Lawrence School Board authorizes 350 teaching contracts
The Lawrence School Board approved issuance of teaching contracts for about 350 staff, with 149 without added duty pay. They terminated Title I and part-time contracts, discussed boundary changes, enrollment predictions, and sabbatical leave, and named Neal Fenter as radio television multi-media specialist.
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Lawrence School Board
Carl Knox
David Kendall
Knox
Kansas University
Joshua D. Dana
East Heights
Bradley
Dana
Neal Fenter
Radiotelevision
Title IT
Fenter
Lawrence Education Assn
Euler Weighs AG Run Against Miller in Kansas
Rep. Jack Euler says he is better qualified than Atty. Gen. Vern Miller to run the Kansas attorney general office on a businesslike basis. He has not decided, plans to keep options open, and would prefer to face Miller. He criticizes Miller’s public relations and drug raids while asserting no timetable for a decision.
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Euler
Attorney General’s Office
Miller
Nixon names 18 to National Cancer Advisory Board
President Nixon appointed 18 individuals to the new National Cancer Advisory Board. W. Clarke Wescoe, president of Winthrop Laboratories in New York City, receives a sixyear term. Wendell G. Scott of Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, gets a two year term.
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Washington
Nixon
National Cancer Advisory Board
National Advisory Cancer Council
W. Clarke Wescoe
Winthrop Laboratories
New York City
Wendell G. Scott
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis
Lawrence High senior escapes attempted rape on football field
A Lawrence police report says a White man about 5 feet 7 to 5 feet 8 inches tall, about 150 pounds with brown curly hair wearing a yellow short sleeve jersey with black numbers and blue jeans attacked a Lawrence High School senior girl near the football field around 2:20 p.m. Monday but she escaped.
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Lawrence High School
Lawrence
Informer says seven panicked in Kis singer kidnap plot case
Boyd Douglas Jr. testifies that seven antiwar defendants panicked after Hoover disclosed a plot to kidnap Kissinger on Nov 27 1970. He claims the leak tarnished a major tunnel blast plan for Washington’s Birthday 1971 and denies being the source. Cross-examination to begin, defense seeks to undermine Douglas with prison records.
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Harrisburg
Boyd Douglas Jr
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
White House
Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger
Douglas
Kansas House Passes $23.85 Million Tax Plan To Governor
The Kansas Legislature approved a $23.85 million measure ending the state income tax deduction for federal taxes paid by corporations and financial institutions and sent the bill to Governor Robert Docking. The one year duration faced House opposition as lawmakers argued over its terms and potential conference action.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Robert Docking
Loyd Andrews
Wichita
Richard Loux
D-Wich
Linwood Pioneer Festival Reads Gunsmoke Comedy
Elizabeth Jones of Tonganoxie writes a second Linwood festival comedy Festus Finds a Baby for July 22 and 23. Based on Gunsmoke themes, cast includes Dennis Whithire Matt Dillon Raymon Hanna Doc Barbara Gordon Kitty Karen Smith as mother. Last year’s audience reached about 1800 with Dean Sheets and Ed Vaught returning as Festus and the Drifter.
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Elizabeth Jones
Tonganoxie
Festus
Dennis Whithire
Matt Dillon
Raymon Hanna
Doc
Barbara Gordon
Kitty
Karen Smith
Dean Sheets
Ed Vaught
the Drifter
Valentino Car Brings $22 000 at Auction
A collector paid 22000 for Rudolph Valentino’s honeymoon car from 1922 a gray Victoria phaeton by Avions Voisin. Sotheby Parke Bennet sold the item with J B Nethercutt topping about eight bidders. The car’s previous owner was unnamed. Valentino likely paid about 12000 for the car and 8000 for new fenders after a 1926 crash.
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Hollywood
Rudolph Valentino
Natasha Dambova
Avions Voisin
Victoria Phaeton
Sotheby, Parke- Bennet
J. B. Nethercutt
Suburban
Sylmar
Valentino
Paris
Lions High School Bus Caravan Heads to Kansas 5A Tourney
Seven Lawrence High busloads with about 35 students each depart 8:30 a.m. Thursday toward Wichita State University for the Kansas 5A tournament opening against Shawnee Mission South at 1:30 p.m. An eighth bus may join if a driver is found.
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Lawrence High
Wichita
Lions
Kansas
Greyhound
LHS
Bill Medley
Wichita State University
WSU
Lawrence
Kansas Senate Advances Higher Education Funding Increase
The Kansas Senate approved a 430.5 million appropriation for higher education adding more than 500 thousand above Gov Docking's request. The bill funds 5 percent salary increases for classified and unclassified staff and allocates 75 thousand to KU for steamline repairs after last month’s explosion.
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Topeka
Kansas Senate
House of Representatives
Robert Docking
Docking
Kansas University
Youth flees Douglas County Juvenile Court
Juvenile officers and city police pursue a 14 year old who fled the Douglas County Juvenile courtroom around 3 p.m. Monday. Officer Harold Hutton said the boy ran from the room when asked to approach the bench to speak with Judge Charles Rankin. The youth's mother was present in the courtroom.
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Douglas County
Harold Hutton
Ag Hall Proposal Aims to Honor Agricultural Heritage
Senator James B. Pearson introduces a bill to create the Agricultural Hall of Fame and National Center at Bonner Springs Kansas as part of the National Park system. The center, founded in 1960, would span about 400 acres with ten buildings and a wide collection of American agricultural history. 275 acres have been acquired.
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Washington
Senate
Agricultural Hall of Fame and National Center
Bonner Springs
Kan
U.S. National Park System
James B. Pearson
Rkan
Munity
Advisory Board On National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings and Monuments
Secretary of the Interior
Pearson
Congress
72 Shapes Up As Good Year For Building
Two months into 1972 Lawrence construction shows strong activity with February permits totaling 1,614,817, up 400,687 from January. Major projects include a 48 unit apartment complex at 2500 W Sixth 480,000 and a 50 unit building in Meadowbrook 360,000, plus a mobile home park permit 3020 Iowa 375,000 and remodeling at 808 Mass 47,000.
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Lawrence
W. Sixth
Continental Construction
Meadowbrook
Crestline
University Street
Iowa
Police pursue lime green Mustang through late-night chase
Lawence police chased a lime green 1968 or 1969 Mustang that eluded officers after starting at 12 15 a m at 23rd and Louisiana. The pursuit traveled three miles east on K 10 then south and east toward Olathe before gives up the trail.
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Lawrence
23Rd
Louisiana
Olathe
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