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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1973
Page
9
East Heights Elementary launches a six week simulation where 325 students act as bank clerks, grocers, and post office staff. KU education students assist as researchers. The program teaches budgeting, nutrition, and job value with field trips and earned pay.
President Nixon called on Congress to restore the death penalty for certain federal crimes and impose life imprisonment without parole for habitual drug traffickers. He proposed a broad revision of the federal criminal code, tougher penalties, higher fines, and limits on the insanity defense, while opposing marijuana legalization.
Voters may register at the Douglas County Clerk's office in the courthouse from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday. Registration closes at 9 p.m. Tuesday, ahead of the April 3 general election.
The Kansas House approved a Republican backed school finance bill 74 to 44 and sent it to a conference committee with Senate differences. The panel will iron out a final version as the Senate also moves a corporate income tax disallowance bill, awaiting leadership decisions on revenue needs.
The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings for small streams around Lawrence and urged caution as showers and possible thunderstorms bring up to two inches of new rain. No major floods reported by Douglas County authorities by noon, though Mud Creek and Stranger Creek may rise with heavy rainfall.
North Vietnam signaled another POW release planned for next week with the United States estimating about 140 prisoners may depart on Tuesday or Wednesday. Maj. Gen. Gilbert H. Woodward urged the listing of names times and release sites by Sunday as part of third phase repatriation.
Dr. Carl Sagan says Mariner 9 photos show past running water on Mars with sinuous channels. He notes large temperature swings up to 150 degrees, but frozen organisms could persist, and Viking experiments may detect life.
Local ad notes Raney Drug Stores offer to fill all doctors prescriptions. Includes phrases about convenience and nationwide service.
Washington reports that John Thomas Downey, 42, a Yale graduate and former CIA employee, will be released Monday after 20 years in a Chinese prison on spy charges. He will cross into Hong Kong en route home, part of a Nixon era thaw that also frees Air Force Capt. Philip E. Smith and Navy Cmdr. Robert J. Flynn. Downey, captured in 1952, and Richard Fecteau were downed over Manchuria in a supposed spy mission. Fecteau was released earlier.
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