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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1958
Page
6
Market summary lists stocks with steels and aircrafts advancing while bonds show mixed results. Wheat corn oats and soybeans feature price shifts, livestock quotes cover hogs cattle and sheep, plus Kansas City wholesale eggs poultry and butter markets with grain and local price notes.
A historical market summary lists commodity prices and livestock terms including ear corn at 1.02, barley at .70, oats 56, rye 0.85, soybeans 1.95, and mile at 1.56. Poultry rates show hens 42 pounds up, 12 for hens under 415 pounds .7, old roosters 6. Eggs Grade A Journal reports sizes 33 for large, 30 for medium, 33 for small. butterfat Premium .55, Grade A 52, hogs at 17.75.
The stock market stayed ahead late in the afternoon but off intraday highs. Volume was about 2.1 million shares, up from 1.86 million yesterday, with gains across steels aircrafts mail orders radio televisions utilities chemicals rails and airlines. motors retreated from early gains while oils rubbers motion pictures and building materials mixed.
Mrs. M. R. Blair, living in Abilene with her three sons, identified a California man as her husband Lt. Col. Melvin Russell Blair, 42, retired, amid news of a robbery attempt to steal $40,000 receipts from the Bing Crosby Golf Tournament. She had learned of the incident only recently and stated she and her husband are separated.
A would be purse snatcher accosted Miss Betty Singleton in Louisville and struck her on the head with an umbrella. He fled without the purse, which Miss Singleton saved along with a single dollar. The umbrella was ruined.
Kansas University reports a sharp rise in math interest this fall. Dr. G Baley Price notes 43 undergraduate math majors enrolled versus 25 in fall 1956 and 455 graduate students, up from 35 a year ago. He attributes growth to scholarships, modernized courses, honors, seminars, high school outreach, science events, a summer camp, and NSF activities. He cites selling the subject to undergraduates and faculty quality for graduates as key factors.
In Caracas President Marcos Perez Jimenez reshuffles his Cabinet for the second time in four days after ousting Gen Romulo Fernandez as Defense Minister. Police and troops dispersed anti government student demonstrators with machetes and tear gas as civil liberties calls grow louder.
Works by Kansas University artists are shown in the 20th annual American Graphic Arts and Drawing Exhibition run by the W Association through Sunday January 31. The jury accepted 139 pieces nationwide. KU figures include Robert B. Green with Supplication, John J. Talleur with Holy Family, Gary R. Dierking with White Egret, Judith Temple with The Sultan, Oscar Larmer now in Manhattan, and Karl Mattern of Drake University.
Dr. George M. Beckmann, Kansas University history professor, will present an illustrated talk on Japan at 7:45 p.m. Wednesday in the First Baptist Church Chapel. The event follows a 6:45 p.m. Men’s Brotherhood supper. Beckmann has traveled in Japan since 1945 and wrote Making of the Meiji Constitution from his research.
Cherry Leitniker of Baker University outlines a bold Baldwin forecast. The talk cites Kansas wheat records, rising population, Baker University enrollment growth, and federal student aid law. Laitaker predicts a cancer cure within three years, U.S. war dynamics, and a governor's re election looming if Republicans split.
A one year study at Kansas University aims to better understand normal and abnormal growth by examining growth processes in Chlorella, a single celled green plant. Funded by a $2300 U S Public Health Service grant, the project is led by Dr. Philip Newmark with scientist Yoshinori Fujimoto from the Institute of Public Health.
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