McLouth Threshing Bee Draws Thousands to Town
McLouth hosts its 16th annual Steam Engine Show and Threshing Bee drawing an anticipated crowd of about 25 000. Mayor Cecil Luse notes heavy camper arrival, parades of antique machinery, and events including threshing and horsehoe tournaments. An Army medical helicopter on display adds to the weekend program with meals served by Kiwanis and music by local groups. Weekend admission is 1 50 for ages 12 and up.
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McLouth
Cecil Luse
Howard Younger
Center
Kansas City
Rumley
McLouth Threshing Bee
Journal-World
Elsie Page
Dennison
KU Work Blocks Streets as Naismith Drive Gets Blacktop
Kansas University will close parts of campus to auto traffic for blacktop overlay. Crews start at Naismith Drive and Crescent Road then move south to 15th Street intersection before heading to Sunnyside and Indiana Street. Completion expected within two days with parking restrictions and detours in effect.
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Kansas University
Naismith Drive
Crescent Road
Naismith
15Th Street
Gene Blitch
Sunnyside
Indiana Street
Robinson Gymnasium
Indiana
Sunflower
Flint Hall
Jayhawk Boulevard
Mississippi Street
Kansas Union
Congress Debates Farm and Highway Bills Before Recess
Congress sent major farm and highway bills to President Nixon and won pledges to halt bombing Cambodia. A separate minimum wage bill, likely to be vetoed, would raise the rate to 2.20 and extend coverage to millions, with a strategic timing for a possible veto.
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Washington
Congress
Nixon
Cambodia
White House
Jim Wright
D-Tex
Transportation
Clause S. Brinegar
Peter Brennan
House
FBI informer may have fired first shot at Kent State
Senate records and letters from Ohio National Guardsmen raise the possibility that FBI informer Terrence B Norman fired the first shot in the Kent State University killings on May 4 1970. The guardsmen statements describe Norman rushing lines and firing as campus demonstrators pursued him. The FBI paid Norman $125 for information on the National Socialist White People’s Party in 1970.
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Washington
FBI
Kent State University
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Richardson
Bayh
Terrence B
Norman
Bayn
National Guard
Kent State
National Socialist
White People’s Party
Senate
Kent
William Kupper 85 to be buried at Big Springs Catholic Cemetery
Graveside services for William Kupper 85 who died Friday night at Valley View Rest Home will be Monday at 9 30 a m at Big Springs Catholic Cemetery. He was born in Douglas County October 23 1887 and was a member of Big Springs Catholic Church. He is survived by a nephew George Murphy of Topeka. Rumsey Funeral Home is in charge of services.
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William Kupper
Valley View Rest Home
Big Springs Catholic
Mr. Kupper
Douglas County
Big Springs
George Murphy
Topeka
Rumsey Funeral Home
Funeral services for Mrs Mary Hobson held in Baldwin
Funeral services for Mrs Mary Maria Mae Hobson 79 of Baldwin are set for 2 p.m. Monday at Ives Chapel United Methodist Church with burial at Prairie City Cemetery. Died Friday night at her daughter Donalda Lindholm’s home. Survivors include her daughter three sons nine grandchildren two great grandchildren three sisters and two brothers. Friends may call at Lamb Roberts Funeral Home Sunday morning or later.
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Baldwin
Mary Maria ‘“Mae
Hobson
Rt. 1
Ives Chapel United Methodist Church
Prairie City
Donalda Lindholm
Kansas City
Kan
Methodist Church
Lindholm
Stephen
Tom
Donald
Stella Sturdevant
Denver
Colo
Edna Simpson
Topeka
Ermine Hines
R.I
Lawrence
William Barkley
Rt. 4
Ottawa
Fred Barkley
Lamb- Roberts
Memorial Scholarship Fund for Vic Larason Landman
A memorial scholarship fund is established for Vic Larason Landman a Kansas University graduate student killed in a Wisconsin boating accident contributions go to the Kansas University Endowment Association administered by the Affirmative Action Agency formed with law students the local NOW chapter and the Lawrence Women’s Political Caucus
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Vic Larason Landman
Kansas University
Wisconsin
Kansas University Endowment Assn
Affirmative Action Agency
National Organization of Women
Lawrence Women’s Political Caucus
Funds Freed for Perry Lake Road Design Work
Congress released 100000 for the U S Army Corps of Engineers to begin surveys environmental reports and final design plans for 18 miles of road around Perry Lake. Planning to start late this year these funds were originally appropriated in 1971 and sponsored by Rep Bill Roy. No construction funds are provided. The three road segments run from U S 24 to the dam and marina north of Perry from Rock Creek to K 92 west of Ozawkie and from K 92 east of the Old Town area to K 4 east of Valley Falls.
