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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1968
Page
12
A reader asks why crowds form at tragic accidents and linger, while offering no help. Ann Landers explains that people crave excitement and stimuli, drawn to destruction and agony, a trait underlying fascination with disasters, bullfights, auto races, and fires.
Dr. Clark Bricker of Kansas University Chemistry spoke on solar energy at the East Heights PTA meeting last week. Officers for 1968-69 were nominated including Mrs George Black for president and Mrs James Burghart for vice president.
Army Spec 4 Ted Scribner, 19, son of Mr and Mrs George Scribner of Eudora, received metal fragment wounds Tuesday while fighting in Vietnam. He is not seriously injured and recuperating at 85th Evacuation Hospital. Scribner, with six months in Vietnam, was heading north toward the vee zone with Company D 2/8 Air Cavalry Division. Mail should be sent to Hospital Mail Section APO San Francisco 96381. He attended Eudora High School.
February meeting of Lone Star 4-H Club featured EHU News demonstrations illustrated talks on Buying Jeans and Good Grooming by Irene Rice and Marilyn Hodges. Yeast breads were demonstrated by Pam Meyer and Jane Rice. A square dance performed by Connie Flory Debbie Converse Pam Meyer Jane Rice Steve Rice John Goff Ronnie Rice and Richard Hoover with caller Bob Russell. Hosts were the Russell and Rice families. Plan and Plant It lesson by Mrs. Francis Goff to Brookdale Extension Homemakers Unit at 1708 La St begins 7 p.m roll call A Flower I Like To Grow.
A reader asks whether to focus on a messy floor or the arrival of spring blossoms when Charlie enters the kitchen with muddy boots and a bundle of first delions. The dilemma frames priorities between cleanliness and seasonal beauty.
Jane Lee of the Journal-World won two awards at the Kansas Press Women's 1967 annual writing contest in Topeka. She took first in fashion in the special articles division for a Aug 23 story with color photos on back to school fashions for children and teens. she earned third in the special edition division for a photo-led series on activities at a convention. Frances Smith of Topeka was elected president for a two-year term, with Christine Buchanan Wichita first vice president, Kathleen Kelly Whalen Wichita second vice president, Roberta Applegate Manhattan secretary, and Beth Hall Wichita treasurer.
Deborah Ann Curtis Mitzi Ann Elliott Debora Lee Johnson Debbie Lyn Miller Marla Redding Deborah Lee Smith and Debra Lee Wastell were initiated into Bethel 48 Job's Daughters in the Masonic Temple with Susan Hull honoring as queen presiding over the ceremony.
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