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KANSAS UNIVERSITY STUDENT LOGAN MASENTHIN walks to class Wednesday, passing a bed of tulips near Smith Hall, 1300 Oread Ave.
Ceremony to honor unique resident Plaque for pencil seller to be rededicated By Giles Bruce gbruce@ljworld.com
Starting at age 50, Leo Beuerman — all 39 inches and 60 pounds of him — would drive his specially rigged tractor downtown, get into a red wooden cart and sell pencils. He was unable to walk, hear or speak clearly, and later lost much of his eyesight, but that didn’t prevent him from becoming a fixture of Lawrence in the 1960s. He was even the subject of an Academy Awardnominated documentary, and, years later, a Christianbased, social-services facility was named after him. After his death in 1974 at the age of 72, a bronze
plaque was dedicated in his honor on the sidewalk at the northeast corner of Eighth and Massachusetts streets. Beuerman seemed like a hard guy to forget. Frank Janzen has spent about 50 years, on and off, in Lawrence. When he returned to the city in 2011, he was discouraged to find that Beuerman’s plaque was no longer visible, blocked by the sidewalk seating that had since been installed at Teller’s Restaurant, 746 Massachusetts St. Janzen asked Special to the Journal-World some waiters about it; they had no idea what he was talk- LEO BEUERMAN, the subject of an Academy Award-nominated ing about. film, sold pencils in downtown Lawrence for many years. He died So he set out to make in 1974. A plaque will be rededicated in his honor Saturday at the Please see RESIDENT, page 2A corner of Eighth and Massachusetts.
Lawrence woman connects with Boston residents offering shelter after bombing By Ian Cummings icummings@ljworld.com
Hallie Velez, like many in Lawrence watching the aftermath of Monday’s bombing in Boston, felt the urge to do something to help. There seemed little anyone could do from this distance, but sometimes a kind word goes a long way. Velez, who lives in Lawrence
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Wednesday. The trust and kindness of the effort moved Velez to send thank-you notes to the good citizens, which, she said, they appreciated. “I thought, ‘I can’t do anything from Lawrence,’” Velez said. “But I’m a big fan of thank-you notes. They were taking a big risk doing that, putting all of their personal
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Name announced for new home of basketball rules By Matt Erickson merickson@ljworld.com
The future home of James Naismith’s original “Rules of Basket Ball” on the Kansas University campus has a name, donations covering more than half its cost and an expected time for construction to begin: later this year. The KU Endowment Association on Wednesday announced the chief donors for the new student center that will house the rules: Paul and Katherine DeBruce, two 1973 KU graduates who live in Mission Hills. The new building, which will connect to the northeast corner of Allen Fieldhouse, will be named the DeBruce Center. Please see BASKETBALL, page 2A
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and works for the Social Security Administration in Kansas City, has never been to Boston and doesn’t know anyone there. But she found a connection in a Google Doc where Boston-area residents advertised their homes as safe places to stay for those affected by the bombing. The spreadsheet was up within hours of the attack, with more than 100 people offering shelter on it by
TOPEKA — Kansas University’s National Cancer Institute designation would be at significant risk if budget cuts proposed by House Republican leaders were enacted into law, officials said Wednesday. The leaders of state higher education institutions briefed the Kansas Board of Regents on the proposed cuts and said they stood with Gov. Sam Brownback, who is calling for a continuation of the current level of funding for higher education despite the House’s efforts to cut the higher-education budget. Gray-Little “If we get the level of cuts that have been proposed in the House, it will have a negative effect on our ability to provide the kind of workforce that the state needs,” KU Chancellor Bernadette GrayLittle said. The House has proposed a 4 percent cut to higher education, plus a salary cap, while the Senate has recommended a 2 percent cut. The 4 percent cut and salary cap would total more than $20 million at KU, Gray-Lit-
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Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law a bill that loosens restrictions on carrying concealed weapons into public buildings, but higher education institutions are exempt for four years. Page 3A
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