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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1968
Page
4
Dear readers recount a request to let a sister-in-law father a child to solve infertility. Ann Landers rejects the idea, warns of new family problems, and pushes toward adoption agencies. A second letter discusses moustache concerns and hair removal myths with electrology endorsed.
In New York a woman burned her Saks Fifth Avenue credit card in front of the store to protest the killing of animals for coats and furniture. Miss Marjorie Pickens, one of 30 pickets, called the hour long demonstration a symbolic protest against stores selling skins of animals in danger of extinction such as tigers leopards cheetahs and jaguars.
Meadowlark 4-H Club plans a 6 30 p.m. Tuesday meeting at the 4 H Fairgrounds. Parents will provide a basket dinner and present the program with Mr and Mrs Dan Pherigo organizing. The Dick Funks and others are listed as participants.
The February meeting of the Jayhawk 4-H Club is set for 8 p.m. Monday at Grant School. Members will introduce their parents during roll call. Parents Night will be observed and each family should bring a pie. Hosts are the Bill Garrett and Don Westheffer families.
At 7 30 p m Monday a travel form on Modern Israel will be shown in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union sponsored by the Travel Forum of Student Union Activities. Marvin Bridges of Kansas City will speak and a film on transport co ops medical services and the Afro Asian Institute will be shown.
The Grand Lodge of Kansas Masons awarded Edwin T. Burgess of 2115 Leonard an unlimited proficiency certificate for knowledge of Masonic lectures, accompanied by the Trice-Robinson award. George W. Mole presented the honor at the stated meeting Thursday. Burgess, former Acacia Lodge No. 9 master in 1948 and treasurer since 1956, is a retired Lawrence schoolteacher active in Boy Scouts.
The travel-adventure series presents the film South Vietnam at 7 30 p m Tuesday in the Lawrence High School auditorium. Kenneth Armstrong who filmed the sequence during three assignments in South Vietnam will narrate the show. Armstrong has been on the front lines during battle talked with Vietnamese people and interviewed their leaders.
Central Junior High School sponsors a dance for eighth graders from 7 30 to 10 tonight in the school gym.
Dorothy S. Dougan daughter of Mr and Mrs John H Dougan of 1121 Pa St reported for duty at the U S Naval Station Charleston DC assigned to the Navy Finance Office She had attended Lawrence High School before entering service in November 1967 Lawrence Johnson 26 son of Mrs Maxine F French Shawnee Mission promoted to Army specialist five on Jan 25 while serving with the 45th Engineer Group Headquarters Company in Vietnam His wife Margaret resides in Independence Mo Army Pfc Joe L Finley 22 son of Mr and Mrs Booker T Finley of Kansas City was assigned as a grenadier in Troop C 2d Squadron 4th Infantry Division 1st Cavalry near Pleiku Vietnam.
Second Lt. Paul A. Longren son of Mr and Mrs Albin Longren of 1534 W 21st St has completed the training course at Keesler AFB Miss for U S Air Force communications officers Longren studied maintenance of radio teletype equipment and related systems
Longren, a 1962 Lawrence High School graduate, earns a 1967 Kansas University B.S. and is commissioned through the ROTC program. He is assigned to Adair Air Force Station Oregon and becomes a member of the Aerospace Defense Command. His wife Mary is daughter of Gus and Mary Zibell of Holton.
Cavalry twill becomes a major feature in upcoming rain coats as fabric usage expands in men s wear. Colorful linings will debut in rainwear within the new lines.
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