Britain May Cancel Nine Nation Talks On German Request
Britain may postpone or cancel the nine nation allied conference planned for September 14 to discuss West German rearmament. Bonn reports Germany seeks delay to review action after France rejected the European Defense Community treaty. The Bonn statement noted talks with the U S and Britain on diplomatic exchanges before any EDC solutions. Britain had invited France West Germany Italy Belgium Holland Luxembourg and the U S and Canada after France failed to ratify the EDC.
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London
Britain
Bonn
Germany
Churchill
Europe
U. S
Dulles
NATO Council of Ministers
France
West Germany
United States
Konrad Adenauer
Italy
Belgium
Holland
Luxembourg
Canada
Southwest Kansas Television Co. registers 5000 shares
Topeka Kansas. The Kansas Corporation Commission approves registration of 5000 shares of 100 par value common stock for the Southwest Kansas Television Co. Cimarron. The $500,000 corporation plans a TV station serving 26 counties with a transmitter 12 miles south of Cimarron. The agency also grants Consolidated Gas Utilities a certificate to serve Morton Salt Co. at Hutchinson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas Corporation Commission
Southwest Kansas Television Co
Cimarron
Southwest
Kansas
Consolidated
Gas Utilities
Morton Salt Co
Hutchinson
Six Guilty In Traffic Court Record Of Fines
In traffic court six persons were found guilty of traffic violations. Larry Keith Hannah of Osborne faces a $10 fine for a stop sign. Jackie Gene Martin of 1330 Brook St. receives a $25 fine for reckless driving. Thomas M. Amyx of 845 R. J. St. posts a $25 bond forfeiture for reckless driving. Kenneth Whan of Baldwin pays a $10 forfeiture for a traffic light. Irwin Brown Jr. of 1439 Tenn. St. is fined $25 for reckless driving. Jess Wheeler of 1541 Tenn. St. pays a $10 forfeiture for a stop sign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larry Keith Hannah
Osborne
Jackie Gene Martin
Brook St
Thomas
M. Amyx
R. J
Jess Wheeler
Tenn, St
Tractor kills infant on farm near Westmoreland
A 15 month old boy Rex Allen Brabb died when a farm tractor brakes failed near Westmoreland Kas. He was playing nearby as his parents Harvey and Mrs Brabbb attached a hayloader. One wheel passed over him in the tragedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westmoreland
Kas
Rex Allen Brabb
Harvey Brabbb
Brabb
Unlikely Alligator Shows Off False Teeth and Tales
A quirky tale describes an alligator with false teeth who allegedly sold his wife to a hunter for shoes and handbags, then bought dentures to bite hunters. The narrator recalls a failed experiment by Grandfather Tooten who tried crossing an alligator with a kangaroo for pockets, ending with a pocketed, toothy creature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ibiplomat
Tooten
KU Professor to Speak at National Political Science Meet
Dr Ethan Allen of the University of Kansas will present a paper at the American Political Science Association national convention in China. The work argues for a complete integrated university governmental research program and cites current efforts in universities and other institutions. He also attended a Citizenship Clearing House board meeting in Chicago, an NYU sponsored, Laura Falk Foundation endowed program training political volunteers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethan Allen
Political Science
University of Kansas
American Political Science Association
China
Allen
Baker University Adds New Faculty and Dormitory Expansions
Baker University welcomes three new faculty members Dorothy Peterson joins from Meredith College to head women's physical education Harold Stauffer replaces Dr George Schreyer in Philosophy Religion and Peter son a former Winfield teacher will teach physical education Vernon Michael a K U graduate student will teach secondary education The campus sees extensive summer improvements including new Greek house porches game rooms and living rooms plus a new West Hall girls dormitory and plans for Sigma Phi Epsilon to begin a $150000 house project and Phi Mu adding a $50000 addition
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Methodist College
Dorothy Peterson
Meredith College
Raleigh
N. C
Kathryn Schaake
Baker
University of Omaha
Peterson
Winfield
Wellington
Columbia University
New York
Harold Stauffer
George Schreyer
Perkins Theological Seminary
Southern Methodist University
Dallas
Vernon Michael
K. U
Michael
Journal-World
McPherson College
Phillips University
Enid
Oklo
Oakley
Minneapolis
Delta Delta Delta Sorority
Alpha Chi Omega
Zeta Tau Alpha
Kappa Sigma Fraternity
Zeta Chi
Delta Tau Delta Fraternity
Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity
Phi Mu Sorority
International House
West Hall
Wichita enrolls 41 246 on first day of term
Wichita public schools reported total enrollment of 41 246 on the first day of the semester, an increase of about 4 000 from last term, according to Dr Wade C Fowler superintendent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Wichita Public Schools
Wade C. Fowler
New State HD Leader Named in Manhattan
Mae Baird formerly with the Wyoming extension service has been named home demonstration leader by Kansas State College effective Oct. 16. She succeeds Mrs. Georgiana Smurthwaite who resigned to become extension specialist in program development.
