Harriman Named a Good Man for President by Truman
ALBANY New York Harry Truman said Gov Averell Harriman has all the qualifications to be a good president with caveats he could name others He spoke beside Harriman at a news conference and declined to endorse any nominee for 1956 while stressing the aim to back a ticket that can win the election He noted New York has clearer choices than Illinois for evaluating potential candidates.
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Albany
N.Y
Harry Truman
Averell Harriman
New York
Harriman
Truman
Executive Mansion
Adlai E. Stevenson
Tlinois
Stevenson
New York State
Ilinois
Hdwin
Memorial Hospital Admits and Births Reported
List of admissions including Elmer A Schiller and Mrs Sara Waddell plus multiple births and new parents in many locations. Also notes births for Mr and Mrs Roberts Colon and Mr and Mrs Vernon L Mott. Kansas Turnpike bid openings continue with guard fence installation from Topeka to Lawrence and Lawrence to Emporia.
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Roberts Colon
Ohio St
Vernon L. Mott
Mo. St
Turnpike Authority
Topeka
Kansas City
Lawrence
Lawrence-Emporia
Geology Lecture Series At KU Lindley Hall
The Rock and Mineral Club sponsors a geology lecture at 7 30 Monday evening in Lindley Hall third floor room on the KU campus. Dr Mark Jewett leads the series on the component and identity of fossils with emphasis on material from Douglas County. The talk also highlights fossils for the club’s upcoming fall show.
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Rock and Mineral Club
Lindley Hall
K. U
Mark Jewett
Douglas County
Bundle of Nerves Droodle by J B Martin from Knoxville
A humorous Droodle sent by J B Martin of Knoxville Tennessee mocks modern anxiety from hydrogen bombs to income tax and the dentist. It offers a playful coping line claiming steady repetition reassures the reader that the dentist won’t hurt.
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J. B. Martin
Knoxville Tenn
C. V. Fishel to Receive Eagle Award Sunday
C V Fishel 17 son of Mr and Mrs V C Fishel 1656 M St will receive the Eagle Scout award at the First Presbyterian Church during morning services The presentation will be by Rev Albert G Parker and Scoutmaster Joe Skillman Fishel a member of Troop 59 is junior assistant Scoutmaster holds the order of the arrow and attended the national jamboree At Lawrence High School he is president of the Thespians Teen Town Quill and Scroll and editor in chief of the Budget This Eagle award is one of eight presentations on Sunday with seven others at the Methodist Church
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C. V. Fishel
V. C. Fishel
M. St
First Presbyterian Church
Albert G. Parker
Joe Skillman
Fisher
Order of the Arrow
Lawrence High School
Thespians
Teen Town
Quill and Scroll
Methodist Church
Witness hides in graveyard after Till acquittal
Mose Wright, 64, a Mississippi murder trial witness, says he spent the acquittal night in a church cemetery fearing harm at home. He recalls Emmett Till, 14, nephew of Wright, disappeared last August. The case sparked Chicago Mississippi newspaper clashes and an NAACP-picket at Chicago's Customs House during a Senate hearing on human rights.
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Detroit
Mose Wright
Mississippi
Wright
J. W. Milam
Roy Bryant
Emmett Till
Chicago
Till
Chas
National Assny For the Advancement of Colored People
U.S. Customs House
Senate Internal Security
NAACP
Great Fall Weather Seen For State Over Weekend
Fair skies and mild temperatures are forecast across Kansas this weekend with warming highs near 80s and low readings in the 50s. Southerly winds will strengthen today and gust tomorrow, making it windy at times as temperatures vary from the 60s to mid 70s in many spots.
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Topeka Ia
Kansas
Concordia
Dodge City
Hill City
Wichita
Theft reports large tool chest from Eudora area home
A large tool chest and mechanic’s tools valued at 200 dollars were taken Friday afternoon from a garage at the Jar Ness home two miles southeast of Eudora after a car backed into the garage and loaded the toolbox into the trunk. Deputy Sheriff John Miller noted the incident.
