Sue Pierce Named KU Relays Queen for 1966
KU junior Sue Pierce of Kankakee Illinois was chosen KU Relays queen with attendants Patti Slider of Ellsworth Hall and Sherry Buchanan of Kappa Kappa Gamma. The trio will reign at the Relays in Memorial Stadium and attend related events through next week.
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Kansas University
Sue Pierce
Kankakee
Alpha Phi Sorority
Patti Slider
Lyons
Sherry ‘Buchanan
Topeka
Slider
Ellsworth Hall
Lawrence
de Pauw University
Des Moines
Iowa
Miss Pierce
Jay Jaynes
SUA
Kallay Filleans
Alpha Kappa Lambda Fraternity
Young Republicans
KU Y Children’s Committee
Vox Populi
CYR
Buchannan
Phillips Among Big Corporations Cutting Spending
About 45 of the nation’s largest corporations promise to reduce plant and equipment spending following President Johnson’s plea. White House sources said he was delighted by the response from industrialists who attended a White House dinner on March 30.
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Washington
Johnson
White House
Phillips Petroleum to cut capital expenditures by 27 million
Phillips Petroleum plans a 27 million dollar reduction in its capital expenditures over the next year, about 12 percent of the original plan, aligning with President Johnson’s spending restraint. Stanley Learned, president, says the company will also curb daily operating costs to meet the goal. Pittsburgh Plate Glass follows with an unspecified capex cut for its glass and fiber glass group per White House request.
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Bartlesville
Okla
Phillips Petroleum Company
Johnson
Stanley Learned
Phillips
Pittsburgh
Pitts- Spurgh Plate Glass Company
White House
Axe Says His Workers Can Break the Back of Tax Report Storm
TOPEKA AP Dr Leonard H Axe state director of revenue said he expects employees in his office to break the back of a massive onslaught of income tax returns by the middle of next week. He announced 331 870 returns opened as of Thursday evening with 200 000 more in the office and 200 000 expected to arrive before the end of the big push. Taxpayers face a midnight deadline for filing. The aim is to open returns process checks and deliver to the state treasurer so funds can clear banks without delay. State employees will work Saturday 7 30 a m to 12 30 p m opening returns and next week other revenue department staff will assist.
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Topeka
Leonard H. Axe
Revevenue
Axe
Children’s Institute
Wescoe
Two Ways and Means
Eldon Sloan
Kansas Board of Regents
Highway Department
Stanley
Bartlesville
Okla
Big Increase Expected In U S Farmer Income
Secretary Freeman announced the Agriculture Department forecasts U S farmers real net income will exceed 5 billion dollars this year, a gain over last year and near the postwar highs. He framed the forecast as evidence supporting anti inflation farm policies ahead of elections.
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Washington (Ap
Orville L. Freeman
Agriculture Department
Freeman
Kansas Holds Vast Share Of U S Helium Extraction
About eighty percent of the nation’s helium extraction capacity is concentrated in Kansas, reflecting the state’s dominant role in securing this strategic gas resource.
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Kansas
Alton Blakeslee Wins Sigma Delta Chi Award 1965
Alton Blakeslee AP science writer won the Sigma Delta Chi general reporting award for a 10 part science series. The 34th annual Distinguished Service in Journalism awards listed 16 winners with presentations set for May 6-7 in Des Moines Iowa.