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Manhattan
Mae Baird
Wyoming Extension Service
Kansas State College
Georgiana Smurthwaite
Fraternal Sorority Members Listed by City
A long OCR fragment lists numerous sorority members by city across Kansas and nearby states. Names appear under Alpha Chi Omega Kappa Kappa Gamma Kappa Alpha Theta Sigma Kappa Delta Gamma Pi Beta Phi Alpha Omicron Pi with multiple attendees from Wichita Topeka Kansas City and other towns. The item reads as a roster of sisters with hometowns and institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heverly Fawn
Wichita
Jie Ann Hobte
Kethryn Keeler
Tricia Rabineen
Mary Jo Howes
Rusan Rotth
Janet Sua Martin
Larned
Joni Grotanhuia
Independence
Joan Shirley Fim
Abilene
Sue Kerby
Wakefield
Ruth Jean Keth
Worothy Hattie
Leavenworth
Charlene McCoy
Greenburn
Judy Campbell
Chicago
Sara Jane Jackson
Dupe
Alpha Chi Omega
Darbara Rue Butler
Centralia
Nancy Lou Farha
Kansas City
Gloria PD
Gorman
Hethel
Alizon V. Hegarty
St. Joseph
Joan Holmes
Searcy
Ark
Pamela Hutchinson
Arkanswag City
Jacqueline Ones
Eagleaville
Donna McNett
Topeka
Ellen Meador
Belton
Marcia Lee Mills
Dayton
June Maria
Clayton
Judy Nichole
Wellington
Jane Becinoursky
Low Anny Pendergast
Jane Ratcliff
Atwood
Jane Heltzs
Kansan City
Grace Hose
Myrna Madge Schneider
Ellinwood
Mary Ann Secramlin
Overland Park
Margaret Wille
Kansas
Margaret Finney
Edwina Frohwerk
Carol Gibbs
Geneva
Tlrbara Gilmore
Nancyerre
Janie Hoyle
Joanne Kollman
Marilyn McDonald
Kanasas City
Helen Ladd Martin
Salina
Pat Mockler
Kas
Marilyn Moore
Janet Pugh
Diana Rhoades
Blair
Neb
Nancy Simone
Pittsburg
Judy. Tiderman
Muncle
Torchia
Columbus
Mary Catharine Woodward
Parsons
Sigma Kappa
Janice Adriance
Seneca
Vivian Allan
Marylin Austin
Osawatomie
Barbara Barnhill
Kan
Bette Sue
Carpenter
Patricia Foley
Barbara Joan Howe
Lawrence
Jan Johnson
Mary Ann LeMoline
Lincolnville
Barbara Lee Masoner
Lexera
Roberta Jean Mellinger
Milford
Sue Ann Moore
Harper
Marilyn Oakleaf
Red Oak
Iowa
Marimae Olson
Mary Fran Poe
Mountain Grove
la Veda
Penick
Janet Sue Pdaugherty
Syracuse
Sandra Lee DeBauge
Emporia
Virginia Fleer
Harbara Jean Froman
Edna
Edna Fee Ann Hanson
Concordia
Janis Ruth Hartell
Plattsburg
Janre Lee Hartwell
Caldwell
Sharon. Low
Jan Andre Miller
Barbara Moloney
Barbara Kay Mulvaney
Ann Poirier
Wathena
Myrna Seaton
Judith Ann Shelton
Lona Lou Spice
Ruth Ann Stephenson
Karen Ward
Mission
Jane Ann Williamson
Prairie Village
Pi Beta Phi
Lois Alberg
Susan Baker
Varie Iiningsisy
Wala City
Faye Anne Bodencinnati
Ohio
Kay Braden
Hutchinson
Sarah Chubb
Sue Dalby
Joplin
Nancy Denniston
Helen Foster
Pat Griffith
Joan Hamilton
Denver
Colo
Eleanor Hawkinson
Marquette
Shirley Herd
Western Springs
Joan Hereford
Barbara Holladay
Judy Howard
Virginia Jennings
Joanne Jones
Kiane Klepper
Ann Lamont
Tucker Landeene
Sue McCarthy
Lois McClure
Peggy McMullen
Great Bend
Dodie Ramsey
Oklahoma City
Okla
Carol Ravendal
Little Silver
N.J
Nancy Reich
Ruth Roney
Ann Rumsey
Miasion
Jeri Sanders
Prairice Ilage
