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- LOIS HAYES OBITUARY
- April 27, 1999
- LOIS HAYES Topeka — Memorial services for Lois Hayes, 82, Topeka, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Wesley Hall at Aldersgate Village. A private family inurnment service will be held in Mount Hope Cemetery.
- WOODBERRY NAMED MVP
- April 27, 1999
- Brisbane, Australia — Former Kansas University guard Steve Woodberry of the Brisbane Bullets has been named Most Valuable Player of Australia’s National Basketball League. Woodberry, a 1994 KU graduate, averaged 27.5 points, 7.8 rebounds, 5.2 assists and 2.1 steals last season. He hit 50.1 percent of his shots from the floor and 41.8 percent of his three-pointers.
- LAWRENCE ATHLETIC CLUB OPENING SOUTH SIDE GYM
- April 27, 1999
- Lawrence Athletic Club isn’t just rebuilding, it’s moving south. The club, which is rebuilding after being gutted by fire earlier this year, plans to open a second gym on the city’s south side this summer.
- HATE EXISTS HERE
- April 27, 1999
- To the editor: By now, we have all heard of the tragedy that occurred on April 20 in Littleton, Colo. To be thinking that this couldn’t happen in our own community, we are ignoring the hate that does exist in our own community and schools.
- S CLOSE
- April 27, 1999
- Local markets As of Monday’s close, courtesy of Farmer’s Cooperative Assn. South Elevator — Wheat, $2.42; soybeans, $4.46; milo, $1.64; corn, $1.81. Midland Elevator — Wheat, NA; soybeans, $4.46; milo, NA; corn, $1.82. North Elevator — Wheat, $2.47; soybeans, $4.46; milo, $1.64; corn, $1.86.
- DELLA BRATTEN CHAFFIN OBITUARY
- April 27, 1999
- DELLA BRATTEN CHAFFIN Services for Della Bratten Chaffin, 99, Lawrence, will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Warren-McElwain Chapel. Burial will be in Raymore Cemetery, Raymore, Mo.
- LHS TO BEGIN SEARCH
- April 27, 1999
- Don’t tell Lawrence High athletics director Ron Commons the Lions head football coaching job has lost its luster. When Dick Purdy became the LHS coach in 1990, the Lions were coming off a state championship season and applicants were abundant.
- SPORTS ON TV TUESDAY
- April 27, 1999
- Today Baseball
- OWEN H. SMITH OBITUARY
- April 27, 1999
- OWEN H. SMITH Topeka — Memorial services for Owen H. Smith, 87, Topeka, will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Penwell-Gabel Mid-Town Chapel. His body was donated to the Kansas University Medical Center. Cremation will follow the medical study.
- ALBERT JAMES WHITEBIRD OBITUARY
- April 27, 1999
- ALBERT JAMES WHITEBIRD Horton — Drum services for Albert James “Ship-Shee-Wan-No” Whitebird, 40, Horton, will be held at 5:30 p.m. today at the Old Kickapoo Community Building. Burial will be held Wednesday at Kennekuk Indian Cemetery on the Kickapoo Reservation, west of Horton.
- PURDY ENDS 41-YEAR COACHING CAREER
- April 27, 1999
- Lawrence High’s Dick Purdy, who has won more big-class state championships than any other high school football coach in Kansas, announced his retirement on Monday. Purdy, who turned 65 on April 11, compiled a 270-138-5 record in 41 seasons as a high school football coach. In nine seasons at LHS, he amassed an 84-17 mark (.832 winning percentage) and five state championships.
- VIRUS WREAKS LITTLE HAVOC
- April 27, 1999
- The “Chernobyl” virus failed to create the widespread computer havoc it was designed to wreak.
- DEERFIELD CELEBRATES ITS 30TH ANNIVERSARY
- April 27, 1999
- In conjunction with Deerfield School’s 30th anniversary, students, teachers and parents at the school have purchased and dedicated a bench in memory of longtime crossing guard Harold Dotson.
- LAWRENCE POLICE QUESTION SWJH STUDENT ABOUT THREAT
- April 27, 1999
- Police questioned a 15-year-old Southwest Junior High School student after he e-mailed to a girl a dire warning he later claimed was just a joke.
- KU LEADER, STUDENT ENJOY ROLE REVERSAL
- April 27, 1999
- A KU sophomore who switched places with the chancellor resisted the temptations to give everybody a raise, fly the university’s jet and park in the chancellor’s reserved spot.
- SPEEDING TICKET SOUNDOFF
- April 27, 1999
- I got a speeding ticket, and the officer put the wrong street on it where I was caught. Would that void the ticket if I took it to court? David Corliss, the city’s director of legal services, said that, depending on the facts, a police officer has the authority to void a speeding ticket containing incorrect information on the citation.
