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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1946
Page
5
A desolate, crowded third floor scene shows 34 000 OPA workers clinging to desks as Congress debates postwar fate. News machines hum, revealing a tense transition period with workers awaiting direction and a sense of uncertain purpose.
Leavenworth Kansas July 2 Henry J Meiners formerly on the staff of St Luke s hospital in Kansas City today took over duties as superintendent of Cushing Memorial hospital here He succeeds Mes Matilda Tapenhausen Tong lanoxie Meiners served five years lent in the army medical corps during World War II.
The Orr family of 1420 New York Street learns their son Loren E. Orr is stationed at Pearl Harbor and may travel from a staging center to return home late summer or early fall. Seaman Orr has served about a year this week. Also noted are discharges for several other sailors and plans for summer work and college after the year.
The record notes two years and four months in service with seventeen months of duty in the Pacific, detailing a wartime assignment and theater.
Five crewmen were injured when a southbound Santa Fe passenger train, the Antelope, ran off a detour track around a bridge under repair near Oklahoma City. The train, en route from Kansas City to Fort Worth, carried 140 passengers, none of whom were hurt. Engineer Fred W. Morgan and attendant Ike Hall were hospitalized but expected to recover. The three dining car attendants from Oklahoma City were bruised and shaken.
Washington grants final approval for immediate reactivation of the 35th division with 3,845 Missouri and 4,102 Kansas officers and men. A Missouri major general will command, with a Kansas brigadier general as assistant. Training to begin at Fort Leonard Wood near Kelia, Missouri in early 1947.
Fire at Valley Nub July 201 Fire destroyed the Meanesat Popcorn company factory with an estimated loss between 250000 and 300000.
Three marriage licenses were issued by the Douglas county probate judge for couples Charlie E Putnam and Marie M Rothberger both of Lawrence and Eudora, Richard Nation and Clara Grace Stevens of Gallatin, and Anderson Yocum and Myrtle R McPeak of Topeka. Two divorce actions were filed: Goldie Irene Brewer versus Everett C Brewer and Verl O Walter versus Letha Walter. Lead price rose 1 1/2 cents per pound to 9 cents at St Joseph Lead company in New York trade news.
The Journal-World notes London price at 9.9 cents per five pounds and mentions readers and sepuita in a brief classified context.
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