Jaycee Auto Safety Checks Open Sept. 6
The Lawrence Jaycees launch free 10 point safety checks on Sept 6 at Massachusetts Street and Sixth Street. From 8 am to noon and 1 to 5:30 pm volunteers from local auto dealers will inspect windshields brakes tires lights and more, issuing tickets with findings to motorists.
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Lawrence
Lawrence Automobile, Tire
Roger al- Téndr
Paul Teeter
Tallen
Kansas University
Jayhawk Drive
Joe Skillman
Sorority Rush Week Opens With Transfer Student Attendance
Rush week at Strong Auditorium kicks off tonight with transfer students invited to the first meeting. Panhellenic picnic at Potter Lake held earlier for actives and pledges. Open houses planned for tonight and Saturday, with socials beginning Sunday. About 360 women expected to participate. Men’s rush starts Saturday with around 550 anticipated fraternity hopefuls. Official dates begin at noon Sunday.
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Strong Auditorium
Potter Lake
Memorial Hospital Admits and Birth Announcements
At Memorial Hospital admitted list includes Sheila Schmitendorf and many others with addresses across Park Street Maple Street Ky St and Route local towns. Dismissed patients include Isle Barnes Stanley Beecroft and others. Births cited from Leonard Ray Kenneth Janeway Robert Church George Tranburg Eudora and George Meyer with several couples announcing newborns. An accident section notes Kristen Kennedy treated for a puncture wound.
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Sheila Schmitendorf
Park St
Richard Nightengale
Maple St
Budah Ray
Evelyn Ousdahl
Joyce Janeway
Ky, St
Ollie E. Walker
Locust St
Fern Meyer
McLouth
Maxine Tranbarger
Eudora
Frances Ogle
Florence Hoffman
Tenn
Isle Barnes
Ohio
Stanley Beecroft
DeSoto
William King
Marian Hildebrand
Mo. St
Wilma Maness
Rose Gier
St. Louis -Griffith
Dale Mayhew
N. J. St
Donna’ Jean Evans
Baldwin
Park
Leonard Ray
St. St
Kenneth Janeway
Ky. St
Robert Church
Mich
George Tranburg- Eudora
George Meyer
Droodle Comic Caption Confuses With Rushed Text
Fragmentary OCR hints at a humorous Droodle panel with a girl character and fanciful label Q-pid's Delight. The surrounding garble mentions letters O Z R and a love story theme, but details are unclear and not coherent.
New State Patrolmen Assigned for City in Kansas
Majors and Thomasson join the Kansas Highway Patrol in city posts replacing Eldon Miller and Wayne Grindel. Majors from Hartford, 26, Emporia State Teachers College graduate, Air Force service veteran. Thomasson, 24, from Kansas City, civilian clerk, Navy veteran, will serve as driver’s license examiner. Also assigned is E P Moomau Jr., son of Capt. Moomau, heading Northeast Kansas division with a post in the Great Bend area.
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Lawrence
Eldon Miller
Wayne Grindel
Disstrict
Mankato
Council Grove
Jack Majors
Neal Thomasson
Patrol
Kansas University
Majors
Hartford
Emporia State Teachers College
Air Force
Bertin
Thomasson
Kansas Cit
Kas
Kansas City
Highway Patrol
Navy
E. P
Bill) Mooimau Jr
E. FP
Deaths and Funerals Reich to Fullback Obstacle Course Tested
Ida E. Fox 82 of 1901 Ohio St died Wednesday morning living with daughter Edna Aills. Services Friday 2 p.m. Brauninger Warrensburg Mo burial Sunset Cemetery. Survivors include four daughters and four sons. Also notes George M Prather's death and Kansas football notes with lineup details and goals for Kansas and Army connections.
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Ida E. Fox
Ohio
Edna Aills
Brauninger
Warrensburg
Sunset Cemetery
Mary F. Humphrey
Topeka
Vera Benson
New Mexico
Gertrude Keith
Kansas City
Aills
Haslett O. Fox
Mission
Edward C. Fox
Harry L. Fox
Law_renue
Richard M. Fox
Bates City
George M. Prather
George M
Prather
Leavenworth
Clarence Cropp
Tenn
St. Prather
Lawrence
Barteldes Seed Co
Union Pacific
Western Star No
Jocal
Football center position reshuffle at Kansas University
Dick returns to action after missing 1953 54 with a rib injury and competes for center. SteeHan co captain Mather shifts him to a different role as Reid cheers. Baker eyes backfield as Reich Black and Red contest center duties. Wahlmeier and Werzberger factor in the center picture though Werzberger sits out this year.
