Public Meeting Questions Cost and Tax Effects on Joint Center
A Lawrence public meeting on the Douglas County Lawrence Governmental Center drew nine questioners. City Manager Buford Watson explained year one taxes for various home values and the bond financing, noting a $5.6 million county issue with December 1972 tax start and rising then falling payments.
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Douglas County
Lawrence
Citizens Committee
Joint
Lawrence South Junior High School
Jack Landreth
Art Heck
Albert Burgstahler
Mass
Watson
Election Patrol Sees North Vietnamese Attacks Rise
Saigon reports the largest volley of attacks in three months as North Vietnamese and Viet Cong strike South Vietnam ahead of the National Assembly election. 38 attacks target military units and civilians, with 19 rockets and mortars. 2 Americans and 49 South Vietnamese troops killed, 5 Americans and 115 South Vietnamese wounded, 18 South Vietnamese missing.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
National Assembly
U.S
le Trung Hien
Central Highlands
da Nang
U.S. Command
Vietnam
Baker Begins Fall Action With Welcome Week Events
Baldwin Baker University launches fall with a Sunday reception for new students and parents at Collins House hosted by President and Mrs. Doty. Dorms open at 10 a.m. orientation runs through Tuesday, with rush parties starting Tuesday evening and classes beginning Thursday. A street dance and mixer is scheduled Monday night for students and local merchants.
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Baldwin
Baker University
James Edward Doty
Collins House
Rice Memorial Auditorium
Doty
Baker Playmen
Fraternity
Baldwin Merchants
Baker
Opossum Incident Delays Lawrence Mayor’s Morning Visit
Mayor Litwin, visiting Litwin's at 831 Mass this morning around 9 15, encountered an unwelcomed opossum. The animal hid under a north display ledge but police and the animal control officer contained it and released it near the city edge.
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Litwin
Mass
Chiefs Trade Lewis
Kansas City coach Hank Stram says defensive end Scott Lewis is traded to the Houston Oilers for a high draft choice in 1973. Lewis from Grambling and Baton Rouge native was the Chiefs’ second pick in the second round of the 1971 draft.
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Kansas City
Hank Stram
Kansas City Chiefs
Scott Lewis
Houston Oilers
Lewis
Grambling University
Chiefs
Baton Rouge, la
Witness refuses to testify in Medina My Lai murder trial
Frederick Widmer invoked the 5th Amendment and was cited for contempt as the Medina murder trial proceeds. The Army judge warned of immunity limits and ordered Widmer to testify, while prosecutors seek admissibility of earlier deposition remarks. A federal hearing may follow after a referral from the Army.
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FT. Mcpherson
Medina
Montrose
Colo
My Lai
Widmer
Gary Myers
U.S. District Court
Myers
Federal
Atlanta
U.S. Atty
OU Reduces 133 Classes
The University of Oklahoma trimmed 133 classes due to an $870,000 budget cut for the next school year. Officials said students can still take courses but may face limited times and larger class sizes, with about half the cancellations at the freshman level. The move aims to better use classroom space and instructors.
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University
The
Bogus $20 Bills Reported in Lawrence
A rash of counterfeit twenty dollar notes appeared in Lawrence with at least eight reports to the police. The bills are Series 1969 Dallas issued Federal Reserve Notes with serial number K29705626 and a DS2 marker, and a gray softer paper. They circulated in women's clothing stores and banks.
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Lawrence
Federal Reserve
Dallas
Tex
County considers long term savings from new police fire building
Dennis Kallsen notes uncertain savings from consolidating sheriff and police facilities. If valuations rise or interest rates drop, taxpayers may gain. By year 20, city hopes to own 28 percent of the building value, reducing rent receipts with eventual zero city costs in 1993.
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First National Bank
Watson
Dennis Kallsen
Kallsen
Eisenhower Museum to Reopen with Rededication Ceremony
In Abilene Kansas the Eisenhower Museum reopens after major renovations with a rededication set for Thursday October 14 the date of what would have been Dwight D Eisenhower’s 81st birthday A wreath laying will occur at his gravesite in the Place of Meditation chapel.
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Abilene
Kan
Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
48 County School Buses Pass Annual Safety Check
Kansas Highway Patrol and Douglas County Sheriff report 48 county school buses passed annual safety inspections. Buses serve Lawrence Baldwin Eudora districts with schedules varying by day. drivers are 21 or older and each bus bears inspection certificates.
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Lawrence
Kansas Highway Patrol
Don Kearns
Donald Shepard
Douglas County
Kearns
Journal-World
Will Hess
Elemen
Baldwin
Eudora
Civil Rights Official Quits Amid Criticism of Military
Washington AP Pentagon sources say Frank Bender, who criticized military justice for blacks and race relations among servicemen, has resigned as the Defense Department top civil rights official. Render signed a resignation Wednesday. He had warned commanders fail to promote good race relations and described service members abroad as distraught and muting themselves under strain.
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Washington
Pentagon
Frank Bender
Defense Department
Render
Japan
South Korea
Okinawa
Philippines
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Bender
Asst
Roger Kelly
Nathaniel Jones
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Low Bidder Named for Douglas County Snow Trucks
Jim Clark Motors Inc. named low bidder for three 3 ton Dodge dump trucks for the Douglas County Engineering Department winter snow removal. The bid of 18,989 covers the new trucks and a trade in of three county snow removal trucks.
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Jim Clark Motors Inc
Douglas County
Kansas Traffic Deaths Update Through Thursday Morning
Traffic toll in Kansas rises to 434 for 1971 up from 415 last year and 55 deaths in the 24 hours ending 9 a.m. Thursday.
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Kansas
Brake Failure Causes Collision
Chester R. Davis twenty one from Burlington treated and released after a two vehicle crash at 4:57 p.m. Wednesday on 23rd east of Town. Ivan Regnier thirty eight of Route four drove the other pickup. Davis said brake failure followed by grabbing caused his car to rear end Regnier’s pickup.
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Chester R. Davis
Burlington
Watkins Memorial Hospital
Town
Ivan Regnier
Rt. 4
Lawrence
Davis
Regnier
Armstrong to teach engineering at University of Cincinnati
Neil Armstrong resigns from NASA to become engineering professor at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio. At 41 he leaves a $36 000 a year deputy administrator post but remains as a special consultant and says space exploration will remain part of humanity.
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Washington
Neil A. Armstrong
Space Agency
Ohio
University of Cincinnati
Armstrong
Buckey State
John Glenn
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Office of Advanced Research and Technology
Bureaucracy slows KU enrollment as file traffic snarls
Milburn recounts a campus chase for a required Registrar approval to create a student file. Nunemaker and Oliver offices defer, demanding a written OK from the Registrar. A secretary finally processes the slip, leaving Milburn to await the final file production and next enrollment steps at KU.
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Milburn
Oliver
Strong
Oliver College
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