Lawrence faces long agenda in city commission session
Lawrence city commissioners will vote on zoning for doctors offices and an annexation, review water rate plans and Bowersock Dam work, and hear a sanitation fee report. The meeting also covers alarm enforcement, site plans, plats, rezones, and numerous ordinances and resolutions.
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First National Bank
Mass
Ohio
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Don Lenz
Sixth
Missouri Streets
Missouri
City County Planning Commission
Pinckney
Peterson Road
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Peterson
Douglas County
Journal-World
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21St Street
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Northwood Heights
Hillcrest Standard
Iowa
General Jeans
Riverside Addition
Black & Veatch
Ala
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Centennial
Second Street
Lakeview Road
Prairie Meadows No. 8
Topeka Farm Caravan Demands Parity in Strike Rally
A 2,000-vehicle farm caravan and farm strike rally in Topeka aimed to push Kansas farmers toward action. Farmers in Douglas County worked fields while some attended, carrying signs declaring parity and opposing charity. Braving cold, they caravaned 10 miles from Forbes Field to the capital with support from western Kansas counties.
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Topeka
Kansas
Douglas County
May County
Richard Ice
Rt. 1
Lawrence
Lecompton
Ice
I.J. Stoneback
Rt. 4
Gerald Ice
Forbes Field
Ice skating plans stall as temperatures rise in Lawrence
Winter sports fans in Lawrence face limited outdoor activity as Central Park rink thaws and school maintenance pauses after Christmas. Potter Lake for skating remains unsafe due to thin ice near steam tunnels. Police investigate a 1700 burglary on Orchard Lane with multiple missing items.
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Lawrence
Central Park
John Ross
Lawrence High School
Central
John Kapfer
Potter Lake
Lawrence district to end year with Dec 22 last day
Holiday recess stretches a week and two weekends for Lawrence elementary and secondary students. District 497 and St. John’s schools plan return January 3, 1978, with Lawrence Christian School dismissing December 21 and resuming January 2. Spaulding Racquetball Clubs Inc. will open a new six-court facility at 2300 W. Sixth in St. Louis with saunas, whirlpools, a nursery, upper viewing gallery, and memberships. projected completion February 1978.
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Lawrence
St. John’s
Lawrence Christian School
Spaulding
St. Louis
Springfield
Merriam
Kan
City hall design session hoped as schedule slips
City commissioners have not met with architects since October and no meeting is set this week for the Lawrence city hall design. Architects have several models ready, with discussions possible next week, while the project remains on the August schedule toward a 1979 finish.
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Lawrence
Buford Watson
Jack Rose
Rose
Lawrence Arts Commission
Watson
Sixth
Mas
State will sow wildflowers in Kansas highways
State landscape chief Carroll Morgenson urges Kansans to send wild flower seeds to the Department of Transportation in Topeka. The state will plant seeds in areas with best chance to grow and near the residents who sent them, though blooms are not guaranteed.
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Topeka
Kan
Carroll Morgenson
Department of Transportation
Landscape Architecture Department
State Office
Vespers at KU Draw 5300 for Candleless Christmas Service
About 5,300 attend Kansas University Christmas Vespers in Hoch Auditorium. Dean James Moeser hails the two performances as successful with full houses despite no candles, due to a fire marshal rule. Vespers fund raises $1,087.40 for the scholarship, with the 53rd annual production featuring the University Symphony Orchestra and multiple choirs.
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Hoch Auditorium
Kansas University
James Moeser
Ku’s
School of Fine Arts
Don Scheid
Hoch
Albert Gerken
Mark Holmberg
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Iowa and Plaza
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Peters, Williams, Kubota
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Bowersock Mills & Power Co
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