Wellsville summer ball draws crowd and plans
About 40 boys expressed interest in Wellsville summer ball per Recreation Committee Chair Bill Lytle. B team set to play DeSoto May 29 at Wellsville, with A team at Baldwin June 1. Gene Barnett and Bob Miller to attend league meeting for schedules.
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Wellsville
Bill Lytle
DeSoto
Baldwin
Gene Barnett
Bob Miller
N. J. Hogan
Judy Crist
Penny Whitley
Centennial Stage Coach Runs El Dorado to Augusta
El Dorado Kansas launches centennial stage coach service hauling mail between El Dorado and Augusta. The 16 mile run carried 2009 pieces to Augusta Sunday and returned with 445 pieces Monday. Service runs through June 4 with a horses rest day between trips. Federal permit and a special cancellation apply. A 20 cent letter rate or eight for $1 applies. Stamp collectors can mail to Stagecoach care of the postmaster El Dorado.
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EL Dorado, Kan
el Dorado
Augusta
Stagecoach
Met To Turn Down Segregated Audiences
DETROIT AP New York's Metropolitan Opera Co will not perform before segregated audiences in the South any longer. Rudolf Bing the Met's general manager said the company can't afford to do so and has informed patrons in Atlanta and Dallas who host regular stops that performances in those cities will be discontinued.
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Detroit
New York
Metropolitan Opera Co
South
Rudolf Bing
Met
Bing
Atlanta
Dallas
Williamsburg Unit reports at convention and school honors
Williamsburg News outlines Leo Santee Unit No. 179 regular session with reports on the District Convention by Mrs. Charles Bush and Irwin Heth. Unit won first in Americanism. Clara Dehn chairs. Guests from Franklin County Social Welfare spoke on welfare for children and adoption procedures. Committees named for Jayhawk Days and quilt drawing. Grade School earned honorable mention on scholastic standings. several students cited for honors. Local restaurant sale noted. Fred Hedrick of Lindsay, Calif. obituary referenced with family ties to the Central neighborhood.
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Leo Santee
Charles Bush
Irwin Heth
Clara Dehn
Stanley Lane
Fred Kaiser
Marjorie Hooper
Social Welfare Department
Franklin County
Jayhawk
J. A. van Valkenburg
L. T. Pattie
L. W. Sutherland
Frank Davis
Richard Smith
Nora Massey
Bonnie Goodwill
Penny Reekie
Joyce Starosta
Ed Ransom
Kansas
Kansas City
Kansas City Museum
Swope
Fairyland Parks
Forrest Bond
Jack Cromwell
Main Street
Clara Belle Doncaster
Charles Wilson
A. D. Kolterman
Lawrence
O. P. Fritts
Fred Hedrick
Lindsay
Calif
Central
Fredrick Schwinns
Colorado
California
Santa Cruz
Five Astronauts Meet Engineers In St Louis Conference
Space traveler Alan B. Shepard Jr. and four Mercury team astronauts are in St. Louis for a conference with McDonnell Aircraft engineers who build the space capsules. The meeting ends today with Mercury task group scientists present. newsmen and photographers were not admitted.
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ST. Louis
Alan B. Shepard Jr
McDonnell Aircraft Corp
McDonnell
Eichmann Blamed For Lidice Crime
In Jerusalem the AP reports Adolf Eichmann was charged with the murder of Lidice children. Prosecution ties Czech villagers to Eichmann through Gestapo records showing 88 Lidice orphans sent to Lodz, with 81 likely dead in Nazi camps.
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Jerusalem
Adolf Eichmann
Lidice
Czechoslovakia
Eichmann
Berlin
Gestapo
Reinhard Heydrich
Eich‘mann
Prague
Lodz
Jewish Affairs
Igas
Auschwitz
12 Year Old Boy Drowns in Sand Pit Near Wichita
Eugene Bailey, 12, of Wichita, drowned Tuesday in a sand pit near the Arkansas River. Police and the fire department rescue squad dragged the area for nearly three hours before recovering the body. His brother Paul, 10, said Eugene slipped into the water while they walked along the edge.
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Wichita, Kas
Eugene Bailey
Wichita
Arkansas River
Fire
Paul
Eugene
Ample Supply Of Combines Is Seen
Kansas City AP reports normal migration should supply 5,000 out of state combines and 10,000 truck tractor and combine operators to harvest Kansas vast wheat crop. Harvest to begin June in south central counties, move to northwest by July 15. Kansas crop seen at 250 million bushels.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Labor Department
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Miami County Hospital
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Minn
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Ernest Todd
Pleasanton
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Leavenworth
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Jack Seyler
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
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St. Joseph Hospital
Lewis Schendel
Anna Neis
Alan Schendel
Baker University
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Oliver Neis
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Ventura
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Harry
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Centennial
Williamsburg News
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Plaza Shop
S. Main
Spears Hospital
Spears Chiropractic Hospital
Denver
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Anchor Savings Association
Marry Y. West, Prescent Home Office
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