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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1949
Page
2
The annual memorial service honors Elks who died in the past year. Exalted Ruler will present memories of deceased members including C. E. Funnell, George Fiona, Thad Stevents, and 197 others remembered over almost 50 years. Mrs. Jnice Lopes and Mraith Anderson will perform songs.
Market dull as arrivals and shipments move slowly. Potatoes across regions show varied prices with unwashed Pontiacs at $2 and washed Russets around $4.50, while Red River Valley Pontiacs and Wisconsin Chippewas also listed in the lower to mid price range.
Report from Rio de Janeiro states a Royal DC-8 airliner crashed during a rainstorm, killing twenty people and going down about twenty miles from its destination. Investigators described difficult weather and unclear cause pending inquiries.
New York markets drift with mixed wheat and firmer export activity. Stocks rise slowly while hog futures edge higher. eggs and poultry prices are listed with small variations. butterfat and hog values shown as steady to firm.
KU officials plan four appearances in Omaha including the ACPRA district meeting and AAC district meeting. Attendees include Tom Yee public relations director Irvin Youngberg endowment director Fred Bilsworth alumni secretary Milfred Clodfelter alumni office secretary and others. After the KU Creighton game Monday night the group will join an alumni meeting with coach Phog Allen introducing players and showing the film Your University.
The KU Calendar edited by Keerling Waugener Atchison a business junior went on sale today. The enlarged yearbook records appointments memos and features cartoons by Paul Coker plus campus photos. A limited supply is available with more on order and student salesmen paid this morning.
Albert Lindenstruth 28 and Hi Bell 27, both of Lawrence, are to marry Harold J. Torgeson 50, and Lucilie L. Jones 45, also of Lawrence, per probate court records.
Stored fragment lists individuals admitted to Memorial Hospital including Myre Mary Allen Eudora Na dine Florence Baldwin and others with addresses across Sunflower McLouth and Sunflower. It reads as a hospital admission roster or notice with names and streets.
Names and addresses include Raymond Nieder 1406 Connects Street William Patton Richard Mrs Elma Brokmann 1345 New Jersey Street Johnson 1104 Tennessee Street Weeks 441 Ohio Street Bert Sutton 759 Maple Street Gertrude Warner 1021 Rhode Island Street Eleanor Metcalf and baby Sunnyside Colleen Swartz and baby Baldwin Alberta Brown and baby 1023 Vermont Street
Mr and Mrs Ralph Miller of Sun flower welcomed a daughter yesterday and Mr and Mrs N D Spring of Vineland welcomed a son today in a brief family notice.
Harry H Standcliff 75 died at 913 Rhode Island Street this morning. He was a retired painter. Funeral services set for Tuesday 2 p.m. at Funk's Chapel with Rev. G. R. Norris. burial in Oak Hill cemetery. Survived by wife Laura, son Bryan of Kansas City, brother Earl of Erie, and sister Ethel Steele of Kansas City.
Carl Fisher 65 died in a Wichita hospital. Funeral services are set for Friday afternoon in Wichita. He was a prominent oil and investment man and civic leader, a past potentate of the Shrine and former president of Be Wichita Ro. Survivors include his daughter Mrs. Charles Radcliffe of Lawrence.
In Lawrence shoppers scan sets as families list TVs for Christmas. A dealer notes strong growth with 121 sets totaling 25 to 30 thousand dollars in sales and predicts 2 500 more sets sold in five years. Weather factors affect winter item demand for overshoes and warm apparel.
A report notes the plant has a perfect safety record this year and that leasing a large portion of its facilities to a major industry awaits final approval from top Army Engineer officers. The process is slow but advancing satisfactorily.
Several officers and directors of the Chamber of Commerce have approved the self supporting parking lot plan advanced by the special C of C committee night before last. It is likely the directors will support the program in the near future.
Miss Karshia L. Lohman a K A freshman from Hawaii says a billfold lost November 28 in Woolworths was mailed back this morning with no return address. The owner thanks the finder for returning valuable papers and the small amount of money contained.
