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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1956
Page
4
Benson asserts the administration has set up a water plan and calls for sharing costs among federal state and local agencies. He criticizes past waiting and touts a coordinated effort to tackle drought in the Great Plains while strengthening technical assistance education research and coal sharing programs in soil and water conservation.
Carthage Missouri two armed Kannas ex convicts Clarence Eno 51 and Charles Lindbergh Pearson 27 surrendered to a large posse in a wooded area northwest of town after escaping deputy Earl Dennis taking his gun and car. They are charged with a 1887 robbery at a Safe Way store in Joplin January 7.
New York gossip column notes Jackie Gleason may quit television next year to pursue a different path, with Ed Sullivan signing Red Buttons for regular appearances and Frank Sinatra's Las Vegas return drawing attention. Gloria Taylor, Sonny Werblin, and Perle Mesta provide colorful sidebars as Hollywood and Broadway personalities mingle amid weddings, parties, and shifting TV power.
A Navy Constellation weather patrol plane ditched about 100 miles south of Guam in the Pacific. All 18 aboard were rescued. Two were picked up by a Navy helicopter and brought to Guam. one man from Lebanon Tennessee had light head wounds while another from Shavertown Pennsylvania had no injuries. Nineteen others were rescued from liferafts by Coast Guard cutter Curtonwood and a Navy landing craft. The cause of the crash was not stated.
Walter, a South Side Chicago janitor, suffered three broken ribs after falling from a chair in his kitchen. He was hospitalized but could not provide his surname to police due to pain.
Norwegian rescue officials halted the hunt for 30 missing crew members of the American freighter Pelagia after recovering five survivors and two bodies. The vessel, carrying 10,000 tons of Swedish iron ore from Narvik to Baltimore, sank Saturday night in a storm off Bodoe, above the Arctic Circle. A Boune air rescue spokesman said other ships would search for survivors or bodies but it was highly unlikely anyone else survived.
The Billy Grahl film Fast ward Through Asia was shown as a feature at the Lawrence Youth for Christ meeting in the Community Building. Albert Lane led the rally, directed by Andy Paulson, with a skit by Evangelical Church youths and a music set by a quartet from the Assembly of God Church.
Dr Charles Leone associate professor of zoology at WKansas University spoke to the Lawrence Rotary Club about his year at Argonne Laboratory near Chicago. He described Argonne as an Atomic Energy Commission facility with researchers in biolocal and medical fields including food sterilization and vaccine-related work. He noted workforce figures and ongoing studies on radiation effects and virus inactivation for vaccines.
NEW ORLEANS a sixteen year old Marshall Pulitzer spent six days in a high school chemistry class and five dollars on chemicals then aimed to make five ounces of nitroglycerin. He convinced his teacher yesterday of success. Police and firemen dissolved the liquid in water and poured it into the ground then Pulitzer said he would study business instead of science.
Finland plans two merchant marine captains to depart for Egypt soon to become Luce Canal pilots. An average freight train today carries 66 cars, up from 46 in 1926.
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