Hallmark Ribbon Plant and the Ribbon Capital of the World
The Lawrence Hallmark plant on Route 1 near the Kansas Turnpike West Lawrence Interchange produces over a million greeting cards daily and Hall Sheen ribbon for a global market. About 650 Kansans work there, drawn from Perry Lecompton DeSoto Eudora Baldwin Ottawa and Lawrence, reflecting the plant's impact on the local economy and its role in popularizing gift wrap.
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Hallmark Cards
Hall Street
Lawrence
Route 1
Kansas Turnpike
West Lawrence
Ambassador
Perry
Lecompton
DeSoto
Eudora
Baldwin
Ottawa
Rollie B. Hall
Hallmark
Joyce C. Hall
Joyce Hall
Otter
Publi
Haskell Graduate Dies After Auto Collision Near Lancaster
John Negonsett aged 19 of the Pottawatomie Indian Reservation near Horton was killed when struck by a car near Lancaster early Sunday. Driver Ronald Caley 19 of Effingham was involved, as was Dwight McKinney 18 of Powhattan. Negonsett had just left McKinney’s car when Tuley swerved to avoid collision and struck him. He was a recent graduate of Haskell Institute in Lawrence.
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Lancaster
Kan
John Negonsett
Pottawatomie
Horton
Ronald Caley
Effingham
Cecil Botkin
Highway Patrol
Negonsett
Dwight McKinney
Powhattan
McKinney
Botkin
Tuley
Haskell Institute
Lawrence
Milton Negonsett
Bulldozers Try to Dent 100-Foot Avalanche Wall at Hope
Rescue teams on the Hope area hillside work as a 100-foot wall of snow and rock from a weekend slide pins a highway and creates a graveyard for four people. Two bodies were found, two others missing, including Dennis Arlitt and Mary Kalmakoff. Victims include Vance Beck and Thomas Starchuk. the slide followed thaw and heavy snows ten miles east of Hope and Vancouver.
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Hope
B.C
Vance Beck
Penticton
Thomas Starchuk
Aldergrove
Dennis Arlitt
Mary Kalmakoff
Shoreacres
Arlitt
Miss Kalmakoff
Manor Bread Debuts in Lawrence Area Stores
Manor Bakers announces Manor Bread will be sold in Lawrence area stores this week. Gordon Manning says in store distribution aligns with quality and service goals and that bread will be delivered fresh twice daily. The Soft Twist process remains used to improve flavor texture and keeping quality.
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Manor
Lawrence
Gordon Manning
Manor Bakers
Manors
Manning
Pearson to Speak at KU Tuesday Evening
Senator James Pearson will visit Kansas University for a public talk at 7 30 p m in the Kansas Union. The event is sponsored by the KU Young Republicans and is open to the public per KU sophomore Bill Porter, chairman of the group.
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James Pearson
Kansas University
Kansas Union
KU Young Republicans
Bill Porter
Topeka
Young Republicans Group
Funds Campaign Kicks Off At Lawrence High School
Lawrence High School begins a drive for United Fund and the March of Dimes with an all school assembly led by United Fund chairman Bob Billings. Classes will compete Friday to raise funds, last year totaling 1824.60 and the student council sponsors note a cumulative 10267.36 since 1951-52.
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Lawrence High School
United Fund
March of Dimes
Bob Billings
Barbara Maxwell
John Sommerville
Jerome Stremel
Lawrence High School Student Council
Dimes Collection Starts in Lawrence for 1965 Campaign
Dimes collection containers are placed downtown and at three shopping centers and in KU housing. Troops 60 and 53 distribute containers to local firms under Scout leaders Clinton Daniels and Ed Mills. Drive chairman Dale Esmond hopes to raise about 5000 dollars. 4000 were raised in 1964 with 3000 from Mothers' March. A kickoff for workers is set at 10 a.m. in the Community Building basement. Bob Wimble will discuss March of Dimes goals. The Mothers' March is planned for January 27, 5 30 to 9 p.m., with about 1000 women expected to go door to door in Lawrence.
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Lawrence
Kansas University Boy Scout
Clinton Daniels
Ed Mills
J. J. Wilson
Mt. Oread
Drive
Dale Esmond
Esmond
A. D. Janzen
Sutton Award Founded To Honor Top Student At Med Center
The Walter S Sutton Award to honor outstanding research by a student at KU Medical School is established with a $2500 fund by a Sutton family member. It honors Dr Walter Stanborough Sutton a KU surgery instructor 1909 to 1916 and favors genetics research. He studied at KU Columbia and served as a surgeon in France.
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Med Center
K.C
Walter S. Sutton
Kansas University Medical School
KU Endowment Association
Sutton
Walter Stanborough Sutton
Mississippi River
Columbia University
New York
Columbia
Kansas City
American Ambulance Hospital
France
Plane crash sinks cargo aircraft after Wake Island takeoff
A U S Air Force Cargomaster with six crew vanished in the Pacific less than a minute after departing Wake Island. Debris found but no survivors or bodies. search hampered by darkness. The crew included Capt. Arthur Wiegand, Maj. Herman Stephan, 1st Lt. Jon Parker, and Sgts. James Smith, Anthony Panzarella, and James Gold.
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Honolulu
U.S. Air Force
Pacific Ocean
Wake Island
Wake
Federal Aviation Agency
Dover
Del
Air Force Base
Arthur F. Wiegand
Clearwater
Fla
Herman D. Stephan
Prince Albert
Saskatchewan
Canada
Jon B. Parker
Silver Spring
James O. Smith
Elmira
N.Y
Anthony Panzarella
Queens
James Gold
Squantum
Mass
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Lawrence Halick
Issite
Kansas
Kansas Department of Economic Deverment
Bill Johnson
Bob Payne
Homer Rowland
Ribbon Capital
J. C. Hall
Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence Industrial Development Co
Askell
Douglas County
Frank R. Gray
Jim Reed
Judge Gray
Journal-World Photo
Pearson
LHS
Incme
Dr. Sutton
Hopkins Kleen Air
Hopkins Kleen Air Service
Crane
N.H
ED Robbins
SEARS
Massachusetts
Gillette
Deodorant
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