John Morse Memorial awards three KU engineering scholars
Dean DeWitt Carr announces the John Morse Memorial Foundation will grant 3500 scholarships to three KU juniors in electrical or mechanical engineering. Six juniors will be nominated September 21 by a KU committee. the foundation selects the three scholars who may earn 500 more for their senior year. Three more juniors will receive 500 scholarships annually as the program expands.
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John Morse Memorial Foundation of
Chicago
University of Kansas
DeWitt Carr
School of Engineering and
Architute
John Morse Memorial
Yankee Families Return From Korea War Evacuation Stop
Anchorage dispatch describes the return of U S military dependents from the Pacific theater in Operation Raven. Wives and children disembark at Elmendorf Air Force Base after long flights from Japan and Korea. Many are widows, some infants, others remembering comic books. Volunteers from officers and NCO wives welcome them with food and toys. plant quarantine worries about insects as many trees brought for display are incinerated.
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Alaska
U.S.A
North Pacific
Elmendorf Air Force Base
Tokyo
Japan
Elmensdorf
Asis
America
Military Air Transport Service
MATS
Flmendorf
Charles Reid
Burea
Orient
Hutchison Marine Corporal Not Wounded Confusion
Washington Sept 15 22 The defense department said yesterday that Marine Corporal Roy C Dunmire of Hutchinson Kansas was reported in and with his unit in Korea and yet wounded as previously reported The department said an earlier report that Dunmire was wounded in action was a mistake His parents have been notified of the error.
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Washington
Marine Corp
Roy C. Dunmire
Hutchinson
Kan
Andan
Korea
Eurelier
Duneire
Department
Open House Shows $14,000 Methodist Remodel in Eckehall
Lawrence residents will tour the remodeled Eckehall First Methodist building at 946 Vermont Street Sunday afternoon. The open house previews new rooms, redecoration, and a gas heating system, with Sunday school departments explained by superintendents and the youth group serving refreshments.
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Lawrence
Eckehall
First Methodist
Vermont Street
O. E. Allison
Robert Eckley
Ecke
Marvin Tripp
Allison
Bradle Rall
Albert
Four Holdup Men Arraigned In Wichita City Court
Four men faced preliminary hearings in Wichita City Court on armed robbery charges and were sent back to jail after failing to post $3,000 bonds each. Named are Harry Connor and Robert Hostetler, linked to holdups in Newton and Joplin, with two others, believed hitchhikers, charged with kidnapping an Independence motorist and stealing $200 and his car.
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Kan
Rey
Harry Connor
Robert Hostetler
Dodgers
Connor
Hostetler
Newton
Joplin
Messages
Tonysin
Independence
Kansas corn crop lags in maturity across state
Topeka reports the 1950 Kansas corn crop was pushed toward maturity by favorable conditions, but over 80 percent remains immature. Maturity is concentrated in southern two thirds, while the northern third trails. Sorghum development lags, with only 80 percent headed and under 10 percent mature. Frost risks loom. wheat seeding advances. pastures stay good and feed supplies expected to be ample.
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Topeka
Kansas
Federal
State Departments of Agriculture
Career highlights of General George C. Marshall
Washington highlights the career of Gen. George C. Marshall who was called from retirement by President Truman to serve as secretary of defense. Born December 31, 1880 in Uniontown Pennsylvania, he served in the Philippines and World War I, was chief of staff of the Eighth Army Corps, and oversaw operations of the Army. He later advised Gen. Pershing from 1919 to 1924, led war planning, and became army chief of staff from 1939 through World War II. He undertook a China mission for the President in 1945 and served as secretary of state from 1947 to 1949 before resigning. More coal and lignite move on the Monongahela river than any other U. S. inland waterway.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Truman
Defense
Uniontown
Military Institute
Philippines
Eighth Army Corps
John J. Pershing
General Staff
Army
China
Three Year Terms For Arkansas Youths In Missouri Reform School
Hillsboro Missouri September 13 two youths Floyd D Smith eleven from Success Arkansas and John Deckard Reyno Arkansas were sentenced to five years each in the Missouri reformatory at Algoa after pleading guilty to assault with intent to kill. They fired on Highway Patrolman Dwight Lindley during a car chase last Tuesday five bullets hit the patrol car but he was unharmed. A hold order for the pair was issued by Rockford Illinois authorities where they are accused of robbing a pawn shop the night before the gunfight.
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Hillsboro
Missouri Reformatory
Algoa
Floyd D. Smith
Success, Ark
John Deckard
Reyno, Ark
Edward Eversole
Dwight Lindley
Rockford
Lindley
Wichita sanity hearing in Dauer kidnapping case
District Judge Delmas C. Hill named a Wichita physician to perform a sanity test on John Henry Dauer, 60, charged with kidnapping banker R McPherson, 64, of Shreveport. Dauer and R Hutchins, 31, are alleged to have driven McPherson from Shreveport, bound him near Fort Scott after evicting him from his car.
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Kan
Delmas C. Hill
John Henry Dauer
Shreveport
Dauer
R. Avington Hutchins
R McPherson
Fort Scott
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