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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1955
Page
11
Labor Day weekend at Lawrence Country Club featured golf and swimming, with a Saturday bingo and a Monday 8 a.m. tee-off. Dining reservations available, Scotch foursomes played, and breakfast served after matches. Local clubs host dinners and card parties through the week as residents plan seasonal activities.
Mrs. McGrew and Miss Winnie Lawrance traveled to Honolulu arriving Aug 18 after a 16 day Panama Canal voyage. They will attend the Episcopal Church convention Sept 4–15 in Honolulu. Mrs. Arthur Marks and Mrs. Christine Alford praised their hosts. War Day of Topeka visited. Community notes cover reunions, clubs, births, school events, and a Red Cross event at Winter General Hospital.
A roundup of local residents departing for conventions and trips and returning home. Rev. Robert C. Swift heads to Honolulu for Episcopal General Convention September 4 to 14 as a diocese deputy. Obed Thompson attends a Colorado Springs educational conference. Art E. Stoner and family vacationed in Idaho and California. Joe Skillman travels to Lawton Oklahoma for his son-in-law’s ordination. Carl A. Eriksen of Hutchinson spoke at county teachers institutes. Joe S. Miller and family return from Houston after a visit. Wallace Lee returns from a Northwestern trip. Mrs. Lewis Walker and children visit in Lawrence. W. P. Ames returns from Colorado motor trip with Kansas Picnic in Manitou Springs. Mrs. Mary Banks visits from Seattle. Hugh A. Randall family from Wichita to visit for Labor Day.
Sen. Allen J. Ellender arrived in Belgrade for a three day visit and urged Yugoslav President Tito to visit the United States. He also asked Tito to reassure the Tron Curtain nations that America has no evil intentions toward them. The trip reflects diplomatic outreach amid Cold War tensions.
Enthusiastic crowds attended KU Alumni Association fall picnics in Salina Lyons Hutchinson and Emporia this week. Leaders Fred Ellsworth Dick Winter and Hub Meyer returned from the trip with reports. Attendees ranged from about 80 to 138 across sessions with talks by Goff Linton and Waggoner and slides shown on University developments.
TOPEKA bids on the final major paving contracts of Kansas Turnpike were opened today. Ross Construction Co. bid 6.75 miles of concrete paving in Shawnee County at 1 575 759, about 115 000 under estimate. Le James and Co. of Ruston La bid 3.45 miles of asphalt paving in Sedgwick County at 2 477 866 75, about 80 000 under estimate.
New York report describes a tenor change as General Douglas MacArthur and Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu encountered each other amicably in a reunion marking ten years since Japan's surrender on board the Missouri. The mood was tense yet cordial, contrasting with the earlier victor vanquished dynamic.
The scene shifts from tense exchanges to smiles as conversations unfold with hand clasps and warm greetings, replacing the prior mood of caution and gravity with a friendlier, more cordial tone.
Lumberton police seek a young man who ordered a $27 three tier wedding cake for his sister and paid with a $27.45 check that bounced He offered $7 on account and left with cash The same ruse was used at a tire recapping shop by the same man indicating a pattern of fraud.
Licenses issued Thursday from the probate court include Dale Eugene Anfred 17 and Marjorie Faye Bowen 16 of Lawrence Kenneth Jay Arnold 13 and Shirley Ann Meyer 17 of Topeka Wendel K. Stewart 22 of Wichita and Martha E. Stevens 20 of Baldwin all listed as applicants for marriage in the record.
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