Kennedy Wins Illinois Victory in Electoral Tally
President-elect John F Kennedy's Illinois win certificated unanimously by the Republican led State Electoral Board gives him 300 electoral votes. Nixon holds 223 with Byrd unpledged electors. Board found no sufficient proof of fraud in Cook County and Kennedy's statewide popular margin was 8,858 out of nearly 4.75 million votes.
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Santa Arrives Friday for Town Holiday Late Hours
Santa will visit downtown Friday from 1 to 8 30 p.m. at 9th and Mass Sts with rides a candy treats and a mailbox for Christmas lists The Retail Merchants Division of the Chamber of Commerce sponsors the event Stores will stay open later tonight through December 23 Also note Saturday December 24 closing at 5 30 p.m and closed Monday December 26
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Mass. Sts
Retail Merchants
Chamber of Commerce
Nieder Told to Quit Sport Over Damaged Knee
Olympic shot put champion Bill Nieder warned by Army Times to stop putting the shot or risk a permanently stiff knee. Nieder, a first lieutenant in the Infantry, seeks release from active duty after doctors at the Presidio San Francisco diagnosed arthritis in his right knee.
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Bill Nieder
Army Times
Nieder
George Marker
Presidio
San Francisco
Marker
Lawrence
Kan
Kansas University
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Ike Assistant Dies Chicago
Mayer Kestnbaum aged 64 longtime Hart Schaffner Marx president and Eisenhower aide died Wednesday apparently of a heart attack in Chicago.
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Mayer Kestnbaum
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Eisenhower
Deaths and Funerals Mrs Dollie May Reetz 68
Mrs Dollie May Reetz 68 native of Lawrence died at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Born December 9 1892 she was a member of St Paul Evangelical and Reformed Church Eudora and former matron of Eudora Eastern Star Burial at Eudora Cemetery Rumsey Funeral Home in charge Survivors include widower Fred A Reetz daughter Greta Harden of Berkeley California an aunt Ida Hodson of Lawrence and two nieces and a nephew.
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Lawrence
Linwood
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Fred A. Reetz
Greta Harden
Berkeley
Calif
Ida Hodson
Route 1
Kansas Athletic Board discusses coaching salaries
Kansas University Athletic Board chair L C Woodruff announced recommendations on football staff salaries will go to the Board of Regents in Topeka on Friday. No details are released and no new actions were stated on the Bert Coan case or Memorial Stadium expansion.
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Topeka
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Wescoe Attends Budget Session At Topeka
Kansas University Chancellor W Clarke Wescoe visited Topeka to attend governor budget committee hearings. Regents proposed KU's 1961 budget and other state schools. governor and legislature will review before next month. Wescoe, joined by executive secretary Raymond Nichols, expected at Friday Regents meeting.
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Kansas University
Topeka
Board of Regents
John Anderson
Wescoe
Raymond Nichols
Recess Details At Haskell College For Spring
Registration for the spring semester begins February 2. About 300 students stay on campus during vacation with 100 from Alaska remaining due to distance. Planned events include a Christmas Eve party with film and gifts, caroling, Vesper services, Midnight Mass, a Christmas Day dinner, and a New Year’s Eve dance.
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Haskell
Alaska
Airliner lands safely after fuel dump and oil leak
An airliner bound for Texas dumped 10 000 gallons of fuel into the Pacific then returned to Los Angeles for an emergency landing after one of its four engines developed an oil leak. The crew reported an uneventful landing with no injuries.
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Pacific
Navy claims jet altitude record at Edwards Air Force Base
The Navy announced a world altitude record of about 17 miles for a jet attack plane carrying just over one ton. Cmdr. Leroy A. Heath and Lt. Henry L. Monroe reached 91,450.8 feet in a North American Aviation Vigilante, at Edwards AFB California, while evaluation proceeds for fleet service.
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Patuxent River
Bowen Worker Dies After Illness at Home
Bowen a native of Lawrence and longtime employee of Bowersock Mills dies at home after feeling ill mid afternoon. He leaves wife Joy and Terry aged 10 and 4, sister Mrs Alice Brown of Omaha, brothers Oscar Charles Russell, step father Bill Harbison. Bowen had been living in the area since November and attended local schools before his death.
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Alice Brown
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Perry
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Lawrence
Appointments to Kansas Boards and Commissions
Docking named Home State Bank of Arcadia for a term ending July 1, 1962. Carl O Leary Baxter Springs banker and replacement for Rev Matthew Hall to Crip pled Children's Commission ends Feb 27. Charles R Marshall Abilene insurance man to Kansas Centennial Commission. Groves four-year term. Groves and Bradney are Republicans. By law, at most five of nine board members may be from one party.
