Substitute Teachers Fill In Across Lawrence District
In Lawrence Unified School District 497 about 15 substitutes are called daily by administrator Miss Vesta White to cover absent teachers. Most substitutes are women, some men, often students at KU seeking degrees. Pay is low at 15 dollars a day, with plans to raise to match nearby districts.
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Vesta White
Lawrence
Unified School District
Kansas University
KNOX
Sup- Knox
Eudora
Baldwin
Nixon Attends Two Prayer Breakfasts in Washington
President Nixon and Pat Nixon spent the day at two prayer breakfasts with Cabinet, defense chiefs, and congressional leaders. He voiced resolve to make the administration a year of great deeds and said faith will sustain the nation as Apollo 8 astronauts visited the White House for a space briefing.
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Washington
Nixon
White House
State Department
Pat
Defense
Sheraton Park Hotel
Senate
House
Frank Borman
James Lovell
William Anders
Dulles, Longtime CIA Leader, Dies at 75
Allen W. Dulles, head of the CIA from 1953 to 1961, died Wednesday night at age 75 after complications from flu and pneumonia. He helped shape U S intelligence during the Bay of Pigs era and served on the Warren Commission.
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Washington
Allen W. Dulles
America
Central Intelligence Agency
Dulles
CIA
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cuba
John F. Kennedy
Warren Commission
Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald
White House
Four School Buses Slide on Icy Area Roads
Several bus incidents in Lawrence and Baldwin areas due to icy roads left no injuries. About 4 a.m. Tuesday a bus carrying eight students bound for Lawrence High School skidded off the shoulder along Highway 59 near the Holiday Inn.
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Lawrence
Baldwin
Lawrence High School
Highway 59
Holiday Inn
Marion Springs School
Ed Boehm Dies Famous Sculptor of Porcelain Birds
Ed ward M. Boehm, 56, renowned sculptor noted for lifelike porcelain birds, died of a heart attack. His works are in museum collections and have been shown at Buckingham Palace and the Vatican. In other news, Baldwin and Marion Springs school buses suffered several accidents prompting temporary school closures in Baldwin and Lawrence due to hazardous driving conditions.
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Trenton
Edward M. Boehm
Buckingham Palace
Vatican
Baldwin
Lawrence
Lesser Crime Plea in Douglas County Court
William Kirk Fast of Overbrook pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor after the complaint was amended from a felony possession of narcotic drug charge. He faced up to one year in prison and was paroled. He was arrested Sept. 25 with about 100 pounds of marijuana. Harold J Hoelscher of Pasadena Calif was bound over on grand larceny for taking a record player from Mrs Helen Ross's home valued over 50. He is jailed on 1500 bond.
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William Kirk Fast
Rt. 2
Overbrook
Douglas County District Court
Fast
Douglas County
Lawrence Police Department
Harold J. Hoelscher
Pasadena
Calif
Helen Ross
Ohio St
Washday Blues After City Water Main Break Snafus
Mrs Carl L. Smith of Pittsfield Massachusetts says the city owes her 6.15 for laundry damages after a water main break on Monday. She claims costs for soap depreciation and three hours of labor at 1.25 per hour.
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Pittsfheld
Mass
Carl L. Smith
Seven Minor Accidents Reported in Lawrence Wednesday
Lawrence police logged seven accidents from 12 25 to 11 p m Wednesday with five fender benders. Ages ranged up to 28 with most drivers listed as students or aged 18 21. One crash on private property at Todd’s Skelly Service knocked a gas pump from its foundation causing about 365 in damage.
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Lawrence Police Department
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Janice C. Shay
Paola
Gerald M. Denk
la. St
Denk
Jack P. Targownik
Naismith Dr
Todd's Skelly Service
9Th St
Earthquake Hits Philippine Town in Mindanao Visayas
A 7.2 magnitude quake struck Davao in the southern Philippines with no immediate casualties or damage reported. The tremor was felt across Mindanao and parts of the central Visayan Islands, per Weather Bureau and the National Earthquake Information Center.
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Manila
Davao
Weather Bureau
National Earthquake Information Center
Washington
Mindanao
Visayan Islands
Blacktail Deer Range and Tail Naming
The blacktail deer exists along the Pacific coast from southern California to southeastern Alaska. Its name derives from its small black tail.
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Pacific Coast
California
Alaska
Ways and Means Sets Broad Tax Review Hearings
The House Ways and Means Committee schedules a multi month review of the tax code starting February 18 focusing first on tax exempt foundations and charitable deductions. The agenda includes oil depletion allowances stock options and use of trusts to cut taxes with bipartisan reform pressure from the Democratic National Committee and remarks by Rep John Byrnes supporting universal high income taxation.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Democratic National Committee
New York
John W. Byrnes
Wisconsin
Treasury Department
Byrnes
Ways and
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Lawrence area updates include football awards and class enrollments
Assistant Kansas University coach Doug Weaver spoke at Central Junior High as 29 eighth and ninth graders earned Mustang monograms. Adult Education closes Friday with 70 plus classes. KU second semester enrollment also ends Friday in the Kansas Union.
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Doug Weaver
Kansas University
Central Junior High
Weaver
Mustang
Nanny Duver
Kansas Union
Weathering Snow Delays Hit Newspaper Carriers and Mail
Newspaper carriers and mailmen endured deep snow and slick sidewalks as they traversed streets. Bicycles proved useless and carts nearly so, yet most customers and patrons remained understanding as deliveries continued.
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Tamara Brubaker
Journal-World Photo
Diana Euler
Campus Rd
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Kay Russell
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Monument Co
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Randy
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Thee
19Th and
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Wayne Bly
Kansas University Department of Physical Education and Recreation
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Penny Ready Mix
Skeeter School
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Ann Littell
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