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- WELCOME TO KU
- August 19, 1990
- Although there has been an increase in apartment and utility activity almost since the beginning of the month, this is the weekend that Kansas University students traditionally arrive en masse in Lawrence. University residence halls open and parents crowd into town to deliver their children and their belongings for the beginning of another fall term at KU.
- NOBLE RUSHES FOR 104 YARDS
- August 19, 1990
- Haskell halfback Terriss Noble rushed for 104 yards on nine carries, scored a touchdown and had a 75-yard burst called back because of penalty in the Indians’ season-opening football scrimmage Saturday morning at Haskell Stadium. Noble, who also threw for a TD pass, injured his ankle late in the scrimmage and is expected to miss a couple days of practice.
- PAST TO DISPEL NEGATIVE STEREOTYPES
- August 19, 1990
- Thanks to a movie called “The Wizard of Oz,” Kansas for many people means nothing more than tornadoes, gray prairies and joyless folk like Uncle Henry and Auntie Em. Most people don’t think of Kansas as a one-time national leader in fighting alcoholism and improving public health. Nor do they associate the state with labor unrest, the Populist movement or a wide cross-section of ethnic cultures.
- HILLEARY DOMINATES SCRIMMAGE
- August 19, 1990
- It looks as if Chip Hilleary’s performance in Kansas University’s spring football game was no fluke. KU’s 6-1, 180-pound sophomore quarterback, who completed eight of 15 passes for 169 yards and two touchdowns in the spring game, picked up where he left off during KU’s first situational scrimmage of the 1990 preseason.
- HOW THEY RATED
- August 19, 1990
- Following are the results of the most recent inspections on file with the Bureau of Food Drug and Lodging in Topeka for the 228 Lawrence business establishments that serve prepared food. Included in the list are restaurants; grocery store salad bars and delicatessens; convenience stores; and senior citizen meal sites.
- FEW SERIOUS PROBLEMS FOUND AT LOCAL FOOD SITES
- August 19, 1990
- The next time you get a fly in your soup or a hair in your salad, you might consider talking to the manager of the food establishment before calling the state health department, a state health department inspector said. “Many times the circumstance that created the problem will no longer be there by the time an inspector can contact the person in charge,” said Roger Ozias, a food and drug investigator who has done restaurant inspections in Lawrence since 1983.
- GEORGE D. BELLINGER
- August 19, 1990
- Services for George D. Bellinger, 69, Oskaloosa, are pending at Hampton-Barrett Funeral Home in Oskaloosa. Mr. Bellinger died Saturday at St. Francis Hospital in Topeka.
- PRITCHARD SIGNS WITH WARRIORS
- August 19, 1990
- Former Kansas basketball guard Kevin Pritchard has signed a three-year contract with the Golden State Warriors, his agent and father Steve Pritchard announced Saturday. Terms were not announced, yet Steve Pritchard, president of Nashville based Pro Tours, Inc., said Kevin will receive a three-year contract and high six-figure salary from the Warriors.
- LESTER A. PEGG
- August 19, 1990
- Funeral services for Lester A. Pegg, 76, Dallas, Ore., will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Old German Baptist Brethren Church in Dallas, Ore. Burial will follow in Dallas Cemetery. Mr. Pegg died Friday in Portland, Ore., following a heart attack.
- COLORS FLY AT LOCAL SPINATHON
- August 19, 1990
- After 24 hours of spinning flags, members of the Lawrence High School Color Guard put away their flags and headed home for showers and sleep. The spinathon kicked off at noon Friday at the main entrance of the Lawrence Riverfront Plaza, with 30 girls split into pairs and rotating for five-minute shifts.
- STATUS UNCHANGED
- August 19, 1990
- Although President Bush has announced that reservists will be called to active duty to help with the current crisis in the Middle East, Kansas reserve units have received no official word that they will be involved. Cindy Weaver, public affairs officer for 89th U.S. Army Reserve Command in Wichita, said Saturday that the command did not have any word from the Pentagon about activating units in Kansas or Nebraska.
- ARCHITECT LEFT ROMANESQUE LEGACY
- August 19, 1990
- His public buildings stand as heavy stone monuments to a bygone architectural movement. But, of course, at least one of those buildings may not stand much longer. The architect is John G. Haskell, the Lawrence pioneer who designed dozens of buildings for state and county governments, as well as numerous churches and houses in Lawrence and throughout the state.
- LOCAL ARTS 2 LOCAL THEATERS TO HOLD AUDITIONS
- August 19, 1990
- The Lawrence Community Theatre will hold auditions for “Bell, Book and Candle” Aug. 26 and 27 at the theater. The play by John Van Druten will run Sept. 28 through Oct. 7. Roles are available for three men, two women and a cat. For more information, call 843-SHOW. In addition, the Liberty Hall Players will hold auditions for “The Music Man” by Meredith Willson at 7 p.m. Aug. 28, 29 and 30 at the Liberty Hall rehearsal room, 2 E. Seventh. Callbacks, if needed, will be Sept. 4. The musical will be performed Oct. 11-21 at Liberty Hall; it will be directed by Judy Wright. About 30 roles are available in all age groups. More more information, call 749-1912 afternoons. Auditions set for radio theater
- ARCHITECT LEFT ROMANESQUE LEGACY
- August 19, 1990
- His public buildings stand as heavy stone monuments to a bygone architectural movement. But, of course, at least one of those buildings may not stand much longer. The architect is John G. Haskell, the Lawrence pioneer who designed dozens of buildings for state and county governments, as well as numerous churches and houses in Lawrence and throughout the state.
