Controversy over Peyton Place author's deathbed will grows
Grace Metalious left an estate about 1 million dollars and named English journalist John Rees sole beneficiary in a will drafted the day after hospital admission. Her children Marsha Dupuis Christopher and Cynthia gained immediate guardianship safeguards as the probate court assigns a special guardian and designates other executors.
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Laconia
N.H
Grace Metalious
Peyton Place
George
Marsha Dupuis
Christopher
Cynthia
Boston
John Rees
Rees
Metalious
Belknap County
John Snierson
Laconia Law
John F. Holland
Manchester
John F. Clemens
Dynamite Wrecks Train in Florida Near St Augustine
A dynamite blast on the Florida East Coast Railway near St Augustine blows a locomotive and several box cars off the track ten miles south of the city. No serious injuries reported though some cars caught fire at a nearby highway intersection.
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ST. Augustine, Fla
Florida East Coast Railway
Here
KU graduation events set with state address and reunions
Graduation class reunion parties are scheduled for the eve ing. An 8 15 am breakfast meeting of the Endowment Association Board of Trustees on May 31 precedes a 11 30 am official reception and a 4 30 pm all University commencement supper where Chancellor W Clarke Wescoe will deliver the annual State of the University address before Baccalaureate. June 1 includes commissioning ceremonies at 11 am in Murphy Hall and a 3 pm University reception for graduates and families. Committee chair Henry Shenk and members Lawrence Bee, Barbara Craig, Edwin Elbel, Fred Ellsworth, Raymond Nichols, Albert Palmeriee, Richard Wintermore plus two EU seniors Jay Cook and Wendy Wilkerson support planning.
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Endowment Association Board of Trustees
W. Clarke Wescoe
State of the University
Kansas Union
KU Army
Navy
Air Force
Murphy Hall
The
Henry Shenk
Lawrence Bee
Barba Craig
Edwin Elbel
Fred Ellsworth
KU Alumni Association
Raymond Nichols
University
Albert Palmeriee
Richard Wintermore
KU Alumni Associaton
Jay Cook
Webster Groves
Wendy Wilkerson
Wichita
Honor Roll Update at West Junior High
West Junior High officials revise fall semester lists adding D Ann Murphy to the top Honor Roll after a clerical error moved her to honorable mention.
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West Junior High School
D. Ann Murphy
Lodge Notice Stag Dinner For Members Friday Feb 28
V F W invites members and prospective members to a stag dinner with fried chicken and catfish at 6 30 p m on Friday February 28.
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V.F.W. Stag
Weekend trips planned by Kansas University visitors
Two weekend trips are planned for the Fifth Seminar on Higher Education in the Americas. Delegates will tour the KU Medical Center in Kansas City Friday and visit Kansas State University on Saturday. Representatives from Latin American countries toured Baker University Wednesday, meeting President William Scarborough and Baker faculty William James and Robert Brown.
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Kansas University
Americas
KU Medical Center
Kansas City
Kansas State University
Baker University
William Scarborough
William James
Robert Brown
Baker
A G Sabol Named President At Reuter Organ Co
Albert G Sabol Jr was elected president of Reuter Organ Co of Lawrence at the annual meeting Robert B Oyler joined the board along with Carl Reuter Franklin Mitchell and Edgar Jost Sabol succeeds John Selig who had led since 1962 Selig remains with the company in sales for many years and Reuter Mitchell hold vice presidencies Jost remains secretary treasurer Reuter employs about 100 people and sells custom built organs
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Albert G. Sabol Jr
Robert B. Oyler
Reuter Organ Co
Lawrence
Reuter
Sabol
Oyler
Carl Reuter
Franklin Mitchell
Edgar Jost
John Selig
Mitchell
Jost
Selig
Lawrene County faces two district school plan vote split
Voters weigh one unit versus two district control as the Lawrence County board sets a June 2 election. A second September vote follows if the first fails, with rural districts seeking local control while urban voters weigh equal funding and building needs.
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Lawrence
Althaus
I. J. Stoneback
Route 4
Lawrence High
Seven Lawrence youths named for 1964 Boys State delegates
Seventeen Douglas County juniors will attend the American Legion Boys State from May 31 to June 6 at Kansas University. The Lawrence High School cohort includes 13 students with roles in Student Council, sports, music, and clubs, plus peers from Haskell Institute Eudora and Lecompton.
