Local Kansas campus and community briefs update
University of Kansas junior Bhence Herald from Paola elected president for the coming year and Marilyn Schainost of Colony chosen treasurer of Delta Delta Delta. Lions club speaker Dr Tom Hamilton from KU Medical Center discussed heart disease and Kaw Valley Heart Association work. Ottawa families join fundraising and public notices include a broom sale on April 29 30. Roy Schulz from Rantoul joins the Marines at Camp Pendleton. Beta Sigma Phi pledges donate 16000 to American Cancer Society with CBS telecast. Ottawa High School launches chicken noodle suppers and sophomores meet with the principal for enrollment updates.
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University of Kansas
Bhence
Hey
Paola
Marilyn
Schainost
Colony
Delta Delta Delta
Lions
Tom Hamilton
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City
Kas
Ottawa Lions
Kaw Valley Heart Association
F. A. Trump
Trump
R. M. Clogston
Ottawa
Kaw Valley Association
Vincent Foeller
Ottawa Lions Club
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
American Cancer Society
Chicago
Beta Sigma Phi
Fund For Cancer Research
Robert Engels
Omicron
Enrollment at the high school for next year
Jeuss enrollment is planned for the coming school year with a session at the high school next week.
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Jeuss
Hospital Notes Admitted List and Birth Announcement
Admitted today include Bert Adams 204 Willow Miss Mabel Hay 905 W 6th Bobby Gage 533 8 Locust Dorothy Dawson 119 E 5th Anna Marie Adcock 934 Lincoln Ray Criss Melvern Mrs Charles Speicher Baldwin Mrs Keith Gifford Waverly and others Births Mr and Mrs Orville Brooks 312 KB 5th a son born today weight 7 lb 4 oz Dismissed Mrs Eldon Rader 1326 5S Main Monday.
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Bert Adams
Willow
Mabel Hay
Bobby Gage
Dorothy Dawson
Anna Marie Adcock
Lincoln
Ray Criss
Melvern
Charles Speicher
Baldwin
Keith Gifford
Waverly
Orville Brooks
Eldon Rader
Dodge City Seeks Million for Cowboy Museum Plan
In Dodge City Kansas residents endorsed a plan to build a Cowboy s Capital of the World museum with over 8 000 pledged at an open air Wright Park meeting and 21 500 earlier toward a 1 000 000 goal. The effort aims to attract state support after losing a bid for the Cowboy Hall of Fame to Oklahoma City. Speakers included William Birney Jess Harper and Willard Mayberry with messages from state officials and a cowboy figure hanged in effigy outside the park.
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Dodge City
Kas
Wright Park
Cowboy Hall of Fame
Oklahoma City
Board of Trustees
William Birney
Bucklin
The
Kansas Livestock Assn
Jess Harper
Sitka
Willard Mayberry
Elkhart
Kansas State Chamber of Commerce
Kansas Industrial Commission
Fred Hall
Henry VIII kept a personal lock on his door during travels
Historical note recalls Henry VIII carrying and screwing his own lock to a bedroom door while on journeys. A brief aside adds a modern nod urging savings with U S Bonds.
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Henry VIII
Death notices Mrs Bertha McCurdy Williamsburg Reference
Mrs Bertha McCurdy a longtime Williamsburg resident died at 6 20 am at the home of her daughter Mrs Mabel Simmons 1433 S 34th St Kansas City Kansas She aged about 83 born in Williamsburg and never recovered from a stroke Saturday Surviving children include Mrs Cliff McGuffin and Ralph McCurdy Ottawa nine grandchildren six great grandchildren three sisters and two brothers Funeral arrangements pend ing services likely Thursday in Williamsburg at 2 pm
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Bertha McCurdy
Williamsburg
Mabel Simmons
S. 34Th St
Kansas City
Kas
Simmons
Cliff McGuffin
Ralph McCurdy
Ottawa
George Reed
Jess Porter
Quenemo
Earl Lindsey
Norwich
Ray McCurdy
Brownell
Horace McCurdy
Osage City
Mary Harlin
Cedar Bluff
Nebr
Otto G. Harlin
Harlin
Charles Harlin
Marian Harlin
Wichita
Gerald Harlin
Independence
Dykes James Lester of Greeley dies after long illness
James Lester Dykes 47 of Greeley died Sunday evening in a Topeka hospital after six weeks treatment for a heart ailment. Survived by wife Ruby Dykes a step-daughter Joan Lopez Evansville Ill a daughter Dorothy Kay 12 of the home three sons Charles 17 Kenneth 11 Howard 8 his mother Mrs Lucy Dykes Greeley a brother Kester Dykes Kansas City Mo and a sister Mrs Bernice Towne Garnett. Funeral at Farris Chapel Garnett Wednesday at 2:30 p m burial in Garnett cemetery.
