Kansas City Market Snapshot Mixed Grain and Livestock Data
Kansas City reports show cattle verbose with 18,000 head 1,500 calves and slow slaughter, with steady sales and varied prices by class. Hog volumes 4,500 with softer near term hogs, sow prices mixed. sheep 2,000 head modest activity. Cash grain wheat around 196 cents, corn 134 cars near 1.63 per bushel, soybeans around 2.18. Market news notes Wall Street down as Russia's satellite raised defense hopes and hydrogen bomb news spooked some investors.
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Little Rock Deliberations on School Integration Continue
The piece asks whether the Little Rock Nine will be forced out of school again or allowed to remain, arguing that either outcome strengthens segregationists or signals a pattern for national integration. It questions the implications for Supreme Court rulings in the South and whether Little Rock could set a broader precedent.
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Turning point in Little Rock violence and integration plans
A reflection on Little Rock as a turning point in the century long social struggle over integration. It traces how city and state politics and the actions of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People intersected with Governor Orval Faubus and force. The piece hints at a larger series explaining how it happened.
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Orval Faubus
Open liquor rules in city and state law
City and state prohibit carrying an open bottle in a vehicle unless it is in a locked external compartment such as the trunk. The compartment must be inaccessible from inside the car. Kansas law also requires a valid tax stamp on all liquor, open or sealed, for possession or transport.
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Israel warns power struggle risks deadly spiral to war
At the United Nations Golda Meir, Israel’s foreign minister, told the General Assembly that great power rivalry over the Middle East is fueling a dangerous arms buildup in Arab states. She warned Western powers and the Soviet Union are pouring weapons into the region, heightening the threat to Israel.
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Wreck Victims' Father Seeks Jury Trial
Afton Womack of Topeka asks for a jury trial in a case involving his two children killed near Lawrence when a parked car was struck and caught fire after a tire change. Negligent homicide charges were filed against the other driver as the case moves from county to district court.
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Lawrence
Lip Fuel Pushes Jet at 2000 MPH Speed Test
A ramjet fueled by a boron compound achieved speeds over 2000 miles per hour, disclosed during a triennial review at NACA's Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory. The agency unveiled a 24 million dollar rocket engine research facility completed last August and highlighted Hi-Cal boron zip fuels from Callery Chemical Co. Manufacturing plants in Oklahoma and near Lawrence, Kansas, are involved in boron product production and jet fuel fabrication.
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Weather spreads across the nation as storms weaken
Wet and cloudy weather blankets the northern United States from the Pacific to New England with heavy rain in New England and the northern plains. Winds gust to 74 mph at Chinoteague Virginia as the Atlantic storm weakens. Freezing rain and snow flurries are reported in Montana and cooler conditions continue from the northern plains to the Pacific Northwest.
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Lt Col Jella Honored For Air Force Efforts
Lt Col Leonard L. Jella, son of Mr and Mrs Leonard M Jella of Lawrence Kansas, received the Commendation Ribbon at Futt Air Base Nebraska for notable Air Force service with the presentation noted.
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Edith Steele Smith dies. Lawrence area obituary
Edith Steele Smith died September 28 1957 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Born November 5 1884 at Belvoir Ohio she was the youngest of eight children of Robert A Steele Sr and Isabella Cummings Steele who homesteaded west of Lawrence after arriving in 1865. She attended Lindenwood College and married Efice P Smith of Liberal on December 2 1908. They had two daughters Isabelle Shirley and Ann Margaret, with Isabelle dying in 1912 at age one. She was preceded in death by her husband.
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Obituary for Emice Smith 1914 Death and Family Ties
Emice died in 1914. Mrs Smith a lifetime Presbyterian member active in Clinton Flower Club and Eastern Star. She led Quivera Club and served in Friendly Circle and Lawrence Flower Club. Survived by daughter Ann Smith Becker, grandson Stee Becker, sister Margaret Steele, nieces, grandnieces, grandnephews, and cousins.
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