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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1955
Page
2
Salina attorney John A. Crowther was appointed workmen's compensation examiner for northwestern and north central Kansas. Albert M Ross announced the appointment authorized by the 1955 Legislature. Crowther, 36, becomes the state's fifth examiner with headquarters at Salina.
Market snapshot shows higher overall prices with steels and motors in demand. Cattle and hogs mixed. calves and light weights varied. Wheat and corn uneven with small gains erased. oats mixed with July firm. Nearby futures quoted with modest gains and commodities like soybeans and barley present.
In a tight bill battle, the Senate approved its version of a national reserve plan by 80 to 1, aiming for a 2.9 million training reserve in four years. Differences with the House remain, and a Senate-House conference will shape final form. Defense Secretary Wilson warned that without a satisfactory bill, regular armed forces may need growth. Both chambers authorize teenage volunteers for brief active training and subsequent reserve service. The Senate allows ages 17 to 20, while the House caps at 19 unless high school completion is shown.
Hospital Money sent the board’s budget to the commissioners amid talk of potential cuts or elimination. Burcham urged harmony and promised a solution satisfactory to both sides, while Boreham expressed shock at the action and wished prior notice had been given. The hospital treasurer warned next year’s costs rise in a building year, and the proposed 1956 budget would be the largest in Lawrence history at 926,654 with 25,000 set aside and 834 from the hospital budget, on a current mill levy of 19.63.
Dr. Jack E. Randle, a 1950 Kansas University medical graduate, arrives with his family to start a practice in Bucklin Kansas as the town opens a new hospital district facility. He will work with his sister as office nurse and seeks surgical cooperation with Dodge City physicians. He served as Navy medical corpsman and interned at Portsmouth VA Hospital delivering 200 babies. His wife, a former Culpepper Virginia teacher, and their two children Diane and Clarke accompany him.
A humorous writtendoodle describes a large family portrait taken at a reunion. Most relatives appear, except the disowned uncle linked to a crooked roulette job, while remarks note upcoming parenthood for Papa and Mama 2 and a lone cousin who calls himself an oddball.
Bids on three paving projects and two bridge jobs on the Kansas Turnpike exceeded engineer estimates at opening but stayed within a 10 percent average. The Turnpike Authority aims to have over half of paving under contract by month end, likely ensuring completion by September 1, 1956 and opening in October. Constant Construction Co. of Lawrence bid low on both bridges, offering $94,270 for an interchange bridge south of Topeka and $824,275 for a Shawnee County three-span bridge. engineer estimates were $88,956 and $815,444.
Wayne Bly announces adult and junior life saving courses start Monday at 7 p.m. at the Jayhawk Plunge. Red Cross certified instructors include Mrs. Joan Book Mrs. Orva Dodson Lee Colman and George Denny. Cost is pool admission. Golf honesty tale ends with missing gear after a Lawrence Country Club round. Jane Radcliff KU student named Douglas County Cowboys Capital Queen contestant duties for July event in Dodge City with prize wardrobe luggage and Hollywood trip.
The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announces a Kansas appointment and redistricting into three areas. Willard L. Obley of Moundridge becomes state representative coordinating services for 39 chapters in western Kansas. Gene Moneycutt remains as central Kansas representative.
Marion Massachusetts reports William C. Taylor aged 84 longtime editor and publisher of the Boston Globe for 34 years died at his home He held roles with the Associated Press North American Newspaper Alliance Associated Newspapers and the Bell Syndicate among others The notice references aJournal-World ad about a summer vacation reading choice.
Recent rains filled ponds in Douglas County but farmers still haul water for household use as deep wells remain low. County agent Deal Six notes better overall water but says many wells unchanged. County engineer Joe Rice cites 11 of 13 wells in operation with ample water and reduced hauling. Pumping data show 132700 gallons hauled June 13 to July 12, down from 153000 the prior year. Citizens report varied conditions with some ponds full and others lacking stock water, while several plan new ponds.
Senate Internal Security subcommittee chairman Eastland says latest hearings may reveal current Communist activity after naming over twenty individuals in the late 1930s. He notes broad cooperation from newspapers and hopes evidence points to present activity. no immediate plans for more witnesses.
The mutilated body of a middle aged actress and makeup artist was found in a Manhattan hotel room. A man’s leather belt was around her neck and police reported evidence of rape. The victim, Adlyn Woodington, aged about 50 to 55, had performed in 45 states and worked as an artist and makeup stylist. Burglary was ruled out as a motive. A Lincoln Nebraska clipping from 1954 was found in the room.
