KU Med Earns 2.2 Million Grant For Research Center
The Kansas University School of Medicine receives a 2,215,110 grant over seven years to establish a general clinical research center. Nine schools in eight states and Puerto Rico share the awards announced in Washington by U S Surgeon General Luther L Terry. The KU center will open with renovations and a focus on body composition studies and related disease research.
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Kansas University School of Medicine
Puerto Rico
Washington
U.S
Luther, L. Terry
Terry
Kansas University
C. Arden Miller
KU Medical Center
Dean Miller
Medical Center
Daniel C. Darrow
Darrow
Lawrence Peters
James C. Warren
Robert Manning
Gerald Holman
Colorado
Illinois
Indiana
Cincinnati
Oklahoma
Washington University
St. Louis
Medical College of Virginia
Traffic Accidents Rise in Lawrence in 1961
Police records show 1,093 traffic accidents on Lawrence streets in 1961 with four fatalities and 240 injuries. December alone had 160 accidents, 37 on Saturdays, and the 20 to 24 age group led with 420 incidents. Key causes were failure to yield and speeding.
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Lawrence
Jack Evans
Evans
Congressmen Cool to Kennedy Tax-Cutting Plea
Washington AP report shows President Kennedy seeking stand by powers to cut income taxes during a recession. House Ways and Means Democrats silent on details, Senate's Byrd condemns plan as unconstitutional, Republicans largely oppose. Tax cut could reach 25 percent in the first bracket, with legislation to originate in the House.
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Washington
Kennedy
House
Ways and Means
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Kennedy to seek funds for mobile midrange missile system
President Kennedy will ask Congress next week to fund a new solid fuel midrange ballistic missile usable from trucks trains or barges. The weapon would serve NATO forces in Europe with a range similar to Thor and Jupiter and could strike deep into the Soviet Union from allied bases. The plan includes potential overseas deployment by American personnel and envisages launch from Okinawa affecting broad areas of Asia and Europe.
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Kennedy
Congress
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Europe
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Britain
Italy
France
Germany
Soviet Union
Moscow
Okinawa
Red China
Siberia
Buildings eyed for fallout shelter inspections in Lawrence
Lawrence civil defense will have architect engineers inspect large buildings for potential fallout shelters. Owners can mail a postcard with name and building location to Civil Defense Office, Courthouse, Lawrence. Shelters for 50 or more people would be stocked with a 14 day supply of food and medical needs by the government.
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Civil Defense Office
Lawrence
Howard Lindley
Douglas County Civil Defense
Skate Plans Delayed By Heat And Construction Work
City efforts to install an ice skating rink on the South Park baseball diamond were halted by warm weather and uneven ground. City Manager Harold Horn said a new attempt will follow cold weather, while Potter Lake skating may proceed if freezing holds. The VFW offered Green Lake site if water is provided. Heavy snow and cold have kept enthusiasts from good skating spots for weeks.
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Harold Horn
Potter Lake
Horn
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
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Green Lake
Kennedy's push for fed eral aid and urban affairs plan
Kennedy signals possible executive actions to secure higher education funding and a mass polio immunization program. Administration farm proposals and food drug law tightening face uncertain fate. Urban affairs department plan provokes controversy as Democrats praise the speech while Republicans deem it unimpressive and accuse Kennedy of Truman style scattergun tactics.
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Department of Urban Affairs
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GOP
Kennedy
Harry S. Truman
Schoolgirl 5 years to mental institution in slaying case
Chyrel Lee Jolls, a 5-year-old girl, was ordered committed to a state mental institution in the kidnap slaying of 3-year-old Andrew Ashley in Buffalo, New York, with the case stemming from an incident last June.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Chyrel Lee Jolls
Andrew Ashley
Dean of Women Chosen at KU for Short Term
Kansas University selects Eise Krueger of Laramie Wyoming as temporary dean of women through Saturday noon. Krueger, Pi Beta Phi president, earned the post after her sorority raised the top amount for the Associated Women Students memorial scholarship fund. Emily Taylor steps in as guest dean until then.
