State Engineer Sees Long Dry Spell Ahead For Kansas
State Engineer Rosebrough warns that several years of dry weather may lie ahead for eastern and central Kansas. He cites a formula linking rainfall, population, and drainage area to reservoir capacity, suggesting many local systems may need larger storage. He urges cautious use of the guideline for planning new and upgraded reservoirs.
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Anhattan
Rosebrough
Kassas
Kansas
Ernon ‘H
Wellsville Journal Highlights Local Birthdays and Visits
Wellsville residents share birthday celebrations and family visits as Mrs Vaughn Kimbrough is honored with a dinner. Recipients include Bonner Springs and Ottawa families. Military and civic news cover Pvt Rochester’s airborne graduation and PTA meeting with Kansas Industrial Development speakers.
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Carl Warnock
Vaughn Kimbrough
Vaughn Kimugh
Ricky
Jill
Bonner Rings
Lester Woor
Tresa
Diane
Clintton
Jim Warwick
Becky
Connie
Jack
Ottawa
Donald An
Mike
Olathe
God
Bill D. Warnock
Susan
Carol
Milt Sloan
Willard Adkins, Jr
Ray Wiggins
Royce
Art Ellis
Lem Wollinger
Pressonville
Nuary
Rock Creek
L Swellsville
Bert Duncan
Topeka
Janet
Chicago
Smrs
Harold Wingert
E State Women's Committee
Manhattan
Snow
United Nations
Lawrence
Chanute
District Police
Oskaloosa
Carl Rochester
Velma Jones Rochester
Charles Stevenin
Wellsville
Fort Campbell
Fox 511Th Airbore Infantry
11Th Airborne Division
Rochester
T. J. Bivins
Caroline
Joe Gorsage
Patricia
V. B. Morgan
Chauncey Gorsage
Overland Park
August Hrabe
Gardner Hospital
Theresa Mae
Ollie Harrison
H. J. Hall
Ary Hargrove
Hall
Edna Smith
Washington, D. C
Mina Smith
Edith ‘Coughlin
Ida Michael
F. W. Berthel
St. Joseph Hospital
Kansas City
Albert Wing
Independence
Masonic
Wichita
Mary Cox
Harrisonville
Mark
Charley Coughenour
Cox
Will Hutchinson
Charles Detrich
PTA
Lucille Haury
Hugh Cramer
Sandra Shindler
Loyal Hiatt
Norman Shannon
John Silvius
Frances Smith
Kansas Industrial Development Commission
Kansas
Miss Smith
To the Stars
C. A. Smith
Russell Carruthers
Harold Rouse
le Roy Todd
Richard Moherman
Baker
Paul Leslie
T. B. Ford
Convicted in wife killing by Wyandotte County jury
Floyd Conley age 28 was convicted of second degree murder in the June 1954 shooting of his wife Neva 20 at Wyandotte County District Court yesterday. He pleaded self defense and no sentencing date was set.
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Kansas City
Kas
Floyd Conley
Neva
Conley
Wyandotte County
Sees Record Highway Year
TOPEKA A record expenditure for Kansas highways is anticipated in the fiscal year beginning next July 1. Gov. Fred Hall's budget estimates the highway department will spend 73,467,606 dollars in the 12 month period. The plan relies on higher fuel consumption and larger federal grants, with highway construction peaking at 44,636,707 dollars and maintenance at 13,593,618 dollars. An additional 10,232,700 dollars is...
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Topeka
Kansas
Fred Hall
Highway Department
Second man linked to Miss California assault in Anaheim case
Donna Schurr 18, Miss California, told sheriffs she was dragged from her Garden Grove home and hurt by the same man who assaulted her last March. Jack Walker, 25, captured after a 100 mph chase, admitted the offenses and stated he is married with a wife expecting a second child.
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Santa Ana
Calif
Donna Schurr
Garden Grove
Walker
California
Miss Schurr
Long Beach
Governor proposes turnpike patrol expansion funding
The budget allocates 1,480,929 to administration, 167 officers and troopers, 226,993 for communications, and 718,462 for miscellaneous costs. Total patrol funding in 1957 rises to 1,779,784, nearly double 1955’s 973,966, with turnpike expansion and added troopers. A portion funds licensing exams and research planning. the plan extends patrols to Kansas Turnpike governance.
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Kansas Turnpike
Paola Tragedy Overloads Local Phone Lines
A Paola sewer cave-in trapping three men triggered a record 13 500 emergency calls to the Southwestern Bell switchboard. Operators and supervisors worked late as Fluor Panhandle Eastern fire units sheriff deputies and ambulances were mobilized to respond. Virginia was noted as the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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Paola
Jack Morrissey
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Fluor
Panhandle Eastern
Sheriff's Office
Virginia
North America
Moberly Officials Battle Vice Claims After Prosecu tors Accusation
Moberly police chief Omar Winn and Sheriff Amos Magruder challenge County Prosecutor John Carmody's claim that Moberly is Missouri's Phenix City. Carmody says he plans a grand jury probe into alleged vice. officials insist the city, population around 13,000, is no worse than similar towns.
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Tify
Missouri
Amos Magruder
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