Markley Cites Top Swim Unit at Kansas State
Kansas University announces its best freshman swim team of 1960 under coach Jay Markley. A 14 member roster includes Larry Tracy Houston transfer and Bill Murdock from St Louis, with standout prep performers from Oklahoma Missouri Florida and California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas University
Jay Markley
Larry Tracy
Houston
Lady Harmon
Ponca City
Okla
Bill Murdock
St. Louis
George Giller
Wichita
Don Pruette
Topeka
Joe Weber
Cincinnati
Mike Clein
Miami
Fla
Don Porterfield
Gene Lee
Gerald Kepner
Bob Schneider
Max Freeman
Springfield
John Heisey
Oak Park
Ill
Bob Rader
Bakersfield
Calif
Tracy
Harmon
Oklahoma
Murdock
GiNer
Wichita East
Preutze
Weber
Clein
Florida
Porterfield
Lee
Kepner
Heisey
Rader
Schneider
Freeman
Hixon Homes Opening Set for This Weekend
A Hixon Homes Open House at 1307 E 19th St will run 1 to 6 p m Saturday and Sunday. The Robert P Snowden Co of Atchison builds 20 dwellings featuring three bedrooms a family kitchen with dining area ceramic tile bath full basement sealed attached garage Coleman Blend Air Heating kiln dried lumber air conditioning and FHA financing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hixon Homes
E. 19Th St
Robert P. Snowden Co
Atchison
Crank Family in Ohio After Father's Death
Kansas University football quarterback candidate Bill Crank is called home to Hamilton Ohio due to his father John E Crank suffering from Bright s disease The note mentions Crank was a 180 pound regular in 1968 and had knee surgery last spring while he worked to strengthen his leg for 1959
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Crank
Kansas University
Hamilton
Ohio
John E. Crank
Bright
Crank
Deaths and Funerals of Rexroad and Proffitt
Graveside services for George E. Rexroad 77 are set for 3 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Park Cemetery. He died Thursday in Wichita at his daughter Natalie Stowe’s home where he lived since 1948. survivors include Mrs. Stowe another daughter Mrs. Thomas Greenwood of Russell four grandchildren and one great grandchild. Bruce F. Proffitt 71 died Wednesday at 639 Vt. St. with services 10 a.m. Saturday at Rumsey Funeral Home and burial in Oak Hill veterans plot. He leaves three sisters Mrs. Eva Buckingham Gothenberg Neb Mrs. Essie Copeland Ness City and Mrs. Iva Newcomb of Oregon.
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George E. Rexroad
Memorial Park
Wichita
Natalie Stowe
Lawrence
Perry
Stowe
Thomas Greenwood
Russell
Gene
Bruce F. Proffitt
Vt. St
Rumsey
Oak Hill Cemetery
Proffitt
Eva Buckingham
Gothenberg, Neb
Essie Copeland
Ness City
Iva Newcomb
Oregon
Condition of City Man Is Labeled Poor Today
The condition of Lennis Eugene Johnson 25 of 725 Mo St was termed poor today at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after a Thursday morning chest wound from a .22 rifle. Police said the shooting appeared self inflicted. Johnson had a restraining order against him. He collapsed on a neighbor's porch after running from the house and later told an officer he had shot himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lennis Eugene Johnson
Mo. St
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Johnson
Katherine
No Trace Found Yet Of Missing Cafe Manager
Leavenworth County Sheriff holds a warrant for Lonn B Baker 40 former manager of Turnpike Cafe nine miles east of Lawrence missing since November 26. About 7000 dollars in case money unaccounted. Several leads reported with no trace found. Baker lived in Lawrence and moved to Kansas City in 1948 to run Saddle and Sirloin Club chef role.
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Leavenworth
Lawrence
Kansas City
East Interchange
Storm causes power outages and heavy rainfall in July
A July storm produced a 1.53 inch deluge raising monthly rainfall to 6.21 inches, the second wettest July since 1951. Kansas Power and Light reported outages from brief flickers to hours, as linemen repaired burned transformers and sagging poles across Tonganoxie and rural areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas Power and Light Co
Austin Stedham
Westvaco Mineral Products
Tonganoxie
Lawrence
Stedham
Payne speaks at Noon Optimist Club about Hallmark Cards
Bob Payne manager of Hallmark Cards Inc. spoke at the Noon Optimist Club meeting. He showed a film on greeting card production and described Hallmark’s operations. Special guests were members of the Breakfast Optimist Club. About 25 guests and 25 members attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Payne
Hallmark Cards Inc
Payne
Hallmark
Kansas Power and Light reports higher 1957 profits
Kansas Power and Light Co shows a net income of 7 960 779 after taxes for the year ending June 30, up 1 175 499 from the prior year. First half 1957 income rose 819 505 as business conditions look favorable for the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas Power and Light Co
Wall Street Journal
Kansas Utility Company
Heat Swelters Kansas Campus as Students Pack for Vacation
Sweat surrounding library shelves shows heat vulnerability as ventilation relies on windows and fans. Students say they abandon cubicles for the Union building and other spots. By Monday most students head home while professors seek cooler vacations to escape a Kansas August.
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Union Building
Kansas
Aid Chief Claims Viet Nam Savings
The Rock Island Railroad plans to discontinue its two daily Kansas City Rocket passenger trains from Kansas City to Fort Worth, stopping at 32 intermediate points on the 591 mile run. Abandonment set for Sept 1 unless regulated. The Rocket passes Lawrence at 9 18 a m and 7 p m on return. The second item notes U S aid chief in Viet Nam testifying a $10 000 saving in a steel contract amid a Senate Foreign Relations inquiry into aid program management sparked by Albert M Colegrove reports.
