Lawrence to Break Ground on Edgewood Homes Low-Rent Project
Lawrence Housing Authority began the Edgewood Homes project at 18th and Haskell. The $2 million, 130-unit housing complex is financed by a HUD grant and aims to blend with the neighborhood. City officials, Chamber of Commerce leaders, and county commissioners attended the groundbreaking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Housing Authority
Edgewood Park
18Th and
Haskell
Edgewood Homes
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Bill Barr
Housing Authority
Bob Pulliam
Chamber of Commerce
John Crown
Lawrence City ‘Commission
County Commissioners
Chamber of ‘Commerce Ambassador’s Club
Barr
Holiday Traffic Won't Be Halted By Pike Repairs
Memorial holiday weekend on the Kansas Turnpike will see no delays from resurfacing work as start of the program is pushed to after the holiday. L W Newcomer notes heavy holiday travel, urges safety checks, and says 72 miles of 2 lane pavement in Emporia and Wichita will get heavy overlay with completion expected before September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barr
Kansas Turnpike
L. W. Newcomer
Turnpike
Emporia
Wichita
Memorial Day Observances Set Across Lawrence Area
Memorial Day ceremonies honor veterans with a 12 by 12 foot granite memorial dedication at 10 a.m. Monday in Oak Hill Cemetery Lawrence. Dorsey Liberty Post No. 14 and John Purcell lead the dedication with reading of veterans names. Memorial costs are $4200 funded by veterans groups. Services continue at nearby plots and across multiple area cemeteries with numerous American Legion posts auxiliaries churches and other groups taking part.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne Strong
Eudora
Lawrence Dorsey Liberty Post No. 14
American Legion
Carolyn Grover
Legion Auxiliary
Morial
Oak Hill Cemetery
Lawrence
Journal-World
Ken Seals
Oak Hill Ave
Dorsey Liberty Post No. 14
John Purcell
Jayhawk Chapter No
Disabled American Veterans and Auxiliary
Voiture
Douglas Salon
Ewing Jones Post American Legion and Auxiliary
Baldwin American Legion
Lawrence Squadron
Civil Air Patrol
Dorsey-Liberty
Dick Shanafelt
Oak Hill
Maple Grove
North Lawrence
Baldwin
Lloyd Beaton
Oakhill Cemetery
Clearfield
Perry American Legion Post
Grantville
Newman
Perry
Buster
Williamstown
Bridge
Richland
Richland Cemetery
Twin Mound
Clinton
Stull
Zion
Bower
Bethel
Linn Creek
Emmanuel
Pleasant Hill Cemetery
Youth In Lawrence Hurt In Bike Motorcycle Crash
Wayne A. Walker eight year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Walker remains a patient in Lawrence Memorial Hospital acute care ward. He has not regained consciousness as of noon today and is listed in fair condition by LMH according to his mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne A. Walker
Howard Walker
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
LMH
Welfare Budget Talk Set by Douglas County Officials
Douglas County Commissioners and Welfare Director John Derrick with two staff members held a morning preliminary discussion on the welfare department budget for 1972. Additional budget talks by the two governmental units are planned for Wednesday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas County
John Derrick
Welfare Department
Kansas Traffic Deaths Reported for May and 24 Hours
A Kansas traffic death tally covers 24 hours to 9 a.m. Friday with totals for May and for the year 1971. The brief notes the May deaths reaching fifty four and the broader 1971 count reaching two hundred forty four.
