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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1972
Page
11
Considerable cloudiness continues this afternoon through Sunday in Northeast Kansas with cooler temperatures. Occasional showers likely tonight, then partly cloudy Sunday with highs in the 80s and a low tonight in the mid 40s. Precipitation chances 70 percent today, 30 percent tonight, 20 percent Sunday. official readings report a high of 97 today and a morning low of 66.
Sen Edmund Muskie returning to Maine from the Democratic National Convention says the McGovern Eagleton presidential ticket faces an uphill battle. He backs McGovern and praises Eagleton while noting disappointment and his own non candidacy.
The $100 bill is the largest denomination of U S currency still issued today due to a sharp decline in use of higher value notes such as $500 $1 000 $5 000 and $10 000.
A 23 year old Tacoma man stabbed five passengers on a Greyhound bus before being shot by a driver. The victims include Linda Chapman 22 of Portland and four others: John Hopkins 63 Seattle Luceil Oswald 75 Portland and Frieda Kunz 63 Portland. All listed in satisfactory condition. The assailant remained in critical condition.
Embry envisions a regional center to evaluate and advance instruction across KU. He hopes to expand Feedback within the university, with a two year trial for mandatory course ratings and a broader staff, as the Senate weighs a campus wide adoption.
Seattle artist John Ramm sends 12 life size plywood figures on a road tour across the United States and Canada. Each sculpture carries a Take Me Along sign and a postcard note asking drivers to report its progress, with several named destinations and a figure reportedly ending in Federal Way with a burp postcard.
Tri pura Chief Minister Sukho moy Sen Gupta announced a state of alert and army standby due to near famine conditions caused by a recent drought in the eastern state.
A Texas team of archeological divers will begin excavating a sunken Spanish galleon off Padre Island. State underwater archaeologist Carl Clausen announced the first state-sponsored dig would start on or about Monday. The Texas Antiquities Committee backs the project, created in 1969 after Pla toro Ltd recovered treasure from a shipwreck. ownership is disputed in court.
Topeka AP reports a 24 hour tally ending 9 am Saturday listing traffic fatalities for July 1972 at 329 compared with 351 in the same period of 1971, noting increases or declines for the year.
A federal grand jury indicted six Vietnam Veterans Against the War members in Tallahassee on charges of conspiring to disrupt the Republican National Convention by planning to attack police stations patrol cars and stores with automatic weapons and incendiary devices in Miami Beach. Bonds and custody details listed for Kniffin Maloney Camil Foss and others with two wanted.
Eddie McCann suffered minor injuries after being hit by a car in his bath. Police quoted driver Gary Tidwell of Coolidge saying the car crashed into the bathroom wall after an epileptic seizure. While recovering at Pinal County General Hospital burglars struck his store in Superior Thursday night.
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