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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1964
Page
2
Pope Paul VI, returning from the Holy Land, starts work on his first encyclical, reportedly a new scientific and technological focus. Informants say experts will help prepare it, timed with Galileo Galilei’s 400th birth anniversary.
President Johnson signed the 3 billion dollar foreign aid appropriation for the fiscal year starting July 1. Rep. Robert Dole urged halting the sale of 13 million bushels of durum wheat from the Commodity Credit Corp to Continental Grain Co until the President reviews the transaction for national interest and potential resell to Russia.
TOPEKA The Governor's First Economic Development Conference will be in Topeka on Tuesday Jan 21. Gov John Anderson has named E R Zook executive secretary of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce as chairman. Zook heads the Governor's Economic Development Committee and is among 10 speakers detailing state efforts. Anderson will discuss Cooperation for Economic Growth at the noon luncheon. Also on the program is Dr Darwin W Dakoff chief economist of the Office of Economic Analysis and a Lawrence resident.
Kansas University People-to-People office shifts to housing for foreign students seeking furnished rooms or apartments for the second semester. About 40 prospective tenants registered, all want facilities with cooking, near campus due to limited car use. Rentals can be listed by calling UN 4-3853 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays.
Lawrence Kiwanis Club installed new officers led by Ellis P. Addy as president and Ben ton Roy Hanan as vice president. New board members include Fred Bates and Robert Scmalberg joining four holdovers, with certificates awarded for 30 to 46 years of service.
A KU summer program provides an engineering course from materials to space flight and nuclear reactors for 40 high school juniors funded by a 13330 NSF grant. The camp runs June 6 to July 25 with the 27th Midwestern Music and Art Camp and Science and Mathematics Camp, directed by F C Smithmeyer.
Peter J. Caws Rose Morgan Professor of Philosophy at Kansas University will speak on the Philosophical Basis of Absolutely Everything series at 7 30 this evening in the Forum Room Kansas Union.
The annual meeting of Lawrence United Fund Inc is at 7 30 p m today in the Little Theater Lawrence High School Don Metzler presides and members and contributors are invited.
Rep Howard H Baker a Republican from Tennessee 2nd District and Ways and Means member died at 61 from a heart attack. He was found in his bathroom by his wife and pronounced dead at a hospital. Baker had a prior heart condition and his death shifts the House balance to 255 Democrats 178 Republicans and two vacancies. The health program for the aged faces possible setback without his vote though no Republican backed the bill in committee.
Loren Neal Duffield, 23, convicted of killing 14-year-old Gwendolyn Padgett, was denied a new trial and sentenced to die in the electric chair on March 20. The Norfolk case rests on charges of luring the girl with babysitting as pretext, raping and strangling her.
McDill Huck Boyd Phillipsburg publisher and former Kansas Board of Regents chair will address the KU Collegiate Young Republicans at 7 30 p.m. Thursday in the Jayhawk Room Kansas Union. He chairs the Kansas First Congressional District Citizens Council on Education and is a GOP gubernatorial candidate hopeful in 1964. Sam Evans leads the Young Republicans group.
Michigan Governor George Romney argues the Republican Party can be a creative minority and lead a rebirth of the nation based on the founders' eternal principles. In a National Press Club address he outlined six approaches to organize action at all levels and redefine the party's role in 1964.
Four Cleveland area housewives blocked two thieves for over an hour at a Brookpark shopping center after groceries were stolen. Mrs Janet Evanoff and Mrs Eleanor Kardos joined Mrs Francis Zingalie and Mrs Rose Tilrico in preventing escape, then fought the suspects while onlookers watched.
The Lawrence Board of Education Committee on Sex Education asks school personnel and religious or other groups to state views by appearing before the committee or submitting statements. Personnel may address in open or closed sessions. Dr Evalyn Gendel will speak at the January 13 meeting.
The Wakarusa Watershed board of directors will hold its annual meeting at 8 p.m. today in the Richland American Legion Building. Seven directors, including president Hugh Moore, are up for re election. Service Van Doren and Hazard engineering firm will report progress, with the State Soil Conservation Department also present. The board has 19 members. Carter Anderson serves as business manager.
The board weighs Schwegler and Lawrence High expansions with projected costs around 136000 and 152640 respectively. Unencumbered building funds total about 243614 and are expected to rise to 283000 by mid January as plans include classrooms and administrative facilities.
HOMN S LAUNDRY at 18th and La across from the high school advertises 24 hour service plus a one dollar bill changer and laundry facilities as a new feature.
Gov William Scranton presented a record 1964 general fund budget of 1.168 billion dollars to the Pennsylvania Legislature. He stressed a tax without increase plan and outlined balancing methods including unused appropriations and a projected 23.7 million dollar surplus after deficiencies. He noted expected tax totals rising to about 1.042 billion dollars for 1964-65 from 1.030 billion this year.
In Honolulu AP report weary airmen on day six of a large search hold firm. About 70 planes and four ships comb the Pacific for the missing C124 Globemaster from Wake Island to Hawaii. Eight crewmen and a Navy passenger were aboard en route to Hill Air Force Base with a comrade's body from Tokyo.
Prime Minister Nehru, 74, was confined to bed today and advised to rest for two weeks. An official statement said there is no cause for anxiety after all public engagements were cancelled at the Congress party annual meeting in Bhubaneswar.
E P Moomauthe attended the FBI National Academy in 1955 and was born in Medicine Lodge in 1909. The Moomaus lived in Lawrence from 1949 to 1961. their son E P Jr is a patrol trooper in Great Bend and daughter Virginia is married to Frank R Black who graduated from KU in 1957. Mooman will head a department of 13 officers with no planned changes.
Two pumpers and one aerial truck were sent to Kansas University Watkins Library Monday afternoon after staff saw smoke from heat ducts. Firefighters found no fire and blamed smoke on oil burning on new metal. No damage was reported.
George Docking, former Kansas governor and Export-Import Bank director, arrives in Kansas City to Bethany Hospital for a routine physical. He turns 60 next month and has suffered brief fevers recently, including a stay in a Washington hospital.
Mrs Elmer Polson expresses heartfelt thanks to Dr Campbell Dr Jones Dr Manahan and Dr Dunlap and nursing staff for care during hospitalization. She also thanks relatives neighbors and friends for floral offerings and deeds of kindness after the loss of her daughter Virginia Lee and to the First Christian Church ladies and Rev Hanan for funeral dinner and service.
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