Awards Presented at Liberty Memorial High School Assembly
Liberty Memorial High School inducted its new student council led by outgoing president Max Falkenstein with Stan Stockton as president. Honors include Frank Hart Olney scholarship split between Hugh Bayles and Bob Ellsworth, senior honor pins, honorable mention, and awards to juniors sophomores and freshmen. Thirteen track letters, golf letters to four athletes, tennis letters to seven players, and eighteen girls won intramural letters.
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Liberty Memorial High School
Max Falkenstein
Stan Stockton
Neal Wherry
Frank Hart Olney
Hugh Bayles
Bob Ellsworth
Bill Conboy
Evelyn Cooper
Vera Margaret Hurt
Harry Johnson
Anabel Keeler
Glenn Lessenden
Francis Mee
Alan Stewart
Jane Woestemeyer
Bob Bayles
Dean Gibson
Helen Howe
David Jones
Don Jones
Charlotte Price
Annette Bigelow
Patsy Creel
Wayne Hird
Sue Logsdon
Edwin Longanecker
Harry Stucker
Rudy Carl
Clifford McDonald
Marv Holtzclaw
Martha Jewett
Lawrence Marcellus
Pat Moyer
Marilyn Smart
Albert Spalsbury
Rex Talley
Dick Wagstaff
Frieda Wray
Ruth Clayton
Wallace Grover
Stanley Nelson
Bill Fowler
Bruce Wilder
Mildred Ambler
Rosemary Auchard
Frances Chubb
Jeanne Cooper
Alma Corp
Virginia Dobson
Julie Eschbaugh
Julie Fox
Alice Kasold
Donna Sue Landrith
Charlene Starliper
Victory focus urged by Reed at Kansas Bar meeting
James A. Reed urged total effort for victory over war delays, saying no party or individual should be blamed for lack of prep. John S. Dawson reported Kansas law schools allow army inducted seniors to enter the bar without exam, arguing they might be rusty after prolonged absence.
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Wichita
Kan
James A. Reed
U. S
Missouri
Kansas Bar Association Today
Kansas City
The
Bar Association
John S. Dawson
State Supreme Court
Kansas
High Tribunal
Promised Change in Farm Benefit Plans Drawn Up
Southern congressmen won a pledge from the agriculture department to drop plans to shift over 125 million dollars in government benefit payments from cotton and tobacco to so called war crops under next year’s AAA program. The pledge came as the Senate approved a measure authorizing selling up to 125 million bushels of government owned wheat for livestock feed at below parity prices.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
AAA
Senate
Marriages Pro Tem Rule In Topeka Ceremony
Probate Judge Lorene Taylor officiated two couples yesterday in the absence of Judge Frank Gray. The pairs were Edward N. Edmonds and Florence Williams of Topeka and George W. Fleischer and Ethel J. Caswill, also of Topeka.
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Lorene Taylor
Frank Gray
Edward N. Edmonds
Florence Williams
Tonekd
George W. Fleischer
Ethel J. Caswill
Topeka
Merit Examinations Coming for State Jobs
Mrs Mildred D Watson county welfare director urges filing for Kansas merit examinations. Openings include Field consultant vocational rehabilitation assistant supervisor commodity distribution consultant on assistance standards fiscal officer Class IV and V county medical social eye consultant recording stenographer comptometer operator senior stenographer multilith operator key punch operator and stenographer. Apply by June 10 on official blanks from Ira E McConnell merit supervisor Topeka.
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Mildred D. Watson
Kansas
Ira E. McConnell
Topeka
Girls at Liberty Memorial High Organize Spring Sports Drive
Girls gym classes at Liberty Memorial High School area organize spring sports and a big league baseball schedule with ninety three participants. Leaders club gains new leaders for next year while Pep club emblems are awarded to active girls.
