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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1960
Page
2
Paris reports a clash in Algiers leaves 26 dead and 150 wounded as Gen. Charles de Gaulle weighs whether to order a military crackdown or risk deeper bloodshed. He seeks a settlement allowing Algerians and European settlers to choose their destinies after peace returns.
Wayne L. Cooper international president of the Cosmopolitan Club will address the Lawrence Cosmopolitan Club annual meeting at the Bildridge Hotel. Warren Rhodes president of First National Bank will be installed as the new club president. Cooper from Lincoln Neb has 18 years of membership and 27 years with Cushman Motor Works as secretary treasurer. The club now has 50 members and meets weekly. Other officers to be installed include Jack Harris Morris Kay R D Gillahan Clark Morton Jr Frank Bradley Bill Woods and directors Don Robertson Travis Glass John Pickens Olin Waymire Al Sabol John Dobbins.
J. D. King, sales manager of the Lawrence Sanitary Milk and Ice Cream Co., was elected vice-chairman of the Douglas County Republican Central Committee Tuesday night. The post had been vacant since Mrs. Ethel High assumed the chair and former chairman Robert Ellsworth resigned to run for Congress. Mrs. High praised King and the committee’s enthusiasm.
Mrs. Alice E. Wray of Route 2 Baldwin dies at 70 and funeral services are set for 2 p m Thursday at Willow Springs Church with Elder Allen Mobler leading and burial at Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Rumsey Funeral Home handles arrangements. Mrs Grace E Buell 63 of 424 Mississippi Street dies Sunday and services are planned at Wesleyan Methodist Church Thursday at 9 a m and Miltonvale Wesleyan Chapel at 3 p m with burial in Miltonvale Cemetery. Rumsey Funeral Home coordinates arrangements.
At Seoul railway station a crowd rushing for the last train to Mokpo caused a fatal stampede. Thirty-one Koreans died and 50 were injured, including eleven children under ten. Snowy stairs triggered a human avalanche as officials faced blame. Transportation Minister Kim Ti Hwan resigned and the station master was removed. President Rhee ordered an inquiry.
Sen. Stuart Symington Jr. accuses the Eisenhower administration of misusing intelligence on Soviet missiles to balance budgets. He says the missile gap is over three to one and warns the facts are being concealed for political gain. Symington, a potential presidential hopeful, spoke at a Washington news conference.
348 persons enrolled in spring adult education at Lawrence High School reports AE director E. J. Logsdon. Two classes Sewing II and Oil Painting are closed. more Oil Painting may run if enough request. Fees due in advance or at start. enrollments by phone at VI3-0231.
At the Clarke residence near New Brunswick police pursue a timetable of events after three women are found in a damaged home. A gardener recalls a cab arriving with a man about 35 years old in a gray brown overcoat. Mrs. Chapin, a former U S ambassador’s widow, returns to discover the scene as Dr Clarke is reached at St Peters Hospital.
President Eisenhower flew from Andrews AFB to Los Angeles for a nationwide kickoff rally era. His jet transport stopped in Denver and will address a fundraising dinner. The speech will be broadcast to more than 80 rallies coast to coast with other top speakers.
A delegation of Douglas County farmers will join the National Farm Organization in Topeka on Saturday to discuss a collective bargaining plan for selling agriculture products. The event at city auditorium starts 11 a.m. with a free lunch. Speakers include NFC president Oren Lee Staley and economist Carl H. Wilkin. Douglas County has 34 paid NFO members under a 3 year contract. The meeting is open to all farmers.
A scientific gondola jettisoned from the world’s largest balloon was located in the eastern Caribbean aboard the USS Valley Force. The gondola carried valuable instruments and was found by a search plane, with the destroyer Hyman guiding recovery efforts to begin immediately.
Richard Nelson and Ed Young own affected property east of Iowa Street and west of Centennial. Nelson protests the project while noting apartment zoning plans were rejected and he cannot sell large plots. The city would share about 12,000 dollars of the 44,000 project cost, with Nelson paying 32,001.
On Lecompton road in heavy fog a car missed a curve injuring seven teenage girls from Tonganoxie. Driver Aldienne Lee McKinsey reported the crash. passengers included Carol Scott Frances Todd Cleta Gunn Eunice Hemple Vaunita Hoeglen and Donna Bailey. No hospitalizations. all treated for cuts and bruises.
The Kansas House passed 80 to 31 a bill to send an additional 2.5 million dollars in sales tax receipts to local governments. If Senate approval follows, Gov. Docking could sign it. the measure would raise total local sales tax allocations to 15 million dollars to ease poverty taxes.
Lawrence students copy past final exam files from dorms and fraternities at Kansas University. A KU economics professor notes some tests stay the same each year because only answers change. Len Schneider’s art appears in a New York City children’s book displayed at Bell Music Co. A Lawrence officer’s “meanest man” award goes to an unknown person who dumped two collie puppies in a snow sack. pups survived and were sent to the animal shelter.
Tickets for the Douglas County Republican Central Committee banquet on February 12 at the Plymouth Congregational Church are selling rapidly, with about 300 sold and few remaining. Tickets are available at Hunsinger Motor Co. Senator Andrew Schoeppel will speak at the Lincoln Day dinner and discuss the upcoming 1960 campaign.
A list of newborns and parental notices across Memorial Hospital and area homes. Names include Brenda Revey Ottawa Al vie Tate 634 Walnut, baby girls and boys for several couples in Eudora Lecompton Tonganoxie Os kaloosa and neighboring towns.
In 1958 a Democratic surge nearly toppled Anderson as Dale Spiegel, governor’s pardon attorney, ran a strong but short bid for attorney general. Democrats also recaptured the governorship and state offices including printer and treasurer. Spiegel plans another run for attorney general.
The George Warmker family expresses sincere thanks to neighbors friends and relatives for food flowers cards and acts of kindness after the death of wife and mother Josephine Warmker. Your kindness will always be remembered and may God bless each of you.
Elizabeth Drew Huddleston died Jan. 21 at DeLong Prospect Park Sanitarium and was buried after funeral services at Lawrence Friends Church. Born Jan. 16, 1870 in Harrison County Ohio she lived a frontier life in Kansas and raised two nieces. Survivors include a brother in Houston and a niece and nephew in Pennsylvania.
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