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Jarl Ness
Eudora
John Miller
Aeanny
Four Hurt In Friday Lawrence Traffic Mishaps
Five injuries and over $2,000 in damage resulted from three Friday night accidents in Lawrence. KU students Ferol Gehring Beverly Nichols and Ann Meeder were hospitalized after a two car collision near 9th and La. Streets and were reported in good condition at Watkins Memorial Hospital. Gehring received a ticket for failure to yield right of way. A second crash at 5th and Vt Streets involved John Hatfield fleeing an ambulance scene and striking a parked car, with estimated damage of $175. A four car collision at 14th and Mass Streets caused $800 damage and minor injury to Anne Margaret Marvin. Drivers listed from front to rear were George Thomas Withers Darrel Dalton Boles Burton Wright Marvin and Weldon H Littell Littell received a ticket for following too closely.
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Moe
Lawrence
Kansas University
9Th
la. Sts
Watkins Memorial Hospital
K. U
Ferol P. Gehring
Tenn
Beverly J. Nichols
11Th St
Ann Meeder
Gehring
Samany G. Perking
Olathe
Sth
Vt. St
John Hatfield
Mass. St
Walter Groneman
Wichita
Hatfield
14Th
Mass
Sts
Anne Margaret Marvin
George Thomas Withers
Richland
Darrel Dalton Boles
Conn
Burton Wright Marvin
Weldon H. Littell
Rollo
Littell
From KU to a head session at Kansas State
Clarence J. Hein research assistant in the Government Research Center and Ethan P. Allen professor of political science and director of the Bureau of Government Research attend a conference on Politics and the College Student at Kansas State College. William Avery representative of the First District to the U.S. House of Representatives will be the featured speaker.
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Clarence J. Hein
Government Research Center
Ethan P. Allen
Bureau of Government Research
Kansas State College
William Avery
U.S. House of Representatives
Deaths and Funerals Herbert G Boyd and Allison Sessler
Herbert G. Boyd age 78 died Friday at home in Winchester. Survived by wife Asenath Boyd and daughter Loverna Boyd, plus siblings and extended kin. Funeral 2 p.m. Sunday Edmonds United Brethren Church McLouth. burial McLouth Cemetery. Allison Sessler age 76 of Linwood died in a Tonganoxie convalescent home. Survived by six nieces and eight nephews. wife predeceased. Funeral 2 p.m. Monday Federated Church Linwood. burial Mt Sidney Cemetery Linwood. Interment details by Kessler-Schubert Funeral Home.
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Winchester
Asenath Boyd
Loverna Boyd
Leslie Boyd
Colton
Calif
Nora Rogers
Oskaloosa
Floy Zachariah
McLouth
Leona Wilkins
Kessler Allison Sessler
Allison
Linwood
Tonganoxie
Federated Church
Mt. Sidney
Schubert Funeral Home
Mottiay
Lawrence's Top Paperboy Sentiment to Newspaperboys of America
A public letter from Lawrence extends best wishes to about 600 000 newspaperboys on Newspaperboys Day October 8. He commends their work delivering papers through all weather, saving bonds aid for college, and their role in forming good citizens.
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Newspaperboys OF
America
KU opens 1955 football slate at 3 p.m. Friday
Kansas University football coach Wayne Replogle plans a 3 p.m. Friday start for the season opener against Kansas State College at Memorial Stadium. The Jayhawker freshmen also schedule games against Missouri at Columbia and the Air Force Academy in Denver.
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Wayne Replogle
Kansas State College
K.U
Memorial Stadium
Haskell Stadium
Missouri
Columbia
Air Force Academy
Denver
Kansas Traffic Fatalities to Date
Kansas traffic fatalities listed by the State Accident Records Section. In the last 24 hours to date in 1955 the total reached 434, compared with 447 in the same period of 1954.
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Kansas
Proclamation Declares Oil Progress Week in Kansas
Gov. Fred Hall designates October 9 to 15 as oil progress week in Kansas, urging awareness of the industry’s impact and development during the period.
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Topeka
Fred Hall
Kansas
Mrs Fern Van Dalsem May Seek Kansas GOP Post
TOPEKA Mrs Fern Van Dalsem Fairview is reported to be seriously considering a bid for the Republican national committeewoman from Kansas. Publisher Ewing Herbert says she may announce soon that she will seek the post now held by Mrs C Semple Baxter Springs. Mrs Semple has not announced plans but is believed to want to keep the job.
