Avery in Session To Hear Pleas On Budget Requests
Gov elect Bill Avery heard pleas for restoring cuts in higher education and mental health budgets in public hearings. Local advocates Jameson and Abrahams urged restoring regents' requests as a minimum to maintain operation and future growth, while mental health leaders pressed for restored funding to support expanding services.
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Avery
PERA
Gov
Bill Avery
Henry Jameson
Abilene
J. Hambleton Abrahams
Topeka Insurance
Jameson
Board of Regents
Abrahams
H. Ivor Jones
Association of Directors of Community Mental Health Centers of
Kansas
J. C. McKinney
Hartford
Kansas Association of Health
Karl Menninger
Topeka
Duncan is Chosen As Pike Chairman
Robert F. Duncan of Atchison was elected chairman of the Kansas Turnpike Authority at a Monday Topeka meeting. He replaces State Rep. Ed Beaman whose term ends next month. Duncan has served about 1½ years of a four year term on the KTA which operates the Turnpike and the 18th Street Expressway in Kansas City Kansas. State Sen. Don Hults of Lawrence, current KTA member, chairs the Senate Highways Commission. Hults lost a primary and will exit the KTA January 12. his seat will be filled by the Senate Highways Commission chair appointed later.
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Robert F. Duncan
Atchison
Kansas Turnpike Authority
KTA
Topeka
Ed Beaman
Duncan
18Th Street Expressway
Kansas City
Kan
Don Hults
Lawrence
Hults
Senate Highways Commission
Hulls
Reynolds Shultz
Turnpike Authority
Senate Highway Commission
Burglary at Weavers Department Store St. Louis
Police hunt for clues after a $15,000 Sunday night burglary at Weavers Department Store 901 Mass St. Suspects entered from the rear and carried off 150 suits 100 sport coats and 12 top coats from racks near the back. Investigators believe outsiders may be involved with the stolen goods possibly in Topeka or Kansas City. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has been asked to assist. loss is insured, says Weavers president Larry Flannery.
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Weavers Department Store
Mass
Lawrence
Topeka
Kansas City
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Weavers
Larry Flannery
Quick-Thinking Driver Prevents Bad Accident
Lawrence motorist Neil Mecasky who stopped an out of control car after a driver suffered an epileptic seizure at the 6th and Mass streets intersection. He chased the car about 100 feet and applied its brakes before it could collide with other traffic. The seizure patient was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital for examination.
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Lawrence
6Th and Mass. Sts
Neil Mecasky
1613
Tenn. St
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Citizens Ambulance Service
Station Manager Resumes Service After Fire at Blackburn's Co
Blackburn's Super Oil Co in Lawrence is back open five days after a fire destroyed its building and contents. The blast from gas fumes ignited by an overhead heater caused extensive damage with $25,000 building and $12,000 contents losses. Firefighters fought the blaze for about an hour but could not save the structure. The owner plans a trailer office and a new building likely south of the site with an underground storage tank planned for the basement area.
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Blackburn's
Super Oil Co
Haskell
Wakarusa
Lawrence
Topeka
Burl Blackburn
Blackburn
Saigon Coup Seen As Khanh Challenge To Vietnam Control
The Vietnamese purge of the High National Council in South Viet Nam drew no immediate official comment but signaled a serious shift. Khanh defended military intervention if needed and warned against foreign meddling. President Johnson was informed of the events during a Christmas break in Texas. State Department officials believe Khanh could have averted the weekend coup.
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Khanh
Viet Nam
Johnson
Texas
State Department
Saigon
Ex-Defense Officials Plead Innocent in $57,000 Embezzlement
Three former Defense Department officials including James Robert Loftis Jr. pleaded innocent to embezzling more than $57,000 in federal funds. They posted $5,000 bonds each as U.S. Dist. Judge Oren Lewis set March 29 for trial. The indictment also cites a false voucher for $10,000 for Viet Nam projects.
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Alexandria
Defense Department
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
U.S. Dist
Oren Lewis
McNamara
James Robert Loftis Jr
William H. Godel
Department
Woman Survives 232 Foot Bay Bridge Plunge
Isabelle Kainoa a 30 year old Oakland mother of four leapt from the Bay Bridge and was rescued six minutes later by a Coast Guard boat. She suffered pelvic injuries and a broken pelvis and remained in critical condition. Her husband Royal 37 conveyed their family strain and loss of Christmas plans amid her leprosy history.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Bay Bridge
Oakland
Isabelle Kainoa
Coast Guard
Kainon
Coast
San Francisco
Calif
San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Hospital
Royal Kainoa
Royaltr
John
Honolulu
Hawaii
Mainland
Royal
U.S
Ray Woods
Woods
Fordham Coach Praises Dave Bing as Top Player This Year
Fordham basketball coach John Bach calls Dave Bing the best player he has seen this year and compares him to legends like Barry Kramer and Bill Bradley. He asserts Bing deserves All-America now, not just in his senior year.
