Clergyman and wife plan grand travel after retirement
Rev. Harold G. Barr and his wife, retiring after 46 years in ministry, prepare a world tour including the Holy Land, Scotland, and Europe. Gifts from Kansas Bible Chair and others fund the trips beginning this month, with a September Holy Land visit and travel through France on return to Lawrence.
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Harold G. Barr
Holy Land
Europe
Palestine
Israel
Lebanon
Barr
Kansas School of Religion
Holy Land Journey
Country Club Christian Church
Kansas City
Barrs
Kansas Bible Chair
Journal-World Photo
Meyer's Hall
Kansas University
Dr. Barr
Board of Kansas
First Christian Church
Scotland
Kansas Bible
Country Club Christian Church of
Meyers Hall
Ind. St
William J. Moore
Drake University Seminary
Des Moines
Iowa
Fresh Vegetables Among Top Weekend Offerings
The Associated Press reports beef steaks and roasts dominate weekend dinners with wide supermarket and grocer specials. Fresh produce is plentiful along with new arrivals like local cherries currants and berries and strong vegetable picks such as green beans potatoes squash and celery.
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Middlewest
Far West
East
Middle Atlantic
John Stewart Joins Wisconsin Insurance Agency
John Stewart, formerly with the Employment Security office in Lawrence, has been made a full time insurance agent for Farmers Mutual in Madison Wisconsin. Dr Pelton district manager announced the appointment. Stewart previously did work for the company and lives with Mrs Stewart and their three children at 922 Kasold Dr.
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John Stewart
Employment Security
Lawrence
Farmers Mutual
Madison
Wis
Pelton
Stewart
Oskaloosa
Kasold Dr
Deadline Tonight for Teens Set For GOP Chicago Meet
Local chairman Odd Williams calls for reservations for Kansas teens to join a three day On to Chicago trip to the Republican National Convention. About eight Lawrence youths are booked, with 435 Kansas teens total, two buses from the Second District, Nixon luncheon included, cost 40 dollars, deadline tonight.
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Chicago
Odd Williams
Williams
Kansas
Lawrence
Randy Williams
Charles Marvin
Henry Booth
Nancy Oyler
Larry Brickner
Steve Glass
Bill Dockery
Fred Farmer
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Olathe
Khrushchev Overstretched by Austria Tour Says Wife
Mrs. Khrushchev fears the Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev is tiring his health after a 1000 mile bus tour of Austria. The 66 year old leader cut short his trip and returned to Vienna as officials say negotiations with Austria and a TV show forced time off his schedule.
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Vienna
Austria
Nikita Khrushchev
Boyd Sees State Spending Rise in Anti-Docking Attack
In Ottawa Kansas AP report McDill Huck Boyd a Republican candidate for governor charged that every major state department spends more money than ever before He cited the governor office costs rising from 108000 in 1956 to 131000 in 1959 and 1249000 appropriated for 1961 fiscal year
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Boyd
State
Ottawa
Kas
McDill
Huck) Boyd
Negro Politician Jones Dies in Pittsburgh at 55
Paul F. Jones, 55, Pittsburgh's first Negro city councilman, died of a heart attack. The Democrat had expected to depart Friday as a delegate at large to the Democratic National Convention.
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Pittsburgh
Paul F. Jones
Jones
Draft Rockefeller Bid Inaugurated With Ads In Metropolitan Papers
San Francisco AP reports a nationwide push to draft Nelson A. Rockefeller for the Republican nomination began with half page ads in metropolitan papers. Brinton, the national chairman, says headquarters are in San Francisco with committees in 21 states and that the movement has funds for useful measures not Rockefeller money.
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San Francisco
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
William M. Brinton
Rockefeller
Brinton
Rockefeller Associates
Local Men's Forum Set To Meet Next Monday
Lawrence Business and Professional Men's Forum to hold 7 15 p m meeting on the Samaritan Lodge lawn. Attendees from the first gathering invited to bring two guests. Sen Don Hults to discuss should any governor of Kansas hold more than two terms topics include federal medical care for the aged and the federal employees pay raise.
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Lawrence
Minor Jamaica quake rattles Kingston before 3 am
A slight earthquake jolted Kingston Jamaica just before 3 a.m. no casualties or damage were reported.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Miami woman dies eight months from 100 goal
Louise Ossman a Miami resident born in Berlin Germany and a former Cleveland resident died on a Wednesday eight months before her 100th birthday.
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Miami, Fla
Miami
Louise Ossman
Berlin
Germany
Cleveland
Air Force Withholds Earhart Information
Tokyo AP The U S fifth Air Force says the information claiming Amelia Earhart and her navigator were executed on Saipan in 1937 is incomplete and inconclusive. Captains Joseph Gervais and Robert Dinger say the data, compiled after a Guam trip, supports the claim but is being held pending evaluation.
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Tokyo
U.S. 5Th Air Force Today
Air Force
Amelia Earhart
Saipan
Joseph Gervais
Tyngsboro
Mass
Robert Dinger
Vero Beach
Fla
Gervais
Dinger
Guam
Barbara Moore Walks 3387 Miles For Eating Theory
Dr Barbara Moore a 56 year old vegetarian from San Francisco walked to New York to prove her eating theories. She covered 3387 miles in 85 days with five miles left to go aided by New Jersey police transport to Times Square and plans to pace the final distance in Central Park. She started April 13 a day after two British paras who are nonvegetarians reached New York in 66 days.
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New York
Barbara Moore
San Francisco
New Yok
Times Square
New Jersey
Holland Tunnel
Central Park
Ex-Law Student Held in Death at Lake Martin Cabin
John Wilbanks 41, a former law student who flunked the bar three times, is held without bail on a first degree murder charge in the death of Barbara King nine, shot at the family summer cottage near Lake Martin. Sheriff says ballistic tests link a German rifle to the fatal shot.
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Kowaliga
Ala
Barbara King
John Wilbanks
Barbara
Birmingham
Narby Lake Martin
Lester Holly
King Cabin
Wilbanks
Haskell Group Cited for Help at Institute Awards
Eight Haskell Institute employees were honored in a special awards program for the period July 1, 1959 to June 14, 1960. Superintendent Solon G. Ayers presented superior performance and suggestion awards totaling from $15 to $350.
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Haskell Institute
Haskell
Solon G. Ayers
Ayers
Anadarko
Oklo
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Dyre Campbell
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Elmer Polson
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