Three Cities Retain Liquor and Local Bonds Wins
In Kansas municipal elections three cities approved liquor sales in vote wins. Garden City Clay Center and Clifton backed local liquor sales while bond issues for civic projects passed in Garden City Fort Scott Humboldt North Newton Chetopa Junction City and failed in Manhattan Half mill industrial levies won at Fort Scott Independence Atchison and Parsons and rejected in Iola Fluoridation was defeated in Pittsburg and recreation programs lost in Hays Russell and Junction City Multiple citywide outcomes included mayoral and commissioner elections with various bond and levy results across cities including Independence Yola and Pittsburg
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German General Takes Command In Central Europe
PARIS nine Lt Gen Hans Speidel, deputy commander in France, assumed command of Allied land forces in Central Europe. In a Fontainebleau ceremony, French Gen Valluy and an honor guard attended as German and French anthems played. Protests arose though France approved the move amid reduced forces and Speidel’s military planning record.
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News From The Rantoul Area
Local column by Mrs. Gale Gilbert reports on community happenings in Rantoul area as residents share updates and brief notes on events, people, and local concerns. The piece emphasizes neighborhood ties, upcoming meetings, and small milestone remarks from neighbors.
Smoking and Health Notes in Early 20th Century Column
An article mixes social notes from a Kansas community with a New York cigarette health feature. Social items include layette shower honors, family birthdays, weekend visits, and local gatherings with named residents and towns such as Ottawa Paola Manhattan Topeka and Pratt. A New York stock-essay argues on why people smoke, listing conformity habit tension calming effects and gendered motives, tracing history from Europe to Loyola University research on lobeline and bantron as smoking cessation aids.
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Lyons High Coach To Wichita Job
Charles Polk longtime Lyons High School coach since 1953 resigns to become head track coach and assistant football and basketball coach at Wichita West High School. His Lyons duties end with the current term no successor chosen yet.
Salina Firm Wins Wichita Building Contract Bid
Salina firm M Wilson and Co won a $27,000 government contract for designing air conditioning and new lighting for the Wichita federal building. The project cost is expected to total about $681,000.
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Wisconsin Voters Back Daylight Time Change
In a statewide referendum Wisconsin residents voted to advance their clocks one hour to daylight saving time. The Associated Press tally from 3,185 of 3,355 precincts showed 537,363 in favor of the change vs 446,758 opposed, with the measure passing after decades of debate.
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Devoted Husband Dies at 76 After Loyola Leprosy Fight
NEW YORK Maj Hans G Hornbostel 76 a retired Army engineer and survivor of the Bataan death march died yesterday at St Albans Naval Hospital in Queens He and his wife Gertrude lived in North Bellmore Long Island since 1949 They campaigned against superstition and fear surrounding Hansen disease after she contracted it in a Japanese prison camp She was later cured and the couple moved to Long Island
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Texarkana Reports Remarkable Hailstone Size
A storm in Texarkana Arkansas produced a hailstone described by Leo Oceanbeam as measuring around inches in diameter after the night’s weather.
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Fire at Tateyama Fishery Blazes $80,000 Sardines
Tateyama Japan police probe a major fire that destroyed more than 80 thousand dollars worth of sardines intended for bait. The sardines were stored in 120 large bamboo cages submerged in tanks and many bonito boats were stranded across the bay.
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Not In School Anyway
Public schools sent students home for spring vacation but in Mrs. Rosemary Found’s third grade class 19 of 26 pupils were already sent home with mumps illustrating a disrupted classroom in Spokane Washington as of yesterday.
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