Suzanne Sawyer
Jo Scoles
Council Grove
Ann Snider
Carol Stockham
Ann Straub
Ruth Taggart
Sharon Theis
Dodge City
Meredith Underwood
Lansing
Georganne Wilkinson
Neema Woolfolk
Janet Genevra Wray
Nevada
Arn to fly to Omaha for Interstate Oil Compact meet
Gov Arn will travel to Omaha tomorrow to attend the fall session of the Interstate Oil Compact Commission. The visit emphasizes regional energy policy coordination and cooperation among member states.
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Topeka
Gov
Arn
Omaha
Interstate Oil Compact Commission
Lady Bullfighter Recovering but Won't Return This Season
Patricia McCormick a 24 year old bullfighter from Del Rio Texas was gored in Ciudad Acuna across from Del Rio. She remained in critical condition after surgery on Sunday night. Her physician said she would not bull fight this season though she expressed a desire to return when able. Her mother Mrs EF B McCormick of Big Spring Texas said Pat kept telling doctors to tell them she would fight again.
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Arkansas City
Kas
Ciudad Acuna
Mex
del Rio
Pat
Lawrence Columns Highlight Local Efforts and Miscellany
In Lawrence, the Green Lantern Cafe has raised over 80 dollars for emergency polio funds by turning three days of coffee money into donations. Photographer Rich Clarkson received a 100 dollar prize check for a safety contest photo sponsored by Lumbermen’s Mutual Casualty. A local resident’s phone delay prompts a fire department connection joke, and the Centennial Corporation frames park funding from the city’s centennial observance, with a 7,000 dollar park project planned west of M. S. Winter Centennial Park.
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Green Lantern Cafe
Journal-World
Rich Clarkson
Lumberman's Mutual Casualty
Victory Junction
Us-73
J. E. Friedeback
Associated Mutuals, Inc
Kansas City
Lawrence
Centennial Corporation
M. S. Winter
Centennial
Local Tax Rate Comparison for 1955 Budget Levies
A continuation shows how 1955 budgets are computed using 1954 mill levies and the 1954 property assessments from March. The table compares levies for 1954 1953 and 1949 across state county and district taxes, with totals for South Lawrence and North Lawrence including DC Kaw figures.
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South Lawrence
Douglas County
North Lawrence
Guilty Drunk Driving Sentences From County Court
Jacob George Hafner of Topeka pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated and lacking a license. He received 200 dollar fine and 90 days jail on the first count and 25 dollar fine plus costs on the second. Dan Kay Martine and Rehard J. Parker also pleaded guilty, each fined 100 dollars and costs with 30 days in jail. Parker was paroled after sentencing. Three more defendants faced police court verdicts for drunken driving Frank M. Wuckowitsch Ottawa Marion J D Agard Sunflower Theodore Joseph Haas 1241 N J St each fined 100 dollars 30 days jail license suspended posted 450 dollar bond for appeal.
