City Schools Adopt New Busing Plan
Lawrence schools board approves changes to transportation policy to reduce high school bus riders and remove rural elementary riders living within one mile of their school. About 55 students affected, including around 40 near Riverside School. District seeks to hold the 110000 budget with smaller buses and a 4 percent contract increase from Har mon and Sons for 1971 72.
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Lawrence
Kenneth Fisher
Riverside School
Fisher
R. L. Har‘mon and Sons
Hickman Mills
W. A. Dunbar & Sons
Central
Joan Brown
Eighth Ct
Vesta White
Brown
Food Service
Stillwater
Okla
Marilou Denney
Bill Fuqua
Nancy Fuqua
Linda B. Fisher
Janice Stinson
Pinckney
Gary L. Marcy
Centennial
Marsha Owen
Patricia Shaver
Broken Arrow
Mary Clark
Deerfield
Kay Churchill
Riverside
Sherry Hicks
Schwegler
Carol Garcia
Census shows more Kansas City women than men across ages
AP dispatch reports 18 to 24 year olds in Kansas City and its six-county metro skew female with 30 962 women to 24 650 men in KC and 74 013 women to 59 260 men in the metro. City pop rose to 507 087 in 1970 up 6.6 percent since 1960. metro area up 14.8 percent.
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Kansas City
Hallmark Promotes Gibbs and Sheets to KC and Lawrence Posts
Paul Gibbs, Lawrence Hallmark Cards plant production control manager, is promoted to manager of Hallmark Kansas City production center. Jim Sheets, formerly Kansas City merchandise control manager, becomes production control manager at Lawrence center to replace Gibbs. Gibbs and Sheets have long Hallmark tenures with transfers, family details, and residence plans disclosed.
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Paul Gibbs
Lawrence
Lawrence Center
Gibbs
Robert Payne
Charlene
Jasu Dr
Kansas’ University
Hallmark
Kansas City
Toronto
Canada
Sheets
Jo Anne
Missouri Valley College
Marshall
City Council OKs 15 Dollar Idling Fine in Bridgeport
Bridgeport city council approved an ordinance setting a 15 dollar fine for idling engines more than 10 minutes or for operating a vehicle with excessive exhaust emissions.
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Bridgeport, Conn
Democrats Examine National Party Guidelines Panel
Two leading Democrats will discuss new guidelines adopted by the national party committee to govern delegate selection for next year's national convention. Tom Corcoran and James Logan will appear at 8 p.m. at the Douglas County State Bank. A public hearing is planned by the party central committee, with date and place to be announced.
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Democrats
National Party Committee
Douglas County
Robert Casad
Douglas County Democratic Club
Chicago
Casad
Jarvis Brink
Lawrence High Orchestra Announces Final Spring Concert
Lawrence High's 75 member orchestra under Larry R. Williams performs its 12th and final Spring Concert at 7 30 p m in the school auditorium. Music includes Muczynski Tschaikowsky Mendelssohn Bach Dvorak Bernstein Nehlybel with Gwen Rummer and Kathy Pickett featured soloists. No admission charged.
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Lawrence High
Larry R. Williams
Muczynski
Tschaikowsky
Mendelssohn
Johann Christian Bach
Dvorak
Bernstein
Nehlybel
Gwen Rummer
Kathy Pickett
Kansas Convict Awaits Death in State Hospital
One man remains under a death sentence in Kansas. Kenneth Kilpatrick, 24, of Hutchinson, was convicted of first degree murder in Reno County in 1966. He is not on death row but in Larned State Hospital since 1969. Kansas has executed 24 prisoners since 1861 and last used the gallows in 1965. The state’s hanging law remains in effect as debates continue in the 1971 legislature.
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Leonard Evans
Cincinnati
University of Cincinnati
Leonard
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Australia
Science and Humanity
Rankin Drug CO
Topeka
Kansas
U.S. Supreme Court
Kenneth Kilpatrick
Hutchinson
Kan
Lansing
Larned State Hospital
Kilpatrick
Reno
Statehood
Clutter
Perry Edward Smith
Richard Eugene Hickock
Truman Capote
William Zimmer
State Supreme Court
Zimmer
J. N. Woodson
John C.hazelet
Sedgwick County
House
Judiciary Committee
As Maine Goes Vermont in 1936 Election Echo
James A. Farley cited Maine as a predictor after Franklin D. Roosevelt's decisive 1936 victory. The remark linked state results to national momentum as voters backed the New Deal across the nation.
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Maine
Vermont
James A. Farley
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Grant Finances Study in Russia
Robert S. Hoffmann of the University of Kansas Bureau and Museum receives a 16000 dollar NSF grant to study marmots and ground squirrels in the Soviet Union. He will work with Northwestern University’s Charles Nadler and Nikolai Vorontsov from the Soviet Union under a U.S. Soviet science exchange agreement.
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Russia
Robert S. Hoffmann
Museum of Natural History
Kansas University
National Science Foundation
Soviet Union
Hoffmann
Charles F. Nadler
Northwestern University
Nikolai N. Vorontsof
United States
U.S
Soviet National Academies of Science
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Hamm
Aha Evern
Massachusetts Lawrence Kansas
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Chas. Breithaupt
George Ronald York
James Douglas Latham
Otto Ziegler
Oakley, Kaw
York
Latham
Florida
Colorado
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