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1953-12-31 Rowan County News, Rowan County News (Morehead, Ky.) Dec 1953

1953-12-31 Rowan County News, Rowan County News (Morehead, Ky.)

Rowan County News Archive

Rowan County News published on December 31, 1953.


Fred H. Stafford Certificate, 1953 Dec 1953

Fred H. Stafford Certificate, 1953

Finding aids

This collection contains one certificate of election for Fred H. Stafford dated January 12, 1953.


Wright Family (Sevier County, Ark.) Papers [Photocopy], 1913-1953 Dec 1953

Wright Family (Sevier County, Ark.) Papers [Photocopy], 1913-1953

Finding aids

This collection contains materials related to the Eva Wright family and consists primarily of letters written by Vance Wright to his mother Eva Wright as well as family history items including an obituary for Eva Wright.


Simmons National Bank Of Pine Bluff 50th Anniversary Brochure, 1953 Dec 1953

Simmons National Bank Of Pine Bluff 50th Anniversary Brochure, 1953

Finding aids

This collection contains a 50th Anniversary brochure for Simmons National Bank in Pine Bluff.


Pope County (Ark.) History, 1953 Dec 1953

Pope County (Ark.) History, 1953

Finding aids

This collection contains a paper titled, "Pope County One Hundred Years Ago," by former Arkansas History Commission Director Ted Worley.


Old Stagecoach Houses Of Arkansas Article, 1953 Dec 1953

Old Stagecoach Houses Of Arkansas Article, 1953

Finding aids

This collection contains an article titled, "Old Stagecoach Houses of Arkansas," by Jo Ann Blancett.


Arkansas Confederate Prisoners Of War Who Died At Rock Island (Ill.) List, 1953 Dec 1953

Arkansas Confederate Prisoners Of War Who Died At Rock Island (Ill.) List, 1953

Finding aids

This collection contains a letter and two lists.


"The Confederate Ram 'Arkansas'" Article, 1953 Dec 1953

"The Confederate Ram 'Arkansas'" Article, 1953

Finding aids

This collection contains a letter and an article titled "The Confederate Ram 'Arkansas'".


Pax Yearbook 1953, Subiaco Abbey And Academy Dec 1953

Pax Yearbook 1953, Subiaco Abbey And Academy

The Pax, 1927; 1946-2020

Yearbook of Subiaco Abbey and Academy for the 1952-1953 school year.


Rotary Club Of Little Rock Records, 1913-1953 Dec 1953

Rotary Club Of Little Rock Records, 1913-1953

Finding aids

This collection contains correspondence, minutes, and scrapbooks pertaining to the incorporation and activities of the Rotary Club of Little Rock.


Mountain Home Baptist College Records, 1893-1953 Dec 1953

Mountain Home Baptist College Records, 1893-1953

Finding aids

This collection contains catalogs, announcements, yearbooks, other student publications, correspondence, and other materials.


List Of Arkansas Confederate Officers, Regiments, And Battalions, Circa 1911-9153 Dec 1953

List Of Arkansas Confederate Officers, Regiments, And Battalions, Circa 1911-9153

Finding aids

This collection is comprised of a notebook used by Dallas T. Herndon, containing information taken from a circa 1880s pamphlet titled “List of Field Offices, Regiments, and Battalions in the Confederate States Army,” published by the United States Department of War. Dallas Herndon pulled information about Arkansas from that pamphlet and complied it in this notebook, listing all the Confederate Officers, Regiments, and Battalions that fought in Arkansas during the American Civil War. This collection also contains a list of the 3rd Arkansas Infantry soldiers who were buried in Stonewall Confederate Cemetery, part of Mount Hebron Cemetery, located in Winchester, …


Subiaco Guide 1953, Subiaco Abbey And Academy Dec 1953

Subiaco Guide 1953, Subiaco Abbey And Academy

The Subiaco Guide, 1902-1992

Yearbook and directory of Subiaco Academy, entitled "The Subiaco Guide," for the 1953-1954 school year.


Menu, Board Of Directors Meeting, Arkansas Wood Products Association Dec 1953

Menu, Board Of Directors Meeting, Arkansas Wood Products Association

Images

Lunch menu for the Arkansas Wood Products Association Board of Directors meeting on October 31, 1953, at the Marion Hotel in Little Rock, Arkansas, printed on plywood. There is a depiction of a peckerwood (woodpecker) in the top left corner, drilling at wood. Lumber industry terminology is used to describe items on the menu.


Letter From Irene Martin Edwards On Behalf Of Senator Langer To Martin Cross Thanking Him For Forwarding The Resolution Passed By The National Congress Of American Indians, December 28, 1953, Irene Martin Edwards Dec 1953

Letter From Irene Martin Edwards On Behalf Of Senator Langer To Martin Cross Thanking Him For Forwarding The Resolution Passed By The National Congress Of American Indians, December 28, 1953, Irene Martin Edwards

William Langer Papers

This letter dated December 28, 1953, from Irene Martin Edwards on behalf of United States Senator William Langer to Three Affiliated Tribes Tribal Chairperson Martin Cross, thanks Cross for his letter of December 26th which enclosed a resolution passed by the National Congress of American Indians. Edwards notes that Langer is out of town but will be glad to receive the letter and resolution.

A handwritten note at the top of the letter reads, "Cross, Martin."

See also:

Letter from Martin Cross to Senator Langer Forwarding a Resolution Passed on December 9 by the National Congress of American Indians Regarding …


1953-12-24 Rowan County News, Rowan County News (Morehead, Ky.) Dec 1953

1953-12-24 Rowan County News, Rowan County News (Morehead, Ky.)

