Planners to study rezonings in Lawrence area
Lawrence Douglas County Planning Commission will review proposed rezonings by Jayhawker Towers owners to allow a snack shop and bank on the West 15th Street site and by Lawrence Memorial Hospital to rezone 1.72 acres for physician offices. The panel also reconsiders Children’s Hour Inc. nursery plans at 407 Maine as city leaders discuss Pinckney neighborhood development.
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Jayhawker Towers
Lawrence- Douglas County
West 15Th Street
Towers
Lawrence Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees
Hospital Board
Hospital
Pinckney
Lawrence City Commission
Planning Commission
Children’s Hour Inc
Maine
City awaits ruling on residency rule appeal
Lawrence city officials will not change the emergency residency rule for police and firefighters until a legal appeal filed by Wayne Ousdahl and fellow firefighters is decided or withdrawn. Commissioner Barkley Clark urged dropping the rule, while others favored waiting on the court process and the suit’s outcome.
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Lawrence
Barkley Clark
Kansas University
Clark
U.S. District Court
Kansas City
Wayne Ousdahl
RL. 3
Ousdahl
Earl O'Connor
10Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Denver
Colo
U.S. Supreme Court
Philadelphia
Ed Carter
Jack Rose
Don Binns
Marnie Argersinger
Woman dies after baboon heart transplant
Cape Town AP reports that Christiaan Barnard’s baboon heart transplant on a 26 year old Italian woman failed after 10 hours on bypass. The patient died at 3 a.m. Barnard said the baboon heart was too small and tissue matching was not possible.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Christiaan Barnard
Groote Schuur
Barnard
Reeves Saunders
Saunders
City Over Time Policy Recast by Lawrence Officials
Lawrence city commissioners voted to require overtime at supervisor discretion reversing a year old policy tied to emergencies. The session also expanded sick leave and ended emergency leave, seeking employee suggestions and cost checks on disability coverage. The changes remain preliminary with formal votes to come.
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Lawrence City
Commission
Buford Watson
Ed Carter
Marnie Argersinger
Watson
Park project advances north of Sixth Street site
Work on Tommy Constant park proceeds north of Sixth Street between Vermont and Tennessee as city crews remove an old asphalt lot. Delays from Kansas River bridge work and two buildings on site slowed progress, now topsoil will be added and grass planted likely in August per Fred DeVictor.
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Tommy Constant
Sixth Street
Vermont
Tennessee
Kansas River
Fred DeVictor
Parks and Recreation
DeVictor
Penalty decision for KU law school building postponed
The state architect will decide on penalties for Casson Construction after cleanup from heavy rain, mud and silt in the lower level is resolved. The $5 million Topeka project missed June 7 completion with August move-in planned. officials note no serious damage beyond mud, and work remains ongoing.
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Topeka
Kansas University
Law School
Casson Construction Co
Louis Krueger
Casson
Krueger
Jim Canole
KU Law School
Royals Stadium Wednesday Bus Trip From South Park
Lawrence youngsters and parents may register at neighborhood playgrounds for a parks and recreation trip to the Royals Stadium in Kansas City Missouri. Buses depart 5 45 p m from the South Park Bandstand and return after the Royals versus Mariners game. Tickets cost 1 50 including transport and ballpark admission.
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Lawrence
Parks and Recreation Department
Royals
Kansas City
South Park
Seattle Mariners
Mother and son survive crash by leaping from helicopter
An eyewitness said a mother and her 17 year old son leaped from a helicopter before it crashed into a corn field in Landsdale Pennsylvania. The pilot was killed and the mother and son sustained minor injuries. Jack Weber 19 of Landsdale was named in the report.
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Landsdale, Pa
Jack Weber
Landsdale
Clinton Lake bid date reset to July 13 for phase one work
The opening bid date for Clinton Lake recreation construction phase one was moved from June 29 to July 13 due to wage-rate changes affecting bids. In a separate incident a helicopter crashed after engine failure, a mother and her son escaped after jumping to safety. both were treated at North Penn Hospital.
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Clinton Lake
Weber
North Penn Hospital
investigators lack evidence in Conlin beating death case
Douglas County Attorney Mike Malone says investigators have not gathered enough evidence to file felony murder charges over the May 21 beating and robbery of Robert E. Conlin Sr., 66, who died May 26. The probe remains open as leads are pursued and witnesses recanvassed.
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Douglas County
Mike Malone
Robert E. Conlin Sr
Conlin
Lawrence
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Malone
Laurence Price
Brezhnev and Warnke differ on arms talks during Paris visit
In Paris Brezhnev says no major progress toward capping offensive arms amid tensions with the United States. In Moscow Warnke says substantial progress was made at Geneva toward a framework for negotiations, with both sides seeking agreements on nuclear arms limits.
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Paris
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Soviet Union
United States
Brezhnev
Valery Giscard d’Estaing
Rambouillet Chateau
France
Paul C. Warnke
Moscow
Indian Ocean
Leonid Zamyatin
U.S
Cyrus R. Vance
Carter
Vance
Andrei A. Gromyko
Geneva
Gromyko
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University of Mississippi
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Mass
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New York
Clinton
Trans-American Real Estate Exchange
Benton
TAREX
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Massachusetts
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Larry K. McElwain
Keith M. McElwain
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