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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1949
Page
6
Deputy identified the deceased as G. B. Reed of Goodlettsville Tennessee and Ariel Lewis of Memphis. Details on circumstances were not disclosed in the fragmented report.
Society notes invite guests to a reception honoring Edith Marie Darby and Ray Evans, married February 26, to be hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Darby at the Colonial ballroom Hotel Muehlebach on April 9 at 12 30 PM. Also listed are birthday observances and a church social at 1055 Pennsylvania Street with hostesses Mrs. Lee Wise and Mrs. Ida Price.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Dean returned from a ten day eastern trip attending a Leaders club convention in Hop Springs West on. They then visited Washington D C meeting Capt. Gernard Dean, a meteorologist at Camp Monmouth N D. Alfred Lunt and Lena Fontanne were seen by Roger Allen in Kansas City. Dolph Simons dined with Lt Gen and Mrs M S Eddy at Fort Leavenworth. Dan Caseheer of Tulsa arrives to stay with Rev and Mrs Robert C Swift. Mrs W O M Casey visited Dr and Mrs Don W Holter in St Paul. The Lunts were seen by Mr and Mrs W Pollom and Karl Kreider in Kansas City. Fred Pfleger and family returned from Bakersfield Calif with multiple relatives. Albert Williams and family returned from Dearborn. W Hamilton Jr now in Dragoon Ariz recently sent to Coronado Copper and Zinc company’s After Thought mine near Redding Calif to set up lab and train staff. First Christian church visitors to Mathe convention included H G Barr, Rev H M Sippel, Rev O D Walker, Lisse Eby, Mrs Tin Mabe, U T Dunherley, Albert Williams, L O Hoover, Bernice Schmalfried, and others. Mississippi Street observed. Mrs Doe Beeler hosted a Legislative Wives luncheon at Hotel Jayhawk with many guests. John Wilcox left for Norwich Conn due to his father’s illness.
In Washington Creek Dick Diller wrecked his new Ford on Saturday but escaped with only bruises. The piece lists local visits and greetings including Finch of Topeka, Hoover family gatherings, and neighbors from Baldwin, Lawrence, McLouth, and High Prairie.
A new multi-building high school in Dania, Florida, replaces the traditional single building design. The 12 structures form a campus layout housing 1,569 students at a construction cost of 1,500,901 dollars, about 40 percent under estimates. Facilities include a football field, 15,000-volume library, auditorium, gym, cafeteria, classrooms, labs, home economics kitchens, and an industrial arts area, connected by a diagonal covered walkway. Architects Lukens and Gamble emphasize climate and glare reduction to ease eye strain, noting eye trouble among graduates is common.
Mrs. Raymond Sayre of Ackworth Iowa, president of the Associated Women of the American Farm Bureau Federation, will be flown to Frankfurt to spend about two months on an army mission. She will work with U S zone women leaders to reorganize rural women and develop democratic programs and will make recommendations to the German government on future activities. Her prior Farm Bureau work includes a 1939 overseas trip as a rural women delegate and a 1947 election as president of the Associated Country Women of the World in Amsterdam.
In Waverly Tennessee a two story Disieland hotel fire killed two occupants as one man leaped from the second floor and another died in his room from smoke and fumes. About 20 residents escaped the blaze, according to Deputy Sheriff Grady Gray.
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