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FREE STATE SOCCER FALLS

April 20, 1999

Free State threw a second-half shutout, but Topeka Hayden’s quick start carried the Wildcats to a 2-1 girls soccer victory over the Firebirds on Saturday at Free State. “Their midfield killed our midfield,” FSHS coach Phil Lee said. “They just did a really nice job of supporting their players. It was a potential game for us to win. We’re being very competitive, but what’s frustrating is that we came out a little flat. They’re not that much better than us. They just played well, and we didn’t.”

KU WOMEN STAND SIXTH IN BIG 12

April 20, 1999

Senior Mandy Munsch shot a 74 to help Kansas earn sixth place after the first 18 holes of the Big 12 Conference women’s golf championships on Monday. Munsch was tied for fourth place in the race for medalist honors going into today’s final 18 holes. Maria Boden of Oklahoma State shot a 70 for Monday’s low score.

ROBERTSON INKS CAGERZ CONTRACT

April 20, 1999

Ryan Robertson is a member of the Kansas Cagerz. Robertson, Kansas University’s 6-foot-5 senior guard, has signed a one-year contract with the Salina-based, United States Basketball League team.

FREE STATE SPLITS TWINBILL

April 20, 1999

Free State High’s baseball team rode the pitching of Brett Bogard to a 7-2 Sunflower League baseball victory over Olathe South on Monday. The Firebirds, however, mustered just three hits a and dropped a 3-1 decision in the second game.

PURDY HINTS AT RETIREMENT

By Steve Rottinghaus

April 20, 1999

Although denying reports he has decided to retire, Lawrence High football coach Dick Purdy hinted on Monday that he has coached his last game. “I’m considering it,” Purdy said of retiring. “I just turned 65, and anytime you turn 65 you have to give retirement a serious look. Also my wife (Norma) will retire soon. Norma and I like to travel. And at some point we’d like to travel in the fall.”

COUNTY BRIEFS

April 20, 1999

County puts on hold building code decision

FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS, DINNER COUSINS

April 20, 1999

Be our guest. The first Thursday of every month, these cousins dine at different restaurants with their spouses. The cousins are Henry McGraw and Jim Davoren, Leavenworth; Gene McGraw and Dorothy McGraw Miller, Bonner Springs; Leo McGraw, Jim McGRaw, Bob McGraw, Marion McGraw Hoffman, M. Margaret Davoren Hobbs and Betty Remy Zubeck, Kansas City; and Bill McGraw and Shirley McGraw Conrad, Tonganoxie. Shirley McGraw Conrad submitted the photo. Got a shot for Friends & Neighbors? Send it, along with your name and phone number, to Friends & Neighbors, P.O. Box 888, Lawrence 66044.

PLANNING AGENDA (1) FOR 4-21-99 MEETING

April 20, 1999

Bottom line: Three city-related projects will go to the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission for review Wednesday night.

PLANNING AGENDA (2) FOR 4-21-99 MEETING

April 20, 1999

Background: The projects up for review have been on the Lawrence City Commission’s to do list for some time.

LOCALS STRUGGLE AT SUNFLOWER CLASSIC

By Sam Mellinger

April 20, 1999

It’s like an average high school meet on andro, and the massive Sunflower Classic track and field meet negated most Lawrence and area performances. Seventy-two Kansas high schools from all classes were represented at the Olathe District Activities Center Monday, and the quantity of talent left Lawrence’s high school coaches shaking their heads.

VEGETABLE SUBSCRIPTION PROGRAM EXPANDING TO TOPEKA

By Mike Shields

April 20, 1999

Subscriptions to a weekly bag of organic produce have proven such a success in Lawrence that area organic farmers are expanding the program to Topeka. Now in its sixth year, the Rolling Prairie Farmers Alliance program provides Lawrence-area subscribers with a weekly sack of vegetables, berries and herbs. They’re sold direct to consumers via subscriptions that cost $11.25 per week.

KU-OSU BASEBALL BOX

April 20, 1999

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S CLOSE

April 20, 1999

Dow Industrials CLOSE: 10,440.53

PLANNING AGENDA (3) FOR 4-21-99 MEETING

April 20, 1999

Other business: * Consider a revised final development plan for Phases 1 & 2 of Mt. Blue Planned Industrial District, at the northeast corner of Franklin Road [E 1650 Road] and East 25th Street. This plan is for the first of two phases of this development. Phase 1 proposes 240 ministorage spaces, and Phase 2 proposes 7,185 square feet of office/retail space on the western portion of the site. Requested by Landplan Engineering for George Paley. Mt. Blue Storage Inc. and Blue Jacket Ford L.L.C. are the property owners of record.

