Young travelers note Europe’s present scene in 10 day motor trip
A Geneva report from a parent and two daughters recalls a 10 day car tour through Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy and France. They praise multilingual skills, hotel hospitality, clean countryside, Lake Leman night cruises, Vienna opera, Zermatt hikes, and the € varied daily life showing travel as education for youth and parents. They also mention motel mushroom hunting in Lawrence and a dish of veal with cream and wine sauce served with dried Indian mushrooms costing about $2.50.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Germany
Austria
Italy
France
Europe
Genea
America
Vietnam
Venice
San Marco
State Opera
Vienna
Zermatt
Lake Leman
Lawrence
Locarno
India
Levee Bids Opened in Kansas City for Lawrence Project
Bids opened today at the U S Army Corps of Engineers office in Kansas City for Phase I of Lawrence flood protection. Estimated total cost is 5 million dollars with local and federal funding. Lowest bid 2 034 433 from N R Hamm Construction Perry. second bid 2 203 014 from List and Clark Overland Park. Phase I runs about six miles from near the Jefferson County line to Massachusetts Street, including drainage structures, stone slope protection, rock dikes and 76 acres of seeding. Work to begin within three weeks with a 540 day completion. Phase II continues along the Kaw riverbank to Mud Creek and parallels toward the Kansas Turnpike for about seven miles.
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Kansas City
Lawrence
N. R. Hamm Construction
Perry
List and Clark
Overland Park
Jefferson County
Kaw River
Massachusetts Street
Mud Creek
Missouri Levees Break Overnight
Seven private levees on farms along the lower Missouri River failed Monday night. About 3 000 acres of farmland were flooded with agricultural losses estimated at 34 500 000 dollars. The Army Corps of Engineers reported river levels slowly receding and warned progress would be gradual as Perry and Tuttle Creek reservoirs released water to ease downstream pressure.
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Kansas City
Missouri River
Army Corps of Engineers
Jefferson City
Boonville
St. Charles
Rule
Neb
Missouri
Kansas
Perry
Delaware River
Tuttle Creek
Milford
Pomona
Ottawa
Kan
Bagnell Dam
Bagnell
Two Health Grants At KU for Disease Lady
The Kansas University received two grants totaling $50,624 from the U S Public Health Service via the Council on Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Dr Charles A Leone professor of zoology will administer a $25 048 grant and Dr M James Freeman assistant professor of microbiology will head a $25 576 program. The major portion of each award will fund stipends for advanced graduate students.
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The
Kansas University
U. S. Public Health Service
Council On Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Charles A. Leone
M. James Freeman
Senator Clark Calls for Moral Overhaul After Dodd Censure
Senator Joseph S. Clark proposes a Senate ethics program after Thomas J. Dodd is censured. The plan calls for annual disclosures of income over 100 dollars, asset and liability listings, barring gifts over 100 dollars from lobbyists, banning joint ventures with lobbyists, and prohibiting outside jobs without permission.
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Clark
Senate
425 Jordanians 2 Jews Swapped at Allenby Bridge
Israel handed over 425 prisoners to Jordan in exchange for two Israeli Air Force captains. International Red Cross spokesman Serge Nessy described the handover via the Allenby Bridge, with some wounded soldiers transported by stretchers and one major the highest ranking officer among the released.
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Allenby Bridge
Jordan
Israel
International Red Cross
Allenby
Jordan River
Serge Nessy
Iraq
Nessy
Jerusalem
Pentagon grants drill exemption for two-year active duty Reservists
The Pentagon said Reservists with two years of active duty will generally be exempt from weekly drills in the Ready Reserve. The policy could release thousands of men currently required to attend weekly meetings of Active Reserve or National Guard units.
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Washington
Pentagon
Race Probe In Kansas City Schools Under Federal Review
A preliminary inquiry by the U S Office of Education into racial equity in the Kansas City School District begins with Benjamin L Hunton in the city for two to three days. The probe aims to determine if all children receive equal educational opportunities regardless of race color or national origin and may expand to Wichita and other areas if findings warrant.
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Kansas City
U.S. Office of Education
Benjamin L. Hunton
Washington
Hunton
Lobbying Charge Faced By Jefferson City Man
TOPEKA AP. Joe A. Burnett of Jefferson City Missouri posted 250 bond for acting as a legislative agent without registering with the Kansas secretary of state Attorney General Robert Sonderholm said the case will be docketed in Shawnee County District Court Burnett represents the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co The complaint by Charles McAtee director of Kansas penal institutions cites Burnett sponsored a dinner for legislators and demonstrated reflectorized automobile license tags with borders numerals and letters
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Topeka
Joe A. Bunett
Jefferson City
Kansas Secretary of State
Robert Sonderholm
Shawnee County
Burnett
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co
Charles McAtee
Kansas Penal Institutions
McAtee
Kansas
Meredith March Expands Reach as Voter Registration Push
Mississippi marcher James H. Meredith plans political orientation meetings in major towns along U S 51 after reaching Oakland. He aims to mobilize Negro voters for the August Democratic primary and spoke of meetings in Grenada and other cities to dispel fear and encourage registration by July 7.
