Most Salk Vaccine To School Pupils
New York reports manufacturers have earmarked most Salk vaccine output for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to inoculate nine million first and second graders. Two firms said they supplied private physicians. Parke-Davis and Cutter already sent some doses commercially.
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New York
National Foundation For
Cutter Laboratories
San Francisco
Parke-Davis
Detroit
Polio Foundation
Gypsy Bride Kidnapping Report From Cheyenne
A 17 year old gypsy bride Laura Urich was reported abducted from a fortune teller’s tent in Cheyenne Wyoming last night. Her husband Mike Urich 19 said Dewey Marks and two others abducted her as retaliation for refusing to pay a 1500 gypsy marriage fee. The couple married two years ago in Covington Kentucky and a kidnapping warrant was issued against Dewey Marks. Sheriff Norbert E. Tuck said the girl is safe with her parents in Kansas City Kansas and will confer with county attorney Walter B. Phelan to resolve legal points.
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Cheyenne
Wyaut
Kansas City
Kan
Norbert E. Tuck
George Marks
Joe Urick
Laura Urich
Mike Urich
Dewey Marks
Urich
Urick
Covington
Tuck
Uricks
Marks
Walter B. Phelan
Laramie County
Doctors Urged to Donate Polio Vaccine Services
Kansas City report says the American Academy of General Practice urged its 20 000 members to donate services for the first two shot Salk polio series. The resolution asks members to charge only for the vaccine itself for preschoolers and grades three through eight. First and second graders to receive donated vaccine from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The note also cites U S public and private debt rising from 493 million in 1945 to 709 million in 1955.
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Kansas City -4
American Academy of General Practice
National Foundation For
Three Saved From Missouri River Near Leavenworth
Fisherman Frank Wisoeski rescued a man and two boys clinging to an overturned boat in the Missouri River after their 14 foot craft struck a submerged log and capsized near the railroad bridge. They drifted about a half mile before rescue. Unharmed were Fred Spain 25 Billy Spain 15 and Harry Owens 14 all of Leavenworth.
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Leavenworth
Kasut
Frank Wisoeski
Missouri
Fred Spain
Billy
Harry Owens
More Support For Dodge City Project
Hutchinson Kansas leaders move to back the Dodge City Cowboy Capital of the World museum. A chamber board appointed a donations chairperson as Gray Graham reported pledges of 1000 dollars from six Hutchinson groups. The Dodge City campaign aims for a 1,000,000 dollar goal to fund the museum.
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Hutchinson
Kas
Dodge City
Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
Dodge City Museum
Gray Graham
Graham
Escapees Caught In Osage Oklahoma
Three men who escaped from a Topeka Kansas mental hospital were captured after being taken from a freight train at Osage Oklahoma. Identified by Highway Patrolman Claburn Burgress as Charles Amos aged 19 of Atchison Tony Pfannenstiel aged 39 of Salina and Charles Lathron aged 20 of Lawrence all in Kansas.
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Pawnee
Okla
Topeka
Kas
Osage
Claburn Burgress
Charles Amos
Atchison
Tony Pfannenstiel
Salina
Charles Lathron
Lawrence
U S Army Convicts Women in Blackmarke t Cases in Heidelberg
The U S Army said today that four more American women have been convicted by army courts here of petty black marketing violations. Three weeks earlier four American wives were convicted of similar offenses.
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Heidelberg
Germany
U.S. Army
Many Marvels of Science At K U Engineering Exposition
The University of Kansas hosts the 35th annual Engineering Exposition and Kansas Relays at Memorial Stadium. Exhibits across seven buildings showcase modern engineering feats from a helium cryostat to an atom smasher. Wes Santee aims to break records in the Glenn Cunningham Mile as crowds of up to 20,000 gather for a weekend of science displays, parades, and athletic events.
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University of Kansas
Kansas
Memorial Stadium
School of Engineering
University Athletic Office
Big Seven
Marvin, Hall
New Malott Hall
van de Graff
K. U
Alpha Phi Omega
Records Cleared McCarthy Tax Record by IRS Probe
The Internal Revenue Service was understood today to have cleared Sen McCarthy's income tax record after a detailed investigation of his finances.
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W.ashington
Internal Revenue Service
Sen. McCarthy
Memory expert forgets his hat at club dinner
George Bailey, a memory expert, demonstrated recall at a Knife and Fork Club dinner, remembering first and last names of a hundred attendees, offering five dollars for any name he could not recall and paying a dollar when he hesitated on one. A letter from club secretary Herman Unruh says Bailey lost his hat possibly at the event.
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Pratt
Kasy
George Bailey
Herman Unruh
Bailey
Webb City Boy Drowns in Pond
Jesse James Stapleton fourteen, unable to swim, disappeared while paddling with peers at a small pond edge. His body was recovered an hour and a half later after volunteers treated him on scene and at a hospital, death listed as drowning. Police and firemen dragged the pond to find the body.
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Webb City
Jesse James Stapleton
Search aids locate Galena man after river incident
Kellys McKnight reports three boats were used in the rescue sweep while the Galena Kansas emergency truck furnished equipment for the operation.
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Kellys McKnight
Galena, Kas
Girl Drowns In A Creek In Hiawatha
In Hiawatha Kansas a farm dog led Warren Luster to a creek where his 6 year old daughter Nancy was found in four feet of water. She died on arrival at Hiawatha Community hospital. The report notes rural traffic deaths outpace city figures and cites a population decline in Ireland from over 8 million in 1840 to 4.3 million in 1350.
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Hiawatha
Warren Luster
Ray Meidinger
Brown County
Nancy
Hiawatha Community Hospital
Ireland
Emporian Man Hudkins Found Dead In Self Inflicted Tragedy
Robert H. Hudkins 30 was found at his mother's home yesterday with a self inflicted bullet wound. Coroner O D Harris reports Hudkins who once served three terms as Lyon County probate judge began in 1933, left behind a widow from Long Beach California and his mother. He owned off interests in Greenwood County Kansas. Invest in bonds.
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Kas
Robert H. Hudkins
O. D. Harris
Hudkins
Greenwood County
Lyon County
Leng Beach
Calif
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Kittey
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Glenn Cunningham
Charles Edmondson
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