Deferred decision on car wash in planned development district
Lawrence city commissioners postponed action on a plan change that would allow a car wash in the Sixth Street Kasold Drive planned commercial development. The attorney will review the city’s role, while the site near the western city limit awaits further zoning discussion.
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Lawrence City Commission
Sixth Street
Kasold Drive
Moss
Marnie Argersinger
Dr. Moss
Ray Bell
Ter
Brian Kubota
Ed Carter
Don Binns
Planning Commission
Argersinger
Kent State protest ends in peace and new rallies planned
Kent State demonstrators dispersed peacefully after a two month occupation of Blanket Hill ended with 193 arrests and fingerprinting. The May Fourth Coalition voted to hold more rallies and consider reoccupying the hill to protest the planned six million dollar gym annex.
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Kent State
Kent
Ohio
Blanket Hill
May Fourth Coalition
John Coble
Miami University
Solar heating planned for building near Lawrence Ramada Inn
City commissioners approved replatting the large triangular lot north of the Lawrence Ramada Inn into three lots and a site plan for a solar heated medical office of 5 200 square feet to serve four doctors. The action followed unanimous votes on most land use requests with one item deferred for study.
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Rockledge Road
Lawrence Ramada Inn
Jayhawker Towers
Kansas University
Hewitt
Rockledge
Jack Rose
Design Build
Turnpike Authority
Lawrence approves bonds to fund Quaker Oats plant and hospital refinancing
Lawrence city commissioners authorize 18.88 million in industrial and hospital bonds to construct a Quaker Oats pet foods plant in the Santa Fe Subdivision and to refinance the Law rence Memorial Hospital issue. The plan aims to create 160 local jobs and reduce interest costs by about 3.15 million. A separate theft at the city landfill reports an air conditioner valued at 125 dollars stolen and a window broken.
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Lawrence City
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Quaker Oats
Santa Fe
Roger White
Lawrence
White
Don Lenz
LMH
Lenz
Ed Hille
Quaker Oats, Inc
Oil price freeze opposed by several OPEC members
OPEC members including Libya and Algeria oppose a planned price freeze led by Saudi Arabia and Iran set at 12.70 a barrel. Yemen? No. The group says the move depends on year-end economic conditions and unity, while a separate assault at a Lawrence, Kansas, gas station left Andrew J. Kessinger with a bruise after a punch from an upset customer. no arrests were made.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC
Saudi Arabia
Iran
Libya
Ezzedin Mabrouk
Venezuela
Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani
Middle East
Yamani
Ali Jaidah
Jamshid Amouzegar
Lawrence
Andrew J. Kessinger
Kessinger
North Third Street
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C.O. Moss
Commission
Kubota
Binns
Kent State University
Ohio National Guard
Toledo
Portage County
Kansas University Endowment Association
KU Endowment Association
Sharon Donner
Peggy French
Ronald Ruby
Bruce Leban
Jesus Molina
Robert Maertens
Virginia Penny
Ralph Reschke
Steven Schuller
Debbie Shaw
Holly Webernick
William Wilson
David DeLano
Baldwin
Gettysburg
Sandy Lee Scheuer
Sarah Scheuer
Martin
Dean Kahler
City Okays Medical
City-County Planning Commission
City Commission
Robert Georgeson
Jim Hewitt
Buford Watson
Watson
Don McLaughlin
Kansas
Massachusetts
Lawrence’s Western Wear Headquarters
Raasch
Iowa
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