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Jacob George Hafner
Topeka
Dan Kay Martine
Ky. St
Rehard J. Parker
Parker
Frank M. Wuckowitsch
Ottawa
Marion JD. Agard
Sunflower
Theodore Joseph Haas
N. J. St
Kansas Traffic Deaths in Topeka Report 1954
Kansas traffic fatalities listed by the state accident records section show 3 deaths in the last 24 hours and 376 to date in 1954, compared with 413 in the same period in 1953.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Divorce Suit Filed for Harrs Jr and Harris
The district court records show Laurence T. Harrs Jr. filed for divorce from Elizabeth May Harris. The notice names the husband as plaintiff with the case proceeding in district court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laurence T. Harrs Jr
Elizabeth May Harris
Dewey Retirement Clouds 1956 GOP Prospects
The report notes Dewey will remain a close adviser to Eisenhower and the administration while declining presidential and gubernatorial bids. Relatives say he could be a potential Senate candidate if Eisenhower seeks re election in 1956. Republican senators praise his leadership as the party redefines its New York and national roles after his withdrawal.
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Albany
Eisenhower
National Administration
GOP
White House
Dewey
Senate
Herbert Lehman
Lib
Edwin C. Johnson
D-Cole
Johnson
Frank Carlson
R-Kas
Sen
Ives
New York
Denver
Congress
Births and injuries reported at area hospitals
At Memorial Hospital and other locations births are announced for Bernice Wright Anna Irvine Donna Patterson Mildred Mansell and several others in Sunflower Linwood DeSoto and Sunflower area plus two babies born to Mrs Cogan Gregory and Mr and Mrs Robert Unrein a daughter and a son respectively. Three emergency room injuries include Diana Lynn Thompson with a chin laceration Charles F Lanning with a left arm fracture and Jer old Sepgo with a left arm fracture.
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Daniel O. Taylor
la. St
Bernice Wright
Lane S. Sunflower
Anna Irvine
F. Sunflower
Donna Patterson
Lane R. Sunflower
Mildred Mansell
Richland
Andrew Hogg
Prairie St
Bobby Ray
Cogan Gregory
Sunflower Rd
Sunflower
Robert Unrein
R. I. St
Eudora
Diana Lynn Thompson
Charles F. Lanning
Ind. St
Jerold Sepgo
Wynona Ave
Israel says saboteurs blow up Gaza water pipeline
Israel alleges that saboteurs from the Egyptian-held Gaza coast again blew up a water pipeline in the Negev desert. The line is the primary irrigation artery for developing the wasteland region.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Gaza
Negev
Folger Coffee Co Reduces Price by Five Cents
Folger Coffee Co announced a five cent per pound cut in its wholesale price effective today. The new list price is 1.09 dollars per pound, coming after a prior ten cent reduction two weeks earlier. The move underscores a continued price adjustment in the coffee market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Folger Coffee Co
Arliss Allen Convicted of Disturbing the Peace
Arliss Allen of Eudora was found guilty yesterday in County Court of disturbing the peace and was sentenced to 30 days in jail and ordered to pay court costs.
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Arliss Allen
Eudora
Drunk on Highway Case Settle in County Court
Robert Eusene Shadle of Ottawa was fined 25 dollars plus costs in County Court for being drunk on a public highway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Eusene Shadle
Ottawa
Market Eel News Market Eel News at a Glance
Market report shows stocks higher trading quiet with mixed bonds. Cotton and wheat trend mixed while corn and oats show declines and gains. Hog and cattle prices edge up. Kansas City grain prices list various No 2 and No 3 grades with futures and livestock prices noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cash
Kansas City
Kansas City cattle and hog market closes mixed on steady to firm trend
Kansas City market reports cattle totals of about 5500 head and calves 1000 with slaughter steers and heifers steady to strong. Cows and vealers show stability while canners and cutters trade up to 50 lower. bulls steady to strong. Hogs with 2000 head trade moderately active. top barrows sold around 20.75 to 21.00 with other hogs steady.
