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CAROLYN SUE EACOCK DARBY OBITUARY

August 17, 1999

CAROLYN SUE EACOCK DARBY Kenai, Alaska — Memorial services for Carolyn Sue Eacock Darby, 57, Kenai, will be held on Sunday, Aug. 22, at the foot of Mount McKinley in Denali National Park. Cremation is planned and her ashes will be spread at the conclusion of the memorial services.

OBITUARY FOR LAVERTA RILING

August 17, 1999

LAVERTA RILING Services for LaVerta Riling, 83, Lawrence, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.

VIRGIL GEYER OBITUARY

August 17, 1999

VIRGIL GEYER WaKeeney — Services for Virgil L. Geyer, 82, WaKeeney, will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at First United Methodist Church, WaKeeney. Burial will be at WaKeeney City Cemetery.

MARY ALICE JOHANNING OBITUARY

August 17, 1999

MARY ALICE JOHANNING Services for Mary Alice Johanning, 74, Lawrence, will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Warren-McElwain Mortuary. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.

OBITUARY FOR ELMER ROTH

August 17, 1999

ELMER ROTH Oskaloosa — Services for Elmer Roth, 77, Oskaloosa, will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Oskaloosa First United Methodist Church. Burial will be at Pleasant View Cemetery, Oskaloosa.

LAUGHLIN OBITUARY

August 17, 1999

EARLAND ‘RUSTY’ LAUGHLIN Ottawa — No services for Earland “Rusty” Laughlin, 78, Ottawa, are planned. His body was donated to the Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.

OSTERTAG GOLF RESULTS

August 17, 1999

Ostertag Golf Classic Friday at Eagle Bend Golf Course

EUDORA HAS HIGH TURNOUT

August 17, 1999

Coming off its first winning season in a decade, Eudora embraced the first day of high school football practice on Monday. “It’s going a lot smoother this year than last year,” said EHS coach Aaron Barnett, who guided the Cardinals to a 6-3 record last fall. “They understand the system and know what to expect. We had our camp the last week of July and they remember what we did there and we’re picking it up from there.”

LOCAL BRIEFS FOR TUESDAY

August 17, 1999

Three city triathletes finish at Lake Placid

S CLOSE

August 17, 1999

Local markets As of Monday’s close, courtesy of Farmers Cooperative Assn. South Elevator — Wheat, $2.47; soybeans, $4.19; milo, $1.57; corn, $1.67. Midland Elevator — Wheat, NA; soybeans, $4.19; milo, NA; corn, $1.67. North Elevator — Wheat, $2.47; soybeans, $4.19; milo, $1.57; corn, $1.71.

ROBERT CAMERON WILSON OBITUARY

August 17, 1999

ROBERT CAMERON WILSON Memorial services for Robert Cameron “Ranger Bob” Wilson, 56, Lawrence, will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday at Warren-McElwain Mortuary. Cremation is planned and inurnment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.

ANTHONY B. SWENSON OBITUARY

August 17, 1999

ANTHONY B. SWENSON Tonganoxie — Services for Anthony B. Swenson, 78, Tonganoxie, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Tonganoxie Christian Church. Burial will be in Hubbel Hill Cemetery, Tonganoxie.

MABLE THELMA STADEN OBITUARY

August 17, 1999

MABLE THELMA STADEN Services for Mable Thelma Staden, 82, Lawrence, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Luke A.M.E. Church. Burial will be in Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery.

KU MILESTONE

August 17, 1999

The ability to attract more National Merit Scholars is a positive sign for Kansas University. Kansas University should be proud of the milestone it expects to reach this semester.

EUDORA LIBRARY BUDGET HITS TOWNSHIP

By Kendrick Blackwood

August 17, 1999

The Eudora Library board has forced the Eudora Township to break its state-mandated budget limit. It won’t be difficult to fix. The township will have to publish the fact it is breaking the lid and hold another public hearing.

COUNTY BRIEFS

August 17, 1999

County to purchase counters, cabinets

QUAIL RUN AIRCONDITIONING SOUNDOFF

August 17, 1999

I was wondering how much the electrical bill for Quail Run School was last month, and why are the air conditioners running all summer long? Several schools, including Quail Run, are hosting summer school sessions. It’s necessary to continue to provide climate-controlled learning environments for the hundreds of children enrolled this summer in math, reading, music and enrichment classes.

AQUATIC CENTER TO CHANGE HOURS FOR SCHOOL YEAR

August 17, 1999

Hours to change at swimming pool

DAY CARE CLARIFICATION

August 17, 1999

A headline above a photograph in Monday’s Journal-World apparently led some readers to assume that a child had died while in the care of United Child Development Center. That was not the case. The child death reported in the accompanying article occurred at another day-care service not connected with the UCDC service.