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Eise Krueger
Laramie
Wyo
Pi Beta Phi Sorority
Associated Women Students
Miss Krueger
Emily Taylor
Miss Taylor
Peru and Mt Huascaran unleash deadly avalanches
An immense ice and rock slide from Mt Huascaran cascaded into the Lana ganuco canyon, destroying Ranhirca and damaging nearby areas. Survivors recalled a dynamite-like roar as the town vanished in minutes, with Huaraz towns nearby recalling a 1941 avalanche. Historical quakes and snowslides are noted for context.
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Llanama
Huarascanca
Peru
Mt. Huascaran
Lanaganuco
Ranrihirca
Ramahirca
Alfonso Caballero
Leoholo Guzman
Dignity in Our Tradition Rumsey Funeral Home
A brief obituary or notice referencing Rumsey Funeral Home. Details are sparse and originate from a clipped historic display, noting tradition and dignity in burial services.
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Rumsey Funeral Home
Army Plans Major Army Reorg Sparks Washington Debate
Washington AP reports a new Army reorganization, approved by Kennedy, to abolish several technical service posts and downgrade others as part of McNamara’s Pentagon overhaul. Gen Decker convened officers, while Lt Gen Hinrichs may witness abolition of the ordnance chief’s office and the Chemical Corps head.
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Robert S. McNamara
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Army Navy Air Force Journal
George H. Decker
the Journal
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John H. Hinrichs
Ordnance
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Army Surgeon General
KU Graduate Dies At Colorado Home
Har low E Tibbetts aged 62 co publisher of the Loveland Reporter Herald and former Kansas and Texas publisher died at his Loveland home on Thursday night a heart attack was suspected Tibbetts born Cald well Kansas a KU alumnus began newspaper work at the Blue Rapids Times founded by his grandfather he later owned several Kansas papers before moving to Texas and Colorado career included Insley Mercury Greensburg Signal Bowie News and Loveland newspaper ventures
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Colo
Harlow E. Tibbetts
Loveland Reporter-Herald
Kansas and Texas
Tibbetts
Caldwell
Kan
University of Kansas
Blue Rapids
Times
Insley, Kan
Mercury
Iowa County Signal
Greensburg
Dr Herbert A Smith Receives 28th NARST Honor
The National Association for Research in Science Teaching awards Dr Herbert A Smith of Kansas University's Education School the 28th Science Education Recognition Award for research teaching and administrative work in science education and for his current NARST presidency. He will lead the annual meeting February 21 24 in Washington DC. He is the second European to receive the honor Dean Kenneth E Anderson was recognized in 1960. Smith has taught at KU since 1953 and earned degrees from Nebraska University after service in World War II and Nebraska faculty appointment in 1948.
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Miller
Robert E. Bolinger
Paul R. Schloerb
Bolinger
Schloerb
Kansas
Medical Center
School of
National Association For Research In Science
Herbert A. Smith
Kansas University
Science Education Magazine
Smith
NARST
Washington, D. C
Kenneth E. Anderson
Dr. Smith
Nebraska University
Nebraska
McNamara to Visit Hawaii for South Viet Nam Talks
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara will travel to Hawaii this weekend for a conference on the South Viet Nam situation and plans several monthly trips over the coming months. A Defense Department spokesman stressed the high priority of the U S military aid program there.
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Washington
Robert 5. McNamara
Hawaii
Defense Department
McNamara
U.S
Cure for Talkers Is Prescribed
Nashville AP reports physician Dr Francis C Wood of the University of Pennsylvania outlines tongue inspection as a method to curb talkative patients to medical students at Vanderbilt. He suggests a long look at the tongue as one technique and a thermometer left in the mouth as another. In extreme cases patients should be sent to the waiting room with pencil and paper to list symptoms.
