Kirby Purchases Sirloin Steak House from Walter Cragan
Kenneth Kirby, 37, buys The Sirloin from Walter Cragan who opened the restaurant with Ray Barnes on March 7, 1960. Cragan plans to help during a transition. staff remain unchanged. Kirby, a Northwestern economics graduate and former Air Force officer, runs the Jefferson County farm with his wife Betty and their three sons. Cragan, a longtime Lawrence resident, recalls the opening amid a blizzard and says Kirby will continue the high quality and service.
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Walter Cragan
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Cragan
Lawrence
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Cora Moyer
Northwestern University
Cornell
Air Force
Betty
Jefferson County
Oskaloosa
Walt Cragan
Barnes
Belgium Language Split Among Population
About 54 percent of Belgium's 9.55 million people speak mainly Dutch and 45 percent speak French.
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Belgium
Kansas City Builders, Owens Corning Strike Show No Progress
About 25 000 workers in the Kansas City area remain off the job as negotiations broke off. The construction tieup enters its tenth week, Owens Corning dispute reaches its ninth week, and Ford assembly line walkout lasts into its second day with no talks scheduled.
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Ford Assembly Plant
Owens Corning
Ford
Building Trades Council
Nuclear pacemaker trial aims for first human implant
Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark reports 25 volunteers for the first human implantation of a nuclear powered cardiac pacemaker. The device, two thirds the size of a cigarette pack and weighing 32 ounces, uses nuclear energy to run for at least 10 years with trials in dogs preceding human use.
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Beth Israel Medical Center
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Washington
Beth Israel Hospital
Newark
National Heart Institute
Beth Israel
Victor Parsonnet
George H. Myers
Board of Tax Appeals Eyes Added Study on Involved Actions
The Board of Tax Appeals near Topeka considers two cases it may not finish before leaving office. One involves 19 telephone and pipeline companies appealing tax assessments and the other a Dodge City tourist group seeking tax exemption for land preserving Santa Fe Trail wagon rats. The board seeks continuation until July 1, but the old board refuses.
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Board of Tax Appeals
Topeka
State Board of Tax Appeals
Dodge City
State Property Valuation Department
Detroit Officer Acquitted in 1967 Algiers Motel Case
An all white jury in Mason Michigan acquitted officer Ronald August of first degree murder in the shotgun slaying of 19 year old Aubrey Pollard during Detroit's 1967 riots. The trial restricted verdict options to guilty or not guilty. Pollard's mother called the trial fair but implied injustice. The case spurred a state senate push for a judicial conduct inquiry.
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William Beer
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Aubrey Pollard
Rebecca Pollard
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