Big Eight enrollments to rise but not by leaps this fall
Big Eight schools forecast modest growth in fall enrollments led by Nebraska with about 900 new students pushing Lincoln totals near 22,000. Kansas and Missouri expect roughly 500 more, Oklahoma 600, Iowa State about 300, Colorado caps at 20 000 full time equivalents, while junior colleges and tuition changes influence the shifts across MU KU K-State OSU OU NU CU ISU.
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Lincoln
Bob Reid
Oklahoma University
Oklahoma State
Kansas University
Missouri
Kansas State
Iowa State
Colorado
ISU
OSU
KSU
James Lewis
Lewis
Wichita State University
Kstate
Rowland Smith
Columbia
Tranfer
Don Lee
Lee
Raymond Girod
Tulsa
Oklahoma City
O-State
Liegler Tells Nixon Threat Over Busing
Washington AP report says President Nixon instructed federal agencies to pursue desegregation without busing where feasible and warned noncompliant staff face reassignments. Governor Wallace urged courts to overturn busing decrees as unconstitutional.
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Liegler
Nixon
Washington
White House
Supreme Court
George C. Wallace
Alabama
City budget adds street maintenance and HR staff
The budget allocates about 81 000 for street maintenance funded by a revised approach to valuation growth under the tax lid law. Street maintenance rises from 29 000 in 1971. Human resources also increases from 16 268 to 30 785 with new staff, a car, and new programs.
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Streeet
Human Resources Department
Ron Lynch Wins High School Bareback Title in Idaho
Ron Lynch, 16, captured the bareback bronco riding at the National High School Rodeo in Filer Idaho and rose from fourth to first in his final ride. He plans more rodeos this summer and expects to pursue rodeoing professionally after high school.
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Filer
Idaho
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Galen
Baldwin
Lynch Cowboys
Topeka
Radeo
Midwest
Iowa
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Douglas County
Galen Lynch
Journal- World
Gordon McBride
Elusive trio hunted in county by multi-agency search
Lawmen from Douglas, Franklin, Osage and Shawnee counties plus Lawrence and Ottawa police and state agencies sweep the Twin Mound Richland area seeking three escapees from the Kansas Reception and Diagnostic Center in Topeka. Howard Lee Allen, Clifford Bright, and Robert E. Elam are on foot near Lone Star Lake after fleeing on Aug 9.
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Osage
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Ottawa
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Clifford Bright
Keebe
Robert E. Elam
Wichita
Angela Davis Given Survey Request by Marin Grand Jury
Angela Y. Davis wins limited permission to survey about 240 Marin County grand jury nominees to back claims of systemic exclusion. Superior Court Judge Arnason allows mailed questionnaires on race age income and activities but won t compel responses and refuses to subpoena nominees to testify at pretrial hearing for murder kidnapping and conspiracy charges arising from the Aug 7 1970 shootout.
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San Rafael
Calif
Angela Y. Davis
Marin County Grand Jury
Superior Court
Richard Arnason
UCLA
Grand Jury
Arnason
Vanocur resigns from NBC to pursue projects and book
NBC News veteran Sander Vanocur announces resignation to work on several projects including a government and media book. He says he misses reporting and dislikes desk work, and will leave his WNBC-TV 6 p.m. anchor role around Labor Day.
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NEW York
Sander Vanocur
NBC News
Vanocur
Reuven Frank
Wnbc-Tv
Fort Scott Man Killed in One Car Crash
Fort Scott Kansas Glenn A. Hall age 21 of Fort Scott was killed in a one car rollover on a county road near Fort Scott after a tire blew out early today.
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Fort Scott
Kan
Glenn A. Hall
NEA Official Calls Tax Lid Hypocrisy in Kansas
Kansas teachers chief Melvin E. Neely, executive secretary of the state NEA, denounces the property tax lid as hypocrisy. He told Sen. Frank Hodge that officials raise funds to fight drug abuse while curbing education revenue.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Melvin E. Neely
Neely
National Education Association
Frank Hodge
R-Hutchinson
Joint Assessment and Taxation Committee
City and County Buildings Face Tight Space as Staff Grows
City and county leaders project a need for a new shared courthouse and police-fire complex. Officials note the current 1903 building is undersized for a doubling population and 26 more police and 15 new firefighters will be added.
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Landreth
Dick Peters
Douglas County
Heck
Zanuck Sued by Wife Over 1957 Settlement
Virginia Zanuck sues Daryl F. Zanuck in Los Angeles Superior Court seeking $75,000 from life insurance policy proceeds tied to a 1957 settlement. The 68 year old 20th Century Fox founder is named in the suit filed Tuesday.
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Los Angeles
Darryl F. Zanuck
20Th Century-Fox Movie Studio
Virginia Zanuck
Superior Court
Zanuck
Plome Sees Advances Amid TDY Condition Noted
A terse field report notes a soldier stationed at tutasey liner Plome under Si-5fb1L- Adv. TDY condition is recorded as the lead item with no further operational details provided.
State Colleges to Level Off in Enrollments
Kansas higher education enrollments nearly doubled from 1960 to 1970 and are expected to plateau by the end of the decade, predicts Kenneth Anderson. He foresees peak between 103,200 and 114,400 in 1978, then a gradual decline, with junior colleges rising share while private schools shrink by 1985.
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Oklahoma
Werner R. Ickstrom
Kansas
Anderson
Pearson released from Kansas hospital after ear infection surgery
Senator James B. Pearson of Kansas was discharged from the University of Kansas Medical Center Tuesday following surgery on Monday to correct a middle ear infection.
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Kansas City, Kan
James B. Pearson
R.kan
University of Kansas Medical Center
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