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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1950
Page
7
The fourth annual reunion of Lone Star district 27 will be Sunday April 20 at 1 pm in the schoolhouse. All alumni former teachers residents and friends invited. A short program planned then visiting time. Each family to bring cake served with ice cream. Also notice of WFCW covered dish luncheon and Kanwaka Home Demonstration unit meetings with details and attendees.
A prison series at Folsom State Prison California features 10 murals painted by an inmate. Each depicts a flag over California with captions in crime slang. The featured tale of Sir Francis Drake 1579 and the Portola Serra era 1785 illustrate historical clashes and mission settlements. The artist, a noted cartoonist between terms, is unnamed by officials.
Delbert McClelland of Route 4 was found guilty of speeding and fined 15 dollars by Judge Wayne Allphin this morning. The docket also listed 12 parking violations in the same session.
Upton New York Americans first large postwar atomic pile at Brookhaven National Laboratory may start operating this year. A six story warehouse houses a vast console and wall sized instrument panel guiding boron steel control rods into a reactor shielded by thick walls. Two manual safety handles dump boron steel to absorb neutrons if needed.
Former Kentucky representative Andrew May pleads for parole hearing as he nears eight months of the minimum sentence for a 1947 bribery conspiracy tied to war contracts. Also, Houston officials plan an oil well drilling ordinance after city annexations expand Eureka and south Houston fields.
An earthquake in western Venezuela last night killed about 100 people and damaged multiple towns including Tocuyo near Barquisimeto, the Lara State capital. A six minute quake was felt in Caracas with damage in Guanare and San Cristo.
A description of boron quenching neutrons to halt a chain reaction likens it to water dousing a fire. It notes the danger prompts emergency scram controls, pointing out the reactor cannot explode but could melt, risking costly damage and radioactive contamination at the site.
Parsons post 56 captured its fourth straight third district American Legion junior baseball championship by defeating Winfield seventeen to seven in a divisional playoff final in Coffeyville Kansas. Roy Webster led the perennial champions who beat Coffeyville thirty to six on Wednesday and Winfield edged Pittsburg eleven to eight to reach the final. Parsons will represent the district at the state tournament starting August 11 at Russell.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Pi Jakob Malik was shaken but not injured after a rear end auto collision on a drizzly New York highway. Malik, returning to his Manhattan office from Lake Success after presiding at a United Nations Security Council session, escaped with minor damage as his car bumped another at 30 mph and the other vehicle knocked down an electric pole. No arrests were reported.
Robert Carl Umholtz age 21 and Barbara Jean Tolbert age 21 both of Topeka. Edwin S Young 43 and Janet Belt 25 both of Lawrence. Robert Lee Lenahan 21 and Eleanor Lucille Klinkenberg 19 both of Tonganoxie. National Geographic Society notes boa constrictor may be as big as a man's leg and weigh over 50 pounds.
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