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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1950
Page
5
A car overturned northeast of Wichita on Saturday fatally injuring the driver Joseph Michiel Knebler 29 of near Valley Center Kansas. He was pinned under the wreckage.
Manila reports an ammunition depot explosion at Tangas during Saturday night killed 11 and wounded 24. Officials blame carelessly tossed cigarette from a constabulary trash pile as the fire starter. Explosion created a large crater at the Tangas headquarters.
A society page lists events including a flower club tea and quilt display, a country club square dance, and a whist club gathering. It notes the marriage announcement of Williams to Frank S. Wasinger of Hays with plans for an April 1 ceremony and a later four month crop tour. Details cover Mrs. McWilliams as house mother in Lawrence, Mrs. Wasinger’s ancestry, and connections to Ellis and Jackson counties along with other social happenings and a thirtieth wedding anniversary celebration at the Baltzersen home.
Postwar social calendar features meetings at Grange hall and churches. Notes include Vinland Home Demonstration unit work day with pottery and gardening lessons, W S C S at Centenary Methodist, Beta Sigma Phi tea and banquet with Rev Edward Brubaker, Zodiac club play Ah Wilderness, and multiple group meetings across churches and clubs with pledges of devotions, menus, and tours at O R and company.
Miss Leonore French Mrs Mande l Reeves and Mrs KE Live spent yesterday in Kansas City attending the Heart of America show and visiting the Kansas City Museum in the former R A Long mansion.
Mrs W T Douce went to Neurological hospital in Kansas City Me for nerve ailment several weeks Friends may write her at 2623 The Paseo Mr and Mrs William Watson of Chillicothe Mo spent weekend with his mother Mrs Annie Ware Fon Mrs Roy Moore returned from Hutchinson where she visited Mr and Mrs George Moore and children Jimmy and Ann Pat McCallahan formerly clerk of the district court now with American Red Cross spent Saturday with friends in Lawrence en route to Washington DC for assignment He is awaiting giment in Germany CW Pollom left Saturday night for a ten day trip to the Chicago and New York markets
Detroit Feb 27 A two by four board on a frozen water slide at Green Gen park near Utica struck Robert Polter as he rode the slide. Polter, in serious condition at St Joseph hospital, had a board end loosened and swinging over the track. State police cut away six feet of the board to aid removal, and surgeons operated to remove a two foot fragment.
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