BOSNIA DISASTER

April 20, 1999

To the editor: What would you like to have done with the tax surplus?

AWESOME ARTS

April 20, 1999

Lawrence is lucky to have such an active arts community, led by such groups as the Lawrence Arts Center and the Lied Center of Kansas. Two weekend events remind us again of how much the arts add to the quality of life in Lawrence.

S CLOSE

April 20, 1999

Local markets As of Monday’s close, courtesy of Farmer’s Cooperative Assn. South Elevator — Wheat, $2.41; soybeans, $4.53; milo, $1.69; corn, $1.86. Midland Elevator — Wheat, NA; soybeans, $4.53; milo, NA; corn, $1.87. North Elevator — Wheat, $2.46; soybeans, $4.53; milo, $1.69; corn, $1.91.

RUNDLE HEARD IN LAWRENCE

April 20, 1999

Mike Rundle, who took over as a Lawrence city commissioner last week, wasted little time in his efforts to gauge the pulse of the community. Rundle spent $45 to sponsor one of several portable toilets that were available for use by participants in Saturday morning’s Raintree Run at Raintree Montessori School on Clinton Parkway.

BLOTTER

April 20, 1999

Law enforcement report Sheriff’s reports

DOWNTOWN PROJECT SHUTS DOWN TRAFFIC

By Mark Fagan

April 20, 1999

With fences up, barbed wire strung and construction crews on site, a one-block stretch of Ninth Street no longer is open for vehicle traffic. And it’ll be that way for a while.

4-20 SHOULD EMAIL BE PROTECTED BY THE FIRST AMENDMENT?

April 20, 1999

Should e-mail be protected by the First Amendment? Leah Humphrey,

BEST BETS

April 20, 1999

TODAY The Creatures, featuring Siouxsie Sioux and Budgie from Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Granada, 1020 Mass.

POLICE BREAK UP ANOTHER FAKE ID OPERATION AT KU

From J-W Staff Reports

April 20, 1999

No fooling, on April 1 Lawrence police found a patron at Jayhawk Cafe consuming alcoholic beverages bought with a fake driver’s license. Detective work revealed a possible source of the bogus identification, and officers executed a search warrant Sunday at Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, 1100 Ind. They hauled away ID manufacturing equipment and at least one dozen nearly completed fake driver’s licenses.

POLICE BREAK UP ANOTHER FAKE ID OPERATION AT KU

By Tim Carpenter

April 20, 1999

No fooling, on April 1 Lawrence police found a patron at Jayhawk Cafe consuming alcoholic beverages bought with a fake driver’s license. Detective work revealed a possible source of the bogus identification, and officers executed a search warrant Sunday at Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, 1100 Ind. They hauled away ID manufacturing equipment and at least one dozen nearly completed fake driver’s licenses.

NEGOTIATIONS TEAM LOOKS AT COLLABORATION DAY ALTERNATIVES

April 20, 1999

I have heard that there is a new proposal before the school board about changing collaboration day in junior high so the kids get off for a full day each month instead of 90 minutes each Wednesday. Is that true? Negotiators for the Lawrence school district and Lawrence Education Assn., who are hammering out a contract for the 1999-2000 school year, are exploring the full-day option. They are also exploring a collaboration time of two half-days each month, or leaving collaboration time as it is.

S BLAIR BACKS KOSOVO ACTION

April 20, 1999

The war in Kosovo is a turning point for his generation and for the NATO alliance, Prime Minister Tony Blair says with the calm implacability he has used to reshape British politics and institutions in his two years in power. Seated by a window at 10 Downing, he is mentally measuring Slobodan Milosevic for a political coffin like those into which he has stuffed his foes at home. There will be no respite for Serb troops, no negotiations with Milosevic, and no quitting until Kosovo’s refugees return home protected by NATO-led ground troops, Blair asserts with crisp determination. This week’s NATO summit in Washington must make these points irrevocably clear to the Serb leader, he adds.

