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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1961
Page
4
A wintry front pushes freezing air into Florida and the southern states. Readings fall into the 20s and 40s with record December 25 lows in Florida as rescuers continue work after snow and drifts in Missouri.
In New Orleans two children Nancy and Billy Nungesser woke to a rare white Christmas after William Nungesser dumped six tons of ice on his lawn and added four more tons on Christmas morning. The four foot snowman melted by sun but the feat gave them a festive holiday moment. Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, longtime horse trainer for the Phipps family, is noted as a grand figure in racing spanning three generations.
Former U S Senator Owen Brewster of Maine, longtime foe of Roosevelt’s New Deal, died at a Christian Science Benevolent Association retreat house in Dexter. He was 73 and survived by his wife Dorothy and son Charles. Funeral services will be held in Dexter.
More than 4 000 toys were distributed through the Christmas Bureau by the Marine Corps Reserve and Alpha Phi Omega. The effort reached 144 families with each child receiving three toys and small family gifts. Most toys were new and donated by Kansas University dormitories fraternal groups downtown merchants and residents.
In Vientiane the International Control Commission started an airlift of 220 neutralist and pro Communist troops for a three day meeting of Laos three princes Boun Oum Souvanna Phouma and Souphanouvong to plan a coalition government Souvanna Phouma leads the talks with Pathet Lao forces coordinating security arrangements for the discussions
Joe Skubitz said Senator Andrew Schoeppel of Kansas is improving after abdominal illness and should be ready for Congress when it convenes January 10. The senator has been hospitalized at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.
The Social Security tax rises on January 1 to 3.4 percent for workers plus 3.4 percent for employers, totaling 6.8 percent for employees and employers and 4.7 percent for the self employed. The annual payroll tax cap increases to 300 dollars. Changes also raise benefits for certain groups and adjust benefits withholding for earners.
Northville Michigan hospital patients received a new bus funded by more than 2.3 million trading stamps donated by over 4,000 individuals and organizations. The Hawthorn Northville chapter of the Michigan Association for Emotionally Disturbed Children organized the effort for school trips to Hawthorn and planned excursions to Detroit.
Caruthersville sheriff says James Buddy Williams 34 a Black ex convict confessed to the public safety item slaying of an Arkansas youth and the related incident involving the youth's girlfriend Frank Craigh 19 of Blytheville Ark and Brenda Joyce Raines 17 of Holland Mo. Both victims were found deceased on a country road near Holland.
An old linotype classified style ad lists services including direct mail addressing telephone answering service thermo-fax copying and complete secretarial work. It provides two phone numbers Vi3-5920 and Vi3-5847 and a mill address at 1021 Massachusetts Avenue.
Kansas City officials announce cooperation with Attorney General Kennedy and the FBI in a drive against organized crime. Police Chief C M Kelley maintains control and targets open gambling and vice while surveilling prosperous hoodlums for federal information.
Denver AP reporting Alfred Ratzloff 43 accused kidnapper of 16 year old Sandra Smith to be questioned about killings of four teen girls in Texas New Mexico and Colorado. Investigator says Ratzloff admitted luring Smith into his car and described frostbitten injuries and past attempts.
Lt. Gen. Hugh P. Harris commander of the U.S. 1st Army Corps married Wac Lt. Col. Kathleen Burns in the main chapel of the U.N. Command in Seoul. Harris, 52, from Lawrenceburg Tennessee, leads the force defending western DMZ. The bride, 44, commands a Wac training battalion at Fort McClellan Alabama and hails from Williamstown Massachusetts with 19 years in the Women's Army Corps.
An Eastern Air Lines plane from Syracuse NY to Nashville Tenn was searched at Baltimore Friendship Airport after a bomb rumor. The 66 passengers disembarked as airport police investigated, grounding the aircraft for about two hours. The tip came from the airline's Washington office, according to Chief Agent J E Baker.
Rabbi Samuel A. Friedman of B Nai Israel in Wilmington spent Christmas Day serving as relief operator for New Hanover County sheriff's office. He answered phones kept records and operated the police radio allowing three deputies to spend the holiday with their families.
Hollywood AP Comedian Jimmy Durante and his wife Marge plan to adopt a baby girl named Cecelia Alicia. The couple, aged 68 and 41, have received gifts from friends and cited the adoption as an answer to prayer. Details on age or origin are not disclosed due to pending proceedings.
De Soto residents host relatives and former students for Christmas holidays. Lancaster and Stevens College affiliates visit family. several college students plan holiday stays with Kansas families. A massed chorus of 1,000 pupils performed at the high school. a Sunflower school building burglary yielded about 70 dollars.
A six member Czechoslovak family fled Communist Czechoslovakia near Passau Germany on Christmas Day braving deep snow freezing temperatures and land mines. Police reported they are the first to escape this area in several months.
Pope John XXIII issued a papal bull convoking Vatican II for 1962 to address internal church administration and Christian unity. The 21st council will convene in St Peter's Basilica with about 3000 bishops amid concerns over militant atheism and modern world troubles.
Leavenworth warden reports one inmate died and two others ill after drinking a clear poisonous fluid used in duplicating machines. Daniel Leon McRae, 21, died at the prison hospital. others, James Luther Hill and Walter Harold Pummill, were improving.
Five residents of Lawrence required emergency room care after separate incidents. Connie Griggs, 2, El Dorado, hit her head needing stitches. Benny Spencer, 3, 442 Neb St, cut scalp with stitches. June McNeil, 26, Kansas City Mo, mashed finger in door. Jeffrey Floyd, 3, Route 2, lacerated forehead. Charles Porter, 1130 R I St, lacerated forehead in sledding mishap.
Harold Ball of 827 W 22nd St Terr was hospitalized in serious condition at Bethany Hospital Kansas City after a two car crash on the Kansas Turnpike Friday half a mile west of Bonner Springs. Officials cited slick roads as the cause and Ball, assistant manager of the Kansas Union Building Book Store, underwent surgery Saturday.
Kansas University journalism students earned a third place tie in a nationwide Hearst Foundation contest for sports writing. Fred Zimmerman of Kansas City and William G. Sheldon of Williamstown placed in the rankings with a sixth and fifteenth place tie respectively in the November competition.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco exited the Madrid hospital with his left arm in a sling after two days of treatment for a hunting accident. His left index finger was badly torn when a shotgun barrel exploded while he hunted partridges near Madrid. The incident is under investigation.
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