Washington Post Wins Pulitzer for Watergate Coverage
The Washington Post earned the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service for its Watergate uncoveries. Carl Bernstein and Robert Woodward were lauded. David Broder won for political commentary. Additional prizes went to Nick Ut, Eagleton disclosures, and various journalism and arts categories.
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New York
Washington Post
Robert Woodward
Post
Howard Simons
Woodward
Carl Bernstein
White House
David Broder
The
Associated Press
Huynh Cong
Nick” Ut
Nick Ut
Lawrence Schools Won't Be Closed for 1973-74
Lawrence School District 497 will keep all schools open next year. Board president William F. Bradley noted a need for more information before deciding on Grant and Riverside closures. The meeting discussed consolidating Grant with Woodlawn and Riverside with Pinckney to save funds and to plan long term facilities and boundary changes for Sunset Hill and Deerfield.
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Lawrence School District 497 Board of Education
William F. Bradley
Grant
Riverside
Bradley
Woodlawn
Riverside and
Pinckney
Supt
Carl Knox
Sunset Hill
Deerfield
Kasold Drive
Sixth Street
15Th Street
Kenneth Fisher
Kasold
Fisher
Charles Crabtree
Randall Rd
Ninth Street
Stalcup
Fedear
Lawrence High
West Junior High
Kennedy
Cordley
Lawrence Asphalt Co
Richard Holtzmeister
Eastman Kodak Co
Shawnee Mission
Kansas Association of School Boards
Elma D. Rogers
Lawrence High School
Steve E. Brown
Linda Jones
Beverly Shaklee
Gretchen van Sluyer
Louis Pivonka
Barbara Oliverson
South Junior
Ronald Mann
Donna Osness
West Junior
Ronald Commons
Louis D. Allen
Centennial
Dianne Merz
New York
Herb Miller Day to Honor Long-time KUMC Professor
Kansas City Kansas event honors Dr. Herbert C. Miller on retirement as chair of pediatrics at the University Medical Center. A 10 a.m. program in Battenfeld Auditorium features 14 papers by pediatric faculty and house staff with a 4 p.m. plaque and portrait unveiling by William O. Rieke. Miller has led the department since 1945 and will continue as professor.
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Kansas City
Kan
Herb Miller
Kansas University Medical Center
Herbert C. Miller
Department of Pediatrics
Battenfeld Auditorium
William O. Rieke
Miller
H. C. Miller
Lawrence High to Elect Spring Queens Thursday
Lawrence High School narrowed candidates for two spring queens to six black and six white nominees Monday. Final election will be Thursday with queens to be crowned at the spring formal Saturday in the LHS cafeteria.
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LHS
Lawrence High School
Delma Austin
Dimera Austin
Wanda Dean
Cathy Hamm
Terri Spearman
Karen Winn
Wet Fields Delay Kansas Farm Field Work
The Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service says 82 percent of this year's wheat is in or past jointing, with slow progress in corn planting at six percent by May 5, well below the 10-year average of 38 percent. Sorghum planting remains minimal as rains hinder activity.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Ivan F Shull Receives Special Award in Pool Association
Ivan F. Shull of 2038 N.H. is honored by the Kansas Swimming Pool Association for outstanding service. A charter member and organizer, Shull recently retired after 30 years as a sanitary engineer with the Kansas Department of Health and long part of the Swimming Pool Standards Committee of the National Sanitation Foundation which developed a national certification program.
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Ivan F. Shull
N.H
The
Kansas Swimming Pool Assn
Shull
Kansas Department of Health
National Sanitation Foundation
Truman High plans drive for statue of Harry S. Truman
Students at Truman High School in Independence announce a fund drive to raise 100000 to 150000 dollars for a life size statue of former President Harry S. Truman, on what would have been his 89th birthday.
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Independence
Truman High School
Harry S. Truman
Teamsters Begin Talks On Wages Above Guideline
Washington AP reports the Teamsters open wage and benefit negotiations Wednesday seeking raises beyond government guidelines but well below their 1970s initial demands.
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Washington
Teamsters Union
Linwood Baseliar Board approves five percent teacher pay raise
Linwood Baselior Board of Education approves a five percent increase for returning teachers raising base pay from 6600 to 6700 dollars per year. The plan includes a 250 dollar one year experience increment and 200 per ten college hours. Non certified staff also receive about five percent raise. Five new teachers were approved for Basehor Junior High and Linwood Junior High. Summer building repairs are planned with three public meetings on May 15 22 and 29 to discuss progress.
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Linwood
Linwood-Baselior Board of Education
Walter Meyers
Meyers
Basehor
Linwood Junior High School
Heroin Haul Arrests Tie to Major KC Bust
Kansas City police and narcotics agents arrest two suspects in a seizure of heroin valued at about 200000 dollars. Officials say the haul may be the city's largest ever and could dry up a substantial source of local heroin sales.
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Kansas City
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
Escort Service Ending Tonight for University Students
Tonight is the last night Operation Escort will run for Kansas University students with rides or walking escorts from 6 p.m. to midnight. It will be discontinued afterward and may not resume. call the Pershing Rifles office in the Military Science building for an escort tonight.
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Kansas Universiy
Doug Spencer
Shawnee Mission
Pershing Rifles
Military Science
Architecture Honors at KU
Outstanding School of Architecture and Urban Design students were honored at KU in the Kansas Union awards banquet. Dean Charles Kahn announced scholarships for incoming freshmen for fall 1973 and multiple AIA Medal and EWART grants plus several architecture scholarships to named students across Missouri and Colorado Springs.
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School of Architecture and Urban Design
Kansas Union
Charles Kahn
American Institute of Architects
Kent Nelson
Colorado Springs
Colo
Kent Spreckelmeyer
Stouffer Place
AIA
Bank Hopes for Early Construction Start
Officials at University State Bank plan a new facility at the northeast corner of 26th and Iowa pending state approval. President Ken Ragland says construction could start this summer if approval comes by July 15, or be delayed until January if approval arrives later. Designers are still finalizing drawings, expected in 30 to 45 days.
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St. Louis
New York
Joseph Pulitzer
University State Bank
Iowa
Ragland
26Th and
Negotiations Ended in B F Goodrich Contract Talks
United Rubber Workers and B F Goodrich Co. halted talks with no contract agreement. URW members were on strike at seven Goodrich plants nationwide and no resumption date was set.
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Columbus, Ohio
United Rubber Workers Union
B.F. Goodrich Co
URW
Goodrich
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