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Carl O'Leary
Baxter Springs
Crippled Children’s Commission
Matthew Hall
Atchison
Charles R. Marshall
Abilene
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Bradney
Regents Propose Five Year 30 Million State College Plan
AP Regents present a five year 30 million dollar building program for Kansas state colleges. They urge the 1961 legislature to act on 24.6 million in new buildings with the rest deferred. Funds would come from inactive funds six million from the education building fund tax and eight million from the general fund including three million for KU Medical Center in Kansas City. Gov elect Anderson will review details. Board Chairman Ray Evans says 13 thousand more students are expected by 1965 across the five state colleges.
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Board of Regents
Kansas State
Regents
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Kansas City
John Anderson
Ray Evans
Local births and family notices from Baldwin and Eudora areas
A stream of birth and family notices lists multiple residents and addresses in Baldwin Eudora Lecompton and nearby towns. It notes several newborns including a baby girl born to Norma Beaver at 1601 R I and a baby boy born to Tot Patricia McClure at 1410 W 22nd along with several other recent births and parent announcements.
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Barker
Carol Taul
Baldwin
Anna Moore
Perry
Alvilee Clayborne
N.Y
Norma Beaver
R.I
Colby Student Fred Morrison Named Kansas Rhodes Finalist
Colby senior Fred Morrison of Kansas University was chosen as one of two Kansas finalists for the Rhodes Scholarship. If he wins after regional interviews in Des Moines, he would join KU alums as a three year winner run. Morrison is a Summerfield scholar with a triple major and repeated dean's honors.
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Colby
Kansas University
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Iowa
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Raymond Nichols
Lawrence
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Hutchinson
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England
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Moundridge
Bethel
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Kennedy Aides Weigh Top Posts In Coming Cabinet
Reporters catch President-elect Kennedy shaping a closer look at key posts. Names surface for secretary of the treasury, attorney general, labor, and agriculture. Robert Kennedy remains a leading but not final candidate for the Justice Department.
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Justice Department
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Whizzer) White
Colorado
Kennedy
White
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Afl-Cio
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W. Willard Wirtz
Chicago
Federal Wage Stabilization Board
Clark Kerr
University of California
Ottawa Man Speaks At L E A Meeting
Lawrence Education Association members met at the high school Tuesday night with Ottawa resident Lowell Gish as speaker on the Comprehensive School Survey. The group voted to support the survey and discussed a constitutional change to be voted on at the January meeting. President Mrs Elsie Bailey presided with committee arrangements by the legislative committee led by Mrs Helen Peters and Frieda Cowels introducing the speaker.
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Ottawa
Lawrence Education Association
Elsie Bailey
Helen Peters
Frieda Cowels
Michigan State Alums Gather in Lawrence for Rally
About 50 MSU alumni are expected at the Eldridge Hotel before the double header at Allen Fieldhouse. Kansas faces North Carolina as Kansas State meets Michigan State with a Spartan rally in Lawrence. Eldridge manager Mike Getto notes a large MSU banner and lapel buttons are en route for the event.
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Biggie) Munn
Lawrence
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Cookies Feature Draws Local Cookie Experts In Lawrence
Journal-World reporters skipped the color feature on cookies while cookie experts tested the recipes and praised results. The page 13 feature offers many recipes and serving ideas. Barbara Hinkle was named KU Journalism School Miss Santa and will appear in the KU Jayhawker annual. Sixty-eight KU students will tour Mexico over Christmas, leaving Saturday and returning Jan. 2, costing 115 dollars. The Granada and Varsity theaters offer a free Christmas show for Lawrence children, starring Greer Garson in Her 12 Men with four short subjects. Ten thousand seats are available across both venues, as merchants sponsor tickets for a December 24 show.
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Paola
Kansas University
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Mexico City
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United States
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Lawrence
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Swiss elects Friedrich Wahlen president for 1961
Friedrich Traugott Wahlen, 61, an agricultural expert, was elected president of Switzerland today for 1961. His election by a joint session of both houses of Parliament was automatic and unopposed.
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Switzerland
Friedrich Traugott Wahlen
KU Seniors Win Rotary Fellowships For Study Abroad
Kansas University seniors Kay Reiter of Simpson and John R. Newcomb of Topeka earned Rotary Foundation Fellowships to study abroad next year. Internationally 118 top students from 25 countries will receive awards, with Kansas among the states receiving three honorees. Reiter will study comparative modern literature at Poitiers France and Newcomb will study design and illustration at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
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Bromelsick Christmas Party Supports 4-H and Scouts
The ninth annual Bromelsick Christmas Party for Douglas County 4-H, Lawrence Boy Scouts, and Girl Scouts is Saturday at Hoch Auditorium KU campus from 1 30 to 3 pm. More than 2 500 youths expected to attend with carols and movies. The event funds come from Alfred Bromelsick estate with one fourth of annual income designated for the party.
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Alfred Bromelsick
Lawrence
Bernice Harvey
Raymond Nichols
Blaze at Commodore Perry Hotel Displaces 350 Guests
An early morning fire at the Commodore Perry Hotel in Austin Tex forced 350 guests from their rooms and left the Austin Club water damaged and ruined.
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Commodore Perry
Austin Club
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