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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1972
Page
12
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with highs in the 50s and lows in the 20s. Precipitation near zero. Official readings show Thursday high 56 and low 26. Morning low 30. Snowfall 2.5 inches. Record high 90 in 1946 and low 18 in 1924. Sunrise 6 06 a.m. Sunset 6 44 p.m.
At Leavenworth Kansas the majority of the 1700 inmate population resumed prison jobs after a Thursday work stoppage by about 160 inmates. Warden C E Harris said those 160 remained in cells for interviews that could take days. The protestors were racially mixed and their demands were not met.
The Office of Education approved an 81,007 grant to the University of Kansas to aid expansion of non commercial KANU FM. Total project cost is 108,154 under the Public Broadcasting Act.
Three supermarket chains moved to curb price hikes after a meeting led by Treasury Secretary Connally. Grand Union and Winn-Dixie froze prices, Safeway cut beef prices across 246 stores in several states and the District of Columbia. The Agriculture Department reported a 20 cent drop in beef price per hundredweight for the period ending March 15, the first decline since last summer. Safeway said reductions align with lower cattle prices and planned Easter timing, two days earlier than planned.
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