Museum Drive Reaches Phase One Total of 240000
The first phase of the Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Museum campaign nears completion with about 280 donors pledging or contributing roughly 240000 toward renovating the 1888 Watkins building on Massachusetts Street for museum and Kansas All-Sports Hall of Fame use. Phase Two will fund a passenger elevator, display equipment, and a museum endowment to sustain future operations.
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Elizabeth M. Watkins
Its
Massachusetts
Kansas All-Sports Hall of Fame
Charles Haverty
Dolph Simons Sr
Simons
Andrews
Haverty
John Andrews
Kelvin Hoover
Lynn Anderson
al Hack
Robert Billings
M. D. Vaughn
Howard Wiseman
Douglas County Historical Society
Watkins National Bank
Kansas Senate votes against bingo amendment motion
The Kansas Senate defeated an emergency motion for a bingo-only constitutional amendment. Sen Jack Steineger led the push, but the tally was 22 to 18, four votes shy of the prior day’s result.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas Senate
Jack Steineger
Kansas City
Steineger
Senate committee weighs local sales tax in tax lid extension
The Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee moved to restore a local sales tax option for counties and cities as part of extending the property tax lid. Topeka Lawrence and Manhattan face loss of current local half cent taxes without restoration. An earnings tax proposal failed amid objections. The tax lid may expire May 31 without extension. Governor Docking urged extension in his message.
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Topeka
Kan
Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee
Lawrence
Manhattan
Robert Docking
Weekend Warmth Promised After Bitter Lawrence Cold Spell
Lawrence eyes a gradual thaw as skies clear and temps rise toward freezing by weekend. Overnight wind chills hit zero to minus ten as a trace of precipitation brings total since Tuesday night to .10 inch. No precipitation is forecast tonight or Friday with only a slight chance of more rain or snow over the weekend.
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Lawrence
The
Weather Service
Kissinger Arrives in Bangkok For Talks Before Hanoi Trip
Henry A. Kissinger lands in Bangkok to meet Thai leaders and U S ambassadors to Indochina before departing for Hanoi and Peking.
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Bangkok
Henry A. Kissinger
Indochina
Hanoi
Peking
Four Parties Set Dawn For POW Release In Vietnam
Four powers to implement the cease fire after meetings in Saigon coordinate the release of the first group of American prisoners. Washington cites a Saturday or Sunday handover near An Loc as Kissinger visits Hanoi is anticipated. Viet Cong accuse Saigon of breaching the pact by releasing 10 600 prisoners with indoctrination. Canada recognizes North Vietnam while Hungary Poland and Indonesia take regional stances.
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Saigon
Vietnam
Ae Vietnam
U.S
Defense Department
Washington
United States
North
South Vietnam
Pentagon
An Loc
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Henry A. Kissinger
Joint Military Commission
Canada
International Commission of Control and Supervision
Hungary
Poland
Indonesia
Voter Registration Window Remains Open in Douglas County
Voters may register from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays at the Douglas County clerk's office located in the county courthouse at 11th and Massachusetts. Registration books close at 9 p.m. Tuesday, leaving limited days to register.
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Douglas County
11Th
Massachusetts
Low Cost Public Health Sparks County Debate
The Douglas County Public Health Department faces criticism over Dr. Dale Clinton’s low cost high volume approach. The dispute centers on birth control policy and home nursing, pitting Clinton against critics including Mrs. Raymond Cerf and Dr. Raymond Schwegler.
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Dale Clinton
Douglas County
Raymond Cérf
Sunset Dr
Clinton
Raymond Schwegler
Health Board
Edwin Lyman
State Health Department
Health Department
Dr. Clinton
Navy Jet Crash Tolls Six in Alameda Inferno
Disaster crews pull bodies from the four story wooden Tahoe Apartments after an A7 Corsair from Lemoore Naval Air Station plowed into the roof. Six confirmed dead, up to 40 may be killed, 17 injured, with about 200 residents affected. Lt. Robert Lee Ward, 28, of Cary North Carolina, is identified as the pilot. Authorities fear many victims may be incinerated.
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Alameda
Calif
San Francisco Bay Area
Malcolm Longaker
Lemoore Naval Air Station
Fresno
Navy
Robert Lee Ward
Cary
N.C
Lemoore
Alameda County
Roland W. Prahl
Ernest Servente
Wayne Cook
Alameda Naval Air Station
Cmdr
Darrel Engwell
Ward
Servente
Laos Cease Fire Sought as US Sees Foreign Withdrawal
Secretary Rogers testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the United States expects a Laos cease fire and withdrawal of all foreign forces. He cited about 60 000 North Vietnamese troops in Laos and noted progress while warning of unresolved Laos and Cambodia conflicts. He called postwar reconstruction aid to Hanoi contingent and praised steps toward peace in Indochina including international conference participation by the Soviet Union and China.
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Washington (Ap
William P. Rogers
United States
Laos
U.S
South Vietnam
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Rogers
Thomas E. Morgan
D-Pa
North Vietnam
Nixon
Hanoi
Indochina
Vietnam
Cambodia
Soviet Union
China
Joint
Provisional Revolutionary Government
PRG
Viet Cong
Saigon
Baker University Keeps Tuition at $725 Per Semester
Baldwin Kansas AP report states Baker University will not raise tuition this year. President James E Doty said the board approved the decision January 25 citing increased endowment income. Applications for full enrollment are about six percent ahead of last year and enrollment closes February 16.
Stennis Remains in Serious Condition After Shooting
Senator John C. Stennis was reported in very serious condition at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after being shot twice in a holdup last week. Hospital officials said his progress was satisfactory yet the prognosis remained grave as he slept intermittently during the night.
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Washington
John C. Stennis
Stennis
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
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National Weather Service
Kissinger
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