Lawrence City Commission Sets Experimental Tuesday Session
The Lawrence City Commission will hold a 7 30 p.m. meeting at City Hall to address items from the December planning commission and discuss a proposed sidewalk plan bounded by 19th 28th Louisiana and Iowa streets. The agenda includes East Lawrence NDP funding for housing rehab and a neighborhood center near New York School.
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Lawrence City Commission
City Hall
First National Bank
Ninth
Massachusetts
Lawrence- Douglas County
Clinton Lake planning session set Thursday at KU
Weather delays Clinton Reservoir work but planning advances. An all day seminar begins 8 15 a m at the Kansas Union sponsored by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce with officials from federal state and local agencies. Presentations cover water use recreation transportation the lake plan and land water regulation. The event aims to inform citizens and solicit questions.
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Kansas Union
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Bill Woods
Chamber
Water Conservation and
Clinton Reservoir
Woods
Bill Gant
State Highway Dept
State Forestry, Fish and Game Commission
Water Reserve Board
Division of Environmental Health
State Park and Resources Authority
League of Women Voters
Sierra Club
Kaw Basin Water Management Assn
Gant
Chamber of Commerce For
Accidental U S Air Strike Hits Da Nang Base
An American flight leader misdirected five fighter bombers causing an accidental attack on Da Nang Air Base. Ten Americans and one Vietnamese wounded. no deaths. Bomb damage included four fuel tanks destroyed and light damage to AC119 gunships and helicopter.
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Saigon
U.S
da Nang
Air Force
Navy
Marine
Thailand
U.S. Command
North Vietnam
Panhandle
South Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
Damage to Kansas Union Building Investigated
Kansas University Security and Parking Division investigates damage to the Kansas Union building after a glass door on the northwest facade was broken. Food valued at 200 dollars was destroyed and the door damage estimated at 118 dollars.
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Kansas University Security and Parking Division
Kansas Union
Lawrence City Commission New Business and Planning Actions
City commission reviews minutes from January 2 1973 and December 27 1972. Discuss sidewalk work bounded by 19th Street Louisiana Street 23rd Street and Iowa Street. Consider authorizing written consent to Lawrence Paper Co for a new corporation. Receive NDP phase three recommendation from East Lawrence Project Area Committee. Examine site plan for Trailridge Townhouse addition at 2500 West 6th Street. Discuss funding for aging transportation services and airport study draft by Bucher Willis. Include Webster's Mobile Home Park in city limits. Remove parking on both sides of 15th Street. Review bids for water department chemicals and release 5 percent of retained funds from first NDP phase. Discuss Deerfield Park four lane extension and deed for park ground. Receive Local Housing Authority minutes.
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Louisiana Street
23Rd Street
Iowa Street
East Lawrence
Planning Commission
Trailridge Townhouse
West 6Th Street
Sheryl Condra
Douglas County
Lawrence Paper Co
Planning Council
Services For the Aging, Inc
Lawrence Bus Co
Lawrence
Bucher and Willis
Webster's
31St Street
Water Department Chemical
15Th Street
Constant Construction Co
City of
Lawrence Avenue
Princeton Boulevard
Deerfield Park
Deerfield Park Addition
sdbsDe
Snipers Hold City Hotel In Wake of Attack
The downtown business district remained paralyzed as snipers occupied an 18 floor hotel. Police and a Marine helicopter kept up assaults and a sniper was killed during a dawn firefight. Three officers were wounded as the siege continued.
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Strees
Louisiana
Marine Sikorsky
Oil Imports Jumped to Ease Heating Shortages
The Nixon administration authorized up to 250 million gallons of additional No 2 fuel oil for the current winter. The Office of Emergency Preparedness increased quotas from the Virgin Islands for January to April to raise imports of heating oil nationwide.
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Washington
Nixon
Office of Emergency Preparedness
Virgin Islands
Snow Fades as City and County Clean Snow Covered Streets
Kansas Power and Light reports light snow related mishaps with four accidents Sunday and four today. no injuries. City crews clear streets and saw tooth curbs. buses run, roads negotiable. Turnpike lanes remain wet but passable. forecast calls for continued cold with possible more snow midweek.
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Sheriff’s Dept
Lawrence
Bill Womack
Womack
City
Arnold Wiley
Wiley
Dennis Kallsen
Victim Identified in Quality Hill Apartment Fire
Kansas City AP James William Reynolds a 53 year old insurance agent was identified as the fire victim in a Quality Hill apartment house late Saturday. Reynolds tried to fight the blaze in a bedroom before succumbing to smoke and flames.
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Kansas City
James William Reynolds
Quality Hill
Reynolds
Third Man to Surrender in KU Explosives Probe
A third man charged in the theft and concealment of Army explosives at Kansas University is to surrender Tuesday morning to U.S. Attorney in Topeka. Ronald K. Johnson a KU student from Norfolk Nebraska faces charges with Akin and Butler in the Sunflower Army repository case.
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U.S
Topeka
Richard L. Meyer
Journal- World
Ronald
K. Johnson
Norfolk, Neb
U. S
Robert Miller
Shawnee
Jack Lewis Butler
Ark
Akin
Butler
Jerry Hannah
Johnson
London
England
Lawrence
Meyer
EU Engineering
Learned Hall
University
Sunflower
12Th
Special Forces Airborne Reserve Unit
Kansas City
Butler and Johnson
Poe High School Pregnant Teens Learn Life Skills
At Edgar Allan Poe High School in Baltimore all 520 students are pregnant and study prenatal health and child care along with math science and social studies. Principal Vivian Washington says the program helps teens prepare for motherhood and possible return to their former schools or entry into the job market with support from staff and counselors.
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Baltimore
Edgar Allen Poe High School
Poe
Vivian Washington
Jean Bowman
Washington
Lois White
Federal revenue shares arrive for Lawrence and Douglas County
The city of Lawrence receives the second 1972 revenue sharing check totaling 217 641 and county funds reach 338 123 for 1972. Both plan to invest in treasury bills and a revenue sharing trust fund with a portion set aside for emergencies.
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City of
Lawrence
Douglas County
Treasury
Edythe Norman
Kansas traffic deaths rise in record 1973 period
Kansas highway death log shows 6 fatalities for Jan and 6 for 1973 through the first 48 hours to 9 am Monday compared with 17 deaths in the comparable 1972 period. The report lists Topeka as the filing location.
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Topeka
Kan
Belote resigns as Douglas County Civil Defense director
Douglas County Commission accepts the resignation of H. H. Belote known as Chuck Belote from the Civil Defense post effective February 1. He cites conflict with his nurse anesthetist duties at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and praises the county’s civil defense progress and siren warning plan.
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Douglas County Commission
H. H
Chuck” Belote
Douglas County Civil Defense
Commission
Belote
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Arthur Heck
Walter Cragan
Civil Defense
Ranson Named GOP Chairman in Kansas
Jack Ranson the Wichita businessman was elected Kansas Republican state chairman defeating Kit Thomas of Mission Hills 51 to 41. A former state treasurer, Ranson takes over after William Falstad left the post. 92 of 110 committee members attended the first meeting under a new reorganized party structure.
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Topeka
Kan
Jack Ranson
Wichita
Kansas
Co. Y
Kit” Thomas
Mission Hills
Ranson
Thomas
Senate
William Falstad
Fredonia
Girl Suffered Injury In Sledding Accident
Mary Williams 13, a West Junior High student, was listed in fairly good condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after a sledding fall near Memorial Stadium at Kansas University Saturday. She may have internal injuries, hospital officials said.
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Mary Williams
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Kansas University
Miss Williams
John L. Williams Jr
Memorial Stadium
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