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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1972
Page
6
President and Mrs. Nixon visit the 600 year old Ming tombs near Peking and observe Chinese crowds enjoying new transistor radios and colorful dress. Afterward radios are collected by officials as the Nixons meet four singing schoolgirls and two rope handlers at the site.
National Wholesale Inc offered $5 bills for sale at $4 but about 100 shoppers lined up at 9 am yet six hours later 50 of 500 bills remained. President Edward Bobigan cited slow turnout despite the perceived discount as a puzzling response.
UMKC seized several thousand copies of a university funded publication after a poem titled Troost Street Blues by Allen Ginsberg was deemed highly unacceptable. The paper, tied to the Robert Kennedy Memorial Symposium and edited under Ken Kesey contract, included explicit sexual content. University officials cited political reasons and misconduct in distribution.
A bill by Sen. Bob Storey to treat everyone over 16 as an adult faces a likely dead end in the Kansas House Judiciary Committee. Rep. Jack Euler predicts the measure will not advance, despite prior committee and Senate passage, as lawmakers cite lack of minimum-security facilities and frustration over no construction since the 1965 reform.
Vocational technical dean Jack Naylor says the Haskell Andian Junior College warehouse and masonry workshop could begin meeting in about two weeks, with classrooms several weeks away. Equipment is being moved in but carpeting must be installed before the space is usable. Naylor provided no firm completion date.
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