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Nashville
Tenn
Pennsylvania
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Francis C. Wood
Department of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Wood
Meschke Testifies At Hearing In Fe dell Case
Topeka Kansas Addison Meschke told a Civil Service hearing that information from Republican Bill Hageman prompted the probe leading to the dismissal of district highway supervisor Charles J. Fedell. Fedell contends political motivation while Meschke cites an investigation showing use of state time for Fedell’s personal benefit.
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Topeka
Addison Meschke
Charles J. Fedell
Meschke
Civil Service
Bill Hageman
Pittsburg
Fedell
Hageman
Paul Aylward
Heat Wave Brings Cold Snap and Snow Across Kansas
The Topeka Weather Bureau reports a chilly spell with Saturday highs in the 30s and a late day snow turnaround expected into Sunday. Lawrence reached 23 after a minus 6 morning, while a year earlier highs hit 98. Snow depth ranges from three to eight inches in different regions, with melt ahead of any new cover.
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Topeka Weather Bureau
Lawrence
Kansas
Douglas County Farmers Organization elects new officers
Trvin Stoneback of Route 4 was elected president at the group’s third annual meeting. Officers named include vice president William S. Markley, secretary A. Danton Van Tries, treasurer Harold Miller, trustee Dale Babbitt, and district representative Emil Heck. Chris Walker, national NFO director, spoke on processor bargaining progress in the Midwest.
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Trvin Stoneback
Route 4
Douglas County Farmers Organization
William S. Markley
Route 5
A. Danton van Tries
Baldwin
Harold Miller
Route 3
Dale Babbitt
Emil Heck
Chris Walker
NFO
Mayetta
Middlewest
Walker
Crucial Issues Seminar on Conservatism and Liberalism
A 3:30 p.m. Saturday seminar in the Kansas Union Big Eight Room at Kansas University will discuss Conservatism and Liberalism on and off the College Campus. Admission is $1. Speakers Dr. John Ise and Dr. Donald McCoy. moderator Dr. Kim Griffin will summarize.
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Kansas Union
Kansas University
John Ise
Donald McCoy
Kim Giffin
NLRB finds Cone Bros aided strike violence with guns
The National Labor Relations Board ruled that Cone Bros Construction Co of Tampa and related Tampa Land & Material Co supplied firearms to employees and ordered nonstriking workers to chase picketers with cars during a 1960 union organizing strike. The decision upheld trial examiner Downing’s findings that the actions, involving J L Cone Jr C W Cone and Douglas Cone, violated federal labor policy and reflected a single family controlled business. Cone was Florida’s largest road builder with about 30 million in contracts.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Florida
NLRB
Cone Bros. Construction Co
Tampa
Cone
Tampa Land & Material Co
George A. Downing
Downing
Tampa Land
Teamsters Union
Operating Engineers Union
J. L. Cone
J. L. Cone Jr
C. W. Cone
Douglas Cone
Dillon Heads Delegation Discussing Trade Ties
In Ottawa a high level U S cabinet team led by Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon arrived for two days of talks with four Canadian ministers on expanding trade with the European Common Market. The delegation aims to secure powers to cut tariffs and asks Canada to consider a similar tariff reduction.
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Ottawa
U.S
Kennedy
Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Uplands Airport
Parliament
Washington
Elizabeth Taylor insured for Cleopatra completion
Actress Elizabeth Taylor has secured 2.5 million dollars in insurance to cover completion of Cleopatra. Lloyds of London had previously paid 2 million dollars in production losses due to her illness in London a year earlier.
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Hollywood
Elizabeth Taylor
Lloyds of London
Miss Taylor
London
Dr Hamlin to Speak at Christian Businessmen Dinner
Dr Howard Hamlin of Chicago will address a Christian Businessmen's Association dinner meeting at 6 30 tonight at the Little Banquet House in town.
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Howard Hamlin
Chicago
Christian Businessmen’s Assoc
Card of Thanks for sympathy after death
We thank neighbors and friends for kindness and expressions of sympathy during the illness and death of our husband and father.
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