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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1959
Page
5
New York markets report higher stocks and mixed bonds with steel space recovery. Hogs and cattle rise modestly while wheat and corn post varied results in Kansas City with futures near unchanged to higher and cash cattle steady to firm.
Local grain and feed prices listed by Farmers Cooperative Assn with wheat at 1.65 and soybeans at 2.00 per bushel, poultry prices for hens and roosters, butter fat and eye grade values, plus wholesale eggs and consumer cpps. The Day in Wall Street reports a moderate late rally led by steels and auto stocks with 2.5 million shares traded and notable gains for U.S. Steel Ford and Du Pont amid mixed results.
E Arthur Kean, KU speech and drama instructor and director, reveals the first production cast for the Commedia Carnival at Kansas University Summer Theatre. Cast members include Ron Highley, Larry Sneegas, Nancy Rate, Daryl Warner, Marilyn Miller, Louis Lyda, Mike Blasingame, Sidney Berger, Margrett Kennedy, Suzanne Calvin and others.
Kay Carroll El Dorado Lynn Locke Concordia Jere Berg lund Ottawa Freda Russell 5 D Sunnyside Bill DeJarnette 252 Mound view Dr named assistant directors. A light comedy Servant of Two Masters will be presented July 9 14 and 17 in repertory with Moliere Tartuffe and Kaufman Hart Once in a Lifetime. Student ID cards admit to each event and season coupons are available at University Theatre box office and Kansas Union. Tickets go on sale one week before each performance.
Mrs. Benjamin P. Young of Ithaca New York donates a set of over four thousand bookplates and seventy three volumes on book plate art to the University of Kansas Library. The collection, praised by Robert Vosper as world spanning and rich in modern works, includes pieces by Holbein Bewick Paul Revere and designs for figures such as J P Morgan and Eugene Field.
Mrs Earl Long arrived in a Louisiana Air National Guard plane with three doctors and aides to move the governor from Galveston to New Orleans for treatment. Doctors denied a heart attack. Long said he would consent to treatment in Louisiana.
Kansas City youth Jerry Wayne Carroll received the Joseph M. Kellogg architecture scholarship for 1959 60 at Kansas University. Carroll, son of Mr and Mrs William Q Carroll, is a Central High School graduate with activities in National Honey Society varsity basketball student council Math and Engineers clubs and the Jefferson Literary Society. The Kellogg scholarship of 150 honors the emeritus KU professor who taught 34 years before retiring in 1956.
Former MLB catcher Fred Hofman is scouting work for the Baltimore Orioles, evaluating players and organizational readiness ahead of the coming season. He brings pro experience and connections from his playing days to assess potential fits for the team.
An original historical skit Our Beginning will be staged at the 75th anniversary Old Timers dinner at 6:30 p m Friday at the First Christian Church. C E Birch wrote the piece about the 1880s congregation’s formation with directors Mrs H G Barr and Miss Helen Shaw guiding.
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