Battle over which civil rights bill to move first
Washington reports a clash between Senators Wherry and Lucas over which civil rights measure should lead the Senate in January. Lucas backs a fair employment practices bill. Wherry pushes an anti-lynching bill, arguing it will provoke the needed test of the Senate rule. Sparkman warns tempers will flare regardless, while stressing economic aid gains for Black Americans.
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Washington
Congress
Wherry
Nebraska
Lucas
Illinois
Senate
Newvle
Sparkman
ND -Ala
F.F.P.C
F.E.P.C
Dixie
Chevrolet to Introduce 1950 Models January 7 Public
Detroit December 28 UP Chevrolet will publicly unveil its new 1950 model cars on January 7 with automatic transmissions optional. General sales manager W E Fish says the promotion will be the widest in Chevrolet history. Details will be released January 6 after a preview.
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Detroit
Chevrolet
W. E. Fish
Fish
Altenbernd divorce suit filed in district court
Herbert W. Altenbernd of Lawrence sues Bessie M. Altenbernd for divorce in district court. He cites irreconcilable differences and seeks dissolution of the marriage and related relief.
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Herbert W. Altenbernd
Lawrence
Bessie M. Altenbernd
Memorial Hospital Patient and Doctor Addresses
A listing of individuals including Mrs Elizabeth O Byne at 437 Illinois Street Dr C C Carter Mc Louth Robert Lewis Frazier 1000 Mississippi Street David McCrary Route 3 Mrs Mamie Nottingham Route 3 Margo Biery 1901 New Hampshire Street Barbara Lynn Green 1224 New York Street.
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Elizabeth O'Byrne
Illinois Street
C. C. Carter
McLouth
Robert Lewis Frazier
Mississippi Street
David McCrary
Mamie Nottingham
Margo Biery
New Hampshire Street
Barbara Lynn Green
New York Street
Local resident notices list several families and addresses
A fragmented notice lists households in Overbrook Vinland and Eudora with residents including Mrs. Lucille Cilliland and baby, Mrs. Vesta Kaufman and baby, Mrs. Alma Brewer, Mrs. Trula Smith and their street addresses on Michigan and Fifteenth streets.
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William Frowe
Louisiana Street
Lucille Cilliland
Overbrook
Grant Burgoyne
Vinland
Genevieve . Kurtz
Eudora
Vesta Kaufman
Michigan Street
Alma Brewer
East Fifteenth Street
Trula Smith
East Twenty-Third Street
Bell and Hixson Families Welcome Daughters
The notice reports a daughter born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Bell and a daughter born today to Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hixson of 739 New York Street.
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John
Bell
Ray Hixson
New York Street
Mrs O'Byrne Falls on Ice Near Salvation Army Hall
Mrs Elizabeth OByrne of 437 Ali nois street was admitted yesterday with a broken ankle after slipping on ice while leaving the Salvation Army hall at 729 Vermont street. She had been in charge of a Salvation Army kettle during the pre Christmas drive for holiday dinners for needy families.
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Elizabeth O’byrne
Ali- Nois Street
Salvation Army Hall
Vermont Street
O’byrne
Salvation Army
Lawrence Business College Reopens January 3 After Holiday Break
The Lawrence Business College announces closure for holidays and will resume operations on January 3. Classes and services unavailable during the break. students and staff advised to plan accordingly.
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Lawrence Business College
Holly and holiday greetings circulate in Lawrence scene
Christmas season notes in Lawrence include Mr and Mrs Frank Henry sharing holly sent by son Merrill Henry from Bellingham Washington along with a branch claiming to be the tallest tree. Ed Elbel spreads club bulletin paragraphs, alumni office adds desks, and Lawrence children slide on a snow covered stadium hill.
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Frank Henry
North Fourth Street
Henrys
Merrill Henry
Bellingham
Wash
Henry
Nora Elbel
Kiwanis Club Bulletin
Mr. Oread
Lawrence
Frank Strong Hall
Time names Churchill Man of the half century
Time magazine editors designate Winston Churchill as the Man of the half century for 1900 to 1950. They credit his leadership in two world wars and his Fulton speech with shaping western defense and the rise of the free world.
