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October 26, 1999

Kansas University’s women’s soccer team lost to Texas A&M, 4-1 Sunday afternoon at SuperTarget Field before a KU home record crowd of 633 fans. Junior Nick Thrasher had thre goals for the 12th-ranked Aggies.

KU-MU HOW THEY SCORED

October 26, 1999

First Quarter :12 — Harrison Hill 62 pass from Dylen Smith. After failing to get a first down on its first two possessions, Kansas took third possession on own 38. On first down, Hill slipped behind pair of MU defenders, caught pass on fly on about 30 and outran pursuit to end zone for career-long TD catch. Kick blocked. (Kansas 6, Missouri 0).

10-26 SHOULD DOCTORS LIE TO GET THEIR PATIENTS THE BEST CARE?

October 26, 1999

Should doctors lie to get their patients the best care? Carol Hampton,

SCHOOL BOARD NEWCOMER OPTIMISTIC

By Tim Carpenter

October 26, 1999

Sue Morgan is optimistic the district’s strategic planning and better state funding will improve educational opportunities in Lawrence schools.

BLOTTER

October 26, 1999

Law enforcement report Police reports

S DEATH A LOSS TO TRADITION OF PUBLIC SERVICE

October 26, 1999

The death of Sen. John H. Chafee, the veteran Republican from Rhode Island, is more than a personal loss to his countless friends, his state and the nation. In a time of rancid partisanship, it is a reminder of a tradition of public service that looked beyond narrow ideological and class lines to an inclusive view of the public interest. Chafee was an embodiment of the Yankee Protestant commercial aristocracy — a scion of one of Rhode Island’s first families, but a man of such engaging openness that he was cherished by the working-class, Roman Catholic, immigrant and overwhelmingly Democratic constituents who repeatedly chose him as their governor and senator.

LOCAL BRIEFS FOR TUESDAY

October 26, 1999

KU frosh wins ITA region title

BACK DOOR APPROVAL

October 26, 1999

To the editor: It looks like Erv Hodges is trying to erect a monument to the good old boy system under the guise of a monument to veterans. As a veteran, I am incensed by the back gate methods Hodges et. al., have used to slip this project under the noses of the community.

HARVEST OF ARTS RESCHEDULES OPEN AIR ART FAIR

October 26, 1999

Harvest of Arts reschedules art fair

THE DOLE DECISION

October 26, 1999

Elizabeth Dole could be an ideal choice for the vice presidential spot in the GOP ticket. Elizabeth Dole has given us another example of how discretion sometimes can be the better part of valor. The able, talented former Cabinet member and Red Cross leader noted that she would fall far short of contenders such as George W. Bush and Steve Forbes and dropped out of Republican presidential contention.

HOPE AWARD WINNER TO BE ANNOUNCED AT KU GAME

October 26, 1999

HOPE Award winner to be announced

LHS DUMPS JUNCTION CITY

By Steve Rottinghaus

October 26, 1999

Lawrence High wasn’t ready Monday night for its season to end. For the first time since 1996, the LHS boys soccer team claimed a postseason victory with a 4-1 Central Regional victory over Junction City at Youth Sports Inc.

KU FOOTBALL TO 6C

October 26, 1999

Continued from page 1C history of it.

CYCLING RESULTS

October 26, 1999

Area Results KANSAS CRITERIUM

CITY STANDINGS

October 26, 1999

City Standings BASKETBALL

FSHS PLAYER OF WEEK

October 26, 1999

Nate Vail Class: Senior.

COUNTY OPPOSES U.S. 24 PROPOSAL

By Kendrick Blackwood

October 26, 1999

By unanimous vote Monday, Douglas County commissioners chose to add their signatures to a Lawrence letter to the Kansas Department of Transportation in objection to a new route for U.S. Highway 24. The proposal to have the highway rerouted to the same roadway as the Kansas Turnpike seems counterintuitive to Dean Nieder, Douglas County Commission chairman.

DOUGLAS COUNTY BRIEFS

October 26, 1999

Commission to deal with trafficway fallout

MARIE JOHNSON POWELL OBITUARY

October 26, 1999

MARIE JOHNSON POWELL Memorial services for Marie Johnson Powell, 86, Lawrence, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Babcock Place. Inurnment will be in Restland Cemetery, Dallas.

FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS, FLYING COP (NO PINK FLOYD REFERENCES HERE)

October 26, 1999

World War I Flying Ace. Lawrence Police Chief Ron Olin prepares for take-off in this British World War I Tiger Moth. The photo was submitted by Al Stuber, Lawrence, who flies the plane with Olin and says, “The chief enjoys quietly patrolling up there, where the law of gravity is strictly enforced.” The plane is owned by Dick Wilcox, Leavenworth. Got a shot for Friends & Neighbors? Send it, along with your name, phone number and caption information, to Friends & Neighbors, P.O. Box 888, Lawrence 66044.

BUSINESS BRIEFCASE FOR TUESDAY

October 26, 1999

Frozen yogurt shops close in Lawrence

UNIONIZATION VOTE CONTESTED AT FHSU

By Erwin Seba

October 26, 1999

The university and a union that wants to represent faculty members there are trading complaints over the recent union election.

S CLOSE

October 26, 1999

Local markets As of Monday’s close, courtesy of Farmers Cooperative Assn. South Elevator — Wheat, $2.22; soybeans, $4.29; milo, $1.35; corn, $1.63. Midland Elevator — Wheat, NA; soybeans, $4.32; milo, NA; corn, $1.63. North Elevator — Wheat, $2.22; soybeans, $4.37; milo, $1.35; corn, $1.68.

KU ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION TRUSTEES LEARN OF RECORDS AT ANNUAL MEETING

October 26, 1999

The Kansas University Endowment Association trustees learned during an annual meeting Sunday morning at the Adams Alumni Center that the association had set fund-raising records during the past fiscal year. During fiscal year 1999, fund raising totaled a record $53.2 million, and $54.1 million was provided by the association in direct support for student scholarships and loans, faculty enrichment, library and museum acquisitions, capital improvements and other needs. At the end of the fiscal year, June 30, the total market value of the association’s assets was $979 million, another record, trustees were told.

SOUNDOFF ON LOUD SCOREBOARD

October 26, 1999

What’s the reasoning behind the deafening public address announcing at the KU home football games? Darren Cook, director of facilities for the Kansas University athletics department, concedes the PA system may be a “little louder” than in the past because the speakers are mounted higher, on the new $3 million scoreboard. “We’ve heard a few complaints,” Cook said, “mainly from residents north of the stadium.” Cook added that officials received complaints even with the old system. “One time with the old system we heard from someone in Lecompton who said they could hear it,” Cook said.

CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENT SOUND OFF

October 26, 1999

Why do divorced men who have their children 50 percent of the time have to pay child support when they have to feed and clothe their children just like their ex-wives do? In shared-custody cases, the parent with the higher income is not relieved of his or her obligation to pay child support, according to the Kansas Child Support Guidelines.

STATE VOLLEYBALL PAIRINGS

October 26, 1999

High School State Pairings CLASS 6A

DELETED FROM TRANSCRIPTS SENT TO COLLEGES

By Tim Carpenter

October 26, 1999

The concept of weighted grades remains alive with the Lawrence school board, which asked a committee to report in May on options for introducing the system.

LENORE M. GUSTAFSON OBITUARY

October 26, 1999

LENORE M. GUSTAFSON Grinnell, Iowa — No services are planned for Lenore M. Gustafson, 82, Grinnell, Iowa. Her body was donated to the University of Iowa anatomy department.

SEVENTH-GRADERS TO FACE FOREIGN LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT

By Tim Carpenter

October 26, 1999

Seventh-graders next fall semester will be required to take an introductory foreign language course, the Lawrence school board agreed Monday. The one-semester class would ideally give students a taste of French, Spanish and German languages mixed with information about culture, geography and other topics.

RURAL DEMAND DRIVES HOME SALES

By Mark Fagan

October 26, 1999

The average price paid for a home in Eudora during the first nine months of the year was $108,217, up 20.9 percent from the $89,538 average a year earlier.

PHYSICIST SAYS CREATION IS NONSENSE

By Michael Dekker

October 26, 1999

Literal interpretations of the Bible often clash with science, a nationally known scientist and author said.

LHS PLAYER OF THE WEEK

October 26, 1999

Jason Fender, LHS Class: Senior.

EXECUTIVE SESSION ON SALE OF INDIA SCHOOL

By Tim Carpenter

October 26, 1999

Problems completing the sale of the school district’s India School property for $864,000 led to an executive session at midnight Monday.

OBITUARY FOR JOHN WOYDZIAK

October 26, 1999

JOHN F. WOYDZIAK Andover — Services for John F. Woydziak, 77, Rose Hill, will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. Vincent DePaul Catholic Church, Andover. Burial will be in Dunlap Cemetery, Rose Hill.

OBIT FOR BYRON EISELE

October 26, 1999

BYRON EISELE Services for Byron Wesley Eisele, 82, Eudora, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, Lawrence. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.