APR 20-100 YEARS AGO

April 20, 1999

On April 20, 1899, the Lawrence Journal’s headline read “THE WORK ATTRACTING ATTENTION - Improvement at the Eldridge Hotel bring Forth Complimentary Mention.” The Journal cited comments in the Hotel World and the Kansas Journal relative to the $10,000 improvements being made at 701 Mass. by Malcolm Conn who had recently purchased the hotel.

GARDEN CLUB TO CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY

April 20, 1999

Garden club marking 40th anniversary

CARD COMPANY SCORES BIG ON WEB

April 20, 1999

The former flower children’s free greeting card Web site has become one of the Internet’s most popular destinations. Boulder, Colo. (ap) — Stephen and Susan Polis Schutz were flower children in the ‘60s. Now they deliver the passion of that era on artful greeting cards.

GOODEN LOVES FISHING/NOTES

April 20, 1999

Los Angeles — Basketball is Andrew Gooden’s meal ticket. It is not his favorite sport.

OFFENSE DOMINATES SCRIMMAGE

By Andrew Hartsock

April 20, 1999

KU’s offense scored three touchdowns and a field goal in a scrimmage that lasted just over 100 plays on Saturday.

LAWRENCE DATEBOOK FOR TUESDAY

April 20, 1999

TODAY 9 a.m.-11 a.m.: Health screening for people 60 and older, Pinecrest II Apartments, community room, 924 Walnut, Eudora. A fee will be charged. Sponsored by the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department.

JOHN P. JENNINGS OBITUARY

April 20, 1999

JOHN P. JENNINGS Services for John P. Jennings, 74, Lawrence, are pending and will be announced by Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home.

OSU POUNDS KU BASEBALL

By Andrew Hartsock

April 20, 1999

Kansas moved one loss away from a 59-year-old school record with a 16-10 setback to Oklahoma State on Saturday.

LOCAL BRIEFS FOR TUESDAY

April 20, 1999

KU’s Lies signs with Carolina

GOODEN STANDS TALL ON, OFF COURT

By Gary Bedore

April 20, 1999

Andrew Gooden is a 6-foot-10 high school basketball player who doubles as a role model for youths in his hometown of El Cerrito, Calif.

APR15-40

April 20, 1999

Accountant John Weatherwax was re-elected mayor of Lawrence by fellow city commissioners. Dr. Ted Kennedy, well-known dentist, was chosen as vice mayor for the coming year with the prospect of moving into the top spot in another year.

BURGLARY TOLL MORE THAN LOST PROPERTY

By Felicia Haynes

April 20, 1999

Victims of residential burglaries — there were 489 of them in Lawrence last year — have little hope of ever seeing their stolen possessions again.

PRESENTATION HELPS PARENTS BREATHE EASIER ABOUT ASTHMA

By Michael Dekker

April 20, 1999

The program was held in response to the February death from asthma of a 12-year-old sixth-grader at Kennedy school.

APR 20-25 YEARS AGO

April 20, 1999

Seven were named to receive the Kansas University Distinguished Service to Mankind Citations at spring commencement — Olive Beech, John C. Brizendine Jr., Dorothy Hodge, Davis Johnson, Robert H. Malott, Paul V. Miner, Elmer Pierson and Irvin Youngberg.

HOSPITALS

April 20, 1999

Births Jill and Todd Koch, Eudora, a boy, Sunday.

LHS TENNIS/ CONNOLLY

April 20, 1999

Melissa Lacey/Journal-World Photo Lawrence High’s Mike Connolly returns the ball to Washburn’s Justin Keller during their No. 1 singles match Monday at the Lawrence Tennis Center.

FMC BEATS FORECASTS

From J-W Staff Reports

April 20, 1999

Machinery and chemicals giant FMC Corp. said Monday that first-quarter earnings rose 13 percent, beating analyst estimates and sending its stock sharply higher. The Chicago-based company, which employs 200 people at a chemical plant in Lawrence, said it earned $30.3 million, or 92 cents per diluted share, up from $26.8 million, or 75 cents per share, before a charge for an accounting change a year ago.

GOMER KEEPS TRADITION OF SADDLEMAKING ALIVE IN KANSAS

By Tim Carpenter

April 20, 1999

An acclaimed carver keeps the art of saddlemaking alive in an unassuming, cluttered backyard shop in Leavenworth County.

FAIRGROUNDS BUILDING GETS FUNDING NOD

By Kendrick Blackwood

April 20, 1999

But a contract for the building can be canceled after the design phase, meaning the commissioners have guaranteed only $32,500, not the $1 million total cost within the proposal.