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Lawrence Chronicle Year in Review 1949 Highlights
1949 events include KU conferences with 26 country students, construction records, sleet and snow storms, police and fire station plans, and civic changes. Inductions under selective service begin. local officials retire. jail and court actions noted. multiple storms impact daily life and transportation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Council
K.U
C. J. Posey
Lawrence
Willard Larkin
Ed Johnson
Lou Griffith
National Foundation For
Kaw Valley Railroad
Bonner Springs
Adrian Lindsey
Sunflower
Johnson County
Hugh Means
New City Garage
Lawrence Journal- World
Baldwin Ledger
Lawrence Outlook
Douglas County
Topeka
Hubert Moodie
East Nineteenth Street
Charles Stough
Chamber of Commerce
Kaw
James H. Parsons
Olin K. Petefish
Community Chest
Lowell Thomas
Haskell
Carlson
United Nations
Coca-Cola Company
East Seventh Street
Sam Ferguson
James Postma
Cotton
Six
Wagstaff
New House
Seventeenth
Tennessee Streets
Kansas
Dan Rogie
Fourth Ward
Homer Hoch
Templin Hall
G. H. Hardtaker
Third Ward Council
H. C. Brinkman
Red Cross
Eighth
Kentucky
Wilmer Beougher
J. C. Penney