City Attorney’s ruling may complicate Lawrence PUD changes
The Lawrence city attorney ruled that Planned Unit Developments require 100 percent owner approval to alter a plat, risking changes by developers like Alvamar Estates. The decision could affect Deerfield Meadowbrook Parkmar and others, prompting a push to clarify the ordinance so changes remain feasible while protecting invested residents.
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Milton P. Allen
Lawrence
Alvamar Estates
Allen
Alvamar
PUD
Deerfield
Meadowbrook
Parkmar Y
Aliamar
Ordi
Nance
Planning Commission
City Commission
Nixon greeted by crowd in Canton China
Tens of thousands cheered as Richard Nixon arrived in Canton for the final stop of his China visit. He moved near the edge of the crowd on Liberation Road, then rode to his limousine amid a near frantic reception. Nixon later toured Kweilin and the Peasant Movement Institute with Dr. Shang Teh ting and Robert Dunn assisting his medical needs.
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Canton
China
Richard Nixon
Liberation Road
Revolutionary Army
Mao Tse-tung
Nixon
Nixons
Li River
Kweilin
Shang Teh-ting
Robert Dunn
Dunn
Peasant Movement Institute
Mao
Pee Ie
Hunan
Moscow
Communist Party
Great Plains Architecture Exhibit Opens in Topeka Museum
Kansas University researchers Craig Frazier and Peter Burgess premiere a 50 panel display “Architecture of the Great American Desert” at the Elizabeth Watkins Museum. The show profiles early plains buildings using 13 000 miles of fieldwork and 4 500 photographs with sections on churches barns forts and homes. It runs through March 27 and may tour the four state area with a possible book edition later.
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National Endowment For the Arts
Craig Frazier
Peter Burgess
Kansas University
School of Architecture and Urban Design
Great American Desert
Elizabeth Watkins Museum
11Th and
Massachusetts
Great Plains
Desert
Burgess
Frazier
Pittsburgh
Kansas
Colorado
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Robert Burford
David Nixon
Gordon Moorman
Edgar Boles
Kansas University Museum of Art
Robert Ludlow
Robert Green
Green
Miriam
Kan River
Yoichi Fukunaga
Committee Undercuts Ford Plan on 1977 Tax Cut
The Senate Finance Committee proposes at most a $20.6 billion 1977 tax cut, about $8.5 billion less than President Ford's plan. The difference would fund social programs while preserving a $45.9 billion deficit. Ford had urged roughly $29 billion in tax cuts last year.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Ford
Congress
Jackson proposes USD 20 billion public works jobs plan
Sen. Henry M. Jackson campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination with a $20 billion public works program to create jobs and a $2 trillion energy investment by government and private industry. He offers few funding specifics and projects unemployment reduction yields a $16 billion annual saving. A separate car crash in DeSoto injures Michael A. Wilkins, 18, after his vehicle hits a light pole near 22nd and Massachusetts.
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Boston
Henry M. Jackson
Washington Democrat
Florida
Treasury
Jackson
Ford
DeSoto
22Nd and
Massacusetts
Michael A. Wilkins
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
TEST SLATED DOUGLAS COUNTY SIREN WARNING TEST
The Douglas County disaster siren warning system will be tested at noon on Monday. If weather prevents, the test moves to the following Monday.
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Douglas County
Kidnaped Kerr boy escapes from car trunk
In Houston area eight year old Colin Kerr son of a nuts and bolts salesman was abducted Friday near Friendswood and held eight hours in a car trunk for a one million dollar ransom. He escaped from the trunk at a drive in grocery lot as authorities arrested a suspect in a park.
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Houston
Colin Kerr
J.M. Kerr
Friendswood
Young Kerr
R.J. Clark
Hearst details alleged SLA abuse during Sacramento years
Patricia Hearst testified in her bank robbery trial that during the year she spent in California she endured “struggle sessions” with Symbionese Liberation Army members in Sacramento. Psychiatrist Dr. Lifton corroborated that Hearst faced taunts and physical abuse as she was drilled in military tactics and conditioning amid fears of the SLA and FBI.
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San Francisco
Patricia Hearst
Sacramento
Miss Hearst
Robert J. Lifton
Lifton
California
Here
F. Lee Bailey
Yale University
Symbionese Liberation Army
William and
Emily Harris
Harris
SLA
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