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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1955
Page
9
Government says tribesmen in the upper Aulaqi state are in rebellion. A communique reports three government guards killed and another seriously wounded in an attack on a government post near Madrid yesterday.
Mrs Emma Berg, county superintendent, released the list of 230 rural Douglas County graduates for May. The cohort includes 85 high school seniors and 145 eighth graders, with promotion and graduation events across Lecompton Vineland Eudora Baldwin and Holy Family School districts from May 18 to May 29.
President Eisenhower named Louis S. Rothschild of Kansas City Missouri to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics succeeding Oswald Ryan. Rothschild, undersecretary of commerce for transportation, will hold the post while serving as one of the Commerce Department representatives on the advisory panel.
The article describes an all electric home with push button garage doors, a wall mounted wall refrigerator and oven, and a GE mix‑and‑match color kitchen. It highlights a heat and cooling package by Weathertron controlled by a living room thermostat, and a Tata lighting plan from Nela Park featuring fluorescent valances, adjustable piano spotlight, and bubble adapter lights in the basement recreation room.
A 29 year old Michigan trucker Arthur J. Tuckey of Detroit burned to death when his auto transport collided with a stock truck on U S Highway 41 north of Wichita. Oliver B. Temple 54 of Marysville drove the stock truck. Capt. Glen Kemp of the Sedgwick County sheriff patrol reported the fatal crash occurred early today and identified the victim from a billfold.
A traffic survey will assess a two mile Kansas City Missouri Kansas viaduct linking the two cities and the turnpike. The Kansas Turnpike Authority Kansas Highway Commission and Missouri Highway Commission will finance most of the 45000 cost. Survey starts June 1 and lasts about 60 days.
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