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Local 1955 Lawrence notes highlight city progress and events
Highlights from 1955 Lawrence issues show civic plans, budgets, and community activities. Topics include hospital funding, university expansions, weather shifts, and a rush of construction, schooling changes, and public service upgrades across Douglas County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dodge City
Noble P. Sherwood
Kansas University
Indonesia
Indonesia University School of Medicine
Episcopal Church
K.U
Bruce Linton
Red Cross
Hospital Board
City Commission
Maurice Wilcoxson
Kansas City
Harold B. Lundgren
First Baptist Church
Phoenix
Ariz
Charles Edmondson
Lansing
Legislative Council
The
Navy
Office of Naval Research
Lawrence
Patee
Planning Commission
D. M. Swarthout
Washington, D.C
Catholic University Music
Commission
Patee Theater
Southwestern Bell
Jayhawk Drive
Douglas County
Leonard H. Axe
K.U. Business School
Eugene W. Hiatt
Fred Hall
Hiatt
Eudora
Tim Hovey
Benson
John Hazelet
Alva D. Bernhard
Coronado
Calif
John Ise
Bill Hodson
Fairgrounds
East Nineteenth Street
Lawrence City Commission
Leonard Axe
South Park
Salvation Army
Lawrence American Legion
Overland Park
Dick Raney
Hillcrest Shopping Center
Alan Fisher
Lawrence Legion
George Hoefer
Philmont Ranch
New Mexico
Douglas County Commissioners
Santa Fe Railway
Central Park
6Th and
Ky, Sts
County Commission