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Kansas Spring
Kansas City Wa
USDA
Kansas City Produce Prices and Poultry Yields
KC market notes detail produce classes with prices for eggs butter poultry and caps including weights and grades such as grade A butter and various fowl categories. The Day in Wall Street reports modest market gains with aircrafts leading and oil stocks rising late, while steels oils and chemicals advance in part and motor and rail shares show mixed moves.
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Wall Street
New York
Sinclair
Fire in vintage car doused by milk from picnic basket
Ipswich report has Richard Merrill of Saugus cruising to a North Shore Old Car Club picnic in a red 1910 Franklin touring car when smoke appeared from the rear. Heat from the exhaust pipe set the wooden floor afire. Merrill quickly grabbed milk from his picnic basket and dumped it on the flames to extinguish the blaze.
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Ipswich
Mass
Richard Merrill
Saugus
Franklin
North Shore Old Car Club
Merrill
Repeat Performance Hartfort Jewelry Window Smash
Hartford Cann police arrested a man for smashing a plate glass window in front of a jewelry store. He demonstrated the method by hurling an empty wine bottle at a second window after being asked how he did it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Cann
Louis Dworak
Four-vehicle collision on US 59 near No 6 School
A heavy property damage accident about 6 30 p m yesterday on US 59 half a mile south of No 6 School left three cars and a truck damaged. Drivers Wilson Boaz James Kenneth Mann LaVern Eugene Hadl and Bruce Tate identified. No serious injuries reported aside from bruises to Mrs Mildred Boaz. Totals: Boaz car 400 Goodman car 375 Tate truck 300 Hadl car total loss. A second morning wreck near Lecompton involved Howard Miskimen and George Person with one injury and both vehicles totaled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Highway 59
Douglas County
Goodman
Tate
Hadl
Boaz
Mildred Boaz
Lecompton
Howard Haling Miskimen
George Edward Person
Person
Perambulatory Baby From Rock Hill Roams Europe
Two year old Herbert P. Worth II has become a world traveler born to Army Lt. and Mrs. Philip Worth. At ten months he crossed to Germany with his parents and since then has lived in France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Hill
S. C
Herbert P. Worth II
Philip Worth
Germany
France
Switzerland
Italy
Austria
Luxembourg
Belgium
Holland
Traffic conviction for Tom Siegfried fined in county court
Tom Siegfried was fined 10 dollars and costs yesterday in County Court for passing in a no passing zone. The address is unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Siegfried
Drive‑in Hold Up Headlines Missing Film Cue
Enid Oklahoma gunmen held up a drive‑in theater, stealing 250 dollars. The crime interrupted the theater’s marquee which advertised the coming attraction, Everything I Have Is Yours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enid
Okla
Greek gang broken up in Athens raid
Police said they have broken up a ten man gang believed to have robbed at least a dozen homes of Americans attached to aid and military missions in Athens. The gang's loot was estimated at about $16 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Greece
66 Tank Cars Loaded Per Hour In U S In 1953
An average of 66 railroad tank cars were loaded every hour during 1953 in the United States, indicating robust rail freight activity and industrial throughput across the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Card of Thanks for Theron O. Roberts family notices
Card of thanks from Maude Siroky and family for flowers and support during Theron O. Roberts illness and death. Also Mrs Ruby Wise expresses gratitude to relatives neighbors and club members for flowers cards and gifts during her Memorial Hospital stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theron O. Roberts
Maude Siroky
Memorial Hospital
Ruby Wise
In Memoriam Lucinda Murphy Remembered Since 1940
In memory of Lucinda Murphy who passed away on September 8, 1940. Sadly missed by I. K Murphy and family.
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Lucinda Murphy
I. K Murphy
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