Packer Plastics Plans Addition to Warehouse
Packer Plastics of 2330 Packer Rd announces a major expansion as a second story of the new two story office complex nears completion. The plan adds 24,000 square feet of warehouse space to support production growth aimed at over 3 million in annual output. By Aug 1 the firm expects a staff of 150 and new management positions to bolster operations.
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Packer Plastics
Packer Rd
Jim Schwartzburg
Schwartzburg
Lawrence
Fuller Brush Co
Packer
Marilyn Cox
Linwood
Journal-World Photo
Avalanches Hit 14 Year Record in Australian Alps
In Australia last winter the Alpine death toll reached a 14 year high with sixty fatalities from avalanches while skiing hiking or playing in the snow. The Austrian Mountain Rescue chief cites reckless behavior as a major cause and warns tourists often ignore avalanche warnings. A Bavarian group ignored danger signs highlighting extreme avalanche risk.
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Innsbruck
Australia
Wastl Mariner
Avalanche Warning Service
Skylab 1 Crew Cleared as Launch Nears
Astronauts Charles Conrad Jr Paul J Weitz and Dr Joseph P Kerwin declared ready to fly after medical tests at Johnson Space Center They will enter quarantine and travel to Cape Kennedy for the Saturn 5 launch sequence toward the 270 mile Earth orbit and the Skylab station linkup.
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Charles Conrad Jr
Paul J. Weitz
Joseph P. Kerwin
Johnson Space Center
Houston
Royce Hawkins
Center
Conrad
Weitz
Kerwin
Cape Kennedy
Degrees to 3,400 At KSU on Friday
Kansas State University held its commencement in two parts with graduate degrees conferred in the afternoon and bachelor’s degrees in the evening. About 3,400 were honored. Three alumni received the Alumni Medallion: Eldon Auker a three-sport letterman and ex professional baseball star Earl Clark chairman of Occidental Life Insurance of California and Dean McNeal agricultural economist.
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Manhattan
Kansas State University
KSU
Eldon Auker
Earl Clark
Occidental Life Insurance of
California
Dean McNeal
Harvest Fuel Is Requested For Wheat Harvest
Topeka Kansas the Kansas Department of Economic Development adopted a resolution urging action to insure fuel availability for the wheat harvest beginning next week. The measure notes existing restrictions on gasoline and diesel sales to custom combine operators and truckers and calls on state authorities to use all legal and political means to ensure timely fuel supplies for harvest and other essential farm work.
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Topeka
Kansas Dept. of Economic Development
Kansas
Kansas Economic Development Commission
State of Kansas
Blind youths plan climb of Mt Hood for experience
Six blind students from the Washington state School for the Blind in Vancouver will attempt Oregon's 14 245 foot Mt Hood summit. Led by Ed Johann a Portland firefighter, each climber teams with sighted partners and trains by hiking in hills and running daily.
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Vancouver
Wash
Oregon
State School For the Blind
Mt. Hood
Byron Berhow
Berhow
Viola Cruz
Teresa Clay
Dan Davidson
Bernie Buhl
Les Robbins
Deal Atkinson
Ed Johann
Portland
Mazamas Mountaineering Club
Mountain Rescue Service
Johann
DeSoto High School to graduate 106 seniors at May ceremony
DeSoto High School will graduate 106 seniors in an 8 p.m. ceremony May 18 in the auditorium. Ed Moll is valedictorian and Patty Call salutatorian of the largest graduating class in the school’s history. list of graduates includes Thelma Allender Cynthia Allman Gregory Arnold Willy Barth Susan Bass Sandra Becker and many others.
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Desoto
DeSoto High School
Ed Moll
Patty Call
Thelma Allender
Cynthia Allman
Gregory Arnold
Willy Dianne Barth
Susan Bass
Sandra Becker
Susan Becker
Danita Bedford
Leo Bichelmeyer
Matthew Bichelmeyer
Brian Blaylock
Gary Brann
Sherry Buehler
Jean Caldwell
Carol Camerlinck
Virgil Campbell
Cheryl Cates
Kathryn Chadwick
John Chance
Steven Chrisman
James Coffey
Elizabeth Coffey
Daryle Anne Cox
Calvin Crossley
Kathy Crutchfield
Suzan Dabbs
Jean Davis
Dwayne Davis
Keith Davis
Jacqueline Doty
Paul Elliott
Glenda Faircloth
Patricia Faircloth
Russell Ferguson
Anthony Francis
Nancy Frickey
Connie Gower
Sherri Grimes
Susan
Slander suit filed over Long estate matters in Missouri
Helen Dunlop longtime secretary and executrix of the Edward V. Long estate plans a $750000 slander action against Frank L Miller of Hannibal. The suit stems from alleged statements about forgery and conduct connected to the estate and prompted a separate alienation of affections suit by Mrs. Ference Long.
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Hannibal, Mo
Edward V. Long
Long
The
Globe-Democrat
Helen Dunlop
Frank L Miller
Hannibal
Miss. Dunlop
Jerome Seigfreid
Mexico, Mo
Globe
Seigfreid
Court of Common Pleas
Miss Dunlop
Miller
Ference Long
Ann
Kansas traffic deaths log May 18 1973
Topeka AP reports a 24 hour traffic death log ending 9 am Saturday for May 18 shows 178 deaths in 1973 compared with 193 in the same period of 1972. Local authorities note the year’s higher fatality count persists.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
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