Rural areas see majority of Kansas traffic deaths in 1965
Kansas traffic safety officials report 1965 fatalities totaled 667, with 538 in rural sections and 133 in cities of 2,500 or more. Urban areas accounted for 58 percent of all accidents, while rural areas had 419 fatal or injury crashes. Sedgwick, Wyandotte, Johnson, Shawnee counties lead in fatalities and accidents.
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Topeka
Kansas
Traffic and Safety Department
State Highway Commission
Sedgwick County
Wyandotte County
Johnson
Shawnee
Wyandotte
Douglas
Reno
Sedgwick
Stanton County
Greenwood
Harper
Comanche
Hamilton
Lane
Ness
Stafford
Stevens
Leaders Reported For KU Colloquia On Man's Future
KU announces speakers for the Inter-Century Seminar on Man and the Future April 11–14. Basil T. Church Memorial Lecture by Fairfax M. Cone in the Union Journalism colloquium. Other sessions feature Dwight Macdonald, Ashley Montagu, Harry Bernstein, Sylvester Weaver, and Robert Shayon on culture, Latin America, network TV, and the drug industry.
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Kansas University
Fairfax M. Cone
Foote, Cone and Belding Advertising Agency
Chicago
Basil T. Church
Kansas Room
The
Union
Cone
Board of Trustees of
Chicago Univeristy
Dwight Macdonald
Esquire Magazine
New Yorker
Ashley Montagu
Harry Bernstein
Brooklyn College
CCNY
Bernstein
American Historical Association
Addrses KU
Americas
Sylvester L. Weaver
Nbc-Tv
Subscription TV Inc
Robert Lewis Shayon
Saturday Review
Network TV
Mark J. Hiebert
Sterling Drug Co
New York
Union Forum
Mein Even
KU Centen
Kansas Injury Toll and Loss Reported for Year
The report cites weariness and drinking as factors in incidents with total injuries in Kansas reaching 21 500 for the year. Economic loss from death, personal injury and property damage is estimated at more than 119 million dollars.
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Kansas
KU Pharmacy Seniors Win Fox-Vliet Scholarships
Two Kansas University pharmacy seniors receive Fox-Vliet Drug Company spring semester scholarships. Larry Alkire of Wichita and George M. Brenner of Princeton are awarded two $125 grants established through M. B. Murray Fox-Vliet vice president and general manager in Wichita.
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Kansas University Pharmacy
Fox-Vliet Drug Company
Larry Alkire
Wichita
George M. Brenner
Princeton
M. B. Murray
Fox-Vliet Drug Co
President signs Asian Development Bank bill as Magna Carta
President Johnson signs the Asian Development Bank bill in the White House calling it an economic Magna Carta for Asia. He announces a $12 million US pledge for a Nam Ngum dam project in Laos and outlines the bank's $200 million U S subscription with staged payments through 1970 and on-call support for bond sales.
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Washington
Johnson
Asian Development Bank
Asia
White House East Room
Johnson al
United States
Nam Ngum
Mekong River
Laos
Famed Author Thor Heyerdahl to Speak at KU
The Norwegian explorer and author of Kon Tiki Thor Heyerdahl will give a public lecture at Kansas University on Thursday. He will discuss Migrations in the Pacific at 10 30 a m in Dyche Auditorium. The lecture is sponsored by the Department of Anthropology. He will also address a semi-
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Heyerdahl
Pacific
Dyche Auditorium
EU Department of Anthropology
Heyerdahl Researcher Visits Museums Ahead of Peru Study
Heyerdahl, taught by Carlyle S. Smith, professor and curator, will examine museum collections and travel to Peru to prepare a third volume. Smith joined the 1955 Easter Island Southeast Pacific expedition, which yielded two volumes on prehistoric habitation.
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Carlyle S. Smith
University
Museum of Natural History
Smith
Heyerdahl
Easter Island
Southeast
Pacific
Peru
George Myatt Batting Record Highlights
George Myatt served as third base coach for the Philadelphia Phillies and played 407 major league games from 1938 to 1947, batting .283 in his career.
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George Myatt
Philadelphia Phillies
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Gamble-Skogmo, Inc
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