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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1997
Page
6
A candid portrait of Katherine Graham her influential rise at The Washington Post and leadership through pivotal moments. The narrative blends family wealth, marriage, and world leaders with Graham’s resilience, recounting the Pentagon Papers Watergate and pressmen's strike in a intimate, engaging voice.
Graveside rites for Viola Mae Dunn 95 of Lawrence will be held at Ashland Cemetery St Joseph Missouri with visitation at Heaton Bowman Smith Sidenfaden Chapel. William Eugene Roper 70 Paola will have services at Wilson Son Funeral Home Paola with military honors by VFW Post 3712 and burial at Paola Cemetery.
The ProFusion metasearch engine developed at Kansas University’s ICT Center received PC Magazine Editors’ Choice recognition. Created by Susan Gauch and team in 1995, ProFusion coordinates nine engines and was licensed to ProFusion LLC in 1996 by KU’s Center for Research Inc. The project was funded by Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp. and the Center For Research Inc. and is accessible at the KU domain.
The U S Labor Department backs trainee wages while the state covers supervisors and instructors. About 250 have completed the program, mostly single women. Sheet metal trainees start at 5 50 an hour with benefits and progress as they make airplane parts. Cessna guarantees job placement for graduates. The facility plans nearby housing for trainees with no transport or from abusive homes. Angela Randle, 31, a welfare mother of six, drills holes in sheet metal and expects to graduate Nov 24. It's given me another chance.
J Stewart of Charter Equities requests rezoning from agricultural to suburban residential and approval of a community unit plan for Oak Ridge Estates on 92.7 acres northwest of town near Queen’s and North 1750 roads. The plan proposes 14 lots from 1.7 to 7.1 acres served by private roads to protect wooded character and includes a maintenance area and caretaker’s quarters.
Sandra Day, a city county planner, recommends rezoning and unit plan approval for a project adjacent to the suburban growth area in the Douglas County Guide Plan. The plan, in the rural growth area, would be the first such development in the county despite being in Lawrence's fourth urban growth phase. It is described as leapfrogging with a timing issue, with large estate style houses and access to the Sout Lawrence Trafficway.
The Lawrence Douglas County Planning Office reviews and advances numerous items for 1998. Actions include final plats for Overland Addition and Kanwaka Meadows, a one lot XCALAK Industrial Park plan, a 62 lot Longleaf subdivision preliminary plat, and a Westgate phase four development plan with two office buildings. Also proposed are rezonings at Wakarusa View Estates and along Kansas Highway 10, a multifamily to residential office change at 24th and Alabama, Unified Work Program review, and potential amendments to subdivision regulations adding building envelopes cul de sacs and separated drainage and utility easements.
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