Canadian Writer Analyzes Basic Red China Industries
Peking dispatch by a Canadian reporter rates eleven industrial plants, naming three as good, four indifferent, and four bad. The textile factory in Peking leads, with 66 percent female workforce, 80,000 spindles, and 280,000 meters daily. Shenyang cable factory shows heavy output and Russian-built machinery. Other plants in Anshan and Harbin rate lower for aimlessness and lack of purpose, while wage figures and output details illustrate ongoing industrial effort.
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Red China
China
Southam Newspapers
Canada
Peking
Peking Coke and Chemical Fac
Tory
Shenyang
Niagara Falls
Switzerland
Manchuria
Anshan
Harbin
KU Rifle Team Honored At Mt. Oread Ceremony
The Kansas University varsity rifle team was honored at a Corps of Cadets awards ceremony. Col. Max L. Pitney presented awards to captain Harvey Edmonds. The team placed third in three competitions and two members, John Strahan and Wayne London, made the Big 8 all conference team.
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Mt. Oread
Kansas University
Corps of Cadets of the University Army Rotc
Max L. Pitney
Harvey Edmonds
Nebraska University
Kansas State College
John Strahan
Wayne London
Charles Burre
Donald Lang
James Simms
John Frick
Army Rotc
Charles Whited
Air Force Rotc
Don Luellen
Melba Moore
Strike Continues as Bolivia Mines Sit Idle
In La Paz the general strike against the banishment of Juan Lechin keeps most tin mines and many factories railroads and newspapers closed. A state of siege was decreed by the military junta but no drastic action has appeared. President Rene Barrientos urged workers to renounce their leftist leaders and return to work.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Juan Lechin
Rene Barrientos
Merger Talks Continue Between Anglican and Methodist
London AP reports bishops and clergy of the Church of England voted overwhelmingly for continued negotiations with Methodists. A two stage plan envisions first separate churches recognizing each other’s clergy and sharing communion, then forming one church.
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London
Church of England
Bell Official Speaker For Sertoma Program
Jack Popplewell of Southwestern Bell Telephone spoke to the Lawrence Sertoma Club at the Holiday Inn on Tuesday evening. He described speech organ physiology and training for voice communication, showed lab demos that let computers talk and sing, and reviewed Bell's telephone history. Walter Heck introduced him. Richard Carter and Ken Rehmer joined the club. reports covered the Kansas district Sertoma convention by Arthur Heck and E. J. Allison.
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Jack Popplewell
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Topeka
Lawrence Sertoma Club
Holiday Inn
Popplewell
Alexander Graham Bell
Walter Heck
Richard Carter
Ken Rehmer
Arthur Heck
Kansas
E. J. Allison
Lawrence Club
Corcoran Likely Elected Kansas Democratic Chair
Tom Corcoran Overland Park businessman appears set to win the Kansas Democratic state chairmanship at a Saturday meeting, succeeding Maurice Martin who resigns to become state director of the Federal Housing Administration. The party leadership backs Corcoran, with Frank Theis and Harry G. Wiles guiding the process, possible plan for an executive secretary also discussed.
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Frank Theis
Harry G. Wiles
Corcoran
Clay Center
State Democratic Committee
Kansas
Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Kansas Young Democrats
Theis Today
Wiles
Theis
Robert Domme
Topeka
George
Docking Democrat 1956 hire cited money and other issues
The source notes that Docking, a Democrat in 1956, has not been hired in recent years due to money and other factors, as stated by Theis.
Icebreaker Edisto Heads In After Rescue of 20 on Ice Slab
In Boston the icebreaker USS Edisto arrives harbor after a month of battling melting Arctic ice to rescue 20 men from a melting slab northwest of Iceland. The Arctic project ends the Arlis II saga, a four year ice island mission ferrying scientists from Alaska to the Greenland Sea.
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U.S
Edisto
Ice Island
Arlis II
Boston
Boston Harbor
Iceland
Arctic Ocean
Alaska
Greenland Sea
Navy
Antarctica
Keflavik
University of Alaska
Office of Naval Research
Indian pilot eyes solo Atlantic flight from Wichita
Hari Bhagat, 35, chief pilot for an Indian industrial group, arrives in Wichita to ferry a Beechcraft plane to India. He jokes about being the first Indian to fly solo across the Atlantic or the first to drown. He aims to learn skydiving and hopes to start an Indian skydiving club, citing China’s push for the sport amid border tensions.
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Wichita
Hari Bhagat
India
Atlantic Ocean
Bhagat
Beech Aircraft Co
Chicken Game Fatal As Train Hits Youth
In New Orleans AP reports two youths Earl Martinez aged 13 and Roy Garland aged 16 were on railroad tracks when the Illinois Central Panama limited train struck them. Martinez died at the scene and Garland was injured. Authorities caution against dangerous stunts on tracks and note the incident under investigation.
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New Orleans
Earl Martinez
Roy Garland
Illinois Central
Panama
Train derailment kills man near Kenner suburb
A passenger train struck a man identified as Martinez Tuesday north of the Kenner area, after a dare led to him staying on the tracks the longest before jumping. Garland stated he jumped first as the accident occurred.
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Garland
Martinez
Kenner
New Orleans
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