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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1957
Page
8
Stocks ease in late trading with small losses as aircrafts, steels, and oils lead declines in New York. In Kansas City, cattle and hogs move mixed with steady to lower quotes. grain and feed prices show variability across markets and futures.
Easton announces a 33 man Kansas roster with top prep standouts including Billy Mills and Jan Sikorsky. The list cites hometowns events and best marks across sprints hurdles football field events and distance running, highlighting future contenders for KU’s national title hopes.
Poultry section shows egg and hen prices with meat yields and weights. Mentions farm-run fryers, commercial fryers, dressers, and various weight categories among hens and roosters. Notes ranges and percentages for quality standards and current receipts.
Eberhart, a 79 year old former city mail carrier and ex city council member, cites constant bicycle riding as his main activity. Born near Pleasant Grove, he has lived in the area all his life and continues an active retirement with 14 associations. His Christmas gift bicycle cost 25 dollars in 1920s currency. he and his wife of Baker and Kansas University lineage live at 45 Tenn. St with no children.
Four persons were hospitalized Sunday after two traffic accidents. A two car crash at Lake View and Kanwaka Township roads sent three to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. a separate one car wreck near Globe on Highway 7.8 landed one more in hospital. Injuries were cuts and bruises, all reported in fair condition. Police noted five weekend accidents, four on Saturday, with no additional injuries.
The Veterans' Organization plans to buy the old Wakarusa Township Hall and its 11 acre site on Twenty-Third Street between Vermont and Tennessee. Trustees expect final legal steps for a sale at auction next month. The tract, now residentially zoned but oddly shaped, may require re zoning by the buyer. The township will build a steel garage and a room to serve as the township hall on the tract received from the federal government formerly part of the Hassell Institute lands located just south of the city on the east side of Louisiana Street.
Al Hack won a sudden death playoff Sunday to take first place in the City Golf Tournament. After 36 holes regulation tied were Thick, T. V. Smith, Bob Stoland and Max Kenney with 159 after 46 holes. Hack posted 976 83, Stoland 79 80, Smith 76 83 and Kennedy 78 81. In the second flight Joe Traylor won first, Paul Carlson second, Curtis Dalton third and Glen Richardson fourth. The third flight was led by Buck Ambler, with R. C. Porter second, Charles Swanke third and Kenneth Roper fourth. Fourth flight victory went to Wes Steinbring, with Carl Mettner second, Jim Hill third and Clyde Babh fourth. Final tournament of the year for Lawrence.
Barbara Jean David of Rt. 1 Winfield was crowned Kansas Dairy Princess at the Kansas State Fair last night.
Washington Ser McClellan of Arkansas expresses doubt that the state school integration controversy will be settled peacefully. He remarks on the troubles but declines to say whether he approves using the National Guard.
About two hundred Japanese students gathered in downtown Tokyo for the first active protest against a new series of U.S. nuclear tests planned in the Pacific next spring. Police prepared to guard the U.S. Embassy in case of trouble.
A New York medical agency announces a tiny tablet named Frimateng that stops asthma attacks within minutes and lasts for hours. Marketed as the most prescribed formula, Primatene is described as opening bronchial tubes and easing congestion without injections, offered at 98 cents with a money back guarantee by Whitehall Pharmaceutical Company Fredebary.
Kansas University baseball coach Floyd Temple returns to Lawrence after guiding the Moose Jaw Mallards to the Western Canadian League title and a post season runner-up. Temple, an assistant to Dutch Lonborg, played third base for Moose Jaw with 1957 KU players Wiley Robertson Donaldson and Martin. The Mallards posted a 41-23 season and a 10 game win streak en route to the title.
The article notes Moosejaw and his wife Beverly along with their two children spent most of the summer with the coach in Canada, shaping plans and routines away from the team.
Area club members sold award winning calves at the Topeka Free Fair. Judy Kindred of Eldora sold two Shorthorns at 27 and 24 cents a pound. Danny Folks of Wells ville s Angus sold at 27 cents. Alice Folks of Wellsville Hereford sold at 28 cents. Larry Coffman of Overbrook Hereford at 30 cents. Larry Bond of Overbrook Angus at 29 cents.
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