Purchases Are Duplicated in Pentagon Forks Study
Senate Preparedness subcommittee reports 32 cases of duplicative buying. The Defense Department and General Services Administration bought wooden forks and spoons at different prices while replacing some with plastic models. Investigators led by Senator Lyndon B. Johnson urge preventing costly duplication and note other items like hacksaw blades and pots were involved. Old utensils were discarded after Army Quartermaster found them unsatisfactory and Air Force cited soft texture and taste concerns.
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Washington
Senate
Pentagon
Defense Department
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
General Services Administration
Army Quartermaster Corps
Air Force
Tornado damages farm near Wichita NorthWest
A brief tornado struck Stew art Smith's farm about 13 miles northwest of here yesterday evening destroying a barn and damaging outbuildings, machinery, and equipment. No injuries were reported.
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Wichita
Stewart Smith
Here
Insurance On Dwellings Household Goods and Autos
Insurance on dwellings household goods buildings and automobiles is discussed with emphasis on coverage scope premium factors and claim processes. The notice highlights policy terms exclusions and requirements for proof of loss and timely premium payment by policyholders.
Workshop Patterns by Ruth Wyeth Spears
Describes a toy rocker arrangement for children up to eight, with two sailors at ends joined by a dowel. Mentions use of a power saw for the half moon rockers and rainbow color options. Promotes pattern 458 with mail copy for 25 cents and an Outdoor Play Equipment packet P-25 for $1 from Ottawa Herald Pattern Dept. Bedford Hills New York.
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Daddy
Ottawa Herald
Bedford Hills
New York
Died Saturday Dr Edward Steiner 90 scholar and author
Dr Edward A Steiner a 90 year old nationally known scholar lecturer and author died at his Claremont California home on a Saturday. He moved to Claremont in 1954 from Grinnell Iowa where he was professor emeritus of applied Christianity after teaching there from 1903 to 1941 following his Oberlin College AB in 1891.
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Claremont
Calif
Edward A. Steiner
Steiner
Grinnell College
Grinnell
Iown
Czechoslovakia
Ellis Island
Oberlin College
Oberlin
Ohio
New Bishop Consecrated for Missouri Area
New Orleans reports Bishop Eugene M. Frank of Topeka was consecrated during the south central jurisdictional conference to lead the Missouri area. He succeeds Bishop Ivan Lee Holt of St. Louis on the jurisdiction’s seven member bishops’ panel as Holt retires. The conference also approved a $1,298,410 Indian and Spanish-speaking missionary program for Oklahoma and Texas New Mexico, plus a goal of 2,000 overseas missionaries by 1960 and programs in Korea Bolivia Belgian Congo and northern Borneo.
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New Orleans
Eugene M. Frank
Topeka
Missouri
Frank
First Methodist Church
Ivan Lee Holt
St. Louis
College of Bishops
Holt
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Korea
Bolivia
Belgian Congo
Borneo
Quick Senate action urged on flood prevention bill
A Senate Public Works Committee was set to take up the watershed and flood prevention act as Rep Avery urged prompt action on House amendments. He stressed that adjournment looms and future water and soil conservation depends on the House changes. The amendments include removing congressional approval for many small projects and broadening the act to cover all water related conservation, development, utilization and disposition. Local groups would not bear construction costs for flood prevention structures.
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Washington
Senate
Avery
Kansas
Mill Official Dies After Months of Illness
Emporia reports the Teichgraeber Milling Co secretary treasurer Otto Oswald Teichgraeber, age 60, died here yesterday after a several month illness.
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Emporia
Teichgraeber Milling Co
Otto Oswald Teichgraeber
Richmond Club Hosts Mrs Duane Pedro Gathering
News from Richmond notes Mrs Duane Pedro hosted the Berea club with guests including Mrs Everett Pitts and Mrs Clive. A long list of area residents and visitors are mentioned, plus a June 25 birth in Ottawa hospital of a daughter to Mr and Mrs Robert Cooper. The bulletin ends urging new voters to register and vote.
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Duane Pedro
Berea Club
Everett Pitts
Clive
Mmes
Noah Hutchison
D. Lickteig
Harry Retter
Kenneth Cunningham
C. H. New
Louis Eeord
Clyde Berry
Lawrence Chandler
Gary
Robert Cooper
Ottawa Hospital
California
Ralph McCrea
Doug Kerschner
Kansas City
McCrea
Clarence Olson
Bede
Iowa
Kerschners
McCreas
Jack Ginavin
Dan
Paso Rob
Steven
Larry Hopkins
Patricia Lamb
Trinity Methodist Church
Iola
Mears Park
Ottawa
Wm. B. Smith
J. R. Wilkins
Walnut
de Soto
William Martin
Patty
Barbara
Wichita
Roy Johnson
Sandra
Terry
Topsey Johnson
Chicago
Holdenville
Okla
A. R. Peugh
Raymond Colemans
Warrensburg
Frank Dietrich
Jayne
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