Rains Soak Eastern Kansas Amid Drought Relief
A new round of rain drenched eastern Kansas last night worsening drought conditions. Totals exceeded two inches at some stations with many reporting at least one inch. Weather forecasts predict cooler nights north and east, but mild recovery days ahead with highs near warmer levels and overnight lows from 45 to 50s. The week outlook shows temperatures about 5 degrees above normal and precipitation ranging from 0.1 to 0.4 inches east and 0.1 to 0.2 inches west.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
The
Janet Roars at Sea Hurricane Update Amid Rising Death Toll
Janet, moving west-northwest toward the Caribbean, caused 110 deaths in Grenada with 25 on Carmaria and 30 on Barbados. Miami forecaster Walter Datis notes a northwest drift. the hurricane was 2710 miles east-southeast of Swan Island and expected to grow as it progresses.
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Janet Jast
Jamaica
Walter Datis
Miami
Janet
Grenada
Carmaria
Barbados
Miami Weather. Bureau
Caribbean
Swan Island
Community Births and Residents Listed in Memorial Hospital Notes
Memorial Hospital lists numerous local residents and new baby announcements. Names include Dorothy M. Coons Eric Crofts and Caroline Conboy with addresses in Sunflower Oskaloosa and Tonganoxie along with others from Eudora Del Rio and Sunflower. The notes also mention Mr and Mrs Lloyd C Kleven of Sunflower and a family with a son and daughter today.
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Dorothy M. Coons
Eric Crofts
James F. Sawyer Sr
Oskaloosa
Alma E. Rawlings
Caroline Conboy
Frederick
Philip Conboy
Learnard Ave
Elaine Kaufman
Ohio St
Wilma McMinn
Pauline Nunemaker
Bismarck Grove
Tmr
Lloyd C. Kleven
Sunflower
Rein Son and Daughter
Meeting Postponed At Lawrence Paper Co
A labor management meeting at Lawrence Paper Co was postponed indefinitely at the union’s request. Local 73 of the AF of L Grain Millers seeks a wage increase of 5 cents per hour for paper company employees.
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Lawrence Paper Coas
The
American Federaton of Grain Millers
AF of L
Paper Company
Lawrence News Highlights Touch on Cars Games and Local Events
Lawrence displays 1956 model autos as salesmen test drives and warns of speed trap locations. Lawrence High pep club canvasses for football tickets as four home games approach at Haskell Stadium. Lawrence defeats Manhattan 31 to 13 and faces Topeka next. IRS refunds mailed to 1 000 names, including a KU foreign student, with Premji listed in the unsound list. A high school football game was postponed due to wet grounds. Local bridges and road work near the Kansas Turnpike raise concerns amid rains. The old 9th and Iowa corner house is moved for a new service station as fire school training nears. Kansas basketball prep continues with Allen Fieldhouse work, aiming for a Dec 5 home opener vs Northwestern. A student winner from LHS Jayhawk FFA program earns $25 in a welding foundation contest. Unidentified flesh on a Kaw River hook sparks police river search and coroner notes potential animal origin pending lab test.
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Lawrence
Haskell Stadium
Manhattan High School
Topeka
Highland Park High School
Kansas University
Internal Revenue Department
Rameshchandra Premji
K. U
Hyderabad
India
Premji
Wichita
9Th and
Iowa Sts
Holmes, Peck and Brown
Kansas Fire
Kansas Way
Lawrence High
Haskell Institute
Allen Fieldhouse
K.U
Northwestern
Kansas
President Hal Conunurd Menu and Eisenhower Oxygen Care
The report notes President Hal Conunurd from Press detailing a menu including consomme spinach oceu broiled tomato and Hired peaches. A step in Eisenhower's recovery involved interval removal of the oxygen tent used since Saturday afternoon during hospitalization. The president reportedly left the tent three times yesterday for about 30 minutes each time as doctors manage his care.
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Eisenhower
Gasoline Stolen From Baldwin Farm Tank
M. T. Lindsey of Topeka reported to the sheriff’s office that 150 to 200 gallons of gasoline were stolen from a storage tank on his Baldwin farm west of town.