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New York
Winston Churchill
Time Magazine
Time
Churchill
Chuchill
Carreer
Big Fulton
Fulton
Western
Europe
Berlin
Drop in Worker Earnings Fueled by Seasonal Decline
The Labor Department reported average weekly earnings of factory workers fell to 54.45 dollars in mid November, about 0.75 percent below October. The decline is attributed to seasonal drops in industrial activity and lingering effects of the steel strike.
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Washington
Labor Department
Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Thru With Baseball Pittsburgh Dec 28
P Out fielder Jim Russell says he is through with baseball after a three man deal involving the Boston Braves and the Brooklyn Dodgers. The maneuver would send him and Eddie Sauer to the Dodgers Montreal Farm in the International League with Louis Olmo moving from Brooklyn to Boston.
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Pittsburgh
Jim Russel
Boston Braves
Brooklyn Oreers
Fayette City
Eddie Sauer
Dodgers
Montreal
Louis Olmo
Brooklyn
Boston
Judge Tests Defendant in Drunkenness Case
In Honolulu the judge asks the defendant if he has been up there before. The man replies no, then recalls a prior encounter: you married me. The exchange reveals a prior marriage tied to the judge.
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Honolulu
Clifton H. Tracy
Strike Of Gazette Staff Enters 12th Day In Little Rock
More than 30 news and circulation workers at the Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock have been on strike for 12 days. Prospects for a quick settlement look dim as tensions continue.
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Little Rock
Ark
The
Arkansas Gazette
Topeka Bid Openings for Air Compressor and Fluorescent Fixtures
In Topeka C G Bayles superintendent of KU buildings and grounds opened bids this afternoon for two projects an air compressor about 800 dollars and fluorescent fixtures for stock at the university campus.
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Topeka
C. G. Bayles
K. U. Buildings and Grounds Department
Classified page buzzing with buyers and sellers
Thousands of prospective buyers and sellers meet daily on the Journal-World classified page, connecting people with goods, services, and opportunities through bustling local listings.
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Journal-World
Right Hand Amputated From 10YearOld Betty Lou Marbury
In Memphis Tennessee on December 28 a 10 year old farm girl Betty Lou Marbury had her right hand amputated to save her life from a malignant bone tumor. Doctors decided only removal could stop spread and the girl remained hopeful and faithful as prayer from across the nation poured in. Her father Clay Marbury noted she faced possible death but showed maturity beyond years. The case drew nationwide religious response with churches praying and ministers seeing possible revival signs.
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Memphis
Tenn
Betty Lou Marbury
Baptist Hospital
Betty
Clay Marbury
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Officials Crack Down On Peddling Contracts At Capital Fair
Washington officials moved to halt alleged contract peddling tied to the $25 million sesquicentennial fair. Director Edward Boykin said a private firm’s stockholder offered building contracts to a Maryland company for 10 percent of net profits. George M. Parker of Derwood, Md., said he rejected Alexander’s offer for erecting buildings in return for 10 percent.
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Washington
National Capital
Maryland
Paul Alexander
Boykin
Sesquicentennial Commission
Alexander
National Capital Sesquicentennial Leasing Bureau
Freedom Air
George M. Parker
Derwood
Parker
Fourteen Year Old Killed in Hunting Accident
Siloam Springs Arkansas December report says fourteen year old Robert Bennett died on a hunting trip four miles west of the town in Delaware County Oklahoma. Sheriff John Waterfallen said a .22 caliber rifle fired by a twelve year old companion struck the boy in the heart. The rifle reportedly discharged itself.
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Siloam Springs
Ark
Robert Bennett
Here
Delaware County
Oklo
John Waterfallen
El Dorado Refining Plant Resumes Operations After Fire
Operations have resumed at the El Dorado Refining company after a flash fire on December 28 in El Dorado Kansas. The damage was confined to the bubble tower, with repairs not complete, but refinery work has progressed to restart with limited processes. The blaze caused several thousand dollars in damage.
