City tries to ease trash pickup with free landfill for residents
Lawrence city commissioners announced measures to relieve trash trauma. The landfill will accept residential trash free of charge for private trucks, and a private firm was hired to assist North Lawrence cleanup. A Christmas tree mulching program behind the fire station was introduced, with curbside trees collected by sanitation crews.
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Lawrence
19Th and
Haskell
Sanitation Department
Collec
George Williams
Public Works
Williams
Sanitation
Midway USA Service
Richard Davenport
North Lawrence
State's financial outlook healthy for next year
The Kansas general fund is expected to rise 8.6 percent in the upcoming fiscal year, with an estimated increase of 55.9 million dollars from 763 million this year. Budget director James Bibb and chief fiscal analyst Marlon Rein announced the consensus forecast at a news conference.
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Topeka, Kan
State Budget Division
Legislative Research Department
General Fund
James Bibb
Marlon Rein
Rein
Bibb
Kansas
Daley funeral crowds honor Chicago mayor in winter rites
Hundreds attend the Daley funeral in Chicago as President-elect Carter and notable political figures pay tribute to Mayor Richard J. Daley who died from a heart attack at 74. The service at Nativity of Our Lord Church drew leaders and reporters blocked from coverage, with burial at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.
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Chicago
Richard J. Daley
Daley
Carter
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Gilbert Graham
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
Plains
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Christmas Day Forecast Dims White Christmas Hopes
The first full day of winter opened with bright sun and mild temperatures. The National Weather Service predicts a week of clear warm weather with daily highs in the 40s through Sunday. Snow flurries dissipated before reaching the ground as a weak front passed through central Kansas.
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National Weather Service
Weather Service
Kansas
Goodland
Coffeyville
Beloit
Pittsburg
Army biowarfare tests alleged in eight U.S. sites
Newsday reports Army simulations of biological attacks from 1950 to 1966 in eight locations including New York City subway sites, San Francisco, Key West, Panama City, Port Hueneme, Point Mugu, Ft. McClellan, and a Navy facility near Mechanicsburg. Serratia marcescens caused one hospital patient death in San Francisco. pneumonia cases rose after Ft. McClellan and Key West tests. Aspergillus fungus used in Mechanicsburg.
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New York
U.S
Newsday
New York City
Long Island
Key West
Panama City
Fla
San Francisco
Point Mugu
Port Hueneme
Calif
Ft. McClellan
Ala
Navy
Mechanicsburg
Joseph Penton
Army
Snag looms for parkway delay over geology funding
Lawrence and Douglas County face a possible delay in the 4.1 mile Clinton Parkway project as the FHWA will not cover geology work without a formal three party contract. The agency has funds for 70 percent of the $5.9 million construction but requires agreement among local governments and FHWA. County commissioners were told a new contract could push the September 1978 construction deadline.
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Clinton Parkway
Lawrence
Douglas County
Federal Highway Administration
FHWA
Local passage hints at newspaper index and sections
The fragment from a Journal-World page lists section names such as Classifieds Deaths Editorials Markets Sports Teen Television Women's News and a local forecast tease. It references page numbers and content areas without readable articles.
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Cs Esseeer Eaves
Eerea
Cicsecern Renee
Ib Tae
DS Television
Cicectceereeene
Autocompact Ad Copy for Drugs and Insurance Agency
Advertisement fragment lists Fancy Drugs prescriptions and Adv Auto Insurance. Mentions Gane Doane Agency located at 624 Mann Street with a direct sales pitch and contact line.
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Gane Doane Agency
Mann
Haskell Loop project is tabled by city commission
City commissioners voting 4 to 1 tabled indefinitely the two lane East Lawrence Haskell Loop roadway, effectively killing the project as funds may be redirected to other uses. East Lawrence opponents praised the reversal while supporters decried the divisiveness and questioned end connections and environmental impact.
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Haskell
Fred Pence
East Lawrence
Marnie Argersinger
Commission
Carl Mibeck
Lawrence
Pence
Clark
North Lawrence
Don Binns
City Lands Offer To Expand Lawrence Airport
The Kansas University Endowment Association offered to deed 117 acres at $1 an acre and sell 211 more acres for $350,000 to the city of Lawrence for airport expansion. City Manager Buford Watson called the proposal very generous as Lawrence seeks $2.64 million in federal funds to lengthen the runway to 5,000 feet and acquire 445 acres, including the 117 acres on the present site. Dolph Simons Jr. signed the letter presented to commissioners.
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Kansas University Endowment Association
City of Lawrence
Endowment Association
Lawrence
Buford Watson
Watson
Dolph Simons &J
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Paul Daggs
City
Butch Silvers
Roy Frazier
Don Sedlak
Parkway
Journal-World: Index
LOOP
Henry Kissinger
Larry Rivers
Jerry Venable
Harlem Globetrotters
Kissinger
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