Coal Ball Cutting Breaks New Ground At Kansas University
Kansas University botanist Robert W. Baxter develops a mass cutting technique to process coal balls up to ten tons per summer, aided by a $21 000 NSF grant and a $1 200 saw, enabling rapid thinning and study of fossil plant remains from coal veins. Sixteen siblings named among casualties in Buffalo canal disaster follow.
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Robert W. Baxter
Baxter
Kansas
National Science Foundation
Editor Says Ideas Secure Free World Safety
Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday review, told about 1000 Kansas educators at the Kansas State Teachers Association centennial meeting that the free world’s safety rests on ideas. He urged educators to know history and heritage to defend freedom against communism.
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Leavenworth
Kan
Norman Cousins
The
Saturday Review
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Cousins
Kansas State Teachers Association
Kiwanis Selects Liberal Leader as Kansas Governor Nominee
Jack Smith of Liberal was elected uncontested state governor of Kansas Kiwanis for 1964, closing a two day convention in Hutchinson. His victory was announced Sunday after the Kiwanis convention concluded.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Jack Smith
Kansas
Kiwanis
Burglars Roll Safe From Public Finance Office
Thieves forced a safe into a car trunk at the Public Finance Co. office and drove off early Sunday. The safe toppled from the vehicle at a downtown intersection, but the suspects kept fleeing.
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Hutchinson, Kan
Public Finance Co
Icebox vs Sports Car A Humorous Home Shopping Tale
A cartoonish family buys a refrigerator replacing a sports car dream. The piece riffs on American consumer choices with a white fridge and bottom freezer, old ice box repurposed, and a playful debate over color and convertible options. The piece weaves in dated notes and a wry aside about a 1619 Irish baronetage.
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Salvation Army
Today In History September 30 1963
Today is Monday September 30 1963 the 274th day of the year with 92 days remaining. The highlights note the first successful use of ether in a tooth extraction by Dr William Morton in 1846 and reference Dr Crawford Long earlier.
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William Morton
Boston
Crawford Long
Jef
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