Rowan County News Archive

Rowan County News published on December 24, 1953.


Ted Worley Letter On C.F.M. Noland, 1953 December 17 Dec 1953

Ted Worley Letter On C.F.M. Noland, 1953 December 17

Finding aids

This collection contains a letter from Arkansas History Commission Director Ted Worley to J.N. Heiskell, concerning C.F.M. Noland.


Portland Junior College Newsance, 12/17/1953, Portland Junior College Dec 1953

Portland Junior College Newsance, 12/17/1953, Portland Junior College

PJC "Newsance"

Carol Singing


1953-12-17 Rowan County News, Rowan County News (Morehead, Ky.) Dec 1953

1953-12-17 Rowan County News, Rowan County News (Morehead, Ky.)

Rowan County News Archive

Rowan County News published on December 17, 1953.


Portland Junior College Newsance, 12/15/1953, Portland Junior College Dec 1953

Portland Junior College Newsance, 12/15/1953, Portland Junior College

PJC "Newsance"

No abstract provided.


The Ursinus Weekly, December 14, 1953, Mary Jane Allen, Charlie Kenney, Marvin Rotman, Robert E. Armstrong, Joan Higgins, Harold Smith, Dick Bowman Dec 1953

The Ursinus Weekly, December 14, 1953, Mary Jane Allen, Charlie Kenney, Marvin Rotman, Robert E. Armstrong, Joan Higgins, Harold Smith, Dick Bowman

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

MSGA-WSGA together, discuss U.C. honor system • Committee to pick Spring production • Senate hears complaints; Struth heads Booster Committee • MSGA warns men's dorms • Audience stirred by "Messiah," Thursday • Christmas Communion to be conducted by Chi Alpha • Morning watch services to be conducted this week by Y • Who's who honors twelve in Ursinus class of 1954 • Debating Team opens season at tournament • Zimmerman, Price are lord, lady of senior ball • Alpha Psi Omega initiates new members, Kuebler, Allen • Editorials: Christmas spirit; Resolutions for a happy New Year • Letters to the …


Parade Scene With A Decorated Christmas Tree In A Wagon And Children On Tricycles And Walking Dec 1953

Parade Scene With A Decorated Christmas Tree In A Wagon And Children On Tricycles And Walking

Holidays and celebrations

Photo of parade scene on residential street. Includes a decorated Christmas tree in a wagon, and smiling children on tricycles and walking, some are dressed in clown and Santa costumes.


Xmas Dolls Parade Float With Girls In Dresses Dec 1953

Xmas Dolls Parade Float With Girls In Dresses

Holidays and celebrations

Photo of five girls in dresses and sweaters sitting on a parade float in front of a church.


Christmas Toy Parade Scene Dec 1953

Christmas Toy Parade Scene

Holidays and celebrations

Photo of Christmas Toy Parade scene, includes view of person dressed as Santa, children with dolls, and a sign reading "Go Jo Church Religion will help."


Parade Scene With Children Following A Jeep To Get Candy That Is Thrown From The Jeep Dec 1953

Parade Scene With Children Following A Jeep To Get Candy That Is Thrown From The Jeep

Holidays and celebrations

Farrell Conner, secretary-manager of the Chamber of Commerce, is shown driving a jeep in the Christmas Toy Parade, which is an annual event sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce. Jeep is driving down a street of businesses including a drug store, Maxfield's, and Paul Wright.


Parade Float For East Batesville Brownies With A Paper Reindeer Dec 1953

Parade Float For East Batesville Brownies With A Paper Reindeer

Holidays and celebrations

Photo of parade float containing children and decorated as a sleigh with a paper reindeer in front. Parade is in a residential area.


Parade Vehicle For Brownie Scouts With Sign "Fill A Christmas Stocking" Dec 1953

Parade Vehicle For Brownie Scouts With Sign "Fill A Christmas Stocking"

Holidays and celebrations

Photo of girl looking out a car window. The car is decorated with an image of Santa Claus, wrapped gifts, and a sign that reads "Fill A Christmas Stocking."


Parade Scene With Band Members And Baton Twirlers Dec 1953

Parade Scene With Band Members And Baton Twirlers

Holidays and celebrations

Photo of baton twirlers and bandmembers standing in a street for the Batesville Christmas Toy Parade.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 30, No. 5-Z247, Wku Student Affairs Dec 1953

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 30, No. 5-Z247, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Regular features include:

  • Birds I View
  • Looking Backward
  • Hilltopics
  • Mind Your Manners
  • Kentucky Building News
  • Alumni News
  • Book Marks
  • Faculty Notes
  • Musical Notes
  • Weddings & Engagements

Articles in this issue:

  • Evaluation Board Visits Western Students, Faculty
  • 24 Western Seniors to be Listed in ’53-’54 Who’s Who
  • Western Band, Pershing Rifles in Christmas Parade
  • Western to Meet University of Houston in Kentucky Invitation Tournament
  • Jerry Parker Named Captain of Debate Team
  • Student Forum Holds Meeting December 2
  • Christmas Party Planned by Biology Club Members
  • Dr. Paul Garrett Was Stricken Seriously …


Portland Junior College Newsance, 12/10/1953, John Jaques Dec 1953

Portland Junior College Newsance, 12/10/1953, John Jaques

PJC "Newsance"

Mrs. Walch To Speak At Thurs. Assembly