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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1956
Page
12
A woman was found walking toward her home with her name not yet known. Police and investigators are seeking to identify her and determine how she arrived at the location. No details on her condition or circumstances are provided.
Wilt Chamberlain scored 52 points for Kansas in an 87 to 69 win over Northwestern at Lawrence. Gary Thompson scored 35 as Iowa State beat Houston 92 to 73. Jack Parr and Bob Boozer each had 27 for Kansas State in a 90 to 84 win over Texas Tech. Rex Ekhall led Nebraska to a 67 to 43 upset of Iowa. Colorado surprised Oregon State 87 to 58 with Jim Jochems scoring 18. Iowa State meets Brigham Young in Des Moines Thursday night. Kansas faces Marquette Saturday.
The note lists matchups including Colorado A&M at Lawrence, Purdue at Missouri, Drake at Manhattan by Kansas State, Nebraska versus Michigan in Lincoln, and Oklahoma in Norman, outlining a string of early season games across several campuses.
Pattersons New Jersey cab drivers strike after nightly routine of meeting late trains and driving a woman home continues, as Jacob De Hass and George Blanes lead the cabbie actions and then walkout follows.
State Dr Edward D Greenwood of Topeka and B W Tucker of Wren Building represented Kansas Monday and today in Washington at a joint meeting of the National Advisory Council on State and Local Action for Children and Youth and the Federal Interdepartmental Committee on Children and Youth. Tucker is a research associate in the KU Bureau of Child Research and executive director of the Kansas Council for Children and Youth. Dr Greenwood, past president of the council, is special assistant to William Menninger of the Menninger Foundation and will preside at a Washington session planning the 1960 White House Conference on Children and Youth. There are no rivers in Bermuda Rath supplies drinking water.
Fourteen Lawrence junior high students will act in the Kansas University Opera Workshop production of Hansel and Gretel, directed by Reinhold Schmidt and Bruce Dillman. The 8 p.m. Fraser Theater performance on December 17 features these students alongside seven KU students, with listed cast including Katherine Moon and Merrilyn Coleman among others.
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