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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1956
Page
2
Market bulletin lists KC U Eggs categories with per cent quotes and weights for mediums standard current receipts and various poultry items. Includes hens commercial fryers broilers tun fryers white ducks guineas and butter pricing with grades and fat content. Deaths and Funerals.
At Memorial Hospital births listed include a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Russell of 730 Ark. St. on Tuesday, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Wodie Steaden of 1723 Tenn. St., a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Conn of 640 Me. St., and a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Watson of Kansas City Kas. on Tuesday.
Market brief covers commodities and livestock with mixed to firm tendencies. Wheat and corn show gains or steadiness. soybeans ease on cotton outlook. hogs and cattle hold steady with moderate changes. Eggs butterfat prices and regional receipts noted alongside feeder steer ranges.
The market advanced in late trading continuing the rise from Monday with gains of about 1 to 3 points on leading issues. Gulf Oil climbed roughly 3 points while aircrafts, steels, and motors moved higher. volume was about 2.5 million shares versus 2.18 million yesterday. Arthur Workman, 64, died in Topeka. Leander Kennedy, 52, Kansas City, died in Kansas City. Funeral plans announced for both. Admitted and discharged lists, grain figures, and wheat futures also reported.
Arkansas City based Democratic Chairman Frank Theis urged Kansas Democrats to unite behind the party nominees after yesterday’s primary. He called for immediate steps to consolidate party organizations and to push a two party government by auditing state books and exposing Republican misfeasance while offering a forward looking Democratic program.
Democratic official Frank McDonald of Douglas County is confined to his home with partial paralysis and may miss the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Mrs. McDonald said he did not have a stroke and they planned to travel Saturday. County Democratic chairman has been bedfast since Wednesday.
Springfield Mo June 29 slaying case of 14 year old Carol Drennon by her 12 year old cousin John Patrick Drennon ends with a commitment to Fulton State Hospital for an indefinite period after three doctors find him mentally ill and dangerous. Second degree murder charges were filed in Juvenile Court on July 3. Drennon admitted stabbing Carol 30 times with a steak knife. He was sent to St. John’s Hospital psychiatric ward in July 20 by Circuit Judge David Woodruff.
EL PASO officers tell a woman driver a warrant was issued after she failed to appear for a traffic ticket. She notes four other moving violations outstanding. She insists the other tickets do not count as she says they arose from accidents. Also, diphtheria deaths are nearly extinct in the United States.
First Lieutenant George A. Frederick 26 Berkley Michigan an Air Force Academy training officer perished when his jet F86 crashed in a dense east Denver park while attempting an emergency landing after reporting a flameout. He remained with the crippled aircraft to steer it away from homes.
We express heartfelt appreciation for cards money flowers and kindness at the death of our beloved brother J. A. Watts Mr. and Mrs. Walter Monroe Mrs. Elsie Randolph Mrs. Martha Garvin Mrs. Bertha Stone Ernest Watts
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