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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1972
Page
1
The Kansas 1972 legislative session opens with a 60 day limit and aims for a productive, nonpartisan effort. Gov. Docking faces scrutiny over austere budgets while lawmakers weigh higher education funding and fiscal constraints amid pre election politics.
In Topeka Kansas AP report state welfare director Dr. Robert C. Harder warns Medicaid may end in February due to tight funds. Legislators mull immediate appropriations to sustain the program as about 12 to 13 million remains for the year and vendors’ bills over the next two to three months loom.
Kansas City Missouri Thomas E Weast of the Midwest Research Institute and former Kansas University student and instructor is named the first Perry Bidstrup Award recipient. The award honors a young MRI employee under 30 for top scientific contribution. Weast's work focuses on design development of machines and analysis of mechanical systems.
Southeast Wichita solons discuss funding higher education and welfare, with debate over sales and income tax effects. Governors message hints at surprises while Docking pushes austere budgets. Budget battles center on welfare cuts and potential university fees amid line item budgeting.
Two men Fred Quinn Jr and Herbert Cornelius Fagan were arraigned in Douglas County Court on nine counts each following a Thursday home invasion at 1820 Ark. Catherine L Sterling home. Charges include aggravated burglary assault kidnapping and weapon counts with three additional misdemeanor battery charges. The case involves a vehicle search and possible two more suspects.
Seven stewardesses recounted a nine hour cross country hijacking from California to Cuba by a shotgun wielding man and pistol packing woman with a five month old baby. The pilots and crew faced threats of execution while the plane refueled in Los Angeles and Tampa before returning to California.
Washington AP Thirty six per cent of 18 to 20 year olds newly eligible under the 26th Amendment registered by 1971 end. Youth Citizenship Fund says if trends hold sixty per cent will be registered by November. Allegheny County Pittsburgh leads with sixty six point nine per cent.
The Labor Day Bank of America blast in San Francisco preceded a wider wave of counterfeit time bombs found in safe deposit boxes across Chicago New York and SF. Police and federal agents pursued a suspect using the name Christopher Mohr a Chicago address listed in January 1971. Bombs were disarmed after delays and letters claimed a radical demand to release political prisoners.
A fire at Isley Elementary School in Excelsior Springs Missouri caused damage estimated between 100000 and 300000 dollars. Investigators said the blaze appeared arson police were notified after a 2 40 a m call and firefighters found the library and office area burning and flames spreading to an upper level classroom.
The Kansas University ISES issues the first in a census series, A Kansas User's Guide to the U S 1970 Census, introducing how to use census data. It notes census detail to city blocks aids population forecasts, analyses, apportionments, tax and revenue studies, with Lawrence used as an example. Maps show population, economic and social data for analysis.
Actress Lucille Ball breaks leg while skiing at Snowmass Aspen. Hospital spokesman says fracture repaired and Ball is doing beautifully though length of hospitalization unsure. Accident occurred Thursday.
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