City moves toward acquiring blighted Sixth and Massachusetts site
In a lengthy column Dolph Simons Jr notes Lawrence may gain ownership of the deteriorating riverfront block at Sixth and Massachusetts. He cites city leverage, the dam and hydro plant stakes, and possible cost of repairs as factors guiding a potential deal to raze structures and redevelop the area for a new city hall and riverfront renewal.
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Lawrence
Sixth
Massachusetts
Kansas River Dam
Kansas River
Russia blasts West over dissidents warning
Pravda warns Western nations to stay out of dissident affairs and threatens arrest or imprisonment for Soviet activists. The piece dismisses Western concern as a slander campaign while U S leaders debate human rights policy and respond to Yuri Orlovs arrest in Moscow.
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Moscow
Communist Party
Pravda
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Poland
U.S State Department
Washington
Carter
Senate
State Department
Yuri Orlov
Orlov
Ginzburg
Wheat forecast waits for thaw in Kansas amid drought fears
Kansas wheat faces a slow winter with only about 10 percent ground cover. Officials warn wind erosion risk could rise if spring rains are delayed or uneven, as 1977 crop prospects hinge on timely moisture and minimal further damage.
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Kansas
Johnson
Mosier
John Kern
National Weather Service
Topeka
Dave Brandon
Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
KU SBA sign research pad to aid 20000 small firms
The Small Business Administration and Kansas University sign a 32575 contract to launch a regional scientific and technology research retrieval service. About 20000 small businesses in Kansas Iowa Missouri and Nebraska will receive open literature data to aid new enterprises or product development.
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Kansas
Iowa
Missouri
Nebraska
Kansas University
U.S. Small Business Administration
SBA
Washington ,D.C
Gene van Arsdale
B.G. Barr
KU Center For Research
Barr
Small Business Administration
Fourstate
EU Center
Center For Research
Dale I. Rummer
Douglas County plans to expand Mini Bus for seniors
Douglas County Planning Council for Services for the Aging seeks state and federal funds to replace one van and add a fifth to extend the free two way transport in Lawrence and eastern Douglas County. Public comments are invited through March 10 on the grant to Kansas Department of Transportation.
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Douglas County Planning Council
Cal Broughton
Kansas Department of Transportation
State Transportation Department
Douglas County
Lawrence
Harvard Chemist Karplus to Lecture at KU
Harvard chemist Martin Karplus will lecture as the 19th Henry Werner Lecturer at Kansas University. He will present Dynamics of Protein at 4 pm Monday and Theoretical Studies of Chemical Reactions at 1 30 pm Tuesday in room 124 Malott Hall. Both talks are free to the public.
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Harvard University
Martin Karplus
Kansas University
Henry Werner
Karplus
Malott Hall
Vienna
Austria
Harvard
California Institute of Technol OR
Mathematical Institute
Oxford
England
National Science Foundation
University of Illinois
Columbia University
EU Chemistry
Werner
Voter Registration Open Through Tuesday in Douglas County
Citizens may register from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. today through Tuesday at the Douglas County clerk's office in the courthouse with books closing at 9 p.m. Tuesday Registration for Lawrence voters is also available at the city clerk's office in city hall during regular hours through Tuesday.
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Douglas County Clerk's Office
Lawrence
City Hall
Nevada Assembly rejects ERA amid stalled ratification
Nevada lawmakers vote 24 to 15 to reject the Equal Rights Amendment after the Senate approved it three days earlier. ERA has 35 states ratified with three rescission questions pending court tests. The deadline to reach 38 states is March 29, 1979.
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Carson City
Nev
Nevada
State Assembly
Senate
Assembly
U.S
McGovern urges aid to Vietnam and deserter pardon
U.S. senator George McGovern urged aid to rebuild Vietnam and a pardon for deserters. He compared current efforts to postwar Japan and Nazi Germany and urged UN admission for Vietnam, speaking at Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina.
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Salina
Kan
George McGovern
D-S.d
United States
Vietnam
United Nations
Japan
Nazi Germany
Laos
Cambodia
McGovern
Kansas Wesleyan University
Farm cooperatives vote to merge forming a $3 billion co op
Representatives of FAR MAR CO and Farmland Industries Inc approved a merger creating a nationwide agricultural cooperative with about 250 000 member families and 608 cooperatives. The combined entity would rank among the 70 largest U S companies by sales and extend from the Gulf Coast to Canada. Farmland operates oil and gas wells refineries mines furnishes mills and processes foods, while FAR MAR CO runs grain elevators rail service and a fertilizer plant in Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Farmar-Co
Farmland Industries Inc
FAR Mar-Co
Larry Slaight Slaight
Sed
Far-Marco
Co-Op
Slaight
Farmland Industries
Cooperative Farm Chemicals Assny Fertilizer Manufacturing Plant
Lawrence
Local Birth Announcements From Ottawa and Nearby Homes
Mrs. Laura Gillihan and others listed at addresses in Ottawa Wellsville Eudora and surrounding areas welcomed newborn boys Friday and today. Families include Mr and Mrs John Woodsum Ottawa Mr and Mrs Michael Reedy Mo and Mr and Mrs David E Fonseca NH with the births reported.
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John Woodsum
Ottawa
Michael Reedy
David E. Fonseca
N.H
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Jacob Gordon
W. 10Th Ter
Joe Samuel
Tomahawk
Rod Rush
Rt. 4
Centennial Park
Urban Mass Transportation Act
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Schoonover
Nellie Schoonover
Michael Barbara
Franklin County District Court
J.W. Schoonover
Barbara
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Canada
Illinois
Colorado
Ernest T. Lindsey
Hutchinson
South Dakota
Wyoming
Oklahoma
Grain
Laura Gillihan
Harper
Dean Arndt
Wellsville
Myrtle Pritchard
Eudora
Ella Worden
Verna McCain
Mont
Glenn Turner
Maine
Billie Davidson
Powers
Viola Martin
Lincoln
James Sink
Michael Landon
Tennessee
Ronald Lash
W. 22Nd
Howard Fulton
Bonanza
Joanna Frost
N.Y
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Paul Friedman
University of Kansas
Adult Life Resource Center
Division of Continuing Education
Buyer’s
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Midwest
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