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Fordham
John Bach
Dave Bing
Syracuse
Soph
Washington, D.C
Bing
Barry Kramer
Bill Bradley
Akron mother of three dies in 40-foot bridge plunge
Garnet Okulovich, 26, of Akron, drove off a downtown bridge barrier into a construction site killing her and injuring passenger Martha Petty, 23. The victims include three children left motherless. the deceased’s father, Ray Gill, recalls prior family tragedies.
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Akron, Ohio
Garnet Okulovich
Akron
Martha Petty
Ray Gill
Okulovich
Gill
Meadowbridge
W.va
Bernard
Samuel Okulovich
Samuel
Tammy
Diane
Helen Waterhouse
Akron Beacon Journal
Group weighs fate of Burch as GOP chair
An uncommitted bloc of 15 to 30 National Committee members eyed the Jan 22 23 Chicago meeting to decide if Dean Burch keeps his $30 000 a year post as Republican national chairman. Burch cites 65 pledges of support from 132 committee members and aims to fight on, while Miller and Goldwater back his leadership.
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National Committee
Dean Burch
Burch
Barry Goldwater
William E. Miller
Goldwater
Miller
Chicago
GOP
All Republicans
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
New York
Rep
Bob Wilson
California
House Congressional Campaign Committee
Sen
Thruston B. Morton
Kentucky
Morton
Pope Paul VI Urges World to End Negative Activities
In a Christmas message from Vatican City Pope Paul VI calls for an end to racism nationalism poverty and social inequality. He offers the churchs support to promote goodwill universal peace and brotherhood and renews his disarmament appeal after touring a Bombay slum earlier this month.
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Paul VI
Paul
Vatican Radio
Europe
Bombay
Wreckage Found as 32 Crew Still Missing in Aleutians
The 521-foot Liberian freighter San Patrick ran aground near Utak Island in storm seas. Wreckage was spotted but searchers found no sign of the 32 crew, four lifeboats, or the vessel’s cargo as bad weather hampered air and sea rescue efforts.
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Juneau
Alaska
Aleutian Islands
Japan
Utak Island
Adak
Douglas County Science Fair Bulletin Released
Lawrence and Douglas County schools receive the first information bulletin for the 1965 Douglas County Science Fair set for April 14 in the Community Building. The brochure outlines rules divisions project hints a calendar and advisor list with more details to follow in February.
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Lawrence and
Douglas County
Paul Hausman
Recreation Commission
Wheat Growing States Name Group to Protect Flour Milling Business
A permanent committee to defend flour milling interests was named by wheat growing states in the Central Plains. Ten states will be represented, with Dr. James A. McCain of Kansas State University as chairman. Gov. John Anderson led Monday’s conference attended by Gov. Henry Bellman of Oklahoma and Sen. James B. Pearson, among others.
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Topeka
Central Plains
Harting
Wheat Belt
James A. McCain
Kansas State University
John Anderson
Henry Bellman
Oklahoma
James B. Pearson
R-Kan
William H. Avery
Kansas
African Says His Holiday Is Different
An African student at Kansas University explains Christmas customs in Cameroon. He notes rural practices begin a month before, large feasts with goats and chickens, all night singing and dancing, white dress for morning church, and three circles for men women and children. Gifts arrive after church and the celebration ends late. In cities Cameroonians imitate European celebrations.
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Kansas University
Francois Kamajou
Ambam
Cameroon
Kamajou
Black Africa
Lawrence Public Library to Close for Christmas Holidays
The Lawrence public library will close for the next two weekends for Christmas and New Year. On Thursday December 24 and 31 it will shut at 1 p.m. and remain closed Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The Children's Department will stay open 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. each Wednesday. Residents leaving for holidays should notify the sheriff, with patrols to check vacated homes.
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Lawrence Public
Wayne Mayo
Tony
Mrs. Eunice Walker 70 Dies in Baldwin Home Fire
Mrs. Eunice Walker died at Lawrence Memorial Hospital from burns after a fire at her Baldwin home Thursday. The 15 degree morning blaze began near a heating stove as she fought the flames then sought help from a neighbor. Funeral services set for Wednesday at Rumsey Funeral Home with Rev. Arthur Soper officiating. burial in Oak Hill Cemetery. Survivors: two daughters Darlene Queisert Shawnee Mission and Hal Johnson Columbus Ohio. a son Franklin Ft Monmouth New Jersey. seven grandchildren.
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Eunice Walker
Baldwin
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Rumsey Funeral Home
Arthur Soper
Overland Park
Oak Hill Cemetery
Darlene Queisert
Shawnee Mission
Hal Johnson
Columbus
Ohio
Franklin
Ft. Monmouth
N. J
Lenny Bruce Sentenced to Workhouse Terms in Village Case
Lenny Bruce received three concurrent four month terms in the city workhouse for obscene performances in Greenwich Village. A three judge criminal court panel handed down the sentence Monday and Bruce remained free on bond pending appeal.
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New York
Lenny Bruce
Greenwich Village
Bruce
Card of Thanks from Mrs Miller for hospital prayers
Mrs D A Miller expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for prayers cards and calls while in Santa Fe Hospital in Topeka and to those who cared for Mr Miller during her absence.
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Santa Fe Hospital
Topeka
Mr. Miller
D. A. Miller
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