Old-Time Threshing in Franklin County Photo Story
A Franklin County scene shows Gene Dutch Red near Homewood operating a vintage threshing setup. Martin Reh and Glen Greenfield handle grain and bundles from the shocks while the 1940 purchased machine sends straw into a growing stack. The piece notes combines have displaced threshers, yet old methods allow early cutting of green grain and reduced weather risk.
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Franklin County
Gene “Dutch” Red
Homewood
Martin Reh
Gene
Glen Greenfield
Reh
Red
Red Leaders Drop Bullet Proof Cars in Geneva
In Geneva the Kremlin leaders ride open cars while Eisenhower travels in a closed vehicle with a large guard. Locals note the Swiss smiles as Americans use open security and Russians go exposed. Khrushchev Bulganin and Zhukov arrived in open cars, contrasting with Stalin era protection.
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Geneva
Kremlin
Eisenhower
Marc Pernet
Secret Service
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikolai Bulganin
Georgi Zhukov
Midnight Bather Loses Clothes in Hyde Park Lake
London. Terrence Mc Kee, 20, stripped to swim across Hyde Park Lake. In darkness he misplaced his clothing, was seen by a policeman, and required to cover up. Magistrate Paul Bennett ruled a nude person cannot be considered clothed and McKee was discharged under a park decency regulation.
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London
Terrence McKee
Hyde Park Lake
Paul Bennett
McKee
Will Decide On Talbott Hearing
Senate Investigations subcommittee will decide whether to hold public hearings on Secretary of the Air Force Talbott's outside business interests. The panel questioned Talbott behind closed doors in an informal conference to discuss propriety issues.
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Washington
McClellan
D-Ark
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Air Force
Talbott
Talbott Named Special Partner at Mulligan Firm
Talbott serves as a special partner in the New York City firm of Paul B. Mulligan and Co. while holding a position at the Pentagon.
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Talbott
New York City
Paul B. Mulligan and Co
Pentagon
Parolee Arrested in Wichita on Bogus Checks
43-year-old federal parolee WICHITA resident Harry L. Dodd was arrested by detectives who recovered numerous forged checks written from various accounts and related check writing gear at his location. Detective Kenneth Briggs reported the forged instruments and equipment found in Dodd's possession.
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Wichita
Harry L. Vodd
Kenneth Briggs
Dodd
Dodd Named Wanted on Multiple Checks and Break-In Charges
A Kansas City police report states Dodd admitted passing worthless checks in Kansas City and St Joseph and in Concordia and Larned. Wichita police said Lincoln County New Mexico authorities notified Saturday night that Dodd is wanted there on a breaking and entering charge. Briggs said Dodd told investigators he also was wanted by fed-
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Dodd
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Concordia
Larned
Kas
Wichita
Lincoln County
N. M
Briggs
Fed
Storks and Baby Myths in German Folklore
German folklore links storks with delivering babies from ponds wells and springs where unborn souls were believed to dwell, transporting them to favored families as a conditional parole violator-type figure in myth.
Lake Meyer Named for Rep Meyer in Kansas Reservoir
Washington House passes a bill to name the Fall River reservoir four miles northwest of Fall River Kansas as Lake Meyer in honor of the late Rep Herbert Alton Meyer R Kas. The measure moves to the Senate as Meyer aided federal funding for the dam project.
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Washington
House
Kansas polio cases drop this year to fifty one
The State Board of Health announced Kansas has 51 polio cases this year, down from 97 at the same point last year. Five new cases were reported this month, with none in the age group targeted by the Salk vaccine program.
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Topeka
Kansas
State Board of Health
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