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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1935
Page
7
Rising silver costs are cited as a factor pushing up durable goods prices. The article notes the trend may waver with temporary recessions, but over months the general trajectory is upward, with tires among affected basic commodities.
Farmers nationwide embrace pneumatic tires for tractors boosting fuel savings up to 30 percent and 25 percent more work per hour. Goodyear Farm Implement tires reduce vibration and dust, lessen grounding damage, and enable highway use. Carter of Carter Service Station cites improved comfort and wider application of tractors beyond fields.
The new Nash 400 introduces a serving door hidden under the radiator ornament for easy access to water and oil filler caps. A dash mounted oil gauge eliminates the need for attendants to lift the car for servicing.
H. J. Klingler, president of Pontiac, says the 1935 sixes and eights already exceed the entire 1934 output. Through May 15 the 1935 model count reached 80,925, versus 76,533 for 1934. Factory output stayed high in May with 10,367 cars in eleven days and three 1,000+ day spells. May deliveries rise, with four months showing more Pontiac sales than any four months in the prior three years.
British sportsman Sir Malcolm Campbell announced plans to attempt another world automobile speed record in Salt Lake City in July after lifting the mark to 276.816 mph at Daytona Beach on March 7. He will depart for Utah in July for the record attempt and has contributed writings on educational theory.
Dr George Counts of Columbia University will lecture on Democracy in Crisis Thursday at 8 p m in the First Methodist Church Topeka under the Topeka Community Forum auspices. His Baldwin home is noted as the place he is from and he is delivering the commencement.
The University of Kansas plans a lecture course for next year. Raymond Nichols, executive chairman of Chancellor Lindley, notes several men under consideration. Names include Admiral Richard Byrd, William Beebe, Will Durant, J B Priestly, and Alexander Woollcott.
Kansas veterans of foreign wars members at Pratt elected Max Hoffman of Pretty Prairie as department commander at their annual convention. Officers named include H N Hensley Topeka senior vice commander Frank Stegre Eureka junior vice commander E E Jenkins Topeka quartermaster O W Helsel Wichita judge advocate C W Ricketts Parsons chaplain Dr M C Cocky Salina surgeon O J Palmer Topeka and William Francis Pratt as council members.
The Westminster 2 cappella choir held its final rehearsal of the year at Valleyview, the Swarthout home, with a post rehearsal social hour. Dean Swarthout improvised motives on the piano as the choir named the numbers and composers. Elizabeth Brown won first prize among the women and J. T. Craig among the men. Dale Vliet, a former member now at Juilliard, sang several numbers to warm appreciation. Refreshments of ice cream and strawberries followed.
A Sunday morning program at the First Presbyterian Church features the choir in its final appearance of the season. They plan a dramatic anthem By Baby lon's Wave by Gounod and Cruci fixus in eight parts. Mary Louise Beltz will sing Why Praise the Sun from Ha Rowe Shelly. The choir will disband for the summer and resume later.
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