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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1973
Page
1
Consumer and labor groups call for a 15 percent cut in meat prices by May 1 while Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz rejects broad food controls. Butchers plan a pamphlet to shift blame, and shoppers voice mixed views on affordability and the farmer's squeeze.
The agenda lists bids for Heatherwood sewer and street overlay projects and bid recapitulations. It includes ordinances on removing parking, renaming Goodrich Road to Packer Road, rezoning, and adding land to city limits. New business covers seating, Kansas Relays Week, Pioneer Ridge 4 streets, board appointments, site plans for Stanton Wholesale Electric and Hill Crest Shopping Center, and Traffic Safety minutes.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said 1972 was the worst year for defective automobile recalls and announced a new reporting program. It will list each month new possible defects to alert consumers as soon as they are serious enough to justify formal investigation.
Session county officials lauded state reforms and said streamlining would aid services and provide property tax relief. Booth cited a health department administrator bill in effect for Douglas County and noted KU projects and a state tuition grant expansion. Vogel highlighted new appropriations and a failed bill to require public expense disclosures.
Clark Barkley Clark and Fred Pence will be seated Tuesday as new Lawrence commissioners. Light agenda with planning items carried over to next Tuesday. Mayor and vice mayor election opens new business. bids, annexations and two site plans also on the docket.
Kansas lawmakers approved a 1973 budget exceeding $1 billion with KU funding boosts. Nichols said the action shows renewed obligation to higher education as the Senate and House kept or adjusted programs for the KU Medical Center and Lawrence campus, including salaries, library and disability insurance, and planning for a visual arts building and a new law school.
The Douglas County Commission will decide April 18 whether to grant a conditional use permit for the J H J Rock Company to open a rock quarry in Kanwaka Township on County Rd 1025 near U S 40. Landowners protest, citing noise dust and devaluation, as planners note rock shortages and possible ties to an asphalt plant.
Communist forces fired on two peace keeping helicopters in the Me kong Delta. The Canadian contingent hinted at withdrawing observer teams from Viet Cong areas after Saturday’s deaths. One helicopter carrying Joint Military Commission members landed at Vi Thanh. no injuries reported.
Toby Eagle Bull, Pine Ridge secretary, says the Oglala Sioux face financial disaster due to militant outsiders occupying Wounded Knee. He defends tribal chairman Richard Wilson and the tribal government amid the siege.
The Lawrence Telephone Pioneers of America group donates 50 dollars to the Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Museum fund. The gift, raised by Christmas candy sales, comes from 56 Lawrence members and others in Ottawa Leavenworth Atchison and Sabetha.
Buenos Aires police say Francis Brimicombe the 57 year old president of the Argentine subsidiary of British American Tobacco was seized outside his home Sunday night by three or four youths. Authorities suspect left wing groups carried out the abduction and ransom demands reportedly totaling 2.5 million dollars from American companies last week.
Pope Paul VI and President Nguyen Van Thieu held a lengthy talks in Vatican City as riot police clashed with demonstrators outside St. Peter's Square during the papal audience.
A ceramic dormer spire missing from the Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Museum was located and recovered. Charles Rankin saved the cast after a lightning strike and, with help from Nelson Happy, delivered it to the Courthouse for preservation before it was returned to the museum for future restoration.
Lawrence High School biology students Lydia Moore and Phil Wedge were elected president and vice president of the northeast district of the Kansas Junior Academy of Science during a Shawnee Mission Northwest High School event. About 40 students from eight schools participated. 12 presented reports with several high ratings across projects on pesticides, algae limiting factors, heavy metals in water, bacterial growth after radiation, and more.
Dr W Clarke Wescoe former Kansas University chancellor resigned in 1969 to join Sterling Drug Inc New York as vice president and now serves as vice chairman of the board He becomes third in the corporate chain after J Mark Hibbert and D J Fitzgibbons Sterling Drug, maker of Bayer Aspirin and Phillips Milk of Magnesia, posted 1972 domestic sales of 720 million and earnings of 68 million.
A two day seminar in Lawrence begins Tuesday to discuss recommendations for improving Douglas County jail facilities. The Douglas County Commission and Correctional Services Committee meet with the National Clearinghouse of the University of Illinois to review data and computer projections. Edith Flynn Clowinghouse director will discuss projections at 3 pm, followed by an informal hour and dinner and a 7:30 pm discussion on correctional facility trends in intermediate counties.
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