Docking outlines penitentiary reform plan after self harm report
Kansas Governor Robert Docking released a detailed study on 392 inmate self mutilations at the State Penitentiary in Lansing. He will form an advisory commission and pursue a "brains-not-bricks" reform approach with recommendations to the Legislature, emphasizing systemic corrections over isolated fixes.
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Docking
Kansas Reception and Diagnostic System
Robert Woodson
Woodson
Lansing
Seven Months Saigon Battle Losses Exceed U.S. Deaths
Saigon reports seven month battlefield deaths surpass American toll as South Vietnamese casualties outpace U.S. losses for 30 straight weeks. A Mekong Delta clash killed 20 South Vietnamese and wounded 63, while Viet Cong shells hit Saigon wounding civilians. Marines near Da Nang claim 27 North Vietnamese killed and 28 suspects rounded up with six wounded.
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Saigon
Nguyen van ‘Thieu
U.S
Mekong
da Nang
Two University Students Arrested in Casette Case
Kansas University students Craig L. Tucker and Bruce Holland, both Templin Hall residents, posted $1,500 bond each on grand larceny charges for allegedly taking a casette tape player from Phi Kappa Theta at 1914 Stewart Ave. The pair were captured after police chased them from Lambda Chi Alpha and Alpha Epsilon Pi houses in Lawrence. The hearing date is pending in Douglas County Court.
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Craig L. Tucker
Bruce Holland
Kansas University
Templin Hall
Douglas County
Lawrence
Chi Alpha
Ste‘wart Ave
Alpha Epsilon Pi
James E. Cate
Phi Kappa ‘Theta
Stewart Ave
Laymen sue over Episcopal grant to Black Churchmen
Two Episcopal laymen filed suit in New York to halt the national church from giving $200,000 to the National Committee of Black Churchmen. They call NCBC a conduit to the Black Economic Development conference led by James Forman who seeks 3 billion dollars in reparations from churches. A special Episcopal convention in South Bend voted last summer to authorize the grant.
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New York
National Episcopal Church
National Committee of
NCBC
Black Economic Development Conference
James Forman
South Bend
Ind
Bus to Resume Southern Route in Lawrence
Regular schedules of buses southbound from Lawrence will resume Thursday under J. R. McKinley. The Southern Kansas Greyhound line linking Lawrence with Ottawa Garnett Iola Chanute and other southern points will depart at 5:55 am and 1:40 6:15 and 11:35 pm daily. Also Lawrence to Kansas City Municipal Airport service operates with 11:15 am and 5:07 pm departures daily.
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Lawrence
J. R. McKinley
Souhern Kansas Greyhound Line
Greyhound
Continental
Southern Line
Ottawa
Garnett
Iola
Chanute
Tulsa
Okla
McKinley
Kansas City Municipal Airport
College Leaders to Meet Gov Docking in Topeka Office
Student leaders from Kansas six state colleges plan to meet Gov. Docking at 11 a.m. December 29 in Topeka to discuss regents appointments, budget issues, and recent fee increases. KU student body president David Awbrey urged senate members to submit topics for the discussion.
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Kansas
Robert Docking
Docking
Topeka
Kansas Board of Regents
Henry Bubb
Dwight Klinger
Ashland
C. N. Cushing
Downs
Regents
David Awbrey
Hutchinson
Friendship replaces dope at UF corner drug store
University of Florida students plan a center that dispenses friendship instead of pills for drug habit help. Dr. Stephen O Connell, president, donated 500 of his own dollars, backing a program where students with drug problems can talk with peers who have beaten the habit.
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Gainesville, Fla
University of Florida
Stephen O’connell
Public hearings set as planners weigh frequent meetings
Lawrence Douglass County Planning Commission meets at City Hall at 6 30 pm with seven hearings. Items include doubling meetings to twice monthly, a sanitary landfill on the North Lawrence Flood Control Levee, river and well pollution concerns, a 7 3 acre rezoning for Dale Black's Lawrence Freight Lines shop, a Maine 400 residential office rezoning, Chaparral shopping center rezoning at 27th and Haskell, and Kentucky Court duplex development on 23rd Street.
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Lawrence-Douglas
Planning Commission
Commission
North Second
Dale Black
Lawrence Freight Lines
Black
Maine
Chaparral
27Th
Haskell
Kentucky Court
23Rd Street
Youths Win Prizes for Research in Physics
New York report notes 29-year-old Brian D. Josephson wins the 1969 Research Corporation Award for fundamental work in superconductivity done during his doctorate in 1962. The piece highlights youth in science with quotes from Nicholas Samios and references to Murray Gell-Mann and Albert Einstein.
