City Panel to Consider Employee Political Limits and Budgets
Lawrence city commission set to discuss rules banning city employees from endorsing candidates and contacting officials without consent. Agenda includes cemetery rate hike to raise 3000 dollars, Aviation Advisory Board creation, and street sewer development requests. Also on list is lease assignment for Lawrence Paper Co to Kansas Fiberboard Inc backed by First National Bank of Topeka.
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Aviation
Buford Watson
Lawrence Paper Co
Kaw River
Sixth
Massachusetts
Kansas Fiberboard Inc
First National Bank of
Milton P. Allen
City Commission Agenda Review February 20 1973
Review of city agenda including lease assignment to First National Bank of Topeka for 10 acres east of 6th and Massachusetts. Variance for Jenkins Music fire escape at 926 Mass for Recital Hall. Aviation Advisory Board ordinance. Cemetery rates. Personnel manual political activity sections. Bid recapitulations for fuels tires tubes street sweeper. Set March 12 1973 bids for paint striper stump cutter front mounted mower. Engineering fees 1973. Town Center sidewalk paving and W 27th W 28th Florida St Heatherwood sidewalks. Mass to North Park Art in the Park May 6 1973 closure. Yale Road improvements Holiday Hills. Sanitary sewers Alvamar PUD Ordinance 4391. Sidewalks St Andrew Drive. Traffic Safety items Feb 5 1973. Minutes Local Housing Authority Health Board Library Board. OLD BUSINESS Ordinance 4388 31st Iowa area city limits. Ordinance 4390 Homewood Gardens sewer order.
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Kansas Fiber Inc
First National Bank of
Topeka
6Th
Massachusetts
Jenkins Music
Mass Street
Dateo
Young and Brockway
Town Center Inc
A. W
B. W. 28Th
C. W. 28Th St
D. Florida St
National Syndicated
Heatherwood Addition No
Robert Russell
Heatherwood Addition
O. 1
Marilyn Brown
North Park
South Park
Yale Road
Kasold Drive
Holiday Hills
Alvamar Pud
St. Andrew Drive
Traffic Safety Commission
B. Health Board
C. Library Board
Mud Creek Plan Delayed Environmental Impact Report
The final environmental impact statement for the Mud Creek flood protection project is delayed four to eight weeks before filing with the National Council on Environmental Quality. Paul Barber of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers cites internal review and other tasks as the cause, but construction may still start early this summer.
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Mud Creek
National Council On Environmental Quality
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Paul Barber
Kansas City
Council On Environmental Quality
Barber
Fire Damage Totals 6000 At Vacant House in Douglas County
Firefighters report an estimated 6000 damage from a Sunday morning blaze at a vacant two story stucco house at 200 North Lawrence. The home owned by Charles Fleshman suffered 4000 to structure and 2000 to contents after the basement fire near a fuel oil furnace. Another fire at 745 Vermont Street damaged a filing cabinet belonging to the Douglas County Historical Society with minor losses. A small popcorn fire occurred at Quail Creek Apartments but caused no damage.
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North Lawrence
Douglas County
Charles Fleshman
Tenn
Lawrence
Douglas County Historical Society
Richard Stanwix
Quail Creek
Accidental Shooting Injures Man in Lawrence Home
Timothy C. Wales twenty from 1826 Haskell is in fair condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after an accidental shotgun discharge in his brother Thomas’s bedroom. The .20 gauge gun fired around 11 25 a m Sunday striking Timothy in the left side. Thomas, seventeen, was present.
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Timothy C. Wales
Haskell
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Lawrence
Thomas
Timothy
Search Group Picks Sidman As KU History Chairman
A KU history department search committee has recommended Charles Sidman associate professor to succeed W Stitt Robinson as head of the department. If Sidman accepts he will take the chair this summer after joining KU in 1960 with degrees from John Carroll University and the University of Wisconsin.
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Search Group
Sidman
Kansas __ University _ history department
Charles Sidman
W. Stitt Robinson
Robinson
John Carroll University
Cleveland
Ohio
University of Wisconsin
Lawrence Residents Make More Calls Than Mozambicans
Steve Call of Southwestern Bell notes that Lawrence residents placed over 44 million local and long distance calls by 18,100 users in 1971, compared with Mozambique's 43 million calls by 30,300 callers, highlighting higher local telephone activity.
