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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1971
Page
11
Rel humidity noon 62 percent sunny with highs in the upper 40s. Sunday fair to partly cloudy with highs near 50. Tonight's low around 30. Precipitation probability near zero through Sunday. Sunrise 7:35 a.m. Sunset 3:01 p.m. Daytime and past records noted.
An eastbound Santa Fe Freight train struck a crawler tractor stalled on tracks at 4 04 p m in Eudora injuring the engineer Jasper C Anderson 58 of Kansas City Kan and causing 10000 train damage. The tractor owned by Wilson Plumbing Co Kansas City Mo sustained 18000 damage and knocked into a parked car causing 75 damage. Ernest J Simon 23 of Eudora said the vehicle ran out of fuel and he was fetching another tractor when struck.
In Essen Germany Theo Albrecht 49 a supermarket magnate is freed after a ransom of 2.1 million dollars paid by captors. He was kidnapped November 29 and released unharmed after a 24 hour intermediation period. Guinness records note 1953 Greenlease case as prior largest ransom. Police continue search for abductors.
Topeka Kan AP reports the Kansas traffic death log for December 26 1971 covers 24 hours to 9 am Saturday. The 655 deaths for the period compare to 628 in the comparable 1970 period.
In Topeka a multi agency raid led by Attorney General Vern Miller and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation arrested 11 people on marijuana and narcotic drug charges. Seized items included a 25 pound bag of marijuana valued up to 4000 dollars and a gambling table. eight warrants remain outstanding.
The International Association of Chiefs of Police reports 110 deaths and 1,858 injuries among 2,264 incidents in the year ending June 30. Handguns caused most fatalities with 72. rifles and shotguns each killed 10. East North Central led with 26 deaths. Middle Atlantic 19. Pacific 17.
An 18 year old Rossville girl Vicki J Logan died early today in a car train collision according to the highway patrol.
Moscow AP report says Alexander T. Tvardovsky, a leading liberal Soviet poet and former editor of Novy Mir, died at his country home near Krasnaya Pakhra after a stroke following a battle with lung cancer. He previously suffered a cerebral hemorrhage last year.
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