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Liberty Memorial High School
Ruth O’brien
Alice Boener
Julie Fox
Rosemary Auchard
Betty Kennedy
Winifred Arndt
Laverne Cox
Wilma Johnson
A. van Stratton
Sue Stacy
Leaders Club
Eileen Allen
Mickie Ambler
Frances Chubb
Dorothy Cook
Gleniece Fox
Julie Eshbaugh
Pearl Leigh
Violet Mullin
Alice Kasold
Fay Pickens
Betty Galbraith
Joan Ruese
Virginia Allison
Juanita Plaisted
Joan Clough
Helen June Wise
Betty Jo Campbell
Peg Sanderson
Dorothy Dicker
Jane Woestemeyer
Jeanne Cooper
Joan Vickers
Frieda Wray
Mary Dickinson
Caroline Martin
Soweta Grover
Faye Pickens
Donna Ditmars
Becky Logan
Chief of Police Warns Cyclists to Improve Night Safety
Chief Clarence Bliesner urged bicycle riders to use lights at night and ride single file. He warned against riding abreast on sidewalks and reminded pedestrians to cross only with a green light as signs will be installed downtown.
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Clarence Bliesner
Bliesner
No Action on Freshman Rule Prompted by Big Six Meeting
Kansas City May 22 Dr H H King chairman of the Big Six faculty committee says the group will likely not decide until tomorrow on increasing freshman participation in varsity athletics The committee opened a two day session after hearing from Gwinn Henry KU athletic director who explained conference directors recommendation that freshmen with 14 hours of credit in the first semester be eligible second semester and that junior college transfers with 54 hours be allowed to participate immediately Attending were W W Davis KU W W Kraft Oklahoma Sam Shirky Missouri H G Bergman Iowa State and T J Thompson Nebraska
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Kansas City
H. H. King
Kansas State College
Big Six
Gwinn Henry
Kansas University
W. W. Davis
W. W. Kraft
Oklahoma
Sam Shirky
Missouri
H. G. Bergman
Towa State
T. J. Thompson
Nebraska
Prisoners Sentenced and Transferred to State Reformatory
Deputies Francis Skinner and Cecil Georgia escorted four prisoners to Hutchinson for confinement at the state reformatory. Charles Hawkins and John Gober received auto theft sentences while Pete Summers and Joe Robinson were jailed for burglary.
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Hutchinson
Francis Skinner
Cecil Georgia
State Reformatory
Charles Hawkins
John Gober
Pete Summers
Joe Robinson
Lawrence Lodge 6 A F and A M tohold special communication
Lawrence Lodge No. 6 AF and AM announces a special communication on Monday May 25 at 4 30 pm for Entered Apprentice work. Supper at 6 30 pm. All Master Masons are invited. Visitors and sojourners urged to attend. Water H Varnum WM H Quakenbush Secy H Ady
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Lawrence Lodge
A.F
A.M
Water H. Varnum
H. Quakenbush
Ady
German reserves hurled at Russia in broad offensive
Front reports from Krasnograd to Volchansk describe a major Soviet counterattack with Red Army units driving into Nazi positions. Moscow notes a key German stronghold destroyed and a deep penetration into open terrain as the Allied push nears its twelfth month. General Brooke praised American troops and equipment, predicting their imminent participation in combat.
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Ing
Krasnograd
Kharkov
Volchansk
Ukraine
Moscow
Red Star
Northern Ireland
Sir Alan Brooke
Britain
Imperial General Staff
Sir Alan
United States
Local workers adopt 10 percent defense stamp salaries
Lawrence employees at Commonwealth theatres approve a plan to deduct ten percent of weekly salaries for defense stamps. University of Kansas architect Joseph Kellogg attends the AIA meeting in Detroit June 24 25. Water supervisor Willey reports 47 new customers this month averaging over two daily. Sheriff Banning plans to select a new deputy for Eudora soon. Equalization hearings see 107 taxpayers with questions in four days. Veterans of Foreign Wars will sell poppies at The Outlook office with Mrs. Mary Clepper in charge. Rainfall totals 4.40 inches for the month, 81 inch below normal. Kansas State Association of School Boards holds annual fiscal meeting in Topeka. Publicity on Kansas Points of Interest pamphlets available. Pinckney school closes with Margaret Hawkins Marilyn Barr piano duet and Dick Docking baton twirling demonstration.
