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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1951
Page
3
Tokyo dispatch notes General MacArthur celebrating his birthday with ceremonies and warnings to China amid UPI reports on stockpiling atomic bombs for battlefield use. The piece also covers U.S. policy questions on A bomb deployment, Lilienthal’s views, and military reflections on potential field use. Kansas City sales data and Irish folklore closing the page.
A January heat wave pushed temperatures to 91 degrees in Glendale and Thermal as Los Angeles County tied or set local records. Long Beach and Blythe also reported near record highs while officials noted the unusual January heat across the region.
A frigid front sweeps from the Rockies to the Atlantic, leaving the eastern two thirds of the nation below freezing with sub zero readings in the Dakotas Minnesota and Wisconsin. Blizzard forecasts hit North Dakota and Montana as snow flurried from Montana to the northern plains while the southwest basks in summerlike warmth in California Arizona and Nevada.
In Lamarque Texas Raymond D Brooks 29 killed his estranged wife Dorothy Evelyn Brooks 20 and her brother in law Lloyd Hulsey 20 then shot at two hiding girls and killed himself last night Mrs Hulsey fled with her daughter Barbara 12 and Dorothy Birdson 1% in a bedroom Deputy Sheriff J W Newsome said Brooks fired six shots from a German pistol into the room where the girls hid without hitting them.
The text discusses whether the atomic bomb could be used for retaliatory attacks against civilian targets or military forces and notes conflicts about the legality of strategic versus tactical bombing. It also mentions electrical properties of wires, with low frequency currents flowing through the whole wire and high frequency currents sailing only on the surface.
Government spokesman Clarence Rhee reports 56 214 refugees moved to Cheju Island off Korea's south coast. About 19 500 in government housing and 36 711 housed elsewhere. Cheju's normal population is 300 000 with 60 000 more refugees planned. Plans include 75 dollar houses to shelter 40 000 more.
Honolulu's five day bus strike ended with the Honolulu Rapid Transit Co and the Independent Transit Workers union agreeing to raise wages. About 480 bus drivers and shop workers will get eight cents more per hour immediately and an additional seven cents starting July 1. Current pay ranged from $1.26 to $1.37 an hour.
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