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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1955
Page
10
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A list of cryptic looking items appears to resemble a puzzle or quiz from an old newspaper column. Entries include terms like malicious burning inheritance deeds gas seniors chest rattles and notes on slang cigaret and hereditary unit.
Berlin dispatch says a U S farm delegation led by Dean Lambert of the University of Nebraska Agricultural School urges broader exchanges with the Soviet Union after a month touring Soviet farmlands in Russia the Ukraine and Siberia The group believes such visits would reduce isolation and ease tensions as they return home with renewed goodwill and support for future exchanges including Ferris Owen of Newark Ohio noting the peasant’s simple necessities.
A historic ledger from Douglas County shows expenditures from 1909 to 1914 for aid to the poor. A. L. Selig kept the journal as county commissioner, with monthly costs around $282 and salaries for Selig and Dr. E D F Phillips. Aid fluctuated seasonally from 25 to nearly 100 people, with small item amounts mostly under 12.50.
Classified page fragment displays a flood of sale notices and listings. Car, boat and engine ads mix with furniture, pets, farm and yard goods, plus public sale announcements and wanted items from local dealers and individuals.
Classified ad roundup lists used refrigerators washers ranges and freezers with prices and down payments at B F Goodrich Store and Chadrich Store. Also includes furniture like desks chairs sofas beds and living room suites with contact details and phone numbers.
Patricia Crawford one of five killed in the Frisco Kansas City Florida Special wreck in Arkansas was a 1955 KU graduate. A Kansas City native and Wyandotte High School alumna, she earned a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education last June and planned to teach in Kansas City schools this fall. She was active in the Christian Church and Alpha Omicron Pi. Surviving relatives include her mother, Floyd H. Crawford of Denver, grandmother Mrs. A H Crawford of Horton, and sister Mrs. Martha Sue McAllister of Olatha. Funeral services were held at Central Christian Church in Kansas City with burial in Highland Park Cemetery.
An amateur diver, Roy Hanna, recovered ten safety deposit boxes with their contents from a farm pond near Sand Springs Oklahoma. The boxes were stolen from a Freeport Kansas bank on August 13 and turned over to Tulsa police. A 16 year old Tulsa youth Vernon Luther Young admitted involvement and was arrested in Council Bluffs Iowa and returned home. one box was found in his car.
Chiang Kai-shek issued a military edict banning sunglasses and rakish cap angles. The Defense Ministry clarified that sun glasses are ugly and caps must conform to regulations for officers and enlisted men.
Thirteen year old Jeanne Kay Russell daughter of Mr and Mrs Eugene Russell was killed Saturday night when struck by a car as she crossed a road in front of her Rose Hill Kansas home.
Egyptian military spokesman said three soldiers were killed and five wounded in a 24 hour exchange of fire with guerrillas near Gaza. He charged Israel started the fighting to precede a visit by UN official Maj. Gen. Burns to Cairo for frontier talks. An earlier report said one officer and four soldiers were wounded.
Ordnance Corps personnel at Sunflower surpassed one million man hours without a disabling injury, Maj. Donald L. Catherman reports. The record spans 1,331 exposure days since the last disabling injury on December 14, 1951, with prior million hour marks noted and praised for the group’s safety efforts.
In the Douglas County Probate Court two cases are advertised. Administrator Keith W Suter seeks final settlement and heirship decisions for the estate of William Richard Sutor deceased with a hearing set September 7, 1955 in Lawrence. Geneva Baker petitions to determine descent of interests in the estates of J N Baker and Orval N Baker with a hearing set August 8, 1955 in Lawrence.
A Hickory Daily Record subscriber received an issue from January after a vacation. The misdelivery led to a forecast of immediate drastic heat relief via a two inch snowstorm cited in the misposted issue. A carrier error caused the confusion at a Hickory home.
Nikita Khrushchev arrives in Bucharest with Red leaders to stage a celebration of satellites' liberation from Nazi rule. Moscow radio confirms the arrival as non Communist nations urge easing tensions and Czar Kremlin to abandon the Cominform.
Another 100 members of East Germany's Communist police fled to West Berlin last week, raising total deserters from the people's police to 2,336 this year.
Rates shown for classified ads with four lines or ten per week at 91.50 dollars. Additional lines 36 cents each. Four lines or less one time 51.00. Extra lines 250 per word. Late ads charged at one time rate each night. Ads from outside Lawrence Trade area priced per word. Copy deadline 11 am day of publication.
A truncated 1940s style directory lists abstract titles and insurance, banking, and auctioneering firms. It names John C Emick, First National Bank Building, VI 3-5177, and 710 Mass as addresses with services in title abstracts and insurance.
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