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An electrifying past “Lawrence went nowhere in the 1870s. It was a very, very hard time. When Bowersock came to town, he energized the community.�

J.D. Bowersock

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Commissioner wants project weighed against city’s other priorities By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com

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BROTHERS STEPHEN HILL, LEFT, AND JUSTIN HILL are pictured Wednesday on Stephen’s property, which overlooks much of central and east Lawrence. Stephen Hill, who is owner of the Bowersock Mills and Power Co., and Justin, who is president of the Lawrence Paper Co., are the grandsons of J.D. Bowersock, top photo, an influential industrialist who helped to shape the landscape of Lawrence beginning in the late 1800s.

Here’s a hypothetical that is drawing some discussion among those who follow Lawrence City Hall: Commissioners build a $25 million recreation center in northwest Lawrence and successfully do so without raising anyone’s taxes. But then, a few years later, city leaders go to the public and say the city is in desperate need of a new police headquarters facility, and taxes Amyx will have to be raised for the project, which has been estimated to cost between $20 million and $30 million. If that day ever comes, Lawrence City Commissioner Mike Amyx isn’t sure how Please see TAXES, page 2A

19th century industrialist’s influence Up in smoke? on Lawrence lives on in descendants Tobacco funds in jeopardy Lawhorn’s

By Chad Lawhorn

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hen you are compared to Moses in the newspaper article announcing your death, you know you’ve done something. So it was for Justin DeWitt Bowersock. “He passed away like Moses, with his eyes undimmed and his mental force unabated,� the unnamed author wrote in the Oct. 28, 1922, edition of the Journal-World. Of course, everybody in Lawrence — really, throughout much of the state — in 1922 already knew J.D. Bowersock had done something. It would have been hard to find anyone in Lawrence

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Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com

THE GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN OF J.D. BOWERSOCK, the man responsible for the Bowersock dam in 1879, participate in a ground-breaking ceremony on May 16, 2011, for the $20 million project to build a new hydroelectric power plant on the north bank of the Kansas River. Throwing dirt from left are Henry Nelson, 9, Hillary Griggs, 10, Hugh Griggs, 4, Oona Please see FAMILY, page 6A Nelson, 6, and Lyle Griggs, 8.

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Programs serving about 200,000 children statewide are facing their own fiscal cliff, and it has nothing to do with budget talks between Congress and the White House. “My anxiety is high,� said Rich Minder, collaborative projects coordinator of Success By 6 Coalition of Douglas County, which serves a number of groups helping children and families. “The state of Kansas needs to decide whether or not we are going to make a commitment to children and families, and how are we going to do that,� Minder said. Here is the problem: Kansas is among some 30 states in arbitration with Big Tobacco companies that are seeking to reduce payments promised to the states under a

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Ben McLemore led the way for the Jayhawks in a 90-54 blowout of former Big 12 Conference foe Colorado. See the story in Sports, page 1B.

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