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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1970
Page
2
The Times argues for University city and state officials to seek professional training in arson bombing and other crimes. It urges more police, better equipment, and enhanced judicial oversight to meet evolving crime, while stressing public backing and updated schooling for law enforcement.
Three persons suffered minor injuries in Friday Lawrence Police Department reports. Eight accidents were reviewed, five with no injuries. Lloyd W. Williams sustained a bruised forehead in a North Iowa crash. Stephen Mudd and Marvin Stohs also reported non serious injuries in separate collisions.
Seaweed makes food from dissolved nutrients in water rather than roots. Giant kelp can reach 125 feet tall and may add about a foot each day under favorable conditions.
Gregory Woods aged three months was snatched Friday from a Brooklyn stroller and found early Saturday in a subway station. Police say a red haired woman may have enticed the child and witnesses described the suspect. The boy, son of firefighter John Woods, was unharmed and reunited with his mother at Sister Elizabeth Maternity Hospital.
Eudora United Methodist Church schedules Christmas observances with a 10 50 a m cantata Fulfillment sung by the senior choir directed by Rick Russell Baker University student. An 11 a m Assembly of God choir performs Three Gifts of Christmas. Church school programs at 7 p m include Gods Promise Fulfilled and two plays Greater Than These Set Upon a Candlestick. Reverend J Walter Leppie leads.
An overheated deep fryer started a fire at El Matador Cafe 446 Locust in North Lawrence. The blaze caused about $5,000 in damage, with the kitchen and ceiling affected but the dining room spared. Firefighters arrived at 6 11 a.m. and extinguished the fire in 30 minutes. Owner Tabarico Reyes and his wife estimate lower damages and plan repairs. no injuries were reported.
Lawrence reports Friday’s Jayhawk Classic featured performances by youths from the Ted Owens Basketball Camp. Participants, sponsored statewide, wore commemorative T shirts and impressed spectators with vigor and enthusiasm despite smaller size. Meanwhile Douglas County property owners face a Dec 21 deadline to pay at least the first half of 1970 taxes to avoid delinquency with June 20 1971 as the final due date for the balance.
Firefighters responded to a 10 35 a m call at the Delta Gamma sorority house to extinguish a wastebasket fire with no loss. A 5 59 p m street decoration short near Seventh and Massachusetts was fixed with power shut off and no damage. A car fire at 11 18 p m in a garage at 2554 Ridge Court caused 300 in losses. Warren Thompson owned the car.
Atty. Gen John N. Mitchell announced intensified federal action against polluters. The Justice Department filed suits against Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp for cyanide discharges into the Cuyahoga near Cleveland and Armco Steel Corp for dumping into the Houston Ship Canal, plus a suit against Burdett Oxygen Co. in Cleveland for lime slurry waste. The creation of the Environmental Protection Agency signals heightened enforcement.
AP report from Topeka says one youth died and four others were seriously hurt in an Interstate 70 crash west of Topeka. Deceased is 17 year old David Williams of Topeka. Injured are Steven Blount 18 Au burn Mark Rutherford rural Topeka Jim Kaspar 24 Waverly and Helen Potter Topeka.
Polish authorities impose a curfew as troops and police quell mobs in Gdynia Gdansk Sopot Szczecin Slupsk and other towns. Reports say up to 20 dead and hundreds injured with tear gas used in Slupsk and calm returning to normal in most areas.
Linda K. Wilson 24 of 2401 W 25th died Friday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital from injuries after a Nov 21 two vehicle crash on Sixth Street near Minnesota Street. A KU senior from Lake Quivira, she was the county's 15th traffic fatality this year. Funeral plans not announced.
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