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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1968
Page
9
Continued cold and windy weather in northeast Kansas with light chances of precipitation through Sunday. Lows tonight around 20s, upper teens, with Sunday highs near 30. today’s temperature likely not rising above the upper 20s.
The Associated Press reports two major winter storms sweeping from Kansas and Nebraska to New England, bringing snow, freezing rain, and dense fog. Tornadoes struck East Texas causing property damage near Atlanta with no reported injuries. Cold arctic air plummeted temperatures in the Plains and Rockies, while travel warnings extended from the Northwest to the Northeast as another storm loomed off the Oregon coast. A drowning occurred near Carthage, Missouri, after a rain-swollen stream swept a car from a bridge.
A tornado forms aloft and its funnel may touch the ground, leaving unscathed areas in its path. Typically storms move 20 to 40 miles, though some have tracked up to 300 miles.
City officials reported a material improvement from the fuel oil shortage and flu outbreak. About 15 000 of 28 000 buildings lacking heat received oil by Friday night amid ongoing vaccine deliveries and a two inch snowstorm. The state of peril had been declared to direct priority fuel shipments to facilities housing the sick.
A hospital report lists dismissals and patient names with addresses including Mrs Olive Parks and Mrs Mary Grover. It also notes a birth for Mr and Mrs Glenn Taliaferro at 1311 W 6th a son born Friday. Locations include Eudora Harrison Ark Baldwin and other towns.
Kansas Power and Light announces in Lawrence the 3 million dollar air quality control system at Cameron Bluff generating station as part of a 37 million expansion. The unit on the 125000 kilowatt boiler reduces sulfur dioxide by 83 percent with a dolomite scrubber while a 430000 kilowatt unit is planned to nearly triple capacity at the same site.
Mrs Mildred Fern Duver 57 of 2015 Mass St died Friday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Funeral 2 p.m. Tuesday at Rumsey Funeral Home with Rev Lawrence Kurth. Burial Memorial Park Cemetery. Survived by widower Walter two sons Charles and Robert parents Mr Mrs Frank Deay Baldwin sister Mrs Laurie Postma Baldwin. Born Nov 3 1912 in Douglas County. A registered nurse.
Joseph Laqua 69 of Lecompton died Friday in Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Funeral arrangements are pending at Plymouth Congregational Church in Lawrence. He is survived by his widow Marie of the home, four daughters Ann Clipp and Genevieve O'Brien of Frederick Maryland Carolyn Smith Bend Oregon and Josephine Hudgkins Denver Colorado one son Robert Bend Oregon eleven grandchildren and one great grandson. He was born February 26 1899 in Breslow Germany and was a retired Santa Fe Railway employee. He belonged to the Plymouth Congregational Church and served as IOOF chaplain for several years.
In San Diego 400 relatives of Pueblo crewmen gather for a Christmas Eve reunion after 11 months as captives in North Korea. Families traveled from Japan, the Philippines, and U.S. bases as children, including Janice Lacy and Melissa, find joy in gifts and moments with their fathers during medical tests and debriefing at the El Cortez hotel.
Los Angeles pilots will seed clouds at L A International Airport in an $80 000 test to improve visibility using sodium chloride ammonia sulfate and urea as fog threatens closure. The scheme follows 162 hours 58 minutes of fog disruption in 1968 across Southern California airports.
Americans over 65 spend about five times more on drugs than those 15 to 24. Average yearly drug costs are about 42 dollars for older adults versus 8.25 for young adults, with higher hospital and facility costs possibly raising totals. Women over 65 spend about 46.70 compared with 34.70 for men.
Foreign leaders and citizens praise Apollo 8 after splashdown in the Pacific. From Britain's Harold Wilson to Pope Paul VI, world figures hail the mission as a milestone in science and international unity, with joy voiced from Tokyo to Warsaw and Prague.
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