Northeast Snowstorm Sets Records Across Five States
Heavy snow and record cold engulfed the Northeast with 14 inches on Nantucket and 10 inches in Montpelier, while readings plunged to subzero levels in at least 13 states. A child froze to death in Alabama as snow disrupted schools and traffic across the region.
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Nantucket Island
Massachusetts
Montpelier
Falmouth
Mass
Bennington
Rumford
Maine
Muskegon
Mich
Rockies
Atlantic Coast
Bemidji
Minn
Florida
Rio Grande Valley
Rockford
Peoria
Ill
Erie County
Great Lakes
New England
Tampa
Fla
Jacksonville
Indianapolis
Milwaukee
Wis
Limeston
Cincinati
Ohio
Crossville
GE Sets Nearly 11 Million in Antitrust Settlements
General Electric Co. reaches out of court settlements totaling almost 11 million dollars to resolve 32 suits from the 1961 antitrust deci sions. U.S. District Judge Sylvester Ryan approved the agreements on Wednesday. The largest payout, nearly 6 million, goes to Consolidated Edison Co. of New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
General Electric Co
U.S. Dist
Sylvester Ryan
Annual Bromersick Christmas Party Set For Dec. 21
The 12th annual Bromersick Christmas party for Girl Scouts Boy Scouts and 4H Club members will be at 1 30 p m Saturday December 21 in Hoch Auditorium at Kansas University. The event honors the late Alfred Bromersick with funds from his will. A memorial service and wreath laying will follow at Oak Hill Cemetery with youth representatives listed from each group.
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Santa
Bromersick
Hoch Auditorium
Kansas University
Alfred Bromersick
Harold M. Mallett
First Presbyterian Church
Alfred Gallup
Oscar Haugh
John Clyatt
Fred Isaacs
Don Palmateer
Jim Harris
Bill Hundley
Oak Hill
Central Junior High
Charles Wesley Garrett
First Methodist Church
Mona Hargadine
Linda Schild
Kathy Sedlak
Greg Arnold
Ron Casteel
David Estes
Steve Horn
Edward Bishop
Lyle Hoover
Cindy Neis
Carroll Meyer
Kenneth Hubbard
Idlewild Airport to be renamed John F. Kennedy International
Idlewild Airport in New York will officially become John F. Kennedy International Airport on Tuesday marking the third name for the facility in 20 years. Mayor Robert F. Wagner signed the law changing the name, noting Idlewild was the former golf course where the airport was built.
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New York
Idlewild
John F. Kennedy International Airport
Robert F. Wagner
Torch Book On Kennedy Tragedy At Cost
The Associated Press team compiles a 10 by 13 inch hard cover volume detailing the assassination of President Kennedy and its aftermath. It includes 100 pages of color and black and white illustrations, with new material first published here. The paper offers the book at near cost with details below.
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Gether
Associated Press
How to order the newspaper book in production
Readers are guided to fill a coupon and send $2 per copy by mail. The publisher covers postage and will mail the book in January after receiving checks or money orders payable to the newspaper.
Douglas County Animal Shelter Faces Funding Need This Christmas
The Douglas County Humane Society run shelter receives about 4 000 dogs and cats annually and helps shoppers this Christmas. Funds from an animal control contract and a February rummage sale support the operation, with a shortfall of around $8 000 yearly. Shelter managers have five years in their posts and a reputation as one of Kansas best facilities.
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Douglas County
Meltons
Lawrence
Douglas County Humane Society Inc
John Ise
Kansas University
Charles Ise
California
The
Humane Society
Melton
United States
Frank J. McMahon
Washington, D. C
Kansas
Santa
Shadrack
Service Set at Lincoln Memorial for Kennedy Mourning
A candlelight service will be held at the Lincoln Memorial Sunday afternoon to mark the close of the official 30 day mourning period for President Kennedy.
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Washington
Lincoln Memorial
Kennedy
Christmas Vespers at First Methodist Church
The First Methodist Church hosts a Sunday 5 p.m. vesper service with a 4:40 p.m. carol prelude by a brass ensemble. The program features nativity scenes, choir narration from Isaiah Luke and Matthew, and a fellowship hour. Soloists and actors include Frank Purvis Alan Hitt Daniel Abrahamson and Judy Henry among others. Child care is provided.