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Chicago
Alton Blakeslee
Associated Press
Blakeslee
Professional Journalism Society
Alfred G. Dickson
Wilmington
N.C
Star-News
Washington Correspondence
Nick Kotz
Des Moines Register
Minneapolis Tribune
James Nelson Goodsell
The
Christian Science Monitor
Henry Herr Gill
Chicago Daily News
Roy Justus
Minneapolis Star
Public Service
Miami Herald
Ben H. Bagdikian
the Saturday Evening Post
Reader’s Digest
Wnew News
New York City
Radio Public Service
Wcco Radio
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Kdka Radio
Pittsburgh
Morley Safer
CBS News
Wabc-Tv
Wtop-Tv
Washington, D.C
William L. Rivers
Stanford University
Sigma Delta Chi
KU Colloquia Draw Big Crowd During Student Series
The student colloquium event featuring Jules Feiffer drew a crowd after other sessions like the Speech and Drama colloquium on culture in a democratic society. Organizers said several hundred spectators were turned away while Dwight Macdonald and Ashley Montagu attracted strong interest. The event was deemed a gigantic success with momentum building throughout the week. Speakers were paid and funded by private gifts through the EU Endowment Association.
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Jules Feiffer
Speech and Drama Department
Swarthout Recital Hall
Conboy
Dwight Macdonald
Ashley Montagu
EU Endowment Association
Two Thefts Total $52 Reported in Lawrence
Lawrence police investigate two thefts reported Thursday afternoon totaling 52 dollars. An employee at Jack Harris Appliance and Furniture Co. at 936 Mass. St. says someone took 35 dollars from a cash box in an open safe after Sunday. Mike Miller of Stouffer Place reports 12 dollars and a 5 dollar ash tray stolen from his apartment Thursday morning.
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Lawrence
Jack Harris Appliance and Furniture Co
Mass
Mike Miller
Stouffer Place
Kansas Firms Export Portions of Production
About 400 Kansas manufacturing firms or around 10 percent of the total export a portion of their production. The data indicate a measurable level of outbound shipments among midwestern industries.
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Oer
Kansas
Shriver heckled by protesters at antipoverty conference
President Lyndon B. Johnson amid antipoverty efforts faced a disorderly session as 25 to 30 demonstrators disrupted the Citizens Crusade Against Poverty gathering. Allen Moore of Youth In Action led chants denouncing Shriver and his program while Barbara Taylor and Bayard Austin urged order amid calls for broader change.
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Shriver
Office of Economic Opportunity
Allen Moore
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Brooklyn
N.Y
Barbara Taylor
Washington
Southeast House
Bayard Austin
Citizens’ Organization
Eugene Carson Blake
United Presbyterian Church
General Secetary
World Council of Churches
Crusade
Blake
Citizens Group
Industrial Union Department
Aflcio
Austin
Watts
Los Angeles
New York
Harlem
Chicago
West Side
Appalachia
Mississippi Delta
KU Endowment drives $18.6 million fund goal at KU meeting
The KU Endowment Association's drive aims for 18.6 million with 300 alumni council members backing the effort. Dolph Simons proposed the plan, noting that 3.09 million has already been pledged, including a 2 million gift for the Spencer Library.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Mountain States
West Coast
Hawaii
Alaska
Dolph Simons
Lawrence
KU Endowment Association
Maurice Breidenthal
Simons
Clarence McGuire
Bruce Linton
Robert Billings
George Waggoner
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Keith Lawton
Thomas Buckman
James R. Surface
Council
William Muchnic
Atchison
Henry Bubb
Topeka
Herman R. Sutherland
A. H. Cromb
Mission Hills
Medical Center
Wescoe
Kenneth A
Helen F. Spencer
Deane W. Malott
Franklin D. Murphy
Lewis Hall
County Democrats Discuss Precinct Committee Run Push
Douglas County Democratic Club members met Thursday at The Sound Hillcrest Shopping Center to discuss encouraging residents to run for precinct committee posts in the 1966 elections. Darwin Dakoff serves as club president.
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Douglas County
Democratic Club
Sound
Hillcrest
Darwin Dakoff
Music From Our Reuter Pipe Organ Rumsey Funeral Home
Organ recital details from Rumsey Funeral Home with contact VI 38 5111. Promotional note appears in an Adv section.
