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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1971
Page
6
Kansas Republicans, holding most statewide and federal offices, face questions about party strength after Docking, Miller, and Roy outcomes. Leaders like Dole Pearson and others urge renewed organization, outreach, and unified structure to win back broad voter support.
AP dispatch from Topeka notes proponents drafted a liquor-by-the-drink bill for the Kansas Legislature while the United Dry Forces head announced opposition. The Days also oppose bingo legalization bills as immoral. A Constitutional amendment for an 18 year vote cleared the Senate and moved to the House. Committee hearings are set on Capitol Area Plaza development and agricultural pollution.
LOURENCO MARQUES Mozambique AP reports new floods inland in Zambezia as disaster and starvation threaten over 100000 displaced Africans. Area half the size of Portugal under water, some districts received nearly a year's rain in 48 hours. Twenty bodies recovered with fears of a higher toll. Quelimane coastal district hardest hit. Rescuers inoculating survivors against typhoid. helicopters deliver food and evacuated survivors amid fear and confusion.
More than 850 people have enrolled as registration continues for Lawrence Adult Education spring classes opening this week. Most classes meet 7 30 to 9 30 p m one night a week for 10 weeks at Lawrence High School. Some classes differ in hours and location. Beginning Accounting, listed earlier, has been cancelled. Enrollment continues the next two weeks in all classes except 11 which are full. A total of 48 classes are offered though some must draw more students to continue. Twenty one classes originally offered did not receive sufficient enrollment to justify opening.
Virginia R. Allan, chair of the Presidential Task Force on Women's Rights and Responsibilities, will headline Kansas University spring seminar events Tuesday and Wednesday. She has served under Kennedy Johnson and Nixon administrations, helped push the Equal Rights Amendment, and has led Cahalan Drug Stores since 1955.
Lawrence and Douglas County received over 70 thousand dollars each in the quarterly highway fund distribution ending January 15. Lawrence 71,897.74. Douglas County 70,681.62. Other Douglas County cities: Baldwin 3,964.78, Eudora 3,258.35, Lecompton 682.82. Nearby counties: Franklin 39,645.48, Jefferson 29,624.63, Johnson 265,991.24, Leavenworth 56,810.71. Nearby cities: Baselior 1,139.09, DeSoto 2,893.34, Linwood 508.18, McLouth 980.18, Perry 1,044.69, Wellsville 1,861.24.
Kansas City AP police said a hard cover address book in Joseph Boener's shirt pocket stopped a .22 caliber bullet aimed at his chest. The bullet pierced the cover and several pages and halted at a page with his daughter's photo Barbara a plastic card and a Bible verse. Boener said a woman in a car called to him to help and a man in the back seat fired when he offered no money. He added he now avoids approaching parked cars.
Kansas City report says 344 leaders flew to Florida aboard a chartered 747 for the Apollo 14 blastoff. The trip cost $35,000, funded by 29-year-old financier Morgan Maxfield who hopes it helps public support for highway and real estate projects. Maxfield, a Wheatona College grad, built a career in real estate planning with Lamar Hunt's Great Midwest Corp. and now leads the firm.
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