8-17 DO YOU PAY ATTENTION TO POLITICAL STRAW POLLS OR…

August 17, 1999

Do you pay attention to political straw polls or primaries? J.R. Metzen,

JULY HOME SALES SLOW

By Mark Fagan

August 17, 1999

Home sales in Lawrence and Douglas County dipped slightly in July as buyers watched interest rates creep up from their lows of previous months. But home builders kept building higher-priced homes to feed a still-hungry market.

CORRECTION FOR TUESDAY

August 17, 1999

A story in the Arts section of the 1999 Kansas University Edition contained incorrect information about an upcoming lecture by author, activist and former teacher Jonathan Kozol. Kozol’s lecture on children and public education at 8 p.m. Nov. 13 at the Lied Center of Kansas is free and open to the public.

LAWRENCE VETERANS APPROVE OF CLINTON APPEARANCE

By Erwin Seba

August 17, 1999

President Clinton’s appearance before a national VFW convention in Kansas City brought mixed reactions from Lawrence veterans.

PROJECT BLOCKS ACCESS TO FAIR

By Kendrick Blackwood

August 17, 1999

On the busiest day of the year for the Douglas County 4-H Fairgrounds, one of the main entrance routes was torn out by construction crews working on a retail development. “They just ripped it up,” said Bill Bell, county director of buildings and grounds. “We weren’t notified at all.”

FAIRGROUNDS BUILDING TO GET FINAL DESIGN

By Kendrick Blackwood

August 17, 1999

Douglas County commissioners don’t believe questions from the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission will hold up a multipurpose building being planned for the Douglas County 4-H Fairgrounds. The commissioners voted Monday to spend $17,500 for the final drawings of the building. The drawings will be used to better estimate the cost of the building.

BEST BETS

August 17, 1999

TODAY Acoustic Weirdness, with Travis Millard, Ben Tuttle, Charlie Downey, The Bottleneck, 737 N.H.

LAWRENCE DATEBOOK FOR TUESDAY

August 17, 1999

TODAY 9 a.m.-10 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.

SOUNDOFF ON STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION EVOLUTION VOTE

August 17, 1999

I may have missed this, but I was wondering how each member of the state Board of Education voted on the science standards. Could you publish the breakdown? The vote was 6-4 in favor of new science standards that de-emphasize evolution as a significant element in annual statewide testing of Kansas public school students. The board didn’t ban teaching of evolution, but opened the door for local school boards to make that decision.

BUSH-DOLE TICKET LOOKING STRONG

August 17, 1999

Considering that he has spent only eight days in the state and that he has barely bothered to deviate from the short and simple stump speech he delivered on his announcement day, the 7,418 votes that Texas Gov. George W. Bush corralled to win the Iowa Republican straw poll last weekend speak well for his drawing power. It was the combination of broad public appeal and skillful organization — certainly not his oratory, which Pat Buchanan accurately described as “unexceptional” — that won the day for Bush and cemented his status as the man to beat for the Republican presidential nomination. But it also opened up some scenarios that were not visible before Ames.

BRYAN SHORTER OBITUARY

August 17, 1999

BRYAN SHORTER Services for Bryan O. Shorter, 23, Lawrence, are pending at Warren-McElwain Mortuary.

KU-UI TO PLAY IN MORNING

August 17, 1999

KU men to meet Illini in 11:05 a.m. start

EX-JAYHAWKS FLOCK IN FOR OSTERTAG GOLF CLASSIC

By Gary Bedore

August 17, 1999

Kansas basketball was represented at the Greg Ostertag Golf Classic Friday at Eagle Bend. “It’s like a fraternity,” ex-Jayhawk guard Kevin Pritchard said of KU basketball players quick to gather to support causes such as Ostertag’s preferred charity — the American Lung Association of Kansas.

PROUD NATIVE KANSAN

August 17, 1999

To the editor: As a native Kansan now living in New York City, I am writing regarding the Kansas Board of Education’s recent decision on teaching evolution as a scientific principle in our school system. I wish to thank the six members of the board who were brave enough to vote on the strength of their convictions to modify the current curriculum. I am proud of them for recognizing that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution is best suited as an addendum by parents at home, rather than as a matter of policy which goes against certain religious doctrine.

FREE STATE FALL SPORTS OPEN

By Robert Sinclair

August 17, 1999

Firebirds are flocking to Free State High. During the first day of fall practices Monday, six Free State squads boasted a boost in attendance compared to last year. The lone exception was boys soccer, which had one fewer player show.

LHS OPENS FALL DRILLS

By Steve Rottinghaus

August 17, 1999

Lawrence High’s fall football roster has taken a hike. New LHS head coach Dirk Wedd welcomed 75 players on Monday, the first official day of preseason practice. Just 53 Lions showed the first day in 1998.