KATHRYN LEE CHAPMAN OBITUARY

October 26, 1999

KATHRYN LEE CHAPMAN Manhattan — Memorial services for Kathryn “Kay” Lee Chapman, 75, Leon, Iowa, will be at 2 p.m. today at the Sedalia Church. Burial will be in Riley Cemetery.

OBIT FOR JANICE MOORE

October 26, 1999

JANICE LEE MOORE No services are planned for Janice Lee Moore, 53, Lawrence.

PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA (1) FOR OCT. 27

October 26, 1999

The bottom line Sprint PCS has asked for another deferral of its request to build a 260-foot telecommunications tower in southern Douglas County.

HOROSCOPES

October 26, 1999

For Tuesday, Oct. 26 Those with birthdays today: You usually have the best intentions with partners, as they do with you. Yet misunderstandings happen out of the blue. Learn to clarify and confirm messages, meetings and all sorts of communication. Oddly enough, you might be vague about what you want on a personal level. If you are single, romance can be very exciting and intense. However, you might not be seeing a paramour realistically. If attached, you and your partner might play games with each other on a subconscious level. Work on relating. Make plenty of one-on-one time. GEMINI zeros in on the basics.

OCT 26-40 YEARS AGO

October 26, 1999

IN %% 1959 Local United Fund officials were already planning a drive extension since contributions and pledges had come in so slowly toward the $53,155 goal, which many considered quite modest for a city the size of Lawrence.

KU TENNIS PLAYERS ADVANCE

October 26, 1999

Wichita — Kansas University’s Rodrigo Echagaray and Eleazar Magallan have advanced to the finalsof the ITA Region Five tennis championships. In the semifinals, Echagaray defeated Gareth Keating of Indiana State 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 and Magallan beat Mirko Javanovic of Colorado. The score was not available.

LHS PEAKING AT RIGHT TIME

By Steve Rottinghaus

October 26, 1999

For whatever reason, be it tradition, mystique or high expectations, Lawrence High football always seems to peak in late October. Entering Friday night’s Class 6A District 4 championship with cross-town rival Free State (6-2 overall, 2-0 in district), the Lions (3-5, 2-0) for the first time this season have a winning streak. Following a five-game losing streak, LHS beat Topeka 28-23 and Leavenworth 35-23 to set up the winner-take-all showdown.

BIG RED LOOMS FOR KU

By Andrew Hartsock

October 26, 1999

Still soaring from Saturday’s 21-0 victory over Missouri, Kansas must turn around and begin preparing for No. 8 Nebraska.

PERRY-LECOMPTON PUNISHES MAUR HILL

By Chuck Woodling

October 26, 1999

Mike Cloud scored three touchdowns in Perry-Lecompton’s victory over Atchison Maur Hill.

PRIVACY A WORRY IN BANK REFORM

October 26, 1999

Washington (ap) — The new financial “supermarkets” that could blossom under widely supported legislation to overhaul Depression-era banking laws would give consumers more choices and cheaper prices, proponents say. But critics warn that consumers’ privacy would be violated as banks and newly affiliated brokerages and insurance companies share the data they’ve collected on their customers.

S CREEPY LEGENDS BRING CURIOUS TO STULL

By Erwin Seba

October 26, 1999

As Halloween approaches the sheriff’s office has begun keeping a closer watch on Stull Cemetery. And prosecutors say “beware.”

AN AREA LEGISLATOR EXPECTS THE ROAD TO MOVE EAST

By Michael Dekker

October 26, 1999

An area legislator expects the road to move east.

NEW BUS SYSTEM SHOULD NOT LEAVE ANYONE BEHIND

By Peter Hancock

October 26, 1999

City bus planners are still taking suggestions on how to comply with ADA.

PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA FOR OCT. 27

October 26, 1999

Consent agenda Unless otherwise requested, the following items will be considered without debate on a single vote:

S $25,000 SETTLEMENT

By Tim Carpenter

October 26, 1999

A blind international student who was injured in a fall at KU plans to file a lawsuit to press his claim for $200,000.

GLASS TAKES SECOND

October 26, 1999

Jackson, Mich. — Lawrence native Bob Glass placed second at the Brunswick Zone PBA Senior National Championships on Friday at Airport Lanes. Glass earned $11,000 after falling to champion Steve Neff of Homosassa Springs, Fla., in the final 236-224.

FLORENCE E. FOSTER OBITUARY

October 26, 1999

FLORENCE E. FOSTER Memorial services for Florence E. Foster, 76, Lawrence, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Victory Bible Church. Cremation was held.

