Goodland Adopts Text Rental Plan Early in State
Goodland joins early adopters after Gov. Docking backed a two dollar per pupil subsidy for school text rentals. The plan, already in eight grades, faces high school questions. Supt. Gordon Yeargan notes local book inventories were bought at cost to seed the program and district schools now scramble for texts as dealers balk at small rural orders.
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Sherman Community ‘High School
Docking
Martha Steele
Sherman County
Goodland
Gordon Yeargan
Main Street
Yeargan
Caney
Coffeyville
Arkansas City
Complete Work For Degrees
Two Ottawans are among 278 graduates from the University of Kansas. Joseph Terrill will earn a B.S. in architecture and Mrs. Ann Ackerman a bachelor’s in music education. Other area graduates include Thomas Lewinsohn Osawatomie B.A. Robert Roeckers Richmond B.A. Orville Mathey Osawatomie B.S. in business John Jackson Baldwin B.S. civil engineering Lawrence Goudie Osawatomie B.S. mechanical engineering Harold Quellhorst Paola B.S. petroleum engineering John Schroeder Jr Garnett B.S. education Ralph Silver Lyndon B.S. education and Richard Wade LaCygne B.S. in pharmacy.
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University of Kansas
Joseph Terrill
Ruby Terrill
E. 13Th
Ann Ackerman
Joel Cutting
West 18Th
Thomas Lewinsohn
Osawatomie
Robert Roeckers
Richmond
Humane Societies Meet in Lawrence
The Franklin County Humane Society will meet with other members of the Kansas Federation of Humane Societies Sunday at the Hotel Eldridge in Lawrence. Mutual problems in humane work and needed legislation will be discussed. All persons interested in humane work are invited to attend. Reservations may be made by contacting Mrs Beatrice Martin Peck, phone 1327.
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Franklin County Humane Society
Kansas Federation of Humane Societies
Eldridge
Lawrence
Beatrice Martin Peck
Weakening Bid to Trim Eisenhower Peacetime Budget
The text reports mounting pressure from Republicans, business leaders, and some Democrats to cut the 71.8 billion dollar peacetime budget. Eisenhower signals possible slower spending, instructing aides to find areas for cuts while affirming that the public deserves services. Secretary Humphrey cautions cuts are possible but declines to name targets. The piece notes heavy mail and polls reflecting mixed opinions on the budget.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
United States
House Republicans
House Republican Policy Committee
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
John S. Coleman
Republican House
Martin
Massachusetts
Humphrey
Brundage Foresees No Big Cuts in Federal Spending
Budget Director Percival Brundage, described as knowing more about the budget than Eisenhower and Humphrey, says he does not see substantial federal spending reductions for at least two years. He cautions against expecting rapid fiscal retrenchment and warns the path ahead remains financially tight.
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Eisenhower
Humphrey
Percival Brundage
Brundage
Bombers Back From Far East
Twenty five Air Force intercontinental B36 bombers returned to Travis AFB California after a weeklong routine training mission that reached into the Far East. The 10 engine planes flew 9000 miles nonstop from Yokota Japan, while B3As from Roswell New Mexico covered a similar distance from Okinawa back to Roswell.
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Travis Afb
Calif
Air Force Intercontinental
United States
Far East
Air Force
Strategic Air Command
Yokota
Japan
6Th
Roswell
N.M
Okinawa
Powell Warns on Soviet Abortion Use in War Context
Col. Lucian N Powell of the 5th Bomb Wing warns that SAC has carried antisocial or dangerous methods abroad, urging caution over their use to produce an abortion. The fragment also oddly advises against washing silk lamp shades glued.
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SAC
Europe
North Africa
Lucian N. Powell
15Th Air Force
Magazine Indicted Over Abortion Article in 1956 Issue
A federal grand jury charged Confidential magazine and Confidential Inc of New York and the Kable Printing Co of Mount Morris with mailing obscene or crime inciting material and distributing abortion information. The indictment cites the March 1956 article The pill that ends unwanted pregnancy by N. E. Benson, alleging the pill was described in a manner calculated to incite.
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Chicago
Confidential Magazine
Confidential Inc
New York
Kable Printing Co
Mount Morris
N. E. Benson
Savings with pressure creosoted poles for farm buildings
The article notes lower material costs when using pressure creosoted poles as supports. It highlights avoiding foundation work, concrete, farm labor, mixing and pouring, excavation, and complex roof trusses, resulting in overall reduced expenses for farm structures.
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George Docking
Bob Fresham
Kanorado
Gov. Docking
Coe You
Pop
Paine
Humane Societies
U. S
Magazine Indicted
Old Stag
John G. Kaiser
Rexall
Pho
Masonic
Nuzman Lumber Yard
Wheeling
Poles
Ottawa
PSC
Grain & Lumber Co
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