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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1952
Page
14
Senators privately predict disillusionment among federal workers as postmasterships, now civil service with no fixed terms, face potential changes by the Eisenhower administration. Letters from jobseekers flood offices as GOP planners discuss patronage use. some urge extending authority before a March deadline.
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co launches a new microwave relay route between Kansas City and Dallas. The system will carry television programs and hundreds of tel circuits with 18 antenna towers along Wichita and Oklahoma City. J R Peterson of St Louis, general manager, says six channels two in each direction for phones and two southbound TV channels. Thirty long distance circuits will be in service by next month. One year Journal World subscription offered as Christmas gift.
Enis S Hayden Jr a KU graduate entomology student will join a four man American Museum of Natural History expedition to the Bahama Islands aboard the 43 foot yacht White Wing funded by Horace Van Voast Jr. Hayden plans departure from Charleston December 17 with stops in Miami and Bimini, Bahamas, for a six month insect study returning June 1953. Hayden focuses on midges and receives no pay but expenses.
Israel issued a note to Czechoslovakia dismissing Prague's claim that ambassador A Leon Kubovy interfered in domestic affairs as completely false. Kubovy remains in Tel Aviv and will not return. Czechoslovakia seeks recall while Israel maintains he is still their minister. The Soviet backed accusation linked him to the Slansky ring and espionage, which Israel rejects. A cabinet spokesman said the charges lack basis in fact.
Allied air power pushed into North Korea with hundreds of warplanes targeting front lines and rear supply routes. F-86 Sabres claimed a Communist MiG 15 over Sinuiju and seven enemy planes on Sunday, marking a major daily success. B-26 Invaders and fighter-bombers struck trucks and transport networks, destroying 125 vehicles and several critical bridges and rail links. Temperature hovered near zero as patrol clashes continued, mainly around Sniper Ridge on the central front.
Oklahoma City detectives, grimly searching for a mangled body of a victim, faced a baffling case as investigators questioned the fate of the remains. The scene prompted a wide-area search and heightened concern about a possible violent incident.
A Trans World Airlines Super Constellation with forty four aboard narrowly avoids disaster when two of its four engines fail over Fallon Nevada. Pilot Irvin Kravitz made an emergency landing on a short auxiliary navy strip as the brakes failed during the rough touchdown Sunday night.
Dr. A. D. Weber of Kansas State College Manhat was invited to serve as one judge at the 1953 International Livestock Exposition in Chicago. He had previously judged the event, marking his fifth term as associate member of the club at its Eldridge Hotel meeting.
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