Color Camera Club to Meet in Lawrence
The Lawrence Color Camera Club holds a 7:30 p m meeting Friday in the Lawrence Community Building second floor classroom. Miss Mevibah Moore and Robert Kay judge the Pin Point Contest with slides from sites around Lawrence. prizes go to the top three entries. Members and guests will share recent pictures and prints from Chicago and Holland.
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Lawrence Color Camera Club
Lawrence
Mevibah Moore
Robert Kay
Chicago
Hollami
Kansans Urge Funding for Verdigris Dam Projects
A Kansas delegation urged a Senate Appropriations subcommittee to approve 2.8 million dollars for the Verdigris River Toronto Dam construction and related flood control work. Leaders from Neosho-Cottonwood Flood Association cited completing Strawn Dam and starting plans for Council Grove Marion and Cedar Point dams.
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Washington
Senate
Kansas
Toronto
Verdigris
George Fox
Chetopal
Neosho-Cottonwood
Six Junior High Pupils Initiated as Library Aides
Six JHS pupils were initiated as library aides in a ceremony in the JHS library. The new aides include Katy Wright Joyce Murphy Justina Wilton Stephan Heider Brian Grace and Clifford Harding under the five year old Advanced Library Pupils program. Final initiation requires a comprehensive exam in library practices with Mrs. Margaret Lowman supervising.
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JHS
Katy Wright
Joyce
Murphy
Justina Wilton
Stephan Heider
Brian Grace
Clifford Harding
Margaret Lowman
Harold Fearing
Frank Wiebe
Shirley Scott
Jim Anderson
Marilyn Smith
Local youth held on forged check charge in Leavenworth
A 20 year old Leavenworth youth was held by the sheriff after attempting to cash a forged $25 check near a local food store. Deputy Sheriff Dale Chap said the youth likely would be charged later today.
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Leavenworth
Dale Chapis
Sheriff's of
Pell
Eisenhower backs Salk vaccine to end polio
President Eisenhower expressed strong belief that the Salk polio vaccine will eliminate polio in the United States within a reasonable time. He discussed potential vaccine releases and noted scientists seek extra safety as manufacturers resume production while the public inoculation program eyes a restart.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Public Health Service
Detroit
Scheele
CBS
Schelle
Final A-Blast in Nevada Series Delayed by Wind
The 1955 nuclear test final in Nevada was postponed before the 5:05 a.m. detonation due to unacceptable wind patterns. A new weather briefing will decide if the blast can attempt at 5 a.m. tomorrow. The concluding shot features a 3e to 33. kipton device on a 500 foot tower.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Nevada
Atomic Energy Commission
Kipton
$35,000 Damage Action Is Filed in Court Here
Mrs. Jessie McCracken of Baldwin files a $35,000 damage suit in District Court alleging negligence by Michael Maturo of 824 Miss. St. for a March 27, 1954 traffic crash on the 1000 block of Massachusetts Street that harmed her right foot knee and back.
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Jessie McCracken
Baldwin
Michael Maturo
Miss. St
NATO hopes for end to hostilities in Far East
The NATO council of foreign ministers expressed hope for a cessation of hostilities in the Far East and no further resort to force. Foreign Secretary Pearson cited a possible surrender of Quemoy and Matsu in exchange for a collective security pledge to Chiang Kai-shek's Formosa regime. NATO endorsed talks with Soviet Premier Brezhnev and welcomed Western proposals to initiate negotiations with the Soviet Union.
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Paris G
North Atlantic Alliance
Formosa
NATO Council of Foreign Ministers
Far East
Jester Pearson
NATO
Quemoy
Matsu
Chiang Kau-shek
United Nations
Pearson
Bruin
NATO Council
Nikolai Bulswnin
NATO Ronnei
France
United Kingdom
United States
Soviet Union
County Court Fines Seve ral Traffic Violations
Two people were fined in County Court for traffic violations. Oscar George Krauss of Corpus Christi Texas paid 20 dollars and costs for passing in a no passing zone. John M. also faced the same penalties.
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Oscar George Krauss
Corpus Christi
Texas
John M
Immunity Gap After Cold Recovery
Medical estimates indicate that a person who recovers from a cold will be immune to another cold for an average of about seven weeks.
Former Residents Return to Lawrence in Interim Home
Former Lawrence residents Dr and Mrs E L Griffin return from Washington DC and stay with Mr and Mrs Charles Spray while awaiting their new home north of town. Dr Griffin retired April 20 after 12 years as a chemist in the pest control branch of the Agricultural Research Service. The Griffins, former Lawrence natives and KU graduates in 1911, are tied to local education through Mrs Griffin’s late mother, a former Lawrence Board of Education member.
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E. L. Griffin
Washington, D.C
Charles Spray
Lawrence
la Griffin
Pest Coontrol
Acricultmal Research Service
USTLA
Tors
Griffin
Kansas University
Ruth Spray
Eol Griffin
Lawrence Board of Education
Stamps Fund Stationery for Mexican Girls School
Dallas women mail old postage stamps to the Presbyterian School for Mexican Girls in Taft Texas. The girls craft oriental western and floral scenes on stationery, turning the stamps into a money making project for the school.
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Dallas
Tex
Presbyterian School
Taft
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Lawrence Junior High
Sth
Sts
Germany
Artilley
Europe
Journal- World Photo
Ike
Childs Fabric Oxford
Childrens Camp
Childrens
Childs Brown
Womens Fabric Oxford
Longines Willnatcer Hamilton
Asher
Tom
Akin
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