Building Pace For City Stays At Sharp Peak
Lawrence 1964 building activity stays high in July with permits totaling 339 920. Cumulative seven month value reaches 4 520 196 surpassing 500 000 more than the next year. Major permits include a 70 000 VFW post, 32 400 LDS Seminary, and a 650 900 post office project anticipated next week. Fourteen new homes started in July bringing 1964 total to 383.
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Lawrence
Louis Stone
Stone
Massachusetts
South Park
13Th Streets
VFW
Ala. St
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints “Seminary
Indian Ave
Continental Construction Co
Manchester
Robert MacCabria
Edgelea Rd
Fred Stewart
Haskell Ave
Dwight Perry
John Ezell
Pioneer Rd
Western Home
Rockledge Rd
Arkansas St
Harper Ave
Ia. Bales
Westchester
Neil Harris
Russell Jones
Crestline Rd
Ark. St
L. Ia. Bales
Kingston
Charles Parker
Mouthdview Dr
Alfred Toward
Tenn, St
Gordon Evans
Avalon
Walt Lemon
N. H. St
Church of the Latter Day Saints
John Kapfer
Iowa St
Dale Hamilton
6Th St
Standard
Stmp. Co
Lyon St
James Kline
9Th Terr
Charles Bowen
Coun
Earl Curtis
E. Willets
E. 15Th St
Lawrence Const. Co
J. A. Wright
Lincoln St
Jeonard Williams
Ohio St
Karl Malden Teaches Drama at Emporia College
Actor Karl Malden serves as a drama teacher at Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia for a three week summer stint. He says the experience is exciting and helps him reconnect with acting beyond Hollywood’s professional world.
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Karl Malden
Emporia
Kan
Kansas State Teachers College
Malden
Hollywood
Baby Doll
City Golfer Mike Krone Reaches Championship Flight
Lawrence golfer Mike Krone of 501 Rockledge Rd. qualified for the championship flight of the International Jaycee Junior Golf Tournament in St Paul by posting 75 81 for a 156 total. Cutoff was 157 with teammates Carlson and others also in contention. Krone, future LHS senior, led the 1964 Lion golf team.
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Lawrence
Mike Krone
Rockledge Rd
St. Paul
Minn
Krone
Lawrence High
Scott Springer
Wichita
Pete Bell
Junction City
Young Krone
LHS
Marc Carlson
Lion
Four Klansmen Charged With Slaying Penn in Georgia
In Athens Georgia four white men identified as Ku Klux Klan members were charged with murder in the July 11 slaying of Lemuel Penn a Washington DC Negro educator. Federal authorities said the suspects all from Athens face murder and Civil Rights Act charges with potential death penalty upon conviction.
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Athens, Ga
Ku Klux Klan
Washington, D.C
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Lemuel Penn
Georgia
U.S
Girrard Hawkins
James S. Lackey
Herbert Guest
Cecil William Myers
Joseph Howard Sims
Athens
H.L. Pulliam
Madison County
Penn
Washington
Floyd Buford
Macon
Hawkinson
Lackey
Clarke County
Klavern
United Klans of America, Inc
Knights of the
Hoover
Guest
Calvin Craig
Stone Mountain
Grand Dragon
Georgia Kkk
KKK
Rumsey Funeral Home Dedicated Personal Service Ad
Advertisement for Rumsey Funeral Home offering dedicated personal service and contact at VI 3-5111.
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Rumsey Funeral Home
Two Dutch Pleasure Boat Passengers Missing After Rhine Collision
In Düsseldorf Germany two Dutch passengers aboard the Ahoy from Rotterdam are missing and feared drowned after a collision with the German tanker Rheingau II on the Rhine. The Ahoy was returning from a Rhine cruise with 64 on board. The cause is under investigation.
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Duesseldorf
Germany
Rhine
Ahoy
Rotterdam
County fairs set full schedule for 4 H and FFA events
County fair organizers announce 4 H and FFA activities with cleanup at 8 am Saturday, entries due 9 am to noon Monday, judging Monday and Tuesday, exhibits released 11 am Wednesday, and events including a food sale parade tractor driving and awards. A new 36 by 60 foot livestock barn was added by the county commissioners.
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4-H
FFA
Douglas County Commissioners
Douglas County
Radar Platform Is Taken Down off Nantucket
The last of the Texas Tower radar platforms off the Atlantic coast was towed to a New Jersey scrap yard. Texas Tower III, 30 miles off Nantucket, weighed 6 000 tons and sank after a 10 ton jolt of explosives. The demolition ends a 60 million Air Force program that claimed 29 lives.
