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Fallout from tax cuts will drive 2013 agenda
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Session starts Monday By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
Journal-World Photo courtesy of KU Spencer Research Library
ON CHRISTMAS EVE, Amy Marshall got her pre-adoption birth certificate in the mail. She was a bit surprised to see where it listed her place of birth: a laundromat at 19th and Barker in Lawrence. Baby Amy, as she was dubbed by nurses at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, was front-page news in the Journal-World following her abandonment in November 1964. Her parents were never found.
Baby born in Lawrence laundromat alive and more than well in Alaska
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dime’s worth of love goes a long way. Not that Amy Marshall has ever known of any shortage of love in her life. She’s the adopted daughter of Ken and Winnie Knowles, and love has surrounded her since she entered their home as an infant who was just a few days old. Amy always knew she was adopted, but she never knew anything of her biological mother. On Christmas Eve, a letter arrived in the mail that was supposed to change that. It didn’t, at least not with a name. It was her pre-adoption birth certificate, and her mother and father’s names simply
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Barker in Lawrence. It did not take Amy long to put two and two together. She had long sensed she had been abandoned. But now, at least, she knew where. So on Christmas Eve she called the laundromat, which is still in operation but under different ownership, and left a message on its answering machine. “I prefaced it by telling them this will clawhorn@ljworld.com probably be one of were listed as “unthe oddest messages known.” But there was they’ve received in a place on the docuawhile,” Amy says. ment that caught Amy’s Then, she emailed eye. me. She was looking Her place of birth for a newspaper article was listed as a “laundry from November 1964. I mat,” known back then sent her a couple. as the Grover Bungalo There she was on Launderette at 19th and the front page of the
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Journal-World on Nov. 17, 1964. A big picture of a nurse — a Mrs. Gary Edwinson is how we identified the nurse back then — was holding an infant who earlier that day had been found at the laundromat. The baby was being referred to as “Madame X.” By the next day, the newspaper reported the nurses at Lawrence Memorial quickly had tossed aside that name and started calling her Amy. “The baby is in excellent health, and she is a little dandy,” then-Lawrence Police Detective Dick Stanwix announced to the city. Stanwix, who died five Please see BABY, page 8A
TOPEKA — The state of Kansas faces its own “fiscal cliff” as the Legislature starts the 2013 session Monday. Because of tax cuts pushed through last year by Gov. Sam Brownback and conservative legislators, state revenues are shrinking. And the appetite among the growing conservative majority in the Legislature for more budget cuts is growing. Those legislators aren’t simply ready to cut state agency budgets; there are nu- Brownback merous proposals that would have the effect of reducing taxes or limiting spending at the local level. City, county and school officials often complain about how the actions in the Statehouse negatively affect their ability Please see AGENDA, page 6A
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Legislative session, including the key issues and area legislators. Page 6A
LHS teacher who was part of Lawrence history remembered By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com
When Debra Green was buried earlier this month in a small cemetery southeast of Lawrence, a big part of the history of Lawrence High School, and all of Douglas County, was buried with her. Debra Ann Harvey Hicks Green, a graduate of Lawrence Green Please see TEACHER, page 2A
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