Lawrence Board Tables Tennis Court Bid and More
The Lawrence school board deferred decisions on concrete tennis courts at Lawrence High and three junior high schools until April 19. They approved phase one work on a Central Junior play field, new driver education funding and summer programs, and a plan to seek a Title IV grant for staff development. Bids for window replacements, gym roofing, and staff hirings and resignations were also approved.
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Lawrence School District Board
Lawrence High School
Central
West
South
Kenneth Fisher
Lawrence
Central Junior
Gary Condra
Supt. Knox
Knox
Commissioner of Revenue
Rhodes Heating and Roofing Co
New York approves 10 bill welfare reform package
The New York Legislature passed a 10 bill welfare reform package authorizing public works for able bodied recipients and setting a statewide welfare payment standard. Governor Rockefeller signed the bills after Assembly and Senate approval. The plan cuts benefits and caps earnings at welfare pay level, with targeted changes for New York City and upstate families.
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Albany, N.Y
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Assembly
Senate
Rockefeller
Albert Hf. Blumenthal
New York City
Upstate
Hospital Floor Time Slots and Baby Births List Names
Hospital hours listed for first and third floors from 2 15 to 4 p m and 7 15 to 8 15 p m plus second floor 3 to 4 p m and 7 15 to 8 15 p m. Several local residents and addresses appear with two births noted a boy on Wednesday and two babies today a boy and a girl born to listed couples.
Track Practice at High School Oval
Park and recreation department conducts oval track practices Saturday at the high school track not West Junior High. Bantam division ages 8 and 9 report at 10 a.m. Midget division ages 10 and 11 starts at 1 p.m. Junior competitions ages 12 and 13 begin at noon. Parents invited to help.
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Park and Recreation Department
West Junior High
Journal-World
Easter Egg Hunt Brings 44 Children Together
The Kiwanis Club and Chrelo K of Haskell Indian Junior College sponsored a morning Easter egg hunt for about 44 children in Veterans' Park. The participants were students in Lawrence's special education classes.
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Noon Kiwanis Club
Chrelo K
Haskell Indian Junior College
Veterans’ Park
Lawrence
Lamb Orville William Funeral Services Set
Orville William Lamb 56 of Tonganoxie died Tuesday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p.m. in the United Methodist Church. He was employed by Stokely-Van Camp Co. Survivors include his widow Maurine and a son Larry both of the home, a daughter Carolyn Sue Lasher Clathe, his mother Lula Mae Lamb Valley View Nursing Home Lawrence, two sisters Margaret Meinke Milpitas California and Nadine Henak of Tonganoxie, and two grandchildren.
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Tonganoxie
Orville William Lamb
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
United Methodist Church
Graveside rites for Harold Ooley in Oak Hill Cemetery
Graveside services for Harold Ooley age 63 of 924 RT are set for 10 a.m. Friday at Oak Hill Cemetery with the Rev. Edwin F. Price officiating. Rumsey Funeral Home handles arrangements. Ooley died Wednesday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He was born February 19, 1908, in Weston Kansas.
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Harold Ooley
Oak Hill Cemetery
Edwin F. Price
Rumsey Funeral Home
Mr. Ooley
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Weston
Kan
Nellie May Stevenson Rites Held In Reno Cemetery
Graveside services for Nellie May Stevenson of New York were held at Reno Cemetery at 10 30 a m with Rev Clair Hester officiating. Born in Leavenworth County she graduated from Lawrence High School and Kansas University in 1907. She worked at the public library KU extension in Lawrence and later in New York as advertising manager for McCutcheon and in magazine circulation.
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Reno
Nellie May Stevenson
New York
N.Y
Clair Hester
Leavenworth County
Lawrence High School
Kansas University
The
Public Library
KU Extension
Lawrence
McCutcheon's
Cyrus McCormick's Reaper Revolutionizes Harvest Work
Cyrus McCormick’s device transformed farming by replacing hand harvesting, easing labor and boosting efficiency for farmers across the countryside.
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Cyrus McCormick
Reaper
Organist Slated In Guild Recital
Don Vollstedt Colorado University assistant professor of organ and church music will perform at 8 p.m. Monday in Plymouth Congregational Church. The Lawrence Baldwin chapter of the American Guild of Organists sponsors the free concert. The program includes works by Bach Couperin Franck Mozart and Pepping. Vollstedt a Lawrence College graduate earned a sacred music master's from Union Theological Seminary and studied with Helmut Walcha as a Fulbright Scholar. He taught at Montana State University and Western Washington College before joining Colorado in 1962.
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Don. Vollstedt
Colorado University
Plymouth Congregational Church
Lawrence College
Appleton
Wis
Vollstedt
Union Theological Seminary
New York
Helmut Walcha
Albert Schweitzer
France
Montana State University
Western Washington College
Colorado Staff
Snowmobile ownership figures show low race participation
Massey Ferguson, Inc. reports that fewer than 25 percent of snowmobile owners actually race their machines, highlighting a conservative hobby trend and possible safety considerations.
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Massey- Ferguson, Inc
Columbia University mini reactor license denied by AEC board
A three member AEC licensing board refused permission to operate Columbia University's new mini reactor on campus in upper Manhattan. The decision, the first denial of an operating license since the AEC's founding, noted potential public danger in an accident despite safe normal operation. At year end 72 research reactors were in use nationwide.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Columbia University
Upper Manhattan
The
AEC
Columbia
Miller denies Wichita labeled as drug capital
Kansas Attorney General Vern Miller rejected a claim that Wichita is the hashish capital of the world. Sheriff Mickey Owen of Green County Missouri had said narcotics dealers from Wichita were contending with underworld figures from other cities for control of a drug franchise in his bailiwick. Owen, once a major league baseball star, faces four federal suits over alleged mistreatment of prisoners.
