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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1954
Page
6
TOPEKA. Non-farm employment in Kansas rose by 3,000 in the month ending Oct 15, totaling 552,600. The gain leaves the year-ago level 7,000 higher and marks the highest point since August 1953. Manufacturing employment rose to 135,900, up 4,300 from September and 4,600 from a year earlier, according to Dr. J Poirier state employment security director.
A vast underground ice storage plant costing 1.5 million dollars and carved from a 100 acre quarry went into operation three miles west of Kansas City. Inland Cold Storage Co. built the facility with 16 cooling rooms aiming for 10 degrees below zero and a capacity to handle 2,500 carloads of frozen merchandise. It will serve as an in transit warehouse for frozen foods.
Mrs A F McClanahan plans a bridge luncheon at 1 pm Wednesday at the Castle Tea Room. The Twentieth Century Club meets tomorrow at Mrs E C Buehler’s home with Miss May Gardner as co host. Mrs David Page of Topeka will speak on Alaska with slides. Mrs Evelyn McClain hosts Home Aid Society Thursday afternoon. officer elections to be held and roll call discusses Christmas decorations. Mackey Merrymakers Club holds a Thursday 1 pm luncheon at Mrs Raymond Gardner’s home. members bring a covered dish and a 50 cent grab bag gift.
Five persons died and a sixth was gravely injured when an Air Force B25 crashed in woods about three miles west of Friendship International Airport last night. The crash occurred around 10:15 PM. daylight was needed for a ground search. One identified occupant was Maj Wayne JG Shearer, 30, of Cornelius Oregon, whose wife lives in Annandale Virginia. another was Airman J C Robert H Brown, chief. A sixth survivor was flown to Bolling Air Force Base in grave condition.
An engineer aboard a plane, resident at 72 S. Lane Ave., Youngstown, Ohio, survived the incident. Identifications of the surviving air man and three army personnel aboard were not learned immediately.
The United States dismissed a Soviet protest from August about U S aircraft harassing Soviet ships near Formosa. Washington said U S planes will continue to patrol waters around the Nationalist Chinese stronghold and that the incidents were neither illegal nor in violation of international law.
Kelvin Hoover left Saturday night for Chicago to attend a First National Bank conference. A Kansas City tea for the Women's Auxiliary to the University of Kansas Medical Center drew Mrs Franklin D Murphy and others. Several residents traveled or hosted visitors for Thanksgiving. A college basketball figure spoke at a Junction City banquet.
The First National Bank of Lawrence filed suit in Shawnee County District Court to recover 10 779 from the Methodist Home for the Aged in Topeka. Administrating Ellsworth estate alleges a two month probation period allowed termination and seeks refunds minus funeral and care costs citing the decedent’s dissatisfaction before her June 10 death at 72.
Lorraine Eaton Clark, 28, mother of three, pleaded guilty to second degree murder in her husband’s death. She was sentenced to life in prison after Dist Atty Hugh A Crege recommended the plea. A confession statement, deemed too lurid to disclose, was filed for the record. The husband was shot and stabbed during Palm Sunday weekend last April.
In Kenya a private in the Kenya regiment faced trial for torturing a Kikuyu woman to obtain information about Mau Mau insurgents. The case centers on alleged abuse by a British Army serviceman during colonial policing efforts in Nairobi.
Nan nie Doss, 49, a grandmother, confessed to poisoning and killing four of her five husbands. She was arraigned on the murder charge of husband No. 5, Samuel Doss, 58, after autopsy revealed a large poison intake. A court battle over mental examination was set, and she was ordered jailed without bond. Doss’s four other husbands died in Alabama, North Carolina, and Kansas between 1945 and 1953 after she laced their food and drinks with rat poison.
University of Kansas Symphony Orchestra presents its annual Fall Concert at 3 30 Sunday afternoon December 5 in Hach Auditorium. The program includes Overature Leonore No 3 Espana Rhapsody Chabrier Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor Brahms James J Smalko assistant instructor of piano soloist and Symphony No 5 in E minor Tschaikowsky.
University of Kansas piano professor Jan Chiapasso presents another Faculty Recital Series program at 8 tonight in Strong Hall Auditorium. Chiapasso, on KU staff since 1934, is a Bach authority and will perform three of Bach's works. Public admission is free.
Pratt UW-Director Dave Leahy reminded sportsmen that the Kansas squirrel season, which began June 15, ends tomorrow at sunset. Fur bearing animals open through Jan. 31 include muskrat, mink, skunk, raccoon, opossum, fox, bobcat, lynx, martin, weasel, and beaver with wide season limits. A state trapping license, $1.50, is required to sell pelts.
Delegates from many Midwest states touring a $16 million nitrogen fertilizer plant east of Lawrence built by Consumers Cooperative Association. About 2000 expected to attend the 26th annual meeting in Kansas City Tuesday and Wednesday with talks by Dr. William E. Morgan and Frank W. Hussey at the opening session and school leaders addressing luncheons and evening programs.
A cyclone battered seven small islands about 100 miles south of Tokyo with winds reportedly reaching 1100 miles per hour. At least five people were killed, 15 missing, and 23 fishing boats sunk while hundreds of homes were destroyed and crops ruined. Communications collapsed as searches continued for the missing.
Wilhelm Furtwaengler, 68, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, was reported seriously ill today with a lung inflammation. He remains hospitalized under medical care as doctors evaluate his condition.
The skeleton of a man thought to be from Independence Kansas was viewed at a Grand Junction funeral home by his father Watson C. Haughn and county sheriff William F. Lessman. Remains, wearing army clothes, were found in a cave near Pal seade a week earlier, prompting ID efforts with no immediate conclusion reported.
Paris reports South Vietnam clears the way for a new defense leadership after Premier Ngo Dinh Diem backed by opponents removes army chief of staff General Nguyen Van Hinh who had openly challenged authority for two months amid political turmoil.
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