Girl Scout camp cleans chicken to honor past scouting
At Hidden Valley camp near Lawrence, 153 Douglas County scouts from Lawrence Eudora and Lecompton dress a chicken and make butter and jelly as part of a 60th anniversary badge. Leaders explain the activity teaches history and basic tasks while girls from Brownies to Cadettes participate.
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Hidden Valley
Douglas County
Lawrence
Eudora
Lecompton
Jenny Schwetman
Hidden Valley Camp
Journal-World
Ken Seals
Soggy fields slow harvest in Kansas wheat belt
Rain across Kansas has left fields soft but the 1972 wheat harvest should surge by weekend, per the Harvest Labor Control office. Areas in south central Kansas report cutting underway in Anthony, Caldwell, Kingman, Kiowa, Well ington, Ashland, Coldwater, Johnson, Kinsley, Liberal and Syracuse with some damage near Cimarron.
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Great Bend
Kan
Kansas
Kansas Harvest Labor Control Office
Anthony
Caldwell
Kingman
Kiowa
Wellington
Cimarron
Ashland
Coldwater
Johnson, Kinsley
Liberal
Syracuse
Warm, Clear Skies Forecast Across Friday and Weekend
The forecast calls for warm temperatures and clear to partly cloudy skies with a slight rain chance tonight Friday and through the weekend. Temperatures rise to the low to mid 80s Friday with overnight lows around 58 and a 5 percent rain chance tonight and Friday. Weekend highs reach the upper 80s to 90s with lows in the mid to upper 60s and a chance of rain Sunday night or Monday. Farmers report moisture relief after Wednesday showers aiding spring-planted crops as some fields remain crusty from dry soil. County conservation director Eben Farley notes few wet fields may delay work briefly but combines are expected to proceed once wheat matures.
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Kansas
Eben Farley
County Conservation Direcor
Farley
Miller Visits Dodge City for Democratic Barbecue
Attorney General Vern Miller visited Dodge City Kansas for a Ford County Democratic barbecue. He commented that the front street slot machines are acceptable as long as no cash leaves the machines, following a curbside opinion after the raid yielded no arrests.
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Dodge City
Kan
Vern Miller
Miller
Old Lawrence cisterns fed early fire protection network
The article recalls downtown Lawrence cisterns as major fire water sources drilled into blocks along Massachusetts Street and river access points. Today contractors finish excavation in the 800 and 900 blocks ahead of sidewalk pouring and street paving with a zigzag curb planned.
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Lawrence
Massachusetts Street
Elfriede Fischer Rowe
Old
11Th Street
Paul Ingels
Union Pacific
11Th
Kentucky
Seventh
Louisiana
Milt Hays
Frank Cosley
John Scanlan
Constant Construction Co
Lawrence April sales tax rises 47 percent to 541k overall
April revenue from the local half per cent sales tax in Lawrence totals 54 401 06 up 47 51 percent from March as the second highest monthly sum since the tax began last July and lifting year to date to 438 176 77. Topeka and Manhattan also posted March gains.
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Lawrence
Topeka
Manhattan
Kansas traffic deaths log report for 24 hours up to Thursday
Topeka Kansas AP reports a traffic death log covering 24 hours to 9 am Thursday. The June 42 is listed for 1972 and 266 for comparable 1971 period with 0 for the latest figure.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Labor Board Orders New Clinton Scale
The Wage Appeals Board directs recalculation of Clinton Reservoir wage scales. It urges including surrounding projects Melvern Dam Shawnee Jefferson Miami counties and Kansas City Power Dam in setting new minimums. Anticipated result may delay bids for the $15 to $25 million dam project. new scale could arrive by Monday for timely bid review.
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Washington
Labor Department
Clinton
Melvern
Osage County
Kansas City Power
Linn County
Perry Dam
Office of Employment Standards
Shawnee
Jefferson
Miami
Kansas City
Corps of Engineers
Journal-World
Humphrey Seeks Campaign Funds in New York
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey visited New York to meet with media executives and raise funds for his debt-ridden presidential bid. He planned no public appearances and was not actively campaigning for the June 20 New York primary where no Humphrey delegates were pledged.
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New York
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Humphrey
Bombing Pause Near Hanoi Ties to Podgorny Visit
US halted bombing near Hanoi as Soviet leader Podgorny visited. Northern campaigns continued farther south with strikes on Dong Hoi, fuel depots, and radar vans. In An Loc area fighting eased, South Vietnamese forces moving to lift the siege, while casualties were reported around Pleiku and Kon Tum.
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Nikolai V. Podgorny
Moscow
U.S
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Podgorny
Calcutta
Vietnam
America
Fatal Cathay Pacific jetliner crash in Vietnam kills 81
A four engine Convair 880 of Cathay Pacific crashed in Vietnam's central highlands killing all 81 aboard, including 17 Americans. Among the dead in West Bend Wisconsin was Thomas J. Kenny and five family members. Rescue teams found bodies but no survivors as security was provided by South Vietnamese troops. The crash occurred on the Bangkok to Hong Kong leg via Singapore route, about 200 miles northeast of Saigon. Reports spoke of a possible midair collision but later checks ruled out another aircraft.
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Associated Press
Richard Blystone
Highway 13
An Loc
Highlands
Pleiku
Kontum
Saigon
Vietnam
Central Highlands
West Bend
Wis
Thomas J. Kenny
B.C. Ziegler Co
Roberta
Kathleen
Daniel
Mary Jane
Colleen
Andrew Pick
Asia
New Delhi
County Receives Cigarette Tax Revenue Share
Douglas County reports a quarterly cigarett e tax distribution of 39 980 51 with Franklin Jefferson Johnson and Leavenworth also listed for 14 910 63 8 980 09 165 888 06 and 34 285 80 respectively in figures from the Kansas Department of Revenue.
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Douglas County
Kansas Department of Revenue
Franklin County
Jefferson
Johnson
Leavenworth
Docking Calls Tax Loopholes to Fund State Improve
Governor Robert Docking urged overhauling Kansas tax structure to finance state needs. He criticized lawmakers for protecting special interests and praised tax relief efforts. He cited spiraling property taxes and support for a tax lid to reduce property tax dependence for education.
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Wichita
Kan
Robert Docking
Kansas
Robert A. Taft Institute of Government
Wichita State University
Docking
Car Theft Reported in Lawrence Parking Lot
Gary Borders of Olathe reported the theft of his 1960 brown car valued at 400 dollars from a parking lot at 255 North Michigan Street between 6 p.m. Wednesday and 10 a.m. today. Law rence police are investigating.
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N. Mich
Lawrence
Gary Borders
Olathe
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Labor Board
George Esper
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U.S. Command
Dong Hoi
Hue
South Vietnam
Bangkok
Hong Kong
Singapore
Che Reo
Will Hess
INDI
Renee
Aesge Farm
Russell Stover Candieg
Key
Rexall
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