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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1955
Page
9
A dense list of local ads offers dressmaking, furniture upholstery, TV and cabinet work, hay and farm equipment, livestock, used cars, groceries, and real estate. Listings include phone numbers and prices for services, sales, and rentals across Eudora and surrounding areas.
The Tom Pappas Chefs Club in Charlestown, part of the Boys Clubs of Boston, trains 81 boys aged 6 to 16 in cooking. Classes run two hours, with 15 to 16 youngsters per session, and a Friday or Wednesday dinner for invited guests that often includes local dignitaries. The program aims to keep youths engaged, teach wholesome skills, and steer them away from delinquency as meals are prepared from early dismissal to the 6 p.m. service.
Former Representative Ernest Bramblett, a California Republican, was fined 5000 dollars and put on one year of probation after being convicted of padding his congressional payroll. He claimed innocence and plans to appeal as Judge Walter M. Bastian sentenced him to four months to one year but suspended the term. Bramblett, 54, had falsely listed Margaret Swanson of Arlington, Virginia, as a clerk on the House payroll starting September 1, 1949, at a 4700 dollar annual base pay.
Dr. O Wesley Davidson of Rutgers College of Agriculture says orchids have moved from luxury to main business in New Jersey. Prewar, the state produced over half the nation’s orchids. now it commands about 33 percent as competition from California and New York grows. Davidson leads orchid research added in 1945 among flowers like roses, carnations and gladioli.
Still around London Kentucky, Sheriff Harve Steele recovered a moonshine still that vanished 37 years earlier. He first sighted the device during his 1918 term and left it to catch moonshiners, then returned to find it gone. Deputies later brought in a similar or same still, reigniting memories of the old chase.
The United States opens about 66,551 cans each minute on average. This high rate highlights widespread can consumption and daily household activity across the country.
Philadelphia story about Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. proud of his long name. His son Hubert Jr. spoke the nine syllables. Sr. notes his legal name is Wolfeschlegsteinhausenbergderoff and wants it spelled fully on records. The city uses abbreviated forms for voting registration.
Mr and Mrs Raymond Kurtz of Eudora spent Sunday afternoon with Mr and Mrs Alfred Torneden and Mr and Mrs Howard Cox announce the birth of a daughter. Various weekend and Sunday visits noted among local families including Torneden, Greenwell, Reetz and Seele households with relatives in Omaha Lawrence Baldwin and Kansas City.
A compact clue list and grid fill for a mixed theme crossword with edible fish, op eras, and assorted terms. Includes entries for mind region tears and a range of across and down hints from 1 to 26 with various word lengths and positions.
A scrambled list of crossword style clues mixes numbers and garbled terms such as Descendant Feminine appellatan Core Perfume and Lichtweigh paper. The item asks to resolve by matching definitions and letters to form coherent answers.
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