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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1971
Page
13
Wheat and corn prices listed with small gains and unchanged eggs butter cattle hogs and sheep markets noted. New York stocks drift lower with Dow off 3.15 while chemicals aircrafts and electronics fall and airlines tobacco and drugs edge higher.
Mrs. J. R. Pulliam of 721 Tenn. returned from Paris where she joined 170 U. S. citizens in the Citizens Conference on Ending the War. Sponsored by AFSC Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam and the Fellowship for Reconciliation. She will discuss the trip at a 10 a.m. press conference at the Lawrence Peace Center.
Virgil Everett Gabriel 55 of Eudora is charged with receiving stolen property and encouraging minors to buy stolen goods from two boys aged 14 and 15 from Trefz's Plumbing Co. He posted 1750 bond for a 3 p.m. March 16 preliminary hearing in Douglas County Court. The receiving stolen property charge is a felony and the other a misdemeanor. Gabriel appeared for arraignment and plans to post bond. In a separate county action,William Michael Dodero 23 of Leavenworth had a preliminary hearing continued. he faces four counts from the Feb 26 narcotics raids and is free on 5500 bond.
The Star Spangled Banner was written in 1814 but became the official national anthem in 1931, marking a long delay between its creation and formal recognition.
Senator Ribicoff charged that late Representative Mendel Rivers sought to halt a Senate probe of former Army Brig. Gen. Earl F. Cole over alleged PX and club corruption in Vietnam. Cole testified he feared being blocked and said Rivers died on December 28.
Rep Wendell Wyatt of Oregon calls for a sweeping national program to reforest public lands nationwide including city parking lots and roadway center strips. He says every tree planted acts as a small oxygen factory.
KU police report vandals damaged Danforth Chapel at the University of Kansas with at least 500 dollars in damage. A south door glass pane was smashed and part of a north side stained glass window was broken using a wine bottle overnight. Leo Ousdahl estimates repair costs vary with materials and craftsman availability.
Kansas highway death log shows 109 fatalities in the comparable 1970 period and 101 in the same span, with 109 listed for March 8 and 2 deaths for a 24 hour period ending 9 am Friday. The AP report notes Topeka and statewide figures for the 1971 period.
At Fort Benning Georgia Lt William L Calley Jr faces the end of trial with government and defense summations to start Monday A six man panel of combat veterans will then deliberate on his fate for the My Lai murder case Calley 27 is charged with premeditated murder of 102 unresisting villagers during the My Lai operation March 16 1968 The maximum penalty upon conviction is the death sentence Col Oran Henderson the final witness also testifies seeking court martial on atrocity cover up charges in My Lai He testified he stressed aggressiveness in briefing junior officers the eve of My Lai
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