Director Reminisces On Bank Anniversary
By Dan Mullen the Peoples State Bank of Richmond marked its 50th anniversary with a prize drawing. Director A O Sigler recalls opening day in December 1920 with deposits of 1720 dollars and assets now over 3 million dollars. He cites changes in banking from ledgers to computers and microfilm and notes the 1929 stock market mood and the 1938 banking shutdown. He discusses the 1980s asset dip to 150000, wartime and 1930s protections, and the shift from farming to other business as the area’s agricultural population declines.
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Dan Mullen
Peoples State Bank of Richmond
A. O. Sigler
Joanna Wohler
Garnett
Richard Strobel
Mabel Spencer
Richmond
Ray Mader
Sigler
Peoples Bank
First National of
First National Bank
Peoples
Harry Gault
Wall Street
Roosevelt
America
Peoples National Bank of Richmond
Weather topeka: fair and warmer in Kansas Sunday
The weather service forecasts warmer conditions across Kansas Sunday with highs ranging from the 40s to 50s depending on region. Tonight’s lows dip into the 20s, and skies are clearing from west to east with western two thirds already clear and eastern third beginning to clear.
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Topeka
Kansas
the Weather Service
Explosion damages KU computer center injuring three students
An explosion at University of Kansas damaged the Summerfield Hall computer center causing about $10,000 in losses. Three student employees were treated and released for concussions. A pipe bomb is suspected. The incident followed campus tensions linked to Black Student Union actions amid ongoing disputes with the Board of Regents.
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Lawrence
Kan
University of Kansas
John K. Seitz
Seitz
Board of Regents
Gary Jackson
Regents
Jackson
Topeka
Rick Dowdell
Odds Fanciers Save Your Dollars in SST Standoff
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield warned that adjournment could slip beyond December as Proxmire and Nelson threaten a filibuster over the House Senate conference report on the supersonic transport. The vote kept SST funding at 210 million, aiming near a billion in total federal spending, with protests over conference composition and rule changes.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
House-Senate
Congress
William Proxmire
Gaylord Nelson
Wisconsin
Proxmire
Boeing
General Electric
Nelson
Cambodians Prevail In Hand To Hand Fighting
Cambodian forces repel heavy assaults 38 miles northeast of Phnom Penh in nine hours of hand to hand fighting. Four Cambodians killed and 50 wounded. Enemy losses reported with about 11 killed on Mekong River convoy. Prey Totung holds as northern front suffers heavy casualties and shell shortages limit artillery.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Prey Totung
Mekong
Lon Nol
Kompong Cham
Totung
Skoun
Uken
South Vietnam
U.S
Kompong
Cham
Ats Kompong Oar Na
Mystery painting at Carnegie Free Library raises questions
The Carnegie Free Library faces a curious case with the oil painting Indian Summer by C. Harry Allis from the 1920s. Nell Barnaby reports a letter from Allis's daughter, Mrs W Morris Hager, seeking to catalog his work and asking about acquiring the piece. The library may transfer the work to the donor, with restoration and shipping costs at about 32 dollars, while noting the endowment fund and historical gifting practices.
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Bill Bennett
Carnegie Free Library Board of Directors
Nell Barnaby
C. Harry Allis
Carnegie Free Library
Allis
Ozarks
The
Society of Western Artist
W. Morris Hager
Piedmont
Calif
Stepa
Libaray
Franklin County Historical Society
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Dowdell
Watkins Library
BSU
Ron Washington
Coast Guard
Federal Aviation Administration
Department of Transportation
Federal Railroad Administration
Civil Aeronautics Board
St. Lawrence Seaway Corp
Interstate Commerce Commission
Canterbury
Tom Ashmore
Kencraft, Inc
Canterbury Court
Joe Selby
Grace “Episcopal Church Building Corporation
Tall Man
Edward C. Turmer
Leopold Hoppe
Grace Church
Santa
Ottawa
Mr. Claus
Detroit Institute
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