Stock car racing season opens at Lapland track, Gas City. Glen and Lyle Harvey will open “Lapland” for the fifth season and look forward to a good year of entertainment for hotrod fans.
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Allen County is approaching the last phase of its polio vaccine program. By Friday of this week, free Salk vaccine shots will have been given to all children between the ages of one and five whose parents apply for them and who have had one previous shot. Children between 5 and 10 have already been given two shots. Thus all children under 10 will have had two inoculations by the end of the week and should be virtually immune to the disease.
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HUMBOLDT — Fifty-two seniors will graduate this year from Humboldt High School Thursday in commencement exercises in the school auditorium.
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The Buckbrush Buckaroos are announcing their eighth annual rodeo for May 12 and 13 at their rodeo grounds north of Iola on Highway 59. Announcements have been made in several states and entries normally come from neighboring states as well as Kansas. George Godfrey of Homing, Okla., will provide the stock this year.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Methodist church today had a new kind of regular minister: women. They’re now eligible to join the ranks of the official clergy of America’s largest Protestant denomination. The church’s law-making General Conference gave its sanction yesterday after hours of virulent see-saw debate.
