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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1969
Page
8
The Northeast Kansas forecast calls for continued cold and wind through Christmas with highs in the 30s and a 20s low. Christmas Day may reach about 25 with a small chance of snow. Five day trend near normal temperatures and a quarter to half inch of precipitation possible Saturday or Sunday.
Lawrence firefighters answered a 2:35 a.m. call at 5224 Ind occupants Alice Harris smelled smoke. No fire found. A washing machine motor overheated at 6:22 p.m. Tuesday at William Ellis 1305 N.J. no damage. A 1958 car owned by Grad don Howe backfired through the carburetor at 3:04 p.m. Tuesday with no damage reported.
Court records show Waller Trapp 1918 Stewart fined $30 for speeding. Steven Gordon of 2350 Ridge Ct fined $10 for speeding. Leon Steele of Haskell fined $25 for drunken behavior. Guy Darlan of 502 W. 14th fined $25 for removal of private property and disobeying a police officer.
Dr Lars G Brundin Swedish plant and animal expert will lecture at Kansas University en route from Chile to Sweden He will present two talks January 7 at 4 pm on plant and animal classification and January 8 at 2 30 pm on biogeography in the southern hemisphere Both talks are in Dyche Auditorium sponsored by the department of systematics and ecology
The city commission will accept bids next Tuesday on a $200000 water system improvement after approving plans. The panel also considered zoning requests and a building code amendment for fireproof church basement construction.
Kansas farmers planted 9 583 000 acres of winter wheat for the 1970 harvest. The total is down 0 percent from last year and the smallest since 1987. The 1970 crop is forecast at 240 million bushels, down 2 percent from 1969 but 5 percent above the 1959 68 decade average. Yield is projected at 25 bushels, up 4.6 from 1968.
A Los Angeles AP report surveys 2 to 5 year olds in Long Beach Redondo Beach and Ventura about Santa Claus. Kids offer whimsical, conflicting views on his age birthplace residence and methods of delivering toys with humorous misunderstandings.
Kansas City reports wholesale eggs holding steady while butter remains unchanged and wheat prices rise with No 2 hard and red wheat trading around 1.46 to 1.53. Analysts interpret McCracken’s remarks as signals the Nixon era may ease credit restraints, boosting hopes for a year end rally in New York markets.
In Los Angeles the braille volume expectations is printed with no ink and read by blind children. The Braille Institute of America has prepared about 4000 copies for students in grades three to six. Betty Kalagian edits the volume which costs five dollars per copy funded by donations.
Twenty three members of Junior Girl Scout Troop 653 sang Christmas carols for residents of the Samaritan Lodge and Lawrence Manor nursing homes Sunday night. After the caroling the girls attended a party. Leader Mrs. Alice Woods Lowell Craig and Mrs. John Denton accompanied the girls.
Kansas Supreme Court upholds a 52000 judgment for Louis Bartlett and Vernon Elliott Jr. fathers of two boys who drowned in a Wichita sand pit. The court found the pits conditions an attractive nuisance and held Davis Corp and Wichita Big Pine Sand Co. jointly liable, reversing part of the lower court ruling and allowing a cross-petition.
U S military authorities in Saigon ordered a handful of American servicemen to leave a Christmas antiwar demonstration near the Catholic Cathedral. Col Hervey Keator cited regulations barring in uniform participation. Organizers expected about 500 participants. about a third showed up before dispersal.
Harold M. Strode, 62, of Wichita, was killed when his car ran off K-96 and struck an embankment about nine miles east of Leon in El Dorado, Kan. The crash occurred Tuesday afternoon, according to the highway patrol.
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