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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1940
Page
5
The notice urges society items to reach the Journal-World before 11:80 o clock on the publication day. It asks contributors to write or phone items and include the time they are to be used.
Ada ay Mr and Mrs L Haynes host dinner bridge at Kansal Country club and an open house from 0 to 1. Mr and Mrs N P Power celebrate their sixty first wedding anniversary with an open house. Mr and Mrs B W Eddins invite guests to Miss Marilda Eddins and Dick Martin’s gathering. Mrs Frank Strong informs tea. Mr and Mrs George Docking attend watch night party. Rev and Mrs Howard J Weald hold open house. Mrs Vick Wurt hosts luncheon for Vera Margaret Hurt. Thursday Lucy Smith attends a country club dance and Needlecraft club with Mrs DL Cana van.
Mr and Mrs C H Stockwell announce the Christmas morning marriage of their daughter Carolyn to Ruby D Garrett Jr son of Col and Mrs Ruby D Garrett of Kansas City Missouri The bride is KU 1938 graduate and recently spent a year east with her sister Mrs S Henry Magruder now of Boston MA Mr Garrett studied at KU and winged at Kelly Field TX They will live in St Louis MO where he is an army flying instructor at Parks Air College Other social notices follow including church circle postponements open house hosting and various gatherings across town Several groups plan meetings and a New Year event at Holloway's hall and Masonic temple with multiple attendees named.
Harold Wampler will attend a New Year dinner hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Willard Houser of Wellaville. Glenn Oatman returns to St. Louis after a week near Lawrence. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wright joined a Kansas City party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Quarles. Pleasant Valley Farm Bureau unit plan a meeting with Mrs. Gus Hadl. Vera Morgan will lead a Thursday lesson at 2 PM. Lucy Smith hosts a Country Club dance for Peggy Price of Fayetteville. Centenary Methodist Woman's Society postposed to January 8. David B Perkins entertained with a Christmas dinner with Paul Perkins, Hugh Snyder, Mrs. John Edmonds, and others from Lawrence, Riverside, Vinland, Lone Star.
Local residents host and visit relatives during Christmas and New Year. Mr. and Mrs. Eldon H. Addy return to Detroit after holidays with E. P. Addy in Lawrence and Mrs. Addy’s parents in Ottawa. Guests at the Dodds include Dean Keaton and Deane Ellen Keaton of Kansas City, Miss Mary Robinson of Columbia, and others from Iola and Wichita. Dr. R. I. Canuteson attends American Student Health Association meeting in Ann Arbor and is reelected secretary treasurer. Church leaders plan talks in Chicago and Boston with Unitarian officials. The Rev. H. Lee Jones travels to Chicago and Boston for church matters. Philip H. Cook to preach next Sunday. Other travels include Kreiders returning from Amarillo. Griesa, Harter families visiting. Funeral attendance for Mrs. F. C. Wenrich noted from Kansas City teachers. Prof. C. S. Skilton improves after Cleveland treatment and plans National Music Teachers meeting attendance.
Kansas City reports Mrs. Mary A. Latchaw wife of Austin Latchaw associate editor of the Star died yesterday following a month long illness.
Neal M. Wherry district governor spoke to a Howard Rotary gathering and also addressed meetings at Emvor ia and Cottonwood Falls last night.
Villa Eden community program scheduled for Friday night has been postponed until Wednesday January.
New Year observed as Hill offices shut this afternoon and tomorrow per the Chancellor's office. Oklahoma A and M alumnus T. H. Mailen visited, Dorsie Warren hosted, and local students noted quiet holidays on the Hill. Emily Mumford joined Coffeyville Rotary dinner honoring returning students.
Virginia Ford with Don Morton Lee Huddleston and Louis Thompson, all Oskaloosa boys, organize a Jefferson county high school tour to publicize Kansas University. The group plans to show KU movies in the county, with about fifteen to twenty students expected to join. Mary Weinberg and Mary Katherine Marrow prepared KU displays for the group.
The clash between ASCAP and broadcasters reaches a climax as 1.5 million ASCAP tunes are to be banned from CBS and Mutual networks and many stations at midnight. BMI replacements will air on some nets while 187 stations retain ASCAP songs. No truce in sight as the Justice Department weighs options.
Scheduled Monday the government will launch anti trust proceedings against ASCAP BMI CBS and NBC while public domain tunes like Auld Lang Syne and Hail Hail the Gaine’s remain unaffected MI boasts a 600000 song reservoir and cites titles such as There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight The Same Old Story and Practice Makes Perfect as examples of songs it can supply Lawrence Business College opens January 6 Adv
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