Lawrence District Opens Civil Rights Title IV Workshop
St Louis educator Acine W Price Jr named keynote for Lawrence Public Schools Title IV desegregation workshop opening Aug 11 at South Junior High Little Theatre. Eight day session funded by a 45500 grant aims to boost racial integration across Lawrence High and four junior highs with task forces and expert consultants.
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St. Louis
Lawrence
Lawrence High
South Junior High
Price
Berrigan Isolated In Federal Prison Cell
Rev. Philip Berrigan was placed in solitary confinement at the Federal Correctional Institute in Danbury for distributing leaflets urging inmates to join a hunger and work strike to support political prisoners. Warden John Norton said he was moved to a separate housing unit and barred from contact with other inmates. The brothers, including Rev. Daniel Berrigan, are serving sentences for destroying draft records in Catonsville, Maryland.
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John J. Norton
Federal Correctional Institute
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Catonsville
Lockheed Loans Signed by Nixon
President Nixon signed a bill allowing Lockheed Aircraft Corp. to borrow 250 million dollars from private sources with government guarantees. The measure passed the House on July 30 by 192 to 189 and the Senate on August 2 by 49 to 48.
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Demonstrators Mark Nagasaki Bombing Anniversary in NYC
About 20 protesters in black mourning attire gathered downtown near the Internal Revenue Service and the New York Stock Exchange to mark the Nagasaki bombing anniversary. The group, calling itself the People's Life Fund, protested federal tax money funding war.
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Deaths Funeral services for Melvin Riley
Funeral services for Melvin Eugene Riley five of 824 Lincoln are set for 2 30 p m Tuesday at North Lawrence Christian Church with Rev John King officiating Burial will be in Maple Grove Cemetery The boy was killed Thursday afternoon when struck by a car at Lyons and Center He had been riding his bicycle in Ozark Arkansas
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Lincoln
North Lawrence Christian Church
John King
Maple Grove Cemetery
Lyons and Center
Funeral services set for Aurie L. Freeman of Tonganoxie
Aurie L. Freeman 52 of Tonganoxie died Friday at Veterans Hospital Topeka. Services 2 p.m. Tuesday at Christian Church with Rev. Applegate. Burial Hubbel Hill Cemetery. Visitation after 1 p.m. today at Quisenberry Chapel. Survivors include widow Carol, two daughters Norman Daniel and Robert Glidewill. two sons Terry and Larry. mother Mrs. Mabel Sharp. four sisters Mahlon Cook Guila Thornton Eula Jella Mary Lou Felby. brother Louis. Born Sept 9 1918 in Tonganoxie. Operated bakeries in Beaver Okla and Tonganoxie.
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Tonganoxie
Terry
Larry
Mabel Sharp
Mahlon Cook
Guila Thornton
Eula Jella
Salinas
Calif
Mary Lou Felby
Leawood
Louis
Kansas City
Freeman
Beaver
Okla
Funeral services for Nora T Wells in Chanute
Funeral services for Nora T Wells, 90, of Chanute, will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Gibson Koch Funeral Home. Rev Charles Bennet of Coffeyville will officiate. Burial follows in High Prairie Cemetery. Wells died Friday at St Margaret's Hospital in Fredonia. She was born September 30, 1880, in...
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Nora T. Wells
Gibson-Koch
Charles Bennet
Coffeyville
High Prairie
Hospital Notes Names and Addresses of Patients and Families
A list of patient names and associated addresses from various cities and states is provided, noting births of two babies and family entries. The record names Clara Freese, Sarah Schelbar, Benjamin White, Rebekah Dixon, Myrtle Cooley, Shirley Chambers and many others along with multiple street addresses and cities such as Baltimore, Leavenworth, Shawnee Mission, Tonganoxie, and Leawood.
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Valley View
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Benjamin White
Perry
Rebekah Dixon
Baldwin
Myrtle Cooley
Shirley Chambers
Baltimore
Mary Langenfeld
Ark
Doris Underwood
Saratoga
Merl Witchcock
David Robbins
Tonganoxie
Philip Robbins
Midwest City
Okla
Alice Smith
Williamsburg
Barbara Salvini
Haskell Jaco
Ruby Harwood
MacLouth
Albert Hopfer
Clifton Ct
Carl Burris
Shawnee Mission
David Parker Tonganoxie
Christopher Hahs
W. Sixth
David Tapotto
Haskell Juco
Lois Cummings
Eudora
Connie Husong
Leawood
Alva Carlson
Awards to Rabbits and Poultry at Douglas County Fair
At the Douglas County Fair northern livestock barn young exhibitors won blue ribbons in rabbit classes led by Lloyd Landhamer with seven prizes and Terry O’Bryan with five. In poultry, Landhamer again topped with seven blue ribbons while Veronica Gorton and Jerry Shirar earned four each.
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David Shirk
Lane Smith
Jamie Penny
Dyla Kay
Lloyd Landhamer
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Jerry Shirar
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Sherree Sallee
John Bradley
Mark Hitherton
Clint Deay
Karen Lassman
Funeral services for Thomas L. Gibson
Oklahoma City obituary notes Thomas L. Gibson died Friday. Funeral services pending and later announced. Survivors include a daughter Verner Newman Jr. of Lawrence Kansas, four grandchildren and sixteen great grandchildren.
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Okla
Thomas L. Gibson
Verner Newman Jr
N.Y
Lawrence
Kan
Fischer Wins Chess Matches at Manhattan Club Dedication
Bobby Fischer routed 11 grandmasters and masters in a rapid-fire tournament to inaugurate the Manhattan Chess Club’s new quarters in New York. He won 21 of 22 games in four hours, with five minutes per player, prompting praise from early victim Louis Levy who called Fischer’s mind a machine.
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British psychiatrists urge exposure to feared objects
British psychiatrists advise patients to confront their fears by approaching the object or situation directly and staying with the anxiety until it subsides, a method described as practical exposure to phobias.
Superman Plans Comeback at 60 in San Diego
San Diego AP report notes Kirk Alyn at age 60 plotting a comeback though flying days are over. His memoir A Job For Superman recounts years as the steel chested hero in film serials and later off-Broadway work and TV spots amid nostalgia for the superhero era.
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Calif
Kirk Alyn
Superman
Alyn
Soviet Launches 433rd Cosmos Satellite
Tass announced the Soviet Union launched the 433rd Cosmos satellite. It orbits Earth at a 49.5 degree inclination and altitude between 99 and 162 miles.
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Tass
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