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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1973
Page
4
The Agriculture Department reports 1972 corn output at 5.479 billion bushels, down 3 percent from the record. soybeans total 1.276 billion, up 9 percent. State yields and production are listed for Iowa Missouri Nebraska Kansas across corn soybeans and sorghum.
Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service reports a record corn yield of 104 bushels per acre, three more than prior forecast, with total state production around 130 million bushels. The service also notes 285000 turkeys raised, down seven percent from 1971.
In Miami, Judge Alfonso Sepe gave Joe Louis Wilcox a choice jail or social service by recruiting black couples for sickle cell anemia testing. Wilcox, 40, pleaded guilty to resisting arrest and assaulting Officer Antonio Prieto. The two year probation requires Wilcox to aid in finding young blacks with the disease. failure means jail. Sickle cell anemia affects about one in 500 newborn blacks. no cure exists.
In Topeka the 1973 Kansas Legislature weighs mandatory driver reexamination and annual vehicle inspections to secure federal highway funds. Bills, drawn by the Interim Special Committee on Highway Safety, face criticism over cost and potential unnecessary repairs, with $5 per inspection proposed.
Dr Martin S Hirsch of Harvard Medical School reports increased cancer in transplant recipients. He notes 96 malignant tumors worldwide among transplant patients and cites reticulum cell sarcomas as common, occurring about 4 000 times more often than in peers. Overall cancer incidence is 4.5 percent.
Osage City Army Reserve Center was targeted in an early morning break in. burglars rammed the vault with a Jeep and tried vents but fled after the alarm sounded. No weapons were taken. FBI and Kansas investigators joined the case.
Imogene L Beerbower 30 of Rt 1 was treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after her eastbound car skidded on ice and crossed the center line on U S 40 one mile west of Lawrence. The car struck a westbound pickup driven by Melton R Womiche 42 of Kansas City MO. Damages were $1000 to the car and $700 to the truck.
Gov. Docking aide asks House Speaker to refer the tax measure to the Committee of the Whole for an early vote. The bill would permanently extend the 1972 one year federal income tax disallowance on state returns for Kansas corporations and financial institutions.
Dublin AP Sean Mac Stiofain jailed chief of the IRA provisional wing ends an eight week hunger strike after IRA command orders him to get fit. He receives liquid nourishment at Curragh Army Camp Hospital and will be gradually returned to solids. He weighed under 150 pounds, down about 50 pounds since his arrest on November 19.
The Kansas House Federal and State Affairs Committee schedules the first 1973 hearing for Wednesday at 2 45 p m. on a bill to designate Big Blue Stem as Kansas official grass.
Patricia Mollet a 67 year old Saskatchewan Canada resident was killed in a two car crash two miles south of Scott City Kansas on US 83. Isadore Mollet 74 husband and another driver Mirth Cole 81 were hospitalized with unknown conditions. Cole was attempting to pass another vehicle when the collision occurred.
A Kansas University study trip to Greece included 125 students with 19 from the local area. Participants from Pearson College toured to see modern Greece after studying Greek classics in EU classes. Names from the AREA list include Lana Bowles David Bricker Gary Burrows Nancy Cook Cheryl Dorris Jean Clyatt Kevin Gunn Dan Haugh Rita Haugh James Heron Dennis Kerkman Kelly Nelson Kathleen Pickett Walter Robinson Gregory Stump Robert Stump Randy Tedrow Charles Whiteman and Deborah Gump.
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