Lawrence City Commissions Seek Compromise on Site Plan Rules
Lawrence officials from the City Commission Planning Commission and staff met to iron out differences on proposed site plan regulations. They endorsed a compromise ordinance and directed Acting City Planner Dick McClanathan to draft it while debating aesthetics versus safety and the ordinance’s reach into M-1 zones and commercial uses.
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Lawrence City Commission
Lawrence- Douglas County
Group of 13
Ramada Inn
Dick McClanathan
Jack Rose
Lawrence
Emick
Pulliam
Air War Escalates With Laos Border Attacks
U S fighter bombers dodged surface to air missiles and engaged a radar site as three incidents erupted along the Vietnam Laos border. Navy A7 jets, Air Force RF4 and escort fighters conducted attacks near Ban Karai and Mu Gia passes amid rising POW release talks.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
Laos
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
Navy
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Ban Karai Pass
Air Force
Mu Gia
Mu Gia Pass
United States
Hanoi
Xay Dung
Subcommittee Reports On Higher Education And Faculty Issues
The panel discusses faculty workload and salaries, student mix, advising, and program duplication. It highlights COCAO data usefulness, calls for study of future roles in higher education, and lists subcommittee members including Maag and several representatives from Kansas.
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Regent
White Lifestyle Must Improve To Aid Indians
Tulsa conference on Indian manpower hears Mary Millake of Olympia urge white society to develop humane services for themselves so Indians can access needed services. Task Force proposes natives determine their own training and job needs with more resources to curb Indian unemployment and address institutional racism in schools.
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Tulsa
Okla
Mary Millake
National Indian Task Force
Millakre
Olympia
Wash
Department of Labor
U.S
Millaire
Rural Leavenworth Votes Down County Road System
Rural Leavenworth County voters rejected incorporating township roads into the county system by 632 to 716. The measure would have shifted road tax authority to the county and reclassified 498 miles of township roads as local service roads to be county maintained. Only residents outside incorporated cities voted, with precinct results shown for each area.
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Leavenworth
Leavenworth County
Springdale
Alexander Township
South Delaware
Delaware Township
Easton
Easton Township
Baselior
Fairmount Township
Pearson urges Kansas funding for colleges and universities
Senator James B. Pearson urges Governor Docking to fund Kansas higher education adequately for the coming fiscal year. He warns that public institutions, once among the nation’s finest, are deteriorating and that federal aid of 24 million dollars in two years could be jeopardized without state support.
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Washington
James B. Pearson
R-Kan
Robert Docking
Kansas
Pearson
FBI Probing Two Explosions At Stanford
The FBI investigates two bomb blasts at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center damaging about $100,000 worth of electronics while the facility itself remains undamaged and is set to reopen after maintenance. No radiation leak injuries or fires occurred. Two non incendiary devices equal to dynamite sticks were found on electrical racks.
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Stanford, Calif
FBI
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Sidney Drell
Galloway Trial Ends as Jury to Hear Closing Arguments
Testimony in the Molester Galloway Jr. murder case concluded at noon. The defendant, 27, of 1043 Del., is charged with second degree murder in Harold Kimball Jr.’s death on April 2 and wounding Harold’s brother Carroll on February 13. Galloway testified in his own defense amid over 15 state witnesses and defense testimony.
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Galloway
Harold Kimball Jr
Harold
Carroll
N. Mich
Lawrence City Manager Watson at Topeka meetings
Lawrence City Manager Buford Watson attends two days of sessions in Topeka sponsored by the Kansas League of Municipalities. Today covers state legislation affecting cities and Thursday discusses personnel testing procedures under federal civil rights laws.
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Buford Watson
Topeka
Kansas League of Municipalities
Third Printing Planned for Wonderful Old Lawrence Book
Strong dealer demand prompts World Printing Service to schedule a third printing of Elfriede Fischer Rowe’s Wonderful Old Lawrence. 500 copies to dealers, delivery in early January, after sold-out prior print runs. Book covers Lawrence customs and early happenings, priced at 3.95 with 40 cent mail order option.
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World Printing Service
Elfriede Fischer Rowe
Baldwin concert by Baker University Wind Ensemble
The Baker University Wind Ensemble will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday in Rice Auditorium. Thirty five musicians from the marching and pep bands will play works by Pizzetti Schumann Saint Saens Mendelssohn and others.
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Baldwin
Baker University
Rice
Wind Ensemle
Persichetti
Schumann
Douglas County Eyes Title 29 Aid For 15 New Positions
Douglas County Commissioners plan to apply for Title 29 funds under the Emergency Employment Act to hire 15 county personnel. If approved by the Governors Committee on Manpower Planning, applications will be filed with the State Employment Service. Positions include data processing analyst programmer, keypunch operator clerk, and four educational assistants. Eligibility targets unemployed Douglas residents with priority to veterans, youth, older workers, low income, and migrant workers.
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Douglas County
Governor’s Committee On
State Employment Service
Lawrence
Commission
Art Heck
Ernest Coleman
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Bob Pulliam
John Emick
Barkley Clark
Nancy Hambleton
COCAO
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Glee Jones
Hamlin
John Peterson
John Carlin
Salina
Fred Weaver
Riverton
Bert Chaney
D Hutchinson
Rees Hughes
Pittsburg
Glenwood
Boling
High Prairie Township
Stanford
Stanford University
Drell
Bob Beyers
Defense Department
Atomic Energy Commission
Strong Hall
Kansas University
Laurel Hull
Shawnee Mission
Journal-World Photo
Rumsey Funeral Home
Warren Honduay
WorkForce County
Ray Stoneback
Massachusetts
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