- HOSPITAL REPORT
- August 19, 1990
- DISMISSALS Teresa Ann Bierig and baby girl, Lawrence; Katherine Ann Crawford and baby boy, Eudora.
- LOCAL OFFICIALS BRACE FOR FUEL COST CRUNCH
- August 19, 1990
- Despite recent jumps in the price of gasoline, spokesmen for businesses and governments in Douglas County say recent events in the Middle East have yet to take a toll on their costs for fuel and petroleum-based products. But a surge in costs seems likely and businessmen and local officials are unsure how to brace themselves.
- T EXACTLY GOOD, CLEAN FUN
- August 19, 1990
- The Perry Fall Festival featured a full day of activities and attractions Saturday for both children and adults but it wasn’t exactly good, clean fun. The Perry-Lecompton High School’s newly formed booster club held a mud volleyball competition, which drew large crowds of spectators throughout the morning and afternoon. Seven teams participated in the ankle deep mud, vying for the $100 first prize.
- FOR THE RECORD
- August 19, 1990
- Law enforcement report Police reports
- TRAVELLERS WIN REGIONAL MEET
- August 19, 1990
- Tony Hubbard wished he’d been able to bring a full team to the American Amateur Baseball Congress’ West-Central regional tournament. Still, Hubbard and his Illinois state champion Chicago A’s semi-pro team advanced to the tournament’s championship game, where they fell to the hosting Maupintour Travellers, 16-2, on a wet Saturday night at KU’s Hoglund-Maupin Stadium.
- WEIGHING THE ISSUES
- August 19, 1990
- Some big numbers are being tossed about in the Lawrence school district. Voters will be asked in November to approve $31.7 million to build a second high school, upgrade the current high school and add onto a couple of elementary school buildings. It will cost an estimated $3.67 million to run the new high school during the first year. That’s $903,000 more than the district would spend without a second high school, administrators say.
- HAGAN MAY PLAY BASEBALL FOR A CAREER
- August 19, 1990
- If Colorado’s Darian Hagan isn’t the best quarterback in the Big Eight, he’s definitely in the top three. Yet Hagan’s future may be in professional baseball, not football.
- HUNGER SATED, DOGS PARADED AT 83RD FAIR
- August 19, 1990
- Fred Gottstein says the number of people attending the Vinland Fair hasn’t changed much in 83 years. “Everybody rode horses, you didn’t have to go very far,” he said. “I wouldn’t say there’s more people now than years ago.”
- MATH LESSONS TURN PRACTICAL
- August 19, 1990
- The days of simple addition drills at the blackboard may not yet be gone in Kansas classrooms, but they’re quickly slipping away. At the same time and with teachers’ blessings high-tech tools like calculators are being viewed as necessary learning tools just like textbooks.
- CENTER SEES CUSTOMER BASE DOUBLE
- August 19, 1990
- Since opening the telephone lines at noon on May 7, the Kansas Relay Center, 734 Vt., has seen its customer base nearly double and has seen an increase in business use as well. In a recent interview, administrators of the center, which handles calls to and from speech- and hearing-impaired Kansas telephone customers, say the popularity of the service is growing.
- S HEROISM ALIVE
- August 19, 1990
- More than 50 years ago, Eva Edmands and her parents fled Austria to escape Nazi persecution. After an unsuccessful attempt to cross into Switzerland from France, they sought refuge in a Catholic church in the small town of Annecy. It was there that they met the Rev. L’abbe Longeray, who risked his own life to shelter the family from 1942 to 1945 in the rectory of St. Martin, a tiny mountain-top parish.
- NO COMPLACENCY AT CU
- August 19, 1990
- Six years ago, Bill McCartney was about as popular here in the mountains as a forest fire. Today he’s the highest-paid coach in the Big Eight at $130,000 a year and he’s the owner of an unprecedented 15-year contract.
- SOVIET HISTORIANS OFFER VIEWS ON GULF CRISIS
- August 19, 1990
- Two Soviet historians said the United States has taken the proper action by sending troops to Saudi Arabia, but that only a diplomatic solution would solve the current Middle East crisis. Robert Ivanov, director of the Institute of General History at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, and his wife, Nina Petrova, a professor at the same institution, made the remarks during an interview Friday.
- LOCAL ARTS
- August 19, 1990
- 2 local theaters to hold auditions The Lawrence Community Theatre will hold auditions for “Bell, Book and Candle” Aug. 26 and 27 at the theater. The play by John Van Druten will run Sept. 28 through Oct. 7. Roles are available for three men, two women and a cat. For more information, call 843-SHOW. In addition, the Liberty Hall Players will hold auditions for “The Music Man” by Meredith Willson at 7 p.m. Aug. 28, 29 and 30 at the Liberty Hall rehearsal room, 2 E. Seventh. Callbacks, if needed, will be Sept. 4. The musical will be performed Oct. 11-21 at Liberty Hall; it will be directed by Judy Wright. About 30 roles are available in all age groups. More more information, call 749-1912 afternoons.
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