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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1956
Page
11
Secretary Benson stated the Eisenhower plan favors government exit from grain storage. With surpluses dropping, he warned of deciding on use of facilities with one billion bushel capacity. He urged the grain trade to help curb moves toward greater government control of agriculture.
A speaker warns that government action to secure the economy risks overreach as public reliance on government grows. He asserts the state now controls an unprecedented stockpile of farm products, endangering private grain marketing.
London reports Lady Moyne has delivered her ninth child and Lord Moyne, a 50 year old poet and Guinness vice chairman, says he is not surprised the new arrival is a girl. The birth sequence so far has been girl, boy, girl, boy, girl, boy, girl, boy, girl. He calls it one of those things with no explanation.
President W J Scarborough announced a 2287 scholarship at Baker University Baldwin in honor of Bishop Eugene Frank. The Official Board of the First Methodist Church Topeka established the fund, with annual interest awarded to a deserving Methodist student minister at Baker. Bishop Frank IW was a former pastor of the Topeka church.
A field trip to Mesa Verde National Park, Colo., yielded 32 specimens for the Kansas University Museum of Natural History and eight new park species. Sydney Anderson and his family collected bats and small mammals Aug 5 to Sept 9, then attended the American Ornithologists Union meeting in Denver. Other KU attendees included Flarrizon Tordoff, Robert Mengel, Mrs Menger, John W. Hardy, and Philip W. Ogilvie. Quinoa, introduced in 1899 as a spinach substitute, was noted.
Sprinkled showers covered the northern tier from Nevada to Nebraska and through the Northeast to northern New England. The South remained mostly fair with Florida seeing light showers. Northeast temperatures rose into the 50s after unseasonable warmth, while central states reached 70s extending to Nebraska.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference the Central and Southern Plains and a mention of MU at Se eee Places. No clear names, events, or dates emerge. The readable text lacks determinable facts to form a full card.
Kansas University researchers Dr Kenneth Jochim and Dr Hampton Shirer receive a 10663 dollar grant from the US Public Health Service to study heart output. They will hire Richard Se1eford as assistant and develop a heart output recording instrument a flowmeter resistant to heart electrical currents.
Madison Walter of Kansas City visited Sunday with Mr and Mrs Melvin Walter and Sylvia. Mr and Mrs Arthur LaDuke have purchased the William Faust farm. Mr and Mrs Charles Nuffer of afternoon.
Mr and Mrs Scott Hagen and young Martha Lynn return to Big Springs after a week with Mr and Mrs Gus Hartman and Mr and Mrs Matt Hagen in Lecompton. The note adds that Mr Hagen will be a sophomore at.
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