Lawrence in 1971 A Year of Growth and Turbulent Change
Lawrence saw major construction including KU projects and a $7 million Kresge warehouse, while city plans expanded with new libraries and housing. Notable events included elections, a failed $5.6 million complex, a later $4 million judicial bond talk, road and reservoir developments, law enforcement crackdowns, and weather extremes with strong agricultural yields and a record neighborhood grant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kresge
Santa Fe
Kansas Power & Light
Cameron Bluff
Wescoe Hall
Summerfield Hall
Haworth Hall
Raymond C. Moore
Kansas Geological Survey
Haskell
Kasold
15Th Street
Robinson Road
31St Street
U.S. 59
Lawrence Area
23Rd
Iowa
Clinton Reservoir
U.S. Corps of Engineers
Salina
Perry
Lawrence
Mercury
United Fund
Oskaloosa
Old Jefferson Town
Wellsville High School
DeSoto
Sunflower Army Ammunition
Fugate denied freedom by 8th Circuit in Starweather case
Caril Ann Fugate, then 14 during the 1958 Starweather murder spree, remains jailed after the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals split 2-1 denying her release. At 27 she is serving life for aiding and abetting the killings, including her mother and stepfather. She argues confessions were involuntary and she lacked counsel of her choice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Caril Ann Fugate
Charles R. Starweather
Nebraska
Wyoming
8Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
G. W. Heaney
Miss Fugate
Starkweather
Robert W. Jensen
Bennet
Neb
Caril
Marion Bartlett
Betty Jean Bartlet
County backs seeking money for Cheney Lake resort
Sedgwick County Commission endorsed pursuing federal funds for an eight point four million Cheney Lake recreational resort. It approved applying for a sixty three thousand dollar EDA grant to study tourism and recreation in the Wichita region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Sedgwick County Commission
Cheney Lake
The
Economic Development Administration
Wichita City Commission
WREAC
Cheney
EDA
Here
Ruth Garvin 72 dies in Laguna Beach California
Former Lawrence resident Ruth R. Garvin 72 died Thursday at her Laguna Beach home. Born December 25 1899 in rural Lawrence Kansas she attended Kansas State University and belonged to Alpha Delta Pi. She served as secretary to Walter Thiele and later at Pure Oil Co before retiring ten years ago. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery Lawrence. Funeral arrangements pending. Survivors include sister Artis Moyer of Laguna Beach and sister-in-law Earl J. Wilson.
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Laguna Beach
Calif
Lawrence
Ruth R. Garvin
Kan
Lawrence High School
Kansas State University
Alpha Delta Pi Sorority
Garvin
Walter G. Thiele
Pure Oil Co
Chicago
Artis Moyer
Oak Hill Cemetery
Rumsey
Funeral services for Steve Garrett in Ottawa
Funeral services for Steve Garrett, 68, of Ottawa, who died Wednesday at Ran som Memorial Hospital, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Dengel and Son Mortuary. Burial will follow in Hope Cemetery. Garrett was a machine shop worker.
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Ottawa
Steve Garrett
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Dengel and Son Mortuary
Hope Cemetery
Garrett
Obscure Kansas hospital notes list local residents
A field of patient and birth notices lists many residents and military addresses across De Soto Eudora Topeka and nearby towns. Entries include names such as Roxie Bedford Grace Ulich Jerry Scribner and others with addresses and a birth announcement noting a boy born Tuesday.
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Roxie Bedford
DeSoto
Grace Ulich
Ore
Jerry Scribner
Eudora
Albert Eye
Mary Withers
Keith Lucas
Tom Harmon
N. Eighth
Joanne Gladden
Sheppard Air Force Base
Tex
James Larrabee
Sheppard Afb
Lisa Lathrom
Galdie Smith
Ferry
Mabel Schendel
Baldwin
Death of Margaret Wilbur Bailey Linked to Pasadena
Relatives informed of the death last week of Margaret Wilbur Bailey of Pasadena formerly of Lawrence. Survivors include the widow Edgar of the home a son Robert of Pasadena and a brother Allan Wilbur of New York City. Her father the late Dr Francis Wilbur was director of Westminster Hall at Kansas University from 1906 to 1911.
