Fiddlers Rally in Lawrence for Kansas Fiddling Championship
Sunday's Kansas State Fiddling Championship in Lawrence drew about 2,500 as 53 entries from Eastern Kansas competed for 50 prize dollars and silver platters on two stages. Organizers praised smooth proceedings despite fewer contestants and no rain. The event received a $400 Kansas Arts Commission grant, with plans to raise prize funds to attract Western entrants.
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Throne
South Park
Kansas
Kansas Arts Commission
Girl who wrote Soviet peace letter dead in Auburn plane crash
Samantha Smith, 13, famed for her peace letter to Yuri Andropov and Soviet tour, died along with her father and six others when a Bar Harbor Airlines Beechcraft 99 crashed near Auburn Lewiston Airport in rainy conditions. The crash killed eight aboard. authorities identified victims by dental records. Samantha had been filming Lime Street in England before the flight.
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Maine
Samantha Smith
Soviet Union
Yuri Andropov
Bar Harbor Airlines
Lewiston
Samantha
Andropov
Kremlin
Hall family gives 3 million to KU humanities programs
Kansas University Chancellor Gene Budig announced a 3 million gift from the Hall Family Foundation to KU humanities. The donation raises the humanities fund drive total to 5.5 million, cementing an endowment to support teaching and research in history philosophy literature and related fields. The KU Center for Humanistic Studies will be renamed the Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Center for Humanistic Studies to honor the Hall family.
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Kansas University
Gene Budig
Hall Family of
Kansas City
Budig
Hall
National Endowment For the Humanities
KU Center For Humanistic Studies
Joyce and Elizabeth Hall
France Cleared in Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior Bombing
An official report by Bernard Tricot cleared the French government and intelligence officials of responsibility for the Rainbow Warrior blast in Auckland. It found no convincing evidence that six French agents sabotaged the ship, while noting the inquiry could not assign blame.
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Greenpeace
Bernard Tricot
New Zealand
Environmental Organization
Auckland
South Pacific
Tricot
Francois Mitterrand
DGSE
General Directorate For
Secret Service
France
Judge found under turnpike bridge in Lawrence area
Wyandotte County associate district judge Lawrence G. Zukel, 50, Kansas City Kan., was found under a turnpike bridge near the east Lawrence interchange by passers-by this morning. He was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital with back injuries and mild dehydration, in fair condition.
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Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Lawrence G. Zukel
Kansas City
Kan
Wyandotte
East Lawrence
Marilyn Steele
Douglas County
Zukel
IL MH
Douglas County Ambulance Service
Ms. Steele
Lakeview
School year boosts job seekers at local center
Douglas County July unemployment rose to 4.4 percent from 4.3 in June as school-related losses trimmed local jobs. Officials note government and school sectors drop 400 from June to July, with hiring stable at major employers and a rise in job seekers expected next month.
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Kansas Department of Human Resources
Kathy Ketchum
Department
Kansas University
Haskell Indian Junior College
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