The Kansas City Times from Kansas City, Missouri • Page 44

oo THE KANSAS CITY TIMES, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1954. K-Q. A LABOR LAW HEARING C. OF C. CONSIDERS IT IN CLOSING SESSION.

State Convention Today, Unions Are Expected to Discuss Other Side of the Questidli. Hutchinson, May 5. views of one side in what may be a big issue in the next Kansas aired in Hutchinson today. Tomorrow representatives of the other side gather here. Members of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce were winding up their convention.

At the same time, members of the Kansas State Federation of Labor were arriving to begin their convention tomorrow. On Right-to-Work Law. Theme of the Wednesday morning meeting was the right-to-work law, a proposal for state legislation which unions have branded as anti-labor. Robert S. Lemon of Pittsburg, chairman 'of the labor relations council, opened the discussion with the statement that Kansas needs the law and should join the sixteen other states which have passed it.

He said the law would specify -that no person could be denied employment because of membership or nonmembership in a union. It would prohibit compulsory unionism, he said. George Trombold, industrial relations director of Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, told about the need for legislation and said the A. F. L.

union had pledged exoenditure of in Kansas this year to aid the cause of labor. is a case of a union with more money than it knows what to do with, which has designs on he said. Cites Wichita Cab Strikes. Trombold cited the violence connected with the recent Wichs ita.taxicab strike as an examnle of why Kansas needs stronger legislation, Gerald Gordon, secretary- manager of the Associated Industries, a group of Kansas businessmen, gave chamber members a resume of proposed changes in the Taft-Hartley law. Gordon, who returned recently 'from Washington, said one would restore rights to regulate labor disputes.

Another, by Senator Schoeppel he said, would strengthen the piohibition against secondary boycotts. Gordon said he was not optimistic about chances of strengthening the Taft-Hartley law. are enough new deal Republicans to help the Demo: crats defeat he said. makes it very tough, so far as American industry is Why Parking Space Is Scarce in Kansas. Topeka, May Having trouble finding a place to park your car? You probably are, and C.

M. Voelker, superintendent of the State Motor Vehicle department, apparently has the reason. He says there are 895,599 motor vehicles now registered in Kansas, a record high and 47,114 more than at the same time last year. JOKE SOON IS SERIOUS mhattan picks a mayor ring CASE NEXT WEEK DELAY IN PIPE UNE HEARING. Sunflower Firm Must Furnish More Evidence by July 19.

Topeka, May 5. Kansas Corporation commission has continued until July 19 and 20 a hearing on an application by the Sunflower Pipe Line system for a certificate to construct and operate a liquid products pipe line from the Hugoton gas field to Wichita. The continuance was ordered when attorneys for Sunflower were unable to produce evidence which the commission considered essential for a hearing of the case. Sunflower proposed to construct a $3,740,000 pipe line to carry natural gasoline, propane, butane and petroleum liquefied gas recovered from natural gas production in the Hugoton field. The main 6-inch pipe line would be 196.8 miles long, with a 51- mile gathering system.

Issuance of a certificate for the project is opposed by the Shallow Water Refining company of Garden City; the Warren Petroleum company of Tulsa and the Santa Fe railway. The opponents contend the pipe line would be a competing utility. Warren petroleum owns a fleet of tank cars that now carry products which the pipe line firm proposes to transport, and the Santa Fe handles the bulk of this tank car traffic. Shallow Water has expressed fear the pipe line also could be used to carry refined petroleum products to the Western Kansas area it serves. heads world health group Dr.

J. N. Togba, 89, Studied at Friends University, Wichita. Geneva, May 5. The 71-nation world health organization today elected an American, educated Liberian doctor as its new president.

The new president, Dr. Joseph N. Togba, 39, is director-general of public health service. He was the only native- born Liberian citizen qualified as a physician when named physician to the Liberian government in 1946. Dr.

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IN AS 411 CLVR LEADERS. Prizes Hays Contest to Reno and McPherson County Women. Hays, May women fr.om Reno and McPherson counties were announced today as winners of a home economics contest for 4-H club leaders held at the Ft. Hays experiment station April 24. Miss Norval Stiggins of Reno County and Mrs.

Carl T. Stucky of McPherson County tied for first place in the contest, in which 210 women competed. Mrs. Leon Graver of Pawnee County was third, Mrs. Glen 'Booth of Rush County fourth, and Mrs.

Elden Johnson of Russell County fifth. HARMONY LACKING WHEN CONCORDIA WAS NAMED. A 8-Year Fight for County Seat Finally Ends, and U. S. Land Office Speeds Growth of City.

This is another of a series of stories on how Kansas Cities got their names. arx T. eder Concordia, May day in August, 1869, H. C. Snyder stood before a group of people who had selected a site for a new town in a new county, put his tongue firmly in his cheek and said around it: view of the harmony and unanimity prevailing here, I name this future city and the name was unanimously approved.

