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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1963
Page
3
Kansas City AP market notes list wholesale and consumer egg prices, poultry, butter, cattle and hog quotes, as well as feed grains and milo. Wheat, corn, soybeans and oats futures finish mixed as market activity shows slight shifts across commodities.
New York shares rose in heavy activity with about 4.2 million traded. Standard Oil New Jersey boosted, defense and construction outlooks aided optimism as Chrysler and IBM advanced while Du Pont fell and steel shares mixed. Market breadth was uneven with several large names advancing and othersderating.
Memorial services are set for poet Robert Frost at Harvard University Memorial Chapel with relatives and close friends in attendance. Frost died Tuesday at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital at 88 after urinary tract obstruction surgery, heart attack, and lung clots. His body was cremated. ashes to be interred next spring in Old Bennington Vermont. His daughter Mrs Joseph Ballantine and several grandchildren attended. Irma Cone could not attend due to illness.
Mrs Maude Evans shows slow improvement at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after a fall caused hip fracture. She has been hospitalized since the injury and doctors report steady progress in her condition.
Gerald M Anderson, 25, who spent about 10 months in jail for a murder he says he did not commit, received an honorable discharge under a government interest clause from Mountain Home Air Force Base. He was released from custody after civil authorities accepted another man's confession and later retracted his own.
Liberal Kansas AP report says 37 year old Denver Dale McDonald admitted authoring a series of poison-pen letters and poems that troubled officers in 1961 while en route to Lansing to serve two 110 year burglary sentences. He claimed to have written notes and poems attributed to Ben Jerman Jr. who escaped the county jail October 10, 1961.
A bill to bring Wichita University into the state system of higher education was set for Senate Education Committee submission. Gov. John Anderson met about a dozen legislators to discuss the proposal and reported informal support after removing disputed provisions. Details on remaining points were not disclosed until the bill advances.
A long Memorial Hospital admissions roster lists numerous individuals and addresses including H. C. Nunemaker Iva Belle Harper De lores Roit Mrs Roxany Edwards Betty McCrary Carl Holbeck Jerry Ley Palmer Guy Folks Ruth Taylor Agnes Bouton Minnie Icks Mildred Hunter Alice Cole Darla Bolin Krystyna Zorski Howard Longanecker Nancy Williams Robbie Criss El mer Christie Lila Peters and baby boy Jeanette Runnels and baby girl Dorothy Elms Jerome Stremel Edwin Bouton Maple Wayne Hunter Perry with several births noted today.
Mayor Wagner announced progress toward ending New York City's 55 day newspaper blackout after an 18 hour City Hall session. He said several issues were resolved or easily settled, but two critical problems remained unsolved and negotiations would resume at noon Friday.
Glen Herman Frost, 56, owner of a car that struck three workmen in Kansas City killing 36 year old Jesse Francis Blankinship, was arrested Wednesday night after officers found the vehicle and tracked the owner to 2438 Hardesty Ave. The driver fled from the scene after crashing through a street barricade.
Rep Don Smith of Colby states northwest Kansas legislators draft a bill for a two year college center. Local leaders back a $600000 bond for facilities to be turned over to the state, aiming to save taxpayers and provide local two year college access.
Roy H. Shaw sells controlling interest in Peoples State Bank of Cherryvale to John Bertoncino Jr. and Leo L. Kent of El Dorado. Bertoncino becomes president, Shaw stays on as advisor and director for a period.
Clarence A. Douglas, 66, of Tucumcari New Mexico and former Lawrence resident, died Wednesday. Funeral services and burial are set for Friday in Albuquerque. Survivors include wife Nora Lee a daughter Mrs. Don Kirby mother Mrs. Dora Douglas two grandchildren and cousin Lloyd Douglas of 1944 Barker street Tucumcari.
Death notice: Mrs. Claude Williams aged 56 died January 13 in Kansas City Missouri. A former Lawrence resident she is survived by her husband at home a daughter Mrs Bull Reddock of Overland Park son John Williams of Kansas City and her mother Mrs Irene D Roberts of the home.
John Main Guild, organizer in 1923 of what later became the Missouri State Chamber of Commerce, died Wednesday at 87 after four months of illness. He previously led the Greater Dayton Association of Dayton, Ohio, before becoming general secretary of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce in 1917.
The Peace Corps will need at least 6,000 volunteers in 1963 for overseas posts in 44 countries across Latin America Africa and Asia. Retirees with skilled professions such as teachers doctors dentists nurses technicians builders engineers and planners are invited to apply by writing for “Older Volunteers in the Peace Corps” and a questionnaire at Peace Corps Senior Manpower Recruitment Washington 25 D C.
William Hunt 37 of Brookline Mass had his left leg amputated after a six hour attempt to restore a limb more than 90 percent severed. An infection and internal bleeding followed the January 15 operation. Hunt is in fair condition and father of seven.
Max Carey holds the National League record for stolen bases with a total of 738.
Randolph Churchill will write his father Sir Winston Churchill’s official biography for Houghton Mifflin Co. The publishers announced at Randolph’s East Bergholt home in Suffolk England that no work will be published during Sir Winston's lifetime.
The House Education and Labor Committee voted to hear James R. Hoffa about alleged government pressure interfering with bonding for the Teamsters Union. Hoffa, president of the union, was invited to a closed Friday morning meeting with invites extended to Labor and Justice departments.
Topeka Kansas Democrats announced a $5 per plate dinner rally for February 12 with Harold Jinks national director of postmaster and rural appointments as principal speaker. Jinks is a former DNC regional representative to Kansas and Marie Vickers state vice chairwoman organized the event.
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