Vietnam Casualties Reach Highest Level Since 1968 Offensive
AP reports North Vietnamese and Viet Cong casualties soared to their highest weekly total since the Tet offensive as allied losses rose. Americans suffered 12 KIA and 63 wounded, with 1 002 South Vietnamese and 7 117 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed, plus 2 656 South Vietnamese wounded. Six Americans were killed nonhostile, and 10 missing. The casualty toll pushed total American and allied deaths since 1961 past one million.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
Retiring Leader Honored With Band Tribute
Clarence Sawhill former band director at Liberty Memorial High School Lawrence and later UCLA bands is honored before his retirement. The Lawrence band won a national award at a Cincinnati Ohio contest and locals raised 3000 to fund the trip. A concert by California State Colleges bands in Los Angeles and Long Beach celebrated him.
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Clarence Sawhill
Old Liberty Memorial High School
Lawrence
University of California At Los Angeles
UCLA
Sawhill
Lawrence School
Cincinnati
Ohio
LHS
California
Los Angeles
Long Beach
Jeffries Wins Pool Competition in Local Final
Jack Jeffries of the Eagles Lodge won first prize of 300 dollars in the final playoff of a pool tournament. Twelve contestants from participating taverns and clubs competed in finals sponsored by John’s Novelty Store. Lawrence Mayor John Emick sponsored the event with his coin-operated tables and machines.
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Jack Jeffries
Maple la
Eagles Lodge
John’s Novelty Store
Lawrence
John Emick
Jefferies
Virgil Harrod
Emory
Five killed as tornado wrecks isolated Oklahoma farm home
A tornado demolished a Davis area farm house in south-central Oklahoma killing five people including two women seeking shelter and injuring three others. The Curtis Baird residence near Davis was destroyed, with Baird and several children injured or dead, as multiple twisters plagued the state through the night.
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Davis
Oklahoma
Curtis Baird
Baird
Eugene
Sharon Kay Raines
Larry
Clayton
East
Lawton
Hennessey
Enid
Poteau and
Wister
le Flore
Fairview
Major County
Duncan
Stephens County
Stillwater
Payne County
Apollo 16 Moon TV Show Opens Tonight From Highlands
SPACE CENTER Houston AP Apollo 16 television coverage begins tonight with John W Young and Charles M Duke Jr sending back 17 hours of moon adventures. Viewers will see rocks, trenches, and a Descartes highlands moon view plus a Milky Way pass as the buggy mission proceeds.
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Space Center
Houston
Moon
Space Agency
Lunar Highlands
John W. Young
Charles M. Duke Jr
Earth
Young
Duke
Milky Way
Jupiter
Venus
Mars
Heavenly
America
Young and
Orion
Orbit Command
Casper
Descartes Highlands
Theola Nelson Elected Leader of Lawrence LBCBP
Mrs Theola Nelson of 776 Ash was chosen chairman of the Lawrence Branch of Concerned Black Parents Inc succeeding Roland Hurst for the year ending next April Other new officers include Eloyce Green vice chairman Barbara Sabol secretary and Anita Martin treasurer The branch now hosts offices at the Community Building.
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Theola Nelson
Ash
Lawrence
Concerned Black Parents, Inc
LBCBP
Eloyce Green
W. 29Th
Barbara Sabol
Rt. 3
Anita Martin
Pinecone Dr
County Gains Funds From Local Tax Reduction Share
Douglas County receives 189 816 67 dollars as its portion of the local ad valorem tax reduction fund per state treasurer figures. The state distribution to area counties includes Franklin 70 716 98 dollars Jefferson 41 102 56 dollars Johnson 774 514 18 dollars Leavenworth 130 704 08 dollars.
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Douglas County
Franklin
Jefferson
Johnson
Leavenworth
Lake Perry 4-H Camp Site Inspection Planned
A joint inspection and planning meeting for the 273 acre Lake Perry 4-H Camp is scheduled for Thursday April 27. The Lake Perry 4-H Camp Development Committee led by Dr. Glenn M. Busset includes Extension staff KSU and foundation members who will tour the site and discuss land acquisition with Corps of Engineers and Kansas 4-H Foundation. Leaders expect first major use in summer 1973.
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Perry Lake
Lake Perry
Robert A. Bohannon
Cooperative Extension Service
Kansas State University
Kansas
The
Extension Service
Kansas 4H Foundation
4-H
Corps of Engineers
KSU
Kansas 4-H Foundation
Glenn M. Busset
Robert Henderson
J. Dale Apel
Kathy Meyer
Leo Wendling
Jim Nightwonger
Harold Gallaher
Merle Eryestone
Bill Riley
Kansas +H Foundation
Art Johnson
Jefferson County
Busset
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Vermont
A. B. Coker Co., Inc
Ainty
Decorating Center, Inc
Bill Keefer
Normen
Pod" Miller Lawrence
FORD
John Haddock Ford
Alabama
Associated Press
Ratliff
Raines
Pearl Taylor
Billie Casey
Ardmore
Peggy
Ernest
Taylor
Casey
Hennepin
Don Horn
Hennepin and
Ada
le Flore County
Apollo
Ed Fendell
Wickes
Bulag Supplies
East Lawrence Turnpike
AVA
Roland Hurst
Minnesota
PaMay
Hammerschmidt Specialties
H.P
Briggs & Stratton
Tome
Lawrence, Ks
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