Lowell Thomas Keeps The Same News Format
New York AP report notes by June 3 CBS radio reporter Lowell Thomas will hit his 15 600th broadcast. His News program has lasted longest in radio since 1932 with two nightly broadcasts. Thomas has narrated films and served Fox Movietone, Cinerama, and lectured around the nation. He has traveled five million miles and built a storied career from 1930 after replacing Floyd Gibbons. He cites Churchill, Roosevelt, MacArthur, Murrow, Collingwood, Eisenhower, Barkley, Salk, Edwards, and the Andrea Doria as memorable broadcasts.
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Cinerama
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Empire State Building
Floyd Gibbons
Gibbons
Churchill
President Roosevelt
Congress
MacArthur
Ed Murrow
Berlin
Charles
Jonas Salk
Doug Edwards
Andrea Doria
Moscow
Urges Small Firms To Install Dials
Kansas City AP report says small independent telephone firms should install dial systems promptly to cut labor costs. Clive W. Haas of Big Timber Montana, president of the U S Independent Telephone Assn, warns the minimum wage law could apply to small companies. About 600 people attend the Missouri Telephone Assns meeting in Kansas City, which wraps up today.
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Kas
Missouri Telephone Assns
Clive ‘W. Haas
Big Timber
Mont
U. S
Kansas City University Wins $40,000 Education Grant
The U S Office of Education provides a $40 000 two year grant to the University of Kansas City for a study on how teachers influence career choices. Dr Bruce Biddle of the University of Kentucky will direct the project and join KCU faculty on June 9.
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U. S. Office of Education
University of ‘Kansas City
Bruce Biddle
University of
Kentucky
KCU
Prep Track Star Hit By Javelin At Woodbridge High
Woodbridge High School ace javelin thrower Robert Hartman, 17, was struck by a teammate's throw on a Monday night practice. The javelin flew an estimated 150 feet and buried four inches in his upper stomach, causing a pierced lung and placing him in critical condition at a local hospital.
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Robert Hartman
Mary Gudenkauf Dies From Centralia Auto Crash Injuries
Mary M. Gudenkauf, 46, Centralia, died Saturday night from injuries suffered in an automobile collision earlier that day about two miles east of Centralia. The crash occurred in rural Franklin County and the investigation was ongoing.
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Centralia, Kas
Mary MM. Gudenkauf
Centralia
Here
Why France Keeps Changing Governments
An Associated Press analysis explains the French system after Paris and Algeria turmoil. It notes the Fourth Republic's practice of Parliament choosing and removing cabinets, the multiparty landscape, and the impact of proportional representation on stability. It discusses Pflimlin's proposals to strengthen the executive and allow Assembly dissolution.
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Algeria
Associated Press Bureau
Socialist Party
Moscow
Popular Republican Movement
MRP
Fro Ovrseas
France
Pflimlin
Damage High From Hoppers and Chinch Bugs
Kansas entomologists Dell E. Gates and David L. Matthews report grasshopper nymphs up to 1500 per square yard along western fence rows and margins with potential severe crop damage if many mature. Chinch bugs have damaged eastern spring barley, prompting plowing to curb losses. prompt control is advised.
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Dell E. Gates
David L. Matthews
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KC Prosecutor Fires Assistant for Insubordination
Austin F. Shute, an assistant Jackson County prosecutor, was fired for insubordination after he disclosed grand jury evidence to the press. Prosecutor William A. Collet said the premature disclosure jeopardized the grand jury’s work. Shute claimed police and prosecutors collude with the underworld to hide organized crime.
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Austin F. Shute
Jackson County
William A. Collet
Shute
Collet
Underworld
Kansas City Crime Commission
Lyman Field
Police Board
Car Truck Crash Near Lenexa Fatal
A car-truck collision on U S 50 near Lenexa Kansas killed truck driver Lawrence Huck 46 of Osawatomie and injured car driver Jack Millican 18 of Kansas City Kansas with arm fractures and head lacerations.
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Kan
Lenexa
Lawrence Huck
Osawatomie
Paola Hospital
U. S. 50
Jack Millican
Woodend St
Kansas City
Federal plans fish center at Cedar Bluff reservoir
The federal Bureau of Sports Fisheries will fund a fish cultural station at Cedar Bluff reservoir with 20 ponds three houses an office and utility building and pipelines. Bids are due through June 25 per state fish and game director Dave Leahy.
Cardinal Stritch Dies In Rome
Samuel Cardinal Stritch, 70, Archbishop of Chicago, died in Rome after circulatory ailments. His body lay in state at the North American Pontifical College, then at St Ignatius Church before a Thursday funeral Mass. He had arrived April 25 to lead the Vatican Congregation for Propagation of the Faith.
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St. Ignatius Church
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Scranton
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