McGovern Unveils Top Campaign Team in South Dakota
Sen George McGovern announced his top campaign lineup at a news conference near Custer, naming Jean Westwood as national chairwoman, Lawrence OBrien as national campaign chair, Eugene Pokorny as Illinois coordinator, and Gary Hart as campaign director with George Cunningham as deputy. The team includes Frank Mankiewicz as lead political adviser and regional coordinators Richard Stearns Eli Segal and Harold Himmelman. McGovern and running mate Thomas Eagleton planned July activity with August media appearances and nationwide campaigning on a modest, listening-focused pace.
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Hart
Richard Stearns
West
Eli Segal
Central and South States
Harold Himmelman
East
Subdivision rules near final public hearing in Lawrence
The Lawrence City Commission plans a final public hearing Tuesday on subdivision and development regulations. The Douglas County Commission may also adopt the rules. The package was finalized July 12 by the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission after interagency talks. The agenda includes a request to support Headquarters Inc. in a federal grant for a drug crisis program with methadone, a drug coordinator, and an outpatient clinic one night weekly. The city may also hear bids for a Sixth Street asphalt overlay and a Westchester Road parking restriction after a traffic safety recommendation. Meetings start at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the city hall Fourth Floor meeting room.
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Lawrence-Douglas
Headquarters Inc
Ric Silber
City Commission
Topeka
Lawrence
Traffic Safety Commission
Westchester Road
City Hall
First National Bank
Ninth
Massachusetts
Rain disrupts Resurrection City stay in Kansas City
About 80 residents slept in tents at Resurrection City in Mill Creek Park after overnight rain. Most tents were taken down as demonstrators feared city action. The camp, run by the Kansas City SCLC, aims to spotlight poverty alongside affluence. Local police planned peaceful oversight and security while volunteers prepare three meals daily from donated food.
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City Park Board
Resurrection City III
Kansas City
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Ray
Cleaver
Christian
Rufus Evans
Richard Gardner
Evans
City Commission New Business and Old Business Items
The agenda lists bids for paving and sidewalk work on 15th Street and Sixth Street, sewer improvements for Alvamar Heights, demolition at 1044 46 Conn, and site plans for a restaurant motel at 807 Iowa. It also covers subdivision rules, a federal grant support resolution for Head quarters Inc, minutes from zoning and health boards, traffic safety items, and bid date for Holcom Sports Complex watering system. Old business includes trash enclosure repairs, damages claim at 2022 Camelback, storm sewer petitions, alley vacation between 17th and 18th and Ohio and Tennessee, rezoning ordinance, board appointments, elm removal at 338 Funston, hydrant bids, and related matters.
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Holcom
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G. A. Roberts
Sixth
County Commission
18Th
Ohio
Tennessee
Funston
Water Department
Parking Limit Crackdown Set
Downtown Lawrence enforces two hour parking with hourly chalking starting 8 a.m. City Manager Buford Watson says long term parkers will walk further. Merchants support stricter enforcement amid downtown construction and plan noting cards for windshields to remind staff rules.
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Bus Skid Injures Ten Near Ottawa
In Ottawa Kansas area a Greyhound bus traveling from Kansas City toward Tulsa skidded off U S 59 and rolled onto its right side. Ten passengers and the driver escaped serious injury with two passengers later admitted to Ransom Memorial Hospital in satisfactory condition Mrs Barthell Davis and Mrs Iola Schuck among those hospitalized for observation and a broken collar bone respectively.
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Tulsa
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Iola Schuck
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Kansas City
Liberia selects Deborah Lynn Strode's school as model
Mrs. Maurice Crook reports that the school where Deborah Lynn Strode teaches kindergarten and elementary grades in Nimba county Liberia has been named a model school. The honor prompts Liberta indepence day celebrations with the Liberian president visiting the school this week.
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Deborah Lynn Strode
Peace Corps
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Journal-World Story
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Victims Spelled Out On Telephone Dial Reveals Clue
A fragment notes that the dial reads VICTIMS and adds that giving a name is not required. The item hints at a coded message or puzzle element within a larger page. No other clear details are provided about people or places.
California Grizzlies End New Zealand Rugby Tour
The California Grizzlies rugby team finished their New Zealand tour with a 15 to 6 victory over the New Zealand Universities in Auckland.
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Auckland
N.Z
California Grizzlies
New Zealand
Rain Bucket Overturns For Kansas
A weather surge drenched northeast Kansas with heavy but localized rain. Marysville recorded 6.1 inches since Sunday, causing manhole activity but little widespread flooding due to the storm’s tight concentration. Other towns saw lighter totals as highs reached the upper 90s.
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Marysville
Kansas
Tuttle Creek Reservoir
Prospect
Oskaloosa
Weather notes show July rainfall near normal
The report records July rainfall at 3.12 inches, close to normal, with year to date about three inches below the 19.28 inch average. Temperature details include highs in the 90s and lows around 68 to 73, noting recent conditions and forecasts.
County budget includes 1972 carryovers totaling 11 598 dollars
County officials say a portion of the 1973 budget includes carryovers from 1972. About 1.5 million is idle in six county banks earning interest. Funds earmarked for future projects are kept in interest accounts until needed. The budget will be published July 31 in the Journal-World and a public hearing is set for August 10 at 10:30 a.m. in the courthouse commission room.
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Heck
Journal-World
City Considers Street Work At 10th and Massachusetts
Constant Construction Co seeks permission to excavate the 10th and Massachusetts intersection to speed downtown projects. The Lawrence City Commission will weigh the request to avoid blocking more than one intersection. Work delays stem from replacing pipes and making new connections by the city water department and Kansas Public Service Gas Co. Currently the 800 and 900 blocks and the Ninth and Massachusetts intersection are under construction with plans to extend to the 700 and 1000 blocks. Water puddles halted work this morning as Merlin Elder aims to ready forms for paving in the 900 block of Massachusetts. sidewalk work in the two block area could be nearly finished in three days, says Constant vice president John Scanlan.
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10Th
Massachusetts Street
Lawrence City Commission
Don Schaake
City Water Department
Kansas Public Service Gas Co
Ninth
Massachusetts
M. W. Watson Co
Forman
Merlin Elder
John Scanlan
Primary set as eight days left for Kansas August 1 vote
Douglas County Election Officer Delbert Mathia reports a shortage of Democratic poll workers as the August 1 primary approaches. Absentee ballots issued total 417. Kansas voters will cast ballots on Tuesday August 1 with Missouri holding its primary a week later. General election is November 7.
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Douglas County
Delbert Mathia
Mathia
June McMillin
Democrats
Kansas
Lawrence Area
Missouri
Candidates Session at Woodlawn School
The North Lawrence Improvement Association sponsors a candidates session at Woodlawn School at 7 30 p m Wednesday. Each party chairman is asked to notify all candidates. Speakers will have about 10 minutes to present their platforms.
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Fifth
Elm
North Lawrence
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