The Baldwin City Council tentatively approves a next year budget of 180,405.90 dollars with a public hearing planned in August for protests. A levy of 18.72 mills would be needed, up from 15.88. The rise reflects 1,200 dollars for recreation, a full time city marshal after January 1, 1956, and raises for street, park and fire departments. The recreation program plans to hire a director and may terminate if the program ends.
A three judge Federal Court in Columbia South Carolina ordered the Summerton School District Trustees to proceed with all deliberate speed to operate on a racially non segregated basis. Trustees were enjoined from denying admission to any child on account of race pending necessary arrangements to end segregation. Some comets have been detected heading into but space never to return.
Hollywood reports Suzan Ball remains hospitalized as oxygen aids her breathing while doctors seek a full cancer diagnosis. Husband actor Richard Long stays by her side. Ball previously underwent leg amputation.
Dr. David Simonett a Sydney native has been appointed assistant professor of geography at Kansas University for the 1955 56 school year effective Sept 1 He currently lectures at Nottingham University England He will teach physical geography soils geography and geography in Australia He is a Sydney University graduate with degrees 1946 1949 and 1954 He was Fulbright visiting professor at Maryland University 1952 54 and has published on land use and soils geography
Memorial Hospital reports births and acknowledgments for many local families. Names include Harriett Blake Sunnyside Bessie Durham Baldwin Robert McManus 1116 Tenn St Almeda Simmons 415 Miss St and others with addresses in McLouth Route 2 624 Lincoln St 1517 multiple streets. Recent entries note babies born today among Blaylock Woodhead Wray Hamm Peck and others.
Frank Santana, 17, received 25 years to life in Bronx County Court for the April 30 killing of 15-year-old Williard Blankenship Jr. on a Bronx street. Judge William Lyman labeled the act wanton murder in delivering sentence.
The Office of Naval Research resident representative will relocate to the Kansas University campus around Aug. 15. M. Reuel Lipman, ONR resident rep, will head Navy research projects in Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado from Malott Hall. Lipman, a Rutgers graduate, will live at 2216 Ohio Street with his wife and nine month old daughter.
Beech Aircraft Corp of Wichita will open a Boulder Colorado engineering facility this month. The new unit extends the Wichita division and will handle two initial classified assignments as workload grows. The Boulder site will host more tasks as staff expands, aided by proximity to the National Bureau of Standards lab used in development work.
Hiroshi Akiyama, in Bungei Shunju, alleges 1500 to 2000 deaths at a germ warfare center 25 miles south of Harbin Manchuria. He says human guinea pigs were injected daily and burned when they died, while officers tested germ filled bombs. He cites August 1945 orders to destroy the center and claims victims included Chinese Manchurians Koreans Japanese Russians and others.
KS City grain report lists 725 wheat cars with mixed moves. No 2 hard and dark hard 2.13 to 2.23 and No 3 2.12 to 2.20, No 2 red 2.05 to 2.07, No 3 2.06. Corn shows 15 cars with slight changes. No 2 white 1.76 to 1.84, No 3 1.71 to 1.83, yellow and mixed 1.60 to 1.4?
The New York stock market posted broad gains with most major divisions advancing. Some gains reached around points, while the bulk of the rise centered near 2 points. Losses were fractional and scattered as about 2,100,000 shares traded, above yesterday's 1,980,000. Strong earnings aided steels and motor, railroad, oil, copper, rubber, merchandising, chemical, aircraft, airline, movie, and tobacco stocks.
Eighteen Nobel prize winning scientists from Germany appealed for all nations to renounce war in the atomic age. They warned that a nuclear conflict could contaminate the earth with radioactivity and destroy whole populations.
The Journal American reports Howard Hughes has sold control of RKO Pictures to Thomas J. O'Neil president of the Mutual network.
Farmers still haul some wheat into Douglas County elevators while most growers finish cutting in Wellsville Eudora and Baldwin report only scattered loads. Lawrence, Derby and Jefferson County farms send in small yields as rains flood fields and then dry. Elevators at Underwood and Sons and Bowersock Mill handle about six to eight loads daily as farmers move grain from cribs to elevators.
Bruce Bird of Kansas City will receive the first 500 Alfred M Meyers scholarship for 1955 56 at Kansas University. Bird will be a freshman majoring in civil engineering. The award is annual for a freshman civil engineering student and may renew for up to five years. It aims to interest more people in engineering and the structural steel industry. Summer plant work will be offered to recipients. Meyers was KU engineering alumnus and chief engineer for the Kansas City Structural Steel Co. He was recently named an honorary member of Sigma Tau. Bird graduated from Turner High School with science and mathematics.
James Patrick Simonton, 52, of Overland Park, a civilian worker for Kansas City Electrical Construction, Inc., was electrocuted while installing an electric transformer at the Olathe Naval Air Station in Olathe Kansas.
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