Eisenhower picks Benson to reshape farm aid strategy
Ezra T. Benson of Salt Lake City is named secretary of agriculture elect to succeed Brannan. He favors broadening markets and cooperative farming, stressing local self help, efficiency, and greater use of state extension services to reduce federal aid reliance. The move signals shifts toward market development over production controls.
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Ovida
Martin Washington i
Eisenhower
Ezra T. Benson
Salt Lake City
Charles F. Brannan
Benson
Roosevelt-Truman
State Services
Agriculture Department
Christmas toy drive appeals on KU campus
Santa Claus appeared on the University of Kansas campus to urge students and Lawrence residents to donate 1,000 toys for Kansas orphanages. Toys should be delivered to Centenary Methodist or First Methodist churches by December 6, with pickup available the first week of December. Orphanages include Kansas Children's Service League Topeka Wichita Children's Home Phyllis Wheatley Home Lifeline Home Goodlander Home.
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Santa Claus
University of Kansas
Lawrence
Kansas
Centenary Methodist Church
N. 4Th
Elm Sts
First Methodist Church
10Th
Vt. Sts
Kansas Children’s Service League
Topeka
Wichita Children’s Home
Phyllis Wheatly
Wichita
Eighth Street
Lifeline
Kansas City
Goodlander Home
Ft Scott
Reds Making Desperate Bid to Move Supplies
In Korea the top Allied air commander said Communists were frantically attempting to ferry more supplies to the front. He cited B 26 Marauders destroying 1,250 trucks in the last 10 days and noted new tactics increasing enemy traffic. Lt. Gen. Glenn C. Barcus of the U S Fifth Air Force spoke in an interview about the supply strain.
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Seoul
Korea
Glenn C. Barcus
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Barcus
Lawfers Air Transport Expansion Reported
The Air Transport Association disclosed plans for broad expansion of air coach services this winter and next spring. Scheduled airlines opposing such expansion announced their own measures to broaden the towfare field. The ATA noted coach services by 10 airlines now number about 7.3 percent of passenger service and 12.3 percent of passenger miles flown, with projections rising to over 50 percent of operations.
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Washington
Air Transport Association
Civil Aeronautics Board
ATA
Eee
City Official Uses Time in Jail for Improvements
Oakland councilman Lester Grant, sentenced to five days for speeding, began serving Friday. He criticized jail food and found roaches, prompting a DDT spray of the entire jail. He plans to raise the food complaint at Tuesday's council meeting with a bailiff escort.
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Oakland
Calif
Lester Grant
Speed- Inc
Grant
University groups gather for Saturday meeting and lectures
Various groups including American Association of University Women Kiwanis Chamber of Commerce Lawrence Recreation Commission Rotary and more attended a Saturday meeting. Dr Richard H Bolt MIT acoustics expert will speak at Kansas University Strong Auditorium on Noise and Sound Control at 2 30 pm and Architectural Acoustics at 8 00 pm, with 1900 Kansas school administrators invited. Monday chlorine is reported as the most abundant element in water.
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American Association of Universit Women
Kiwanis
Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence Recreation Commission
Rotary
Young Men's Christian Association
Young Women's Christian Association
League of Women Voters
University
Women's Club
Parent - Teachers Association
Richard H. Bolt
Massachusets Institute of Technology
University of Kan Dee
Bolt
American Acoustical Society
Strong
Gop. Om
Strong Auditorium
Kansas
Kansas City
The
American Institute of Architects
Davis Memorial lecture set at University of Kansas
The fourth annual F B Davis Memorial Lecture will be held December 4 at 4 p.m. in room 305 Bailey Chemical Laboratories. Dr Ury will discuss modern aspects of free radical reactions in solution. Sponsored by the KU Department of Chemistry and Alpha Chi Sigma.
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Davis
Easier Way To Pay Taxes Next Year Washington
The Revenue Bureau instructed field offices to ease tax payment for next year. Assistant Commissioner Justin Winkle outlined a program from Jan 1 to March 17 to improve service with longer hours, evening phone support, late-night closures, seating for waiters, and monitors to triage taxpayers before entering queues for information.
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Washington
Revenue Bureau
Internal Revenue
Justin Winkle
Winkle
KU Hospitality Program on Integration for Foreign Students
Lawrence civic and University of Kansas student groups convened Saturday to discuss a hospitality program for KU foreign students. William H. Allaway of the Institute of International Education spoke briefly in the dean of men's office, with Donald Alderson presiding. E. R. Zook was named to survey local groups for participation. a second meeting is planned for December. Allaway noted foreign students can provide valuable world knowledge, a resource often missed in hospitality efforts.
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Lawrence
University of Kansas
K. U
William H. Allaway
Denver
Institute of International Education
Donald Alderson
E. R. Zook
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Four Dairymen Join K State Plan In Production Tests
Four Lawrence area dairymen completed production test records for three cows under a Kansas State plan. W. O. Boehle and son own two registered Guernsey cows with Herd Improvement Registry records. Boehle's Damsel's Queen, an eight year old, produced 9,607 pounds of milk and 503 pounds of butterfat in 730 days.
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Lawrence
W. O. Boehle and Son
Guernsey
Boehle
Dairy cows exceed production tests in multiple herds
A seven-year-old Boehle cow named Damsel's Sally yielded 10 095 pounds of milk and 534 pounds of butterfat in 678. A six-year-old Holstein owned by H C Bauer and G J Parks Route S produced 14 335 pounds of milk in a 31 day test with 662 milkings. Roya-
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Boehle
Sally
H.C. Bauer
G. J. Parks
Roya
Milk testing at Kansas State College and railroad coal traffic
Mary Jo of Lawn Man O War averages 20 quarts of milk daily with 4.2 percent butterfat. Daily milk testing is supervised by Kansas State College at Manhattan to check the process. Pennsylvania 23 railroads share in coal movement from mines to markets.
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Pennsylvania
Telephone Team Neighbors Behind Your Service
On the job they work with skill and devotion to provide the best telephone service. Off the job they are scoutmasters church leaders civic club members shaping towns as good neighbors. Their civic pride and teamwork benefit communities nationwide.
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