Scrap Piles Salvaged at Sunflower Ordnance Works
The Sunflower Ordnance Works salvage department near DeSoto Kansas has collected over 8,464,000 pounds of scrap metal from the plant site. Usable items such as valves and pipes are sorted back to warehouses while unusable material is categorized and sent to depots or sold to bidders. Copper wire and lead pipes are melted into ingots at the on site smelter for immediate use in Sunflower equipment.
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Sunflower Ordnance Works
DeSoto
Kan
Acrop Ig
United States Army Finance
Kansas City
Leavenworth
United States Federal Penitentiary
Lawrence
Victory
Sunflower
Ordnance Service Command
Abilene
Sunflower Salvage Yards
Gecrap
Plan A Play Program At Lawrence Playground Institute
The Lawrence Playground Recreation Institute held the first of three meetings at Robinson gym with all staff and interested locals present. Leaders outlined summer play and art programs, singing and folk dances, and square dancing activities for various age groups. The Cordley district sent the largest turnout. sessions run 8 to 10 pm Wed and Thu at Robinson gym aiming to broaden community recreation efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Playground Recreation Institute
Robinson Gym
Clfford
Maurice Cannady
Maude Ellsworth
Irene Oliver Lafeyette
Woodlawn
Marion Lane
LaVone Jacobson
Ruth Hoover
University Women’s Physical Education Department
Cordley
McAllaster School
A. Randall
J. W. Rendall
G. O. Dryden
Pinckney
Hanel Lee Simmons
Famperye Hinte
Labor market in Lawrence shows farm and clerical demand
A state employment agency report outlines a large demand for farm labor and clerks in stores and restaurants, with smaller needs for general laborers. Teachers lack clerical prospects as summer ends, while construction, railroad, and defense plant work offer some opportunities. A WLB rule limits hires between essential employers and workers for 60 days, with a free-agent status after 30 days unemployment. Civil service exams for secretaries and stenographers are held weekly, offering jobs upon passing.
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Atoeres
Lawrence
State Employment Agency
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Hercules Powder Company
WLB
Civil Service
Sunflower workers seek regular size auto license plates
Sunflower Ordnance Works staff and dispersed workers press for regulation size 1942 Kansas plates. Treasurers say steel for 1942 plates arrived and production should finish in about three weeks. Officials discuss personal property tax timing and December deadlines with Attorney General Mitchell promising guidance.
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Sunflower Ordnance Works
Kansas
Topeka
Roytory
A. M. Gardner
State Reformatory
Flory
Gardner
A. B. Mitchell
Mitchell
Liberian President Barclay Due at White House Visit
President Edwin Barclay of Liberia, leader of the Negro republic in Africa, was due at the White House late today to repay a visit Roosevelt first paid him in January.
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White House
Washington
Edwin Barclay
Liberia
Africa
United States
Roosevelt
Cord of Wood Contains 125 Cubic Feet
A cord of wood measures 125 cubic feet in volume as typically defined. The standard cord equals a stack 4 feet high, 4 feet wide, and 8 feet long, yielding 128 cubic feet, with variations noted in practice.
American nurses return to Australia after New Guinea frontline service
Twenty eight American Army nurses who endured Buna campaign conditions have come back to Australia. They spent five months near combat front lines in an American hospital, faced air raids and incendiaries, and suffered through hardship before regaining weight and health.
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Australia
New Guinea
Nurses in New Guinea campaign care for 500 patients at once
As work slowed and food improved, during the peak of the campaign the group treated about 500 patients at one time. Surgery ran 24 hours a day. Chief nurse First Lieut. Helen Gray of Washington, D.C., says most of the girls want to return but they valued being where events were unfolding and aware of what was happening.
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Helen Gray
Washington, D.C
New Guinea
Pressure on Rumania to send large army to Russia
Berlin reports allege Germany is pressuring Romania to deploy 18 to 25 divisions to the Soviet front this year. Baron Killinger urged removal of a key Romanian leader amid rumors of pro Allied leanings as Romanians face renewed crackdowns and executions for suspected saboteurs.
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Ankara
Germany
Rumania
Paron Manfred von Killinger
Soviet Union
Russia
Stalingrad
Ukraine
Transylvania
Hungary
Ion Antonescu
Baron Killinger
Marshal Antonescu
Romania
Canning Demonstration Attracts Dozens At Community Building
About 39 women attended the canning demonstration last night at the community building. Miss Dorothea Schroeder home demonstration agent led the session assisted by Mrs W C Boardman. The program covered best canning methods jars lids rubbers and pressure cooker use with asparagus demonstrations.
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Dorothea Schroeder
W. C. Boardman
Stony Point Cemetery Association Announces May Meeting
The Stony Point Cemetery Association will hold its annual meeting at the church on Saturday May 29. The morning features ward work followed by a basket dinner at noon and a business meeting at 2 p.m.
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Stony Point Cemetery Association
Marriage Licenses Issued to Six Couples
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to Joseph R. Henman of Lindsboro and Gertrude McCarthy of Vermillion, and to George Melvin Wacner of Effinwood and Mary Eleanor Schooling of Lawrence.
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Joseph R. Henman
Lindsboro
Gertrude McCarthy
Vermillion
George Melvin Wacner
Effinwood
Mary Eleanor Schooling
Lawrence
Food conference nears plan for interim world commission
At Hot Springs Virginia on May 26 United Nations food talks move toward a proposal for an interim commission this summer to design a global agency guiding food production and nutrition. The United States and China back a Washington headquarters and broad activities including statistics, research, nutrition knowledge, policy coordination, buffer stocks, and funding.
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Hot Springs
United Nations Food Conference
United States
Washington
Interim Commission
Permaner Ermational Food Authority
Masien
Carter's Little Liver Pills Advertisement Watchword
An old marketed claim promotes Carter's Little Liver Pills as a remedy to stimulate bile flow from the liver and ease digestion. It urges readers to take the pills as directed to feel energized and improve bowel movement, noting prices of 10¢ and 25¢.
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Carter
Baldwin Boy Drowns in Baldwin Municipal Lake
Richard Wright, 14, son of Mr and Mrs Wilber Wright, drowned yesterday afternoon in Baldwin municipal lake after diving from a car with Dale Howard. A rescue party located the body around 8 pm. artificial respiration was used. Funeral services planned for today at Fines Methodist, with burial in Oakwood cemetery. Survived by Gus parents and seven siblings, including Margaret and Peggy.
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Richard Wright
Wilber Wright
Baldwin
Baldwin Municipal Lake
Dale Howard
John Davidson
Actu Zated Co
Young Wrighstad Gracuacia Foum
Salawin
Skinner
Desncy
Immmmman
Sangers
Badwin
Clyde W. Stewster
Sural
Oakwood
Gus
Margaret
Peggy
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Moscow
Voronezh
Caucasus
Volga
Canning
Women War Workers and
WAACS
Caromel
Rarin
Baldwin Boy
Dear
Sy Datw Mons) Trowsa
Ph-Jine
Sumureus
Ase Veat Ito
cassiSet Averse Nz
Momaca
Ion Mercy Mesesa
Dec
eLaToNc
Sven
Conocomx Motor Oil
McBeth Conoco
New Hampshire St
Pein
Zts
Chesterfield
Locerr & Mrass Tosucco Co
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