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Mather
T.C.U
Jim Leteavits
Lynn McCarthy
Sophs
Jim Hull
Frank Gibson
Dad Budrich
Bob Kraus
Soph
Frank Black
Wally Strauch
Ralph Moody
Dick Bloney
Jerry Baker
K.U
Jayhawkers
Dick Reich
Gil
Army
Kansas
Reich
Air Force
Harold Fist
SteeHan
Reid
Baker
Redd
Black
Norman Red
Oklahoma
Galen Wahlmeier
Jennings
Wahlmeier
Lawrence High
John Werzberger
Wertberger
K. U
August Rain Deficit Dims Hopeful Normalcy in 1958
August brought only 1.14 inches of rain, 3.17 inches below the monthly average, marking the driest August since 1945 and the third lowest for Lawrence in the 20th century. January was near normal, other months below, with 19 clear days and five rainy days. Worden observer Walter Schwarz notes statewide variability. Worden totals for August were 2.96 inches versus a 3.48 inch average, and year-to-date rainfall remains below routine expectations. Wreck damage estimated at $106 from a Mass Street collision leaves Dal sing and Line drivers uninjured. An annulment action was filed in District Court by Robert E. Brewington against Joyce Brewington.
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Lawrence
Kansas
Walter Schwarz
Cooperative
Worden
Schwarz
Wright quits post with Provident Mutual Life
Ray Wright resigns as general agent of the Kansas City Agency of Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co Philadelphia. Chester Ledford named new manager to oversee agency growth and manpower development while Wright contemplates his role. Wright has long been a top earner and Million Dollar Round Table member since 1944.
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James H. Cowles
Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co
Philadelphia
Chester Ledford
Kansas City
Ray T. Wright
Wright
National Association of Life Underwriters
Provident Round Table
Groundbreaking at Kansas University for new sorority house
Ground breaking ceremonies for the Alpha Omicron sorority house at Kansas University were set for this afternoon at the West Campus site. The $190,000 two story brick building will house about 60 women and feature pink sandstone brick and Kansas limestone columns. Construction should finish and be ready for occupancy in September 1956.
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Alpha-Omicron Pri
Kansas Univerity
West Campus
Kansas
Health Service Releases Record Vaccine Allocation for Polio
The Public Health Service issued 3 448 000 cc of Salk polio vaccine for children aged five to nine. It was the third and largest state and territory allocation under the voluntary control plan, with Kansas receiving 35 487 shots. Total released outside the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis program reached 5 371 000 cc, for free inoculations of last year’s first and second graders. The plan lets states pick distribution through public agencies or commercial channels based on unvaccinated five to nine year olds.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Kansas
C.c
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Poor milling wheat varieties hit by 1956 penalties in Kansas
The Lawrence column notes penalties for 1956 Wheat loans on poor milling quality Kansas grown varieties Red Chief Chieftain Early Black Hull Red Jacket Ranking Stafford Early Pawnee New Chief Yoga Blue Jacket while Comanche Ponca gain approval. Douglas County ASC reports no enforcement guidance yet.
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Kansas
Douglas County Asc
County Crop Chairman Re elected in Douglas County
Walter Kampschroeder of Clinton was re elected Douglas County Christian Rural Overseas Program chairman at a Wednesday night meeting in the Municipal Building. Norman Brandt was re elected publicity chairman and Fred Bremer was re elected city drive chairman. The next meeting is set for September 12 at 8 pm in the Municipal Building to determine the 1955 drive date.
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Walter Kampschroeder
Clinton
Douglas County ‘Christian Rural Overseas Program
Sis
Norman Brandt
Fred Bremer
Clty
Journal-World Photo
City water pipe project advances as strike slows rest
The eastern mile of tine, 12 inch pipe from the plant to Nineteenth Street and Haskell Avenue is finished. A 16 inch concrete section to Tennessee Street is delayed by a strike at the pipe plant. Constant Construction Co. of Lawrence installs the 1068000 line to deliver 500000 gallons daily to the CFCA plant. Douglas County Red Cross reports 1604 in donations, surpassing the 1010 goal. Also noted are dining room pie jokes and county tax tag totals.
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Jim Wigglesworth
Nineteenth ‘Street
Haskell Avenue
Tennessee ‘Street
Constant Construction Co
Lawrence
CFCA
Douglas County
Red Cross
National Red Cross
Stanley Hipp
New York Woman Kidnaps 2 Month Old Baby From Crib
A woman posing as a diaper saleswoman entered Mrs Christine Tegerides’s fourth floor apartment in New York and threatened to kill the mother to obtain the infant. The distraught homeowner fainted as the kidnapper grabbed the baby and fled.
