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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1957
Page
3
The Lawrence Junior Olympic program opens next week with two local meets at Haskell Stadium. The junior high event is 2 p m Wednesday and the elementary meet is 4 p m Friday. Winners advance to the state meet May 27 at Kansas University.
The Iti gas University chapter of Phi Sigma immortality biological society will hold its spring banquet at 6:30 p.m. May 14 in the Memorial Room. Dr Karl Lagler of Michigan University will speak and new officers will be installed. New members include Bowles Honolulu Conner Ottawa Freeman Kansas City Goldsby Kansas City Han Korea McLaughlin Lemoyne Ungar Forest Hills Wesley Webster Groves Wolfe Pomona.
The American Society of Civil Engineers chapters at Kansas University and Kansas State College plan a joint meeting Monday at 6:00 pm in the Memorial Union Kansas Room. Clarence Eked, CU civil engineering professor and ASCE District 16 director, will speak. Awards will be presented to outstanding engineering students Tram KU and K-State.
Lehigh Valley area store official Dirk Edwards plans the 11th annual Mother’s Day party for parents aged seventy to ninety at his department store in Lansford Pennsylvania tomorrow. The event aims to honor senior residents with refreshments readings and a small gift program.
Mrs. Glen Walker 34 Ind Street sustained minor injuries Thursday evening in a single vehicle wreck about 34a miles southwest of Lawrence on a county road. She was not hospitalized. The car driven by her husband Glen Monard Walker 26 also of 34 Ind. was involved witness statements vary about another car crossing the bridge. Lt Deputy Sheriff Dan Hallmark said investigation continues with no clear explanation of the cause.
Two Kansas University sisters Marion Jersild and Joann Jersild will spend the next academic year studying in Germany. Marion, an assistant professor of piano, received the Fabrecht Scholarship to study at the Mu Academy in Berlin. Joann earned an exchange scholarship to Münster University to study German literature as part of KU's direct exchange program.
Eugene Wyland Woodard born June 8 1895 near Hesper eldest son of Mr and Mrs H Q Woodard died May at Lawrence Memorial Hospital aged 61. Home was on Route. Youth on the sarima and he attended old Hesper Academy. Married Myrtle Gottstein on December 19 1919.
Earl Wilson relays a humorous slice of celebrity touring as Benjamin Fairless, the so called Big Wheel of Steel from Pigeon Run Ohio, visits his birthplace and encounters memory gaps. he also recounts brushes with Tommy Manville and party life, noting the Derby, alimony, and a Las Vegas divorce, ending with a remark on Toots Shor.
Funeral services were held at 2 pm today at Rumsey Funeral Home for Woolard Woodard a Methodist parsonage resident of Lawrence and World War I infantry veteran. Survivors include his wife Myrtle Woodard his mother Mrs GO Woodard a sister Mrs Eri Wand two brothers HLS Woodard and Paul Woodard and three others. The article notes Jeequeth Gone born in June and references over seas service and effects of war.
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