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Reuter Pipe Organ
Rumsey Funeral Home
Centennial Gala Activities Planned by Kansas University
Kansas University students organize a centennial celebration day with a Dixieland boat ride at Potter Lake at 10 30 a m a Kansas City banjo band on a stage near Potter Lake at 11 a m a greased pig contest for prizes a bathing beauty contest with 1890s suits a bucket brigade race a pie eating contest carnival rides in Dread Hall parking lot a merry go round and loop a plane and a centennial dance at Allen Fieldhouse at 8 p m with Johnny Rivers performing.
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Kansas University
Mount Oread
Potter Lake
Kansas City
Dread Hall
Allen Fieldhouse
Johnny Rivers
Philadelphia Bans Bloodless Bullfighting After Court Ruling
Judge Edward J. Griffiths in Municipal Court barred bulls and matadors after a hearing with the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Bravo Enterprises Inc. Promoters plan appeals. The case followed Thursday night’s bloodless debut and 14 cited problems from the society.
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Philadelphia
Edward J. Griffiths
Pennsylvania Society For Prevention of Cruelty
Bravo Enterprises Inc
Court Today
Lufthansa to add 747 to jet fleet in Germany
Lufthansa announced in Cologne that it will expand its jet fleet with the new 490 seat Boeing 747. The airline has not yet decided how many aircraft to order.
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Cologne
Germany
Lufthansa
Fairfax Industrial Center Sets Midwest Benchmark
Fairfax Industrial Center, among the largest in the Midwest, is located in Kansas City Kansas, highlighting regional industrial expansion and scale in the area.
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Fairfax
Midwest
Kansas City
Kan
Louie F. Hoskins Named Wickes Store Manager
Louie F. Hoskins, 45, appointed manager of Wickes retail lumber supply at 1013 N. 3rd St. Grand opening occurred Wednesday. Hoskins, with over two decades in the business, is from Westmoreland Tennessee and WWII veteran. He and his wife Thelma moved to Lawrence from Austin Texas and reside at 114 Pawnee St. They have two grown children, Louie F. Hoskins Jr. and Mrs. James Ellis.
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Louie F. Hoskins
Wickes Retail Lumber and Building Supply
N. 3Rd St
Hoskins
Busi
Detroit launches 567-8364 dog lost and found center
Detroit residents can dial 567-8364 to reach the Michigan Humane Society's new lost and found information center. The system involves pressing 1 for lost dogs or 0 for found dogs, with the digits spelling out the number via a telephone keypad.
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Detroit, Mich
Detroit
Michigan Humane Society
New
Lost and Found Information Center
Lawrence author Capote to speak at KU Allen Fieldhouse
Truman Capote, famed author of In Cold Blood, will speak at 8 p.m. on Wednesday April 20 in Allen Fieldhouse Kansas. The KU English Department sponsors the event with a venue change from the Kansas Union Ballroom announced by Edwin Eigner. A separate note reports a $5000 reward for information in Ruth Shifrin’s March murder, with the Ruth Shifrin Reward Fund set up by Jackson County doctors. Information should be given to Kansas City Police Department or Jackson County Medical Society.
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Truman Capote
New York City
Allen Fieldhouse
Kansas University
Kansas Union
Edwin Eigner
Ruth Shifrin
Kansas City
Jackson County Medical Society
Jackie Plans Trip New York
Mrs John F Kennedy will fly to Spain on Saturday for a week long private visit. Her children remain in school and will not accompany her as she travels.
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New York
John F. Kennedy
Spain
Saturday KU classes adjust for centennial events
Saturday classes at Kansas University meet at 7 30, 8 30 and 9 30 am as usual. Classes starting 10 30 am and later are dismissed to allow students to join centennial activities in the Potter Lake area.
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Kansas University
Potter Lake
Fire run at Pancake Man cafe ends with no damage
Lawrence firefighters raced to the Pancake Man cafe at 1528 W 23rd St at 3 05 p m after a grill overheated. The fire was extinguished before causing any damage.
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Lawrence
W. 23Rd St
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