New Device Aims to Warn of Tornado and Disasters
In Louisville the FCDA official announces a two inch square device that plugs into a wall outlet and warns of approaching tornadoes and other disasters. A Kansas City firm developed it for field testing in Topeka. Estimated national rollout cost around 50 million dollars. mass production could bring price under five dollars.
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Louisville
Lewis E. Berry Jr
Federal Civil Defense Administration
Berry
FCDA
Kansas City
Topeka
Kan
Young convict refuses parole in Santa Fe
A New Mexico state prison inmate named John Corpier, jailed for forgery, declined parole to stay and teach electronics to fellow inmates. He says his mission is to help three to four others gain education and decency, enabling a first chance at decent life and preventing future returns.
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Santa Fe, N. M
John Corpier
Las Cruces
Corpier
Federal Communications Commission
Southeast Kansas Music Festival Opens At Pittsburg
The 19th annual Southeast Kansas music festival opened at Pittsburg State College with more than 2,000 students from 55 high schools entered. The festival runs through tomorrow.
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Pittsburg
Pittsburg State College
Young Hungarians In Demonstration at Washington Legation
Ten young Hungarian refugees, arrested for demonstrating near the Hungarian legation, posted $120 collateral via the American Hungarian Federation and were released. They faced possible municipal court appearance for violating DC law prohibiting demonstrations within 500 feet of a foreign mission during a legation anniversary party marking the Red army’s “liberation” of Hungary.
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Washington
Legation
Red Army
Hungary
District of Columbia
Former FHA official Chapman indicted for fraud conspiracy
Former Kansas FHA director Edmond Beau dieu Chapman and Wichita attorney Richard Mullins were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiring to defraud the government. The filing alleges Chapman used influence to secure FHA action in 1954 on 22 Wichita house loan applications in which Mullins had interests. Mullins allegedly paid Chapman 500 dollars for office equipment and a shaver, then 2000 dollars later with a note, as the U.S. attorney described. Chapman now resides in Pampa Texas.
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Topeka
Edmond Beaudieu Chapman
Kansas
Federal Housing Administration
Richard F. Mullins
Wichita
Chapman
Mullins
Chapac
William C. Farmer
U.S
Pampa
Tex
FHA
Washington
Edward Arn
Kansas Motor Car Dealers Elect
The Kansas Motor Car Dealers Assn elected H. B. Wall president at the close of their two day convention in Wichita He succeeds Jim O Mara of Hutchinson Other new officers include Paul Bruce Kansas City as vice president Elmer Beeman Topeka as treasurer Roscoe Hamburg Topeka re elected secretary manager Ben Robinson Wichita as director
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Wichita
The
Kansas Motor Car Dealers Assn
H. B. Wall
Jim O'Mara
Hutchinson
Paul Bruce
Kansas City
Elmer Beeman
Topeka
Roscoe Hamburg
Ben Robinson
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Kansas Motor Car Dealers Elect
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