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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1962
Page
9
Malcolm Scott Carpenter, 37, graduates in aeronautical engineering from the University of Colorado after missing a 1949 exam. He receives the Norlin award and joins 1,821 graduates before about 10,000 attendees at Folsom Stadium.
This week's closing prices on investment company shares are provided by Barret Fitch North and Co. Quotations reflect latest market activity and are used for price reference by investors and brokers.
Derby Co reports commodities and prices including Wheat 1.96, corn 1.04, oats 0.70, barley 0.70, soybeans 2.25. Kansas City data lists eggs with various grades and weights, wholesale egg grades with percentages, poultry prices for different fowl weights, and butter grade A prices around 65-66 cents per pound.
Cattle margins mixed with steers and heifers mostly lower while calves and vealers rise. Feeders show gains up to one dollar, with prime and good to prime values listed for steers heifers and calves. Hog prices rise for barrows and gilts, sows steady, with mixed weights shown. Sheep see higher spring slaughter lambs and ewes, and spring feeder lambs at moderate levels.
G Donald Clay of Lake Lotawana near Kansas City died in Lawrenceville Illinois from injuries from a June 2 sports car track accident near Lawrenceville. He was vice president of Clay and Bailey Manufacturing Co Kansas City KU graduate Alpha Tau Omega member survived by parents George A. and Mrs. Clay of Buckner Missouri active KU affairs promoter.
San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled he cannot determine the paternity of a fourth child alleged by Alice Ryan wife of excommunicated New York priest Walter A. Ryan. The case centers on whether Ryan fathered the 5 year old girl during May 1956 with Ryan denying the claim while witnesses questioned his whereabouts. Mrs Ryan seeks 2.3 million from the church alleging coercion leading to the split.
Federal judge R E Thomason orders the Pecos Daily News and Estes Fort Stockton Implement Co to be sold at public auction. Harry Moore, receiver, will auction the Pecos paper Monday at its building and the farm equipment firm will also be offered. A Franklin grand jury subpoenas Estes as a witness in the Henry Marshall death inquiry.
Memorial Hospital lists births for Mr and Mrs William Braddle a daughter Friday and Mr and Mrs Gerald Sieren a daughter Friday and Mr and Mrs Elmer McAferty a son today. Dismissals include Mrs Eva Cassity Mrs Irma Ward Mrs Linda Horn and baby boy plus others at various addresses.
A program of informed reports on mental retardation and the goals of President Kennedy's panel will be presented at 1 30 p m Monday at Battenfield Auditorium Kansas University Medical Center Kansas City. The event targets teachers physicians social workers parents and others with special interests in the mentally retarded. There is no enrollment fee. Guest faculty include Dr Edward Davens Baltimore Md state deputy commissioner of health and member of the President's panel and Dr Clement C Vickery superintendent of the Kansas Neurological Institute in Topeka. KU School of Medicine faculty include Dr C Arden Miller dean Dr Paul C Laybourne Jr director of the division of child psychiatry Dr Charles M Poser head of the KUMC section of experimental neurology Dr Dewey K Ziegler associate clinical professor of neurology and Dr Norris G Haring associate professor of pediatrics Education.
Port Washington, N Y AP reports the engagement of 21 year old Anthony J Hope son of comedian Bob Hope to 21 year old nursing student Geraldine Gertrude Burke daughter of William and Mrs Burke of Port Washington They met at Georgetown University where Hope recently graduated He plans to attend Harvard Law School The wedding is set after her February graduation likely at St Peter of Alcantra Roman Catholic Church in Port Washington The bride's father is an investment banker.
The highway patrol reports Marjorie L. Paul age 34 of Inman Kansas was killed Friday night just before midnight in a three car collision on KGÉ near Elyria. No other details were available.
A group of 108 youngsters mostly from Lawrence will attend the National Defense Education Act Summer Institute for Elementary School Teachers of Spanish at Kansas University from June 19 to August 12 directed by Prof. Angel M. Brady. Teachers from 38 states will participate. 67 KU students will join the institute, the 14th annual program. Participants include numerous Lawrence and Kansas City students and a few Baldwin and University participants.
Rep. Robert Elsworth will deliver the address at 2 30 p m today during ceremonies dedicating the new post office in Oskaloosa The building has been occupied about a month Mrs Mayetta B Decker is postmaster.
Evangelist Billy Graham told about 45 000 at Chicago Crusade for Christ that the free world is losing the cold war. He warned of communism infiltrating every continent and urged youth to face giants with faith, leading 1 300 to make a decision for Christ.
The emergency room treated several cases Friday and this morning. Richard Tallant nine from 1401 Pa Street received stitches after head injury from a rock. Grover Johnson junior twelve from Eudora bitten on left leg by a dog and stitched. Bruce Patti twenty seven from Prairie Village checked after minor auto crash. Richard Hughes twenty seven from 627 West 25th examined and released after auto crash. Nancy Hughes twenty six from same address checked and released after mishap. Donna Patti twenty five from Prairie Village checked. Mrs Dorothea Olson from Eudora stitched on left foot after cut from broken glass. Meta Powell from Rodgers Illinois stitched on upper lip after accidental fall.
The 12th Kansas University Writers Conference runs June 26 to 29 featuring fiction writing leaders John Selby Mar nie Ellingson Holly Wilson and Peggy Greene with lectures workshops and personal manuscript consultations The highlight is Selby’s keynote lecture What It Is Really Like on June 28 in the Kansas Union Forum Room open to the public Edsel Ford will lead poetry discussions June 27 and Bob Sanford KU graduate from 1950 is noted among attendees.
Sanford, a Kansas City Star veteran who majored in zoology and studied journalism, is the Star’s art critic and a former reporter and critic. Miss Frances Grinstead, associate professor of journalism at KU, directs the conference for its 10th year and invites manuscript submissions by June 15.
Thirty two nuclear-test objectors spent the night in custody after a federal court contempt case involving the Everyman crew. Roger Moss, spokesman for the Committee for Non Violent Action, called the action extremely effective.
The largest Bay Area civil disobedience campaign drew three times its expected size. Peace pickets were carried from the U.S. Post Office Building housing federal courts after contempt convictions against Harold Stallings of Menlo Park, Evan D. Yoes Jr. of Berkeley, and Edward Lazar of New York.
Linda Faye Thiel, 20, of Kingman leads prelims in the Miss Kansas pageant as 26 contestants compete for the 1962 title. Thiel won Friday's swimsuit judging and tied for first in Thursday's talent preliminaries. Danielle Marie Goering, 18, of Moundridge won the talent division Friday night.
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