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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1958
Page
9
A light plane piloted by Robert Thorne ran out of fuel during a Sunday flight over downtown Los Angeles. With insufficient altitude to clear a 75 foot bridge, he executed a near miss landing in the Los Angeles River Bed, then refueled and continued to a nearby airport with passenger Ed Sobata.
Alaskans vote on statehood while New York Republicans and Democrats pick Senate candidates at nominations. Gov. Harriman and Rockefeller are the Democratic and Republican gubernatorial choices in New York. Senate frontrunners include Finletter for Democrats and Keating or others for Republicans. Alaska’s statehood, likely by a two to one margin, hinges on three referendums about admission, boundaries, and land grants. In Louisiana, Hebert leads Democrats for renomination with a strong showing by A. P. Tureaud, the best showing by a Black candidate in a Southern election this century.
In Salt Lake City Mrs Francis L Harmon 29 of Overland Park Kansas was released to her husband Sunday and a vagrancy charge was dropped The missing wife case began when the family car was found abandoned near the Kaw River bridge at Bonner Springs draggings followed A man Hal H Hays 31 also of Overland Park was arrested with Harmon in Salt Lake City He faces a parole violation warrant tied to a bad check in Johnson County
The Spellus family completed a 3 1 2 mile river trip from Fort Benton Montana to Cincinnati Ohio aboard a 19 foot motorboat. They faced damaged propellers tornado warnings heavy weather mosquitoes and measles Susie during the journey. Mrs Spellus navigated with son Wayne at the helm and a pet monkey joined from South Dakota.
Williams and Patricia of Lakewood California and Mr and Mrs Harry Yeuzelman of Independence Oregon attend a Baker University math department head Dr Calvin Foreman workshop visit July 21 to Aug 15. Obituary notes Bill Vance died Aug 9 in a California highway crash born Feb 9 1937 in Denver Hutchinson. The bride teaches in Overland Park, groom is a Pan American Petroleum geologist. couple to reside in Kansas City. Williams family reunion Aug 17 at Baldwin Lake with 51 attendees. officers elected Oscar Williams president Leonard Whitted vice president Helen Ice secretary treasurer. Out of town relatives Bruce Holcomb Janis Lawrence Lawrence, Russell Greer children, Raymond Williams Tonganoxie, Philip Williams Harrisonville Missouri attend.
Los Angeles AP Chief Justice Earl Warren decries interminable court delays that undermine the rights of thousands, erode constitutional government, and foster disrespect for law at the American Bar Association meeting. He urges lawyers and judges to elevate the improvement of justice as a central professional mission.
AP reports two fatalities in Kansas traffic incidents. Gerald Lewis Clark, 18, of Peabody died in a one car crash near Newton when his vehicle swerved into a ditch and overturned. John G. Fultz, 78, of Holton perished in a two car collision six miles west of Holton. Missouri also reported eight weekend deaths, including Bobby D. Kemper, 32, of Kansas City, Kansas, in a crash into a bridge in Kansas City.
Atchison Kansas AP The chief grain inspector was dismissed after an employee accepted pay from private industry for after hours work. Howard J Weinman the long time at Atchison inspector was fired with appeal rights. Weirman said weigh master J H Sobers for Mid West Solvents Co was involved.
Clarence Christian Givens, 65, veteran newspaperman and former Cincinnati Enquirer copyreader for 12 years, died Sunday after a long illness. He previously held executive posts with newspapers in Kentucky, Georgia, and New Jersey.
Oklahoma City Negro youths said they will resume their campaign today to gain food service at downtown stores. Forty teenagers split into pairs, entered twenty white churches for services. three were not cordial. Earlier actions included Katz's Drugstore and Kress department store serving them after denials.
Pleasant Valley School in district 14 opens enrollment Friday morning from 9 to 10 30. Principal Mrs Lila Haas and teacher Mrs Helen Schuster will host, with the campus located about two miles southwest of Lawrence.
Algerian nationalists shot four Paris policemen during a raid on a police station. Explosions and fires erupted across the provinces as authorities link the attacks to a new terror campaign seeking independence. Prime Minister de Gaulle was touring French Africa to rally support for the upcoming constitution referendum on September 28.
Mr and Mrs Wilbert W Lewis moved Friday to Overland Park where Lewis is employed Their Baldwin home will be occupied by Mrs Mary Jane Chubb and two sons and Miss Alice Ann Callahan of Independence Mr and Mrs Robert Sadler moved to Bloomington Indiana where Mrs Sadler will teach third grade and Mr Sadler will pursue graduate work at Indiana University Mrs A E Burgtorf has returned from Montezuma Indiana with her daughter and husband to attend a family reunion Mrs Mike Rogers and baby son Marc of Oswego stayed with her parents Clyde Robinson last week and Mr Rogers had been on a business trip to Wichita before visiting Osawatomie with his wife and child.
Miss Shari Lidikay wed John Layle Jr in Baldwin First Methodist Church with Dean Gessner officiating. Alpha Chi Omega member Lidikay and Baker University graduate Layle plan Kansas City home after he enters Kansas Medical School. Several Baldwin and area residents visited relatives and moved to new homes in Garnett, Glendora, Dalton, Detroit, and Ridgewood during the week. An additional engagement announcement notes Nancy Lee Oliphant’s forthcoming marriage to James Wilson at Trinity Methodist Church in Baldwin.
New small tablet from New York firm claims to stop asthma spasms and hay fever attacks within minutes. The Primatene formula combines three medicines, eases bronchial tubes, reduces mucous congestion, and can be taken without prescription at drugstores for 98 cents with a money back guarantee.
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