Walter Rankin Mitchell

WALTER RANKIN MITCHELL, son of ADELAIDE FRANCES PARSONS and MILES LECKIE MITCHELL, was born November 15, 1908 in Salina, Saline, Kansas,⁴⁵⁶ and died June 27, 1995 in Dallas, Dallas, Texas.⁴⁵⁶ He is buried in Gypsum Hill Cemetery, Salina, Saline, Kansas.⁴⁵⁶

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Education

Work History

Newspaper Articles

Salina Journal, February 4, 1962⁶⁷⁵¹

Successful Former Salinan To Be KS Seminar Speaker

Walter R. Mitchell, former Salina resident who rose from radio repairman to nuclear testing instrument consultant, will be guest speaker at the Nuclear and Mechanical Engineering Seminar at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Thursday.

Mitchell, now president of the National Geophysical Company Inc., Dallas, Tex., was born and raised in Salina. He graduated from Salina High in 1929. His father, M. L. Mitchell, assistant postmaster in Salina for 34 years, died in 1929 while serving on the city commission. Walter Mitchell's sister, Helen, 415 S. 8th, is a teacher at Roosevelt Junior High.

Was A Teacher

After getting an electrical engineering degree at Kansas State, Walter returned to Salina, set up a radio service shop, and taught elementary radio courses in the Salina High night school and at Kansas Wesleyan.

In 1957 he joined the National Geophysical Company after a period as head of the radio department, Cowie Electric Company, Wichita. The National Geophysical Company is engaged in the design, development and manufacture of electronic equipment.

Mitchell has done research on the problem of detecting sub-surface nuclear explosions. He has delivered scientific papers before technical societies on three continents.

At present his company is supplying special instrumentation at the federal government's Nevada atomic test sites.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
April 20, 1910490	Salina, Saline, Kansas	Miles Leckie Mitchell Adelaide Frances Parsons Helen Amy Mitchell Herbert Houston Mitchell Mary Katherine Mitchell Walter Rankin Mitchell
January 9, 19204723	Salina, Saline, Kansas	Miles Leckie Mitchell Adelaide Frances Parsons Helen Amy Mitchell Herbert Houston Mitchell Mary Katherine Mitchell Walter Rankin Mitchell
April 12, 19306742	Salina, Saline, Kansas	Miles Leckie Mitchell Adelaide Frances Parsons Helen Amy Mitchell Walter Rankin Mitchell