Topeka Dec 2 Clarence Smith chief of the ad valorem tax division of the Kansas commission of revenue and taxation moves to a special assignment and William Gough Jr Chanute is appointed to take the ad valorem post. Fred Horn chairman says Smith will update assessors manuals and prepare the biennial report. Gough formerly worked for the commission in 1939 and 1949 as a corporation income tax accountant and now practice in Chanute.
Mary Lou Brown 19, daughter of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Brown of Grantville Kan, died after a city bus struck her at a downtown Topeka intersection while en route to work. She died about 25 minutes after being admitted to a Topeka hospital. It marked the fourth traffic fatality of the year in Topeka.
New Orleans housewives form the New Orleans Association of Consumers on December 2 to fight rising coffee prices by switching to substitutes. The group, a reorganization of United Women to Combat Inflation, aims to affiliate with the National Association of Consumers as OPA price controls end.
Ottawa lodge No. 18 A F and A M will celebrate its ninetieth anniversary December 20 with a dinner and Memorial auditorium program. Fort Scott past master Dr Claud F Young will speak and Hale B Blair will present a lodge history. 25 year and 50 year buttons will be awarded.
Harry Steiner operator of a finance company was fined 500 for usury and sentenced to nine days in jail but paroled on condition he settle all outstanding loans at usurious rates. He was accused of charging 100 interest on a 300 loan over nine months.
Washington reports the National Guard has a record 391,165 officers and enlisted men after a two month recruiting campaign. The Army’s National Guard Bureau announced 45,196 were appointed or enlisted, surpassing the 45,000 goal.
Dr. John E. Hawkins of Kansas University spoke at the triennial national convention of the American College and University Quill club in Manhattan. He serves as acting high chancellor and presides as Wichita University Quill club officers are installed and national officers for three years are elected through Sunday.
More than 50 dogs from six states including Kansas Oklahoma Missouri Nebraska Illinois and New Jersey will compete in the Midwest Regional Brittany club fall field trials in Humboldt on December 10 and 11.
Alan Irwin 46 longtime dean of the conservatory of music at Ward Belmont girls school in Nashville died following a recent brain operation. A native of Oakley Kansas he was a prominent figure in the school’s music program and passed away yesterday.
Firemen rushed to 9380 Oak Street at 1 10 today to extinguish a grass blaze. No injuries reported and flames were contained to the yard.
Joanne Haver, 18, daughter of a Kansas City chauffeur Mrs. C V Haver, traveled to Arceles for a family dispute. After a tearful reunion, Joanne vowed to make her own way in the world while planning to return home with her mother.
CP-Elmer Creviston of Kansas State, who suffered a fractured skull in a Thanksgiving game with Missouri, was released from the University of Missouri hospital. He was taken to Manhattan by ambulance and described as in good condition by his physician.
Eudora Hed, son of Mrs. Harriet Scott, visits Bloomington for Thanksgiving. Families like Reetz, Hauck, Ott, Regan, and Gierts share holiday meals with relatives in Missouri and Kansas. Local social calls include Abel, Breibin, Coffman, and Hardlifters. Methodist church school board meets planning a December 24 Christmas Eve program. Kazmaier store sold to Henry Nusbaum of Valley Falls with Jan 1 possession.
Various community notices report hospital stays school events and club meetings. Families in Eudora and nearby towns schedule PTA church activities and Christmas programs while high school basketball action and local obituaries are noted.
Kansas City market notes list current egg and dairy prices in various grades and pack sizes. It also lists chickens turkeys and ducks by weight and type with prices. Estimated livestock receipts for tomorrow include cattle calves hogs and sheep figures.
AP US cattle calf ranges steady to weak with few canner and cutter cows and odd beef cows. hogs mostly steady to 25 lower with some price spreads by weight. sheep offerings limited with mixed loads arriving by truck and an implied killing class market.
Kansas City market shows steady hay activity with No 2 lambs at 22 dollars and No 1d lambs at 23 dollars. Medium offers around 20 dollars. Alfalfa demand remains strong for high grades while lower quality hay and crudes slow. Wire grass is steady on balance with weak baling noted.
Active session on Wall Street as heavy trading pushed indices higher and volume neared 2 billion shares. Reports note gains in wheat and corn futures with mixed results across other commodities amid a broad market rally.
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