Lawrence school board approves transportation and insurance contracts
The Lawrence Board unanimously approved transportation and insurance measures for the 1972-73 year. Actions include larger buses, private transport options, driver dismissal for cause, and 8 percent property value coverage increase with a $34,250 premium. New television equipment and typewriters will be bought for Central and West junior high schools, with installation from Alexander Electronics and negotiated bids from multiple vendors.
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Lawrencé
Eee
Lawrence Typewriter Co
Central
West
Kenneth Fisher
Orchestra Trip Approved By Board In Lawrence HS
The 75 member Lawrence High School orchestra won board approval to attend the Chicago Mid-West National Band and Orchestra Clinic in December. Larry Williams says fundraising will start to cover about 7000 dollars with each member expected to contribute. two advisory meetings have occurred and reactions are enthusiastic but no final action until board signs off. The group is the largest high school orchestra in Kansas and has received a clinic invitation, a first for a Kansas ensemble.
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Lawrence High School
Chicago
Carl Knox
William Medley
Will Betenfer
Williams
Kansas
Lawrence
Car Slams Wall After Slow-Moving Vehicle Crashes
At 3 04 pm Monday a car with two jumpers struck the east wall of the Furniture Co building at 1547 E 23rd Lawrence. Juanita S Zaring 19 of Sunflower Village said brakes failed while avoiding a slower car. Marie Neal 3 also of Sunflower Village and a passenger Ian Robert 11 jumped from the car after turning off 23rd Street onto a dirt road 400 feet east of the store. The car backed west into the building. The baby and Mrs Neal suffered cuts and bruises and were not treated. Estimated damages were 25 to the car 500 to the building and 150 to furniture. Police also logged 10 other collisions and 16 injuries that day.
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Arehouse Furniture Co
Lawrence
23Rd Street
Prison Hailed As Life Saver
Anthony De Angelis, a 56 year old New Jersey oil magnate and fraud figure, left Lewisburg prison after seven years of a 26 year term claiming the facility saved his life. He said he weighed 250 pounds on entry and left at 170, praising the prison’s incentives for reform and the treatment he received.
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Lewisburg
Anthony de Angelis
New Jersey
Igalad Oil King
de Angelis
Bacharach Receives Honorary Music Degree in Montreal
Pop composer Burt Bacharach age 43 received an honorary doctor of music degree from McGill University in Montreal on Monday. Bacharach dropped out of McGill in 1948 after two years of study.
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Montreal
Burt Bacharach
McGill University
Bacharach
McGill
Welfare Costs in Nation Dipped Again in January
AP reports January welfare costs fell for the fifth time in six months as medical care costs dropped, yet 60 000 more people joined relief roles. AFDC payments reached 10.7 million beneficiaries, with 7.7 million children, at a total of 155.8 million dollars.
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Washington
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
California
New Jersey
Vermont
AFDC
Tractor Accident Kills Youth Near Olmitz Kansas
A 15 year old Olmitz boy, Mark L. Axman, was killed Monday in a tractor rollover on a gravel township road five miles north and a quarter mile east of Olmitz. He was riding behind his father’s tractor when the machine overturned into a ditch and landed on him. He died at Hockingtoon Lutheran Hospital.
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Olmitz, Kan
Olmitz
Here
Mark L. Axman
Leonard J., Axman, Olmitz
Lodsé
Axman
Hoisington Lutheran Hospital
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Harmon Company
Hope Plaza
Jack Landreth
Lawrence Insurance
Alexander Electronics, Inc
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Neal Fetter
Jim Zarley
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Steve Smith
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Sunflower Cablévision
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Bolitd Ha
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Noni Assenger
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Allyn and Bacon
Scott Foresman
Harper & Row
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Schwegler
Paula Shenk
Common Learnings
Patricia Hansen
June Bacharach
Muriel, Healy
Deerfield
Marilyn Bevan
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Linda Hazel
Victoria Martin
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Robert Bryant
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Wendall Bass
Ralph Hazel
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Cities Service Gas Company
First National Center
Oklahoma City
Alaska
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