Tipton Pool Table Firm Grows From Basement Start
Fischer Sales & Mfg Co in Tipton started in E L Fischer basement with two workers and now employs 35 men. The firm makes home and coin operated pool tables for the United States and overseas, with production expanding to about 80 Imperial tables weekly and up to 50 small bumper tables daily.
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Fischer Sales & Mfg. Co
Tipton
E. L. Fischer
United States
TNS Tean
Fischer
Emil Gerke
Gerke
Joe Rowles
Syracuse
Rowles
Australia
Venezuela
Puerto Rico
Charles Schuster
Joe G. Rowles
Edgar Schupp
Eldon
Charles Garber
Floyd Fulks
Pat Franken
New York
Belgium
Paul Bieri
Sylvester Wolf
Sam Bayne
Albert Anderson
Fortuna
Marvin Mertes
Ed Olson
Democrat-Capital
Larry Embry
What Happened to Lt. John McKone
Kansas mother Jean McKone recalls her son 1st Lt. John R. McKone one of two RB-47 survivors shot down by the Russians on July 1. The interview reflects on his upbringing in Tonganoxie and Kansas State studies, ROTC service, and the Air Force honors he earned as a cadet.
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Kansas City
Kan
Kansas
Soviet Union
John R. McKone
Jean McKone
John
Texas
California
Topeka
Connie
Robert
Camp Naish
Tonganoxie High School
Kansas State University
Air Force
Cathy
Lori
Johnny
Where How and When Of Traveling In Space
Ward Cannel reports on Don Mullen of General I as he outlines space travel concepts. He cites probabilistic chances of life beyond Earth, potential target planets Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani, relativistic travel, and generations long voyages toward colonizing a distant world.
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Electric
Mullen
Milky Way
Fridant
Einstein
Space
Earth
Jesse Greenstein
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John Plain
General Merchandise
Robert Morton
Carl Weingart
Weingart
Paul Orscheln
Paul Orschein
Dorothee Polson
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
McKone
J. A. McKone
Ward Cannel