Bids Entered For Kansas River Bridge Project In Lawrence
Contractors presented separate bids for Vermont and Massachusetts Street portions amid city and county officials. The total costs varied with bolted or welded designs, with Anderson and others bidding over 3.6 to 5.2 million dollars. Approval by the State Department of Transportation is required before award.
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Thorn
Kansas River
Vermont
Massachusetts Street
Anderson
Bosted
Jensen Construction Co
Des Moines
Iowa
G. Barcus and Sons
Kansas City
Kan
Centric Corp
Denver
Colo
Martin K. Eby Construction Co
Wichita
Phelps Construction Co
Greeley
State Department of Transportation
Judge blocks plan to hike postal rates
U S District Court Judge John J. Sirica halted planned rate increases, keeping first class letters at 10 cents and delaying Saturday delivery cuts. The ruling challenges the Postal Service finances and could force new rate filings, with potential $7 million daily costs until resolved. The decision came in a suit by the Association of Third Class Mail Users and the National Easter Seal Society.
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Washington
U.S. District Court
John J. Sirica
Postal Service
Benamin F. Bailor
Bailar
Sirica
Postal Rate Commission
Postal
Board of Governors
Rate Commission
Association of
Third Class Mail Users
National Easter Seal Society
Baker fund drives top goals at Mulvane Science Hall
Baker University campaigns in Baldwin and statewide exceeded targets for Mulvane Science Hall renovations, raising over 50 thousand dollars with a Kresge Foundation match anticipated. The Partners in Progress and Parents Association led drives, aiding chemistry, mathematics, biology and physics spaces used by most students.
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Baldwin
Baker University
Mulvane ‘Science Hall
Grant Thomas
Partners In Progress
Parents Association
Saulipoettin
Mulvane
Jack Flickminger
William Eddy
Lawrence
Baker
Douglas County
Oklahoma
Michigan
New York
University
Goals unit to meet in January on Lawrence plan
Citizens Advisory Council officials expect to present the Goals for Lawrence program to the Lawrence City Commission in early January. CAC chair Jack Landreth said a meeting with the city has not yet been set and consultant Bruce Morgan is behind on compiling neighborhood survey statistics. A $27 000 year long study booklet is printed and available in city hall.
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Citizens’ Advisory Council
Lawrence
Lawrence City Commission
CAC
Jack Jandreth
Sable
Landreth
Probnem
Bruce ‘Morgan
Midswest Research Institute
City Commission
Morgan
Iran rejects Kissinger at international economic talks
At a Paris conference Iran’s Interior Minister Jamshid Amouzegar challenged Henry Kissinger’s blame on oil producers for poor nations’ deficits. He stated the industrialized West bears major responsibility for the financial strain and warned against simplistic blame of oil price rises.
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Paris
Iran
Henry A. Kissinger
Jamshid Amouzegar
Conference On International Economic Cooperation
West
Amouzegar
Kissinger
Cars at KU Chancellor Home Ransacked in Apparent Theft
Three cars in the Kansas University chancellor Archie Dykes residence garage were ransacked late Tuesday night. Papers were strewn, and car interiors disturbed. no items reported missing. The vehicles belonged to Dykes, his son Tom, and Catherine Crossley. Additionally a 16 millimeter projector valued at 750 dollars was stolen from Marvin Hall during Thanksgiving weekend burglary.
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Kansas University
KU Security
Archie Dykes
Tom
Catherine Crossley
Knoxville
Tenn
Crossley
Audio-Visual Center
Marvin Hall
Missouri man injured in light plane crash
CALDWELL Kansas AP The Missouri man Ralph G Gaston 29 of Mexico Mo was injured with leg and back injuries when his light plane crashed during a landing attempt Tuesday at the airport near Caldwell Kansas authorities said Gaston sustained leg and back injuries in the crash.
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Caldwell
Kan
Missouri
Kansas
Highway Patrol
Ralph G. Gaston
Mexico
Police arrest Kansas man linked to Pennsylvania armed robbery
A man wanted by Pennsylvania police in an armed robbery was picked up by Lawrence police while hitchhiking near the West Lawrence Turnpike access road. Floyd C. McCluskey, 26, Wichita, was jailed in Douglas County awaiting extradition. His companion, an uncharged suspect, was released.
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Pennsylvania
Lawrence
West Lawrence Turnpike
Floyd C. McCluskey
Wichita
Douglas County
McCluskey
Butler
KU interns aim to widen access for women and minorities
A Kansas University program creates half and quarter time administrative internships for women and minorities to expose them to university operations. Officials say the effort broadens the candidate pool and raises awareness, while skeptics question lasting impact and funding.
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Heck
Awrence
Buford ‘Watson
Mike ‘Wildgen
Dean Sanderson
Robert Thorn
Finney and Turnipseed
Anderson Company
Ted Wilkerson Inc
Construction Contractors Inc
Shawnee
Walter L. Yount Construction Co
Olathe
Hen
Dave Regier
John Frazier
Massachusetts Street Bridge
Judge
Barbara Silver
The
Kresge Foundation
Troy, Mich
Metzger Salvage
Ottawa
Topeka
Orden
Mass
Street Dell
Schumm Foods
Street
New Yorker
Bull & Boar
Schumm Catering
Marshall Fine J
Bonnie Ritter Patton
Ms. Ritter Patton
Affirmative Action
Evelyn Senecal
Law School
del Shankel
Peter Morales
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Morales
Shirley Harkess
Gregorio Diaz
Bureau of Child Research
Bureau
Ray Stoneback
Massachusetts
Hoover, Stuer
Handivac
Cimpletely Mobile
White
BankAmericard
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