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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1998
Page
11
After a Kansas City Kansas triple fatality involving 15 year olds, Blue Valley moves to tighten off site activity transport rules and urges enforcement of existing laws. Proposals for higher licenses ages face rural opposition while calls grow for more driver education and adult supervision.
Washington Post White House correspondent Ann Devroy, who died at 49, was honored at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire. A scholarship funds future journalism students, while lectures memorialize her values of fairness, accuracy, and pursuing public understanding despite industry pressures. Journalists and officials praised her detachment, presidential respect, and fearless pursuit of truth as standards now at risk.
Ellen Goodman reflects on the surge of public hope after reports that angiogenesis inhibitors may curb cancer. She notes media hype, investor fever, and the gap between mouse studies and human outcomes, urging patience while acknowledging progress and the two cultures of hope and science.
Public notice instructs readers to send address changes to the Journal-World in Lawrence Kansas with a P O Box and zip code 66044 0883, noting USPS 306 520 and membership in the Audit Bureau of Circulations and the Associated Press.
Lawrence readers urge The Journal-World to cover the retirement of Ginger Hamm Marlene Ebeling and Barbara Troulset at Centennial School. They note 96 years of teaching between them and argue educators deserve recognition beyond prom features. The letter outlines policy on letters to the newspaper.
Final disposition of available local federal revenue sharing funds set aside about 146000 for people programs and about 18 million for various city and county projects. The first three of 10 new disaster warning sirens for Lawrence were installed but tests delayed until all 10 were running. The eight Lawrence High varsity cheerleaders listed include Susan Hanenkrat Annette Morrison Cinda Osness essie Green Cathy Tolbert Nancy Weidensaul Lynn Llewellen and Anita Miller. Rumors of a possible national gasoline shortage led a local service station to limit sales due to late fuel allotment arrival. In 1958 Mrs. Bertha Bell Whitelaw of DeSoto was honored for 35 years reporting hometown items for the journal World country correspondence. In 1898 on May 10, 1898, the Lawrence World compared Anglo American relations with a dog and pups metaphor Courtesy Watkins Community Museum.
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