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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1940
Page
5
Oil showings at the S McLeod farm near McLouth lead drillers to plan acidizing Monday after muddy slow production. Casing must be sunk to shut out water and cave-ins, then bailed and cemented before treatment. Locals and speculators gather in Leavenworth as Easton’s well nears 1350 feet with production expected within 50 feet.
Hollywood reports Twentieth Century Fox seeks an actor to play Adolf Hitler in I Married A Nazi. Jack Cooper declined to test, calling it a caricature possible. Others also refused, amid the discussion of the demanding speaking part.
Viola Welcher, a senior, earned admission to Kansas City General Hospital nurses training starting September. Speech department won two State Activities Association certificates for March festival honors. Maynard Fox and student teachers received a one act play certificate, while Jeanne Marie Garrison earned first division in reading. Winnie D. Lawrance attended the national League of Women Voters convention in New York as Kan sas delegate. Hi-Home Night set for May 14 in Union. Sophomore picnic to Tonganoxie state lake featured games and campfire storytelling. J Marc Jantzen to join College of the Pacific as assistant instructor and summer school director, Stockton, Cal. Fox and Richard McCann shared second and third prizes in the Carruth poetry contest for “Kansas Corn” with no first prize awarded. Woodard, now in Kansas City, to marry, leaving Barstow School post. Peggy McCarty to fill her Oread history role. Farley, visiting Lawrence, teaches in Hutchinson high, observing classes at Oread.
Oread students attended the May term opening at the courthouse with naturalization proceedings under Judge Hugh R. Means. The problems of American democracy class used a federal sound film on conservation and viewed The River and The Plow That Broke the Plain. Russell Mosser of the University Bureau of Visual Instruction leads the class, supplying material. The 1940 Dread Laureates poetry book will be given out at Hi-Home Night on May 14. Charles Ashley, formerly at Oread, visited Miss Lawrance in New York City. Seniors who ordered class pins received them, and senior pictures were selected for the annual.
Excelsior reports winter visitors return to Jewell county and several local visits. Ralph Jefferies of Osage City stopped by the L W Haas home, while Bertha Neubreggie and son Milton joined Haas family for the evening. Two graduates named Mary Kring and Clifford Flora. Lizzie Saueressig and sons visited from Lebo. other locals attended a supper and a movie in Ottawa. Donald Gibson graduates Minneola school. A hunting accident left Harry Strong with the tip of a finger severed. Various residents attended junior plays in Baldwin and visits with neighbors are noted, including trips to Topeka and Wamego.
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