Ex chancellor named trustee of Elizabeth M. Watkins Museum
Raymond Nichols, Chancellor Emeritus and longtime KU administrator, will join the Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Museum board of trustees replacing Marie Simons Sr. at a Douglas County Historical Society meeting. Other trustees are Travis Glass and Charles Eldredge.
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Raymond Nichols
Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Museum
Douglas County Historical Society
Charles D. Stough
County Society
Nichols
Dolph Simons Sr
Travis Glass
Charles Eldredge
Marie Simons
Watkins Bank
Ray Nichols
Stough
Kansas University
Laurence Chalmers
Archie Dykes
University
Hays Defends Position Amid Payroll Scandal Claims
Rep Wayne Hays refuses to resign amid allegations that Elizabeth Ray was paid from the congressional payroll as his mistress. He vows to face the facts while under scrutiny from the House and Justice Department probes. The ethics panel will set hearings next week as the Post first reported the relationship and payroll details.
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Belmont, Ohio
Wayne L. Hays
Ohio
Elizabeth Ray
Congressional
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
House Democrats
Miss Ray
Hays Committee
Grand Jury
Hays
House Ethics Committee
Ray
Administration
Taxpayers Union pushes for balanced federal budget convention
The National Taxpayers Union proposes a new constitutional convention to require a balanced federal budget. NTU says 12 states have approved the call, needing 34 for a convention, the first since 1787. James Davidson leads the group with about 25 000 members and a 400 000 budget.
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National Taxpayers Union
Philadelphia
NTU
James Davidson
Davidson
George Romney
NTA
Maryland
Mississippi
Delaware
New Mexico
Georgia
Nebraska
North Dakota
Louisiana
West Virginia
Indiana
Virginia
Oklahoma
North Carolinian named professor and chair at Kansas University
Victor Wallace associate professor of computer science at North Carolina University will become professor and chairman of computer science at Kansas University this fall. Wallace 43 native of Brooklyn NY holds degrees in electrical engineering from NYU Poly and University of Michigan and has a long career including IBM Bell Labs UK and US defense research. He and wife Mary plan to move to Lawrence in August living at 1509 Massachusetts.
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Victor Wallace
North Carolina University
Kansas University
Wallace
Ron Calgaard
Brooklyn
N.Y
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
University of Michigan
North Carolina
Chapel Hill
University of London
Michigan
I.B.M
Bell Telephone Laboratories
U.S. Air Force
Rome Air Development Center
Advanced Research Projects Administration
Department of Defense
National Institutes of Health
Science Research Council
United Kingdom
North Carolina State Budget Office
Association For Computing Machinery
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
The
Institute of Management Sciences
American Association of University Professors
Mary
Lawrence
Massachusetts
IRS computer selects forms for auditing nationwide
An IRS computer program begun seven years ago, the Discriminate Function System, identifies 2.2 million individual tax returns for audit annually. Computers flag likely errors, and IRS employees then review the chosen returns in detail. an Wichita district official declined to disclose Kansas return counts.
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Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Kansas
Wichita
Sytem
Vinland Cemetery Holds Annual Memorial Service
The Vinland Cemetery annual memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday. Special music will accompany the event with Rev. Fred Craig of Vinland Methodist Church as speaker. In observance of the bicentennial the American Legion color guard Baldwin will participate. The Vinland Cemetery Assn organized in May 1863 sponsors the service.
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Vinland
Vinland Cemetery
Fred Craig
Vinland Methodist Church
American Legion Color Guard
Baldwin
Officials deny U S move to establish formal China ties
State Department officials rejected House claims that the Ford administration plans to establish full diplomatic relations with China after the November elections. There is no timetable for normalization, officials said, as the pace depends on factors in both countries and internal changes in mainland China.
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U.S
China
Washington
State Department
House
Ford
Peking
Mainland
Communist Party
Mao Tsetung
Henry A. Kissinger
Taiwan
Six Air Force Academy cadets resign over honor code
Six cadets at the Air Force Academy resigned Wednesday after being found guilty of cheating on a physics problem. The departures raise the year’s total to 47 cadets quitting over honor code violations, more than 1% of the 4,080 cadet wing.
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AIR Force Academy
Colo
van Shields
John Price
Price
Air Force
U.S. Military Academy
West Point
N.Y
Oil Cartel Sees No Decision On Price Hike
At Bali the OPEC meeting ended without a new price rise. The 13 nations left the existing $11.51 per barrel rate in place, set to expire June 30, and instructed the Economic Commission board to continue its work and report at the next conference.
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Bali
Indonesia
World Oil Cartel
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Economic Commission Board
Boys State session opens Sunday at KU
Kansas University hosts the American Legion Boys State with 941 seniors to participate from across the state. The week includes elections, debates, rituals, and a Governor’s Ball at KU with the final session and flag ceremony slated for Saturday.
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Kansas University
American Legion
Lawrence
Boys’ Nation
Topeka
Murphy Hall
KU Law School
Boys’ State General Assembly
Fire damages exhaust stack at Kansas Color Press
A morning fire at Kansas Color Press 2201 Haskell caused minor damage estimated at 5 000 dollars. Officials said the blaze started from overheated paper dust in an exhaust stack above the press and firefighters cut a hole in the roof to reach the flames. Crews remained on scene from 1 17 to 2 42 a.m.
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Kansas Color Press
Haskell
LeRoy Spence
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