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...Kansans call the Kaw. Its waters rolled into Manhattan (pop. 18,996) in raging flood, and businessmen along the main streets had to be taken out in boats. More than 20,000 people were driven from their homes in Topeka, the state capital. Flood water spilled over the Santa Fe railroad tracks near Emporia and for 55 hours stranded 337 passengers in the crack passenger train El Capitan. Rancher Bill Brandt landed his small plane on a nearby highway 15 times to bring in supplies and to take out five sick passengers...
...River at the Kansas Cities. There the low-lying industrial districts are protected by flood walls as high as 22 feet, built to cope with high water equal to that of the previous record flood in 1903. The flood of '51 roared over the levees, covered the Santa Fe's great transfer yards and shops, inundated the spreading stockyards, coursed through factories. Rescue workers had a hard time convincing some oldtime residents to leave, so sure were they that the flood would be no worse than in 1903. Mrs. Emile LaBorde, who had lived there 32 years, baked...
Chesapeake and Ohio (Lindy Doherty; Capitol). A new novelty chugs along the tracks cleared by such crack trains as the Chattanooga Choo Choo and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe...
...will be fish on Fridays for Roman Catholics of New Mexico beginning next September, decreed Santa Fe's Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne last week. The order will end a special privilege, long shared by Catholics of onetime Spanish colonies, of ignoring the regular rule of abstinence from meat...
...Santa Fe, the privilege does not apply to Ash Wednesday, Lenten Fridays and the day before the feasts of Christmas, Pentecost, the Assumption and All Saints...