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M. T. Lindsey
Topeka
Baldwin
Door Safety Warnings From Police
Police warn about extreme caution when opening doors near moving trains or vehicles. A serious injury can occur if doors are opened into moving cars, per Lawrence Police Department guidance.
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Deaths and Funerals in Lawrence and El Dorado
Obituaries report Frances Martin Bond of El Dorado died after months of illness at 59, wife of L J Bond. Frances Francis Martin of Washington DC died at 51 after a heart attack. Forest Luther and Daniel A Baker noted among regional deaths. Florence Olmsted Martin dies at 87. funeral plans set. Also reports a 18–19 year old assailant sought in a Lawrence molestation case and Leroy B McCallister of Waukegan sentenced to 30 days for vagrancy.
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el Dorado
L. J. Bond
Kansas State Bar Association
Frances Martin
Francis Martin
Lawrence
Washington, D.C
Capital
Federal Trade Commission
Earl Martin
Ark. St
Jack
Tuggle
Mich
Ila Martin
Helen Gemeny
Springfield
Daniel A, Baker
Daniel A. Baker
Union Pacific
Ninth Street Baptist Church
Frank Brown
W. 5. Sims
AL. Parker
Maple Grove
Bowger-Lee Mortuary
Henry Martin
Florence Olmsted Martin
Metsker
Orley F. Olmsted
Mary Dunkley
Helen Fuller
Rumsey Funeral Home
Oak Hill Cemetery
Jayhawk FFA Places Second in 16-School Ritual Contest
The Jayhawk Chapter FFA finished second among 16 chapters in a ritual contest held Monday at Lawrence High School during a district gathering. Washburn Rural High School won first in the final contest opening and closing ceremonies. The meeting opened at 1 pm with Ralph Leary presiding and Neal M. Wherry welcoming delegates from 17 schools including Washburn Rural, Lawrence, Ottawa, Shawnee Mission, Seaman, Severa Laxe, and Wellsville.
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FFA
Lawrence High School
Future Farmers of America
Washburn Rural High School
Topeka
Oiathe
Shawnee
Mission
Silver Lake
Seaman High
Olaine
Ottawa
Washburn
Rurat
Lawrence
Ralph Leary
Neal M. Wherry
LHS
Washburn Rural
Olathe
Shawnee Mission
Suver Laxe
Seaman
Bonner
Procs Paola
Parker
Rossville
Berrion Garner
LaCyene
Lousberg
Wellsville
Clear Skies Continue to Aid Drought Affected Area
Weather notes a mix of clear skies and late showers providing winter protection for trees battered by a long drought. Bowersock Milks works on a jetty above the Kaw River while the river’s rising level prompts repairs at the Bowersock power plant. Kansas Turnpike mud delays grading and bridges, hindering access to homes on unpaved streets but improving soil moisture for landscaping.
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Kaw
Kansas Turnpike
Turnpike Bridges
Mew
Former Newsboy Receives Major Baker University Scholarship
John L. Getman of Dion New York a Baker University sophomore wins a $3,000 scholarship from Frank Gannett Newspaperboys Scholarship Inc and Utica Press and Observer Dispatch out of his five years of service as a paper boy. He rose at 3 am to deliver papers and also led church work and youth activities while studying for the ministry.
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Dion
Baker University
Baldwin
Frank Gannett Newspaperboys Scholarship Inc
Utica Press and Observer Dispatch
Getman
Observer Dispatch
Methodist Church
Baker
Delta Delta Delta honors KU journalism graduate Letty Kennedy
Kansas University journalism graduate Letty Lemon Kennedy receiving the TruDelt leadership award for scholarship and leadership on campus and in the Theta Omega chapter. She now resides in Arlington West Virginia with her Navy husband. Trial date for Robert Orr of Topeka changed to October 4 in County Court. He is free on $200 bond and accused of attempting to steal from a Sunset Drive-In Theater restroom on September 14.
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A_ Kansas University
Delta Delta Delta Social Sorority
Robert Kennedy
Letty Lemon
TruDelt
Theta Omega
K.U
Kennedy
Navy
Arlington
West Virginia
Robert JW. Orr
Topeka
Orr
Sunset Drive-In
Lawrence
Markets at a Glance From Kansas City Livestock Report
Cattle steadies with steers and heifers near 23.00. cows steady. bulls and vealers little changed. Hogs active, sows and lighter hogs down. lambs higher in slaughter markets. Wheat and oats show mixed, moisture in Southwest aids futures. regional prices listed for barley oats soybeans and poultry.
