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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1973
Page
13
Fair to partly cloudy and colder tonight with lows around 30. Partly sunny and cool Friday with highs in the low to mid 50s. Tonight and Friday precipitation chances 10 and 5 percent respectively. Wednesday high 61 low 56. Sunrise 7 38 a m Sunset 6 29 p m.
Lawrence police report a purse and cargo theft from a woman named Marjorie Ward as she walked on 11th near Vermont. A separate theft notes George E. Jameson’s brown 1965 Mercury parked in the 700 block of New Hampshire valued at 1100 dollars.
Retired Vice Admiral Herbert Douglas Riley, former commander in chief of all U S naval forces in the Pacific, died Wednesday. Funeral services are set for Friday at the Naval Academy chapel in Annapolis with burial in the academy cemetery. Survivors include daughter Lynn Lovelace Riley and siblings scattered in Maryland and Kansas. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1927 and served as director of the Joint Staff before his 1964 retirement.
Missouri Senator Thomas Eagleton and Kansas Representative Bill Roy will address KU on February 11 and February 15. Eagleton speaks at 3:30 p.m. with location to be announced. Roy introduces Eagleton and speaks at 3:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Roy’s appearance is sponsored by the Junior Class.
Acting to relieve a winter fuel oil shortage, the Nixon administration ends import limits on No 2 heating oil and raises East Coast oil quotas by about 51 percent for 1973. George A Lincoln of the Office of Emergency Preparedness announced suspension of controls through April and noted supplies will stay tight but the move could release imports.
The Kansas Highway Commission filed a federal suit to force release of about 75 million dollars in federal highway funds held up by the Nixon administration. Governor Docking called a meeting of highway user groups to discuss the issue and mass transit use of funds.
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