Patman seeks 60 day rent and price freeze response
Wright Patman introduces a bill to stabilize rents and freeze all prices and interest rates for 60 days At March 16 levels The plan gives the president 60 days to devise rollbacks Afterward mandatory controls kick in if inflation exceeds 3 percent for three months or 2 percent year over year Rents would be set at January 10 levels with possible further rollbacks Banks raise limits and others cut rates in the same week
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Washington (Ap
Nixon
House Banking Committee
Wright Patman
Spi
Patman
Banking Committee
Texas
William Proxmire
Dwis
Senate
CBS
Proxmire
Congress
Chase Manhattan Bank
Franklin National Bank of New York
Spring campus activities resume at KU and Haskell
Lawrence reports students return after spring break with events planned. Haskell hosts a band celebration at 8 30 p m Tuesday in the auditorium. KU eyes Festival of the Arts April 1 7 and Jayhawk Jamboree April 26 29. Delaware River reservoir keeps flooding risk low but is known as Grasshopper River by elders. City commissioners invite four non incumbents to a pre meeting lunch ahead of the April 3 election.
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Haskell and
Baker University
Haskell Indian Junior College
Jayhawk
Lawrence City
City Commission agenda includes bids for paving and sewers on Lynn Street
City commission to receive bids for Lynn Street paving and storm sewer work from Haskell to Bullene. They will review industrial revenue bonds for Lawrence Paper Co. and a PUD revision for Four Seasons Inc. Also consider Yankee Tank Villa PUD 40 acres west of Kasold, St Andrews Dr building for Golf Course Superintendents Assn, Quick Stop Photo at Hillcrest, retail and office beside Sears near Yale and Iowa, KLWN radio expansion, Dairy Queen sign variance, Meadowbrook relief sewer, Heatherwood sewers, Pioneer Ridge improvements, bid recap, and setting April 9 for police air conditioners bids. Also contracts for paint striper, 1973 street program, Traffic Safety items, minutes from boards, old business on sewers, several ordinances, and Health Board appointment.
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Lynn Street
Haskell Avenue
Bullene Street
Lawrence Paper Co
Santa Fe
Four Seasons, Inc
Four Seasons
Yankee Tank Villa
Kasold Drive
West 25Th Street
31St and
Iowa Streets
Dairy Queen
Mass
Meadowbrook
Public Works Department
Traffic Safety Commission
Alvamar Pud
Deerfield Park
Ohio
Noel Coward dies at 73 in Jamaica
Sir Noel Coward, famed British playwright and multi talent artist, died today in Jamaica from a heart attack at age 73. Joan Hirst, his London secretary, confirmed the death as Coward split time between his Jamaica home and his career across theater and writing. Born December 16, 1899 in Teddington, he debuted at age 11 and rose to fame in 1924 with The Vortex.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Noel Coward
Joan Hirst
London
Star
Sir Noel
Thamesside
Teddington
Croydon
Mud Creek flood plan moves to internal review
The final environmental impact statement for the Mud Creek flood protection project has been forwarded to the U S Army Corps of Engineers review chain and will not reach the Council on Environmental Quality for about a month. Paul Barber chief district engineer in Kansas City Missouri said the report was completed last week and sent for internal review before CEQ filing.
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Mud Creek
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Council On Environmental Quality
Paul Barber
Kansas City
Car Stolen From Home Driveway Reported
Wanda Putthoff of 2132 Carolina reported to Law rence police that a white 1960 four door Chevrolet was stolen overnight from her driveway. The car valued at 250 dollars bore 1973 license DG R 1974.
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Wanda Putthoff
Carolina
Lawrence
Kansas university regents near choosing new chancellor
A campus advisory committee and the Kansas board of regents conduct second interviews with a select group of top candidates for the university chancellor post. committee chair Jacob Kleinberg praises exhaustive work and confidence grows in selecting a widely acceptable successor to Raymond Nichols after Laurence Chalmers’ resignation. The start date remains undetermined.
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Board of Regents
Kansas
Stewart
Jacob Kleinberg
Raymond Nichols
Laurence Chalmers
City unveils 250000 street plans for the year
City Manager Buford Watson announced a budget around 250000 for street maintenance and improvements. Projects include overlaying 3% miles of streets, resealing 28.7 miles, repairing four intersections, reconstructing Ninth Street, and repaving Kaw River bridge with an $80000 contingency. The exact reseal and overlay list was not released.
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Buford Watson
Fourth
Michigan
18Th
Arkansas
L1th
New York
Sixth
Maine
Sixth Street
State Highway Department
Watson
Downtown Lawrence Moonlight Madness Sale Announced
The Downtown Lawrence Association schedules a Moonlight Madness Sale Tuesday from seven to ten p m limited to Downtown merchants. Paul Gray, DLA chairman, says thirty seven member stores participate. The sale is city non wide and featured in today’s Journal World advertisements.
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Lawrence Assn
Paul Gray
DLA
Journal-World
West Point appoints Lawrence senior to West Point
Lawrence High School senior Steve F. Pierce 17 will attend the United States Military Academy at West Point by presidential appointment. Pierce, son of Edgar and (Mrs) Pierce of 321 E 15th Place, has a B average and athletic and student government credentials.
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Steve F. Pierce
Lawrence High School
United States Military Academy
West Point
N. Y
Richard Nixon
Pierce
Noon Kiwanis Club
Army
Local Man Wooldridge Dies In Nebraska Crash
Norfolk Nebraska police report 20 year old Robert N Wooldridge of Lawrence Kansas died when his small station wagon overturned 15 miles north of Norfolk near Pierce. Passenger Robert Dahl 26 was treated for cuts and bruises. Wooldridge a KU journalism junior owned Great Plains Association agency with Dahl and hailed from Kingman Kansas. Funeral set Wednesday at Kingman United Methodist Church.
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Norfolk
Neb
Robert N. Wooldridge
Morningside Dr
Lawrence
Kan
Here
Nebraska Patrol
Robert Dahl
Wooldridge and Dahl
Great Plains Association
Wooldridge
Pierce
Omaha
Kansas University
Kingman
Wichita
Rainfall floods area roads and raises Perry Lake levels
Rain and high water blocked Armstrong Road and Brown's Grove Road near Lawrence Sunday night. Perry Lake's pool reached 897.24 feet, within about half a foot of its record, as record-pace rainfall kept water above normal pool levels seven times since August. Kansas River discharge held at 4 500 cubic feet per second while Osawatomie and La Cygne area crests loom. Osawatomie and Leavenworth County flood notes accompany weather analysis from KU geography expert Joe Eigleman.
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Armstrong
Haskell
Brown’s Grove
Perry Lake
Lynn Myers
Myers
Perry
Old Town
Longview
Kansas
Marais Des Cygnes
Franklin
Miami
Melvern
Pomona
Ottawa
Osawatomie
la Cygne
Stranger Creek
Leavenworth
Leavenworth County
Sheriff's Office
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Delaware
City Commission
Commission
31St
Town Streets
East Glenn Drive
Cadet Street
Moramar Addition
the World Co
Luther French
Maple Lane
Lawrence Savings Association
Coward
Mud Creek Report
Massachusetts Street
Ninth Street
Tennessee
Kentucky
Kaw River
George Williams
Rumsey Funeral Home
Martha Nordyke
Dave Owen
Sunflower Cablevision
New Hampshire
MISS
Danny Katz
Kathy Hammed
7Th
Joe Eagleman
Canadian
Eagleman
National Weather Service
Lecompton
Tonganoxie
Eudora
Worden
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