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Kansas City
ISDA
Colorado
Kansas City Wheat and Produce Prices Report
Kansas City market notes sparse grain quotes for wheat corn oats and rye with bids for No 2 hard and dark hard wheat around 2.12 to 2.17 and No 2 red at 2.08 to 2.49 while corn bids show No 2 white around 1.42 to 1.45 and No 2 yellow 1.39 to 1.42 oats quoted 0.64 to 0.73 per bushel and milo maize and kafir around 2.23 to 2.26. KC produce lists eggs butter and poultry prices for various grades and weights with current receipts and standard Yankee measures.
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Ki O. Cash Grain
Kansas City
K.C
Jose
Cast of 12 Chosen For K.U. Presentation Of Picnic
A list of twelve University of Kansas students selected for the university presentation of the prize winning play Picnic. The cast includes Millie Stough Irma Christine Kathy and others with Stan Stough and Roger Brown among named players. Milton Howarth designs the set depicting backyards at town edge.
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Pieme Wil
Vane Pus
Lewin Gott
Est Moray
Inge
Millie
Douglas County Liquor Enforcement Revenue Falls in Latest Quarter
Douglas County reports a drop in its state two percent liquor enforcement revenue to 2383 this past quarter from 3338 previously. State treasurer figures show allocations ranging from 19177 for Sedgwick Court to 270 for Wallace County. A Douglas County CROP meeting will be held at 8 PM in the Municipal Building to plan the drive set for the week of November 7.
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Sedgwick Court
Wallace County
Douglas County Crop
Christian Rural Overseas Program
Kansas Traffic Deaths in Topeka Reported
State Accident Records Section lists Kansas traffic fatalities in Topeka for the last 34 hours. The 1955 figure is 418, matching 421 in the same period of 1954, and an earlier fatality is included in this report.
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Topeka
Kansas
Missing Buff Star Married After Vanish During Game
Boulder Colorado football guard Coby Connors, who vanished at halftime of a game last Saturday, was reportedly married Thursday. A university spokesman offered no details on the marriage or spouse. Connors’s mother in Philadelphia said she had heard nothing and offered no reason for his disappearance.
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Coby
University of Colorado
Joe Connor
Philadelphia
Connors
Peinen
Twenty two women enter Jaycee Queen contest at Granada
Twenty two Lawrence and Kansas University women compete tonight to select Lawrence's American Royal Queen candidate. Judges, unnamed, will decide based on personal beauty poise and culture at 9 p.m. at the Granada Theatre.
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Kansas University
Lawrence
Crandidate
Lawrence Junior Chamber of Commercl
Granada
Conestania Jie
Barbara Howaday
Pat Griffiths
Highland Jr
Marity Kriever
Alphas Delta Pi
Lea Minnes
Alphy
Jane Radcliffe
Alpha Chi Omega
Marjorie Mahones
Chi Omega
Police Chief Hazelet to Attend IAACP Convention
Police Chief John Hazelet will depart this weekend for a five day IAACP convention in Philadelphia. It will be his first convention since becoming chief here. Last year the event occurred during Lawrence’s Centennial Celebration.
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John Hazelet
International Association of Chiefs of Police
Philadelphia
Lawrence
New Abilene Postmaster Named Acting Leader
Rayth Hill a longtime postal employee of 25 years and one of two Medal of Honor recipients from Kansas in World War I is named acting postmaster of Abilene.
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Abilene
Rayth Hill
Kansas
Abi- Ione
Thankful thanks for kindnesses during illness and hospital stay
Lee Gerdy Schwintey expresses gratitude for gifts visits flowers and care from friends neighbors relatives doctors nurses and Rev Dale Parner during illness and stay at Lawrence Memorial Hospital Byron Shuck also thanks for cards flowers and care received while in the hospital.
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Lawerence Memorial Hospital
Dale Parner
Lee
Gerdy Schwintey
Byron Shuck
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