Missouri to absorb Kansas City campus if funding secured
University of Missouri trustees announce a plan to merge with the University of Kansas City if the Missouri Legislature approves 7.1 million for two years. KCU would transfer assets including an 87-acre campus and 23 buildings on July 1, with about 3,800 students. Governor Dalton supports it as a major boost and hints at a 7 million recommended appropriation.
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Four Americans involved in Cuban invasion flyover dead
Four American airmen, unnamed by Dirksen, died in the last hours of a Cuban invasion. A B26 squadron officer says exhausted pilots volunteered for combat as the mission failed, and a search found wreckage but no bodies.
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Major 20th Century Art Exhibition At KU Gallery
The display features European names like Anna Bonetti Bernard Buffet Ernst Kirchner Paul Klee Joan Miro Emil Nolde Max Pechstein Odilon Redon Yves Tanguy and American artists such as Larry Rivers Mark Rothko Jack Levine Ben Shahn Jackson Pollock Willem de Kooning Morris Graves Reginald Marsh and Edward Hopper. The show opens in KU's new 19th and 20th Century gallery on the second floor and will move the collection into the gallery after. Gerald Bernstein, museum curator, says the exhibition warrants rearranging galleries. The EU curator notes public viewing and use in the Art History Department. Bernstein teaches a seminar on 20th Century art and the show provides background for student reports.
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Lawrence Country Club to Hold Special Meeting
A special meeting of stockholders is called by the Lawrence Country Club board for Friday March 8. The session will decide on membership classes and discuss new club rules, with a buffet supper at 6 p.m. prior to the business portion.
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Lawrence High School adds pay for extra duties and schedule shifts
Career Lawrence High School assigns extra duty payments to staff including band directors play directors debate journalism student council and night duty librarian with amounts from 100 to 500 dollars. The plan also outlines junior high athletic and intramural stipends and notes 74 teachers would get 150 raises 32 get 200 20 get 250 and 136 get 300 increments.
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Good Business Relies on Effort Says Patterson
Frank Patterson of Phoenix addressed Lawrence Rotary Club calling for positive action to grow business. He outlined 12 personal qualities for sales success and urged attendees to seek new customers, highlighting a 5.5 new entrants per minute in the U.S. market and a 3.6 person American family.
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Phoenix Ariz
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Brackett Patrons Vote on Thursday
Brackett School District patrons will vote Thursday from 7 30 p m to 9 30 p m at the school on annexation to Riverside District. Riverside hints it will favor the annexation if the vote passes. A future consolidation could lead to a new central school and possible Kanwaka and Riverside annexations.
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Liberal Racers Win This Year
Liberal Kansas women beat Olney England housewives in the pancake race as Mary Barrington clocked 1 minute 5.6 seconds to beat Linda Risby by 4.4 seconds in the Liberal leg, tying the annual Shrove Tuesday contest at seven wins apiece.
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Kennedy Responds to Krock Expletives on News Control
President Kennedy reportedly used expletives upon reading Arthur Krock's New York Times critique of the White House handling of the news. White House aide Andrew Hatcher declined to repeat the exact words, noting Kennedy had seen Fortune and various news items. Kennedy earlier said the administration has had very limited success in managing the news.
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Optimists Hear Zook on Economic Development Efforts
E R Zook secretary manager of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce spoke to the Breakfast Optimist Club on the governor's economic development committee work. Zook, chairman of the committee, was introduced by Jack Arensberg.
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Fire damages rural home on Route 2
A fire shortly before noon damaged the roof and upstairs of Walter Gibson’s Route 2 home. No injuries reported. Wakarusa Fire Department used salvage cloth to protect the downstairs. Cause listed as an electrical wiring short. No damage estimate available.
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Congress Lobby Seeks Chair Variations for Secretaries
Washington AP reports Rep. Tom Steed proposes different chair sizes for Capitol Hill stenographers to improve comfort and productivity. Capitol physician Dr George Calver backs the idea noting weight differences require adaptable seating to avoid strain and boost work output.
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Rev Meadows to Speak at First Baptist Church
Rev Feland Meadows of Mexico City will be guest speaker at 7 30 p m Wednesday in the chapel of the First Baptist Church. Meadows, a home missionary for the American Baptist Convention, is in Lawrence for a Latin American seminar at Kansas University. His topic is A Century Is Not Enough. This opens a series of Wednesday services through Easter.
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Rockefeller to Speak at Lawrence Brotherhood Banquet
About 400 persons are expected for the Lawrence Brotherhood Banquet at 6 30 tonight in the Kansas University Union Ballroom. Winthrop Rockefeller, Arkansas business man philanthropist, will be the speaker. Tickets are sold well Monday and will be available at the door tonight, says general chairman Mrs Clayton Krehbiel.
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Lutheran Lent Series Opens at Immanuel Church
Immanuel Church at 17th and Vt Streets begins a lent series themed Atoning Christ with Wednesday 7 30 pm services. The Ash Wednesday sermon is The Need of Atonement by Rev Daniel DeBrock and Rev Earl Zimmermann.
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Sunset Drive-In
Per Mile Revenue Seen Unchanged in New Plan
Union Cab and Yellow Cab officials say the new meter rates will not significantly alter per mile revenue. The meter charge is 45 cents for the first two thirds mile, 10 cents for each added one third mile, with 10 cents for each extra passenger after the first two. Waiting time is $4 per hour. Yellow Cab began meters on Monday while Union Cab will start on Friday March 1.
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Number of council-manager communities in US and Canada
There are 1,89 communities with council-manager government across the United States and Canada.
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Prehistoric Tritons Revived in Siberian Ice
Russian scientists report two frozen tritons revived from 5 000 year sleep in northern Siberia. The lizardlike tailed amphibians woke, ate wild berries and mosquitoes, moved about, and died after three weeks. a second specimen revived and survived most of the summer.
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Kansas Citian Is Army Speaker at Salvation Army Dinner
Dr. Robert Myers, a Kansas City physician, spoke at the Salvation Army Citizens Appreciation Dinner in the Hotel Eldridge. About 150 attended and he urged joy in Christianity as essential, not optional. Capt. Earl Palsley reported Salvation Army aid to 600+ families in 1962 and new officers were installed, including L. E. Morgan and James Black.
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Kansas City
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Earl Palsley
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James Black
Maurice Clarkson
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Lawrence HELP-RU drive targets broad support in 1963
GUF chairs announce the 1963 Lawrence HELP-RU drive beginning March 20 with multiple drives planned. Douglas County leads Kansas counties in January with 606 donors totaling 34 762, while other counties and states show varied contributions across the campaign. The overall average gift is about 35 dollars.
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