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Wichita (Ap
Vern Miller
Wichita
Sheiff Mickey Owen
Green County
Springfield
Owen
Barrows Wills $40,000 to KU Endowment
The will of Raymond A. Barrows of Kansas City Missouri leaves $40,000 to the Kansas University Endowment Association. $15,000 funds a Children's Rehabilitation Center endowment at KU Medical Center and the remaining $25,000 creates the Raymond Barrows Fund an unrestricted opportunity fund for the university.
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Raymond A. Barrows
Kansas City
Kansas University Endowment Association
Barrows
Kansas City Star Co
Kansas University Medical Center
Raymond Barrows
Executor appointed in Gauck estate probate case
In the Probate Court of Douglas County Kansas Elrose Gauck deceased Executor Charles Saffron appointed March 9 ninth March 27 1971 Letters testamentary issued Heirs creditors and devisees urged to file claims within nine months or be barred Attorneys Oyler and Paddock represent the executor
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Lawrence Daily Journal-World
Douglas Cotunty
Kansas
Elrose Gauck
Mlrose Gauck
Charles Saffron
Mirose Gauck
Douglas County
Oyler
Paddock Attorneys
Appreciation for kindness after loss of Elsie O Dietz
We express sincere thanks for cards flowers meals and acts of kindness during the illness and death of Elsie O Dietz. Special thanks to nurses at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and doctors R O Nelson C E Robinson Reese Manahan and Jones. Rudolf Dietz and Linas E Dietz Ernest Tuckel and grandchildren share gratitude
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Elsie O. Dietz
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
R. O. Nelson
C. E. Robinson
Reese
Manahan
Jones
Rudolf Dietz
Linas E. Dietz
Ernest Tuckel
Apartments and car notices from Lawrence classified ads
A dense page advertises a Southside Church of Christ event at 7:30 PM and housing options including a three bedroom tri level on a fenced acre near Kennedy School. It lists a 1969 Volkswagen for sale and numerous other cars, appliances, and real estate offers with contact numbers and prices.
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Cleon Lygiiss
Southside Church of Christ
24Th & Mo
Old West Lawrence
Jim
Cineludite
Deck & Brown, Inc
Ray
Kennedy School
Call Bay Real Estate Inc
Ramada Dyn
Mves
Ben Hogan
James Dunn
Joe's
TNT Pood Producta, Inc
Lawrence
Kansas
Fund For Life
West Feed Store Co
North
2Nd St
Jerry Allen
Volkswagen
Iowa
Schwegler
K.U. Moenings
Esther Corbett
McGrew Real Estate
Swentucky
1970 Chrysler Newport Auto Sale Listing
Unclassified ad for a 1970 Chrysler Newport four door sedan with factory air conditioning power steering brakes automatic transmission speed control vinyl roof and extensive options. Remainder of a five year fifty thousand mile warranty included reduced to 3766 dollars.
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Chrysler
Newport
Dodee Polara
Dodge Coronet
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Board Tables
Rita Rousseau
W. F. Bradley
Rees Jackman
Carl Knox
Hellen Gilles
Ris
5.W.B. Howard Co
Cordley School
Woodlawn School
Alan Abell
Marilynn Weston
Broken Arrow
Faith Abell
Dorothy Rogers
East Heights
Maxine Lampe
India Raw Valley
Patricia Twomey
Kennedy
Diana Beisel
Arlable Hornbaker
Pinckney
Margaret Brisch
Sunset Hill
John S. Foster
South Junior High
Nancy Meisner
Willie Amison Jr
Kathleen Jewell
Cordley
Joshua Duke Dana
Marsha Norman
Joyce Dana
Azel Turner
Hillcrest
Alfred Howard
George B. Cline
W. Ray Lewis
Stanley C. Roberts
Darren Rorabaugh
Victor Schmille
Margaret. Barlow
Journal-World Photo
Will Hess
Margaret Anders
Randall Rd
Hene Burchett
Herbert Cooper
Peter Miles
Oneida
Joyce Friesen
Ter
Donald Sturts
Perry
Irene Séllis
Ore
Scott Glazer
Engle
Luciano Angeletti
Owenson
Sarah Mitchell
Belly Hunsinger
Bonanza
Clifford Davenport
Everett Hazlett
Marjorie Tate
Denise Durrant
Eudora
Leona Bell
McLouth
Lloyd Webster
Ruth Chandler
Fairlane
Albert Crane Jr
Merle Black
Frankie Riley
Lyons
Glendean Harriman
Carol Herschell
First
Michigan
Harold Wilkins
Glenn Kerr
Lindenwood Sn
Philip Hedrick
Wellington Rd
Bigelow Karastan
Cabin Crafts
Ee Bud Jennings Carpets & Draperies, Inc
Borgen Liquor Store
Chuck Borgen
Mgr
Orville Lamb
Stokely-Van Camp Co
Nellie Stevenson
Miss Stevenson
Lawrence Baldwin
American Guild of Organists
Bach
Couperin
Franck, Mozart and
Pepping
Tale
Miller
Sedgwick County
Lawrence Trade Area
Holiday Hills
Call Bay Real
State Inc
Ramada
Don Theno
Ken Scott
Ray Stoneback
Go Mass
Mass
Goon
G.I. Joe's
RUS
Niles
St. HY
Campus
Ige
Y Acre
Convi
CHEVY
Oldsmobile
Jim Clark
Dart
Auto. Trans
H.T
Dr. Sd
Olds H.T
Ford H.T
Roger Moffet
Jim Miller
Tenn
Gill
Bath
Don Decker
Gill Agency
Jerry Sian
Gill Gill
Cape Cod
Paul Shiver
Old West
Moeningsell
Roberta McDow
Kentucky
Town
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