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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1947
Page
3
A suspect scenario asks how a plane in flight could shed 21 tons suddenly. The question explores mechanisms such as fuel burn or rapid weight loss events and implications for aerodynamics and safety considerations.
In a heated U N session the western democracies led by the United States challenge eastern bloc tactics led by Russia The dispute centers on Soviet methods to spread communism and the use of the veto The debate highlights Western hopes for global inspection and a path to peace via mutual understanding as Andrei Vishinsky arrives and Oswaldo Aranha urges decisive action.
A fragmented listing shows WDAF KMBC WREN and WDAP programs across the evening. Notable items include The Lone Ranger Rhapsody In Rhythm The Whistier and Mole moments with Lowell Thomas Phil Silvers and Eddie Albert amid weather reports news and roundtable talks.
The readable text shows scattered references to Associated Press dispatches and newspaper notices. Mentions include audit bureau circulation and a date likely September 17, with a religious Bible verse and healing message. No clear event, person, or place forms a complete news item.
The Topeka Capital reports poll results on domestic and foreign policy. 56.5 percent oppose universal military training, 12.1 percent favor income tax cuts, 79.1 percent oppose drastic Taft Hartley changes, 73 percent oppose lifting immigration notes for displaced persons, 89 percent favor peace treaties with Germany and Japan without Russia.
The piece notes interest in a Tibetan truth claim among cults and links Henry Wallace with a New York esoteric group. It cites Pogler and H. Trevor-Roper describing Himmler's religious fanaticism and a 1940 letter attempt to expose Wallace, while noting no published results or Tibetan discoveries affecting events.
British coal miners will resume work on Monday ending a five week unauthorized strike that kept 60 000 men from the mines. The stoppage followed a government request to raise daily output while negotiations on output per man continue.
Column notes Taft draws fire for stating Americans should eat less and curb waste as a path to lower living costs, echoing indirect White House ideas on rationing. It argues candidates should promise more, not imply austerity, while highlighting ongoing postwar treaty work with Axis satellites and Germany Japan.
Sedgwick County commissioners protest a $28 beer charge on a relief client’s grocery slip and seek state action. Federal rules say relief spending details are private, leaving county and state officials powerless amid mounting relief costs and long federal oversight.
A humorous quip from the Atchison Globe notes people misplacing their cared for belongings while the Wichita Eagle asks if the American family is vanishing and suggests hiding the shotgun from six year olds as a caution.
World crude oil production in the first six months rose 6.6 percent from the same period in 1946. Daily average output across 42 producing countries stood at 7,932,546 barrels, up from 7,442,938. The Middle East share climbed to 10.1 percent from 5.6 percent a decade earlier.
Multiple brief items announce engagements travels and visits of residents including Jimmy Asby undergoing surgery at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and Mrs Julya Pickens of Chicago as a guest. Others note engagements between Marie Elizabeth Pringle and James Edwin Bailey and various returns and travel by local residents and guests.
Twenty five years ago Mr and Mrs Charles Longaneck travel toward Pasadena California with Leonard and family for new homes. Bowersock theatre features Blood and Sand with Delph Valentine Nita Naldi and Lila Lee. Mrs Mary Stewart visits her daughter in Eudora. Louise Timmer of Baldwin weekend with Gered A in Paols before returning home. Edna and Emma Prentice attend Raneas City auto races. George E Altenlet leaves for St Louis on business.
A quirky column sketches light personal musings on car misadventures farm corn roadside optimism cotton bathing suits and a joke about a Michigan bachelor who marries his cook to gain a fireless coc ker. The prose blends humor with small town observations and playful wordplay.
Washington Sept 17 seven senators began revising the governments aid to agriculture program on a long range basis as farm income reaches a record high Senator Aiken Vermont chairs the planning group and hopes a bill may reach Congress before the 1948 party conventions He warned some issues are too important to inject into political campaigns and stressed keeping a skeleton of the present program ready for later use
Veterans of Foreign Wars honors the National Guard on the seventh anniversary of its federal service for World War II. The piece notes a peacetime army second to none and cites President Truman's announcement of Operation 88,885 to recruit 88,888 guardsmen. First units entered federal service on September 16, 1940 and fought in major theaters.
Fragmented text outlines a dense social page with names, marriages, attendances, and community events. Mentions include individuals with titles Mrs or Mr, family visitors, hospital names, and various social engagements across a town context.
A fragmented OCR page lists assorted clues and partial entries across commerce, geography, and vocabulary. It includes references to a chamber of commerce figure, place names, and scattered definitions or puzzle items, without a cohesive narrative or complete context.
Frank W. Boyd aged 69 died at his brother Warren’s Lincoln home. He built papers at Phillipsburg and Mankato Kansas, chaired the Kansas state board of administration, and with relatives recently bought papers at Osceola Shelby and Polk Nebraska.
Mrs. Dora Lyon Mrs. Lottie Brown and Mrs lara Brubaker attended the Rally Day at Worden United Freeth Evangelical church last Sunday. The Rev Clyde W Brewster and Baker professors will attend the Kansas Methodist conference at Topeka. Several Baldwin residents hosted guests and returned from trips to Salina West Palm Beach Chicago and Kansas City.
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