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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1965
Page
4
The 497th Quartermaster Group in Topeka received two truck mounted radio vans almost three years after requisition and just days before the unit faces deactivation. Army supply also sent an extra van beyond the ordered amount.
Kohler Co and the United Auto Workers reached a final agreement ending 11 years of conflict. The deal provides 3 million dollars in back pay to about 1,400 former strikers and at least 1.5 million in restored pensions, with the NLRB to allocate individual awards up to 10 thousand. Local 833 members welcomed the settlement after a long, violent labor battle in Kohler town near Sheboygan.
In Tucson Arizona Lt Col Victor Anderson head of Selective Service spoke on is the draft board being fair to college students less than a dozen students attended the talk at the University of Arizona Friday.
Nino Benvenuti defeated Sandro Mazzinghi on points to retain the world junior middleweight championship in Rome Italy. In Bakersfield James Shelton outpointed Remo Golgarini, while in Lima Peru Roberto Davila beat Hubert Hilton on points and Julio Novella defeated Gualberto Fernandez.
Argonia Kansas AP A fast Santa Fe freight train struck a car Friday night killing Nellie Reed 42 and children Jane 2 C V Jr 7 and Janet Elaine 9 wife and children of Argonia school superintendent C V Reed Sr The accident happened as he attended the Argonia Maize basketball game in Maize Undersheriff Jerry Wiley said Mrs Reed apparently failed to see the train and drove onto the tracks as the locomotive traveling about 70 mph approached
A 7 30 p m Christmas program at Wesleyan Methodist Church Ninth and Madeline Lane includes the four act play When Christ Was Born and junior department recitations and songs Mrs Nancy Ezell leads arrangements Cast features Paul Masden as the inn keeper Shelly Masden as his wife Joel Masden as the stable keeper Ralph Churchill as Joseph and Ralda Mae Churchill as Mary Mrs Cora Ann Reding directs the program
The Interior Department reports 20,219,457 fishermen and 14,122,659 hunters in the United States spent over 132 million dollars on licenses during the fiscal year ending June 9, 1964.
Kansas University launches a 1966 Concert and Lecture Series across eight cities Coffeyville Colby Fort Scott Garden City Great Bend Hutchinson Salina and Winfield. The program features An American Medley University Choir and Brass Choir University Band and Orchestra and lectures by James Seaver and William Bass with joint sponsors in four cities. The tour runs January through April with a peak in Lawrence from late March to May and includes a State Department exchange program with Yugoslavia Poland and Czechoslovakia and Romania.
Joe O Brien, a 47 year old Canadian driver, has steered harness horses in one mile races at two minutes or faster on 69 occasions.
Estate administrator Hal Stroud received custody of Manu scripts by Robert F. Stroud known as the Birdman of Alcatraz. The 1,692 page history of the federal prison system and 428 page autobiography were turned over as ordered by U.S. Judge William H. Becker. The documents were held at the U.S. Medical Center in Springfield where Stroud died in 1963 after 54 years in prison.
Six foreign students from Kansas University join eighty others in the Adventur e in World Understanding program at Michigan State University December 21 30. The Kellogg Center hosts lectures and discussions with participants from about 40 nations. The schedule includes farm visits in central Michigan and Christmas Eve visits in Lansing area homes.
Cuban radio in Havana reports a women’s gathering was told poultry work, currently 50 percent by women, will be fully transferred to them in 1966. Women will also assist in tobacco and vegetable fields. In U.S. sports, Bob Steenlage of Britt Iowa will captain Army's wrestling team next season after a 12 match unbeaten run.
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