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Perry Lake
Congress
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Kansas
Bill Roy
Nixon
Roy
U.S. 24
Perry
Rock Creek Bridge
Ozawkie
Old Town
Valley Falls
Probe Ends in Normandy Plane Crash Investigation
The NTSB on site probe into the July 23 Ozark Air Lines crash in Normandy, a St. Louis suburb, has concluded. Edward Slattery said findings will be reviewed for a public hearing later this month in St. Louis.
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ST. Louis
Ozark Air Lines
Normandy
National Transportation Safety Board
Edward Slattery
Wonderful Old Lawrence praised by Dr. Karl Menninger
Lawrence author Elfriede Fischer Rowe’s 130 page book Wonderful Old Lawrence published by The World Company in 1971 earns high praise from Topeka’s Dr. Karl Menninger who calls it charmingly written and accurate. The same period sees Lucy Freeman’s Sparks released by Crowell. The Lawrence book had three printings in three months and is now a collector’s item.
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Lawrence
Elfriede Fischer Rowe
The
World Company
Karl Menninger
Topeka
Dr. Menninger
Sparks
Lucy Freeman
Thomas Y. Crowell Company
Burglary Case Charge Dismissed in Douglas County
Lonnie Craig Floyd 21 of 1217 Ohio had charges of aiding in burglary and petty theft dismissed in Douglas County District Court Division II. Floyd had been free on 1500 bond after being arrested with Wallace Jackson 20 of Lawrence for burglarizing and robbing the Buggy Wash at 1804 West Sixth. Jackson’s charges were dismissed earlier when he enlisted in the U S Army. prosecutor said the Floyd case was weak.
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Lonnie Craig Floyd
Douglas County District Court
Floyd
Ohio
Wallace Jackson
Lawrence
W. Sixth
David Berkowitz
Jackson
U. S. Army
Budget Tops Board's Agenda
Lawrence School District 497 Board of Education plans to formally adopt the 1973-74 budget after a public hearing Monday at 7 30 p m in the administration center. The levy rises 2 81 mills to support a 39 49 mill rate with public questions allowed.
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Lawrence School District 497
Board of Education
Kennedy Elementary
Donald Cooper
Men Are Jailed In Robbery Case
Preliminary hearings for Victor J. Wilkins and Jerry W. Tarvin are set for Thursday in Douglas County Court. Both men, 27 and 41, remain jailed on $7,500 bond each on aggravated robbery charges for allegedly abducting Eleanor Ann Ray and stealing her purse after offering her a ride to a grocery store.
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Victor J. Wilkins
Jerry W. Tarvin
Douglas County Court
Burned Man Critical After Industrial Accident
Herman C. Kuester, 1816 Has kell, remains in critical condition at Kansas University Medical Center after a second degree burn injury covering about 60 percent of his body at the FMC Corporation plant on Ninth and Maple.
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Herman C. Kuester
Haskell
FMC Corporation
Ninth
Kansas University Medical Center
Kansas City
Kuester
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Luse
Luce
Kansas Old Time Fiddlers and Pickers Assn
Dale Clark
McLouth Kiwanis Club
Atty
Elliot L. Richardson
Ohio National Guardsmen
Congressional Record
Justice Department
J. Stanley Pottinger
Ohio National Guard
Mary Hobson
Massachusetts St
Simmons
Lees
Tee
Furniture
Kroehler
All Crafts
Carl Knox
Knox
Kenneth Fisher
David Kendall
United States Marshal Panavision
Technicolor
Umsey
Fred Rumsey
Oscar Rumsey
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