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Nantucket
Mass
Texas Tower
Atlantic
New Jersey
Texas Tower III
Lipsett Division
Luria Brothers
New York
Portland
Maine
Air Force
Cape Cod
North Viet Nam Blasts U S Plane Intrusion
Hanoi Radio quoted North Viet Nam’s high command denouncing U S aircraft as intruding into its air space and being driven off by fire. The message to the International Control Commission did not specify aircraft numbers or damage.
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Tokyo
North Viet Nam
U.S
Hanoi
Viet Nam
International Control Commission
Tanker Freighter Collision Shuts Delaware River Near Navy Yard
In fog today a Texaco tanker named Wisconsin hit the freighter Steelmaker on the starboard side just forward of the bridge near Philadelphia Navy Yard. Initial reports described the crash as a fog shrouded river collision with potential damage to both vessels and crews.
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Philadelphia
Delaware River
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Texaco
Wisconsin
Steelmaker
Weather damages 1964 corn crop as heat arrives late
Heavy Lawrence rain helped farms but arrived after critical growth, leaving corn scorched in 100 degree heat. Hundreds of acres browned. yields fell short of expectations despite some fair potential. Lightning struck Central Junior Highs smokestack. bricks showered gym roof. trees damaged at New York School per district official.
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Central Junior High School
New York School
Richard Johnson
Lawrence Public Schools
Paraglider Crash During Test at Edwards AFB
A manta shaped paraglider tested for Gemini abort recovery ran out of control at Edwards AFB California. Pilot E P Hetzel bailed out from 3 000 feet after being towed to 13 000 feet by helicopter. He suffered a fractured rib cartilage. Cause of trouble unknown.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Earth
E.P. Hetzel
Queen Mother Frederika Recovers From Fever
Athens reports Queen Mother Frederika of Greece has recovered from a high fever due to a virus infection. The royal palace announced the improvement today.
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Athens
Frederika
Greece
Storm Damage Reports Hit Local Farms Across County
Heavy wind and hail damaged corn and overturned grain bins. A 50 by 70 foot barn with 3000 bales of hay burned, and a nearby barn built this spring reported total loss. One calf died in the blaze. Rainfall varied with Lawrence bearing the heaviest storm impact. Dutton Bridge saw nearly 2 inches while Vinland area received three inches. Official forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and near 90 degrees.
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Wesley Wulfkuhle
Wulfkuhle
Kenneth Whaley
Lawrence
Fred Flory
Lone Star
Flory
Dutton Bridge
Wakarusa River
Highway 59
Louis Holcom
Holcom
Wakarusa
A.G. Hammond
Vinland
Hammond
Jefferson County
U. S. Weather Bureau
Topeka
Legion Nine Leads 3-0 in Salina Legion Tourney
Lawrence held a 3-0 advantage over Wellington in the sixth inning at Salina in the state American Legion double elimination tourney. Lawrence had fallen 2-1 to Leavenworth on Thursday, and another loss would eliminate the local district champions.
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Lawrence
Wellington
American Legion
Salina
Leavenworth
Goldwater Aims to Build Campaign Consensus with GOP
Republican nominee Barry Goldwater met with about 100 congressional colleagues to seek advice on campaign issues and strategy. He plans to formally launch in Prescott on Sept. 4 and stressed unity, rejecting Klan backing while urging support from any law‑abiding American.
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Washington
Barry Goldwater
Congressional
John Rhodes
Arizona
John Tower
Texas
Goldwater
Senate
House
Kenneth B. Keating
New York
Keating
Rhodes
Prescott
Ariz
Tony Smith
Richard M. Nixon
Smith
Nixon
William E. Miller
Sen
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Tower
Miller
Ku Klux Klan
Arizonan
Gettysburg
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Ready
Illinois
Oklahoma
Young Republicans
Philadelphia
Scott
Calvin F. Craig
Atlanta
Georgia
Pole President Is Dead Today
Warsaw AP reports Alexander Zadawski aged sixty five, Poland president since 1952, died today. Cause not given. unofficial sources cite cancer. Zadawski underwent abdominal surgery April 16 by a London team led by Dr Hermon Taylor, with a digestive ailment noted. Born 1899 in Dabrowa Gornicza, he rose from a poor worker family in the Silesian coal basin and became president of the state council in 1952.
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Warsaw
Alexander Zadawski
Poland
Zawadski
Communist Party
Hermon Taylor
London
Dabrowa Gornicza
Silesian Coal Basin
Russia
State Council
Card of Thanks for W. H. Sinks
In loving memory of W. H. Sinks who passed away August 7 1961 the family recalls sweet memories and fond remembrance. Missed by wife daughter son and grandchildren. I also thank those who sent cards during my stay in the Topeka Veterans Hospital. They were greatly appreciated.
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W. H. Sinks
Topeka Veterans Hospital
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