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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1957
Page
3
Local social calendar lists Port City and surrounding groups meeting this week. Activities include the Women’s Auxiliary, Soroptimist and Delta Gamma gatherings, plus a Jaynes annual section at the Municipal Building and a Prendly House Club event postponed to May 29.
Mrs. Robert Byers and son Scott visit Iowa City with her parents the Campbells. Janet Brune seeks Stephens College A A degree with May 28 commencement. Mary Patton’s daughter stars in a Vassar senior thesis play. Edna Hill returns from Washington to active in Home Economics work. W H Quakenbush testifies in district court. Kirby family hosts A A U W tour guests. Hines announce birth of son at St Luke's. paternal grandparents Vincent and Mrs Hines of Windsor. maternal grandparents Mr. and Mrs Stavros noted.
Mrs. J. B. Fugate a long time Lawrence resident and Kansas University graduate will mark her 90th birthday Friday at her daughter Mrs. Hervey Faris home in Van Nuys California. Guests include daughters Mrs. Hite Mattoon of Lincoln Neb and Mrs. Guy Mitchell and Justus Fugate of Wichita. A tea will host Cahuenga chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Presbyterian Church women and several Lawrence friends. Mrs. Fugate plans to move with Dr. and Mrs. Faris to Santa Barbara California.
Baldwin High School postponed its industrial arts and style show that was to be held Monday night. The postponement was due to storm warnings in the Baldwin area and will be rescheduled.
Eudera Cub Scouts Pack 640 visit Lawrence Fire Department and Police Department as part of a busy slate of activities. Den members, led by Mrs Juhnnne Oe Berg, meet with firefighters and police officers, and plan a May gathering at Kermit Broers home with Kenneth Jackson taking the role of craft master.
The Cottonwood 4-H Club meeting led by vice president Judy Hoover included 3 members and 11 guests with four others present. Home economics leaders submitted judging teams, and preparations were announced for a district judging school on June 5 at the 4-H Fairgrounds.
A ninth grade yearbook piece recalls familiar school events from the year at Biymnuth Congregational Church school. It highlights the first pep assembly, Halloween and Christmas activities, sports, plays, elections, fashion shows, and farewells to teachers and classmates with humor and nostalgia.
Lawrence Girl Scouts will join three summer camps as registrations open at Sunner High School. Seventy eight signed for Clinton Park, thirty five for Mice Valley, and one thousand six hundred eighty eight for Lone StarAA second camp at Lone Star nearby. Camp details include bus times, site layouts with two lodges, directors named Mrs Harvey McArthur Mrs Dean Kerkman and Mrs Ernest Haas and Mrs Richard Piskoty directing Hidden Valley for older scouts.
Under supervision, the older Intermediates will desedop unit ones, lay traits, fash camp equip ment and enjoy other camp crafts and activities.
Lawrence Auxiliary to Disabled American Veterans receives three million at the state convention. The local group wins first place in hospital work and publicity, and third place for Americanism. Several officers are elected including Neva Ketchum as department second junior vice commander. Local attendees include Vincent Wolfe and Mike Kinney. National leaders attend the convention banquet and luncheon events.
Members of the Lawrence Flower Club plan a Monday trip to Glendale Rose Garden in Independence and the Rose Garden at Unity Village. The tour will be by chartered bus and reservations are due Friday noon with three club members listed for contact.
The Pleas ant Grove Cemetery board of directors will hold a special meeting at % p.m. Wednesday at the Willow Springs School to discuss cemetery operations.
A young woman passing Lt. Williams’s car heard a wolf whistle. A man from a repair shop then whistled as Williams and Det. Daniels moved in. The suspect pointed to a mynah bird cage housing two parrots and a parakeet.
The Children of the Chapel Choir of Evangelical United Brethren Church will hold a picnic at South Park at 4 p m on Wednesday afternoon. If rain occurs the group will meet at the church.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip arrived in Copenhagen aboard the royal yacht to begin a three day state visit to Denmark with a brief vacation. Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard were brought to Stockholm by a Dutch naval squadron for a separate three day visit. The Junior High PTA executive board prepares for its final meeting of the school year at 2.
O clock Wednesday afternoon in Room 211 at the Junior High School. All members of the old and new boards are asked to attend.
Dr. J. A. Burzle chair of Germanic Languages at Kansas University will tour the Federal Republic and West Berlin as a guest of the West German Government for a month. He departs New York June 10 and returns July 11. Kenny Fonda is noted as a stage and screen star who plays the bull fiddle.
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