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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1957
Page
8
Scientists from 62 nations join the International Geophysical Year to study a major solar explosion. About 10,000 researchers anticipate practical benefits in weather, communications, and navigation as solar flares trigger high-altitude magnetic storms and auroras. Radio blackouts may disrupt navigation and comms.
Paul E. Tobener of Blue Springs Missouri was arrested after entering the Carl Teter farm home near Hutchinson Kansas, holding Mrs Teter at gunpoint for two hours, robbing the owner of $50, and forcing him to drive 60 miles to Wichita before a Wichita police officer arrested Tobener while he asked about schedules at the bus station.
United Steel Workers Local 4327 struck Henryetta Oklahoma zinc plant after contract talks failed over a wage increase clause. Plant had reopened two weeks after April shutdown when zinc prices fell. Negotiations ongoing with mediation official E R Hunt. follow up meeting planned.
Wage talks in the Kansas City Power and Light Co dispute continued without a walkout as three union locals’ contracts expired. State mediation board chairman Daniel C. Rogers kept Governor James T. Blair informed, and the King Thompson Act allows the governor to prevent a strike.
Radio Hanoi announced that President Ho Chi Minh of North Viet Nam will visit nine Communist countries. The Red leader would meet presidents of North Korea Czechoslovakia Poland East Germany Yugoslavia Hungary Albania Bulgaria and Romania. Departure date not announced.
Sixty five Lawrence students join 556 total for the 20th annual Midwestern Music and Art Camp at Kansas University. The six week program draws participants from 31 states with music the largest division. The camp ends July 28 with theater and art productions and daily activities from 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
China’s chief prosecutor Chang Ting-cheng told the national People’s Congress that 190,000 counterrevolutionaries surrendered in the past year and were given lenient treatment. Peiping radio broadcast the report on internal security.
Dr Leonard J Axe, long associated with Kansas universities and state administration, named president of Pittsburg State College succeeding retiring President Hughes. Axe, previously deaf of the School of Business at Kansas University, holds multiple degrees including the LL.B from Michigan and a J.D. from Michigan, with a career spanning teaching and law. Retirement shifts Hughes to faculty. In golf news, Lt John Albers and Curtis Dalton tie for first in the President's Cup Handicap at Lawrence Country Club, with plans for an 18 hole playoff.
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