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- April 27, 1999
- Should parents be held responsible for their child’s actions? Brandon Henderson,
- BLOTTER
- April 27, 1999
- Law enforcement report Burglaries and thefts reported
- ONE DRUG ARREST TURNS INTO THREE
- April 27, 1999
- Three area residents arrested Sunday found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time — the middle of a methamphetamine lab bust. What started out as one arrest mushroomed into three more for the Tri-County Drug Enforcement Unit, Douglas County Undersheriff Kenny Massey said.
- S LHS RECORD
- April 27, 1999
- Purdy Record School, Yrs W-L-T
- APR 27-25 YEARS AGO
- April 27, 1999
- There were indications that inflation could hike the cost of the new Kansas University law school building from an intended $3.4 million to more than $3.8 million. City planner Ron Jones said he was running about six weeks behind schedule in his update of the city’s comprehensive plan.
- BUSINESS BRIEFCASE FOR TUESDAY
- April 27, 1999
- Tech stocks propel Wall Street to records
- S RETIREMENT
- April 27, 1999
- Olathe North football coach Gene Wier will miss seeing Dick Purdy standing on the opposite sideline come the fall of 1999. Purdy announced Monday that he is retiring after 41 seasons of coaching high school football, the last nine spent at Lawrence High.
- S CLOSE
- April 27, 1999
- Dow Industrials CLOSE: 10,718.59
- LAWRENCE OFFICIAL TOUTS EFFORTS TO INCREASE RECYCLING CITYWIDE
- April 27, 1999
- Lawrence residents and businesses last year recycled an additional 500 tons through city programs.
- KBS TO HOLD BLOOD DRIVES
- April 27, 1999
- KBS to conduct blood drives
- RAY EVANS OBITUARY
- April 27, 1999
- RAY RICHARD EVANS Kansas City, Kan. — Services for Ray Richard Evans, 76, Prairie Village, will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at St. Agnes Church, Fairway. Private burial will follow at Highland Park Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan.
- PURDY ABLE TO MAINTAIN LHS TRADITION
- April 27, 1999
- Shortly after being hired as Lawrence High football coach in 1990, Dick Purdy boldly told his coaching staff it was time for a switch. “I had the idea to change the helmet,” he recalled while announcing his retirement on Monday.
- ONEOK UPS OFFER FOR SOUTHWEST GAS
- April 27, 1999
- Facing a bidding war for the company, Oneok raised its offer for the Las Vegas-based gas company and won.
- APR 27-40 YEARS AGO
- April 27, 1999
- E. Thayer Gaston, chairman of the music education department at Kansas University, received the presidential citation of the National Federation of Music clubs at the national session of the group in San Diego. Gaston was considered a major pioneer in the field of music therapy.
- PURDY ANNOUNCES HIS RETIREMENT
- April 27, 1999
- After compiling an 84-17 record and winning five state championships, Lawrence High football coach Dick Purdy has had enough.
- TUESDAY DATEBOOKS
- April 27, 1999
- TODAY 10:30 a.m.: Storytime for toddlers and preschool children, Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. Registration required for toddlers.
- DELLA CHAFFIN
- April 27, 1999
- Services for Della Chaffin, 99, Lawrence, are pending and will be announced by Warren-McElwain Mortuary. Mrs. Chaffin died Saturday, April 24, 1999, at Sterling House Assisted Living in Lawrence.
- JAYHAWKS LEAD BIG 12 GOLF
- April 27, 1999
- Hutchinson — Kansas University’s Chris Thompson and Ryan Vermeer both shot sizzling 1-under-par scores of 139 after 36 holes Monday at the Big 12 men’s golf championships at Prairie Dunes. Their rounds helped the Jayhawks place first entering today’s final 18-hole round of the annual conference meet.
- LOCAL BRIEFS
- April 27, 1999
- Free State baseball rained out again
- APR 27-100 YEARS AGO
- April 27, 1999
- On April 27, 1899, the Lawrence Journal’s headline read “BETWEEN TWO STATES - The Base Ball Game between Kansas and Missouri Universities Exciting Interest.” The article began: “The first athletic contest ever pulled off in Lawrence with a Missouri university team, will take place Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock, when the Missouri base ball team comes to Lawrence for a match game with the Kansas university team.”
- FREE STATE TRACK PARTLY WASHED
- April 27, 1999
- Around 5:30 p.m. Monday, the Free State Invitational track meet should have been in full swing. Instead, FSHS coach Steve Heffernan was stuck in an aluminum storage shed next to the track, tallying the results of the events completed before a thick dose of nasty weather sent the teams scurrying for bus seats.
- FOUR CITIES IN RUNNING AS SITE FOR DETENTION CENTER
- April 27, 1999
- Baldwin and Lawrence apparently are not in the running for the center, which would temporarily house federal prisoners.
- EUDORA SWEARS IN NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS
- April 27, 1999
- The new council members said Monday night they would like to see the city encourage development and lower utility rates in effort to improve Eudora.
- SUPPORTERS AWAIT SENATE OK OF PLAN FOR COLLEGE SAVINGS
- April 27, 1999
- The proposed legislation is an acknowledgment by policy-makers here and nationally that higher-education costs for families have been climbing steeply the past few years.
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