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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1971
Page
3
Partly cloudy with little temperature change and a few thundershowers through Saturday. Winds shift from east to southeast, high by Saturday in the upper 80s to low 90s, tonight’s low 57 to 65. Precipitation chance about 10 percent tonight and Saturday. Official readings show yesterday high 89 low 60, record highs and lows for date noted.
Charles Eldredge, acting director of the Kansas University Museum of Art, announced Mrs. Dolores Brooking as curator of museum education. She holds a B.S. in theater from Kent State and a master's in art history from KU, and has taught art history for the KU extension division.
Gov. Robert Docking selects three of nine members to study pay for Kansas legislators. Appointees are Nick Stremel, Mrs. Anthony D Agostino, and Ralph Bergsten. Other members chosen by Senate president pro tem and House speaker complete the committee created after his veto of a pay raise bill. The group also weighs Nixon’s inflation stance and the administration’s cost-cutting goals.
Sandra Gaylord of Los Angeles won the national Hula Hoop championship after surviving local and regional contests with 800 participants. The 13 year old earned a $1000 savings bond for the crown.
Kansas University Association of University Residence Halls aims to set goals within three weeks. President Mike Sondermeyer says goal development is an early step as KU delegates attend national and midwest conferences. The group plans to respond to the Kansas Board of Regents on dormitory life with Doug Lindall coordinating the effort.
A 12-year-old Hays boy, Richard Schartz, fell from about the 300 foot level of an 821 foot television transmitting tower behind the studios and residence hall, dying from injuries. The incident occurred while attempting to cut down a make shift flag attached to the tower.
Lord Longford, 65, was stopped at Heathrow with pornographic magazines in his luggage. The antipornography campaigner had just returned from Copenhagen where he and a British commission studied pornography's social effects. customs released him after a brief explanation of his mission. He described two live sex shows in Copenhagen as utterly evil and ghastly.
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