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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1961
Page
2
Lawrence notes a noon test of Eudora's triple pur obse siren near ith and Locust streets south of Highway 10. Mayor Herbert Adams called the test satisfactory so far and said it remains to assess hearing coverage. The city had no prior fire siren.
Funeral services for Mrs Geneva Miles of Atchison will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Campbell Chapel AME Church in Atchison. She died Wednesday. She was the wife of J. T. Miles who ran a Lawrence funeral home in the 1930s.
Douglas County authorities brought William George Daegele, 41, from Kansas City to face first degree kidnaping and forcible rape charges. Identified by five alleged victims, he is awaiting arraignment after extradition approved by Gov. Dalton. Bail set at arraignment. he previously failed on a $10,000 federal bail.
Jackson Mississippi claims two riders during desegregation attempts were arrested and that the Freedom RIders were inspired and directed by Communists. T B Birdsong identified Katherine Pierne a 21 year old Chicago white mimeograph operator and James Robert Wahlstrom 24 a white University of Wisconsin student as participants in a Soviet program in Cuba teaching sit-ins kneel-ins and freedom rides.
Birdsong quoted Miss Pleune saying a group of 202 went to Havana for a Castro lecture but found a nine-official Soviet seminar instead. She said Castro addressed the seminar and noted her Newark upbringing and atheism. Pleune admitted 100 to 150 arrests at demonstrations in New York, San Francisco, and Chicago.
An editor note recounts the Kibbee Cabin north of Baldwin on the Santa Fe Trail. Built after May 3 1854 opening Kansas to settlement, it hosted Rev W H Goode for Kansas first religious service, helped organize early Methodists, and spurred plans for Baldwin College. The cabin’s legacy ties to pioneer J Kibbee and Henry Barricklaw mark frontier faith and community formation.
Bechtel Alcock aged 79 a former concert and light opera tenor who performed on Broadway in The Girl in The Spotlight died Tuesday. Cyril Walker won the 1924 National Open at Oakland Hills with a 297 score nine strokes over par.
Aboard the SS Hope, a hospital ship used as a floating medical school, Vietnamese students observe surgeries while American doctors and nurses treat patients. The voyage began in San Francisco, with care in Indonesia and now South Vietnam, aiming to train locals and spread American medical aid.
KU Theater opens Three Men on a Horse at 8 tonight and Friday. Holm and Abbott adaptation set in 1934 follows a poet who bets with racketeers, skewering American farce of the late 1920s. Sidney Berger leads the cast with a full KU production team.
Memorial Hospital records list numerous births and named parents and addresses in a regional notice. The item enumerates newborns with parental lines including Mr. and Mrs., addresses in Baldwin, Eudora, Ottawa, Tonganoxie, DeSoto, and surrounding towns, noting babies born today or recently.
Esther Jones of Pittsburgh was approached by a man described as kind looking who urged her to place her many packages into one large bag. He disappeared with the bag, leaving her with two pairs of shoes a skirt and other wearing apparel she had placed inside.
In Honolulu the Gilbert Chee family endured seven months beside a half pound of dynamite left in the ground near their home. State safety engineers eventually removed the live explosive, still attached to a blasting cap and wire, from the site.
Hays superintendent Roy Binder found fame through hobbies that aid his work. Pink worms purify the plant’s trickling filter while homegrown gourd birdhouses encourage wrens to control Psychoda flies. His efforts beautify grounds, aid nearby parks, and attract requests from across the country for advice and supplies.
San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, sits beside its volcano named San Salvador. After 300 years of dormancy the volcano erupted in June 1917, destroying the city.
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