Space Age Playground Replaces Old Tree Swing
A Broken Arrow Park project shows space age themed equipment replacing traditional playgrounds. City County planners led by Ron Short installed a rocket slide geodesic dome and sand flooring with separate zones for younger and older children, plus shelters and picnic areas.
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Broken Arrow Park
South Junior High School
Lawrence
Dougals County
Ron Short
New Mexico
Short
FBI Arrests Man in Bomb Scare Friday
A telephoned ransom threat forced a United Airlines plane bound for Hilo with 63 aboard to return to San Francisco. Warren K. Cooksey, 46, was arrested after attempting to collect a package dropped as directed by the caller. No bomb was found on the aircraft.
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San Francisco
United Airlines
New Orleans
FBI
Warren K. Cooksey
Robert E. Gebhardt
San Francisco International Airport
Gebhardt
Hilo
Hawaii
United
Marty Lever
Sesame Street to aid Los Angeles school learning
Los Angeles City Schools will use Sesame Street as a bridge between pupils parents and teachers. The show will air twice daily this fall for pre kindergarten through second grade classes to boost reading and arithmetic. A training program will prepare 2900 teachers and as many parents to use the program at school and home.
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Los Angeles
John H. Plimpton
Baltimore Toy Libraries Aim to Let Children Design Games
Toy libraries planned by Baltimore Department of Social Services will be set up across the city. Mrs. Fontaine Polley head of volunteer work said the libraries will let children design their own games.
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Baltimore, Md
City Department of Social Services
Fontaine Polley
Wichita Youth John Feuerborn Found Dead Near Crystal Lake
The body of 23 year old John Feuerborn of Wichita was recovered Friday night from Crystal Lake northwest of Wichita. His car and clothing were found the previous day and sonar helped locate the body.
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Wichita
Kan
John Feuerborn
Crystal Lake
Feuerborn
Drug Abuse Workshop At Kansas University
About 160 attendees are expected for a drug abuse education workshop at Kansas University from Monday to July 30. The event includes 19 Kansas regional teams with high school students counselors and community leaders, funded by state programs, plus public school teachers nurses and community representatives. Co directors are Earl K Carr and Howard Mossberg. Speakers include Shawnee Mission Hutchinson Lawrence DIG program KU Medical Center Menninger Foundation and Haight Ashbury Clinic affiliate Dr Stuart Loomis.
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Kansas University
Kansas
Shawnee Mission
Hutchinson
Lawrence
Kansas City
DIG
William McKnelly
KU Medical Center
Keith G. Meyer
KU Law School
Dean T. Collins
Menninger Foundation
Stuart Loomis
San Francisco State College
Haight-Ashbury Fre
Detroit Seniors Bus to Cheaper Grocery Stores
In Detroit's Cass Corridor, seniors are bused by an inner city church funded program to a suburban Great Scott Supermarket for weekly groceries at up to 20 percent savings. The 12 week pilot cost 100 dollars funded by Nathan Fink covers driver and helper plus groceries.
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Detroit
Cass Corridor
Innercity
Lewis L. Redman
Cass Methodist Church
Nathan Fink
Great Scott Supermarket Inc
Fink
Research Program Begins Third Year in Jackson Co
A Kansas University team from the School of Social Welfare starts the final year of a study on counseling abilities in Jackson County, Kansas. Director Shirley L. Patterson says local helpers extend mental health in this rural area by using neighbors and others with trusted concern.
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Jackson Co
Kansas University School of Social Welfare
Jackson County
Kansas
Shirley L. Patterson
Esther Twente
Emerita
Gist
Miss Patterson
John Holzhuter
Virginia Struble
Jill Quadag
Fire destroys Beverly Shores station and three trucks
Firefighters battled a blaze at the Beverly Shores station as a fire truck rolled out by its own power smashing a door and tearing off in flames. About a dozen nearby units fought the fire but the volunteer station and three of four trucks were a total loss.
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Beverly Shores
Ind
Lake Michigan
Oxford Dictionary to Shrink into Two Volumes
The Massive Oxford English Dictionary will be cut from 13 to two volumes without losing a syllable. Oxford University Press will market a special edition next October. A micrographic process folds four original pages into one page of miniscule print.
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London
Oxford University Press
Union Pacific awards scholarships at Kansas FFA convention
Wiley Alan Wiley of Lawrence is among 12 recipients of Union Pacific Railroad scholarships presented Tuesday at the 43rd annual Kansas Convention of the Future Farmers of America. Each $400 award marks the program’s 50th anniversary, funding one 4H Club member and one vocational agriculture student in each of the 198 counties serving 11 western states.
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Alan Wiley
Lawrence
Union
Kansas
The
Future Farmers of America
Union Pacific
Trailroad
Health Officers Eye Horse Fever Contingency in Kansas
About 30 state health officials and veterinarians met at Kansas State University to plan for Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis spread into Kansas. They urged immediate mosquito spraying and stopping rodeos and trail rides along the Texas Oklahoma border. They pushed for live virus vaccine TC-83 procurement, noting Texas has federal vaccine supply. VEE fatality risk in horses exceeds 50 percent, with milder human impacts.
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Manhattan
Kan
Kansas State University
Kansas
John F. Hudelson
Texas-Oklahoma
Texas
U.S
Courts Inc. traffic fines list spans many states
A compiled docket shows numerous individuals cited for offenses including speeding, no registration, no license, overloaded vehicles, no daily logs, and improper passing. Amounts range from 9 to 54.05 dollars with many ten dollar penalties. a Kansas City suit seeks insurance payout and damages totaling 15 000 plus 500 contents and 5 000 legal fees.
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Paul D. Sweigart
Eudora
Birgit L. Bielefeld
Robert’ O. Russell
Larry M. McGill
Edwardsville
Jesse L. Brown
Baldwin
Robert D. Young
Neb
Guy L. Blumenthal
Overland Park
Darrel K. Craig
Rt. 2
James S. Irick
Orange George Wright
Sulphur Springs
Tex
William A. Miller
Ky. Ct
Homayoun Nik-Khah
Kansas City
Cimarron Insurance Co
Cimmaron
Nik-Khah
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Journal-World
Will Hess
Earl K. Carr
Howard Mossberg
KU School of Pharmacy
Carr
Juanita Ferguson
Annie Barlow
Wiley
Pacific Railroad Scholarships
Donald J. Bahnmaier
Rt. 1
Lexie G. Covington
Ottawa
George R. Krische
Jennifer B. Lee
Ft. Leavenworth
Joe A. Monson
Ulysses
William L. Nease
Lee’s Summit
Clayton E. Sutton Jr
David C. Utermoehlen
Alma
Harduco, Inc
Arma
John D. Peterson
Leawood
Clare F. Clock
Carbondale
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