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Mozambique
Steve Call
Southwestern Bell
Bill Deadline Passes In Kansas Legislature
TOPEKA Kansas AP says the deadline for bill introduction expired today and only the Assessment and Taxation Ways and Means and Claims and Accounts committees can introduce new measures. Other committees had submitted 33 new bills before the deadline.
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Topeka, Kan
Assessment and Taxation, Ways and Means and Claims and Accounts Committees
Inmates Resume Meals at Leavenworth Prison
Warden Samuel J.J. Britton said most of the 2,200 inmates at the U S Penitentiary Leavenworth resumed meals today, partially ending a boycott that began last Tuesday at the prison mess hall.
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Leavenworth
Kan
U.S. Penitentiary
Samuel J.J Britton
Weekend Thefts Leave City on Alert and Injuries Rise
Police logged 14 weekend crashes with multiple injuries. At 11th and Kentucky a two car wreck left Elizabeth Pallanich and Donald L. Hill in overnight observation, Connie A. Kennedy injured, and Mary Trybom driver Mary Trybom involved. A second crash at 15th and Mass injured five, including Dennis Martine and Helen Quakenbush. A third collision at Sixth and Vermont damaged two cars, with D Armand and Copp’s vehicles sustaining $200 and $1,200 in damage.
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Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Kentucky
Elizabeth Pallanich
Overland Park
Donald L. Hill
Shawnee Mission
LMH
Miss Pallanich
Mary
Trybom
Tenn
Hill
Pallanich
Connie A. Kennedy
Prairie Village
Pamela S. Grimes
15Th
Mass
Dennis Martine
Barker
Helen M. Quakenbush
Sullivan Antonio
Martine
Mildred A. Dunn
Lowell M. Smith
D’armand
D’armod
Copp
D’armond
Six Die In Jet Crash Near Atlanta Apartment
An executive jet crashed after brushing the top of an Atlanta apartment building en route to Miami. Six people died. the aircraft, registered to Machinery Buyers Corp of Atlanta, originated with Triton Development Co of Houston. Firefighters recovered six bodies from the wreckage. no injuries were reported at the apartment.
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Atlanta. Ga
Miami
Machinery Buyers Corp
Atlanta
Triton Development Co
Houston
Tex
Revenue Sharing Views Exchanged By Boyd And Docking
Gov. Robert Docking told Republican leader Huck Boyd that Congress and the administration must decide which federal revenue sharing programs continue. Boyd urged using Kansas funds to back programs Nixon proposed trimming. Docking urged letter writing to Congress and emphasized federal,state cooperation to sustain programs.
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Boyd
Docking
Topeka. Kan
Robert Docking
McDill
Huck” Boyd
Congress
National Administration
Nixon
Dormitory Occupancy Reaches Highest Since 1970 at KU
Kansas University reports 4 020 dormitory spaces filled this spring, 87 percent occupancy, up 37 residents and 2 percentage points from last fall. Director Joseph J. Wilson cites varied housing rules and full year contracts as factors. Scholarship halls and Stouffer Place for married students not included.
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Kansas University
Joseph J. Wilson
Lawrence
Wilson
Stouffer Place
VW Beetle price to rise amid dollar devaluation
VW of America said the U S price of the Beetle will jump from 2059 to 2199 dollars due to dollar devaluation. The increase spreads to VW lines with an average rise of about 7.2 percent and affects Porsche and Audi models as well.
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Englewood Cliffs
N.J
U.S
Volkswagen
United States
Volkswagen of America
Porsche
Audi
Banks Increase Prime Rate To 6 Percent Across Major Lenders
New York reports show Girard Trust Bank leading a nationwide rise to a 6 percent prime rate. Banks joining the move include Bank of New York First National City Bank Chase Manhattan Manufacturers Hanover and Chemical Bank, following earlier attempts this month.
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New York
Philadelphia
Girard Trust Bank
Girard
Bank of New York
First National City Bank
Chase Manhattan Bank
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co
Chemical Bank
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Journal-World Photo
Lawrence City Commission
First National Bank
Ninth
Mmssachusetts
Alvin Samuels
Robert Haralick
Aviation Advisory Board
Watson
Bowersock Mill and Power Co
City Commission
31St
Iowa
Alvamar Golf Course
15Th Street
Homewood Gardens
Rumsey Funeral Home
Lawrence National
NEW Townsquare
Campusbank
Louisiana
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