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Oakland
Miss
James H. Meredith
Meredith
Hernando
Grenada
Mississippi
ICC approves 3 to 5 percent truck rate increases
The Interstate Commerce Commission board voted to allow truck freight increases of 3 to 5 percent in the central states. The central area definition was not specified. This marks the third sizable truck rate rise this month and the suspension board may halt or delay the new rates if it votes to suspend.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Central States
ICC
Central Area
Board of Suspension
Beating Reported Near 6th and Ark
Police were called at 10 39 p m Monday to 6th and Ark streets where a woman was reported beaten. They found Madge Wheeler 52 of 1333 Tennessee Street with minor cuts and took her home.
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6Th and Ark, Sts
Madge Wheeler
Tenn. St
Future Johnson Kosygin talks eyed after Glassboro summit
Congressional leaders, briefed by President Johnson, believe future direct contacts between Johnson and Kosygin are possible after the Glassboro meetings. White House cautions no specific time or place has been set, while leaders say the talks created a good atmosphere for further discussions.
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Washington
Johnson
Glassboro
White House
Kosygin
George Christian
Christian
J.W. Fulbright
Dark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Fulbright-Mansfield
Mansfield
Powell Attacks Senate Censure of Dodd From Bahamian Retreat
From Bimini Island Powell denounces the Dodd censure as a display of racial double standards. He claims the Senate spared Dodd due to whiteness and accuses officials of punishing Black leaders while leniently treating white colleagues. He vows not to go to jail in New York.
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Powell
Senate
Dodd
Bimini Island
Bimini
Bahamas
Adam Clayton Powell
Thomas A. Dodd
D-Conn
America
U.S. Senate
House of Representatives
New York
Martin Luther King
Car Damaged by Fire At Texaco Service
An automobile parked at Wagner's Texaco Service on 2206 Iowa St. was set ablaze early today. Firemen said vandals tossed lighted flares into the car, igniting the front and back rugs and seats. Damages amount to $150.
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Wagner
Texaco
Iowa St
Large Type Books Help Visually Impaired at Library
Lawrence Public Library offers about 20 books in extra large print for visually handicapped readers. Books measure 11 by 8 1/2 inches with type about a quarter inch high. Available now for the usual three week loan period. Titles include Goodbye Mr Chips, A Bell for Adano, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and Seven Days in May.
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Lawrence Public Library
Mr. Chips
Adano
Lawrence Chamber Official Warns Against Magazine Pitch
Keith Winter of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce denounces a telephone sales pitch claiming chamber and city official backing. He calls the approach unfounded unauthorized and warns residents to beware. A free cookbook is mentioned as part of the ruse.
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Keith Winter
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Winter
Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence
Three Hurt In Wrecks Here
Three people sustained minor injuries in two local traffic accidents reported to police. Judith Woodward, 27, and Daryoush Marhamat, 22, were injured in a collision on Indiana Street at 2 p.m. both treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Damages were $185 to Woodward and $145 to Marhamat. Later at 9:47 p.m. Jannette Sale, 18, and Debbie Sale, 11, were hurt in a crash at 8th and Ky Streets. Both were treated at LMH. damages were $800 for the Sale car and $750 for the Jeffress vehicle.
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Judith R. Woodward
Ind. St
Thomas B. Woodward
Daryoush Marhamat
Tenn. St
Indiana Street
Ninth
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Woodward Auto
Jannette K. Sale
James F. Jeffress
Sedalia
8Th
Ky. Sts
Sale Auto
Debbie Sale
Thai Teacher Defies Band of 40 Communists in House Siege
Nit Sunghit a 50 year old schoolteacher with 11 wives and 19 children in Bankornoi village northeast Thailand held off a 40 member Communist group. He fired two shotgun cartridges killing one terrorist and injuring another before police reinforcements arrived.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Nit Sunghit
Bankornoi
Nit
Montgomery Seeks Legal Guidance on Pike Study Authority
Kansas highways director John Montgomery asked his legal staff to determine whether the Kansas Highway Commission or the Kansas Turnpike Authority should contract for a $40,000 feasibility study of a Kansas City to Leavenworth turnpike. Interviews with engineering firms were planned to begin July 13, with Montgomery preferring Highway Commission leadership of the process.
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PEKA
John Montgomery
Kansas Highway Commission
Kansas Turnpike Authority
Kansas City-Leavenworth
Montgomery
State Finance Council
Highway Commission
Turnpike Authority
Finance Council
Highway Department
Wichita
Johnson County
Kansas City
Leavenworth
Missouri River
Mid-Continent International Airport
New Federal Riot Statute Moves Through House Panel
The House Judiciary Committee voted to make crossing state lines to incite a riot a federal crime with penalties up to five years in jail and a ten thousand dollar fine. Chairman Emanuel Celler separated a civil rights provision from the measure amid GOP and civil rights concerns, while Rep. William Colmer led the push to split the bills and then withdrew a threatened rule challenge.
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Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Emanuel Celler
D-N.y
Celler
William M. Colmer
D-Mass
House
Rules Committee
Colmer
Judiciary Committee
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