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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1971
Page
3
Cloudy with intermittent light snow tonight and a low in the 20s. Winds east to southeast 5 to 15 mph tonight. Saturday remains cloudy but not as cold with a 10 percent precipitation chance. Official readings show yesterday high 32 and low 25, with a 1961 high of 66 and 1895 low of 5 in the records. Sunrise 7:23 a.m. Sunset 4:59 p.m.
John T. Pierson Jr. was elected president and CEO of the Vendo Company in Kansas City after the board accepted the resignation of George S. Arneson. Pierson, 40, joined Vendo in 1958 and has served as executive vice president and operating officer for the past two years. He is a trustee of the Midwest Research Institute.
Parsons Kansas Army Ammunition Plant will stop production by end of February affecting about 1 300 workers. The plant employs 1 700 with peak staffing of 3 959 in 1969 as workload declines due to South East Asia war phase down.
The Senate Finance Committee approved President Nixon's pick Romana Acosta Banuelos of Los Angeles to be Treasurer of the United States by voice vote.
A planning committee discusses a 356 000 downtown improvements project with two KU students presenting schematic models for 20 year growth. They urge riverfront use and a pedestrian Massachusetts corridor while considering a convention area north of Ninth.
Jose Dosendo Garcia, 43, a convalescent patient from the New Mexico State Hospital, was arrested in the slaying of Tucumcari District Attorney Victor Breen. Breen was killed by a single shot as he prepared to go to work. Garcia was picked up in Belen after states authorities issued a murder warrant. Garcia faced arraignment in Tucumcari as authorities reviewed his hospitalization and release history.
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