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Pinckney School
Margaret Hawkins
Marilyn Barr
Dick Docking
Edith Smith
Pipeline Across Florida Bill Advances in Committee
The rivers and harbors committee approved a bill to build a barge canal and a petroleum pipeline across Florida and enlarge the gulf coast inland waterway to Mexico. It would authorize 144 million dollars for construction from Jacksonville to Port St. Joe and ease the east coast petroleum shortage.
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Washington
Florida
Gulf Coast Inland Waterway
Mexico
Roline Rivers and Harbors
Mansfield
D-Tex
Jacksonville
Port St. Joe
Fla
Attorney General Orders Treason Indictment of Max Stephan
Attorney General Biddle directed the U S attorney in Detroit to seek treason charges against Max Stephan for allegedly aiding German air force lieutenant Peter Krug after his escape from a Canadian prison camp. This marks the first treason prosecution in the current war, with penalties up to death.
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Washington
Biddle
United States
Detroit
Max Stephan
Peter Krug
Canada
Mc Donald Convicted in Theaters Slaying of Sweetheart
Chicago reports Clarence Mc Donald, 17, was found guilty of murder for shooting his high school sweetheart Dorothy Broz, also 17, in a darkened movie theater balcony. The jury of eight women and four men sentenced him to life imprisonment after a nine day trial amid insanity defense claims.
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Chicago
UPA Criminal Court
Clarence McDonald
Dorothy Broz
Dapper McDonald
Use Puerto Rican and Virgin Island sugar to ease shortage
Representative Rees argues in Washington that surplus sugar from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands should be used for domestic relief rather than making rum. He notes 2,000,000 gallons of Puerto Rican rum and 1,000,000 gallons from Virgin Islands imports last year and cites subsidies of $60,000 yearly for Virgin Islands sugar production.
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Washington
Virgin Island
Rees
House
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
United States
May Build Storage Space to Ease Lumber Freeze
War Production Board plans to amend its order freezing lumber at mills to release material for grain storage facilities. Rep White said WPB head Donald Nelson sent a telegram granting exceptions pending the amendment for individual grain storage lumber requests.
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War Board
Washington
White
D-Id
War Production Board
Donald Nelson
WPB
Local Surgeon Arrested in Liquor Store Vandalism
Marion Virginia May 22 A locally prominent surgeon Dr J Stuart Staley was charged with malicious destruction of property after entering a liquor store, removing his coat and smashing bottles. Town officers halted the act and he was released on a 500 bond.
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Marion
J. Stuart Staley
Cub Pack 55 Meeting At Pinckney School Auditorium
Pack 55 will hold a regular meeting Monday at 7 30 in the Pinckney school auditorium. Parents and friends are invited. Ten boys will receive Bobcat pins, the largest group ever entering the pack, with additional awards for monthly achievements.
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Pinckney School
Carload Freight Check Ordered on May 27 by ODT
UPI reports a nationwide check on all carload freight billed and forwarded from each railroad station on May 27 as a preliminary step to set priorities for transportation of materials and fuel. Also notes executions ordered in Mannheim Berlin on May 22 with fourteen men condemned for high treason after a Communist organization discovery.
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Washington
UPI
Office of Defense Transportation Today
Mannheim
Berlin
Classified ads move livestock and farm goods monthly
Farmers sell thousands of dollars of livestock and farm products each month through the Journal-World classified section.
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Journal-World
Joint North American Air Training Committee Formed
Ottawa announces UPR A decision to form a joint committee on air training in North America at a five day conference with 14 United Nations representatives. The panel will include United States Canadian and British members with a US chair and headquarters in Washington. China Norway and the Netherlands will consult on matters of mutual interest.
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Ottawa
UPR
North America
United Nations
United States
Washington
China
Norway
Netherlands
C. G. Power
Two Vessels Torpedoed Off Atlantic and Gulf
The navy reports the sinking of a small United States merchant vessel off the Atlantic coast and a small Honduran vessel in the Gulf of Mexico. Survivors from both ships were landed at east and gulf coast ports respectively. A Swedish-American liner then sailed from Lisbon with 875 passengers, many exchangees for axis internees.
