Wiring Linked To Church Fire
Defective kitchen wiring may have caused the fire which Saturday morning destroyed the parish house of the Plymouth Congregational Church, Fire Chief John Miller said Tuesday.
Although estimates are incomplete, damage to the 100-year-old church's parish may go well over $100,000.
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winter, along with Charles Reed, deputy state fire marshal, and Walter Gage of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, have been investigating the fire.
The fire started in the kitchen are, and the defective wiring was found near a wall section to which the refrigerator was connected. The fire was discovered about 3 am.
No official estimate of the fire damage will be made until an inventory is taken of furnishings and equipment in the parish house at the time of the fire. The extent of smoke and water damage to the sanctuary is still undetermined.
Journalism Group Re-elects KU Man
Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism, was reelected secretary-treasurer of the Association for Education in Journalism, the American Association of Schools and Departments of Journalism, and the American Society of Journalism School Administrators at the annual AEJ convention in Boulder, Colo., Aug. 22-26.
Prof. Beth also spoke in Chicago Aug. 16 at a short course attended by about 300 press photographers at the convention of the Photographers Association of America. He discussed the law of libel and the right of privacy as they are related to photographers and picture editors.
Prof. Beth was elected in 1948 and has been reelected every year since. He is also director of the placement bureau of AEJ, a national teacher- job placement service.
Official Bulletin
Items for the Official Bulletin must be brought to the Public Relations office, 222-A Strong, before 9:30 a.m. on the day of publication. Do not bring Bulletin material to Daily Kansan No. 4341; include name, place, date and time of function.
Organizations will list their officers with office of Dean of Students, 231 Washington College. Organizations section of Student Directory will be prepared from this list and may result in faster listing. Give out a Lawrence address and phone number.
Christian Science Organization, 7 p.m.
Directions: Chapel
KU KU's 7 p.m. Pine Room. Memorial Union. Wear uniforms. Refreshments
TOMORROW
Jewish New Year Services, 7:30 p.m.
New York Foundation, Jewish
Community Center, 140
Detroit became a city Oct. 24, 1815 and was never a part of a township.
More Greenlease Bills Turn Up
CHICAGO-(U.P.)-The bill1-by-
bil check of incoming money at the
Federal Reserve Bank here has
turned up five more $20 bills from
the missing $300,000 of the Green-
lease ransom payment.
The new bills, found yesterday bring to 21 the number discovered in the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago and the total number of bills found throughout the country to 31.
Missing is half of the $800,000 Robert C. Greenlease of Kansas City pad two years ago for the ransom of his son, Bobby.
Topeka—(U.P.)—An $875,000 penal institution improvement program won approval today of the Kansas Legislative Council.
Prison Reform Program OK'd
The program envisions new buildings and extensive remodeling of old ones at the Lansing penitentiary, the Hutchinson reformatory and the Lansing women's farm.
Without a dissenting vote, the council agreed to recommend to the 1956 legislature that it provide the required appropriations.
Sen. Paul Wunsch estimated that for physical plant improvements and for higher salaries and additional workers $450,000 would be needed the first year at the state prison, $350,000 at the reformatory and $75,000 at the women's farm.
The committee also suggests Development of an educational program for prisoners at Lansing; establishment of additional prison industries, raising civilian employee salaries, hiring a full time resident physician; compiling printed regulations for both prison personnel and inmates; institute educational and vocational programs for women's farm inmates; add more teachers at Hutchinson and broaden the educational and vocational programs there.
SIMPLE EXPLANATION
Chicago — (U.F.)—A customer told the Illinois Bell Telephone Company he wanted one of those new "Venus" telephones. The company representative was puzzled, until the customer explained he meant a "speaker-phone" which doesn't have to be lifted in use—"no hands."
Bids Sought For State Roads
Topcka—(U.R.) Contractors were asked today by the Kansas Highway Commission to submit bids for 23 miles of major road construction in four counties and county secondary improvements in 10 others.
Bids will be opened in Topcape Sept. 29 and at Hutchinson Oct. 4.
In Stafford County, plans call for seven miles of grading and construction of three bridges on US-50S westward from its junction with US-281.
The Commission asked bids for widening US-169 in Neosho County seven miles between Thayer and Eulton.
Relocation of eight miles of K-10 eastward from Alta Vista also will be contracted.
FFA To Hold Leadership Schools
Manhattan—(U.P.)-Future Farmer of America chapters in Kansas will send more than 200 representatives to leadership schools to be held in 11 cities between Sept. 26 and Oct. 3.
Howard R. Bradley, on the education staff at Kansas State College, said the schools would be held at Lawrence, Beloit, Buhler, Emporia, Plainville, Harper, Clay Center, Oberlin, Dodge City, Holton and Fredonia.
KDGU Schedule
Thursday
Thursday. Sept. 15, 1955. University Daily Kansan
8:00 News
6:05 Thru the Looking Glass
6:30 Movictime
6:45 Roundtable
7:00 Bookstore Hour
8:00 News
8:05 University Theater Concert
8:30 Evening Vespers
8:45 Daily Kansas News
9:00 Classic Time
9:30 Spectrum
9:00 News
LONDON, (U.P.) — Seventy-two modern jet fighter planes will fly over London today to commemorate the day 15 years ago when the Royal Air Force turned the tide in the air battle of Britain.
The fly-past, an annual event for the last ten years, will be led by a Spiffire and a Hurricane fighter, the piston-engine planes which took the brunet of Germany's air assault on Britain.
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