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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1950
Page
3
Washington reports on FBI methods for tapping hotel spy lines. Instructions detail locating terminal boxes, using skeletor keys, and placing taps by direct connection or induction. The piece notes ongoing FBI surveillance and that tapping runs to about 170 telephones in internal security cases.
William L. Douglas and family farm 272 acres near Oskaloosa with 11 Holsteins in a modern grade A dairy plant. His wife Mary and two sons Ernest and Larry Dean assist in milking and field work while a daughter Betty Jean Gunselman lives in town. They rotate crops, expand the herd, hay and feed 47 hogs, and maintain a laying flock. The family emphasizes mechanization, soil-building practices, and active involvement in the Jefferson County Farm Bureau.
A junior high carnival set for Friday night at the community building features a new carnival king and queen crown, walking jukeboxes, and student posters. Voting in open debating selected Jo Ann Miller Diana Smith Janice Enrick for queen and Charles McCue Terry Malott Roy Murphy for king, with final voting at the carnival. Also listed are carnival committees, plus Blue Cross Blue Shield meetings in Baldwin Lawrence and Eudora with about 350 volunteers for a February drive.
A Baltimore and Ohio freight train derailed after a boy eight years old stacked bricks and a board on tracks at New Haver, north of Point Pleasant. The engine and nine cars left the rails but no injuries were reported. authorities had not filed charges.
In Lackawanna county court Judge Hoban heard a remarkable case as Mike Gladish of Old Forge froze a bear cub to serve as corpus delicti. Gladish had been fined 200 for killing a bear cub and argued the bear was older than ten months while a veterinarian testified it was over a year old. Gleeful to defend his hunter’s reputation, Gladish appealed and the bear was dragged out of the courtroom.
Veterans receiving GI Bill farm training who have not filed their 1949 earnings report must do so immediately to avoid suspension of future subsistence payments. The VA regional office in Kansas City said reports are due by March 1 and should be filed with the school, then forwarded to the State Department of Education if applicable, and onward to the VA regional office.
A gangland bomb destroyed Cohen’s bedroom at dawn in Los Angeles injuring no one in his family. The blast caused about 50 000 dollars of damage and followed a prior assassination attempt at Sherry’s restaurant last July. Cohen and four lieutenants face conspiracy charges linked to a radio shop beating while police ties loom.
Salina Kansas February 7 A construction scaffold collapsed at a grain elevator project sending Merle Griggs 43 plunging 50 feet to the ground He was severely injured and identified as a worker for Shoffner Construction Co by his employer C S Shoffner
London reports Kenneth DeCourcy, editor of Intelligence Digest, asserts Russia has built three H bombs and exploded one, claiming sources on both sides of the Iron Curtain support the claim. Omits no other details from the source.
A reader notes her husband relied on pills and medicines nightly for six weeks before switching to Kellogg's ALL-BRAN at breakfast. The letter, one of many unsolicited endorsements, touts dietary bulk for regularity and even offers a double-your-money refund if not satisfied after ten days.
Punxsutawney Pa February 7 The Rev Herman Humke and his flock praised Colleen Townsend a movie star who said she would forsake her career to follow God as she preached twice to about 1200 churchgoers at the Presbyterian church The turnout greatly exceeded the usual 300 attendees and the event drew strong local interest.
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