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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1948
Page
7
The Fuller Brush company announced plans to employ 900 women as Fuller ettes to call on American housewives with soup and cosmetics. The program will start in Hartford area and extend to Connecticut Massachusetts and New York markets.
An intensive five day Red Cross instructor’s course in first aid offered by the University Extension physical education department. Two hours of undergraduate physical education credit possible. a 10 fee applies for credit, otherwise no charge. Instructors Carl Owen and Donald Odbert. Odbert previously taught a Red Cross water safety course at KU. Classes run morning and afternoon each day.
A rural fire study cites farmers bearing a large share of nearly 700 million dollars in U S farm losses in 1847 with regional rates per thousand insured varying across the Midwest and New England. The report urges prevention and fire protection programs while noting higher costs where protections are absent. In other items, Eudora man Charles S Fuchs received a 30 day county jail sentence after a county court assault case. An classified ad offers a full week of advertisement for 1.90 dollars.
Washington July 7 1949 miners rush court action to halt strike threats in steel industry coal mines. Steel producers curtail operations over fuel shortages as United Mine Workers challenge union shop and NLRA election claims. NLRB attorneys investigate alleged unfair labor practices and interviews unfold as federal courts may impose a strike ban pending complaints.
In Wiesbaden a U S Army soldier confessed to setting a blaze at a Communist headquarters. A second soldier may be implicated and two uniformed Americans were among five involved in the incident. The fire caused little damage and the confessing man, treated for burns, has not yet been named.
The University of Kansas chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma has selected five new members from the senior class. The named honorees are Carl Francis Charles Danes, Roe Edward Clark of Lawrence, Jack H. Matthews of Fredonia, Eugene Wy Schooler of Osborne, and Corlis Robinson Jr. of St. Joseph Missouri.
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