East Germany Rejects Western Push for German Unification
Neues Deutschland reports that Communist East Germany dismissed the West's call for unification as a move to deepen Germany's split and hinder global disarmament. It labeled West Germany the strangest European opponent of disarmament.
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Berlin
East Germany
Neues Deutschland
Communist Party
United States
Britain
France
West Germany
Germany
Red
Fire Strikes San Rafael Downtown Block
A blaze swept through a downtown block in San Rafael California destroying four teen small businesses in just over an hour. Fire crews from Marin County to San Francisco battled the flames as roads into the city were shut. Fire Chief C M Johansen estimated damage at about one million dollars. The fire started behind a furniture store on Main Street.
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San Rafael
Calif
Marin County
San Francisco
Golden Gate Bridge
C. M. Johansen
Re-Elected To Head UNECO Kansas Group Names Slates
Anna Reed of Abilene is re elected as chairman of the Kansas Commission for UNESCO per nominating committee chair Wesley Darrow of Hutchinson. Nominees for vice chairman Dr John E King Emporia State Teachers College Valma Hinze Hutchinson May Williams Seneca and Clayton M Croser KU join recording secretary and executive secretary posts ahead of the annual meeting in Manhattan October 26.
Ike To Try Hand At Barbecue Recipe
President Eisenhower plans to test a barbecue recipe soon. The dish by Mrs. Ward S. George of Lindsborg was among recipes in a book given to him by the American Legion's Boys Nation. In a letter to Gov. George Docking, he notes he hopes to visit Abilene to judge a former resident's barbecue.
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Topeka
Fisenhower
Ward S. George
Lindsburg
Isenhower
American Legion
Boys Nation
George Decking
Kansas
Eisenhower
Abilene
12 Foot Jail In El Dorado Stolen
A 12 by 12 foot steel jail built for Pioneer Days in El Dorado was stolen from the main intersection last night. Erected by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, it was used in a mock kangaroo court during the Aug 22 25 celebration where men are required to grow beards or buy shaving permits and those without face penalties.
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EL Dorado
Chamber of Commerce
Crown Prince To Serve 30 Days In Jail
Lawrence officers report a Florida man, 25 year old Edward Lee Woods, serving a 30 day vagrancy sentence in city jail. Woods admitted to authorities he is not Crown Prince Jid ward of French Equatorial Africa, claiming instead he was born in Macclenny, Florida. Immigration and FBI agents are checking his story.
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Lawrence
Florida
Lawrence City
Edward Lee Woods
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Woods
Crown Prince
Jidward
French Equatorial Africa
Macclenny
Fla
Cabbie held up by suspect in crash on viaduct
A cab driver was strangled during an attempted robbery on the intercity viaduct between Kansas City Missouri and Kansas City Kansas. The car he used to flee collided with another vehicle, injuring Herman E. Donaldson 47 who was taken to a hospital. Suspect Joseph Hamilton 20 admitted the attempted strangulation and was arrested after the crash.
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Kansas City
Herman E. Donaldson
Kas
Edward Hayes
Joseph Hamilton
Charles Price
Hamilton
Rev W M Runyan dies at 87 in Pittsburg Kansas
The Rev William Marion Runyan 87 retired Methodist minister died yesterday in a Pittsburg hospital after breaking a hip in a fall at Baldwin Kansas where he attended his wife’s funeral. They observed their 65th wedding anniversary August 19 1956 in Galveston Texas. He wrote hymns including Great is Thy Faithfulness and edited hymnals. He began preaching at 18 with his Chelsea circuit in 1891 and served Turon Stafford and Burns Kansas and worked as evangelist for the Southwest Conference for 20 years.
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Pittsburg
Kas
Wiliam Marion Runyan
Baldwin
Galveston
Tex
Bunyan
Kansas Methodist Church
Chelsea
Turon
Stafford
Burns
Southwest Conference of the Methodist Church
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Larry D. Wassmer
Wilson
Oxford Cloth
W. M. Runyan
Tulsa
Chicago
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Tulsan
Ottawa
Chicagoan Ly
Santa Fe Ticket Office
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Tulsan Ly
Santa Fe
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