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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1938
Page
6
Classifieds announce help wanted for a Baldwin Kansas man and workers at Lawrence Business College while markets report livestock prices with hogs steady and cattle weak. Grain futures and hay and potato markets show modest shifts along with New York bond closures and Wall Street gains fading late.
Chicago wheat prices drifted off with little follow up buying and light volume as export demand remained absent for wheat and corn. Nearby futures closed about unchanged to slightly lower while corn and oats fluctuated, with USDA reports showing mixed activity in Kansas City hogs and cattle markets amid broad price declines and softer demand.
Morning trading showed moderate activity with 900000 shares transferred. Industrial production index rose above the 1923-25 average in November and December. Prominent aircraft stocks included Douglas United Aircraft Sperry Boeing and North American. Major gains noted in U S Steel Bethlehem Chrysler GM U S Rubber Montgomery Ward Anaconda Westinghouse GE Philip Morris Johns Manville Great Northern Illinois Central and Paramount. Sterling and franc weakness unsettled markets while grains were mixed with wheat steady to fractionally lower corn and cotton moving lower late.
A 75 mile wind dust storm crossed the Rockies into Alberta and Montana then weakened as it moved east. C V Leigh and son Harold faced the storm on December 3 en route to Pueblo Colorado guiding by tail lights past a dense sky of sand and dust while a large truck helped navigate. The journal notes irrigation in the Arkansas valley controls erosion and remarks on river water storage creating a steady flow. A Christmas gift offer for a yearly Journal World subscription is advertised with mail options and a gift card.
Liberty Memorial Hi-Y members Keith Allen Kenneth Keene Alan Fisher Howard Sutherland and Eli Wood attended the Hi-Y conference at the new Wyandotte high school in Kansas City Kansas. Delegates from eastern Kansas and western Missouri heard speakers from Colgate Palmolive Park College and local churches. The theme The Way Ahead for Youth covered youth work education patriotism and family roles with several discussion groups and meals in the Wyandotte cafeteria.
Fairplay Dec 12 Py Four relatives visited Floyd Cofer in the hospital and on leaving said they would see him soon. They were back within three hours for treatment to injuries suffered in an automobile accident en route back to Kansas. Injured were Harry Cofer of Ransom Kansas brother of Floyd his daughter Evelyn and son Herman D and another brother James F Cofer of Hutchinson. James suffered two broken ribs while the others had cuts and bruises.
Relief workers report Camalig town buried under volcanic debris from last week's typhoon with no casualty details. The typhoon struck 15 central Philippine provinces, lifting the death toll to 148 as many remain missing.
About 60 people attended a court house social security meeting Friday evening. Miss Rachel Pugh explained the lien law and its benefits in helping old people keep their homes, avoiding mortgage risk or exploitation. S.C. Scott leads the association which plans monthly educational talks with a January meeting scheduled.
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