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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1966
Page
5
Elizabeth Armstrong an 83 year old widow died in a house fire south of Hiawatha Kansas on Friday. Fire fueled by strong winds destroyed her home and a nearby vacant house. Her body was found in the kitchen and the cause remains undetermined.
A packed campus schedule lists carillon recitals by Albert Gerken, campus concerts in Swarthout and Dyehe Auditoriums, plus film showings like The Captain from Kopenick and The Bedbug. Basketball tournaments fill Allen Fieldhouse, with large student career interviews and WSTA conventions. Exhibits include Leonardo da Vinci inventions and Cowles journalism displays.
John Fenton of Monson sues Quaboag Country Club in Hampden Superior Court over golf balls hitting his home from the ninth fairway. A master’s report orders the club to pay 4900 for shattered windows and nuisance after a 24-foot fence failed to stop 40 balls landing in the yard. Mrs Fenton notes social events were ruined by fear of stray balls.
Glenn C. White age 41 of Osawatomie was killed and two other men injured in a two car crash two miles north of Iola on U S 169 Friday, according to AP reporting from Iola Kansas.
American and Vietnamese forces hammer in two major offensives against North Vietnamese regulars near Quang Ngai and Tuy Hoa amid day two of heavy combat. Air power targets missile sites, bridges, and supply routes as Marines tally hundreds of enemy dead and ground forces close in.
The First Baptist Church at Linwood will be dedicated at 2 30 p m Sunday with Dr Richard Waltz of the Kansas Baptist Convention delivering the dedication message Rev Gayel Bender of Wellsville will give the dedicatory prayer L R Hearne Jr pastor will call to worship and give the benediction Rev Ernest Gruen of Wyandotte Baptist Church presents the invocation The service features organist Mrs Jenni Snider and songs The new church replaces the old building burned January 12 1965 Groundbreaking was June 6 and the first meeting was November 17 prior to the dedication members met in homes for Baptist Evening Fellowship and at Linwood School for Sunday worship
Readers receive daily Aries to Pisces notes urging focus on work avoid arguments and risky bets. Advice emphasizes steadiness patience generosity, careful shopping, planning study time and avoiding fights or impractical displays of jealousy.
Atchison Kansas dedicates a new American Legion building in a ceremony attended by 600 from across Kansas. National commander L Eldon James of Hampton Virginia gave the main address and spoke on his Viet Nam tour and urged unity and support for U S policy there.
Rev Rick C. Howard national director of the college youth division of the Assemblies of God and editor of Campus Ambassador magazine will speak at 11 am and 7 pm Sunday at the First Assembly of God Church in Kansas City. He will also address a Saturday dinner for the Kansas University Chi Alpha chapter. A Toledo native, he is a Grove City College alumnus 1959 with a BA in history and political science and earned an MA in history from Memphis State University in 1965.
Zsa Zsa Gabor, returning from a Mexico divorce, obtained a marriage license in Santa Monica with Texas oilman Joshua S Cosden Jr aged 43 and 51 respectively. They plan to wed Monday, marking Gabor's fifth marriage and Cosden's second. The couple met six weeks ago on a Dallas blind date.
Two men with deadly osteogenic sarcoma exchanged tissue grafts in a Roswell Park Memorial Institute experiment. Robert Allen and Harry Griffith received opposite tumor tissue to trigger immune resistance. Nadler reported both patients were satisfactory after the two hour operation and a 10 to 12 day wait to measure cancer-cell resistance.
Jack Harding of Pleasanton was convicted in county court of cruelty to animals. Sentencing set for March 11 by Judge Clarence H. Nation. The misdemeanor carries up to a 250 dollar fine or one year in jail or both. Sheriff Bryan Harold testified to 30 dogs 2 horses 30 guinea pigs about 100 pigeons and more confined at Harding's place near Pleasanton. A veterinarian testified animals suffered from long malnutrition worms and untreated infections.
Berkeley police charged 19 year old Lynda L Koolish Beverly Hills with battery after she kicked a uniformed American Nazi party member who was parading a Hitler sign. Koolish posted $110 bail and was to appear in court next week. Police defended the arrest saying free speech is for everybody.
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