Good neighbors in Lawrence weigh ugly homes and tolerance
In Lawrence a controversial concrete home on West 15th Street and a proposed addition on Missouri Street spark debate over taste and neighborhood values. Critics call structures ugly while supporters defend the owner's right to live as they choose, highlighting tolerance and the limits of preservation rules.
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Lawrence
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Dan Rockhill
West 15Th Street
Missouri Street
Tennessee
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Rockhill
Achning
Today in History highlights key events across centuries
A digest of notable dates: 1754 first American newspaper cartoon Join or Die in Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette. 1502 Columbus departs Cadiz on his fourth voyage. 1926 Byrd and Bennett fly over the North Pole. 1945 curfew lifted and Minow calls TV a vast wasteland. 1974 Nixon impeachment hearings begin. 1978 Aldo Moro found dead in Rome. 1980 Sunshine Skyway disaster kills 35. 1994 Mandela elected South Africa’s first black president.
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Pennsylvania Gazette
Christopher Columbus
Cadiz
Spain
Western Hemisphere
Richard Byrd
Floyd Bennett
North Pole
U.S
National Association of Broadcasters
Federal Communications Commission
Newton N. Minow
House Judiciary Committee
Nixon
Aldo Moro
Red Brigades
Rome
Sunshine Skyway
Tampa Bay
Fla
South Africa
Nelson Mandela
Journal-World staff and postal info credits
Bill Snead Deputy Editor Roger Verdon Managing Editor John Taylor News Editor Ann Gardner Editorial Page Editor Tom Fisher Advertising Manager POSTMASTER address changes to the Journal-World Lawrence Kan 66044 USPS 306 520 Second Class postage paid at Lawrence Kan Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations Member of the Associated Press
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Bill Snead
Roger Verdon
John Taylor
Ann Gardner
Tom Fisher
Journal-World
P.O. Box
Lawrence, Kan
Lawrence
Kan
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Press
Clinton as deceiver in GOP critique and reform hopes
Republicans in private show anger at Bill Clinton for stealing conservative ideas and using image over substance. Critics cite tax and spending trends, vetoes, defense funding worries, and media masking of his true stance. They urge voters to focus on actions and a stark Johnson-style warning about deception.
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Clinton
Congress
Billy Graham
Graham
Bill Clinton
Washington
Bob Dole
Ronald Reagan
Bush
Bob Kerrey
D-Neb
Defense
Joint Chiefs of Staff
John Shalikashvili
Washington Times
FDR Memorial Sparks Debate Over Wheelchair Depiction
A Washington column argues the FDR memorial should portray him with his disability to honor truth about his polio and presidency. It criticizes omitting the wheelchair and cigarette holder as misrepresenting history and the man’s transformative impact on modern America.
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Washington
Franklin Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
FDR
Hyde Park
Felix Frankfurter
National Archives
FDR Memorial Commission
America
Geoffrey Ward
Ward
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Public Forum letters praise university music program
Readers laud the University Choirs Symphony Orchestra and University Dance Company for Pulcinella's Feast at Lied Center. Barbara Wunsch praises Simon Carrington and Jerel Hilding's direction, while Steve Mason warns of open sewer plans in southwest Lawrence and calls for a lid. The Journal-World reiterates its letters policy.
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Symphony
University
University Department of Music
Lawrence
Simon Carrington
Brian Priestman
Jerel Hilding
Barbara
Bob Wunsch
Inverness
journal-World
Lawrence Faces Summer Transit Shortfall and Subsidy Need
Old Home Town notes Kansas University funds may arrive this fall to aid Lawrence public transit, with a required $8,000 subsidy to avoid summer shutdown. Lawrence, Kansas sixth in state population, grew by 1,608 residents in the agricultural census, total 22,536 not counting students. May 9, 1896 World reports a local sidewalk tile firm formed. Geo F Leonard secretary, promoting cheaper, shiplike sidewalk tile now laid on Tennessee Street.
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Kansas University
Lawence
Kansas
Wichita
Kansas City
Topeka
Hutchinson
Salina
Lawrence World
Lawrence
Geo. F. Leonard
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