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American Legion
Kansas University
Lawrence High School
Haskell Institute
Eudora
Lecompton
Lawrence High
Chris Barteldes
Ben A. Barteldes
Ind. St
Mike Edwardson
Ralph Edwardson
Brook St
Bob Flannery
L. S. Flannery
Winona
Tim Gjellstad
I. M. Gijellstad
Wellington Rd
FFA
Rowe McKinley
J. R. McKinley
West 6Th St
DeMglay
Hi-Y
George Milleret
Route 4
John Moore
Richard K. Moore
Lawrence Ave
Bilogy Club
Chess Club
Explorer Post
KU Amateur Radio Club
William Moorhead
W. G. Moorhead
Greever Terr
Steve Ridgway
Robert W. Ridgway
Tenn. St
W. M. Stalcup
Max Stalcup
West 20Th
Stalcup
Rod Taylor
Bernard A. Taylor
West 22Nd St
Rick Trapp
Glenn Trapp
Iowa
Student Delegates Named From Area High Schools
Kenneth Wertzberger son of Mrs. Melvon Wertzberger attends football track and Hi Y and is from 907 Ark. Joe Frazier Jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Frazier Dallas Tex. will represent Haskell and studies radio electronics. A Tinker Hall resident and class president he also plays basketball and serves on Student Council. Alternate delegates from Lawrence High include Charles Baird Steve Dykes and Don Simpson. Eudora sends Jimmy Broers and Robert Langston while Lecompton will be represented by Lee Keating.
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Kenneth Wertzberger
Melvon Wertzberger
Ark
Joe Frazier Jr
Joe Frazier
Dallas
Tex
Haskell
Tinker Hall
Lawrence High
Charles Baird
Tax Cut Day Promises Tax Relief for Families
The plan reduces the federal tax bite by 7 500 jobs and 30 million dollars in annual budget requests. A family of four would see notable relief next year, with individuals seeing withholding drop from 18 to 14 percent next Thursday and overall rates falling from 20–91 percent to 14–70 percent over two years.
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Johnson
Parachute Jump Event Draws Range of Douglas County Units
Ranking Jr Richard Monteau Jerry Shipman and Jack Shipman are listed with Lawrence units alongside Robert Farris Jack Schock Charles Bryan David Daly Frederick L Jones John Dillard and Philip Rhoads. The public may view the mass jump and attend Cox farm classes. Highway Patrol will direct traffic. Cox requests no parking on his property. Civil Defense units under Howard Lindley will participate with the Douglas County Sheriff's Office Kansas Highway Patrol Douglas County Civil Defense Douglas County Auxiliary Police Douglas County Red Cross and Douglas County Auxiliary Fire Department.
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Douglas County Sheriff's Office
Kansas Highway Patrol
Douglas County Civil Defense
Douglas County Auxiliary Police
Douglas County Red Cross
Douglas County Auxiliary Fire Department
U S Warns on Need to Maintain Defense Power in Stalled Talks
In Geneva the United States and Soviet Union clash over disarmament strategy as William C. Foster warns that without binding disarmament the U S must keep building defenses and easing the arms race Meanwhile Semyon Tsarapkin resists a nuclear freeze and pushes a plan to cut arms budgets first
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United States
U.S
William C. Foster
Washington
Semyon K. Tsarapkin
Foster
Tsarapkin
Johnson
Geneva Forum
Helmers Elected By KU Alumni Interfraternity Council
Dale S. Helmers of Kansas City was elected temporary president of the KU Alumni Interfraternity Council which met in the Kansas Union. The group aims to promote fraternity welfare, coordinate activities, and improve university relations.
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Dale S. Helmers
Kansas City
Kansas University Alumni Interfraternity Council
Kansas Union
W. Clarke Wescoe
Laurence Woodruff
Donald K. Alderson
Alderson
Alumni Interfraternity Council
Gene Kean
Robert Radcliff
Tom Alexander
Warren George
al Hack
Steve Stotts
Beta Theta Pi
Interfraternity Council
KU Alumni Interfraternity Council
Helmers
Speaker Carl Glatt addresses Noon Kiwanis at Eldridge Hotel
Kansas Civil Rights Commission Director Carl Glatt spoke at the Noon Kiwanis Club meeting in the Eldridge Hotel today. The Istanbul bazaar, a 500 year old market, hosts 3,000 shops selling items from saddles to hippopotamus shields.
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Carl Glatt
The
Kansas Commission On Civil Rights
Istanbul
Johnson Opens Cross-Florida Barge Canal Start
President Johnson visited Palatka Florida on the first openly political trip of his administration to inaugurate construction on the cross Florida barge canal. The $146 million project will be finished in about ten years linking Florida east and west coasts and symbolizing national unity.
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Palatka
Fla
Johnson
Florida
Baker Tied To Gambling Plan In Senate Testimony
John B. Gates a Pan American Airways vice president told Senate investigators that Bobby Baker set up meetings with Nevadans linked to gambling concessions in the Caribbean. Gates said Baker described Edward Levinson owner of the Fremont Hotel Las Vegas and Clifford Jones a former Nevada lieutenant governor as friends and clients. Baker resigned his Senate post last Oct 7. Levinson dropped out of a Curacao casino bid after Pan American warned his brother Louis would be involved, and Jones has not secured the concession.