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el Dorado, Kan
Cph
el Dorado Refining Company
Ellinwood Telephone Exchange Owner Dies in Sleep
Ellinwood Kansas December 28 John E Moore about 57 owner and manager of the Ellinwood Telephone exchange was found dead in his bed today He apparently died in his sleep following a heart attack Moore moved here in August 1946 from Caldwell where for about 25 years he had managed a Telephone exchange He also had been vice president of the Caldwell stock exchange bank of Caldwell
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Ellinwood
Kan
John E. Moore
Ellinwood Telephone Exchange
Moore
Caldwell
We Stock Exchange Bank of
Retired Winfield businessman Harry Caton dies at 79
Harry A. Caton of Winfield Kansas died after a weeklong illness. A longtime civic figure he served as a city commissioner and mayor. He previously led a building and loan firm and a monument works.
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Winfield
Kan
Harry A. Caton
Monument Works
Married After 46 Years
A romance resumed after 46 years when Ben F. Corley of St. Louis Missouri and Ethel Thompson of Long Beach California married in Kansas City last night, ending a long interrupted relationship from Gentry.
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Kansas City
Gentry
Ben F. Corley
St.eee Mo
Ethel Thompson
Long Beach
Calif
Scrivner Opposed to One Big Appropriation Bill
Washington December 28 up Rep Scrivner opposes the plan to lump appropriations into a single bill. He says a "one shot" approach could be tried in the next session while subcommittees still draft budgets for agencies. Findings would move to the full committee to assemble one bill for action.
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Washington
Souse Appropriations Committee
Scrivner
House
Wherry Warns of Coal Crisis If Truman Does Not Act
Senator Wherry says a serious industrial crisis will follow within weeks unless President Truman uses Taft Hartley emergency powers to end the coal dispute. He urges full production into spring, citing mines operating on three day weeks and unions seeking higher wages and welfare payments.
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Washington
LPI
Truman
Wherry
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Union
Rebuild Theater Contract Let for Great Bend Kansas
Commonwealth theaters announces the Kansas theater at Great Bend will be rebuilt by Flett Construction of Kansas City. The bid was 126680 dollars, with two other bids 143250 and 161000. Work starts January 16 and finishes in six months. Existing walls retained for new structure. The 1000 seat theater will be fireproof with brick walls concrete balcony and steel roof and a refrigerated cooling system.
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Kansas City
Commonwealth Theaters
Great Bend
Kan
Flett Construction Company
Dick Crear
Commonwealth
Val Borden Construction Company
Salina
Vanfossen Constructer Company
Orcar
Deaths and Funerals Artie D Winters 75
Artie D Winters 75 died at his farm home on Route 2 Baldwin. Funeral services will be held 2 PM Friday from Church of Christ Vinland. Burial in Oakwood Cemetery Baldwin. Survived by sister Mrs Amanda Love Delhart Tex and brothers Rollie Winters Gretna Neb Will W Winters. Born Terra Haute Ind and arrived in Kansas at age 2. Resident of Douglas County 73 years and a farmer his life.
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Artie D. Winters
Baldwin
Church of Christ
Vinland
Oakwood
Amanda Love
Delhart
Tex
Rollie Winters
Gretna
Neb
Will W. Winters
Artie Winters
Terra Haute
Ind
Kansas
Douglas County
Miss Myrtle Carter Dies Christmas Eve in Bonner Springs
Mrs. Ryland Jackson of 832 Maine street received word from Mr and Mrs George Carter of Bonner Springs that their daughter Miss Myrtle Carter died on Christmas Eve. The Carters, longtime Lawrence residents, moved to Bonner Springs two months ago. They formerly lived at 832 Ohio street. Mrs. Jackson has few details but notes Miss Carter had not seemed ill before death. Miss Carter had worked and lived in Bonner Springs for years and visited her parents in Lawrence regularly. Funeral arrangements have not been made.
