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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1956
Page
3
A House of the Week proposal, Plan HW-22, showcases a four bedroom home with a built in garage built in New England for about 15000 dollars. The owner acted as his own contractor to supervise all phases, achieving about 8 dollars per square foot for a 1946 square foot layout.
This coupon offers a house study plan showing four elevations at a set scale with a guide on getting a house built. It suggests using the plan with bank lenders and builders to obtain rough cost estimates and bids, aiding a decision on proceeding with construction and ordering working blueprints from the architect.
A columnist argues fatigue threatens Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver, urges Ike to pace campaigning, and notes Eisenhower’s health and aides like Nixon aided his presidency. The piece ends with a local note: Armco Drainage and Metal Products Inc. won the bid to build a metal storage building for the State Geological Survey at Kansas University, for 11028 dollars, to store oil well samples and fossils.
Charles Lindbergh, who drew delirious crowds in 1927 after his solo flight, arrived back in Paris Friday on a private Pan American flight from New York, meeting only a subdued reception.
The Kansas University Engineerettes invite engineering and architectural students wives to the first Fall meeting at 8 p.m. Monday in Room 405 of the Student Union. Guest speaker will be Mrs. Robert Mitchell. Officers for the year include Mrs. Mae Littell president and others in roles such as vice president secretary and program and membership chairs.
In Poznan Poland six young Poles were jailed for up to six years for taking part in the June bread and freedom riots. Two others were acquitted and received suspended sentences. The ruling was handed down in trial No 2 of the so called criminal elements case arising from the June 28 riots.
International Club at Kansas University presents a Latin American Night at 7 30 p m in Memorial Union. The program features color slides from Latin American countries plus songs by Cuba and Mexico and demonstrations of cha cha samba and la bamba. A post show dance lesson and refreshments follow. About 30 students from 10 Latin American nations are enrolled this semester including Be avis Brazil Costa Rica Cuba El Salvador Guatemala Mexico Panama and Venezuela.
Work has begun on the Griwilt Laundry building at 913 N. 1st St in the Lawrence business district. The new masonry structure joins Evans Auto Supply in a block already expanding. Estimated cost is $10,000.
ALBUQUERQUE, NM The agriculture outlook remains positive despite drought and price pressures. E. Fisher, president of the Federal Land Bank of Wichita, said land banks are strong and can extend credit to help farmers and ranchers through today’s rough times. Borrowings in the last fiscal year rose in Mesica, Colorado and Oklahoma, with foreclosures at very low levels. Fisher says much of the borrowings by farmers are "putting their house in order."
Oliver Hardy aged 64, half of the Laurel and Hardy duo, is back home in Burbank after a month in hospital following a stroke suffered on September 14. He has not worked in films since 1945.
The combined Meeting of the College Conference on Teacher Education and the Kansas Association for Student Teaching will be held in Topeka in October 1920. Planning co chair Dr Karl Edwards announces the program with the theme Creativity in the education of Teachers. Dr Donald P. Cottrell of Ohio State University will deliver the banquet keynote.
Robert Vosper director of the aries at Kansas University will speak October 19 at DePauw University Greencastle Indiana before the dedication of the Roy West Library. He will discuss The Place of the Library in a Liberal Arts College at a dinner for trustees state members visiting librarians and college officials. The formal dedication is set for October 20.
Sheffield Steel will purchase the Ford Motor Co assembly plant in northeast Kansas City. R F Kuhnlein, Sheffield manager here, announced Friday. He said Sheffield has an order for the 18.8 acre site adjoining the Sheffield plant and Ford has accepted it in Detroit, with transfer completion contingent on a sales contract.
Cairo dailies led with relief over the United Nations agreement on a basis for negotiating a settlement of the Suez Canal dispute. Bold front pages from Akhbar and other papers proclaimed the situation saved amid dramatic banners and vivid headlines.
A handbook of county finance facts and figures is available upon request from the Governmental Research Center at Kansas University. Compiled by James T. McDonald, the sixth in a fiscal information series, it covers county statistics for 1952 through 1954 and is available at most public libraries.
The Kansas University Student Union Activities Carnival is set for October 20 from 4 30 p m to 12 30 p m in Memorial Union with 30 houses hosting booths to raise SUA funds A queen and Little Man on the Campus will be chosen from finalists by ticket votes at 10 cents each Eighteen candidates entered include Margie Katz Leavenworth Peery Garrison Philipsburg Randell Hedson Ottawa and others The Little Man on the Campus finalists include Gary Skinner Chanute Ronald Britz Mission and others
Amer old Ray Amer, 20, faces a second degree murder charge after a federal grand jury indicted him on four counts of interstate transportation of forged securities. He is detained in Warrensburg, Missouri, on a $25,000 bond in the slaying of Alfred Asking Jr. of Jackson County last August, with forged checks totaling 87, 67, 67 and 62 dollars transported from Kenyvenworth and Kansas City, Kansas, to Kansas City, Missouri.
Budapest reports the arrest of Lt. Gen. Mihaly Farkas, 52, ex-defense minister who led prosecutions of late Communist leaders now cleared. His son Vladimir, a former political police colonel, aided inquiries from 1949 to 1980 alongside notable figures Jaszlo Rajk and Ja hos Kadar.
Manila police report a Filipino man Domingo Salazar aged 42 went berserk in Roxas town Central Palawan causing 16 casualties before he was subdued. He faces multiple homicide charges.
In Tokyo about 2000 police confronted 3500 demonstrators on the second day of protests against extending the U S Tachikawa Air Base. Socialist MPs and several labor union members were injured. Villagers near Tokyo say the base encroaches on their land.
Former Municipal Judge Otto Siegermann was fined $150 yesterday in the court where he once presided. He said he would appeal the court's finding of guilty of assaulting a policeman during a traffic argument.
Mild weather prevailed across most regions from the Rockies to the Atlantic Coast with cooler, wetter spots in the far West. Strong southerly winds pushed summerlike warmth into the southern and central Plains and east to the Ohio and Great Lakes, lifting temperatures to the 80s in the midcontinent and setting several October 12 records.
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