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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1962
Page
2
City manager Harold Horn and department heads push 1963 budget plans with a July 20 recommendation to the City Commission. Reviews on July 26-27 aim for final adoption by mid August. Police and fire budgets dominate early talks, with cemetery and forestry costs under scrutiny after elm disease and spray programs.
Lawrence notes a young raccoon with a collar found by Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Hobbs at 2126 Mitchell Rd. They hope the owner or a potential raccoon owner will claim the pet. KU receives M-33 Skysweeper radar, loaned by the Army and Weather Bureau for storm research. Radar sits at Lawrence airport. KU summer theater offers Ivan the Terrible Part I tonight at Murphy Hall. Part II to follow June 30.
The American Cancer Society urged college presidents and the Federal Trade Commission to curb tobacco promotion to students. The 74 member board voted unanimously for a proposal criticizing intensified college tobacco advertising and sponsorship of televised athletic events.
Masonic lodge notice for Monday June 25 at 7 30 p m calling members to work in the second degree. Visitors welcome. W M Chester M Lessenden and Secretary George W Mole oversee the session.
Kansas University Dean George B. Smith will retire from the Army Reserve with an 11 a.m. ceremony on June 30 at Fort Riley. He served since 1929, earned a Purple Heart for wounds in Europe, and lived with his wife at 1140 West Hills Parkway. His sons Stuart and Malcolm attend KU. The retirement review features six companies of the 8th Infantry, the 1st Infantry Division Band, and the 8th Infantry Drum and Bugle Corps.
Robert K. Wilber resigns as Kaw Council field director to become Scout executive of the Sergeant Floyd Area Council based in Sioux City Iowa effective July 15. A Kansas City area native, he joined Kaw Council in 1956 after starting as district executive in Wichita. He has led Arrowhead Pony Express Santa Fe Trail and Mares des Cypnes Districts and directed Kaw Council Scoutorama.
Couch, a longtime educator, recounts moving Old Hopewell and New Hopewell schools, the Prairie Center district, and early family relocations from Hendrix County Indiana to Kansas in 1869. He recalls a long walk across a frozen Mississippi as a child and notes Old Hopewell’s decaying floor while hinting he plans to stay active for years.
Two Leavenworth men waived preliminary hearing on armed robbery and felonious assault charges and were bound over to the November district term. Roger N. Warner 21 and Gary L. McGee 22 signed statements admitting an armed robbery at Economay Service Station. Merkel treated and released after head injuries.
State Rep Dale Saffels campaigns for the Democratic nomination for governor. He opens in Cherokee County with a Baxter Springs talk on Monday then visits Crawford County Tuesday and heads to Jefferson County for an Oskaloosa meeting. He plans Leavenworth Atchison Nemaha and Marshall County appearances through the week.
A Friday night two car crash at 19th and Leonard caused an estimated $350 in damage. No injuries were reported. Drivers were Velma L. Worley 32 of 2523 Belle Crest Ct and Warren L. Eudaly 25 of 1919 Edgelea Rd.
The Kennedy White House suffered a House defeat on the King Anderson farm bill as Secretary Freeman’s sales push failed. Kennedy vows a rewritten farm bill and intensified effort for Medicare amid AMA opposition and widespread district mail. Pressure sharpens for lawmakers ahead of a high stakes battle over elderly care reform.
The 25th Midwestern Music and Art Camp at Kansas University will feature three concerts in the first week. The chorus performs at 2 15 p.m. and the symphony orchestra at 3 30 p.m. in Murphy Hall Theater, followed by the concert band at 8 p.m. outdoors east of Hoch Auditorium. Nearly 800 campers attend the program with soloists David Howard Beverly Stuart and Murray Wise.
A land condemnation suit in U S District Court seeks $7 480 for 38 51 acres in Marshall County to aid the Tuttle Creek Dam project The named claimants include Ralph Gallup and wife Lawrence $1 470 J H Winkenwader Waterville $1 810 Charles Cope Waterville $1 800 Estella Hammett Marysville $900 Wilbur Coffee Fort Scott $675 Barbara Horalek Topeka $650 and Lulu M W Edington Marysville $175.
Rumsey Funeral Home advertises a spacious foyer option for inclement weather with contact VI3 5111 for details and scheduling.
Capitol Federal Savings reported assets of 200 million dollars, the largest financial institution in Kansas and among the top 35 of 6,600 savings and loan associations nationwide. President Henry A. Bubb announced gains in savings and home loans in 1962, with reserves at 13 million and plans for a new Overland Park branch.
Mrs. Lucille Rogers von Linde left an estate estimated at 150000 dollars. Legal observers say it will go to her husband of two weeks, Dr. Manfred Graf von Linde, because aunts named to receive it died before her. An aunt from Mission Kansas seeks to annul the marriage alleging fraud.
The first meeting of the People to People Executive Committee since the reorganized movements began in Kansas City is in session. Attendees include Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, Dr. Franklin Murphy, Charles N. Kimball, Dr. Alfred Frankfurter, Mark Bortman, and Joyce C. Hall.
Sidney Berger of Brooklyn New York a Ph D candidate at Kansas University received a one thousand dollar research grant from the National Foundation of Jewish Culture. He will study Jewish persecution as seen in the Yiddish Art Theater drama 1918 to 1940. Berger earned a B A from Brooklyn College and a master’s from KU in 1960.
A brief ad notes a World Vacation Pak plan with no extra charge. The message promotes the service as part of a plan catalog in the Include in your plans Journal.
Surgeon General Luther J. Terry says several mid-continent areas may expose infants to thyroid doses near federal limits due to radio iodine in milk. In St Louis Kansas City Des Moines and Minneapolis authorities warn that under next September exposure could exceed safety guides if US and Russia test nuclear weapons. Public health officials say milk and air are monitored and no public threat is present.
Three people were treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital over Thursday and Friday for varied injuries. J. W. House of Route 3 received stitches for a right hand laceration from machinery, Steve Kinker age 7 of 2902 W. 7th St. had head lacerations from a baseball bat, and Gary Allen Rake of Eureka Illinois age 3 sustained a left hand finger wound while riding in a golf cart.
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