Reno Community News and Social Notes
Mrs Beulah Sprecher of Coffeyville spent last week with her daughter and family in Reno. Funeral services for Alfred Norman were held in Kansas City. Visitors included Gordon Tyer and Glen Tyer from Long Beach and Louisville respectively. The Busy Bee Club met with Nadine Moore. July’s hostesses listed. Boys State attendees went to Wichita. Ice cream social planned for August 11 with hostesses named. Various local visits and trips noted, including Doris Sader’s return from Midland, and a wiener roast with friends.
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Beulah Sprecher
Coffeyville
George Harriman
Roy Baird
Alfred Norman
Kansas City
Kan
Bill Stewart
Gordon Tyer
Long Beach
Calif
Glen Tyer
Louisville
Gary Tyer
Prairie Village
Fred Stewart
Lawrence
Hoff
Flo Grinter
Truman
Kathleen Strong
Lillian Slawson
Audrey Skeet
Annie Couch
Helen Lindberg
Dorothy Stewart
Lorraine Smith
Mildred Pearson
John Williams
Bill DeHoff
Tonganoxie
Wichita
Reno Community Club
William Moore
Othal Wiley
Raymond Williams
Lloyd DeHoff
J. W. Evans
Ton
C. B. Vaughan
Carrie Wiley
Visi
Howard Vaughan
Howard Jr
Reno Ladies Aid
Kangaroos Use Tails as Rudders in Fast Gait
The strongest kangaroos can sustain a 25 mile per hour gait with their broad tails acting as rudders for soaring jumps and rapid turns.
Nancy Fleming era prompts Douglas County Miss America quest
Gorgeous Nancy Anne Fleming, Miss America 1961, visits Lawrence for a Friday schedule of appearances. The feature asks readers to answer a set of questions to gauge whether they could win the title and notes events in Eldridge Hotel, South Park Fun Faire, Eudora centennial dinner, and a "Hello, Kansas!" show, ending with the challenge of sustaining such a demanding year.
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Nancy Anne Fleming
Lawrence
Douglas County
Nancy
Montague, Mich
Montague
United States
Eldridge Hotel
South Park
Eudora
Kansas
Sixteen KU Math Camp Grads Return to Research Roles
Sixteen alumni from the 1960 Kansas University Science and Mathematics Camp will return to the campus Sunday to work full-time on research projects in their majors. The participants, now high school seniors or juniors from 1960-61, will join the apprentice or research participation phase of this year’s camp running June 18 to July 8, supported by the National Science Foundation. They include Rex Owen Bare, Jane Breckenridge, James Chenevey, Don Farmer, Kent Henrichs, Everett Lawton, Carroll Johnston, John Kozak Jr, Jean Novak, Sibyl Riker, William Spencer, Charles Thompson, Jane Toyne, Charles Trux, Joseph Wiener, and Bill Wilson, across zoology, chemistry, physics, anatomy, physiology, radiations biology, and biochemistry.
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Kansas University
National Science Foundation
Rex Owen Bare
Crestline
William Henry Spencer
West Chicago
Ill
Charles Stanley Thompson
Halstead
Jane Drew Toyne
Chillicothe
Charles David Trux
Charles David Truxal
Marquette
Mich
Joseph Platt Weiner
Bill Wilson
Tonganoxie
Hampton unveils new city seal with space capsule motif
Hampton Virginia adopts a new official seal showing the blue crab lifting a space capsule. The badge nods to Langley Air Force Base nearby where U S astronauts train, linking the city’s maritime fame to space exploration.
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Hampton
Langley Air Force Base
United Fund Sets 1961 62 Drive Goal Friday Session
Lawrence United Fund directors meet Friday at 4 p.m. in Chamber of Commerce offices to hear Budget Committee reports and set the 1961 62 drive goal. Last year’s campaign exceeded $55,600 by 1,455 for a final of $57,055.71 after extensions. Budget hearings have run two weeks with 11 agencies presenting requests for the coming year.
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Lawrence United Fund
Budget Committee
United Fund
Chamber of Commerce
Race for Space Will Be Costly and Risky
Los Angeles AP reports government official Trevor Gardner says landing a manned spacecraft on the moon will cost about $10 billion and many lives. Gardner, former Air Force assistant secretary, told science groups that risks are inherent and must be faced, adding the race can be won if the price is paid.
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Los Angeles
Trevor Gardner
Air Force Space Study Committee
Gardner
Air Force
The
Aerospace Sciences
American Rocket Society
Gunn Novel Published In Spanish And German
James E. Gunn, administrative assistant to the chancellor for University Relations at Kansas University, sees his first science fiction novel published in Spanish and German markets. The release marks a milestone for the author and broadens his international reader base.
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Gunn
James E. Gunn
Kansas University
Star Bridge and Gunn Novels Reach International Editions
German edition titled Brucke Zwischen Den Sternen and Spanish Puente Entre Estrellas mark Star Bridge, co authored with Jack Williamson of Portales. Brazilian Portuguese edition contracted. Gunn’s The Joy Makers is Bantam’s latest original paperback this year, following This Fortress World and Station in Space reprints and translations.
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Jack Williamson
Portales, N. M
Buenos Aires
Barcelona
Mexico
Gunn
Germany
Bantam Books, Inc
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S. D. Roth Jr
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Okefenokee Swamp
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University of Georgia Marine Institute
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Georgia
Journal-World Photo
Reno
Busy Bee Club
Nadine Moore
Rita Dickinson
Eula Stoner
Alma Eisele
Christina Hess
Nancy de
Emma Westergren
Ben Couch
Colony
Jerry Kelsall
Charles Strong
Strong
Heime Markowitz
Linda
Herbert Pearson
Fannie Pearson
Ira Higginbotham
Donna
John Grinter
Pepsi-Cola
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co
Ottawa
Pepsi-Cola Company
New York
Studio de Portra
Massachusetts
Duckwall
Joy Makers
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Vermont
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