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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1964
Page
9
The Father and Son Breakfast hosted by the Breakfast Optimist Club featured 27 young Frank Gibson of Lawrence High School as speaker. He addressed the group and showed film excerpts from the event.
Kansas City AP reports mixed grain prices and farm market activity with quoted wheat corn oats barley soybeans and specialty items from Harwood’s Market. Livestock prices rise modestly with hogs cattle and lambs showing gains while butter egg echoes point to slight price shifts in regional markets. New York stocks open higher then drift with IBM stock split speculation weighing on sentiment.
Governor John Anderson maintains a 5 percent overall salary funds increase for state colleges and universities after opposition from state regents. Regents had urged 7.2 percent for merit raises, but Anderson says 5 percent keeps schools competitive beyond coast benchmarks with money, brains, resources and energy.
Mrs H P Ramage of Lawrence learns of Col C K Ramage's death at Ft McClellan Alabama with funeral at Ft Leavenworth chapel at 10 30 a m Thursday and burial in Ft Leavenworth Cemetery. Mrs Sadie Stevens of Vinland dies in Dallas at 86 with survivors Mrs Kermit Laughlin and Mrs Robert Laughlin and Joe Sturdy named. Rumsey Funeral Home to announce arrangements. Maine Sr longtime Lawrence resident dies at 54 with services in Cooper Warren Chapel and in Searcy Arkansas. burial there. survivors include three daughters Mrs Mary Baxter Miss Louella Harrison and Miss Juanita Harrison a son George Harrison two sisters and one grandchild.
A memorial hospital notice lists names including Mrs Ethel Hackman Mrs Lula Oliver Mrs Gesa Schneider and others with addresses in Ohio Illinois Indiana Pennsylvania New Jersey Michigan and Tennessee reflecting a patient or resident roster. The fragment includes Mrs Charlene Edgerton Agnes Gray Gus Smith Albert Shepard Charles Curtiss Blaine Crow and Beulah Johnson among more entries.
A series of family notices lists births and parent names including Mr. and Mrs. Molester Galloway of 937 Pa and Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Harwood of McLouth with a daughter and a daughter respectively. Other entries name residents such as Ellura Jones in South Edna War Dall and Jaelynne Tolman at 1515 Vt along with the Brewers and Hensleys. The notices indicate newborn children celebrated today across several households.
Lawrence Flying Club will hold its annual dinner Friday February 28 at the Lakeview Club. At the February 13 meeting new officers will be elected as the club nears three years of operation. A report on a Christmas aerial trip to North Carolina was given by Don Hoyer and Roy Clough and Clough’s family, noting the flight following service tracking the aircraft along its route.
Jim White, a cowpuncher, discovered Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico in 1901 while exploring the area. The find drew attention to the cavern system and established a notable landmark in the region.
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