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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1965
Page
9
The National Safety Council reports Memorial Day holidays end with rising traffic deaths. Through seven crashes in five states, 34 lives were lost, California accounting for 16. Totals reached 380 by noon CST, with forecasts to exceed last year’s 431 Memorial Day deaths.
Police tentatively identify Virgil Lewis Turley 29 of Kansas City as the man arrested at a Joplin bus terminal. He faces charges of entic ing away a child for the April 20 abduction of 4 year old Sherry June Lipe. Turley escaped a Jackson County courthouse on the sixth floor last Thursday and tried to flee at the terminal before a shot was fired into the air.
The store opens at 7 a.m. and stays open until 11 p.m. If you forgot something, drop by before closing time.
Vivian Juanita Malone, 22, receives the first graduation diploma ever awarded to a Black student at the University of Alabama, amid growing acceleration of integration. Wilma Mae Barnes earns recognition for medical technology studies at University Hospital as 57 Black students attend the university system.
NASA moved to fix a water leak in the Gemini 4 spacecraft after discovery Sunday. The leak threatened the 62 orbit 97 hour mission for McDivitt and White, with a life support package replacement and contingency radio communications planned if repairs delay the launch.
John Lanham age 66 of Baldwin Kansas was found dead in the rear seat of his parked car Sunday An autopsy cited a skull base fracture as the cause police noted he had been dead several hours and the investigation continued Detective Al Ferguson said a fall could have caused the injury.
Adv. details for funeral services listed by Rumsey Funeral Home in the Virgin Islands, including contact line VI 33 6111 and private arrangement options.
U S air force and Marine jets attacked Communist positions in Quang Ngai Province amid three days of battle that left an estimated 500 South Vietnamese troops killed wounded or missing. Reports also said two U S Army men were killed and one airman wounded, with 155 other government casualties. The Viet Cong overran and then retreated from the Khe Tri outpost near the North Vietnamese border as weather hampered air operations and reinforcements.
Early Sunday two suspects from Kansas City Missouri were arrested on U S 24 40 in Leavenworth County after admitting breaking into Briman's Jewelry at 743 Mass Street Saturday night. They recovered 23 rings valued at 6000 hidden under a front seat in the suspects station wagon. George Norton Jr 36 is named among them with a juvenile unnamed. both face grand larceny and burglary charges.
The New York World's Fair attracted 265 568 attendees on Sunday, the largest single day crowd in its history, though overall attendance has declined since the second season began last month.
A Humboldt woman, Mrs Gene G Taylor 50, was admitted to Lawrence Memorial Hospital with a dislocated ankle and lacerated shin after a two car collision Sunday evening three miles south of Lawrence on U S 59. The other driver James H Larson 18, Route 3, waited to turn left and was struck from behind. Damages were listed at 250 to the Larson car and 350 to the Taylor vehicle. Weather and traffic notes followed with thunderstorm potential and breezy south winds for Memorial Day weekend.
Five Mount Oread housemothers at KU will retire in June after 7% to 19 years of service. They include Mrs. W. S. Shaw of Douthart Hall and four others from Delta Tau Delta, Stephenson Hall, Sigma Nu, and Tau Kappa Epsilon. They supervise 40 to 70 students yearly, plan meals, counsel residents, and host events while operating on tight budgets. Mrs. Shaw, honored with a “This is Your Life” party, helped found Douthart Scholarship Hall in 1954 and remains noted for top grades among residents and for panty raid prevention bats.
An old newspaper item notes that five Raney Drug Stores offer a freepublication promotion on page 5. The readable text lists Raney Drug Stores as participants in the event.
Sen Thomas J Dodd spoke at Rockhurst College saying U S soldiers in Viet Nam face clear stakes as China seeks to dominate world communism by driving the United States from the region He noted Asian allies understand communism and dismissed claims the U S should not aid South Viet Nam after his Far East tour
Singer Judy Garland left Cincinnati after a stoppage where about 1,000 fans besieged her dressing room following a concert halt due to illness. A promoter spokesman expected California as her next destination but offered no specifics. Garland apologized and promised to return to sing again.
About $2310 in checks and cash was stolen from the Journal-World when burglars broke a window in the press room and pried open a fire proof vault. The robbers also opened four vending machines, taking a small amount of money. The loss is covered by insurance and no offices were ransacked. Journal-World editor Dolph Simons reported the burglary just before noon. Sheriff Rex Johnson and deputies led the investigation.
Former Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, 70, is progressing satisfactorily after surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center to repair an abdominal aortic aneurysm performed May 19. A hospital spokesman said the operation went well and he is under care.
The forecast shows warm humid conditions in northeast Kansas with partly cloudy skies and scattered afternoon or nighttime thunderstorms over 30 percent of the area today and again Tuesday. Southerly winds peak 20 to 30 mph with high temperatures in the upper 80s and 90s. Sunrise 4:56 p.m. sunset 7:31 p.m. The date records note a 1952 high of 93 and a 1964 low.
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