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Maine Street
George Carter
Bonner Springs
Myrtle Carter
Carters
Lawrence
Ohio Street
Thomas A. Evans
Howard
Min
W. C. Gibbon
Otto Spitzii
Stanley House
Eugene
Honerie
Freddie
Lawrense
and Airs
Daniel Heffner
Marilyn Bailard
Phyllis Flickinger
Stanley Flickinger
Moernings
San Diego
Cali
Baldwin
Mark D. Builard
Su-zanne
California
Maurice Horrell
Carol
Susan
Ronald
Will
Trei
Mich
Horrell
Daisy B Brockway
William G. Deel
Clarence Broadfoot
Kansas City
Roy Coleman
O. Scott Morgan
Marcia
Linda
Wichita
Mers
Whitp Barnthouse
George Maxwell
Martha Mardy
Kinags City
Clare City
Maxwells
Wayne PL Randall
Methodist
Miss Mardy
Br. Kb. R. Biederwell
Garden City
Cuba
New Orleans
Hiev
F. Biederwell
First Methodist Church
Lynn Stephens
North Seventh Street
Charlies E. Stephens
Altha
Ferne
Eva
Richard
Floyd Roberts
Denver, Colo
William T. Wright, Jr
Sedalia
Richard Stephens
Otte. Henderson
Donna
Charles Stephens
Frank M. McRoberts
Malta Bend
Mollie McRoberts Wilson
Richmond
Valor H. K. Ebright
Clare Hayes
Oakwood Cemetery
Scott Morgan
Allan Daugherty
Clifford Anderson
Rollie Critchfield
Robert Brown
Eugene Few
An Grace Irwin
A. Manks
G. J. Hunt
Nelyn Hunt
Aileen Wilson
Vera Lawellin
Dean Irwin
Miss Lawellin
Dean
3B. A. Gessner
Clarence Kulicheck
Irwin Home
Funeral services for Mrs L V Carr in Garden City
Mrs L V Carr 68 died of a heart attack December 22 at her Garden City home. Born Emma Cory on a farm near Eudora, she is survived by two sisters in Lawrence. She married Lucius Victor Carr in 1903, lived in Eudora and Garden City, where he worked for Santa Fe and later the Bell Telephone.T
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Lucius Victor Carr
Eudora
The
Santa Fe
Garden City
Carr
Ae Telephone A Telegraph Company
Market News Snapshot Cotton Lower Wheat Declines Hogs Rise
Markets at a glance show cotton soften in New Orleans trading while Chicago wheat trends lower amid weak export demand. Corn rallies to close firm with export reports. Oats weaken as wheat slides. Hogs stay active with steady to 50 cents higher bids, top around 16.75. The uneven soy and cattle market remains steady to lower, top near 40.
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New Orleans
Chicago
Local Market Prices Report
Local market quotes show corn at 1.08 per unit and oats at 0.78. Poultry notes list heavy poultry at 1. é, hens 12, stags and cocks 10. Butterfat 6 and hogs 15.25 per unit.
Kansas City Produce Prices on Eggs Butter and Poultry
Kansas City Produce City reports December 27 AP listing egg standards extras current receipts and Butter Grade A prices per pound in various carton and quarter sizes. It includes iB f values for broilers, turkeys, ducks, geese, squabs and pigeons with per dozen or per pound figures.
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Kansas City
Estimated Livestock Receipts in Kansas City
Advance estimated livestock receipts for tomorrow list cattle 600 calves 100 hogs 1000 sheep 2000 as reported by AP from Kansas City on December 28.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Livestock Prices Reported for Dec 28
Kansas City market notes show cattle activity slow on fed steers and heifers with mixed bids. Bulls, cows, and calves varied in price with top beves near 27.25 to 30.00, vealers around 25, hogs fair and higher than Tuesday, and sheep active with lambs strong and ewes steady.
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Kansas City
USDAI
Livestock Market Slumps in Kansas City Trade
Cattle prices fall with fed steers 25 to 50 lower, late rounds weaker and feeder heifers hard to move. Prices cited: pod fed steers about 26.50 to 30.00, bulk medium to good steers 20.00 to 26.00, hogs steady to lower. Lambs quoted around 20.75.
