Lawrence not listed among 10 Most Compassionate Cities
The Christian Children's Fund release from Richmond praises Lawrence for ongoing community support to youth projects. It notes Lancaster as No. 1 and Alexandria and Boulder as high-ranked, while Lawrence backs Lawrence High Orchestra trips, KU band efforts, and local charitable drives despite not ranking in the list.
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Christian Children’s Fund
Richmond
Lawrence
America
Lancaster
Virginia Children’s Agency
Alexandria
Boulder
Colo
Journal-World
Lawrence High
Washington, D.C
Kennedy Center
LHS
Chicago
Portland
United Fund
Dizzy Dean
Javits wife defends Iran airline consulting role
Marion Javits, wife of Sen. Jacob Javits, asserts she can juggle a $67,000-a-year consulting post for Iran's national airline with her husband's Senate Foreign Relations duties. She says there is no conflict and plans to keep both roles. The pair acknowledge mutual connections but claim these do not affect their separate careers.
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Marion Javits
U.S
Jacob Javits
R-N.y
Iran
Washington
Athens
Innsbruck
Austria
Montreal
Munich
On This Date in History January Seventeenth 1976
Highlights include the 1945 Warsaw liberation by Soviet and Polish forces, Franklin born 1707, Hawaii’s 1893 proclamation, U S Virgin Islands sale 1917, Mali’s 1959 creation, Shriver leaving Peace Corps 1966, and India banning Israel and South Africa from Calcutta ping pong. Also birthdays Nicholas Katzenbach and John McCain Jr and a quote about climbing with cold feet.
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Warsaw
Benjamin Franklin
Boston
Holy Roman Empire
Prussia
James Cook
Antarctic Circle
Hawaii
Republi
United States
American Virgin Islands
Denmark
Mali
Senegal
French
Sudan
Sargent Shriver
Peace Corps
Jack Hood Vaughn
Jordan
King Hussein
India
Israel
South Africa
Calcutta
Nicholas Katzenbach
John McCain Jr
Continental Congress
Philadelphia
Quebec
Kansas School of Religion fund drive progress noted
Pledged totals reach 200000 toward a 1 million goal with development director Paul Shiver announcing the figure. Car tags in Douglas County exceed 20000 with 6100 sold, and Edythe Norman cites the record ahead for 1966. Construction advances on KU natatorium wing east of Allen Fieldhouse. pool wing priced at 423000. US Representative Robert Ellsworth of Lawrence weighs a 1966 Senate bid.
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Kansas School of Religion
Paul Shiver
Douglas County
Edythe Norman
Kansas University
Allen Fieldhouse
U.S
Robert Ellsworth
Lawrence
Senate
James Pearson
Coral-encased bones and growing coral dive tourism
The piece warns of a booming scuba market promoting dives in Truk Palau Guam and Saipan with wreck relics and coral encrusted bones. It notes Shinkoko Maru and other sunken warships as attractions drawing college students Japanese honeymooners and adventurers while cautions about disturbing remains and war memories.
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Southamerica
Truk
Palau
Guam
Saipan
Marianas
Do Olympics really merit perpetuation
Opinion essay questions the value of the Olympic Games across history and cites repeated political and commercial motives. It contrasts ancient ideals with modern realities, highlighting costs, corruption, and propaganda while recalling Munich and Montreal episodes and noting TV profits and international tensions.
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Montreal
Brezhnev
Hitler
Gulag
Wonder Bread
ABC
U.S
London
Antwerp
World Company publication info and contact lines
The World Company of Lawrence Kansas operates The World newspaper established in 1854. It lists editors and staff including Dolph Simons Jr and Sr and Jack Starkey with advertising by Leo Eller. It provides subscription rates by carrier and mail across regions and notes postal and AP affiliations.
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Dolph C. Simons Jr
Dolph Simons Sr
Bill Mayer
Eee
Ralph Gage
Eee Etrutlet Adh
Jack Starkey
Leo Eller -Contralier
W. C. Simons
the World Company
Sixth
New Hampshire
Lawrence
Kan
Douglas
Kansas
Kansas City
United States
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Associated Press
City Commission overrules planning staff on nursery school site
A letter from Charles Brown critiques a City Commission decision to approve a nursery school on West Ninth Street despite traffic hazards and professional staff recommendations. He cites risk to preschoolers on a busy two lane steep street and urges objective, professionally guided consideration of future items.
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Journal-World
City Commission
Planning Commission
West Ninth Street
Charles Brown
Ninth
Remembering Kansas University Fine Arts Faculty Legends
A tribute to living retired KU School of Fine Arts faculty members who built the tradition of excellence. It highlights Laurel Everette Anderson Raymond Cerf Raymond Eastwood Milton Steinhardt Marjorie Whitney Russell L Wiley Joseph F Wilkins Irene Peabody Alice Conger Meribah Moore Jeannette Cass and others shaping the department and city life in Lawrence.
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KU School of Fine Arts
Swarthout
Preyer
Lockwood
Skilton
Laurel Everette Anderson
Lawrence
Anderson
Raymond Cerf
Petey
Raymond Eastwood
Department of Drawing and Painting
Eastwood
Milton Steinhardt
America
Steinhardt
Marjorie Whitney
Department of Design
School of Fine Arts
Whitney
Russell L. Wiley
Russell Wiley
Joseph F. Wilkins
Department of Voice
Marie
Metropolitan Opera
Rano
Wilkins
Irene Peabody
Voice
David Holloway
Miss Peabody
First Presbyterian Church
Alice Conger
First Baptist Church
First Baptist
Prof. Conger
Meribah Moore
Cherry Manor
Plymouth Congregational Church
Jeannette Cass
Kansas City
Cass
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el Paso
Javits
THE
Old Home Town
Lawrence Woman's Club
Wilbur Pine
W.H. Bray
C.W. Schubert
John Patton
Kansas State
Robert Oyler
Douglas County Bar Assn
Charles Stough
Lew Henry
Fred Isaacs
Red Cross
James Naismith
Missouri
By Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Noritake China
Micronesia
Tom
Pacific
Comfort
Gettysburg
Pickett
Quatre Bras
Waterloo
Sandburg
Austerlitz
George F. Will
Theodosius
Journal- World
CIA
Far East Lawrence Improvement Assn
C.D
Far East Lawrence
Walt Hull
Almir
James Moeser
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