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Some think victims of Quantrill’s Raid may have been buried at site By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photo
THE CROSS-TOWN FOOTBALL RIVALRY HITS CLOSE TO HOME FOR THE HOFER BROTHERS, Shane Hofer, left, a sophomore on the Free State High School squad, and Drake Hofer, a senior standout at Lawrence High School. The game will be played tonight at LHS. Both teams are 7-1 this year. Free State leads the series, 8-7.
Brothers on opposite teams in city showdown By Tom Keegan tkeegan@ljworld.com
Shane Hofer plays football for the Free State High School sophomore and junior varsity teams and dresses for the varsity games but seldom plays in them. His older brother, Drake Hofer, is a standout senior wide receiver for Lawrence High School. Paige Hofer, their moth-
er, is the coach of the Free State cheerleaders but will be wearing LHS colors and cheering for the Lions, which is where her husband Jon’s loyalties lie, until next year, when Drake moves onto college and Shane plays for the Free State varsity. In one Lawrence household, tonight’s football game at Lawrence High isn’t called the city rivalry. It’s known as the Hofer Bowl. The interesting twist is
not new to the coaching staffs. Football coaches are forever scheming to find an edge. It’s what they do. And even though Shane isn’t likely to get into tonight’s game, that doesn’t mean he is not being coached up. “One of my coaches was talking about me setting one alarm (in Drake’s room) at 3:30 and another at 4:30,” Shane said. “I was thinking about doing it, but I don’t think I will.”
This unusual circumstance came about when the Hofers moved across the school district’s 15th Street/Bob Billings Parkway boundary for high schools when Shane was an eighth-grader at Southwest Junior High. Football was the driving force behind the family’s move to the north side of the line. Please see SHOWDOWN, page 2A
State Democratic leaders propose ‘Buy American’ law By John Hanna Associated Press
TOPEKA — Democrats in the Kansas Legislature proposed a “Buy American” law Thursday to require state agencies to use U.S.manufactured goods in public works projects. The proposal, announced by Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley of Topeka and House Minority Leader Paul Davis of Lawrence, comes less than two weeks before the Nov. 6 election. The
Goal is to boost manufacturing jobs Sam Brownback and fellow conservative Republicans, were enacted this year with a similar goal of stimulating the economy and creating new jobs. Hensley and Davis outlined their jobs proposal during a news conference Hensley Davis at the headquarters of a local auto workers’ union in two leaders said the goal is Kansas City, Kan. They had to spur growth in manufac- a similar event in Topeka turing jobs. and scheduled another Massive income tax Please see JOBS, page 5A cuts, championed by Gov.
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KU Endowment distributes record $119 million in support By Matt Erickson merickson@ljworld.com
Kansas University Endowment distributed a record amount of support to KU during the 2012 fiscal year, it announced Thursday. The endowment provided $119.3 million in support during the fiscal year, which ended June 30. The total was 6 percent more than the $112.3 million distributed during the 2011 fiscal year, and it surpassed the previous
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A Lawrence mystery that dates back to at least 1903 is likely to get solved by a 21st century hotel project in downtown Lawrence. City officials confirmed they are likely to require the developers of a proposed hotel at Ninth and New Hampshire streets to conduct test excavations to determine whether victims of Quantrill’s Raid are buried at the site. “We have not lost track of this issue,” said Scott McCullough, the city’s director of planning. “Our plan is to try to get it mediated with the property owners and get some test sites dug before construction begins.” Several opponents of the proposed hotel project had argued to city officials that the site may well be an unmarked burial ground for several black soldiers who were killed in Quantrill’s Raid. A 1903 master’s thesis by a Kansas University student contends the site was a burial ground for victims of the raid, but historians haven’t been able to find any other corroboration for the claim.
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record of $115.1 million during fiscal 2010. Funds from the endowment support programs, students, faculty and facilities at all of KU’s campuses, as well as patient care at the KU Hospital. Dale Seuferling, president of the endowment, said Thursday that the support total may vary from year to year based on the projects undertaken at KU at different times. Please see KU, page 2A
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