Reading Drury tale and DC trip spark youth optimism
A Saturday column by Dolph C. Simons Jr. recalls reading The Promise of Joy on a TWA flight to Washington and notes the contrast with the excitement of 50 students touring the capital. The piece highlights concerns over Congress, leadership, and democracy amid hopeful remarks about youth.
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Kansas City
Allen Drury
Drury
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America
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St. Louis
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China
U.S
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United Nations
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White House
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Principals Reject Plan to Move Centennial Students
Centennial Elementary Principal George Lloyd and Cordley Principal Paul Dickens oppose by vote a plan to relocate Centennial students to Cordley to expand high school programs. The board weighs four options, with a decision due at the April 14 session.
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Cordley
District 497 Board of Education
George Lloyd
Paul Dickens
Lloyd
KU Student Senate Sets Budget Hearings For Sports Funds
Kansas University Student Senate holds hearings over the spring to allocate a $446 897 budget from the Student Activity Fee. The Sports Committee plans a $218 460 allocation with $147 001 for Athletic Corp ticket subsidies and $47 819 for Women’s Intercollegiate Athletics. Hearings run this week and next with final vote set for April 16 in the Union Jayhawk Room.
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International Room
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Music Room
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Parlor. C
Pine Room
Student Services Committee
Union Jayhawk Room
Big Eight Cities Conference outline set for Lawrence
Lawrence officials firmed a plan for the Big Eight Cities Conference to be staged April 20 to 22 with events at KU and Downtown Lawrence. Highlights include an All University Open House, receptions, a 9 a.m. keynote by Herman Lujan, panels on energy and enrollment, plus economy discussions led by Sheldon Stahl of the Federal Reserve Bank. Martin Johnson, son of Mrs. Julia P. Jonson, earned a fourth period honor roll honor at St. John’s Military School Salina.
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Lawrence High School
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Tenn
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Schwarz
Lawrence Public Library
Lawrence
Kansas University
Elizabeth M. Watkins
11Th
Mass
Eldridge House
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Chamber
Holiday Inn
Herman Lujan
Kansas
William Hambleton
The
Kansas Geological Survey
Ron Calgaard
University
Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence Country Club
Barkley Clark
Sheldon Stahl
Federal Reserve Bank
Kansas City
Martin Johnson
Julia P. Jonson
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St. John’s Military School
Salina
Wine glut in Common Market harms wine trade
The European Common Market faces a wine surplus of about 2.25 billion gallons with cheap French and Italian wines dominating stocks. Bottles from earlier Winegate remain unsold as France bans Italian imports after riots, provoking Italian threats to take the matter to the European Court of Justice and fueling debate among agriculture ministers ahead of a planned April 15 compromise.
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European Court of Justice
Spain
Con artists drain Salina bank with fake hundred bills
Two swarthy well dressed men tricked a Planters State Bank teller in Salina and obtained $900. A bank vice president noticed the suspicious exchange and activated an overhead camera. Police released film and have clear photos of the suspects.
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Salina
Planters State Bank
Linda Bowden
Monday siren test for disaster warnings to occur
A Monday siren test will run for the third week in a row with a revised 24 percent pause between the natural and nuclear signals. The delay helps identify sirens that fail to cancel after the natural disaster signal, with failing units continuing a three minute tone. Two-Way Communications of Kansas City checked Woodlawn School siren and aims to have it back before Monday’s test.
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Woodlawn School
North Lawrence
Kansas City
Schneider says bingo allowed at country clubs
Kansas Attorney General Curt Schneider ruled that the state bingo law permits country clubs and Class A private clubs to operate games as nonprofit entities. The decision expands the nonprofit definition to include clubs, prompting some legislators to seek new restrictions. Revenue, issuing licenses at 25 dollars, has licensed 376 organizations so far.
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Kan
Curt Schneider
Schneider
State Revenue Department
James T. McDonald
McDonald
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