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Washington
John B. Gates
Pan American Airways
Senate
Bobby Baker
Baker
Levinson
Curacao
Pan American
Louis
Jones
Central Junior High names fall honor roll recipients
Twelve ninth graders at Central Junior High School earn fall semester honor rolls with mostly A grades and up to one B. Names include Marguerite Amyx Nancy Freed Leanne Gray Margaret McBride Brenda Metzler Helen Pendleton Edwina Price Chris Redmond Donald Saffron Janet Ulmer Martha Williams Nancy Yates. Fifty-two students receive honorable mention for A and B grades with at most one C.
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Central Junior High School
Marguerite Amyx
Nancy Freed
Leanne Gray
Margaret McBride
Brenda Metzler
Helen Pendleton
Edwina Price
Chris Redmond
Donald Saffron
Janet Ulmer
Martha Williams
Nancy Yates
Barbara Allen
Patty Barry
Annette Bee
Terry Benson
Jananne Bishop
Carol Bittenbender
Linda Bryant
Mary Brubaker
Patty Buell
Tim Burgert
Ronald Commons
Avis Craig
Carolyn Cropp
Janice Davis
Camillia Gentry
Elsa Gilliam
Alan Hack
Pamela Hale
Mona Hargadine
David Harsha
Suzy Hatfield
Richard Heather
Roger Hemphill
Rita Hernandez
Nancy Hornsby
Wendy Jackson
Danny Jenkins
Deanna Jensen
Kathy Jones
Robert Kent
Connie Kennett
Sandra Kiefer
Philip Lacey
Deidra la Vigne
Donna McCormick
Pamela Mailhiot
Lindy Parker
Steve Patterson
Terry Patterson
Donna Peterson
Kathy Pugh
Ramon Romero
Susan Sheppard
Becky Sitterly
Donald Sneden
Vickie Spotts
David Underwood
Gary Winyard
Jane Wilson
Fred Winter
Robert Womack
Stephen Yoder
First Methodist To Start Series On Mission Programs
A four Sunday evening series titled Our Mission Today begins March 1 at First Methodist Church corner 10th and St. The Commission on Missions sponsors with cooperation from church groups. A 5:30 fellowship meal precedes each 6:30 program in Fellowship Hall. March 1 features a panel moderated by Mrs. Ernest Peters with Dr. Charles Wesley Garrett Rev R F Spear Monika Fischer Moses Ayiku Wan Leng Lie and Prof Kenneth Rose. March 8 Gerald Pearson leads discussion. March 15 three foreign students report on Germany Ghana Indonesia. March 22 Palm Sunday conclude with Dr Garrett and a See All The People film."
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First Methodist Church
10Th and St. Sts
Commission On Missions
Fellowship Hall
Ernest Peters
Charles Wesley Garrett
R. F. Spear
Burma
C. O. Naumann
H. E. Blitch
Kenneth Rose
Gerald Pearson
Monika Fischer
Germany
Moses Ayiku
Ghana
Wan Leng Lie
Indonesia
Garrett
Wesleyan Service Guild
Homebuilders Church
Crane and Bubb Endorsed for Republican Delegates
Topeka attorney Harry Crane, 61, was endorsed by the Shawnee County Republican Central Committee to succeed Harry Darby. Henry A. Bubb, Capitol Federal Savings and Loan president and Kan sas Board of Regents member, was endorsed as a district delegate to the national Republican convention in San Francisco this summer.
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Topeka
A. Harry Crane
Shawnee County
Republican Central Committee
Harry Darby
Kansas City
Henry A. Bubb
Capitol Federal Savings and Loan
Kansas Board of Regents
San Francisco
Wolfe to Head League in Topeka Meeting
William D. Wolfe of Lawrence elected president of the Kansas Children’s Service League at its annual Topeka meeting. He succeeds Paul H. Woods of Wichita. Wolfe retired in 1962 after 14 years as Lawrence superintendent and received the Master Teacher Award for his service that year.
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William D. Wolfe
Lawrence
Kansas Children’s Service League
Topeka
Wolfe
Paul H. Woods
Wichita
Lawrence Public Schools
Willingham Named Freshman-Sophomore English Director at KU
Dr. John R. Willingham, associate professor of English, is named director of freshman-sophomore English at Kansas University succeeding Dr. Kenneth S. Rothwell. He has led KU Bureau of Correspondence Study and taught at Centenary College and Oklahoma institutions. He holds a Ph.D from Oklahoma University and multiple degrees from East Texas State and North Texas State.
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John R. Willingham
Kansas University
Kenneth S. Rothwell
Willingham
KU Bureau of
Cenetenary College
Shreveport
Oklahoma University
Texas
Oklahoma
East Texas State College
North Texas State
Tail of 1843 comet extends toward Mars
The tail of the great comet of 1843 stretches about 200 million miles, reaching from the sun toward the planet Mars, according to observations.
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Mars
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