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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FEBRUARY 27,1946
Here's The News From Your Home Town in Kansas
Yokohama Was Next On Boeing's Bomb List
Wichita (UP) — A "grand slam" project reportedly aimed at Yokohama was in the making when the atom bomb ended Japanese resistance, spokesmen for the Boeing Aircraft Company revealed today as the War Department took the project off the secret list.
The decision to undertake the job was made here last June 29 when a B-29 took off from the Wichita airport with a load of 22 tons of dummy bombs, the heaviest bombload ever carried by an airplane.
Tucked under each wing of the great plane were mammoth sand-filled dummy bombs, each 24 feet long and nearly four feet in diameter.
It was reported unofficially that the "Grand Slam" project was designed with Yokohama as its target and was a companion project to the preparation of B-29s for the atomic bombing.
'Death to Wolves,' They Say
Garnett—"Death to Wolves" is the war cry of the Harry A. Fuller Post No. 48 of the Anderson county American Legion. In the two hunts held, the casualties reached a total of 21 wolves.
Mankato Holds Coyote Hunt
Mankato - A coyote hunt held north of Mankato, Sunday, attracted a crowd of several thousand. The hunters killed more than 60 coyotes, 54 of which they sold.
Paola—A sub-lease between Paola and Osawatonie has been signed for the operation of an airport between the two cities.
Eighty acres of land lying between Paola and Osawatomie, owned by M. C. Roberts and Lloyd Roberts of Oklahoma, has been leased by the two cities for one year.
Rural Youth to Meet
Manhattan (UP) — Discontinued during the war, a conference for Kansas rural youth organizations to be revived at Kansas State college, March 8-9, is expected to draw delegates from most of the counties in the state. The reorganization and expansion of the youth associations is part of the accelerated peacetime 4-H program.
Paola Men Plan Residential District
Paola—A new residential district is being planned by Clyde McCulloch and son-in-law, Claude Messer, who recently purchased a 200- acre farm north of Paola from Charles E. Phillips, Kansas City hotel man and real estate developer.
The new district will be planned along modern lines, with attractive drives and landscaping. Complete plans for the developing and planting of the land have not been made.
Kansas City, (UP)—The Kansas- Oklahoma winter wheat belt, tinder dry since last fall, will produce a sixth straight bountiful wheat crop to help feed the world, grain men throughout the district said today after a two-day soaking rain.
ter a two-inch
Where two weeks ago the dry topsoil was ripped from the fields,
there was plenty of moisture as a two-inch rain moved out of the district.
A report from Garden City sait that the rain "may prove to be worth over $50,000,000." Garden City received about an inch, while to the east, at Pratt, two inches of slow rain soaked in. But wheat mer around Garden City called the 1.2 inch "more valuable than a two-inch soaker during the spring."
Garfield. (UP)—Local clothing collection leaders wondered whose heart was broken when they came across a package labeled "for the bride."
They opened it and found a complete bridal outfit.
Farmer Veterans Want Kansas Wheat Land
Garden City. (UP) —Returned veterans were swarming over the western Kansas wheat belt today, looking for land to rent for spring crops and to work this summer for fall wheat sowing, but they were finding practically no land available. Land dealers said that scarcely a day passes without inquiries from former servicemen. Throughout this area of 50-50 farming—farm half the land one year and fall the other half–farmers had no desire to sell their holdings.
Discouraged veterans said that nobody seemed inclined to farm less and give them a chance.
Fort Scott Increases Salaries
Fort Scott—The first step toward increasing the salaries of city employees was taken at the meeting of the city commissioners recently when they authorized Walter Patterson, city attorney to draw up a salary ordinance giving them a raise of $10 a month.
Presbyterians Buy Manse
Clay Center.—The Reformed Presbyterian church have purchased the Ernest Fullerton home at 421 Blunt street for a manse, preparatory to obtaining a pastor. A call has been extended to the Rev. Samuel Ward of Darlington, Pa., to serve this pastorate.
English Bride to Osawatomie
Osawatomic—Mrs. P. J. Burns, Jr.
first war bride to arrive in Osawatomic, is getting acquainted with her new home.
Formerly a member of the WREENS, Mrs. Burns met Captain Burns at a dance in Plymouth, England.
Mr. and Mrs. Burns have purchased a home in Osawatonie, and he has resumed his position as a fireman for the Missouri Pacific railroad.
Young 'Lawyer' Wins First Case
Topeka—A youthful "lawyer" defended himself in police court recently and came out on top.
Douglas Jennings, 17-year-old Topeka High school student charged with following fire engines at too orange, chose to act as his own attorney. He asked police officers a few pointed questions, and testified he didn't know it was a violation of a city ordinance to park in the same block in which there is a fire, because he had arrived at the scene before police had blocked the streets.
Judge Eldon Sloan, impressed by the youth's defense, suspended sentence and commented that the case had been the best conduced in his court in a long time. Marlin Casey, assistant city attorney, added, "That boy ought to study law."
Aunt Jemima Visits In Clay Center
Clay Center—Aunt Jemima, the Negro mammy of hot cake fame, visited a firm in Clay Center. The proprietor invited the public to bring their entire families and personally watch Aunt Jemima "mix, flip, and serve" her hot cakes. Spectators were to be served all the hot cakes they could eat.
Money Voted for X-rays
Iola—The Junior Chamber of Commerce here has voted to raise $75 to be used for free chest X-rays in connection with the Kansas Tuberculosis and Health association. The association's fluorescope will arrive early in March.
Alquist Declared Dead
Clay Center—Cpl. Wayne Neil Algust, 22, has been declared dead in a pline crash in China, Oct. 30, 1945. Cpl. Algust was a radio operator with the 332nd Carrier Troop connecting with the Tenth Air Force.
Don't Kill Rabbits, Leahy Tells Hunters
Praft (UP) — Dave Leahy, director of the State Forestry, Fish and Game Commission, today warned hunters who participate in wolf and coyote drives against wholesale slaughter of rabbits.
In recent weeks there have been many such drives in various parts of the state as farmers banded together to reduce the number of marauding animals.
"It is about time to make a protest against those who engage in cowork and wolf drives and who, while advancing through the fields, kill every rabbit before them," Leahy said.
"They've been leaving the rabbits lying on the ground without making any use whatever of them as food.
"Those conducting coyote and wolf drives should leave the rabbits alone as they are beginning to be a very scarce 'article' in Kansas."
Topeka (UP)—Former Gov. Harry Woodring today termed the extra one-cent gasoline tax, including non-highway fuel, a "crime" and demanded that legislature respond on the first day of its session. He called on Kansas Democrats to abolish the state income tax law, declaring that the sales tax, with proposed liquor traffic revenues, would give the state all the financial resources required.
Coffeyville Extends City Limits
Coffeyville—The city limits of Coffeyville were extended last Tuesday by the city commissioners, to include several tracts in the vicinity of the Edgewood addition, west of the city. According to a letter from the war assets corporation, in connection with acquiring Coffeyville army air field for the city, notification will be given the city when the field becomes surplus property.
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