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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1955
Page
3
Seoul expressed blame toward U S forces for five days of clashes as South Koreans protested to remove Communist Czech and Pole members of the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission. Twenty two U S soldiers and eighty Koreans were reported wounded at NNSC billets.
Puzzle themed across and down clues appear with partial solution letters and references to local residents including Mrs Alf Oleson and the Gabriel family. The notice lists family visits, assemblies at Forest Park, travellers from Kansas City and Topeka, and a Red Cross swimming enrollment in Eudora with names and places noted.
In Law the Jayhawk Plunge offers classes for a child with severe burns. Hillary Stambaugh of Eudora PT is placed in classes as she recovers from third degree burns after hospital skin grafting. Transportation is arranged.
The Finn twins George and Charles refused a parole release after 114 days of a one-year sentence for interfering with a federal officer. They decline to sign conditions implying guilt and will stay at Terminal Island while Washington parole officials decide. The brothers, Air Force veterans of the Berlin airlift, have a history of hunger strikes and protests over the war surplus C45 plane dispute.
Heavy rains and flash floods sweep Brush area forcing at least 150 farm families from homes. A woman drowned when a car was swept off a bridge nine miles south of Brush. Rev Nathan E Scott and his wife were in the car. Scott was rescued after clinging to a log for hours.
The American Association of Women Ministers adopted two resolutions at its 36th annual assembly in Kansas City. They urge Presbyterian and Methodist bodies to admit women as ministers and to seek equal membership rights in church conferences. They also oppose universal military training and plan to forward the resolutions to the President and Congress. Rev. Madeline Southard of Topeka founded the association.
Mrs Adlee Craddock 93 a secretary at an appliance firm desk in a mezzanine office foiled a holdup when a gunman threatened the workers yesterday. She waved a shotgun at the intruders who fled the scene after her warning.
A brief record notes a Kansas traffic fatality case from the state accident file. It references a previously recorded incident and an archival Geonames tag for a place named Tange, with an archival time frame around 24 hours and 1954.
Eudora residents report property changes with Owen Bearden's former home sold to the Masseys and the Bearden family moving to Little Rock. The Born family rents the Bearden property while Mr Born serves as VFW post commander. A string of social visits and IOOF district meetings are noted, with travels to Sunflower, Hoyt, Ponca City, and Indianapolis.
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