AUG 17-25 YEARS AGO

August 17, 1999

Rumors persisted that new president Gerald Ford would name Nelson Rockefeller as his vice president, but U.S. Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas suggested that Ford name Franklin Murphy, former Kansas University and UCLA chancellor, currently chairman of the board of the Times Mirror Co. President Dwight Eisenhower had tried to get Dr. Murphy to head up the health and education department in 1952 but Murphy chose to remain at KU as chancellor.

OBITUARY FOR MABLE STADEN

August 17, 1999

MABLE THELMA STADEN Services for Mable Thelma Staden, 82, Lawrence, are pending at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home.

HOSPITALS

August 17, 1999

Births Angie and James Adams, Clearview City, a boy, Monday.

LECLAIR ANCHORS LB CORPS

By Andrew Hartsock

August 17, 1999

When Kansas University football coach Terry Allen talks about his four new linebackers, his only mistake is oversimplification. With just one exception, there’s nothing new about the Jayhawks’ linebacking corps.

DESOTO OFFICIALS TOUT STUDENT LAPTOP PLAN

By Michael Dekker

August 17, 1999

DeSoto school patrons and teachers like the idea of providing laptop computers to all students.

OREAD INC. GETS NEW, YET FAMILIAR, OWNER

By Mark Fagan

August 17, 1999

After eight months off, Oread Inc.’s founder went back to work Monday — this time with full ownership, a new management team and plans to cut up to 60 jobs in Lawrence.

SEARCH FOR DEAD RESUMES AT PARK

By Deb Gruver

August 17, 1999

Investigators continue to search for the bodies of Richard Grissom Jr.’s murder victims.

INJURIES MOUNTING IN KU FOOTBALL CAMP

By Andrew Hartsock

August 17, 1999

Kansas University’s football team will hold arguably its most important scrimmage of the preseason today. Coach Terry Allen is prepared to shield his eyes.

KU FOOTBALL SCRIMMAGE NOTEBOOK

By Andrew Hartsock

August 17, 1999

Nobody is happier to have new quarterback Dylen Smith in Kansas University football camp than incumbent starting QB Zac Wegner. Really.

CITY SLOW-PITCH STANDINGS

August 17, 1999

Through Sunday’s games Men’s 5-7 Monday: B(u)y Lawrence 2-0, El Mezcal 1-0, Manpower Hitters 1-1, Dawgs 1-1, Hammers 0-1, FSBC 0-2.

KU RESEARCH IS CHANGING FARMING

By Peter Hancock

August 17, 1999

The Kansas Biological Survey has spawned a major advancement in crop forecasting.

CLINTON SPEAKS TO VFW

By Erwin Seba

August 17, 1999

The president received a polite reception during his speech to delegates attending a convention for the nation’s second-largest veterans organization.

AUG 17-100 YEARS AGO

August 17, 1999

On Aug. 17, 1899, the Lawrence Journal advised: “Taking a picnic is called a vacation by a good many people, but it is more apt to be harder work than that which is done every day.”

WATER NOW ACCEPTED DURING TWO-A-DAYS

By Steve Rottinghaus

August 17, 1999

When Bob Lisher and Dirk Wedd played football a generation ago, water was taboo during two-a-day practices. Regardless of the heat and humidity, most high school coaches years ago believed drinking water at practice was a sign of weakness. Attitudes have swayed among coaches in recent years, especially in light of two heat-related deaths at football practices last year in the Wichita area.

ABORTION-CRIME THEORY HAS WHIFF OF COMMON SENSE

August 17, 1999

The whole thing is enough to make John Donohue nostalgic. “Usually what I write languishes in obscurity,” the Stanford law professor says drolly. Not this time. Donohue and Steven Levitt, a University of Chicago economist, set out innocently enough to look at one of the great puzzles of the research world: Why has the crime rate dropped so sharply, so widely, so quickly, in the 1990s?

BLOTTER

August 17, 1999

Law enforcement report Police reports

LAWRENCE COUPLE TOASTING A VINTAGE YEAR

By Peter Hancock

August 17, 1999

A five-acre plot in Douglas County is a Lawrence couple’s answer to the Bordeaux region of France.

PARENTS FACE BIG DECISION WHEN CHOOSING DAYCARE

By Deb Gruver

August 17, 1999

One of the most difficult and important decisions parents ever will make is choosing a day-care provider, health officials say.

GLASSCOCK SAYS VOTE MAY SPUR LEGISLATIVE ACTION

August 17, 1999

The future of the Kansas State Board of Education and higher-education funding are two issues that could dominate the 2000 session of the Legislature, a legislative leader says.

S CLOSE

August 17, 1999

Dow Industrials CLOSE: 11,046.79

AUG 17-40 YEARS AGO

August 17, 1999

Walt Neibarger of Tonganoxie was thought to hold some kind of championship for commuting. He was clerk of the Kansas Supreme Court and have traveled every work day to Topeka and back for the past 19 years. Air Force Capt. and Mrs. James Selig and their daughter, all of Lawrence, moved to McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey where he was to be management analyst in the Eastern Transport Headquarters.