High Official Flies Free On Standard Oil Jet
Secretary of Commerce Peter G. Peterson took a free ride to Chicago on a jet owned by Standard Oil of Indiana. An aide said it was his first corporate-plane trip since taking office in February. Undersecretary of Interior William T. Pecora also recently flew on a company jet, traveling to South Dakota and back courtesy of Northern Natural Gas.
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Peter G. Peterson
Chicago
Standard Oil
Indiana
William T. Pecora
High Administration
South Dakota
Northern Natural Gas
Omaha
Neb
Pecora
Dita Beard
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
Beard
Senate
ITT
Congress
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D-Ind
Associated Press
National Airport
Peterson
House
Herman Talmadge
D-Ga
Milton Young
R-N.d
Lawton Chiles
D. Fla
William Spong
D-Va
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Peter Dominick
R-Corp
Dan Daniel
John S. Monagan
D-Conn
Sen. Young
Ex City Clerk Harold Fisher Dies at 74
Harold C. Fisher longtime Lawrence city clerk and county school superintendent died at 12 30 p m at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after a long illness. He was 74. Survivors include his widow two sons a daughter a brother and eight grandchildren all of Lawrence. He was born in south Douglas County and lived here his entire life. He served as county school superintendent 1932 41 and Lawrence city clerk until 1966. He served in World War I and was active in the Lawrence American Legion and Red Cross. He helped build the municipal ball park at 11th and Delaware and was a Sertoma Club distinguished citizen.
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Lawrence
Douglas County
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Rumsey Funeral Home
N.H
Alan Fisher
Schwarz
Ross Fisher
Margarett Starkey
Rockledge Rd
Claude Fisher
Quail Creek
Fisher
Overbrook High School
Lawrence American Legion
11Th and
Delaware
First United Methodist Church
Red Cross
Sertoma Club
Lawrence and Douglas County Endorse Regional Road Study
City and county officials backed the Lawrence Area Transportation Study prepared by the Kansas State Highway Commission planning group. The plan outlines a bypass east of Lawrence and prioritizes city street expansions to support future traffic, aiming for state and federal funding. Local officials expect final approval within a week and a planning commission review upcoming.
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Kansas State Highway Commission
Lawrence Area
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U.S. 40
Dick McClanathan
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15Th Street
Haskell Avenue
15Th
Tennessee
Kentucky
Connecticut
Massachusetts
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Pleasant Grove
31St Street
Haskell
Kasold
E. D. Landman
McClanathan
Landman
City-County Planning Commission
Chinese Students Sponsor Peking Opera Screening at KU
A group of Kansas University students plans to show the revolutionary opera Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy at Dyche Hall auditorium at 7 and 9 p.m. Wednesday. Wilson Chang, spokesman for the film, described it as a contemporary work from the Peoples Republic.
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Kansas University
Tiger Mountain
Dyche Hall
Wilson ‘Chang
Lawrence KU museum to repaint galleries this summer
For the first time in over two decades the Kansas University Museum of Art plans a fresh coat of paint. The second floor medieval gallery rear main floor gallery stairwells and basement ceilings will be painted with all galleries completed by summer end, excluding offices and the lecture hall.
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Kansas University Museum of Art
Blood drive progress rated terrible by volunteers
Volunteers report the three day Red Cross blood drive in Douglas County off to a weak start with only 131 donors Monday out of a 200 target. The drive runs at Lawrence Memorial Hospital north wing until 6 45 p m and resumes 9 a m to 2 15 p m Wednesday.
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Marcella Wolfson
a_6 civic organization
Molly Kirk
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Red Cross Bloodmobile
Eleanor Entz
Wichita Blood Bank
LMH
Wichita
Douglas County
Journal-World
Lawrence Unified board sets summer school plan and bids
The Lawrence Unified District 497 board approved tentative summer school plans with June start for elementary programs at 15 per class and two secondary sessions. Title I programs target New York Pinckney and Woodlawn, with drivers education offered in the secondary plan. The meeting also approved bids for blacktopping at 14 schools and tires, mowers, and lawn equipment purchases. Thirteen teachers resigned and three new hires were announced amid a student discipline suspension upheld for a high school sophomore.
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Lawrence
District 497
David Kendall
New York
Pinckney
Woodlawn
Kendall
Area Native Plays a Role In Moon Shot
Steve Graves a Lawrence High School and Kansas University graduate is a member of the Apollo 16 launch crew. He works with the Saturn IV third stage placing the ship in orbit and with the range safety system. Graves 25 1969 KU electrical engineer joined Apollo 15 and will be involved with Apollo 17.
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Steve Graves
Lawrence
Kansas University
Graves
Gladys Graves
McDonnell-Douglass Corp. Aerospace
Moon
Earth
LHS
Quarry Permit Gathers Spotlight At Plan Commission Meeting
A proposal for a rock quarry on 130 acres near U S 59 and County Road 464 south of Lawrence is expected to dominate the Lawrence Douglas County Planning Commission agenda. Also listed are a motorcycle race track permit request, three rezoning applications, and a text amendment setting a reconsideration delay.
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U.S. 59
Lawrence
Lawrence-Douglas County
Ray and
Ruth Cadwell
J and J Construction Co
Topeka
Planning Commission
City Hall
First National Bank
Ninth
Massachusetts
Big Springs
Anthony Martin
Vinland
Florence Hoskinson
General Commercial
E. 23Rd
Orville
Katherine Ray
Central Business
New Hampshire
R. E. Schmalberg and Allen Realty, Inc
Motorcycle Crash Injures Topeka Man At Quarry Property
LECOMPTON Blake R. Bentley 27 of Topeka lost control of his motorcycle while climbing a gravel pile on private property near Penny's Quarry in Douglas County. He was treated and released at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
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Blake R. Bentley
Rt. 3
Topeka
Douglas County Sheriff's Department
Bentley
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Penny
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