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New York
Brian D. Josephson
University of Cambridge
Josephson
Research Corporation
Murray Gell-Mann
California Institute of Technology
Jacobson
Local Insurance Firms Merge Under New Lawrence Enterprise
Jack Landreth, John McGrew, and Robert Johnson form a new exclusive insurance office at 838 Massachusetts combining operations of the Lawrence Realty and Insurance Company and the McGrew Real Estate and Insurance Company. The McGrew firm shifts to real estate only at 900 Indiana Street, while Lawrence Realty represents 12 insurers. The new firm employs five representatives, with Landreth as president. McGrew, a Lawrence native, joined after KU graduation in 1960, continuing the McGrew agency founded in 1950 by his late father Conrad McGrew.
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Jack Landreth
John McGrew
Robert Johnson
Lawrence Realty and Insurance Company
McGrew Real Estate and Insurance Company
Massachusetts
McGrew
Indiana Street
Lawrence Realty
New Corporation
Lawrence
McGrew Agency
Conrad McGrew
UC Eng Group Votes to Repeal 1950 Communist Ban
The University of California Academic Senate across nine campuses voted in a statewide mail ballot to discard the 1950 rule barring Communist party members from teaching posts. Results announced show 2,487 votes against the ban to 1,139 in favor with about half the eligible faculty participating.
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Berkeley
Calif
University of California
Music from Our Reuter Pipe Organ at Rumsey
A brief item notes music from the Reuter pipe organ at Rumsey Funeral Home. Contact VI 3-5111 for details on the organ program and performance schedule.
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Reuter
Rumsey Funeral Home
Ady
Salvation Army Tree of Lights glow reaches 350 of 500
In Lawrence the Salvation Army Tree of Lights shows 350 bulbs lit toward a $3 500 milestone and a goal of 500 lights representing 10 each donation. Volunteers are sought to adopt 300 needy families as 25 minute Winter Celebrations program at Central Junior High showcases the choruses under George Puckett and the band under Larry Williams.
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Salvation Army
Tree of Lights
Central Junior High
KU Beer Issue Delayed for Private Regents Talks
Kansas University faces a private discussion Friday as the Kansas Board of Regents weighs beer on campus policy. Student body president Awbrey says the issue may not appear on the Senate agenda while Chancellor Chalmers awaits regents' stance after prior delays.
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Kansas Board of Regents
David Awbrey
Hutchinson
Kansas University
Awbrey
Laurence Chalmers
Regents
Kansas
Moderates Join Nixon in Republican Leaders Meet
Several moderate Senate Republicans who faulted White House communications joined congressional Republican leaders for a Wednesday meeting with President Nixon in Washington.
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Washington
Senate
White House
Nixon
Atkins Pleads Not Guilty in Tate Slayings Case
Susan Denise Atkins, 21, a member of Charles Manson’s group, pleads not guilty to charges in the Sharon Tate murders and related killings. Prosecutors may pursue a separate trial for Atkins, with her Feb 9 date set and hearings for Manson Kasabian and Van Houten to follow.
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Los Angeles
Charles Manson
Sharon Tate
Susan Denise Atkins
Superior Court
William Keene
Miss Atkins
Manson
Charles D. ‘Tex’ Watson
Linda Kasabian
Patricia Krenwinkel
Tate
Dist
Atty
Aaron Stovitz
Oklahoma boy loses arm twice after grinder accident
Brent Gray, 12, lost his left arm for the second time after a drive belt severed both arms on a Texas farm near Henrietta. He was flown to Oklahoma City where surgeons reattached both limbs, but the left arm was removed again due to poor circulation. the right arm remained in good condition.
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Oklahoma City
Brent Gray
Brent
Joe W. Gray
Henrietta
Tex
Two Men Injured In Club Fracas At Flamingo Supper Club
Wesley Kabler owner and Bryant Philgreen bartender at Flamingo Supper Club were treated and released at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after a fight inside the club. We spoke to deputies about non member entrants and six questioned suspects with no arrests by noon.
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Wesley Kabler
Bryant Philgreen
Flamingo
501
N. Ninth
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Douglas County Sheriff's Department
Kabler
Philgreen
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