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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1956
Page
1
Lawrence records a new all time low rainfall streak of 13 straight months with subnormal rainfall. Recent showers added .41 inch over three days, while temperatures ranged from 101 degrees to near 70. June total rain measured 2.72 inches by official report, highlighting an unusual weather spell.
The weather service issued a tornado and severe thunderstorm warning from 1 30 to 5 p m along a band 60 miles wide from Wichita to Kansas City with Lawrence near the center. June rainfall totals show 4.85 inches citywide and 4.12 in other parts, below normal, while yearly moisture remains low. June temperatures averaged 77 75 degrees, four degrees above normal, with a high of 99 and a low of 46, illustrating unusual single month temperature swings.
Douglas County wheat farmers paused in the fields after Sunday night and Monday rain while elevators stayed busy processing grain cut earlier. Most expect finishing in a couple of good days, with the crop likely to top the 1955 record of about 35 bushels per acre. The wheat has averaged 60 pounds moisture and remains low in moisture content, and oats cutting will continue next week.
Federal mediation chief Joseph Finnegan resumed efforts to restart nationwide steel contract talks amid a 90 percent production halt from the United Steelworkers strike. He spoke by phone with USW president David J. McDonald and US Steel negotiator John A. Stephens and planned separate discussions with both sides to gauge possible resumption before Independence Day.
In Queens New York an atomic research facility operated by Sylvania Led Products Co suffered two blasts within seconds injuring nine people. The Atomic Energy Commission said there is no radiation hazard outside the building and the plant area was evacuated as fire units and police responded. Authorities noted the explosion was not nuclear in nature and investigators focused on the facility's metallurgy laboratory on the Bayside plant site.
Delegates depart San Francisco after a tense NAACP convention, amid calls for stronger action and speedier progress toward full civil rights. Leaders and speakers, including Anthers and Lies Baster, are cited as prompting renewed determination in the ongoing fight for equality.
Marilyn Atonroe and Arthur Miller repeated their marriage vows in a religious ceremony yesterday. The couple planned a quiet civil ceremony Friday night with Judge Seymour Robine presiding.
Soviet Communist Central Committee issued a six thousand word statement claiming Stalin’s popular backing kept leaders from rising against him and that fear of capitalist encirclement and postwar crimes being revealed after his death prevented ousting him. The document, published in Pravda and broadcast by Moscow radio, responds to Western critics of anti Stalin moves and questions the Kremlin’s role during Stalin’s regime.
Helicopters recovered 128 dead from two airliners that collided in midair above the Grand Canyon. Investigators from CAA and CAB joined crews on rugged buttes as wreckage from Trans World Airlines Constellation and United DC-7 was examined. Authorities traced flight changes as daylight faded and the crash site remained perilous.
A trio of airliner crashes, United and Trans World Airlines, leaves hundreds of families in shock. Among the 23 Kansas City area passengers on a TWA flight was a family of four, and a man returning home for the birth of his second child. A telegram to a newspaper described the tragic moment as crews spoke of departure.
In a northern Italian village a crowd including the mayor councilmen and a priest gathered for a ceremony to hand over a government built farmhouse to a private owner. A bull charged the officials trapping them for about an hour until rescuers shot the animal.
Springfield police report a 13 year old boy admitted stabbing Carol Elaine Drennon 14. He named a cousin as the killer and led officers to the knife used for the 30 stab wounds found under the victim’s house. Foster brother 13 was questioned and released after alibi checks. Witnesses saw a boy chase and strike the girl.
A fragmented ad style note reports the New York stock market closing average for 60 stocks at 142.2 with dawn data. It mentions a summer vacation promotion urging readers to read the Daily World each day and provides a phone number VI 3-1000 for Adly.
The Lawrence horse show opens Sunday night with interruptions from heavy rain and thunder. An estimated crowd near 2,500 attended the opener despite showers, with final show and best of show stakes planned for Tuesday. Entry totals may reach 440, with two events counting toward overall standings.
BERLIN reports the Polish Army sealed the German border to intercept rebels and fleeing workers from a three day revolt in Poznan. Red Polish troops reinforced frontier garrisons with tanks patrolling the Oder River as Western sources estimate deaths from 200 to 1,000, with thousands arrested or removed from trains and highways amid a massive purge in Poznan.
Shocking double wreck in Grand Can cat claims 128 lives including the couple’s only child and several relatives. Local witnesses recall the tragic scene and two families within Prairie Village. Mrs Epley and husband mourn their daughter, while friends remember the closeness of the extended families. Funeral details are pending as authorities investigate the Trans World Airways crash and its victims.
Five day outlook shows above normal temperatures across Nebraska and western Kansas with upper sixties to near eighty in the north and mid to upper nineties in the south Oklahoma and eastern Kansas. Precipitation expected as scattered showers with isolated thundershowers mainly in western areas and possible heavier totals in Nebraska and northern Kansas. Tornado watch in effect for eastern Kansas with partly cloudy conditions elsewhere and a few afternoon showers possible.
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