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Washington
United States
Atlantic
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf Coast
Lisbon
Portugal
Drottingholm
Eudora News: Local trades, visits and church travel update
Mr and Mrs Tom Atteberry of Osawatomie buy two lots from Mary Cook for a modern home. Edward Keyes of Kansas City dined with the Moll family. J D Adams and George Lothholz attended a Kansas League of Municipalities meeting in Topeka. The Weidensauls returned from Marion conference and resume their pastorate. Several neighbors hosted guests and conducted visits in Lawrence Kaw Valley and nearby towns.
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Tom Atteberry
Osawatomie
Mary Cook
Edward Keyes
Kansas City
Fred Moll
J. D. Adams
George Lothholz
Kansas League of Municipalities
Topeka
Adams
M. H. Cox
Gottlieb Nieder
Tonganoxie
W. O. Flory
Marie Rothberger
Arlene Gros
Community notices from Eudora and Parkville events
Attendees from Eudora joined the Womens Guild convention at St Pauls in Parkville Missouri. Farewell for W R Henley of Hesper hosted by the Hesper Friends Church. W I T Y club met with bridge high by Seon Walker and refreshments served. Jed Moll resigned as school custodian after 24 years. Local moves as Gerald Miller family relocate. Auto collision at Church and 3rd streets caused minor damage with no injuries.
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Douglas Harris
Tena Miskimen
Albert Weichman
Martha Gertz
Homer Gerstenberger
Henry Reifschneider
Gus Koch
Ralph James
Lulu Lotz
Koch
James
Womens Guild
Eudora Church
Eudora
W. R. Henlevy
Hesper
Seon Walker
Low
Ethel Bohnsack
May Adams
Mattie Kindred
Viola Broers
John Kazmaier
Ora McCabrin
Leoti Walker
Reitzel
Ben Ness
Harold Lee Zimmerman
Community Notes Highlight Farm Bureau Activities and Visits
Valley City visitors Mr and Mrs Frank Strong tour area. Oakridge students invite families to Liberty high school graduation with Rev O E Allison speaking. Extensions-led nutrition and recreation lessons held for Farm Bureau groups at I O O F and Oakridge hall. Local aviation model hobbyist Jack Toms returns from Neosho Falls then Kansas City event. R R Weakley trips Topeka. Sunflower Ordnance Works visit enriches social ties with Wichita guests.
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Frank Strong
Valley City
N. D
Lawrence
Farm Bureau
Deal
Midland
Joyce Ann
Wayne
Ralph Lee Leonhard
Allan Kirby
Oakridge’ School
Liberty High School
O. E. Allison
M. E. Church
Mary Fletcher
Ambrose Bigsby
Ll. Weeks
Oakridge
Doris Compton
H. G. van Neste
Oakridge Group
Jack Toms
Bill Sunquist
Neosho Falls
Kansas City
Jack
Elizabeth Loewenstein
Frank Leonhard
Alumni Vocational Agricultural
Evans Hearth
Lyte Weeks
W. H. Weeks
Lawrence Leonhard
F. H. Leonhard
Harry Miller
Walter Heck
R. R. Weakley
Topeka
Perry Palmateer
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Eudora
Bill Dumler
Wichita
Dumler
Vera Morgan
Douglas County
Nellie Lindsay
Market News Chicago Potato Market May 22
Arrivals 143 on track 247 total U S shipments 941 supplies light demand slow Idaho Russets market slightly weaker northern stock about steady U S No 13 20 Maine Katahdins No 12 75
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Chicago
Ap-Usda
U.S
Idaho
Market slips after Washington warns optimism unwarranted
New York May 22 AP Authorities warned that optimism in stock market optimism regarding a world conflict outcome was unwarranted or premature. At the open hesitancy followed a Thursday buying bulge in selected issues with a late final hour drift to losses. Transfers neared 300 000 shares as bidders lacked inspiration from news on battles business or federal controls.
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Washington
United Nations
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Kansas State Association of School Boards
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Harold Rigsby
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