Groundbreaking ceremonies for Alpha Omicron Pi house at KU
About 60 friends and members gathered as Mrs. Walter M. McCain and Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy broke ground on the new Alpha Omicron Pi sorority house at Kansas University. The $190,000 project will house up to 60 women, with a 1956 completion target, and features pink brick and Kansas limestone.
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Walter M. McCain
Alpha Omicron Pi
Kansas University
Franklin D. Murphy
K. U
Betty Tice
Phi House Corporation
House Sym
Bolizes
Freddie Bike
Sedalia
Dearies
Dimes Bruce
Kansas City
Paul Webster
Leavenworth
West Campus Road
Kansas
Housing Corporation
Bay
Eft
Phi Housing Corporation
Mis
P ME McCain
Cincinnati
Ohio
Law St
Alpha Kappa Lambda Social Fraternity
Journal-World Photo
Renking Cor Mur
Hogwash label fronts water dispute in Wichita CKWCA row
Wichita official dismisses a Meo Kansay Water Conservation Assn statement as hog wash. CKWCA directors demand disclosure of membership and accounting of over $40,000 spent on lawsuits as they threaten resumed talks with the city under three conditions. Col. FA Hiyse counters with similar critique and outlines terms for negotiations.
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Wichita
WPA
Kansay Water Conservation Assn
CKWCA
Ani Agies
FA Hiyse
Howse
Segregation Debate Eyed at Lutheran Episcopal Convention
The 58th general convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church opens in Honolulu. Over 181 bishops and deputies attend from across the mainland and abroad including Japan, the Philippines, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Mexico, Okinawa, and Liberia. Debates are expected on segregation amid church-wide agitation sparked by Houston controversy.
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Honolulu
Protestant Episcopal Church
Japan
Philippines
Alaska
Puerto Rico
Brazil
Mexico
Okinawa
Liberia
House of Bishops
Henry Knox Sherrill
Houston
Tex
I McLouth Reunion Planned
The Edmonds family reunion will be held Sunday Oct 2 at Edmonds Church four miles north of McLouth. Church service will be at 10 a.m. Sunday School will be at it. A pot luck dinner will be served at the church following services.
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Edmonds
Edmonds Church
McLouth
Surplus a 5 Billion Puzzle After 30 Years of Farm Solutio
Washington faces a 5.37 billion dollar farm surplus puzzle that has persisted for decades. Debates circle around overproduction versus under consumption, with parity price supports, subsidies, and new policy ideas from Brannan and Eastland shaping the debate as Secretary Benson travels in Europe to seek sales and explain programs.
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Washington
America
Department of Agriculture
India
Agriculture Department
Eastland
Benson
Western
Europe
Extra Safety Moves For National Aircraft Show
Extraordinary precautions are in place for three days of air displays at Philadelphia International Airport. The National Aircraft Show will feature hundreds of military planes including supersonic fighters jet bombers and helicopters. Officials say the event will draw nearly 100000 spectators daily with mock air raid and ground attack demonstrations involving Army Air Force Navy and Marines.
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Philadelphia
Armed Forces
Army
Air Force
Navy
Marines
Verbal Brickbats Greeting Russia Visitors in Canada
In London Ontario a mixed reception greeted nine Soviet visitors on their Canada tour. Flowers were presented on arrival by a Friends of Russia group while a small anti-Communist faction shouted murderers. Attendees were told to bring their own tableware for the noon event.
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Berlin
U.S
Moscow
Soviet Union
United States
Joe Holt
Leningrad
Kiev
Tula
Rhodes
London
Ont. U
Russia
Canada
Winnipeg
Friends of Russia
Konoye Held in Soviet Prison for Capitalist Ties
A Japanese repatriate said Fumimaro Konoye, once premier before the war, is serving a 25 year sentence in a Soviet prison on charges of supporting capitalism. This disclosure marks the first explanation of why Konoye is detained and the duration of his confinement.
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Maizuru
Japan
Fumimaro Konoye
Russia
Fumi-itaka Konoye
Two Navy Airmen Die In Collision Near Lebo Kansas
Two Navy airmen, Robert W. Manning of Toledo Ohio and Jesse F. Sanderson, died when a car and a transport truck collided near Lebo Kansas last night. Injured were Sorrell Elmer Ellis 30 of Kansas City driver of the truck and Ned Price 29 also of Kansas City. Price injured by debris and Manning and Sanderson stationed at Hutchinson Naval Air Station.
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Lebo
Kas
Navy
Here
Robert W. Manning
Toledo
Ohio
Jesse F. Sanderson
Sorrell Elmer Ellis
Kansas City
Ned Price
Price
Manning
Sanderson
State Highway Patrol
Hutchinson Naval Air Station
Body of Woman Is in Pond Fort Scott
The body of Mrs Emmadane Wright, 04, was found in a pond near Fort Scott after Charles Leist was tied to the water by his dog barking. Mrs Wright, aunt of Mrs Leist, had lived with them two years. Dr Leland Rares, acting coroner, ruled death by own action. Many botanists believe the man named in the Bible was an alchen.
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Emmadane Wright
Charles Leist
Wright
Leist
Leland Rares
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