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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1950
Page
3
Eyongju Korea September 11 a war tour along the front shows signs reading danger forward guiding troops and a battlefield landscape that remains deadly despite reports of a quiet sector. Army convoys pass rough muddy roads and burned trucks while American generals and soldiers express cautious optimism amid sporadic clashes and few casualties.
Olympia report says a civilian plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Moon Island air field for Yakima. Wreckage found near McCleary within minutes of departure. Four occupants named: Chris Rothrack, 40, Cosmopol ia. Robert McNeil, Junction City. Ray Vermillion, Aberdeen Hoquiam. Tony Delatour, Hoquiam.
Utica N Y Sept 11 five Leone brothers sons of Mr and Mrs Joseph Leone enter active duty with the 132nd ordnance medium automotive maintenance company NY National Guard two veterans Francis 29 and John 23 served in the Pacific theater with the 27th division and the Seabees Anthony 21 Michael 19 and Robert 18 also enter service another set of five Buoy Claire H Eldon and John in Vermont Ill were ordered to active duty none of the army officials could confirm a record setting family achievement amid earlier wartime casualties including the five Sullivans from Town sunk Guadalcanal
Tel Aviv shows a United States information service film on Korea was halted after 22 Communist demonstrators hooted the screening. The film had cleared Israeli censorship but cinema owners stopped projection amid fears of damage to screens by protesters.
An estimated 50 persons were injured when a giant revival tent collapsed during a hail and rain storm at an Oral Roberts faith healing meeting in Amarillo Texas. One person remained in critical condition Mrs Tom Hataway of Sunray suffered shock and chest injuries as hundreds fled the ruined structure.
A vintage column notes Lawrence confectioners craft superb caramels using aupar creamery butter eggs and chocolate. Local readers praise homegrown candy as tastier than Chicago or New York imports and remind drivers to stay safe as the school year begins. The piece reflects Lawrence as one big family striving to do right.
Washington dispatch reports that the air force training director said colleges and universities will not be called on for additional instruction of airmen at this time. He noted continued use of the area program and said educational personnel and facilities would be advised for the national preparedness program at a two day mobilization conference with 80 organizations.
Marshfield Massachusetts on September 11 report says two year old Mary Lou Williams of Braintree died after falling into the North River yesterday. Her father pulled her out almost immediately and attempts to revive her with an inhalator failed.
Emmet Womer, Kansas State P M A chairman in Manhattan, says mobilization reactivates military warehouses for Commodity Credit Corporation grain, freeing space and forcing new farm storage. With another bumper corn crop and falling foreign demand, more storage is needed at farms and country elevators. the Farm Storage Facility Loan program offers Kansas farmers loans up to 1 percent of project cost at four percent for five years. Since inception the program has supported facilities for over six million bushels, but much more space is required across the state.
Cincinnati report states Procter and Gamble raised wholesale prices about seven percent on household soap and seven percent on spray products. Company cites higher fats and oils costs as the reason and says the advance is effective immediately.
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