housing crunch persists as KU dorms fill and apartments tighten
With nearly all Kansas University dorm rooms occupied and some Lawrence apartments still available, the housing shortage continues. Jayhawker Towers has many two bedroom units. one and three bedroom spaces are dwindling. KU dorms are 99 percent full, and a short waiting list is expected to grow as new students enroll.
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Lawrence
Ed Church
Church
Jayhawker Towers
Journal-World Survey
Chamber of Commerce
Glenn West
Chamber
Fred McElherne
Parade Opens Tonga Fair With Roaring Twenties Theme
Cash prizes will be awarded to outstanding participants in the Leavenworth County Fair parade which starts at 6 45 p m today assembling downtown moving along Fourth Street and K 16 to the fairgrounds where units will be judged at the grandstand The fair runs through Saturday with exhibits ready by 2 p m today
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Leavenworth County
Fourth Street
Vinland Grange Fair Set With Rides and Contests
The 68th Vinland Grange Fair opens at noon Thursday with a tractor pull and closes Saturday at 6 30 p m with a motorcycle rodeo. Garden tractor, pony pulls, children's pet parade, foot races, and mule jumping contest are scheduled across Friday and Saturday at the fairgrounds by Vinland Elementary School on county road 1055.
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Grange
Grange Fairgrounds
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Vinland Elementary School
City and Rays near settlement over maintenance garage dispute
City officials and Orville and Katherine Ray near a settlement to avoid a court injunction set for Tuesday 9 30 a m over the Ray property at 12th and Haskell now zoned residential. The plan would rezone to M 4 to allow salvage yard use with limits pending planning commission action.
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Orville
Katherine Ray
Rays
11Th
Haskell
Lawrence
Barkley Clark
Journal-World
Ray
12Th and
Portuguese Communist HQs attacked as anti socialist riots rise
A mob of about 200 set fire to the headquarters in Porto and targeted Intersindical, while about 500 attacked the Lisbon union building. In Alcobaca a mob besieged Cunhal and 1,500 supporters for hours. Five killed, hundreds wounded in the north as the political crisis deepens with the junta replacing Corvacho and Cunhal canceling a rally.
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Portugal
Portuguese Democratic Movement
Porto
Intersindical
Communist Party
Alvaro Cunhal
Cunhal
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Cunhad
Alcobaca
Corvacho
Augustin Ferreira
Vasco Goncalves
Moscow
Common Cause urges Kansas GOP to open caucus to the public
Independent group Common Cause Kansas urges Republican senators to hold their Thursday night Senate caucus in public. The push follows debate over whether the caucus must be open under state law as a public meeting and compensation rules apply to attending members.
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Topeka, Kan
Kansas
Richard D. Rogers
Senate
Rogers
District of Kansas
Atty
Curt Schneider
Schneider
Joseph Harder
Moundridge
Fred Carman
Ken Nickel
Wichita
Bob FitzGerald
Topeka
Common Cause
FitzGerald
Nickel
Military aids search for boy at Ft Leavenworth continues
LEAVENWORTH Kan AP Authorities say no leads in the disappearance of 6 year old Murry Bachar missing since Saturday from a Ft Leavenworth swimming pool. The CID and Leavenworth police direct the probe with MPs patrolling the base and checking all corners. No new information has emerged.
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Kan
Ft. Leavenworth
Murry Bachar
Army
M.P
Slayton to Undergo Lung Surgery in Houston
Astronaut Donald K. Slayton, America's oldest space pilot, will undergo lung surgery next week at a Houston cancer hospital after doctors found a lesion in his left lung. Officials denied the lesion was caused by the poisonous gas exposure during the Apollo Soyuz mission.
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Washington
Donald K
Deke
Slayton
America
Houston
Space Agency
Earth
Syrian jetliner crash kills 126 near Damascus
A Czechoslovak Ilyushin 62 with 128 on board crashed 12 miles south of Damascus during landing from Prague. 117 passengers and 11 crew were aboard. 126 were killed, 1 survivor died later, 2 initially reported. Rescuers found a boy in serious condition. many victims Syrians Iraqis and Iranians with few Czechoslovaks. No Americans aboard.
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Damascus
Syria
Prague
Czechslovakia
Baghdad
Tehran
CSA
Ford says Midwest swing productive and upbeat
President Ford called his two day Midwest tour productive and worthwhile and said he plans more public question and answer sessions to hear American views. He spoke in Colorado Iowa Minnesota and Illinois and will golf and play tennis before returning to Washington. He emphasized detente must be two way, warned Soviet fishing in troubled waters, and pledged stronger defense, lower taxes, and less regulation in GOP events.
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Chicago
Milwaukee
Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger
Ford
Ron Nelsen
Peoria
Ill
White House
Nessen
Richard M. Nixon
Nelsen
Des Moines
Pekin
Everett M. Dirksen
R-N
American Legion
Minneapolis
Legion
Soviet Union
Iowa
Minnesota
Professor Receives Grant for Year in England to Study Persia
Kansas University history professor Rose Greaves will spend 1975-76 in England under an American Fellowship from the American Association of University Women. The $5,000 grant funds two major projects on Persia research, including a chapter on England and India influences and a two-volume history from 1799 to 1914, in collaboration with Professor Ann Lambton.
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Memorial Park Cemetery
Richard Johnston
Kansas University
Museum of Natural History
Dan Hartley
England
Rose Greaves
American Association of University Women
India
Persia
Iran
Ann Lambton
School of Oriental and African Studies
London
University of London
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