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Stauffer's buy gave him a monopoly in the state capital as well as the surrounding region's only morning paper, the Topeka Daily Capital (circ. 64,304), which since 1941 has shared presses, quarters and business departments with Stauffer's own Topeka afternoon paper, the State Journal (circ. 23,471). Also in the package: another daily, the Kansas City Kansan (circ. 29,583), six farm periodicals, two national magazines, Capper's Farmer (circ. 1,462,513) and Household (circ. 2,578,797), plus Topeka's radio and TV station WIBW and Kansas City...
...buying Capper Publications Inc., Publisher Stauffer was prompted by signs that his empire may prove a dynasty. Son John, 28, is editor of the family's Newton Kansan; Stanley, 36, who was publisher of the Santa Maria (Calif.) Times for five years, is assistant publisher of the Topeka State Journal and in line to succeed his father...
...Arkansas City (Kans.) Traveler, Grand Island (Neb.) Independent, Independence (Mo.) Examiner, Maryville (Mo.) Daily Forum, Nevada (Mo.) Daily Mail, Newton (Kans.) Kansan, Pittsburg (Kans.) Headlight and Sun, Santa Maria (Calif.) Times, Shawnee (Okla.) News Star, Topeka (Kans.) State Journal, York (Neb.) News-Times, and stations KSOK, Arkansas City, Kans., KSEK, Pittsburg, Kans., KGFF, Shawnee, Okla. † For other news of the President's birthplace, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...dawn darkness one day last week, an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway mail train pulled off the main line and onto a siding about five miles south of the little cattle town of Springer, N. Mex., to let the Santa Fe's Los Angeles-bound streamliner, the Chief, roar past. As the mail train slid to a stop, Fireman Pete Camilo Caldarelli, 44, climbed down out of the locomotive and walked through the chill desert air to a switch up ahead. The job he had to do was one he had done many times in the past: stand...
...second term. With tradition and the labor vote behind him, Fred Hall was far from worried. But labor had its mind mostly on the Democratic primary (see below), hardly at all on Hall: industrial Sedgwick County (Wichita) gave Shaw 3,500 more votes than Hall, Shawnee County (Topeka) went to Shaw by 3,200. The final unofficial vote: Shaw 156,300, Hall...