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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1952
Page
6
A festive, rambling sports column blends praise and jabs for Kansas, Kansas State, Nebraska, Colorado, and others. It riffs on coaches, players, and upcoming games, urging readers to send in gifts and feedback while foreshadowing matchups with Phog Allen, Doc Cross, and rivals near the Kansas and Nebraska corridors. The piece channels a rough, period voice praising teams, inviting Santa to boost star power for the season’s key showdowns.
High School basketball notes two big guns Don Gibbs and Bob Westerhouse lead Cardinal scorers as they defeat Lansing High 73 to 46 on Tuesday night at Eudora. Coach Jim O'Donnell's team improves to 4 1 for the season with a Jan 6 game against Spring Hill. A Lansing JV beat Eudora 38 27 in an earlier game. In federal enforcement news, a price overcharge suit targets Emil Menchetti and son and E P Menchetti of Ft Scott for charging above cigarette ceiling prices. Rooney suit withdrawn after mail delay. treble damages sought.
A collage of scattered college basketball scores from various teams across the nation listing outcomes such as Georgia over Mississippi Southern, Minnesota over Ninnots, Wayne over Duquesne, Wichita State over San Diego State, California over Nebraska, and several others with mixed results. The noisy clipping includes city and state names and partial scores, reflecting a busy scoreboard page.
Pope Pius XII denounces depersonalizing forces of modern society in his annual Christmas address. He rebukes East and West tensions, paints a stark view of suffering, and directs his greetings to the poor and afflicted, urging aid and mercy. The pontiff calls for Christ’s flood of help for millions.
The Bureau of Land Management opens bids February 4 for oil and gas leasing on 160 acres near Kas, six miles north. A single bidder at the highest price will win the land, with the federal government confirming the arrangement.
New York Times reports a proposed Eisenhower administration strategy to press North Korea and the Soviet Union toward an armistice. It includes keeping U S presence, withholding POW repatriation, boosting South Korean role, and limiting broader Asian war risk.
A December 21 Christmas bird census in the Lawrence area counted 53 species within a 15 mile diameter circle extending to Lecompton Clinton Sibleyville and the University of Kansas Natural History Reservation. Participating observers included Hert and Helen Chewning James S Findley R W Fredrickson and others.
Rep. Albert M Cole told Kansas City river leaders he still believes Tuttle Creek Dam must be built to assure flood protection for the Kaw Valley. He cited factors in his defeat by Howard S. Miller, citing what he called fantastic misrepresentations by opponents. Miller won after a Blue Valley campaign opposing the dam.
In Lowestoft England a school drama set in a modern Julius Caesar ends with Brutus killing Caesar using a Tommy gun. The town education committee calls for an inquiry amid parental concerns over violence in a year end production.
District Judge Gustafson ordered John Carlstadt 30 committed to a mental institution after a probate court found him mentally ill following his escape from Topeka State Hospital in 1951 and a recent shooting of his mother and sister in Finlayson Minnesota. His sister Mary is unconscious with a bullet in her brain. the mother is in critical condition with a guarded prognosis.
Arch ie Cannett a 31 year old high school teacher killed his three children and stabbed his wife after an argument with his estranged spouse authorities said the bodies lay among broken Christmas decorations and toys as he lay near death in a hospital the wife Wynona 28 was stabbed twice and fled the house with the children reportedly killed by being bashed against floors and furniture in a tragic family massacre.
Maj. Gen. Thomas S. Timberman, commander of the First Infantry Division, will replace Maj. Gen. Lemuel Mathewson as U. S. commandant in Berlin. Mathewson, in Berlin since 1951, will receive a new assignment likely in January. Timberman, 52, arrived in Germany in 1951 with the Four Infantry Division as deputy commander and became First Division commander in July.
A Senate elections subcommittee prepared a draft report criticizing McCarthy and Benton amid an extended inquiry into their public feuds. A source, requesting anonymity, says the draft is ready for final vote with at least one member unhappy about certain language. Benton lost in November while McCarthy won re election.
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