What You Can Do About Dangerous Drugs
Alton Blakeslee’s illuminating Drug series advises families on handling drug problems. A large illustrated booklet titled What You Can Do About Dangerous Drugs is available for $1 by mail from the Journal-World in Teaneck NJ, with reader names and addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alton Blakeslee
Journal-World
Blakeslee
P.O
Teaneck
New Jersey
Dickinson Appointed to Administrative Roles in Law School
Dickinson, a consumer credit specialist, is co author of The Law of Bank Deposits Collections and Credit Cards and is working on a new book on consumer credit. Chancellor Chalmers praised the two new appointments as outstanding and credited Deans Blades and Logan for the law school's strong recruitment and bright future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chalmers
Law School
Dean Blades
James K. Logan
Law
Tonga Pool to Open
Tonganoxie municipal swimming pool will open at 1 30 p m Sunday and operate daily from 1 30 to 8 30 p m through the summer with regular hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tonga
Tonganoxie
Family prescription records and funeral ad notes
Family prescription records for taxes and insurance kept at Raney Hillcrest Drug 925 Iowa and 43-9012. Arrangements at home or away. Bunsey Funeral Home 843-5111.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raney Hillcrest Drug
Iowa
Bunsey Funeral Home
Soviets Sign Pact With Egypt After Purge
The Soviet Union and Egypt sign a 15 year treaty of friendship and cooperation renewing their alliance after Anwar Sadat purged rivals. The pact commits military, economic and scientific aid and pledges no interference in each other, with Moscow signaling deeper military involvement if conflict with Israel resumes. The leaders also issue a communique denouncing Israel and calling for withdrawal from territories occupied in 1967 and UN Security Council terms.
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Soviet Union
Egypt
Anwar Sadat
Sadat
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Sinai Desert
Israel
Cairo
United Nations Security Council
U.N
Ford ranks poverty crime and housing among top national ills
Henry Ford II rates poverty education housing and crime as the nation's four major problems. He urges faster progress on these issues, noting the wealthiest country still has citizens in absolute poverty. Ford spoke at the Midwest Research Institute trustee dinner after accepting its annual citation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Henry Ford II
Ford
Midwest Research Institute
Bicentennial Safe May Require Safecracker at Capitol
The chief justice may need a professional safecracker to open the hidden centennial safe in a Capitol storage room. The safe, inscribed to be opened July 4 1976 by the chief magistrate, may lack a key or outer lock mechanism. the inner door combination reportedly rests at the Smithsonian.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Capitol
U.S
House Appropriations
George M. White
Smithsonian Institution
Bob Casey
Dtex
Auto Production Rises as GM and Chrysler Extend Shifts
U S auto output rose this week with General Motors scheduling daily overtime at eight plants and Chrysler running long shifts at one plant. Memorial Day weekend skip on overtime. Ford Atlanta plants closed Monday. Total cars built this week: 191 366, up from last week and last year's pace. Truck output 39 736, slightly down from last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
U.S
General Motors Corp
Chrysler Corp
Ford
Atlanta
Automotive News
Simons Re-Elected as Midwest Research Institute Leader
Dolph C. Simons Jr., publisher of the Journal-World, was re-elected vice-chairman of MRI board of trustees and executive committee at the institute’s annual meeting in Kansas City. George Dillon of Butler Manufacturing Co. was re-elected chairman of the Trustees and executive committee. Other MRI trustees named to the committee include John Anderson Jr, E Bertram Berkley, Robert Gaynor, Paul Henson, Irvine Hockaday Jr, Herbert Jacobs, James Kemper Jr, Alfred Lighton, Arthur May, Roy Menninger MD, Miller Nichols, Robert Patterson, John T. Pierson Jr, Morton Sosland, and W C Theis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dolph C. Simons Jr
Journal-World
Midwest Research Institute Board of Trustees
Kansas City
George Dillon
Butler Manufacturing Co
MRI
John Anderson, Jr
E. Bertram Berkley
Robert Gaynor
Paul Henson
Irvine Hockaday Jr
Herbert Jacobs
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Dorsey Liberty
Korea
Reno Cemetery Association
Reno
Richland American Legion
Stanwood Friends Church
Wild Horse Cemetery
McLouth
Stanwood
Fred Leimkuhler
Vinland Cemetery
Worden
Kansas
23Rd Street
Learnard Avenue
Will Hess
Dickinson
Consumer Credit
THE
Associated Press
Industry
Podgorny
Moscow
Kremlin
H. Ford
Ford Motor Co
Warren Montury
New Hampshire
John Deere
John Deere Lawn & Garden ‘Tractors
Farm Equipment, Inc
E. 23Rd St
John T
Stewart
American Family Auto Fire Health Lifke
American Family Mutual Insurance CO
Madison, Wisconsin
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