Lawrence arts events boost community vitality in weekend highlights
Lawrence celebrated arts with the annual Lawrence Art Auction raising nearly $50,000 plus in-kind services to support the Lawrence Arts Center. The following day the Lied Center of Kansas announced its 1999 2000 season featuring family series Broadway acts and classical to contemporary performances.
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Mayo Clinic Announces Synthesis of Cortisone
On April 20, 1949 Mayo Clinic scientists announced success in synthesizing a hormone effective for rheumatoid arthritis, naming the substance cortisone.
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Blair backs Kosovo action shaping NATO's role
Prime Minister Tony Blair describes Kosovo as a turning point for his generation and NATO, vowing no respite for Serb forces and no negotiations with Milosevic until refugees return under NATO-led ground protection. He urges Western unity, warns against humanitarian missteps, and cites the need to defend human values globally.
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Tax cheats hidden in a high tech era debate
A column argues the Census undercounts by up to 2 percent fueling partisan fights over sampling. It urges IRS tax collection as a bigger leak, cites Webster’s findings debunking IRS abuses, notes fewer audits and high lawsuit rates against agents, and questions why tax cheats evade detection in a digital age.
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Postmaster directions request readers to send address changes to Journal-World in Lawrence Kansas with ZIP 66044 0888 USPS code 306 520. The publication is periodical postage paid in Lawrence and a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations and the Associated Press.
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Readers weigh tax surplus aims in Kosovo debate
Georgie Anne Geyer calls NATO clean and rational while Milosevic’s Serbia is ancient, criticizing the Bosnia policy as an unmitigated disaster. The piece questions how Kosovo’s disaster is mitigated and suggests options like debt reduction, tax cuts, funding roads and education, or escalation with bombs. Anne L. Haehl, 616 IL.
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Community crisis and chance meet in land sale debate
Ohn C. Gingerich argues the proposed sale of mobile home land at 31st and Iown creates a crisis for resident families and schools, potentially altering traffic, zoning, and local access. He urges Lawrence residents to seek win win solutions, community involvement, and alternatives that protect families while preserving investment.
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Seven named for KU Distinguished Service citations
Old Home Town notes seven recipients for Kansas University Distinguished Service to Mankind citations at spring commencement Olive Beech John C Brizendine Jr Dorothy Hadge Davis Johnson Robert H Malott Paul Miner Elmer Pierson and Irvin Youngberg Also mentions 1899 Lawrence Journal headline praising improvements at the Eldridge Hotel 701 Mass by Malcolm Conn cited in Hotel World and Kansas Journal Courtesy Watkins Community Museum.
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