Senior Typist Inspires While She Breaks Bad Habits
Florence Clarke 70, retired home ec instructor, earned a 10 week high school typing certificate at Junction City Good Samaritan Home center. She types 38 wpm with four mistakes in five minutes, plans to write a history of Junction City and Ft. Riley using letters from 1847 to 1871 and local archives.
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Bob Honeyman
Associated Press
Junction City
Ft. Riley
Florence Clarke
Good Samaritan Home Lutheran Retirement’ Center
Barr
Charles Francis Clarkes
John Clarkes
Miss Clarke
Junction’ City
Daily Union
Kansas State Historical Society
Topeka
Ft. Riley Territory
Kansas
Charles Francis Clarke
University of New Mexico Press
Herbert Oliver Bayer
England
Salina
Barber Warns Clients Of Possible Absent Moment
SYCAMORE Ala AP barber Jim Bear den warned customers in advance of a possible mid haircut departure. A Bearden household blessed event loomed and he posted a sign saying he might have to leave and requesting clients pour water on him if he passed out.
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Sycamore Ala
Jim Bearden
Bearden
Collectors Face Fines For Missed Cans In Lancaster
Lancaster, Pa. residents may see fines of $1 for every missed garbage can under the city’s new contract. The penalty was added after complaints of non-pickups and applies to the firm awarded the contract for garbage collection.
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Lancaster
Kansas farm income falls seven percent in 1963
Topeka AP reports Kansas farm income declined seven percent in 1963, totaling 445 million dollars with an average of 4 256 dollars per farm. Gross income per farm averaged 14 552 dollars, down about two percent from 1962, while cash receipts from farm marketing reached 1 326 million. Government payments rose seven percent to 112 million, and production expenses totaled 1 060 million.
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Topeka
Kansas
State Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Senate approves Food for Peace extension and $7.08 billion aid
The Senate OKs a two year extension of Food for Peace and a $7,080,190,000 appropriation to fund Welfare and Labor departments and several small agencies. The bill authorizes disposal of nearly $50 billion in farm surpluses and moves to House consideration. A conference with the House will reconcile figures after the chamber approved a $173,130,000 lower allocation earlier.
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Washington
Senate
Food For Peace
Welfare and Labor Departments
House
Senate House
Texas College Students Build Church and Hold Services
Ten Texas college students from 19 to 25 years old live and work in Raymondville to build a new First Baptist and Spanish church. They receive room and board, conduct revival services in the area, and share duties with eight others, including digging ditches and laying blocks. The project costs total about 22000 with 11000 from First Baptist and 6000 from the Baptist General Convention of Texas. The church site sits on a 400 by 150 foot lot, aiding a community with 8000 Mexican-ancestry residents and many not attending church.
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Raymondville Tex
Texas College
South
Texas
Raymondville
First Baptist Church
Primera Iglesia
Bautista
Baptist Student Union
Jeff Crossland
North Texas State University
Crossland
First Baptist
Betty Ann Gunstream
Baylor University
Gia Be
Patsy Blum
Tarleton State College
Bill McDaniel
Baptist General Convention of Texas
Primera Bautista
Record Fertilizer Sales Hit New High in Kansas
AP reports Kansas fertilizer dealers sold 610,163 tons in the 1963-64 fiscal year, a 21,554 ton rise from the prior year, marking the sixth consecutive annual record. State figures include shipments totaling 13,335 tons to interstate buyers, with Sedgwick County leading county sales followed by Marshall, Reno and Washington.
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Topeka
Kansas
State Board of Agriculture
Sedgwick
Marshall
Reno
Washington
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Barber
Little
Ottawa Herald
Senate UK
Kentucky
Willis Garden Center
Sth
Cherry
CIDAA
Chrysler
Stoge
Bob White Motor Co
Otasco
Bikk S A L Waoten
Neverleak
Oklahoma Tire & Supply
S. Main
Bendix
Ny- Jon
Prestone
Comfort
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