Floods Highlight Value Of Big Reservoirs In Missouri Basin
Kansas City AP reports severe Missouri River flooding has subsided except in downstream reaches near the Mississippi. Spring floods across Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri affected 930000 acres and caused about 7900000 dollars in damage. Army engineers credit upstream projects like Turtle Creek and Tuttle Creek with large flood reductions and potential savings of 40 to 50 million dollars. Grand River damage estimated at 550600 dollars. 125000 acres flooded with 105000 cubic feet per second flowing into the Missouri on April 1.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Mississippi
Army Engineers
Nebraska
Kansas
E. G. Itschner
Itschner
Turtle Creek
Manhattan
Kan
W. G. Fish
District Engineers
Tuttle Creek
Blue River
Grand River
Grand
L. E. Laurion
Warns Boaters On Tuttle Creek
Kansas City AP report states Col. L E Laurion warns boaters not to use water in the temporary Tuttle Creek reservoir pool. Hazards include swift currents near the control tower, debris, submerged trunks, and unmarked dangers as the project remains incomplete and not operational.
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Kansas City
Tuttle Creek
Kansas
L. E. Laurion
Laurion
Corps of Engineers
Quick Thinking Boy Rescues Brother at Vacant House
In Topeka AP report eleven year old Bernard Koss Je kept his head and saved his brother Charles, ten, from danger after they played near an old burned out stone house. The wall collapsed trapping Charles, but Bernard moved to safety and alerted others, preventing a tragedy.
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Topeka
Bernard Koss Je
Bernard and
Charles Koss
Charles
Bernard
Surnature
Los Angeles
At New York
Ronan
Pet Peeves and Daily Frustrations Across Cities
A stream of anecdotes recounts common irritations from long lines and noisy neighbors to traffic jams and broken appliances. The piece stitches memories of tame daily annoyances from Los Angeles and New York into a collage of ordinary aggravations and petty pet peeves.
Urge Talks With Negro Leaders In South Africa
South Africa faces racial crisis as political church and business leaders press negotiations with responsible Negro leaders while government pushes a police drive against Negro workers. Calls for outlawing Pan Africanist Congress and African National Congress grow. Violence continues. two dead, many hurt.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Boycott Land
Senate
Pan Africanist Congress
African National Congress
D. E. Mitchell
United Party
Natal
Port Elizabeth
Pretoria
Death ruling clears writer in accidental death case
A coroner's jury ruled on Tuesday that Hal Boyle acted unwittingly in the death connected to an incident described as a harmful act by another. The article notes ill health of Mrs. Joan Crawford Moreno and mentions Donald R. Arthurs and a column.
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LeCoy
APC
Donald R. Arthurs
Hal Boyle
Joan Crawford Moreno
Gamble Benedict And Chauffeur Would Wed
American heiress Gamble Benedict and her Romanian taxi driver lover Porumbeanu pursued divorce and marriage filings across the border. The pair disappeared after leaving court as a judge noted incompatibility, with Porumbeanu seeking a license in Juarez Mexico and Benedict's divorce reportedly granted in New York days earlier. A warrant was issued for her arrest in Brooklyn after she vanished with the 34-year-old hair stylist.
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Dillon
Andrea
Porumbeanu
Juarez
Mexico
South Carolina
el Paso
Tex
New York
Peek
New York City
Brooklyn
Church Merger Approved in Unitarian Universalist Consolidation
The Unitarian and Universalist churches won wide approval for their merger plan in a plebiscite completed March 9 1 showing 91 percent of Unitarian congregations and 79 percent of Universalist societies favored the merger Final adoption rests with the American Unitarian Association annual meeting and a Universalist General Assembly both in Boston May 23 with an effective date of May 1 1961 The year books list 105 000 Unitarians and 70 000 Universalists
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Boston
William B. Rice
Unitarian-Universalist Joint Merger Commission
American Unitarian Assn
General Assembly of the Universalist Church of America
Unitarrian
Universalist
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