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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1972
Page
10
Eudora plans a $1 million package including a new water plant, water tower, storage tanks, lines and lagoons plus paving about 25 blocks. Construction is funded by rate increases and a $180,000 federal grant, with taxes down and population projections rising toward 5,000 by 1980.
Knox contract extension will be discussed in a special closed meeting at 7 10 p m Monday in the Administration Center. Open session at 7 30 p m will cover bid recommendations federal funds personnel changes and legislative proposals.
Lucien Hubbard, 83, producer of the first Academy Award winning film Wings, died Friday in Beverly Hills. Hubbard was a former newspaper reporter and freelance writer who worked at Paramount during Wings Oscar triumph in 1928.
Partly cloudy to cloudy with mild highs near 50 today in the Northeast Kansas region. Sunday temperatures range from the upper 20s to the 40s with near zero precipitation chances. Official readings show yesterday high 49 low 28, morning low 30, and date records of 64 high in 1939 and 9 low in 1928. Sunrise 7 21 a.m. Sunset 5 00 p.m.
A hospital admission notice lists Mrs Mary Rose Creese 1650 Cambridge Mrs Alice Hadl 401 La Ver non Norris 420 North Bruce Nilsen 1311 W Sixth Saundra Dickerson Eudora Arthur Hop kins 831 N J Mrs Phyllis Jones 1133 Hilltop Mrs Ardith Rayton Topeka Peggy Miller 1311 W Sixth Mrs Alta Cruces Ottawa Mrs Suzanne Penn 2127 Orchard Sn Roxie Crum Baldwin Nursing Home Mr and Mrs Charles Nathan Second Arkansas and a daughter today.
Anchor Savings Assn plans 325000 shares at 14.50 each with underwriter G H Walker. Anchor assets total 122 million across seven Kansas City branches and others including Lawrence. Baldwin Piano and Organ Co sold the stock at 1246 a share. proceeds total 4387500 after expenses. Journal-World carriers receive Christmas gift certificates from McDonalds Drive In at annual party. TOPEKA Kansas executives say savings and loan institutions will finance many 1972 home purchases as assets exceed 200 billion, up from World War II era.
Ruth Garvin aged 72 of Laguna Beach California and formerly of Lawrence died Thursday in California. Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. Monday at Rumsey Funeral Home with Rev Edwin F Price presiding. Burial will follow in Oak Hill Cemetery.
The Vinland Mutual Telephone Co. schedules its annual stockholders meeting for 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Vinland School. Secretary Woodrow Sturdy releases the details.
In A.D. 8 Wang Mang seized the Chinese throne and launched reforms that nationalized land and industries, freed slaves, and aided farmers, but opposition grew until rebellion restored the Han after 15 years. The Silk Road linked Rome and China as silk inflows and costs rose. The Han ended in A.D. 220, remembered for paper and a legacy of empire.
HOLDENVILLE Okla AP A wealthy Hughes County rancher is jailed after the Friday slaying of neighboring landowner Ed Montgomery 42 near Horntown. District Attorney Gordon Melson says Eckles claimed self defense after landing his helicopter following an argument with Montgomery who was in a pickup on a county road east of Horntown. Eckles 40 owns the area’s largest ranch and was flying to aid ranch hands. Montgomery anchored on land adjacent to the Eckles ranch.
The FBI is searching for a mounted deer head and other exhibits stolen from the Land Between the Lakes Museum Center Station in Golden Pond Kentucky on Christmas night. Thieves broke a plate glass window and took the deer head two deer racks mounted birds small animals a slide projector and a typewriter.
Michigan State Police and the FBI hunt for an unidentified man who shot and killed two troopers after a traffic stop in NEW BUFFALO. The suspect fled then returned and fired again before being killed in a pursuit ended by officers ramming the car. His companion Dorothy Broz was captured and arraigned on two counts of first degree murder.
Kansas City Kansas voters will decide on a 2 percent earned income tax that would cut real estate and personal property levies. The June 6 election was approved 2 to 1, and officials estimate the tax would raise over $15 million earmarked to reduce taxes rather than fund new spending.
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