Kansas State athletic director seeks new fieldhouse and court
Kansas State athletic director Ernie Barrett proposes a 25,000 seat fieldhouse within five years and a renovation of Ahearn Fieldhouse with a synthetic surface. He urges funding from private sources rather than state appropriations, citing education budget limits and past emergency college funding.
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Kansas State
Ernie Barrett
K-State
Nichols Gymnasium
Jack Hartman
Barrett
Kansas
Ahearn Fieldhouse
GAO Challenges 618000 in Feed Grain Payments
Government auditors questioned 618000 in questionable feed grain payments to 938 farm operators across 14 counties in six states. The GAO says nonfarm land was included and will lead to recovery actions after Agriculture Department reforms.
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Washington
General Accounting Office
Congress
GAO
Agriculture Department
British hope for envoy's safe return from Uruguay
In Montevideo a Britain Foreign Office official said meetings with Uruguayan authorities leave him quietly hopeful Geoffrey Jackson will be released safely by Tupamaro kidnappers. He met President Areco, declines to reveal specifics, but says both sides share a common approach. The Tupamaros seized Jackson January 8 and have kidnapped others.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Britain
Foreign Office
Geoffrey Jackson
Oliver Wright
Jorge Pacheco Areco
Jackson
Aloysio Mares Dias Gomide
Claude L. Fly
Governor Docking to hold first live statewide news conference
Kansas Governor Robert Docking will outline his legislative recommendations at a 6:30 p.m. Tuesday live news conference from his Topeka office. WIBW will carry the event, with other stations paying line charges. The statehouse press corps will attend, before his 11 a.m. Wednesday budget briefing to lawmakers.
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Topeka
Kansas
Robert Docking
House
Senate
Wibw Radio and Television
Thad Sandstrom
WIBW
Topeka Statehouse
Docking
Crime Alert for Lawrence Help Police Solve Crimes
Readable text invites the public to provide information to Lawrence police to help solve or prevent crimes. It urges residents to contact authorities with any tips or sightings related to ongoing cases or safety concerns in the area.
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Lawrence
Victims Spelling Via Telephone Dial Cited
A note states 842 8467 spells VICTIMS on the telephone dial and says giving a name is optional.
Muskie Says Talks with Soviet Leaders Were Encouraging
Senator Ed Muskie reported three days of talks in Moscow with Premier Kosygin Foreign Minister Gromyko and other officials. He said discussions were firm frank and positive with emphasis on fundamental issues and potential for future dialogue. He noted no U S messages were carried and described his trip as unofficial.
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Moscow
Edmund S. Muskie
West Germany
Muskie
Alexei N. Kosygin
Andrei Gromyko
Kosygin
Maine
Nixon
Man Pleads Guilty and Sets Trials for Three Others in Douglas County
Charles D. Crowder, 46, pleaded guilty in Douglas County District Court to assault with intent to kill. He will be sentenced Jan. 27 after a sentence of one to 10 years. Crowder’s related forging charges were dismissed. Trials were set for Robert Dale Wilkins, Gary O’Neal, Otis Jackson, and legal dates for Ronald Jackson, all tied to separate cases.
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Douglas County
Charles D. “Spike” Crowder
Mass
Bruce A. Knackstedt
Haskell
Crowder
Robert Dale Wilkins
Lyon
Eugene E. Westergren
Douglas County State Bank
Gary O'Neal
Kansas City
Otis Jackson
O’neal
Jackson
Laird Sees Cambodia Crisis Stable as U.S. Withdrawals Continue
Secretary Melvin Laird returned from Southeast Asia saying Cambodia faces a critical five to six months yet progress shows armed forces rising from 30 000 to 200 000 due to U S aid. He projected Nixon would meet or beat a May 1 troop reduction target while denying Abrams replacement plans.
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Washington
Melvin R. Laird
Southeast Asia
Laird
Cambodia
Vietnam
Nixon
U.S
Creighton W. Abrams
South Vietnam
Abrams
Saigon
Pentagon
Weaving program feature in Handweaver & Craftsman
Lawrence article by Jane Lee outlines KU School of Fine Arts weaving instruction growth from 1948 to now with 100 rooms in use. Evelyn DeGraw leads the department housed in the KFKU building west of Hoch Auditorium. A separate note reports the 300 member Kansas Music Educators District Honors Band concert at Shawnee Mission South High School and a missing person case, Donald Pugh, last seen January 8 near the Wakarusa River with a running truck found on the Wakarusa River bridge.
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KU School of Fine Arts
Handweaver & Craftsman
Jane Lee
Journal-World News
Evelyn DeGraw
Kfku Broadcasting
Hoch Auditorium
Kansas Music Educators District
Lawrence High
Shawnee Mission South High School
Douglas County Sheriff's Deputies
Donald Pugh
Rt. 5
Lawrence
Wakarusa River
Pugh
Jarring to Hear Jordan Position on Middle East Plan
U N mediator Gunnar V Jarring has heard peace proposals from Israel and Egypt and will meet Jordan on Monday to learn the government's stance on implementing the 1967 Security Council resolution for settlement of the Middle East crisis. Jordan's ambassador Mu hammad H el-Farra will convey the government's position. Egyptian ambassador Mohammed H el-Zayyat presented Cairo's recommendations to Jarring after Israel's proposals in Jerusalem.
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Middle East
Muskie
Soviet Union
United States
Jordan
United Nations, N.Y
U.N
Gunnar V. Jarring
Israel
Egypt
Muhammad H. el-Farra
U.N. Security Council
Mohammed H. el-Zayyat
Jarring
Jerusalem
Lawrence Drops From Site List For Teacher Convention
The Kansas National Education Association will hold its sectional convention in five sites this fall, excluding Lawrence. Plans call for Topeka Parsons Salina Wichita and Hays with rotations linking Wichita to Hutchinson Hays to Garden City and Parsons to Independence Coffeyville Fort Scott and Chanute.
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Lawrence
Kansas National Education Association
Morris Kay
Chamber of Commerce
KNEA _ board
Topeka
Parsons
Salina
Wichita
Hays
Hutchinson
Garden City
Dodge City
Independence
Coffeyville
Fort Scott
Chanute
Melvin Neeley
KNEA
K-Nea
Neeley
Alcohol and gender roles in women's drinking revealed
Dr. Albert Ullman of Tufts University reported at a conference that when a woman's significant person is a father or older brother she may feel she must drink like a man. This dynamic is linked to higher risk of alcoholism than women who identify with their mother.
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Medford, Mass
Albert Ullman
Tufts University
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