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Kansas City
USDA
Sons
Kansas City Hay Market Noted Quiet Demand In Prairie
Kansas City dec 28 hay receipts show 2 cars prairie a week ago and 2 a year ago with no sales. No change in alfalfa with No 1 hay in strong demand while lower grades stay slow. Prairie market remains very weak with little buying interest.
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Kansas City
Grain and commodity market roundup from Kansas City and Chicago
Kansas City grain prices show mixed moves with wheat and corn down slightly and oats up modestly. Futures markets edge higher with wheat near 2.19 in March and May contracts as traders monitor demand. Chicago potato market reports light supplies and steady prices alongside U S day in Wall Street noting railroad shares push to new 1949 highs with several stocks advancing.
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Wall Street
New York
New York Central
Pennsylvania Railroad
Western Union
Atlantic Coast Line
Union Pacific
Johns- Manville
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Chrysler Studebaker
Consolidated Natural Gas
American Telephone
J. I. Case
Southern Railway
Santa Fe
Chesa
Firms lag in the market rally across major industries
Peake and Ohio, Du Pont, International Paper, Woolworth and American Smelting lead the advance while U. S. Rubber, Air Reduction and Barnsdall Oil trail behind in the latest market report.
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Peake
Ohio
du Pont
International Paper
Woolworth
American Smelting
U. S
Baldwin Residents Visit Friends and Family Over Christmas
Baldwin residents and relatives traced travels from Kansas City to Wichita and Lawrence visiting Baker University friends and family. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Hovgard of Colorado and their daughters Gayle and Karen, and many others from Baldwin and nearby towns. Memorial and Christmas gatherings highlighted local life as families returned home after the holiday.
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John Hovgard
Gayle
Karen
Pao- Mua
Colo
Baldwin
Kansas City
Eudora Illness Improves And Christmas Dinner Guests
Eudora Ward Mercier recovers from pneumonia and is mostly up. Numerous local families and Kansas City visitors shared Christmas Day dinners and gatherings, including the Grosdidiers, Eder and Vitt families, and the Durrs, with extended visits to Topeka and Denver noted among households.
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Ward Mercier
Rosalee Hensley
Larry Himes
Kansas City
Willard Fitzgerald
Arlene Grosdidier
Arthur
Joe Eder
Carrie Eder
Fred Eder
Leo Rothberger
Janie
Topeka
Kathherine Rothhberger
Charles Vitt
Charline
Charles Putnam
Bill Durr
Leon Durr
Robert
Albert Grosdidier
Henry Grosdidier
Marysville
Carl Taylor
Denver
Colo
Gerald Grosdidier
William Mercier
Barbara
Joe Strobel
Lena Koehler
Homer Abbott
Minnie Jones
Eudora
Adams
Allen Cochran
Robert Schellack
Christmas Eve and Day Gatherings Across Kansas Towns
Christmas gatherings stretch from Ottawa to Lawrence as families host relatives and share meals. In Overbrook a funeral notice for Nick Weil, age 58, is announced with services at the Methodist church and burial in Carbondale. Weidensaul and other local names are noted visiting relatives for the holiday season.
Christmas Dinner Guests Gather in Starr and Daugherty Homes
Holiday gatherings at the Starr and Daugherty households feature extended kin from Overland Park Leavenworth Gardner Lawrence and Norman Oklahoma. The spread includes turkey dinners with multiple families present and a centerpiece of roses from Harold Daugherty. A new arrival is noted with the birth of a daughter to Mr and Mrs Martin Fesmeyer in Gardner.
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B. Starr
Retta Daugherty
H. W. Cies
Lawrence
Cites
Andrew Jackson
Merle Reusch
Tenganoxie
Robert R
Lester Massey
John Reusch
Donna Mae
Eli
Wayne Reusch
Chilren
Arthur
Bernitz
LaWanda
Myron
Frank Bernitz
Martin Fesmeyer
Gardner Beets
Fesmneyer
Eudora
Minnie Abel
Otto Abel
Card of Thanks for Kindness during Illness
We thank friends and neighbors for kindnesses shown to our wife and mother during her illness over four years. Grateful for lovely cards letters and flowers during her long illness. Albert F. Clavell and Family.
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Albert F. Clavell
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