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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1947
Page
3
E L Nevotny will be the program head as a new school at Lawrence namp College begins June 2. Adc.
One hundred eighty one Liberty Memorial high school students were regularly employed beside attending school. The survey by chairman Mra Len Chewning aims to guide after school activities and outside study, comparing with war years. It found 206 employed occasionally and 41 not employed at all.
A gasoline fueled fire at the Pan Massachusetts tanker near the Pan American Refinery dock burned for four hours, injuring 47 seamen and critically burning two tug crew members. Texas City volunteers, despite heavy losses from a prior explosion, extinguished the fire as crews jumped overboard and were treated for minor burns. The vessel carried 150000 gallons of 79 octane gasoline.
Lawrence junior high hosts Tinugian county rural eighth graders for a full visitors day featuring student programs. A morning registration and welcome program precede classroom visits, lunch, and afternoon activities including a lead from the Leaders club demonstrations.
Robert Seatt Raymond Jr earned a Kansas University B S in 1942 and was accepted as a graduate student at the London School of Economics for the fall term. He lived in Kansas City Missouri and ran a furniture route before volunteering for the American Ambulance corps in France in 1940. He then joined the RAF pilot training and later served in bomber operations under RAF insignia. His wife is Betty Jo Raymond, daughter of F X N Raymond.
Saturday licenses issued by Probate Judge Frank R. Gray list James F. Ruby and Mary Schubert of Bonner Springs as a couple, and John P. Richards with Margaret E. Raybern of Eudora, among others, with notes on naval aviation selection and school immunization plans at Janier High.
Coast Guard officials credited recently installed watertight bulkheads with preventing a loss when the Golden Eagle rammed an island near Grand Tower Illinois on the Mississippi River yesterday. The sternwheeler carried 44 passengers who reached shore safely by long plank after crew instructions. Capt E Nathan Smith said the river craft went out of service and hopes for salvage faded.
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