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First Methodist
First Methodist Church
Andy Finfrock
Walter Robinson
Dick Sweeney
Richard Arnold
Pam Dutt
Mary
Journal-World
Frank Purvis
Alan Hitt
Daniel Abrahamson
Donald Stogsdill
Charles Cape
Marilyn Grantham
Isaiah
Luke
Matthew
Angelus
Chapel
Duane Enos
Purvis
Henry Smart
Kenneth Pine
David Booth
Mike Shields
Judy Henry
Cindy Horn
Paula Connett
Sandy Eisele
Kathy Shephard
Carl Hoffman
Joseph
Mike Blitch
Oohn Saunders
Fred Farmer
Paul Sharp
Tripp Anderson
Joel Paddock
Linda Yowell
Ken Harrison
Alfred Kirk
Manger
Pat Mosser
Barry Robinson
Kathy Mosser
Arlene Wilson
Tacy Wideman
Janet Mosser
Gary Burge
Young Peoples Program For Trinity Lutherans
The annual Christmas program of Trinity Lutheran Church youth is Sunday at 7:30 p.m. The senior high will perform The Holy Nativity silhouette tableau, with the Altar Choir directed by Mrs. Marcus Hahn and the Junior Choir led by Miss Gwen Altie. Organists Mr. and Mrs. Homer Frank. Afterward Luther League Christmas caroling.
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Trinity Lutheran Church
Altar
Marcus Hahn
Gwen Altie
Homer Frank
Luther League
KU Employees Start Christmas Vacation Early at KU
Katherine Giele SUA adviser says most area staff will take Christmas break starting at noon December 24 and return December 26, with New Year’s Day January 1 observed. Skeleton crews remain in the Department of Buildings and Grounds and the KU Traffic and Security Office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine Giele
SUA
Department of Buildings and Grounds
KU Traffic and Security Office
River levels improve as Tuttle Creek dam releases flow
Veteran riv er observer Fred Brown reports Kansas City Missouri River at Lawrence near 11 ft 2 in while Tuttle Creek Dam releases 200 feet per minute. Brown notes river better than 1954 1955. Bowersock plant operates two of seven wheels. Also, Lawrence sees first half 1962 real estate tax payment of 289 845 55 to Douglas County. 1963 taxes total 579 691 up 107 366 from 1962.
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Kansas City
Lawrence
Fred Brown
Bowersock
Brown
Tuttle Creek
Blue River
Manhattan
6Th and
Mass
Kansas Power and Light Company
Austin Stedham
Douglas County
Special Christmas Services At First Presbyterian Church
The First Presbyterian Church will host special Christmas services this Sunday at 5 p.m. with a church school program including a White Gifts service and choral readings by the kindergarten through junior departments. An 8 p.m. candlelight communion follows titled Where Is He. The junior and senior high youth will sing, the chancel and balcony choirs will provide music, and violin pieces Ave Maria Bach Gounod and Gesu Bambino by Theodore Johnson will be performed.
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First Presbyterian Church
Harold M. Mallett
Second Attorney Barred by Court After a Fix Try
A former Tennessee lawmaker is barred from federal court practice for involvement in alleged attempts to fix Hoffa's jury. Harry Beard Jr. admitted discussing $10,000 bribe proposals with Hoffa's Nashville lawyer Z. T. Osborn Jr. and denied contacting juror or husband. Osborn was disbarred and indicted. Hoffa trial scheduled for January 6.
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Nashville, Tenn
Tennessee
James R. Hoffa
Harry Beard Jr
Lebanon
Tenn
U.S. Dist
William E- Miller
Frank Gray Jr
Beard
Z. T. Osborn Jr
Hoffa
Nashville
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Osborn
Air Groups Sing At Four Lawrence Rest Homes
Members of the Arnold Air Society and Angel Flight at Kansas University visited four Lawrence rest homes to sing Christmas carols. They then held a party at Col G E Hallas home with guests from Topeka, Mission, Wichita, Des Moines and other cities.
