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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1950
Page
2
A marriage license has been issued from the clerk’s office to Lawrence Metralfe aged 21 of Kansas City Missouri and Avis Metcalfe aged 25 of Dwight.
Market news from Glances notes grain prices easing for oats and wheat while butterfat and livestock receipts trend up. Kansas City cattle and hogs show steady to higher bids with spring lambs firm, and Wall Street closes near a four year high as blue chips and overseas markets gain.
Voters debate Formosan policy as the United Nations opens next Tuesday. Russia vetoes a U.S. commission proposal on bombings in Manchuria, narrowing issues to be examined by the General Assembly. Diplomats expect big powers to reassess strategies after early sessions and possible new coalitions emerge. The session follows a Russian veto clearing the Council calendar and questions of China’s Peiping government participation looming.
A list shows multiple patients at Memorial Hospital with addresses including Mrs. Dorothy Montell Linwood Route 1 Mrs. Hazel Kelley Route 1 Mrs. Joyce Beard 1303 Tenner Street and others in Williamstown Topeka Desoto Sunflower Richland and more. An accident report notes Bryan Thornton a 5 year old treated in emergency after being struck on the face by a toy airplane. Also an Acacia No. 9, ALF and A.M. stated to hold a degree work at the Temple with details of refreshments and farewell for Past Master Verne Smith and officers Maurice Clarkson Kon A. Barlow as secreta
Lew Henry of Lawrence and his wife welcomed their fourth daughter today while Henry faces a military questionnaire. He had similar timing eight years ago when a new baby arrived as he bought a new car and was then called to service. A student manager on the K U football team notes a small stipend is allowed. Police court fined 57 dollars for 55 overparking tickets and one restricted zone ticket.
Willard 0. Hilton was named acting director of the oil field section of Kansas divided sanitation with KU headquarters. Chancellor Malott and Dr Beelman announced the move and said it could become permanent after board action. Hilton, a KU alumnus and veteran, has worked to protect fresh water from oil field brine.
C. H. Simpson returns home from an overland trip to the Pacific northwest visiting daughter Mona MacManus in Portland, Filipino friend Pio Decano in Seattle, and cousins Burma and Billy Simpson and Maude Pilkerton in Cashmere. He attended Billy Graham's six week revival in Portland and Labor Day events at the stadium with 40,000 attendees, 14,000 in the tabernacle and 200 choir, noting 616 converts. In Cashmere he joined a three day celebration for the town’s renaming from Mission to Cashmere dating to 1900, with the town founded in 1863 by a Catholic missionary to the Indians.
George Christopher Rankin age 9 dies at Wesley hospital Wichita from polio daughter of Mr and Mrs Max Rankin of 245 North Grove Street Wichita. Survived by two sisters grandmother and grandparents in Washington and Wichita funeral plans pending. Alvin M Fisher Overbrook dies at home age unknown services 2 PM Baker Funeral Home Overbrook burial Overbrook Cemetery. Otto A Bidinger lifelong Stull resident 80 dies at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Funeral at Evangelical United Brethren Church Stull Friday 2 PM Rev Lowell Windland. burial Stull Cemetery. Wife Freda and children Mia Katherine Hout Myrtle Raab Martha Deskins plus sons Jake Frank and others survive. 12 grandchildren and many great grandchildren.
Two men were injured when a welding job near a Holton Transport tank exploded. Glass and metal debris damaged homes within a block. Glenn Harris suffered leg and facial injuries while Eddie Harris escaped further harm, aided by witnesses and neighbors.
About 900 of Hyndman's 1,300 residents stood in line in the rain to sign loyalty pledges in a Veterans of Foreign Wars campaign. Albert Lynch, VFW post commander, said the aim is to combat subversive elements. Adults 18 and over were urged to sign in the town council room. mimeographed lists will be posted publicly. Those away yesterday will have another chance to sign, Lynch said.
In Beth te la entertained club the Sierra Leone Double Twelve club met with Mrs Carrie Davis absent. Vice president Smothers presided as Mrs Sophia Snowden led the club song and Mrs Lulu Fring offered the opening prayer. Programme coordinator Mrs Olda Johnson guided September events on political parties and precinct workers. Refreshments followed. Edward S Baldwin, Garden City, pleaded guilty to a drunk charge in police court and was allowed to leave town after a 10 day jail term was stayed by Judge Wayne Allphin.
Leesburg Virginia reports that Marshall, a veteran of 30 plus years, accepted the defense post after Truman asked. He had retired in 1945, served in China, became secretary of state in 1947, then returned to health and public service before being summoned again to lead the armed forces.
Names of men ordered to report for examinations in Kansas City on September 18 were released. The list includes Virgil Pistole Gerald Bodin William Somerville Buster Frye John Nelson John Mark Wilbur Noble Thomas Kring Elmer Niehoff Marvin Manis Charles Wagataff Robert Long Perry Sellars Wesley Brown Walter Schimmel Moselio Schaechter Virgil Sandborn Elmer Ritter Rusco Lauvern Meuffel John Uling Loren Powell Charles Hayes Eugene Higgins Roy Young Elgie Victor Barlow Alice Agard Robert Hall John Wise George Hall Chris Oyu
Alma 10 year old girl Shirley Kovach was taken to a Manhattan hospital after being run over south of Alma while returning from a Girl Scout picnic. Sheriff George Penrice said she asked to be let out of the car and stepped into the path of a vehicle driven by Hen Hankammer of Alma. Hankammer could not avoid the collision. The girl is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter Vobach of Alma.
London Sept 13.7 United Africa company releases a monthly trade review noting booming sales of erfumed British hair oil in Africa. The report says natives of the gold coast spread the dressing on bread and eat it with relish. It also cites that of 116 shipbuilding and repair yards in the United States, 68 are inland on waterways, rivers or canals.
Local notice advertises Masden's Watch Shop at 12 East South Street near Mass Avenue offering fine watch and clock repairing with savings on all repair work and phone contact 47.
Kansas Inventors Exposition deadline reaches October 1 with entries invited from Kansans and Kansas concerns for the Wichita show October 24 through 29. Space is limited and first come, first served. blanks available via local chambers and the State Chamber in Topeka. The event drew 125 inventors and 135,000 attendees last year. E R Zouk of Lawrence chairs the committee. A separate note lists the Mademoiselle Social club meeting at 439 Arkansas Street with listed attendees.
Two Sunflower residents receive orders to report for military service in the U S army. Cp. George M. Newton and Sgt. E J Blair are recalled in their current ranks and must report to Fort Hood Texas. Also noted is September 18 as a date, while fulbert production remains centered in Oregon and Washington.
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