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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1972
Page
9
President Allende declared a state of emergency in Santiago Province as protests over food shortages surge. Shopkeepers closed nationwide in a one day strike, riots erupted on Providencia Avenue, and police detained sixty demonstrators amid shortages from agricultural decline and copper export issues.
Douglas County Red Cross schedules a three day emergency blood drive at Lawrence Memorial Hospital beginning Wednesday. Bloodmobile arrives at noon. donation times are 1 30 to 6 45 p m Wednesday and Thursday and 9 a m to 2 15 p m Friday. Blood goes to Wichita for processing but is used only by Lawrence Memorial and Douglas County patients. A 300 pint goal is set. O negative and A negative are most needed. Donors may call to schedule.
Wilbert Lee Mathews 23 of Kansas City Kansas faces aggravated battery charges and an 11 a.m. September 8 arraignment in Douglas County District Court. A preliminary hearing showed Hubert Matthews 20 from Kansas City was shot in the left shoulder on July 16 after an in-hall argument at KU residence Oliver Hall. Matthews testified he did not have a gun. weapons were allegedly taken from under a pillow or bedside chest. Matthews was treated and released from Watkins Memorial Hospital.
Kansas State plans new veterinary complex and athletic facilities funded mostly by private gifts, with completion targets in 1973. The university also explores regionalization of programs, supports a stronger track facility, a recentered athletic program, and notes student voting patterns tied to the 1972 presidential race.
Douglas County commissioners will appear before the Governor's Committee on Criminal Administration in Topeka to seek a $15,000 grant for a new district courtroom. The funds would require a $5,000 county match to renovate the second floor of the Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Museum at 11th and Massachusetts, with plans by architect Curtis Besinger to install courtroom facilities and office spaces. Besinger, a former Frank Lloyd Wright student, also assists the Douglas County Historical Society on museum renovation plans.
Maria L. James, 19, of 1118 Birch Eudora was treated and released after a crash on K-10 three and a half miles east of Harper Street. She and Donald E. Bucher, 20, of Lawrence both attempted passing, causing James to lose control, leave the road, roll down an embankment, and overturn.
Pawnee Rock High School must stay open while district residents vote on its proposed closure. Judge Herb Rohleder barred closing the school, citing due process. the Fort Larned USD 495 board had said the school was economically unfeasible. Enrollment was 79 last year. The ruling requires opening the school as near to the term start as possible.
In Kansas City, a former North Kansas City officer is expected to testify he participated in at least 150 burglaries. Anthony Nugent Jr says Carl Koonce Jr, a former police captain, was with him on about half of them. Koonce 44 resigned last December amid a four-county indictment. The case alleges false grand jury testimony about a motorboat and alleged illegal actions by other officers.
AP reports bakers warn higher flour costs from wheat sales to the Soviet Union will push bread prices up by two to three cents per loaf after commissions and retail margins. Richard Daspit of the American Bakers Association cites a shift from 4 to about 5 cents per loaf for flour and notes profits remain low as costs climb.
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