Glass artist preacher crafts ornamental birds in Kansas
In Mound Valley, Rev. Ernest Kober blows glass to fund his ministry. He mentors at schools and clubs, serving part time at churches including Xenia in Bourbon County. A Chicago native, he learned glass from a German blower, later helping with neon signs and radar tubes. He says prayer confirmed his art as a higher calling.
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Mound Valley, Kas
Ernest Kober
Mound Valley
Kansas
Chicago
Xenia
Bourbon County
Kober
Radar Over Horizon Detects Submarine-Launched Missiles
The Naval Research Laboratory has developed Project Madre radar that can bend its beam over the horizon to detect moving targets and missiles up to 2,600 miles away from submarines. Navy officials call it a major radar breakthrough and a key part of the continental missile defense network.
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New York
Naval Research Laboratory
New York Times
Navy
Naval Laboratory
Washington Dispatch
The
Times
Defense Department
Continental
United States
Egypt Accepts Soviet Aid for Second Aswan Dam Stage
Cairo reports Egypt accepts Soviet help to build the second stage of the Aswan Dam. The $373.1 million phase will be financed largely by foreign exchange, with a 12 year repayment plan for the first stage and a six year high dam construction period. The project aims to create a vast reservoir, boost electricity output, and expand arable land in Egypt and Sudan.
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Cairo
Egypt
Aswan
Kremlin
Middle East
Soviet Union
U.S.S.R
Nasser
Nile
United States
Britain
U.S
U.A.R
Sudan
Mediterranean
Reserve woman depot agent serves near home after 16 years
Mrs. Melba Loney, the Missouri Pacific’s only woman depot agent on the Kansas City to Omaha line, now works closer to home at Reserve. She previously served at Burr, Panama, Howe, Cook, Julian in Nebraska and Padonia in Kansas. Home in Hiawatha, she logs long days and miles, yet values motherhood and service. She helps transient guests with canned beans and Psalms, teaches piano, plays organ, and grows flowers at her station.
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Reserve
Kas
Missouri Pacific
Kansas City
Omaha
Railroad
Melba Loney
Hiawatha
Panama
Howe
Cook
Burr
Julian
Nebraska
Padonia
Kansas
Dangers Of Hate Campaign Highlighted By Golden
Harry Golden, editor of the Carolina Israelite, said Nazis overrun West Germany and condemned anti-Communist blame for anti-Semitic demonstrations. He warned swastikas, symbols of murder, threaten Jewish communities and stressed the six million Jewish victims in the 20th century. Golden spoke at Beth Shalom Synagogue men’s club.
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Kansas City
West Germany
Harry Golden
Carolina Israelite
Golden
Genghis Khan
Beth Shalom Synagogue Men’s Club
Parole Chief Says Crowd Was Fooled by Clutter Suspects
TOPEKA AP The chairman of the State Board of Probation and Parole told the Senate Ways and Means Committee that everyone was fooled by Richard Hickock and Perry E. Smith in the Clutter family murder case. Lytle noted the board granted conditional releases lacking supervision and discussed parole revocations and staffing needs with budget requests.
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Topeka
State Board of Probation and Parole
Richard Hickock
Perry E. Smith
Herb W. Clutter
Garden City
Harry O. Lytle
Junction City
Senate
Ways and Means
Clutter
State Penitentiary
Alaska
August Lauterbach
R-Colby
Lytle
Eugene Davis
Davis
First Jet Stowaway Arrives In Frisco
The first transpacific jet stowaway arrived in San Francisco identified as Hide masa Nagayasu. A Tokyo native, 24, he spoke no English and was taken to a detention barracks pending repatriation. Pan American will cover all costs under maritime law, including return fare.
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San Francisco
Hidemasa Nagayasu
Tokyo
Pan American World Airways
Pan American
Nagayasu
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Kenosha, Wis
South Highway
Ottawa
Ottawa, Kansas
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