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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1972
Page
13
Partly cloudy and colder tonight and Tuesday with a low near 25 tonight and a high Tuesday in the 40s. Precipitation chances are 5 percent tonight and Tuesday with gentle readings and sunrise at 7:40 a.m. and sunset at 5:18 p.m.
Searchers found no life aboard the Dona Anita after the African freighter sank northwest of Vancouver Island amid gales. A Coast Guard ship reported 41 crewmen and the captain's wife as the sole passenger unaccounted for, with debris including life rafts and a life ring bearing the ship's name.
A list of names and addresses accompanies birth notices for a series of families across Topeka and nearby towns. Entries include newborns described as boys and girls with parent names and locations such as Topeka Tonganoxie Eudora and Baldwin. Authorities note two confirmed births: a boy to Don Kaiser and a boy to Walter Denholm in Tonganoxie today.
A federal tax sale of 112 lots from National Surplus Sales in Topeka is set for January 20 to satisfy a tax lien of 108 906.87 against David T. Millstein and associates. Millstein and Raymond Dibra pleaded guilty to transporting and concealing hashish. Millstein's wife faces an import charge. Hashish valued at over 200 000 was seized in Douglas County.
Harman R. Smith tried to heat oil to start his car, causing a blaze that heavily damaged his frame house. Firemen could not estimate the loss but reported three fourths of the contents destroyed and the exterior badly damaged. Smith suffered a second degree burn on his right hand.
Billy Mills, Olympic 10,000 meter champion and Haskell KU alumnus, named one of America's Ten Outstanding Young Men for 1971 by the U S Jaycees. He will be honored at the 34th awards congress in Indianapolis with other winners and serves as assistant to the Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington D C.
Sheik Mujibur Rahman arrives in Dacca on a British jet to a delirious crowd as diplomats and Bangladeshi troops line the airport. He vows civil disobedience against Yahya Khan and seeks international review of war crimes while pledging friendship to all and malice to none.
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