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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1949
Page
2
Stocks narrow with leaders seesawing and roads quiet as cotton shows irregular buying and short covering. Wheat and corn show profit taking. oats steady. Local wheat at 1.95 and corn at 1.00 per bushel. eggs pullet 30 cents. heavy hens 13. butterfat around 5s. hogs 15.25.
Lawrence notes a near capacity crowd possible at Haskell Stadium for tomorrow's final football game of the season. The 25 cent tickets apply to younger students. high schoolers without activity tickets and adults without season passes pay 75 cents. Restaurants plan holiday sales.
Kansans enjoyed a dry mild 1949 aside from last winter sleet. The city faces slow checkout lines at self service markets and questions about gar bag e collection delays. Burl Ives performed for the University of Kansas, while plans for a holiday schedule disruption at the business office are noted with half time football scores to follow.
The Douglas county jail plans a Thanksgiving meal for 18 inmates featuring baked chicken and dressing mashed potatoes and giblet gravy green jelly cranberry jelly coffee and pumpkin pie. A shamrock in the Journal-World window was raised by Mrs Ernest Pontius from a plant gifted by Mrs S A Wood, with the oxalis bulb arriving from Ireland. The plant dies down in midsummer and should be dug up and reset by mid September after resting.
Rev. J. C. Wynn of El Dorado Presbyterian Church resigns to become associate director of adult education for the national Presbyterian church in Philadelphia. The change takes effect January 1. Wynn arrived in El Dorado in 1947 from Evanston Illinois where he had served as associate pastor. No successor has been named.
Topeka reports eight retail liquor license applications approved by state director Arthur A. Herrick. The count brings Kansas total to 722 licenses, with Wichita adding two for 132 and Topeka reaching its 51st retail license. St. Louis in 1872 is cited as an early example in city liquor policy.
The Thanksgiving service at the First Church of Christ Scientist will be held on Thursday November 24 at 11 00 AM. The service subject is Thanksgiving.
A turkey boom this year yields the second largest harvest on record. A home recipe for Savory Oyster Stuffing includes butter, onion, celery, tabasco, bread crumbs, parsley, salt, and poultry seasoning. Oysters are folded in for a seafood lift, yielding about 10 cups of stuffing suitable for a 12 pound turkey.
Tokyo police arrested the burglar who looted CP Kazuro Fujii's home while he slept. The thief, Yoshikane Nakamoto, admitted he did not fix the alarm so he could steal undetected.
Memorial Hospital records list residents and their addresses including Mrs Margaret Warner at 2215 New Hampshire street Mrs Alma Brokmann 1345 New Jersey street Lyla Colburn 716 Elm street J Beltz Twelfth and Summitt street Mrs Coleen Swartz Baldwin Harold Grindell 1002 West Sixth street Patricia Ann Beal 1700 Mississippi street Mrs Patricia Clothier Sunnyside Mrs Ida Miller 715 New York street
Oklahoma City police observe a bootlegger with a blanket covering a passenger who turns out to be his partner carrying two pints of illegal liquor. Bobby Joe Redwine posts a 40 bond for liquor possession under dry Oklahoma law and is released. the partner is not charged.
The article notes that about 400 million acres of commercial forest land in the United States are privately owned. It discusses ownership patterns and implications for forestry management and policy.
The Gleaner club of St Luke A M E church invites participation in the Mother Sutles dinner on November 23 at 6 PM. Tickets priced at 65 cents. Advance sales encouraged.
The fragment lists residents and addresses including Mrs Eva Boehle with baby on Ohio street 2128 Mrs Inez Parker Route 1 Mrs Hazel Standley with baby Richland Robert Youman Kansas City Mrs Kathaleen Funk Route 2 Mrs Esther Worley with baby 1308 Prospect street Miss Anne Ward 1638 Rhode Island street Mrs Gloria Canfield 1134 Ohio street Robert Blake Sunflower Mrs Minnie Pentlin with baby McLouth.
Mrs Dora L Canavan aged 88 died at her Perry area home after a short illness. She was widow of William E Canavan and lived in Lawrence as a Needlecraft club member before moving to Perry to live with son Carl R Canavan. Survived by son John W Canavan and daughters Nellie P Johnson and Lila M Canavan. Funeral Friday at 2 30 pm Rumsey funeral home Rev Edwin F Price in charge. Burial Oak Hill cemetery.
A district court jury awarded Joseph J. Swobda $299.25 from Starr Glenn in a contract dispute, confirming the plaintiff’s damages in the civil case decided yesterday.
A marriage license was issued by the probate court to Cecil M. Knox 36 and Eva Lillian Boline 27 both of Topeka official records show the couple filed for nuptials in the county court system.
Edge Extras at 7 to 43.5 cents, standards 42 to 44.5, receipts up to $4 per hundred pounds. Butter Grade A 68.5 in cartons, butterfat 42. Poultry prices list hens, roasters, broilers, turkeys, ducks, geese, pigeons, and squabs with varied weights and per unit figures.
Cattle 2,500 head with calves 300. fed steers and heifers active and mostly steady to 30 higher. cows in limited supply but slow to steady. bulls unchanged. Stockers scarce. feeders scarce. best prices around 23 000 to 27 30 per hundred weight. Sows steady at 214. lambs strong. native lambs good to choice with prices near 24 40. slaughter ewe prices around 10.
Wheat and corn prices move with mixed directions across cars and futures. No. 2 hard wheat for sale around 2.19 to 2.21, No. 3 yellow corn near 1.82 to 1.87, oats and rye showing modest shifts. futures show early open and closing spreads with March and May contracts noted.
Demand for stocks broadened late in the session with fractional gains for many issues. Turnover neared 1.8 million, with liquor and auto stocks lifting the market while several leaders dipped after dividend news. Major gains and losses highlighted a choppy day on November 23 in New York.
Chicago market notes show U S shipments at 876 with arrivals 94 and total 353 on track. Supplies moderate and demand fair with prices varying. Colorado red MecClures 33.10 30, Idaho Russet Burbanks 4.50, Minnesota North Dakota Red ver Valley BKtiss Triumphs 3.60 washed, Pontiacs 2.30 to 2.35 washed.
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