensemble of 12 in a Vaughan Williams score. The 31d Piece orchestra highlighted musical subtleties as the production recalled a bygone era of singing and staged drama.
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Carolyn Craft
Merrilyn Coleman
William Wilcox
Jack Davison
Carolyn Hart
Mauryn
Gretta Reetz
K.A
Nan- Noyes
Nora
Bartley
Delcina Guest
Vaughan-Williams
Admiral Says 7th Fleet Can Take Care of Self
P A Adm Felix B Stump said the 7th Fleet can take care of itself amid questions on Communist air strength near Formosa He held talks with Chiang Kai-shek and stated no expected change in the military situation around Quemoy and Matsu and offshore islands.
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Pearl Harbor
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Stump
Quemoy
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John Garcia Receives Corpus Christi Fine Arts Colony Scholarship
John Garcia city schools art supervisor wins a full scholarship to the Corpus Christi Fine Arts Colony in Texas from May 30 to June 11. He previously attended the colony and helped advocate scholarships for pupils. A half scholarship may go to a Junior High girl. Garcia will study watercolor with Elliott O Hara, noted Washington D C artist.
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Garcia
United States
Elliott O'Hara
Washington, D. C
Goose Bay
O'Hara
Students Move Books in Greenwood Hallway Transfer
Students and teachers at Lander College in Greenwood South Carolina carried books from the old library to the new facility amid a hallway gathering with punch served.
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No Radioactivity Here in Lawrence Area
Prof. Frank E. Hoecker of Kansas University reports no unusual radioactivity in the Lawrence area. A geiger counter in the lab shows nothing out of the ordinary and officials seek reports of suspected radioactivity for testing. The AEC has had no significant fallout reports from the May 5 blast.
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Hope Carlson Propose Commission on Renewable Resources
Rep Hope and Sen Carlson propose bills creating a federal commission to study and promote conservation orderly development and sustained use of renewable natural resources including land water and forests The measure frames policy as joint federal state and local responsibility.
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Clark AFB Brief Polio Shots For 2100 Children
About 2 100 children of military personnel at Clark Air Force Base north of Manila received a second injection of the Salk polio vaccine yesterday. A spokesman said no difficulties with the vaccine have been reported at Clark.
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U. S. Clark Air Force Base
Clark
Weather Across Regions Sees Mixed Rain and Cool Spells
Light rain and drizzle were reported in a belt from Pennsylvania to the Ohio Valley into Arkansas and Missouri. Texas saw showers and scattered thunderstorms, western Washington had light rain, and fog lingered in the Appalachians and southern Great Lakes. Northeastern Indiana and Lower Michigan were near freezing, while most areas logged 40s and 50s with 60s to 70s in the Southeast and Texas.
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Opera Double Bill By G. Criss Simpson
Lawrence music lovers were treated to an epilogue to Music Week with a double bill featuring performances by G Criss Simpson and collaborators. The program blended operatic arias and instrumental interludes, drawing diverse audiences to the city venue.
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