City ends garage vote doubt amid petitions and court action
Lawrence City Commission weighs a referendum on the Second and Indiana garage site after a 3600 signature petition, with the issue now before the courts. Officials approved 128000 in temporary notes for projects including Schwegler sidewalk work and set hearings for special assessments.
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Lawrence
Traffic and Safety Commission
Pinckney Neighborhood
Commission
Mark Kaplan
Tenn
City Commission
Indiana
Jack Rose
Second
Barkley Clerk
Vera Mercer
Trail Park
City eyes more data on landfill options and costs
Douglas County officials weigh landfill sites near Lawrence with a five to ten year life. Discussion covers quarry versus present site, potential Riverfront Park use, and industrial land. Costs for a pulverizer system are debated with figures requested over ten years and scrap metal revenues cited.
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Dick McClanathan
Douglas County Solid Waste Advisory Board
Jack Rose
Lawrence
Williams
Watson
Great Falls
Mont
Commission
Minnesota
City weighs future recycling and landfill options
A city commission debate centered on recycling potential for glass and paper and the flexibility of a pulverizer. McClanathan urged long range planning while Pence highlighted adapting the system to market needs. Hambleton favored owning versus leasing landfill sites and splitting sites rather than one large quarry site.
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Sale
Watson
Fred Pence
Hambleton
Follow Through director fined for false travel claims
KU Follow Through program director Don Bushell pleaded no contest to aiding and abetting false claims. He was fined $50 for presenting travel vouchers for trips to Kansas City in 1973, with $45 attributed to non reimbursable expenses.
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Don Bushell
Kansas University
Bushell
Douglas County
Kansas City
Michael Malone
The
Journal-World Today
Malone
Kansas Attorney General’s Office
Kansas Bureau of Investigation and
County Attorney’s Office
Institue of Education
Washington, D.C
Washington
Kansas Attorney General
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EU Department
Woodlawn School
Woodlawn
Rally for Joyce Guerrero supporters plan KU event
Indians schedule rally at Kansas University Friday night featuring Dennis Banks Russell Means and possibly Marlon Brando to back Joyce Guerrero a former Topeka resident jailed for AIM occupation of the BIA office in Washington D C at the Forum Room KU Union The event is free and open to the public Guerrero Ball and Kitchkommie leaders coordinate support with CIA MECHA and the Joyce Guerrero Defense Committee from Topeka.
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Dennis Banks
Russell Means
Marlon Brando
Kansas University
Joyce Guerrero
Topeka
American Indian Movement
AIM
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Washington, D.C
Edgar Heap
Birds
Wichita
Ku’s Committee On Indian Affairs
CIA
Kansas Union
CIA and
MECHA
Guerrero
Michael Ray Ball
Portland
Ore
BIA
Kansas Correctional Institution For Women
Lansing
Ball
Kansas City
Southwestern Bell begins phased upgrade for party line customers
The Southwestern Bell Telephone Co starts a 250000 project to convert eight party lines in the Lawrence exchange south and west areas to one two or four party service. It completes a four year 1140000 program to remove eight party lines, with work including replacing 335 poles and 35 miles of aerial wire, 22 miles buried. Management cites rising rural demand and a 20 percent jump in long distance calls during last wheat harvest. Local spend this year reaches 53 million statewide.
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Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Lawrence Exchange
Bill Collinson
Collinson
Kansas
Beerman death fire in Kansas. parents sought
Lawrence police report fruitless searches for James R Beerman s parents after he died in a fire at 714 Mass above Ediths Place. autopsy cites heat as cause released to Rumsey Funeral Home as relatives decide funeral plans. Detroits AMC to suspend three car lines 8500 workers laid off nationwide.
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James R. Beerman
Lawrence
Richard Stanwix
Florida
Iowa
Kansas
Boerman
James
Illinois
Ottawa
Leavenworth
Beerman
Rumsey Funeral Home
Rumsey
Alan Sanders
Edith’s Place
Housing plan compromise reached in Lawrence council session
Lawrence city leaders reached a tentative accord on the Housing Assistance Plan amid disagreements. Nancy Hambleton pressed for more data on housing needs, while Mayor Jack Rose favored minimal paperwork. The commission will have Fields McClanathan Andregg and Hambleton refine data needs for next year.
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Lawrence
Nancy Hambleton
Jack Rose
Kyle Andregg
Hambleton
Commission
Fields
Dick McClanathan
Andregg
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