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James Lester Dykes
Greeley
Topeka
Ruby Dykes
Joan Lopez
Evansville
Ill
Dorothy Kay
Charles
Kenneth
Howard
Lucy Dykes
Kester Dykes
Kansas City
Bernice Towne
Garnett
Farris Chapel
iGarnett Cemetery
Masonic funeral for Woodson Rathjen held in Bishop Calif
Masonic funeral services were held April 5 in Bishop California for Woodson Rathjen aged 61. He died April 2 in a local hospital after months of illness with a congested heart condition. Born in Ottawa on September 1 1893 he married Margaret Stark in 1914 and moved to Bishop in 1918.
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Masonic
Bishop
Calif
Woodson Rathjen
Ottawa
Margaret Stark
Rathjen
Shell Oil Co
Bishop Township
Margaret Rathjen
Nellie Butts
Ventura
Janice Hoffman
Santa Maria
Tom
Ollie Rathjen
Wilber McCowan
Leona Lloyd
Leola Lewis
Mr. Rathjen
Ned and
Nell (Stewart) Rathjen
Liberal Americans urge Ike to avert war menace
Forty seven well known Americans who call themselves liberals urged President Eisenhower to take steps to extricate the United States and the world from the threat of war in the Formosa Strait. They said the U S must not commit forces to defend Matsu and Quemoy or let them spark a war. ADA announced the telegram and listed signers including Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt Norman Thomas Elmer Davis India Edwards Reinhold Niebuhr John Haynes Holmes Lloyd Garrison Benjamin Cohen and several Harvard professors.
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Washington
Eisenhower
United States
Formosa Strait
Matsu and
Quemoy
Americans For Democratic Action
ADA
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Norman Thomas
W. P. Kennedy
Brotherhood of Railroad
Elmer Davis
India Edwards
Democratic National Committee
Reinhold Neibuhr
Union Theological Seminary
John Haynes Holmes
Community Church
New York
Lloyd K. Garrison
Benjamin V. Cohen
State Department
Harvard
Mecharias Chafee Jr
Seymour E. Harris
Alvin Hansen
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr
Ten Per Cent Will Not Receive Shots
Dr Philip Bearg of the State Board of Health said at least ten per cent of Kansas children eligible for the Salk polio vaccine would not be inoculated due to parental consent blanks or objections. The board has a vaccine supply sufficient for the first immunization shot for about 90 per cent of first and second graders in 101 of Kansas 105 counties, with four counties obtaining vaccine directly from the manufacturer.
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Topeka
Kas.p
Kansas
Philip Bearg
State Board of Health
Bearg
Pearl Bailey Robbed of Jewels and Furs in New York
The Greenwich Village apartment of Pearl Bailey was looted of 17000 in furs and jewelry after she returned from a performance at the Alvin Theater. Police report she had moved 40000 worth of jewels five days earlier to her bank vault.
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New York
Greenwich Village
Pearl Bailey
Alvin Theater
Local Markets Estimate: 63 Million U.S. Children by 1965
Statisticians project the United States will have more than 63 million children under age 17 by 1965. Growth driven by higher birthrates and population expansion across major urban and rural areas, with implications for schools, services, and policy planning.
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United States
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