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...railroad brings prestige to a community. It may also bring prosperity by carrying to market what the community produces. So in 1912 the citizens of Forgan, at the entrance of the wheat-rich Oklahoma Panhandle, were glad when the Wichita Falls & Northwestern (now part of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas) chose their town for a terminus.- And the folk of Beaver, the county seat seven miles to the south, were chagrined because railroadless Beaver was outdone. They pooled their wheat receipts, hired a teamster at $4 a day, graded the land by eye, started a railroad to Forgan. Before half...
...fellowships, awarded in the Medical School for the coming year are listed as follows: the James Jackson Cabot Fellowship, Harry Knowles Unangst Beecher 3M, of Wichita, Kansas; the George Cheyne Shattuck Memorial Fellowship, Benjamin Frank Miller 2M, of Fitchburg; the John Ware Memorial Fellowship, Fiorindo Anthony Simeone 1M, of Providence, Rhode Island; the Charles Sedgewick Minot Fellowship, Louis Zetzel 1M, of Chelsea; and five DeLamar Research Fellowships--Lowell Francis Bushnell 2M, of Danville, Illinois; Benjamin Watson Carey, Jr. 3M, of Griggsville, Illinois; William Foster Queen 2M, of Louisa, Kentucky; Arnold Frederick Ernest Settlage 2M, of St. Louis, Missouri; and Frederick...
...protect Wichita, Kans. school children while crossing streets, older and more responsible children are organized into Junior Traffic Patrols. They direct their smaller charges to safety with little red flags...
Last week the red flags were taken away from them; little green flags were substituted. Reason: Wichita's Daughters of the American Revolution remembered that red flags were symbols of Communism, decided that they should not be associated in the child mind with law and order...
...have been undertaken in existing weather conditions," he said. "I would say the human element entered very strongly into the cause of the crash." It was drizzling when the plane took off from Kansas City for Los Angeles, but reports said the weather was clearing in the west. At Wichita, only 60 mi. from the crash, the sun was shining...