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Topeka
Fern van Dalsem
Fairvieiw
Kansas
Ewing Herbert
Hiawatha
van Dalsem
C. ¥. Semple
Baxter Springs
Semple
Housing Director Quits in Topeka
Richard Clausing, federal housing administrator for Kansas since June 6, 1954, announces resignation effective November 1. Clausing, an attorney, plans to resume his law practice in Wichita.
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Topeka
Richard Clausing
Federal Housing Administration
Kansas
Clausing
Wichita
County Court Fines Three For No Passing Violations
Three individuals were fined 10 dollars each plus costs for passing in no passing zones. Names listed include Charles T. Alchroth of 147 East 23rd Street, Hugh Frederick Thompson of Olathe, and James Elbert Bray of Parsons. Bray also paid a 10 fine for speeding.
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Charles T. Alchroth
E. 23Rd St
Hugh Frederick Thompson
Olathe
James Elbert Bray
Parsons
Bray
Local KU Women Among 28 Pledged By Jay Janes
Two Lawrence women named Janie Schaake and Marilyn Perry are among 28 students pledged by the Jay Janes women's pep club at Kansas University. Schaake lives at 1100 West 21st Street and Perry at 1500 Barker Avenue.
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Jay Janes
Kansas University
Janie Schaake
21St St
Marilyn Perry
Barker Ave
Menu At UH LHS Cafeterias Next Week
Miss Mary Lu Hill announces next week's school lunches for junior and senior high students. Monday features Wiener with chili on bun, potato chips, pear, grated cheese salad, bread and butter, or peanut butter sandwiches, cake with butterscotch icing. Tuesday offers Hamburger Pie, hot biscuit butter, Golden Glow salad, bean and butter sandwiches, fruit. Wednesday serves Scrambled Egg and Ham, hashed brown potatoes, chilled fruit salad, bread and butter sandwiches. Thursday includes Baked Meat Loaf, golden potatoes, buttered spinach, bread and butter sandwiches, cherry upside down cake. Friday presents Hamburger bun or grilled cheese, Waldorf salad, bread and butter or peanut butter sandwiches, milk, fresh blue plum pudding.
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Mary Lu Hill
Two Men Sentenced in Kansas After Guilty Pleas
Two men received prison terms in the Kansas Penitentiary at Lansing after pleading guilty in District Court to felonies. Gumisendo Costello, 42, of Tonganoxie, had a parole request denied after pleading guilty to grand larceny for stealing $1,200 in auto repair materials from Winter Chevrolet Co. Reynolds, Cleon Aubrey, 32, of Wichita, admitted forging a check on August 20 to J. A. Starr. Vernon V. Simms, Topeka, posted a $200 bond for an appeal after a drunkenness conviction, with a $50 fine and costs.
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Kansas
Lansing
Frank Gray
Gumisendo Costello
Costello
Winter Chevrolet Co
Cleon Aubrey Reynolds
Wichita
Reynolds
J. A. Starr
Vernon
Market News Livestock Prices Across Kansas City Report
Kansas City market notes show cattle and hogs mixed gains and losses from last week. Slaughter steers and heifers mostly steady to 50 lower, cows 25 higher, bulls steady, calves strong up to 1.00. Feeder and stocker classes mainly steady to lower, with high and prime loads listed by weight. Sheep lambs see 50-1.00 up, 93 lb lambs at 18.75, culls 10-17, ewes 3-4.50. Produce prices mix with butter around 64-65 cents per pound.
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Kansas City
USDA
Colorado
Local Market Prices and Thank You Notices
Poultry and livestock prices listed for hens, cocks, toms, ducks, guineas, and farm birds with weights and price ranges. Also market quotes for Wheat, barley, oats, corn, soybeans, and butterfat. Plus multiple obituaries and acknowledgments thanking friends, church members, doctors, nurses, and relatives for support during illness and death.
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Tenn. St
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P. D. Olmstead Construction Co
Trinity Episcopal Church
10Th Vt. Sts
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Journal-World Photos
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Oakley Schweda
Journal-World
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Bill Meller
Journal-World Photo
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Rases & Claims Office
Andy” Anderson
United Continental Fund
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Waddell & Reed, Inc
Loyd W. Iderger
K. C
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Guineas
Canadian Pacific Railway
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Richard Postma
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Bud Coy
Seal Estate
Fred W. Rumsey
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