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Margaret Wilbur Bailey
Pasadena
Calif
Lawrence
Edgar
Robert
Allan Wilbur
New York City
Funeral services for Mrs. Til da Percival in Eudora
Funeral services for Til da Catherine Percival 67 of Route 1 Eudora will be held at 2 30 p.m. Sunday at Rumsey Funeral Home. Burial is in Washington Creek Cemetery southwest of Lawrence. She died Wednesday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tilda Catherine Percival
Rt. 1
Eudora
Rumsey Funeral Home
Washington Creek Cemetery
Lawrence
Grain Prices Rise in December Led by Corn Surge
U S Department data show December corn up 11 cents per bushel to 1.08. Other feeds rallied including sorghum oats and barley. Beef cattle averaged 29.80 per hundredweight up 30 cents, hogs 19.70 up 80 cents. Feeder calves at 38.40 per hundred pounds. Farm prices up 2 percent year over year while expenses rose 1 percent from mid November.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Crop Reporting Board
Lawrence City Ordinance Glossary Excerpt From 1971
City of Lawrence ordinance excerpt defines terms for zoning and building rules including cellar height, dwelling classifications, home occupations, and public utilities. It outlines frontages, lot types, and nonconforming uses with multiple definitions for housing, commercial, and civic structures.
Ordinance Amends Lawrence Kansas Zoning Definitions
The ordinance updates Chapter 20 Article 17 Section 20 1701 defining uses permitted upon review and temporary uses in Lawrence Kansas. It expands accessory use definitions, adds access to home occupations and specifies accessory signs, storage rules and related terms. The measure adjusts building and lot terminology for the city code.
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Lawrence Daily Journal-World
Lawrence
Kansas
Eineeeros
Nanans
Ee Club
Apersee Corporation
Ra Ae
City of
Histriet
Connion
Kansas River
Wakarusa River
Ktoor Vrert
Tgf
Etna
Pittas Leura
Crvici
Aida Ae
RHIS
Renckh
Ilansas
Lawrenceh
Alley
Board of Zoning Appeals
Board of Lodging Home
Hutchinson Names Lopez Human Relations Director
Hutchinson Kansas city officials announce Anthony Lopez a field investigator for the Kansas Civil Rights Commission as Hutchinson s first human relations director under a new seven member commission ordinance. Troy Scroggins of the state commission calls Hutchinson s ordinance the strongest civil rights measure in Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hutchinson, Kan
Athony Lopez
Kansas Civil Rights Commission
Hutchinson
Lopez
George Pyle
Troy Scroggins
The
State Commission
Kansas
Two European Train Crashes Kill Three In Dense Fog And Collision
Two train wrecks in Europe killed three people and injured about 51 overnight. A passenger train crashed into the rear of another near Budapest in dense fog, while in Pegnitz a diesel locomotive plowed into a 27 car freight train on the Nuernberg Hof route. Authorities probe warning failures and the diesel crew’s unexpected reverse route.
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Budapest
Hungary
Hugarian State Railroad Company
Pegnitz
Germany
Nuernberg
Hof
Schnabelwald
Neuhaus
Motorist Persists Through Snow to Take Road Test
In Sheboygan Wisconsin a lone applicant braved an eight to ten inch snowstorm and arrived at the driver licensing office at 9 a m for a road test. When no examiner appeared he left a message on an answering service saying he would return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheboygan
Wis
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John Spearman Sr
Kenneth Anderson
Richard J. Holzmeister
Bob Pulliam
William Bradley
Meadowbrook
Kansas University
Haskell Junior College
Kansas Union
Board of Regents
University
James Davis Jr
Kansas State
KU Jayhawk
Jay
Allen Fieldhouse
Bob Hope College
Lloyd E. Deems
Pierre Stouse Jr
Morrell Dean Ruehlen
Ivy Marie Honeycutt
William Honeycutt
Rt. 2
Kansas City
Drury Lon Honeycutt
Vern Miller
Miller
Rock Chalk Cafe
12Th and
Oread
City Barns
Mike Elwell
Gaslight
Caril Fugate
State Park and Resources Authority
Wichita Regional Economic Adjustment Committee
Bennett Creamery
St. Paul Ame Church
Mary Elizabeth
Home
Francis
Dale
Portland
John
Jeanette Hierstein
Nortonville
Sherri Holladay
John Arensberg
W. Eighth
Loretta Dunbar
Ala
Judith Lemon
Larry Trapani
Leavenworth
Walter Dimery
Sara Bremger
Helen McDonald
Emery Rd
Floyd Russell
David Glass
Kenneth Fisher
Maine
Lorrette Gould
Ethel Eshbaugh
Topeka
Virginia Findley
Sharon Hanna
Helen West
Tonganoxie
Daisy Nixon
Miss
Evelyn Wellman
Maple Sn
Raymond Hunter
Donald Henricks
Mack Henricks
Richard Henricks
Roger Stanley III
David Paretsky
Arlyn West
Ridge Ct
Edward Barnett
Gerald Raybern
Margaret W. Bailey
Tilda Percival
Che Bull
West
Europe
Associated Press
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