Denver teen faces new life after paralysis
Denver 15 year old Chris McKinnon Tenis nearly straight A student will never walk again after a trampoline accident left him paralyzed from the waist down. Six weeks in a neck injury bed and painful wheelchair transition followed. The McKinnon family adds a special room at home. The school board refuses his return citing liability concerns. Dr Douglas McKinnon questions the logic of the ruling.
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Chris McKinnon
Chris
McKinnon
Douglas McKinnon
Men In Service Roundup Highlights Belt and Tomlin
Pvt Scott P Belt 20 son of Harold and Mrs Belt now assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg North Carolina He trained at Fort Polk and stationed at Fort Benning He is a 1970 Lawrence High School graduate Navy Petty Officer Billy K Tomlin husband of Nancy L Robinson of Perry returned to Newport Rhode Island aboard USS Intrepid after a six week cruise to Portugal and Spain The ship trained with Portuguese and Spanish navies visiting Sevilla Costa del Sol and Lisbon
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Harold F. Belt
Powers
82Nd Airborne Division
Ft. Bragg, N.C
Pvt. Belt
618Th Light Equipment
Ft. Polk
Ft. Benning
Navy
Billy K. Tomlin
Nancy L. Robinson
Perry
Newport
R.I
Intrepid
Portugal
Spain
Sevilla
Costa del Sol
Lisbon
Topeka Lawyer Seeks 17th District Senate Nomination
Dana W. Killinger a Topeka lawyer and registered pharmacist announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for state senator from the 17th District which includes Jefferson County parts of Shawnee County and Topeka. He cites tax relief and combined city county law enforcement as priorities. Killinger a 1936 graduate of Topeka High School has degrees in pharmacy and law and has worked as a pharmacist attorney bill drafter and in private practice. He is married with one daughter.
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Dana W. Killinger
Topeka
Jefferson County
Shawnee County
Tom West
Killinger
Topeka High School
Kansas University
Washburn University Law School
Kansas Highway Commission
Love bugs swarm central Florida this spring
An insect specialist from the University of Florida notes a surge of love bugs in central Florida this spring. He says birds and dragonflies avoid them due to an unpleasant taste, with love bugs forming paired swarms that coat windshields along highways for about four weeks each season.
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Florida
Gainesville
Fla
Lawrence A. Hetrick
University of Florida
Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
Hetrick
Miss America Laurie Schaefer in fair condition in Columbus
Laurie Lea Schaefer, the 1972 Miss America, is listed in fair condition at Grant Hospital in Columbus after an abdominal ailment recurred. Hospital officials withheld details on illness and release date. Earlier this month she spent six days in Atlantic City hospital for acute gastroenteritis.
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Columbus
Ohio
Laurie
Lea Schaefer
Grant Hospital
Miss Schaefer
Atalntic
Bexley
Publicity Chief Is Appointed For United Fund
Max Falkenstien named publicity chairman of the 1972 United Fund drive by chairman Charles Haverty. Falkenstien, 46, longtime broadcaster and Sunflower Cablevision general manager, has roots in Lawrence and KU sports.
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United Fund
Max Falkenstien
Sunflower Cablevision
Friday
Charles Haverty
Falkenstien
Ark
Cablevision Enterprise
Wibw Television and Radio
Topeka
Banquet Site Protested by KU Affirmative Action Board
The KU Affirmative Action Board condemned last Sunday's bands banquet held at Lawrence Ellis Lodge. The board unanimously criticized using a facility of an organization with a national exclusion policy, urging Chancellor Chalmers to bar university events from such venues.
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Kansas University Affirmative Action Board
Lawrence Ellis Lodge
EU Affirmative Action Board
Laurence Chalmers
Community Arts Calendar Highlights Local Exhibits and Performances
A weekly arts calendar lists events at Lawrence venues including carillon recitals by Albert Gerken, band performances by Lawrence High School and Haskell Junior College, and a Spring Festival of Music. Exhibits feature Robert B. Green works, Margarite Baum garter and others, plus museum displays on local artists, kites, nature, and design student works.
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Albert Gerken
Lawrence High School
Haskell Junior College
Haskell
Lawrence Art Guild
Margarite Baumgarter
Medical Arts
Connie Stouse
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Lucy Larsen
Lawrence Banks
Knife-wielding man forces antiwar broadcast attempt at KOAM TV
A bloodied man with a knife arrived at KOAM-TV south of Pittsburg Kansas forcing a live antiwar message and anti Nixon broadcast. station went off air for about ten minutes until youths persuaded him to surrender. Police met them in Pittsburg. suspect identity withheld pending investigation.
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Pittsburg
Kan
Koam-Tv
Stearn
Nixon
Miller Plans Running Again For Atty Gen
Atty General Vern Miller announces re election in Wichita with a 500 strong crowd. He says he did not seriously consider Congress or Senate and notes Gov Docking’s bid prompted his own decision to seek another term. Miller vows to fight gambling drugs and crime while campaigning.
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Wichita
Kan
Atty
Vern Miller
Miller
Congress
U. S. Senate
Robert Docking
Senate
Sedgwick
Johnnie Carr
Sedgwick County
Keith Sandborn
Sandborn
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Kanu 91.5 FM
Public Radio
Serving You
Haverty
Lawrence
U.S. Air Force
Wren Radio
St. Luke A.M.E. Church
New York St
W. Lamar Brown
Sac Ford
By the Son Choir
Doris Davis
Sounds of Glory
Sounds of Glory Trustee Board
Herta Galton
N.H
Robert B. Green
Trinity Episcopal Church
Julia Fields Patterson
Museum of Art
Alice Murphy
Tal Streeter Kites
Steve Cromwell
Old Lawrence
Museum of Natural History
Kansas
Kansas Union Gallery
Rusty Hilderman
Westview
Sonotone
Quincy
Man
Phil Stearn
RADIO
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Kanu
Atty. Gen
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