Lawrence Journal-World 06-06-2015

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FROM LEFT, KERION LANGSTON AND ALYASSA WATTS look over some evidence under a special light as area students participated in a public safety camp with the Lawrence Police Department on Friday at Free State High School, 4700 Overland Drive. Campers learned about many facets of public safety and police work, including forensic investigation techniques.

Camp offers children hands-on lessons in law enforcement

Topeka — Kansas University sent furlough notices Friday to 5,270 “nonessential” employees at the Lawrence and Edwards campuses and an estimated 2,600 more at the Medical Center in Kansas City, notifying them that they Today is will be furloughed without Day 107 pay effective Sunday if KanPrevious sas lawmakers fail to enact a record: 107 balanced budget before then. (set in 2002, All told, at least 24,200 tied today) workers at Kansas state government agencies and state universities would be affected if the furloughs go into effect. Figures provided Friday to The Associated

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sign outside Lawrence Free State High School on Friday read “police training in progress” as 25 local children inside learned about the many facets of public safety professions at Lawrence Police Camp. Evan Gabrielson, 11, was one of many of the 8- to 12-year-olds at the camp who said he wants to be a police officer when he grows up. Gabrielson said demonstrations at the camp, from Life Star helicopters to bomb squad drills, have given him a glimpse of his future. “I want to be a police officer because I like to help people,” Gabrielson said.

TREY FOWLER, center, learns how to take fingerprints Friday at the camp. See the video at LJWorld. com/police camp.

“It’s my first time at this camp, but I wanted to be a police officer since I was 8.” On Thursday, campers met a police dog, Doug-

las County firefighters vestigation, boarding the and the Douglas County department’s Crime Scene Sheriff’s Office dive team. Investigation truck and On Friday, the students Please see CAMP, page 2A learned about forensic in-

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Topeka — A Kansas House committee late Friday approved a bill that would prevent state workers from being furloughed because of the LegislaLEGISLATURE ture’s impasse on budget and tax issues. The Appropriations Committee’s action to make all state employees temporarily “essential” came in a hastily called Friday night meeting hours after thousands of workers in state agencies and at state universities received furlough notices. Please see TAX, page 2A

Lifelong Lawrence musician had ‘great, long tenure’ By Caitlin Doornbos

CLYDE BYSOM, seen here at 96, died June 1. He played his first concert in South Park in 1929.

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For more than 85 years, Clyde Leon Bysom enchanted Lawrence residents with smooth melodies rippling through his clarinet and saxophone, his daughter Terri Bysom Springer said Friday. Raised in Lawrence, the late 97-year-old played in his first concert in 1929 at the age of 12 in South Park’s gazebo, Springer said. In that gazebo, Bysom would play hundreds more times for the community over the next eight decades with

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some of the 50 different bands he played in. Bysom died June 1 surrounded by family and friends at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after leading a life filled with music, heroism and a community spirit, Springer said. She plans to celebrate her father’s life with a memorial concert in South Park later this month, at the same gazebo Bysom filled with music so many times throughout his lifetime.

He was a product of Lawrence schools and a very good representative of instrumental music in Lawrence.” — Bob Foster, Lawrence City Band conductor Kansas University music education professor and conductor/music director of the Lawrence City Band Bob Foster said he grew to know Bysom when Foster came to Lawrence in 1971. Foster said he thought the

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Gun-control loss A U.S. judge rejected a challenge Friday to a Kansas law that makes it a felony for federal workers to regulate guns made in state. Page 3A

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