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Arnold Air Society
Kansas University
Angel Flight
Society
Lawrence Rest Homes
Guardian Angel Homes
Tenn
Moline Rest Home
Miss
Samaritan
Hallas
A. H. Layman
Kathryn McKee
Topeka
Kathleen Harrow
Mission
Judith Hill
Wichita
Nancy Davis
Leawood
Benith Norris
Horton
iLnda Paradise
Kansas City
Mary Hughes
Des Moines
Iowa
Catherine Bergstrom
Karen Miller
Omaha
Neb
Patricia Cram
Televisions Stolen From Three Lawrence Motels
Police report portable TV sets taken from the Virginia Inn College Motel and Westview Motel in Lawrence. Assistant Chief Jim Collins says the same person likely took all three, checking in registering loosening the sets then leaving and returning after dark to move them.
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Lawrence
Jim Collins
Collins
Virginia Inn
College Motel
Westview
Cookie Sets Record And Take Prize
Paul Goodman a Bethel College student produced a record breaking 2300 pound Christmas cookie for KDWB's contest selling $1 shares to finance the makings. The 9 by 3 by 16 inch thick cookie was baked in slabs then assembled in a church kitchen and won a $3479 prize plus profits to backers. Goodman plans to use winnings for education or business investments.
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St, Paul, Minn
KDWB
Paul Goodman
Bethel College
Goodman
Wreck Award Totals 60000 for KU Book Store Aide
Harold E. Ball assistant manager of the Kansas University student book store received 60000 in damages after an automobile crash on December 22 1961 on the Kansas Turnpike near Bonner Springs. Ball sought 75000 actual and 30000 punitive from Photostat Corp and Lloyd Randall Ward Jr of Denver. He endured 52 days in the hospital for a lacerated liver and related complications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold E. Ball
Kansas University
Ball
W. 20Th St
Photostat Corp
Lloyd Randall Ward Jr
Denver
Kansas Turnpike
Bonner Springs
Ward
Downtown Tour for Seniors Planned by Rotary Club
About 35 senior citizens from four Lawrence nursing homes will tour downtown Friday morning sponsored by the Rotary Club. A chartered bus will take them to Weavers department store from 8 15 to 9 15 a m with clerks on duty. Coffee and doughnuts will be served.
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Lawrence Nursing Homes
Rotary Club
Weavers Department Store
Samaritan
Florida Avenue Home
Sioky Rest Home
Guardian Angel Homes, Inc
Riley Burcham
Christmas Play Stille Nacht at Lawrence High
Millard Denny directs two Friday morning assemblies of a Christmas Eve 1917 play set in a ruined no man’s land church. Cast includes Ron Simpson Algie Dick Doores Joe Dennis Shreves Corp Greg Estes Pierre Anita Markley Marie Liz Bates Grandmere Richard Bryan Jean Clara Owens Gabriella Denny nar rator. A tired Serviceman patrol is split from his unit as a newborn child arrives, and the closing note proclaims every child a prince of peace and a birth of hope.
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Millard Denny
Lawrence High
Stille Nacht
Ron Simpson
Algie
Dick Doores
Joe
Dennis Shreves
Corp
Greg Estes
Pierre
Anita Markley
Marie
Liz Bates
Grandmere
Richard Bryan
Jean
Clara Owens
Gabriella
Denny
Narrator
No Man's Land
Card of Thanks for Mrs Esther Strong
The Family of Mrs Esther Strong thanks doctors nurses and aides for kindness and care during her long illness and death. John Strong and Mr and Mrs Wayne Strong and Family extend gratitude to friends neighbors and relatives for flowers cards and kindness.
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Esther Strong
John Strong
Wayne Strong
In Memoriam Bob Moorman 1956 to 1963 Remembered
In loving memory of Bob Moorman who died December 19 1956 seven years ago. He is mourned by his mother Mrs Fred Moorman and sisters Donna and Betty who hold him in their thoughts today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Moorman
Fred Moorman
Donna
Betty
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Weather Bureau
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Lodge
Acadia Lodge
AF & AM
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W.M. J. K. Gorbutt
Secy
J. F. Kennedy Airport
President Kennedy
Lawrence, Ks
D.C
Young Peoples
Trinity Lutherans
Presbyterian Church
Ohio National Life Insurance Company
Gill
Dwight Sickles
Lawrence Mills
Archie Mills
Cookie
LHS
Memoriam
Lawrence Memorial Co
Norman Endaco
Ethan A. Smith
Ethan Smith
Larry Smith
Vermont
van Lines
Moving Service
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