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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1965
Page
5
UAS Nir Pores reports on Ameri can jets taking part in a first day air strike against the Viet Cong in South Viet Nam. The piece describes the attack from a correspondent’s guided perspective.
The article lists Nationalist and Federalist candidates for state offices including secretary of state attorney general state auditor treasurer and superintendent of public instruction across numerous towns and counties with multiple named contenders. It also describes a Vietnam War air strike near Saigon with napalm and fighter jets burning a village and casualties, detailing pilots locations and actions.
Four jet fighter bombers circled a Viet Cong village near Da Nang. A liaison plane dropped a smoke bomb to mark the target, a cluster of huts in the jungle.
A 58-year-old Topeka man, Frank Sewell, was hospitalized in fairly good condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after falling from a ladder while wiring a milk house at the Arden Ott farm southwest of Eudora. He suffered head cuts and back and rib pains. Sewell is employed by Norris Bros. of Lawrence.
The Pentagon began precautionary security steps 24 hours before a public speak-out against U S foreign policy. Members of the Committee for Non-Violent Action handed leaflets to about 30 000 workers entering the building urging policy change and resignations from posts supporting the present policy.
Avery reviews questions to the Board of Regents about Fraser Hall replacement. Morgan explains a new site would trigger grant cancellations and delays. Avery concludes the public interest favors proceeding, recalling his own student experiences in the condemned building.
AEC officials anticipate at least 50 proposals for a new $280 million accelerator to be built over six to eight years. The facility would employ 2,000 scientists and engineers and draw over 1,000 visiting researchers yearly, with a $70 million annual payroll. An 11 member NAS committee will screen bids, visiting five to ten sites before the AEC selects the location possibly by January 1966.
Laboratory tests confirmed gases from decomposing ceiling tile caused the June 2 explosion and fire in a Wichita grocery store. Fire officials said trapped gases in a poorly vented area above an air conditioning duct contributed to the blaze that killed one fireman.
A witness stated that when oxygen reached the gas, it exploded. The remark appears in discussion of the National Defense Education Act context.
Twenty eight Kansas colleges and institutions share federal loans to assist students. The total Kansas allotment reaches 731,992 dollars, led by Kansas University with 161,078 dollars and Kansas State University at Manhattan second with 123,580 dollars.
Baker University in Baldwin, a private Methodist school, received $9,874. Cleopatra's barge has been replaced by hydrofoil boats on the Nile. Three high speed boats named for Egyptian queens cruise the river between Aswan and Abu Simbel.
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