08 Mar 1962
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1962
Page
1
City commissioners study extending Sixth Street eastward from its south foot near the bridge to connect with Connecticut. Maps show right of way from Sixth and Nay Hampshire eastward is available.
Kennedy says he would attend a dinner for writers if agreements were reached or to avert war in a dangerous situation. He suggests summits are unlikely to help without prior alignment and notes progress depends on conditions being met this spring.
Kansas Supreme Court permits Lowell Lee Andrews to pursue an appeal as a pauper in the Walcott Wyandotte County family murders. The court set oral arguments for May 2 on a habeas corpus appeal challenging the death sentence.
Dr. Peter J. Caws, chairman of the Kansas University Philosophy Department, will resign at semester end to join the Carnegie Corporation of New York as a full time appointee. He plans summer travels in Europe and will begin duties in the fall.
President Kennedy nominated Wesley E. Brown of Hutchinson Kansas to be a federal district judge for Kansas. Brown, 54, a Democrat, is a Wichita Bankruptcy Referee and will fill the seat of Delmas C. Hill who was elevated last September to the U.S. Circuit Court.
Lawrence notes praise for the Lenten series They Walked With Christ and upcoming Easter reading. A Miss Lawrence Contest tea is rescheduled for March 17 in the Kansas Union Watkins Room. Exhibits include Aspects of French Industry photos and silent-film star portraits by Orval Hixon. Col Kenneth E. Robeshub now commands a jet wing at Richards-Gebaur AFB.
President moves to declare Virginia coastline a disaster area as seven deaths are confirmed. Gov. Carvel says the 1954 hurricane pales beside this, with millions in damages across Hampton Roads andWallops Island. National Guard and Civil Defense mobilized. Red Cross and police, fire, Navy units assist in stricken zones.
Nepal, whose name means Land of the gods, features more than 350 Hindu temples and Buddhist shrines concentrated in Kathmandu.
Three young men were charged in County Court with burglary and grand larceny after a 2:20 a.m. break in at Cooper-Walgren drug store, 847 Mass St. Lawrence University sophomores Harold Williams and Gary Engel, and Robert Ebey Jr., all 18–19, signed confessions and were arrested at 1142 Ind Ave by KU and city police. Items including 1,000 dexamyl pills and cigarettes, clocks, watches, and shaving supplies were found in their apartment.
Snow notes China has cleaned up, expanded health and education, and doubled irrigated land with new dams, while warning food shortages and civil rights gaps remain. He cites 17 million Communist Party members and vast youth and labor networks as ties to the regime.
Memorial Hospital records list several birth notices including Mr and Mrs Earl Reeves welcoming a son today. Other entries name Mrs Birdie Wiedeman Mrs Stella Smith and families in Eu dora Bald win and Tonganoxie with babies, plus addresses for Kelly Milton Bond Jones and Rhodes among others.
Local University Women’s Club members led by Mrs. Gerald Carney prepare a March 20 meeting to finalize travel to Mexico. Professors Bryan Leonard H A Ireland and Kenneth Deemer join a new traveling group as mothers and spouses arrange child care and brush up on Spanish to read menus and converse with locals.
John Skie, manager of the Dr. Pepper Bottling Co., purchased 20 acres south of 23rd Street on the west side of U S 59 from Joe Lesch of Route 5. The land was bought personally by Skie, not for the bottling plant, with no development plans for at least five years, according to Lesch.
A 20-year-old Cameron man, John Cecil Kirkendall, was critically injured when his car struck the rear of a semi-trailer 15 miles west of Lawrence on the Kansas Turnpike. Truck driver Marvin L. Newstrom of Herington reported $300 damage to his vehicle and $1,000 to the car. Kirkendall was taken to Stormont-Vail Hospital and to be moved to the University Medical Center.
The plan calls for a downstream multi lane bridge west of the current span to ease riverbank construction. It would be the city’s third river crossing, located midway between the Kansas Turnpike bridge to the north and the existing span near downtown, linking North Lawrence with future industrial growth.
Mrs Cecil Duver of 2039 Kentucky Street is in good condition at St Luke's Hospital Kansas City after surgery performed last Saturday.
A note of thanks expresses appreciation to friends neighbors and relatives for cards flowers and gifts received during a hospital stay. Special thanks go to the third floor nurses and aides and to doctors Campbell Manahan and Jones and to ministers Brown Sims and McMillan for visits prayers and blessings.
Higley in Lawrence promotes self confidence through beauty and compliments. It markets undergarments from Siltskin girdles to Exquisite Form bras and Shadowline slips, claiming affordable prices and a spring wardrobe boost.
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