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New York
Christine Tegerides
Eight KU seniors embark on Missouri Alabama field trip
Eight seniors from the Mining and Metallurgical Engineering department at Kansas University depart for an 11 day study tour in Missouri and Alabama. Students from Lawrence include William Davis Marvin Stohs and Gordon Watrod along with several Kansas City and Topeka classmates. They will visit a federal lead mine at Flat River Missouri and in Birmingham Alabama observe a blast furnace casting plant quarrying and cutting of limestone. Professor Kenneth E Rose and instructor Hubert Risser arranged the trip.
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Department of Building and Crminas
Kansas University
Marvin Hall
Lindley Hall
Naismith Road
Hoch Auditorium
Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering
Lawrence
Missouri
Alabama
William Davis
Ark. St
Marvin Stohs
Tenn, St
Gordon Watrod
Ky. St
James Bennett
Kansas City
Joseph Corsentino
John Risbeck
Dale Trott
Topeka
Paul Lozier
Poughkeepsie
Flat‘River
Birmingham
Ala
Kenneth E.rose
Hubert Risser
Douglas 18 in Moscow Flight After Central Asia Trip
Justice William C. Douglas arrived in Moscow after a 50 mile sightseeing tour through Central Asia and Siberia, following a U S Supreme Court assignment and a visit to Mogeww.
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Douglas
Moscow
Moscow i
U. S. Supreme Court
William C. Douglas
Central Asia
Siberia
Markets At A Glance Mixed Moves In Commodities And Stocks
Market report shows gains in aviation and steel shares while grains and livestock fluctuate. Kansas City prices for wheat and corn move with bids, cattle and hogs mixed, and egg, butter, and poultry readings listed amid broader market uptick led by steel and aerospace sectors.
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Chicago
Four Andersen Family Die In Car Track Crash East Of Seneca
Four members of the Andersen family died in a crash three miles east of Seneca on Highway 3. Mit Moise Mo Andersen, 34, wife of Serva EF Andersen of Eglin Air Force Base Florida, and their four children Anthea As Lyne and Paunda perished. Andersen was hospitalized with critical injuries. driver Wilmer White, 4, of Marysville Mo, was killed when a semi-trailer struck their car.
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Seneca
Poapkess
Mit Moise Mo Andersen
Serva EF Andersen
Eglin Air Fearce
Florida
Anthea
Lyne
Paunda
Artesian
Anderser Wee
Marysville
Andersen
Coffeyville Girl Stricken by Polio Hospitalized in Wichita
A 10 month old Coffeyville girl is hospitalized in Wichita for polio treatment. Seventeen other children, relatives of the patient, have been exposed. Three have already received the Salk vaccine as doctors report the outbreak involves related cases. County traffic fines are listed for two violators, including urgent registration and running a stop sign.
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Copfrytville
Coffeywille
Wichita
Tpsatmen
Gamma Global
Elen
Eddie Miller
Sear
Montgomery County
Fer
Perme
Gow
Bernard Joseph Hill
Elm St
Stanley Grantham
Marriage Licenses Issued in Probate Court
Marriages legalized in Charles Laverne Allen 20 of Maysville and Elmer Robert Cos 34 with Charlotte Jane Longa Neckar 21 both of Lawrence. Probate Court record shows licenses issued for these couples.
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Brenses
Charles Laverme Allen
Maysville
Mix
Amd
Marlere Witaw
Bedere
Elmer Robert Cos
Chariote Jane Longanecker
Lawrence
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Memorial Hospital
Kristen Kennedy
Max Kennedy
Crestline Dr
Sandy Graber
Hutchinson
Barbara Milton Olathe
Kay Pflumm
Shawnee
Journal-World Hte
State
Mass. St
Herman Dalsing, ii
N. St. St
Harold W. Line
8Th St
Patice
Dalsing
Robert E. Brewington
Joyce Brewington
Ray Wright
Health Service
The
Traffic Commission
John Crown
Iowa Street
University
Massachusetts Street
Old West Hills
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Robert Swift
Trinity Episcopal Church
Swift
South Lawrence
George Allen
7Th and
N. H. Sts
Minnie Eudaly
Eudaly
K. C. Cash Grain
Milo
Fly Lab
Tass
N. C
Oaly
Olf Roosters
Slags IL
Young
Winte Atonks
Wall Street
Atreratis Joiner Steels
Hee
Wm Grater
Sonerday
Ayreralfis
North Simeon Aviation
Preucias Sas
Bethlehem
Republic
Stevi Chauruikee
Youngstown
N.Y
Storks
Admiral
Allied
Allis
Atchison
Atlas
du Pont
Eagle P Food
Pynam Srig Gen
Gen Motors
Goodyear
Lion Oil
Mont Ward Ra's
Scl
NY Central
Penney
Phill
Prot & G
iReyn Met
St Jos
Sears Roek
Sinclair O
Socony
Stoke van C
US Steel
Seteceom
Coffeyville
Journal
Schubert
New Hampshire
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