KU Students and Legislators Discuss Higher Education
Kansas University students and seven members of the House Education Committee met in Kansas Union to discuss advisers and requirements at KU, faculty pay, the Regents board, student elections, and Abbie Hoffman. Kier led the student group with four peers, while lawmakers urged better liaison and budgeting awareness.
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House
Tom Kier
Washington Law
Committee For A Better Board of Regents
Kansas Board of Regents
Abbie Hoffman
Raymond Vaughn
R Burlington
Kier
Vaughn
University Senate
Bert Chaney
D-Hutchinson
Elmer Jackson
Kansas City
Stu
Operational Transfer Okayed for Hospital
Lawrence Memorial Hospital board approved moving and expanding the inhalation therapy department without remodeling costs. The first floor north wing will become service areas with nursing administration housed nearby. The plan calls for three rooms, with minor painting by hospital staff.
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Lawrence Memorial Hospital Board
Nursing Service Administration
Lawrence Memorial
Blue Cross
Systems Development
GOP Unit For Kansas Plans Legislative Session Parley
The Republican State Committee of Kansas meets in Topeka for a legislative and party planning session. Chairman William Falstad says it is the first such meeting in a Kansas legislative session to outline new organizational plans and host a luncheon with lawmakers. He adds the event aims to connect lawmakers with grassroots Republicans and relay insights on the 1971 Legislature.
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Topeka
Republican State Committee of
Kansas
William Falstad
GOP
Falstad
State Committee
Shultz to Speak at St Benedicts College Monday
Shultz of Lawrence will address students faculty and the public at 7 30 p m Monday in the Science Building auditorium at St Benedicts College. The event is hosted by the Atchison Collegiate Young Republican Club.
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Atchison
Reynolds Shultz
Lawrence
St. Benedict’s College
Atchison Collegiate
Young Republican Club
Safety studies urged before Lyons radioactive waste plan
Kansas leaders urged more safety studies before a decision to bury radioactive wastes in Lyons salt mines. The AEC seeks 3.5 million to start a 25 million project amid concerns of erosion, transport safety, and lack of retrieval plans. Governors and lawmakers pressed for fuller analysis and public assurances.
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Washington
Lyons
Kan
Kansas
Joint Committee On Atomic Energy
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
William W. Hambleton
Kansas Geological Survey
Robert Docking
Joe Skubilz
Keith Sebelius
Garner E. Shriver
Luctantly
Hambleton
Milton Shaw
Bomb threat delays Broken Arrow students evacuated
Broken Arrow School at 2704 La was evacuated after a telephone bomb threat. Lawrence police report the building was searched with nothing found and students returned to classes about 3 p.m.
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Broken Arrow
Lawrence
European nations press for US rocket support to share $1 billion space project
The United States may need to provide launch rockets to Europe for a $1 billion post Apollo satellite program. European nations seek approval to launch via the Intelsat system, with a late spring deadline. If denied, Europe may pursue its own Europa 3 booster, budgeted at $600 million to be ready by 1978.
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Phoenix
Ariz
America
United States
Stelsa
Intelsat
Jean Bernard LeGarde
Grance
European Space Conference
Sci
LeGarde
Europe
Nixon Given 5S Proposal
Congress approves a 10 percent Social Security boost tied to raising the debt limit by 35 billion dollars. The measure, retroactive to January 1, aims to inject 3.6 billion into low income beneficiaries as President Nixon prepares to sign. Benefits flow begins in June after administrative changes.
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Washington
Congress
Nixon
Social Security Administration
Vandals Damage New York School Over Weekend
Police report $200 in vandalism at the New York School on 936 N.Y. Weekend acts left a slashed $110 gym movie screen six rooms damaged and at least one interior window broken. Entry appeared not from outside. custodian reported the incident.
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New York School
N.Y
Lawrence Memorial Hospital Move for Coon After Accident
Lawrence E. Coon, 55, of 3020 Iowa, moved from the acute care ward to floor care at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after being struck by a car while changing a flat tire on his pickup near 23rd and Iowa. He is listed in fairly good condition. Kansas basketball boosters, including former KU Chancellor Clarke Wescoe and his son David, plan to attend the NCAA Regional in Wichita, aiming to boost the Jayhawks toward the championship.
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Lawrence E. Coon
Iowa
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
LMH
Kansas
Wichita
Clarke Wescoe
David
New York
Wescoe
Sterling Drug Co
Jayhawk
Production halted for Jesus Christ Superstar at KU
Kansas University canceled the folk rock passion play originally set for April 9 and 10 in Hoch Auditorium after contract problems emerged. The EU Events Committee reported the decision to halt the production.
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Kansas University
Hoch Auditorium
EU Events Committee
Crucified Wall Relief Nears Completion at Baker University
Thomas Lyon Russell describes the acrylic relief in Rice Auditorium as a crucified inside-outside image of man. The work, funded by a Kansas City grant, tests plasticity and fresco color and will premiere with a Kansas City Philharmonic concert before being presented on Alumni Day May 22.
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Thomas Lyon Russell
Baker University Art Department
Baker’s
Rice Auditorium
Jolene Babyak
Baldwin
Baker University
Baker
Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra
Kansas City Regional Council For Higher Educational
Disturbance at Central Junior High School
Lawrence police report a minor disturbance at Central Junior High School at 10 a.m. outside the building with a few punches thrown. No one was taken into custody or transported to the station.
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Lawrence
Central Junior High School
Mass
Fire Causes Undetermined Blaze at Berghorn Home
Firefighters responded to two grass and brush fires in Lawrence Tuesday. The Berghorn residence at 1220 West 29th Court reported at 3:58 p.m. had no known cause and the homeowner was away. A second fire at 2520 Haskell, home of Ivan Jehle, at about 6:30 p.m. involved an intentionally set blaze that burned out.
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Lawrence
I. J. Berghorn
Ivan Jehle
Haskell
Nixon eulogizes Whitney Young at Lexington burial
President Nixon eulogized civil rights leader Whitney M Young Jr calling him a doer not a talker at Greenwood Cemetery in a predominantly black Lexington neighborhood. He noted Young chose action over cabinet service and urged Americans toward greater opportunity and unity between black and white citizens. Spectators lined the grounds as Nixon and Mrs Nixon escorted Youngs widow from the service.
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Lexington
Nixon
Whitney M. Young Jr
Young
Washington
Greenwood Cemetery
Whitney Young
Democrats Delay Vote on Vietnam Withdrawal Plan
House Democratic leaders seek to prevent a split over Vietnam by postponing a caucus vote on a resolution for U S troop withdrawals by December 31. Sponsors backed off after opposition from Speaker Carl Albert and Hale Boggs. next caucus is set for April 21. Senate Democrats already passed a withdrawal resolution last month.
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Washington
House
Vietnam
U.S
Carl Albert
Hale Boggs
Louisiana
Senate
Democratic
Malls Village Expands with $1 Million Housing Project
Malls Village plans a $1 million expansion doubling capacity at Old English Village Apartments in Lawrence. The 72 new units will mirror the first phase and open to residents around August 1, with construction starting in the next few days.
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English Village
25Th
Frank O. Raley Jr
Raley
Lawrence
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