Editorial on air travel safety and future aviation control
Editorial notes the improving airline safety record with 143 passenger deaths and 23 billion passenger miles this year, comparing favorably to auto deaths. It urges continued gains, cites improved traffic regulation, and calls for a presidential commission's recommendations on airports and air traffic control, while mentioning routine personal notes from Oct 30 to Dec 22.
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Grand Canyon
CAA
Congress
Year in Review from Elm Statistics Time
A playful year-end roundup lists notable moments and personal memories from Elm Statistics Time readers. It highlights birthdays, holidays, travel plans, and small domestic events with tongue in cheek notes about bills, pancakes, and vacation ideas, reflecting family life and light domestic humor.
Local News Briefs From Ottawa Area
Auld Lang Syne Prof C O Banta underwent a tonsil operation. A son was born on Christmas day to Mr and Mrs Herman Powers of West Wilson street. Lawrence F Glenn of the Santa Fe bridge and building gang was struck by a locomotive in the railroad yards, found by engine foreman Merle James about 6 30 a m, likely hit the previous evening, with chest injuries a broken nose and facial cuts. Leila Stiles county treasurer announced new license tags go on sale January 2.
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C. O. Banta
Ottawa
Herman Powers
West Wilson Street
Lawrence F. Glenn
Santa Fe Bridge and Building Gang
Merle James
Leila Stiles
Fifty Years Ago District Clerk Plans Law Study in Lawrence
District Clerk John Quin announced on February 1 he would travel to Lawrence to pursue the study of law. Arthur St James of the East Side bakery suffered facial burns from a gas explosion. Santa Fe Agent Sam Campbell received a new swivel chair from the freight depot boys. Gardner P Walker, famed for his display windows, drew crowds by placing five prairie dogs in his storefront window in a wooden house. The animals, brought from Holly, Colorado by Roy and Claude Austin of Rantoul, enjoyed public attention.
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John Quin
Lawrence
Arthur St. James
East Side
Santa Fe
Sam Campbell
Gardner P. Walker
Holly
Colo
Roy
Claude Austin
Rantoul
This and That Holiday Quips and Tiny Truths
A quirky misfit of holiday humor notes family gatherings over old traditions, asks about crops and horsepower versus fertilizer, and wryly observes shopping, wrapping, and fashion woes. It playfully contrasts pretenses of frank talk with half hearted chatter and bemused social trends.
Oddities From Year End Desk Cleaning
New York columnist surveys year end desk cleanup noting peculiar facts and forecasts from cosmetics to Christmas cards. Items include makeup longevity by 2000, Santa’s popularity, car-to-mechanic ratios, deskless offices, contract bridge spread, and an unusual TV job sniffing cigar smoke for scent notes.
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New York
J. Schultz
Donna Workman
Chicago
Santa Claus
Santa
FBI
Will Graze Some Soil Bank Lands
The Agriculture Department extended through January 21 permission for farmers to graze livestock on soil bank lands in 678 drought affected counties across 11 Midwestern and Southwestern states. Grazing is allowed only for the operator's own livestock and leasing is prohibited.
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Washington WW
Agriculture Department
Boss Shannon Dies at 79 in Texas After Heart Attack
Shannon, known as Boss, who served prison time for the Urschel kidnapping in 1933, died at Bridgeport Hospital at age 79. He collapsed from a heart attack on his Paradise area farm in November, his stepdaughter having married George Kelly.
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Bridgeport
Tex
R. G
Boss) Shannon
Charles I. Urschel
George
Affair Triggers His Drinking Says Dr Crane Case T-353
Bert Z aged 37 a salesman confessing after lengthy interview that an affair with a business leader’s wife led to drinking. He sought courage with liquor to confess, describing how the romance spurred months of meetings and moral conflict. The piece discusses social pressure on teens and advertising psychology.
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Bert Z
America
John Wesley
the Hopkins Syndicate, Inc
Prof Is In Russia After Renouncing US Citizenship
Former St. Louis University professor Stephen Makar, born in Ukraine, left his U.S. post last summer and arrived in Russia on December 13. He is now said to be employed at Lvov Polytechnical Institute with his wife. Tass quoted him saying his dream of Soviet research facilities has come true.
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Moscow
P — Orest
Stephen Makar
St. Louis University
Russia
Lvov Polytechnical Institute
Makar
St. Louis
U.S. Air Force Base
Alamogordo
N.M
Soviet Union
Tass
Television listings with last minute program changes
Listing fragment shows irregular times and programs including Bet Your Life Dragnet Chace Ford Show Night Out News Today Cartoons Liberace in a night of varied segments and guests. The data appears incomplete with stray codes and truncated titles.
Evening Radio Schedule and Church Notice
Radio listings span WDAF KTJO and KCMO stations with programs from talk and sports to bands and music. A final line invites readers to attend church next Sunday, reflecting community notices amid the schedule.
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KCMO
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Jamanali
Gilderaleeve
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Ktjo-Fm
Amos 'N
Andy
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KCNO
Dear Miss Sage column answers readers questions
A Hutchinson News Herald feature by Sylvia Sage offers concise, practical responses. Topics include gifting for babysitting children, obtaining Kansas and Western Kansas progress information, adopting foreign children, marriage license rules, blood tests, civil service exams, lamp shade packaging, and high protein foods. Readers supply questions with self addressed envelopes.
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Sylvia Sage
Hutchinson’ News-Herald
Atchinson, Kansas
Home hints on nuts and pillows and chestnut dressing
Dear Sylvia Sage guides on cracking Brazil nuts and cleaning black walnuts, plus a chestnut dressing recipe and at home pillow laundering steps. Brazil nuts crack easier when refrigerated or boiled briefly. black walnuts resist keeping nutrients intact. For home-grown walnuts, scrub after hull removal to reduce bitter hull residue. Also a chestnut stuffing recipe using bread cubes, fat, onion, seasoning, and chestnuts. Pillows can be washed at home by loosening corners, using safety pins, detergent or soap, warm wash, thorough rinse, and drying in a dryer or air drying.
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Sylvia Sage
Brazil
Teresa
Sylvia
Margaret
Claude Older, Kansas columnist, dies at 77
Claude M. Older, 77, longtime linotype operator and columnist for the Hays Daily News, died Christmas morning at his daughter Frances's home in San Leandro California. Born in Columbus Kansas, he began at the Columbus Advocate and later worked at the Chanute Tribune Lyons Daily News and in Oklahoma papers before retiring last August.
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Hays Daily News
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Kas
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