Lawrence Santa list for a better city in coming years
Dolph Simons Jr imagines a Lawrence city gift list urging voter engagement and planning. Key items call for qualified commissioners, improved trafficways, a new city hall site, enhanced Clinton Reservoir facilities, expanded water supply, industrial site planning, and stronger town gown ties between University and city officials.
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Santa Claus
Lawrence
Clinton Reservoir
Clinton Dam
Area fertilizer pattern follows national trend
Douglas County agriculture mirrors national use as fertilizer consumption rises in early 1976-77. Farmers' Co-op in Lawrence reports up to 20 percent sales growth while prices drop due to ample supply and tighter planting. Farmland like corn sorghum grasses wheat and soybeans show varied fertilizer use with alfalfa and native pastures largely self-sufficient.
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Douglas County
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Dean Nieder
Farmers’ Co-op Assn
Lawrence
Earl van Meter
van Meter
Lisagor, Noted Washington Reporter, Dies at 61
AP reports Peter Lisagor, respected Washington journalist and commentator, died at 61 from lung and larynx cancer after hospitalization in Northern Virginia. He dictated a thank you message for PBS Washington Week in Review, wrote his final column on Cyrus Vance, and had been ill for weeks. He served as Washington bureau chief for the Chicago Daily News and received the William Allen White Foundation award in 1876.
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Washington
Peter Lisagor
Lisagor
Northern Virginia Doctors Hospital
Public Broadcasting System
Washington Week
Chicago Daily News
Jimmy Carter
Cyrus Vance
William Allen White
Kansas University
Labor complaint targets NLRB over hiring pledge policy
The NLRB Professional Association filed an unfair labor practices complaint with the Labor Department alleging the agency unlawfully required new hires to commit to three years of service. The group seeks rescission of the pledge and for the NLRB to bargain with the association.
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Labor Department
Nlrb Professional Association
NLRB
Washington
Association
Ruth Peters
John C. Miller
Army awards Hughes 317.7 million contract for tank attack helicopter
The Army plans 536 new attack helicopters with night and all weather capability. Hughes Helicopters won over Bell in a bid to develop the vehicle with Hellfire missile and extended range. Outcome depends on Carter administration approval and potential cancellation penalties.
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Washington
Ford Administration
Army
Carter
Hughes Helicopters
Bell Helicopter Textron
Miller
Hughes
Vietnam
KU official James K. Hitt to retire after 32 years
James K. Hitt, associate director of KU’s Office of Institutional Research and Planning, will retire in January after 32 years with the university. He joined KU as a student in 1930, earned math degrees, taught at two colleges, served in World War II, and rose to registrar then director of records and systems development.
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James K. Hitt
Kansas University
Hitt
Summerfield
Dodge City Junior College
Wichita State University
Lawrence
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers
Service station robbed again in Derby
The Derby Refining Co. station at 2330 Iowa was robbed Friday for the second time in a week. Police compare the suspect to Monday’s incident: a 6 foot tall black man with a pockmarked face, about 180 pounds. He entered at 11 pm, bought cigarettes, then demanded money while keeping a concealed hand in his coat. The clerk handed over an undetermined amount. He fled southeast as police continue the investigation.
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Derby Refining Co
Iowa
Civic duty trapsman in crime plot
A Hillsboro Texas salesman and church deacon stopped at a trash barrel to discard a bottle, triggering a mass police chase. Extortionists had earlier instructed a bank vice president to place four thousand dollars in the same barrel. He was questioned, released after a lie detector test, and authorities pursued the extortionist who lost a foot.
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Hillsboro
Tex
FBI
Texas Rangers
Sheriff's Deputies
Waco
Hospitals Note Numerous Births and Admits
Debbie Watson and Beth Romero record births or hospital admissions at multiple addresses. A baby girl is born today to Linda Hulee and partner at 1116 Randall Rd. Mr. and Mrs. Edmond Parker welcome a boy today at 3020 Iowa. Mr and Mrs Arnold J Mark ley of Baldwin greet a girl today. Other names appear with street addresses indicating patient or family listings.
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Beth Romero
Fla
Lanie May
Eudora
Paula White
LaSalle
Sherry Mann
Minn
Linda Hulee
Baby Girl
Randall Rd
Edmond Parker
Iowa
Arnold J. Markley
Baldwin
Navy Jet Shot Down by Marine F4 Phantom Missile
Navy and Marine Corps officials offered differing accounts of a Friday crash 40 miles southeast of Cherry Point North Carolina. Navy Lt. Jerome L. Petykowski ejected and was treated after a Skyhawk was struck by an unarmed heat seeking missile during a joint training exercise.
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Cherry Point
N.C
Navy
Marine Corps
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Fleet Headquarters
Norfolk
James Pendergast
Cherry Point Marine Air Station
Here
Pendergast
John Barry
U.S. Atlantic Fleet
Defense Department
Washington
Marine
Chuck Allison
T.E. Helman
Beaufort, D.C., Marine Air Station
KU Endowment invites visitors to headquarters open house
The Kansas University Endowment Association will hold an open house from noon to 5 p.m. on December 17 at their West Campus offices in Irvin Youngberg Hall. The event offers tours and information on the association’s administrative property management and fundraising activities.
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Kansas University Endowment Association
Irvin Youngberg
Endowment Association
Youngberg
DeSoto Students Unite for Christmas Vespers Concert
Four elementary grades from Woodsonia and Monticello join to present a Christmas Vespers program at 7 30 p m Tuesday in the DeSoto Senior High School auditorium. The event features traditional Christmas music performed by third through sixth graders from both schools.
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Desoto
Woodsonia
Monticello
DeSoto Senior High School
Basque militants abduct King adviser in daylight Madrid
Gunmen believed Basque separatists seized Antonio Maria de Oriol Urquijo 63, president of the Council of State and royal adviser, from his Madrid law offices at gunpoint. The abduction aims to disrupt reforms ahead of a national referendum on future elections and Franco-era government changes.
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Madrid
Spain
Juan Carlos
Antonio Maria de Oriol Urquijo
Council of State
Adolfo Suarez
Oriol
Suarez
Francisco Franco
Franco
ETA
State Council
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Massachusetts
Atc
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Harold L. Dotson
Harvard
Dotson
W. Second
Hillcrest School
Allen Hoffman
Cooperative Farm Chemicals Assn
United Press
Paris Post
Nye
National Labor Relations Board
Pentagon
Asst. Army
Edward A. Miller
Debbie Watson
N. Mich
Eric Vann
Robin Oest
Robert Souza
Paul Penny
Ohio
Marine Missile Downs
Navy Jet
KU Endowment
Visions
Heal Estate
Aldge Ct
Sam Collins
King
Dial
TSE
Ht. V . Funeral Home
Indiana
Fred and
Oscar Rumsey
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