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The
Rock Island Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Kansas City
Fort Worth
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Lawrence
Washington
U.S
Viet Nam
Elbridge Durbrow
Arthur Z. Gardiner
Senate Foreign Relations
Scripps-Howard
Albert M. Colegrove
Colegrove
State Department
Mike Mansfield
Dmont
Saigon
Frank Gonder
Bethlehem Steel Co
Eurasia Corp
Conder
Eurasia
Gardiner
Gonder
Mansfield
California Girl Located Today in Kansas Ranch Discovery
FBI announces discovery of a 1 year old California girl and a 26 year old Napa man on the Pat Ryan Ranch near Gem Kansas ten miles east of Colby. The couple fled California last September and lived together. The girl is identified as Mary Lee Craig and is described as an expectant mother.
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Colby, Kan
California
Kansas
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Mary Lee Craig
Leonard Craig
Brisbane
Calif
Jerry Walter Bryant
Napa
Pat Ryan
Nixon Seeks Peaceful Atomic Path with Soviet Engineers
Vice Admiral Rickover accompanies Nixon at a large atomic plant visit where he urges peaceful uses of the atom. Soviet engineers express cautious optimism and pledge to explore peaceful cooperation and shared scientific progress.
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Hyman G. Rickover
U.S
Nixon
Alexei Semenkin
Serum Flown To Idaho For Poisoned Kansas City Family
A serum was flown to Idaho Falls to treat five members of a Kansas City family sick with food poisoning, while a sixth member died. Three survivors are in iron lungs. The group vacationing here included Kenneth Nelson 45 Naomi Nelson 41 Wanda Nelson 15 Martha Nelson 4 and Nelson’s mother Mrs Aaron Gruwell. Gruwell’s 74 year old husband died Thursday. Vitulinum antitoxin vials arrived from Portland Los Angeles Denver and Pearl River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho Falls
Idaho
Kansas City
Births Report From Memorial Hospital
Birth announcements list families from multiple towns including Topeka Oskaloosa and DeSoto. Names include Mr and Mrs John Riggs Perry Ind Mary, Mr and Mrs Albert Worden Oskaloosa, a girl today. The items note residence and the newborns but omit additional details.
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Ida Day
Ky. St
Gladys Nieder
Mont
Dora Carpenter
Calif
Nancy Plummer
DeSoto
Glenn Hunsicker
Topeka
Margaret Greenleaf
Crescent Rd
Marcella Wolfson
Mass
Windy Hendrickson
Robert Ray
Bernice Holladay
Oskaloosa
Marlin Steffey
John Riggs
Ind. St
Albert Worden
Journal-World Vacation Subscriptions Reminder
Important daily happenings continue as you travel. Secure your Journal-World during vacation by subscribing or renewing at VI 3-1000 for uninterrupted local coverage.
New Aluminum Viking Line Home To Be Shown In Lawrence
Moore Associates presents a new aluminum sided and roofing two story home in Edgewood Terrace at East Nineteenth Street and Maple Lane. Open today 7 to 9 pm and 1 to 9 pm Saturday and Sunday. Price listed at 13800 with maintenance free exterior and four house styles.
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Moore Associates
Lawrence Builders and Realtors
Joe Stroup
Lawrence
Edgewood Terrace
East Nineteenth Street
Maple Lane
Moore
Stroup
Vacation Pak service offers to save issues for pickup
A Kansas newspaper advertisement promotes a Vacation Pak service allowing readers to save issues while away and have them delivered in a package upon return. The ad highlights convenience for travelers and cites the Journal-World as the carrier.
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Journal-World
Adv
Pomona Reservoir to gain flood control and recreation facilities
Plans outline ramps picnic tables drinking water swimming beach bath houses shelter buildings and sanitary facilities at Pomona with sites developed to suit local potential. Public use areas to follow dam completion and flood control. Boating rules under state jurisdiction may shift via Kansas legislation. Perry and Clinton areas also planned near Lawrence.
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Pomona
State of
Kansas
Pomona Reservoir
Corps of Engineers
Perry
Clinton
Lawrence
Expansion Planned for Kansas Color Press Facility
Kansas Color Press adds 6,700 square feet of floor space to its plant to handle two new accounts Nation's Agriculture and American Junior Red Cross News. The addition lies directly west of the current building and will house bindery operations for the large monthly circulations.
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Kansas Color Press
Nation’s Agriculture
National Farm Bureau
American Junior Red Cross News
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U.S. 73
James Henry Kramer
Virgil Carson
Markley
Lawrence Hawks
Olathe
American Legion
Iola
Paola
Ottawa
Salina
Lloyd Nichols
Kansas University Jayhawk
Lawrence Colts
Amnog
Colts
Nichols
Baldwin
City Hall
Baldwin Recreation Commission
Baker University
Baker
Aid
Rock Island Asks
Nod
California Girl
Lawrence Memorial Co
Dwight Sickles Insurance
Post Office
York Clife
Urance Company Pension Plans
Loren Williams
Eudora
Lois Hazlett
W. 14Th St
Laura Stuart
Lincoln
Georgia Longstreth
E. 23Rd St
Eula Unger
Carl Annis
Gene Riggs
Ind
Brian Lysaght
N. Y
Elma Long
Ella Worden
Ohio Valley
South Atlantic States
Plateau
Nebraska
Rockies
Plains
Edgewood
Terrace
Fast—Fair—Friendly Claims Service
Auto—Truck Fire—Life
Farmers Insurance Group
Andy” Anderson
W. W. Nash
Maine
P. Lawrence
Oakdal
Jim
Douglas County State Bank
Bank of Friendly Service
F.D.I.C
Overbrook
Regnier
Lawrence National Bank
Dale Sillix
Royal College
C.A.R
Serolae Municipal Airport
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