Newspapers in America Face Economic Squeeze
ANPA leaders warn rising costs outpace revenue threatening profits. William Dwight urges increased productivity through enlightened management and labor leadership while defending press freedom against advertising curbs. Edward Hughes cites historical risk to freedoms if economic liberty erodes.
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New York
William Dwight
American
Edward J. Hughes
Westchester
N.Y
ANPA
D. Tennant Bryan
Richmond
Times-Dispatch & News-Leader
KC Apartment Plans Announced
Kansas City reveals plans for six large apartment buildings on the west edge of downtown at a cost of 17 million dollars. Five structures will rise 12 stories and one 11 stories, totaling 2012 units. Lewis Kitchen and associates manage the Quality Hill redevelopment, where five similar buildings already stood. Construction targeted to begin by June 1.
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Kansias City
Lewis Kitchen and Associates
Quality Hill
Kitchen
Airline Pilot From Kansas Among Victims In Las Vegas Crash
Airman Arlen Edward Sommers 36, first officer of the United Airlines jet with 47 aboard, died in the Las Vegas crash yesterday. A Chanute Kansas native, he formerly lived in Kansan area before moving to Denver in 1951. Sommers is survived by his...
Sommers Family Named in Lakin Notice
A widow and three children along with the parents Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Sommers of Lakin are identified in the local notice.
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D. E. Sommers
Lakin
Many Historical Novels Added To Library Here
Carnegie Free Library adds numerous historical novels spanning American colonial growth Civil War era and westward expansion including The Brain Tree Mission Wind in the Forest Winthrop Woman Our Valiant Few The Lands They Possessed and Marry Me Carry Me European history titles include While Wited By Elizabeth Goudge Nel Barnaby librarian notes shelves house titles from early periods to World War I.
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U.S
Braintree
Nicolas Wyckoff
America
House of Lords
North Carolina
Thylis Fletcher
Winthrop
Anya Seton
Elizabeth Winthrop
Massachusetts Bay Colony
F. van Wyck Mason
West
Mary Breneman
Dakota Territory
Hetasu’s
Rontier
Ardyth Kennelly
Army Designs New Parachute For Flying Platforms
Maj. Gen. Charles G. Calloway outlined an explosive thrust parachute under development by the Army for use with the Flying Platform, a personal lift device for soldiers and low flying aircraft. He spoke at the annual meeting of the Research and Development Associations in Natick Massachusetts, a federation of firms and scientists coordinating industry armed forces research.
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Chicago
Army
Charles G. Calloway
Army Quartermaster Research and Engineering
Camim
Natick
Mass
Parachute Explosive Test Speeds Descent Action
A soldier on a flying platform faces a five or six second opening delay. Calloway notes the parachute under development fully opens by explosives in eight tenths of a second. He does not detail the mechanism or safety measures preventing parachute tearing.
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Calloway
Two Killed In Crash Into Creek
An elderly Kansas City couple died after their car slammed into Brush Creek following a collision with another vehicle. Edward Gray, 75, and his wife, about 65, were ejected and the car struck two trees in a park before plunging down an embankment. Edward Gray was the brother of Ralph L. Gray, Armco Steel Corp. president in Middletown, Ohio.
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Kansas City
Brush Creek
Edward
Gray
Ralph L. Gray
Armco Steel Corp
Middletown
Ohio
U S Wins Suit For Huge Amount
Kansas City government wins a one year battle to recover nearly one million dollars from United States Packing Co. The government alleges black market sales during wartime rationing and fraudulent subsidy claims. Judge Richard M. Duncan signed judgments totaling 976260 dollars.
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Kansas City
United States Packing Co
Sol Ment
Ume
Richard M. Duncan
T. 8
District Court
Killed In Crash Near Fredonia Kansas
Mrs. We Costona of Girard Kansas was killed yesterday in a crash four miles south of Fredonia on Highway A7 near Fre donia.
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Fredonia
Kas
Costona
Girard
Kanye
Legal judgment dismisses counterclaim in 1985 suit
The judge approved a pretrial agreement for attorneys on both sides and dismissed a counterclaim of $195,593 filed in 1985 by the company. Named in the judgments were Sam Simon, Albert Simon, and Mrs. Clara Simon, members of a family that ran the firm until it closed in May 1945. The company was sold to Wilson & Co. in 1949.
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Comepany
J Sam Simon Albert Simon
Clara Simon
Unil
Wilson & Co
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