13 Dec 1961
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1961
Page
1
The main Post Office at 645 N. H. St. will open until 5 p.m. Saturday for stamp sales and parcel post handling. General post office business will not be available, Postmaster James Parsons announced today.
Acadia Lodge No. 9 AF and AM announces its annual stated communication at 7 30 p m Thursday December 14 with master masons welcome No third degree work that night The third degree for Hon Robert F Ellsworth is scheduled for 7 p m Wednesday December 20 Signed Stanley B Norman W M and M J Estes Secretary-Adv.
Charles Ise Memorial Animal Shelter in the east end of 19th Street invites visitors 1 to 6 p m seven days a week to adopt dogs including a beagle and German shepherd. No fixed adoption charge. donations help maintain the shelter run by Mr and Mrs Vic Melton.
District Judge Hal Hyler of Parsons bans divorces from Dec 18 to Jan 2, a custom he set years ago to keep families together during Christmas. Local belief holds he is Kansas’s only judge to observe such a holiday pause in divorce proceedings.
Memorial Hospital records list births and dismissals. Births include a boy to Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Stowe at 841 Maine St and a boy to Mr. and Mrs. Marvin L. Sommer at 922 Ward St. Dismissals mention Joyce Ghaly and baby girl in Independence Kansas and Thomas Waters at 1001 Ala St.
Kansas University in Fraser Hall Tonight presents a public departmental Christmas program at 8 p m. The German classes perform a play Triptychon Swedish class sings Swedish carols Austrian and German exchange students offer Austrian songs. Local Children s Institute canvassing reports denied by Supt William Wolfe. A Journal World Christmas coloring page contest sponsored by Lawrence Dairy offers seven prizes totaling 35 gallons of Varsity Velvet Ice Cream. The paper will feature Dickens Christmas tales A Christmas Carol and The Life of Our Lord in the Christmas Eve edition.
Tuesday session reviewed a proposal to widen Rhode Island and Kentucky from 7th to 11th for angle parking around downtown. No action was taken while commissioners discussed limiting study area to 7th to 9th and addressing costs, street work, and potential financing.
New York Governor Nelson A Rockefeller dismissed a report that he will leave public life. In a radio interview he called the rumor absurd and said he will finish his current term and run for re election next year amid the disappearance of his youngest son and his looming divorce.
The article recalls historic local lows from 1899 1855 and 1932 noting minus 24 to minus 30 readings. It reports 1961 cold snaps with subzero lows and a thaw forecast bringing 25 to 30 above zero by Thursday. Snow six inches persists with icy highways though areas report clear roads for now.
A fragment indicates Ruskmembers hold a role in political oversight of tac tical not strategic nuclear weapons.
Kansas University begins a study of upgrading telephone service with a plan for a direct room line in each dorm room. 1,800 additional phones are proposed, about 1,100 in dorms and 700 campus wide, doubling current line costs and adding 35 to 40 dollars per student yearly.
The KU Athletic Board picks Keith Nitcher and C A Reynolds to serve as faculty delegates for the Bluebonnet Bowl trip in Houston. Nitcher represents Chancellor Wescoe, Reynolds represents the Athletic Board, with the meeting at the KU Union Building. A Memorial Stadium expansion plan was not acted on, though a committee led by Nitcher studies it. The board backs more Big Ten events, and golf bag penalties govern bags over 14 clubs with two strokes per round.
Senator Andrew F Schoeppel Republican of Kansas stays in Bethesda Naval Hospital with his aide indicating a possible later statement on his condition Doctors say his prior admission was routine and for diverticulitis A further note mentions intral-abdominal neoplasm treatment The report also cites a South Carolina eight lettermen returning for the 1961 62 basketball season
Mrs Emma Anderson and Family thank friends and relatives for prayers cards flowers visits and kindness during illness Laura Cooper thanks community for birthday remembrances from Eudora
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