Frazier Appointed Sculptor in Residence at KU
Bernard Poco Frazier, KU graduate and renowned sculptor, is named sculptor in residence at Kansas University. He will teach in the new sculpture major, lead to a BFA, assist in architecture, and produce works like the KU War Memorial panels and a Topeka state office building facade.
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Bernard
Poco) Frazier
Kansas University
K.U
Jayhawk
Franklin D. Murphy
Frazier
Philbrook Art Museum
Tulsa
Okla
K.U. War Memorial
Kansas State Office
Topeka
Missouri
Jefferson City
Kansas
Athol
Chicago
Lorado Taft
Fred Torrey
Museum of Natural History
Andrew Carnegie Foundaion
Turkish Publisher Faces Libel Charges in İzmir Court
Former Turkish president Ismet Inonu pursued libel charges against a publisher who was fined 4166 lira under a government backed press law. Co publisher Nihat Kurshat received a fine for an insulting article. The editor got five months in prison suspended plus a fine of 853 lira. Inonu is a principal opposition critic of Premier Adnan Menderes's Democratic party government.
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Izmir
Turkey
Ismet Inonu
Inonu
Nihat Kurshat
Daily
Express
Adnan Menderes
Democratic Party
Sitdown strike shuts two Singapore Chinese high schools
In Singapore the students at Chung Cheng and Chinese high schools have occupied both campuses for a third day, with about 6,000 pupils defying a government ultimatum. The government ordered the schools closed and began reassigning teachers to reorganize institutions. The strike protests the dissolution of a Communist led students union and the arrest of four union officials.
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Singapore
Chung Cheng
Nixon and Kefauver At Nebraska Farm Event
In Columbus Nebraska Vice president Nixon and Senator Kefauver addressed a National Mechanical Picking contest audience. Nixon charged Democrats with a cruel plan to restrict farm vote while supporting high price guarantees. Kefauver blasted President Eisenhower claiming a record of farmer betrayal and questioned trust.
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Columbus
Neb
Richard Nixon
Estes Kefauver
Midwest
Nixon
Sen. Kefauver
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tennessee
600 Scholarship Set Up For Engineering Student
A Kansas manufacturing firm funds a $600 scholarship for the 1956-57 academic year at Kansas University toward students in the School of Engineering and Architecture. Dan Byron Miller of Oberlin, a sophomore in metallurgical engineering, is the recipient. Selection rests on high scholastic standing and financial need. the fund comes from investments by the KU Endowment Association. Miller, son of Mr and Mrs Benjamin A Miller, has a 2.03 GPA and belongs to Phi Kappa Psi and the Young Republican Club.
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Kansas
Kansas University
T. DeWitt Carr
Dan Byron Miller
Oberlin
K. U. Endowment Association
Minler
Benjamin A. Miller
Phi Kappa Psi
Young Republican Club
Drought Strains Kansas Farms Versatile Water Hoarding
As drought grips Kansas and Missouri, farmers and towns battle water scarcity. Residents report livestock losses, reduced hay, and wells drying up. Lyndon and Osage County communities curb power pools to aid tankers. farmers pay for water shipments while cattle sell cheaply in western Kansas. Local officials warn continued drought threatens pasture, crops, and livelihoods.
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J. C. Booth
Olivet
Louis Nix
Hannibal
Eliott_ Rice
Lyndon
Kas
Ed Miller
Kansas City Power & Light Co
Paul Manning
Osage County
Nels Youngberg
Osage City
Washington County
Missouri Crop Bulletin
Hays
Kansas
Kansas City
Scranton
Topeka State Journal
Arkansas River
Water shortage across Great Bend region prompts drought fears
Dozens of Kansas and Missouri communities report drying rivers and dwindling reservoirs. Water restrictions spread from Emporia to Fort Scott as rains fail, with Wichita and other cities sustaining through irrigation. Officials warn spring floods may return if rains come. forecasters predict 1957 could be a wetter year.
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Great Bend
Kansas Center
Halstead
Walnut
North Fork
Ninnescah
Chikaskia
Corbin
Cottonwood
Neoshouvers
Solomon
Beloit
Saline
Wakeeney
Marais Des Cygnes
Smoky Hill
Big Creek
Hays
Kansas River
Emporia
Fort Scott
Kansas
District’ Army Engineer’s
Tulsa
Coffey
Ile
Cherryvale
Independence
Predonia
Neodesha
Cotenwod
Neosha
Chanute
J. D. Lightfoot
Missouri
St Joseph
St. Joseph
Brookfield
Columbia
Boone County
Springfield
Macon County
Walter Olmstead
Marshall
Wichita
Lawrence
Utawa
Atchison
Iola
Salina
Dodge City
Manhattan
Kansas State College
Garden City
Goodland
Kas
Quiet Hong Kong Sees Curfew After Riots Toll Rises
An uneasy calm settled over riot torn Kowloon and surrounding villages as authorities maintained a tight curfew in the main territory. Two days of frenzied rioting and factional fighting left 44 known dead, with the British government sealing the border with Communist China to prevent infiltration.
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Hong Kong
Kowloon
Hong Kon
China
Docking Warns Kansas Voters Over Endorsement
Democratic candidate George Docking urged Kansans not to be misled by false issues during a Pittsburg speech. He cited an endorsement of his opponent by the head of the Republican party, arguing the endorsement aims to carry the opponent’s case to the people while masking nearly two decades of mismanagement and unethical conduct.
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Pittsburg
George Docking
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Safeway Market
Kenneth Vinyard
Mar
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Kefauver
Nebraska
Ronald Shirk
Eldon Hinderliter
TV. Service
We Service
Montgomery Ward
Mans
Pete
Norris Bros
New Hampshire
Elias
Happy
Ike
Ladies OF
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Veterans Hospital
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