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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1950
Page
3
In Bristol on December 1 6FI Benny defeated Conservative James Lindsay 19367 to 12018 in a special by election to fill the vacant House of Commons seat left by Sir Stafford Cripps former chancellor who left his government and Commons posts.
New York Times quotes Gen. Douglas MacArthur denying any authoritative source urged stopping before the Manchurian boundary. He says UN command movements follow UN resolutions and directives, and stopping short would require revising those orders. He blames anonymous gossip for misinterpretation and asserts Chinese aggression followed their defeat of North Korean forces.
Civil Service examinations will be given soon for guard positions at the state prison in Lansing and the reformatory in Hutchinson and for clerk stenographers. Applications may be secured by writing to the Kansas department of civil service at 801 Harrison Street in Topeka.
Louise Oesch Wiedemann, a 99 year old Lawrence resident, recounts early Lawrence life from her childhood in Amelia to Quantrill’s raid. She and her husband William Wiedemann founded Wiedemann’s confectionary and ice cream parlor on Massachusetts street, a landmark visited by KU students for generations.
Mrs Wiedemann prepared for a near centennial birthday as friends visited her, resting in bed but cheerful and joking about the approaching age. She wore a pink bed jacket over snowy hair and bright eyes, sharing a lively, self deprecating mood with guests.
Harold E. Stassen president of the University of Pennsylvania and a Baptist layman said the atom bomb should not be dropped on China. He suggested it could be justified to free American troops from a North Korean trap or if the Russians start World War II.
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