Longtime female basketball coach reflects on early hoops era
Marie Brown, 80, a former Kansas and Colorado girls basketball coach, recalls growing up on a farm, playing catcher at KU, and leading teams from Neosho Rapids to Coolidge. She criticizes modern recruiting and defends strong moral coaching while preferring football.
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Marie Brown
Babcock Place
Kansas
Colorado
Miss Brown
Skidmore
Missouri
Baldwin
Lawrence
Kansas University
Frontenac
Osage City
Deerfield
Neosho Rapids
Rural panel to study living in Chanute Kansas
A five member KU Medical Center task force aims to create a rural living laboratory in Chanute by studying what attracts or repels people from rural life. They plan a grant proposal to support a broader study and eventual rural health center in the former Southeast Kansas Tuberculosis Hospital. The group seeks $34,000 legislative funds to hire a planning director this fall and later pursue private foundations.
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Chanute
Southeast Kansas
Robert Kugel
Kansas University Medical Center
Southeast Kansas Tuberculosis Hospital
The
Kansas Legisla
Ture
Kugel
del Shankel
Lawrence
Shankel
Joseph Meek
KUMC
Ron Calgaard
W.J. Argersinger
Senate weighs neutron bomb in U S arsenal debate
The Senate Appropriations Committee rejected a bid to ban neutron bomb funding and approved a 10.4 billion public works and energy research bill that includes funds for nuclear weapons development. The panel also backed continuing the Clinch River project and cut eight of 17 water projects opposed by Carter.
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Washington
Senate
U.S
Senate Appropriations Committee
Mark Hatfield
R-Ove
Public Works and Energy Research
House
NATO
Europe
Senate Committee
Hatfield
Congress
Carter
Clinch River
Oak Ridge Tenn
White House
The
Energy Committee
Appropriations Committee
Senate Energy Committee
House of Representatives
County jobless rate eases in May
Douglas County's unemployment rate slipped to 3.2 percent in May from 3.3 percent in April, closely tracking the statewide rate of 3.3 percent. Local labor force stood at 29,525 with 950 unemployed. April figures were 29,100 with 950 unemployed. The statewide rate was 3.3 percent in May, with national rate at 6.4 percent.
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Douglas County
Kansas Job Service Center
Kansas
Marine Cpl Burkland Promoted at Yuma Air Station
Marine Cpl Sean K. Burkland son of Mr and Mrs Forest G Burkland of Lawrence has been promoted while serving at the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma Arizona
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Sean K. Burkland
Forest G. Burkland
Overlook Circle
Lawrence
Marine Corps Air Station
Yuma
Ariz
U S Nuclear Corp Files Bankruptcy in Oak Ridge
ERDA filed a bankruptcy petition against U S Nuclear Corp of Oak Ridge Tennessee. Officials say the action could disrupt foreign nuclear programs and spark international lawsuits over prepaid fuel as Brazil and South Africa seek to recover deposits and assurances on future deliveries.
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Washington
Carter Administration
State Department
Justice Department
U.S. Nuclear Corp
Oak Ridge
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Brazil
South Africa
U.S
Lebo Man Arrested on Cocaine and Theft Charges
Lawrence police stopped a vehicle at Second and Locust on a traffic violation and detained 26 year old Jimmie D. Ormsby of Lebo. He faces sale of cocaine and felony theft charges and is held in Douglas County jail on a 15000 dollar bond awaiting return to Emporia.
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Lebo
Lawrence
Jimmie D. Ormsby
Douglas County
Emporia
Ormsby
Second
Planners re elect leaders in Lawrence commission
Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission unanimously re elected Max Lucas as chairman and Jane Combest as vice chair for second terms. New members Margaret McKinney and Kurt von Achen joined the panel as replacements.
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Max Lucas
Jane Combest
Lawrence-Douglas County
Ms. Combest
Chuck Warner
Lucas
Refugees report slayings amid Amin security actions near Uganda
Refugees recount killings by Amin's security forces in retaliation for an alleged life plot. Spokesmen said assassins were intercepted near Entebbe, with many military figures slain on suspicion. Kisumu reporters cite 50 Ugandan refugees registered locally, mostly Bagandas.
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Amin
Kakamega
Entebbe
Kisumu
Uganda
Quinlan Family Vows Privacy Amid Comatose Health Update
Karen Quinlan remains in a fragile state in Morris Plains New Jersey as family spokesman declines further comment. Attorney Paul Armstrong says predictions are impossible and the family will speak again only after Miss Quinlan’s death. Julia Quinlan and Father Trapasso emphasize privacy as her vigil continues with Joseph Quinlan leaving the nursing home escorted by guards.
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Morris Plains
N.J
Karen Anne Quinlan
Paul Armstrong
Armstrong
Miss Quinlan
Joseph Quinlan
Morris View Nursing Home
Trapasso
Roy backs Carlin bid for Kansas governor
Former Congressman Bill Roy said he will support House Speaker John Carlin for the 1978 Democratic gubernatorial nomination in Kansas. Roy, allied with Robert Brock who endorsed Carlin, dismissed claims of a broader stop Schneider movement and avoided joining any multi-endorsement plan.
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Topeka
Kan
Bill Roy
House
John Carlin
Roy
Robert Brock
Carlin
Stop Schneider Movement
Kansas
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Karen Anne
Thomas Trapasso
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Atty
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