Perhaps a Wishful Thought. There is no record that Snyder was target for a hedge ball after that statement, but it must have been somewhat difficult for the assembled pioneers to see that and had been present in any marked degree before that date. The battle for location of a county seat had been raging more than three years, since organization of a county in the summer of 1866. Petition for declaration of organization of the county had named Clyde, fifteen miles eastward, as the temporary county seat, but J. M.

Hagaman, mainspring in the lounding of the city later named Concordia, has no intention of allowing Clyde to be the permanent seat. In addition, a sprightly town had sprung up across the Republican river from the Concordia site and was named Sibley, after the lake that bears the name. and somewhat vague locations both south of the river, also were mentioned as county seat sites, but never were included in the real battle. Clyde Finishes as Third. In the end, Clyde came out third best in the county seal votes.

After a considerable amount of distributing town lots among voters on both sides of the river, Concordia won handily in what a Cloud County history describes fair and as honest a any election ever Clyde, once left out, sided with Concordia. As Concordia grew, Sibley paled; her stores were deserted and her hotel, built at a cost of $4,000, was abandoned. Still later, however, Clyde continued to harass the Concordia builders and the commissioners voted to continue transaction of county business at Clyde. It looked like a death knell to the hopes of those in Concordia, and might have been just that, had it not been for a timely removal of the United States land office from Junction City to Concordia. R.

P. Martin Is Elected by the City Commission. Manhattan, May P. Martin has been elected mayor of Manhattan by the city commission, succeeding Dr. Harold Howe.

Martin served on the commission for one year and is president of the Manhattan Mutual Life Insurance company. A. S. HOPKINS IS DEAD AT 81. Standard Oil of Kansas Headed Prior to Its Sale.

Neodesha, May A. S. Hopkins, 81. pioneer oil industrialist, died at Neodesha today. Peath was due to cancer.

Hopkins was a former president of the Standard Oil company (Kansas), a company that was sold to Standard Oil of Indiana some time after his re tirement from the presidency in 1932. He was born in Neodesha and went to work in the Neodesha refinery when it was built in 1897. He became superintendent in 1913 and in 1923 was made general manager of the refinery and vice-president of Standard Oil (Kansas). He was made president in 1927 and retired in 1932. From 1934 to 1937 he served as mayor of Neodesha.

He is survived by a son, Thomas B. Hopkins of Neodesha; two daughters, Mrs. Kenneth Card of Colorado Springs, and Mrs. Michael de Sousa oi Santa Monica, Calif, and a sister, Mrs. Charles P.

Beebe of Neodesha, Funeral services will be held in Neodesha at 2 p. m. Friaay. STAIRS TOO STEEP. Groups Find Many Persons Climb Them.

Pratt. May city commissioners soon are going to have the organizations of the community petitioning them to put an elevator in the Municipal building, because the stairs to the clubrooms on the second floor are too steep. The Pratt County Council of Clubs found out by a survey that some organizations have discontinued the use of the clubrooms for their meetings because the steep stairs make attendance difficult and dangerous for older members. With the women of the community asking, the 3-man commission already has indicated it taking the request lightly, although there isn't any money in the current budget to handle the project. CHAPMAN TO HOUSING JOB.

Washington, May Chapman, of Topeka today formally assumed the duties of assistant federal housing commissioner. DELAY GRANTED TWO UNION FIGURES BY MAGISTRATE CASH. Attorney for O. F. Rigney Asks Delay in Embezzlement Count Hearing Because of His Illness.

A preliminary hearing for Orville L. Ring, former boss of teamsters local No. 541, and the union's present secretary-treasurer, O. F. Rigney, on charges of embezzlement and obtaining money under false pretenses was postponed until a week from yesterday.

The postponement came when Alfred B. Couch, attorney for Rigney, appeared before Charles B. Cash, magistrate, and sought the delay because of the illness of Rigney. The hearing had been set for 2 yesterday afternoon. The union officials are charged with improperly taking a total of $809.20 from the funds.

Meanwhile, Judge John F. Cook, judge of criminal division was in a meeting with James Patrick Quinn, attorney for Ring and several other union men against whom charges are pending, and Richard K. Phelps, prosecutor. It was explained the aim of the meeting was to speed up the trials still pending against four union men. It was mined that every effort would be made by all parties to get the trials out of the way by the end of this month.

It was explained that some Interference with this schedule might come from the necessity for Judge Cook calling and impaneling a grand jury to investigate other charges of irregularities, shootings and the murder of a union man. Judge Cook said he intended to draw the names for the grand jury panel on the first day of the May term of court, May 10. -----------MATERIAL TO TESTING CLASS K. U. Gets a Gift of Aluminum Shapes From Boeing Firm.

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