HASKELL OBIT

October 26, 1999

ESTHER HASKELL Services for Esther Haskell, 83, Cottonwood Falls, are pending and will be announced by Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home.

OCT 26-25 YEARS AGO

October 26, 1999

IN 1974 The city of Lawrence was attempting to get its building code in line with federal affirmative action guidelines.

HOSPITALS

October 26, 1999

Births Jeff and Lea Hopkins, Lawrence, a girl, Sunday.

KU SWIMMING RESULTS

October 26, 1999

College Results BIG 12 RELAYS

FREE STATE UPDATE

By Robert Sinclair

October 26, 1999

Free State High football coach Bob Lisher liked what he saw after watching films of Friday night’s 49-20 Class 6A second-round district victory over Topeka High. “I think when we put things together, we’re a decent football team,” Lisher said. “But on the other hand we have to put things together on every play. Once in a while, we get a little bit lax in our assignments and we have a breakdown that allowed Topeka High to have some plays off of those minor lapses.

RUNNING, LOSING AS A WOMAN

October 26, 1999

When Pat Schroeder first ran for Congress, a pack of skeptical voters and reporters repeatedly asked her the same question: “Are you running as a woman?” Eventually, the frustrated Colorado quipmeister came up with a rejoinder: “Do I have any choice?” Fast-forward now to Elizabeth Dole’s campaign for president, may it rest in peace. Her quest for the Oval Office was dogged by comments about symbol and substance. Once the woman routinely described as “the first credible female candidate” bowed out, the focus changed — from whether she was running “as a woman” to whether she lost “as a woman.”

BRYANT STILL OPEN, OTHER HOOP NOTES

By Gary Bedore

October 26, 1999

Blue chip high school basketball recruit Travon Bryant appears to be in no hurry to end the recruiting process. Bryant, a 6-foot-8, 220-pound forward from Long Beach, Calif., who has visited Kansas and Cal-Berkeley, appears intent on visiting Missouri this weekend, Kentucky on Nov. 6, and perhaps Utah or Oregon State on Nov. 13 before making a decision in the Nov. 10-17 early signing period.

OBITUARY FOR RUTLEDGE SUN AGAIN

October 26, 1999

RUTLEDGE SERVICES Services for Curtis Herman Rutledge, 87, Lawrence, will be at 4:30 p.m. today at the Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Private burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.

PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA (2) FOR OCT. 27

October 26, 1999

Background The original request for a 260-foot tower drew strong opposition last month from county residents who said it was too tall and obtrusive.

OLD HOME TOWN 100

October 26, 1999

IN 1899 On Oct. 26, 1899, the Lawrence Journal reported, “It has been suggested that in the building of a new school house, that there is a large territory on the east side that has no provision for school children, and especially in the southeast part of town, pupils have to go a long ways before they can reach a school house. There is only one school building on the east side of Massachusetts street.”

SHIELD MAKES KU AS WALK-ON, TWO JUCO PLAYERS COMMIT

By Andrew Hartsock

October 26, 1999

Robin Shield, who helped lead Haskell Indian Nations University’s women’s basketball team to its best ever record and a third-place finish in its first-ever appearance in the NJCAA Div. II national tournament, is now part of Kansas University’s team. Shield, a 5-foot-9 guard-forward from Lodge Grass, Mont., has made the team as a walk-on.

S CLOSE

October 26, 1999

Dow Industrials CLOSE: 10,349.93

OBITUARY FOR RICHARD VOGELSANG

October 26, 1999

RICHARD VOGELSANG Chillicothe, Mo. — Memorial services for Richard P. Vogelsang, 85, Chillicothe, will be at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at Lindley Funeral Home, Chillicothe.

CORRECTION PREWITT WORK HISTORY

October 26, 1999

Mary Prewitt’s work history was incorrectly stated in an article in Monday’s paper. Prewitt, associate general counsel for the Kansas Board of Regents, went to the regents office from the appellate defender’s office. She worked at Kansas University several years prior to going to the board office.

SOUNDOFF ON YOUTH FOOTBALL

October 26, 1999

Who is in charge of the Lawrence youth football program for third through sixth grades? Please print their name and address if it’s different than that of the person who’s in charge of seventh-grade football. It isn’t different. It’s Bret Toelkes. His phone number is 749-7308.

LAWRENCE DATEBOOK FOR TUESDAY

October 26, 1999

TODAY 10:30 a.m.: Storytime for toddlers and preschool children, Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. Registration required for toddlers.