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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1957
Page
4
President Eisenhower announced a trimmed foreign aid request totaling 3.865 billion dollars and urged Congress to resist deep cuts. He argued a tax cut depends on sustaining aid to allies to protect world peace and national security despite pressure to shrink government spending.
The Germanic and Slavic Languages Department awards 27 KU students for German studies. Paris Follet prize goes to Marilyn R. Bell. Schlegel-Carruth scholarships go to Robert L. Bee and Kathryn Kasky. Book prizes funded by German government go to James Millikan, Raymond Peppart, and Freddie Wilson. Additional TI and Fulbright awards honor various students, with Delta Phi Alpha initiates listed.
In Kansas University design class two sophomores earn awards in the International Humane Poster Contest sponsored by the Latham Foundation. William Henry of Parkville Missouri takes $50 second prize for Feed Your Pets, while Sarah Dillaha of Topeka wins $20 fourth prize for There’s Nothing Fair in Warfare.
Kan University announces Zelda Penzel graduate student and assistant instructor in Romance languages will be direct exchange scholar to Clermont-Ferrand University in France. Dr. John H. Nelson dean of the Graduate School made the announcement. Penzel will study French language and literature at the French university.
An explosion last night damaged about five feet of the bow of the Navy experimental midget submarine X-1 off Portsmouth New Mexico. Two of the five crew were aboard and unhurt. The X-1 is a harbor penetration vessel, 50 feet long, 7 feet beam, 25 tons displacement, and 11 feet high with periscope down. Cause of blast not disclosed.
Seba and Kay Ruth Eldridge scholarship for 1957 58 goes to Floerke Kent L Floreke a Kansas City Kansas junior sociology major at Kansas University The $100 award honors an undergraduate and is presented by the Sociology and Anthropology Department to recognize achievement.
Two San Francisco area couples who swapped partners during years of PTA activity fled to Reno after divorces. Betty Jew Selwartz and Martin Brooks married in Reno, then Betty Brooks and Frank Schwartz wed again in Carson City before evading pursuit by their lawyers.
A break-in occurred at locker area 5110 with a safe or SHO missing from the site. The combination safe was broken open and entry gained through a window, with investigations noting no other damage or additional items found. Police say the incident happened over the past week.
The Guarantee Trust Co. of New York was named trustee for the 18th Street project of the Kansas Turnpike at Kansas City Kansas. Riverview State Bank of Kansas City Kansas was named co trustee. The project extends from the turnpike east end southward into Johnson County for an undisclosed distance.
A tornado struck the northwest edge of a Johnson County town killing Mr and Mrs Isham Davis and two daughters. Several others were injured and many homes and outbuildings were flattened. Surviving residents fled to cellar shelters with only the clothes on their backs. Injured were taken to hospitals in Olathe Paola and other towns.
Kansas University establishes a William J Shoemaker Sigma Delta Pi Scholarship for excellence in Spanish studies. The award honors Dr Shoemaker, resigning in June to chair the Spanish and Italian department at another university. Sigma Delta Pi notes the KU chapter was installed in January.
In Ruskin Heights Kansas City a family of three sheltered in an overstuffed chair as a tornado struck their home. The house was torn apart with debris including a refrigerator. the man received a superficial head gash but all survived with no basement.
Washington reports that Foreign Aid Administrator John B. Hollister is preparing to resign. The expected exit would diminish influence of Senator Robert A. Taft's followers in Eisenhower era policy circles. Hollister could not comment.
In Warsaw last night Vytautas Gomulka seems to have secured a complete victory over Stalinist factions within the Polish Workers Party Central Committee during a policy-making session.
Several families visited relatives across Kansas for Mother's Day. Notable attendees included Simons, Joslin, Bond, Murray, and Beem households, with trips to Overland Park, Lawrence, Lindsay, Pomona, and California. Fire training plans announced for early June by Fedora and KU Extension.
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