Admiral Burke Urges Nuclear Navy For Stronger Fleet
Admiral Arleigh A. Burke argues a nuclear powered aircraft carrier would be the toughest target on earth. He defends the Navy budget in testimony, notes Russia may have or soon have atomic submarines, and says a carrier is costly but essential to deter and survive wartime threats. Senate panels press Marine Corps budget as well, with Gen Randolph McC. Pate called in for discussions.
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Washington
Arleigh A. Burke
Naval Operations
Navy
Russia
Senate
Marine Corps
Randolph McC. Pate
Burke
Sen. Ellender
D-La
Rep. Cannon
D-Ma
State Republican Heads To Meet In Topeka
TOPEKA The State Republican Executive Committee will meet here June 9, James Pratt state GOP chairman said it will be a general meeting to discuss party affairs. Kansas GOP women collegiate and veterans representatives will attend. INDIANAPOLIS In hearings on right to work bills Senator John C. Ruckelshaus of Indianapolis received an irate note from a citizen opposing the law.
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Topeka
Republican Executive Committee
James Pratt
GOP
Kansas Gop Women’s
Indianapolis
John C. Ruckelshaus
Farewell Supper for Moore as They Leave for Cody
Community notes from Williamsburg recount a Sunday farewell buffet for Mr. and Mrs. Walter Moore and their sons who are moving to Cody Wyoming. Several local families and church members attended, with visits to Ottawa Garnett and Paola, appointments to camps and bases, and a correction about James McCausland's Havana Illinois address.
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Scott
Walter Moore
Cody, Wye
Forrest Bond
Sharon Bond
Leslie Bond
Malcolm Blair
I Garnett
H. N. Trabert
Hal
Henry Putthoff
Bernard Putthoff
Valley Falls
Eldon iKoons
Sarah Jane Koons
Maureen Neal
Charles Neal
Emmett Thompson
Oakland
Calif
Lynn Thompson
Lynn
Navy
Formosa
Lee Eldon van Valkenburg
Forrest Todds
Los Angeles
Weegar
Ralph Hartpences
Ottawa
Thompsons
James Mc. Causland
Havana
Ill
Harold
Wheat Acreage For State Given In 1958 Kansas
Kansas 1958 wheat acreage allotment set at 18,638,208 acres for 105 counties by Rodney K. McCammon head of the state ASC. Counties apportioned by ten year average seedings with weather and previous allotment adjustments. County figures listed, then Madison Wisconsin item notes two men seeing a woman stall a wagon in a snowstorm.
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Manhattan
Kas. U
Kansas
Rodney K. McCammon
State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee
McCammion
Madison
Wis
Opposes US Aid To Communist Nations
Senator John Marshall Butler declares that American aid to Yugoslavia and other Communist nations funds a giant Russian defense system. He questions why Congress should not fully justify cutting all such aid. Senate Leader Knowland and others call for ending help to Russian satellites and protest jet fighter shipments to Marshal Tito.
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Washington
John Marshall Butler
Thirsty Pilot Is Rescued In Seering Heat Desert
Harold Ross 28 of San Diego and Harry Diehl 68 of Chu d Vista were stranded on a Panamint Mountains ridge after a failed takeoff. Ross, missing water since Sunday, wandered seeking relief in 100 degree heat and was rescued by cattlemen who found him babbling and exhausted. He was hospitalized in Bishop and listed as recovering.
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Bishop
Calif
Harold Ross
San Diego
Panamint Mountains
Death Valley National Monument
Ross
Harry Diehl
Chuda Vista
Diehl
Hoisington Wreck Kills One and Injures Four
Mrs Effie Williams 33 of Great Bend was killed last night in a collision six miles south of Hoisington on U S 281. Her daughter Patricia Louise 15 and George Jones 17 of Hoisington were hospitalized with serious injuries. Driver J B King of Hoisington also hospitalized with non serious injuries.
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Hoisington, Kas
Effie Williams
Great Bend
U. S. 281
Girl Gangs Revealed At West Junior High
A 13 year old girl admitted to slashing her own body at West Junior High and blaming fictitious girl gangs. She said she wanted to transfer to South Junior High to avoid a supposed gang war. Police investigated beatings reported by two other girls as mothers protested for their daughters not to return to school. The Osborne girl was placed in a juvenile detention home.
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Colorado Springs
Colo. AM
Merlené Rae Osborne
West Junior High School
I. B
Dad
Bruce Aid
Osborne
Bruce
Roy Wasson
Lowell J. Mills
South Junior High
West
Army To Go On Metric System
The Army will replace feet yards and miles with the European metric system for artillery and rifle distances and heights. Gen Maxwell D Taylor signed a regulation stating goals include standardization within NATO and better use of allied and captured enemy materiel. Conversion starts with minimal delay and need not be complete before January 1, 1966. All Army weapons will be designed to use metric units.
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Washington U
Maxwell, D. Taylor
Army
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Marysville Coach Takes Top Post at Emporia High
Bob Johnson, longtime Marysville High School basketball coach, is hired as Emporia High head basketball coach to replace Carl Haney who moves to director of athletics and activities. Johnson will also be football assistant coach and run intramurals in spring.
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Emporia
Bob Johnson
Marysville High School
Emporia High School
Carl Haney
Haney
Emporia High
Johnson
Fire Damage At Ft Leavenworth Blamed On Electrical Fault
A fire in Pope Hall at Fort Leavenworth on Monday caused about 243000 dollars in damage. The two story stone building suffered 212000 in damage and 31000 to its contents, according to the public information office. The blaze is believed to have started from an electrical problem. Pope Hall housed instruction for Army officers in atomic weapon deployment.
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Ft, Leavenworth
Pope Hall
Public Information Office
Salina Man Heads District Optimists
Harold Jaeger of Salina named governor of the Missouri Kansas Nebraska district of Optimists International at the annual convention in Omaha. Also elected were secretary-treasurer Merrill Andrews of Salina and lieutenant governors Orin L. Robson of Wichita and Joe Farmer of Kansas City Kansas.
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Harold Jaeger
Salina
Missouri-Kansas-Nebraska
Optimists International
Kansas City
Merrill Andrews
Orin L. Robson
Wichita
Joe Farmer
Kas
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