04 Nov 1975
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1975
Page
1
A Lawrence interim committee weighs a bill to let cities finance urban renewal without federal funds by using tax increment financing. It would allow eminent domain to assemble land, fund improvements, and repay bonds from future tax gains while protecting residential areas from universal applicability.
Universal Life Church founder Bishop Kirby Hensley, 64, spoke to Kansas University students in the Kansas Union about his church that ordains for free and may ordain nonhumans. He mixes backwoods preacher humor with a creed denying a soul while urging personal interpretation of faith. He aims to grow the church to challenge religious systems and claims ministers could convert the world to unor ganized theology.
District Court Judge James Paddock hear Burr for the Villages Inc seeking a writ mandamus to force county commissioners to issue a conditional use permit for homes for dependent and neglected children. County argues protest petition timely. Burr presses two issues including unanimous vote and potential damages. Also notes a separate North Platte AP item about Donald Cooper of Sears Roebuck being released by abductors in South America.
Spain kept its army in the Spanish Sahara on full alert amid Morocco talks in Madrid. Skirmishes continued between Moroccan troops and desert tribesmen over phosphate rich territory. A dusk to dawn curfew remains and martial law is in effect as Moroccan Premier Ahmed Osman negotiates with Spanish leaders.
Local residents are asked to mail overseas holiday letters and parcels early. The Lawrence post office lists a schedule of SAM and PAL mail to Armed Forces and international destinations from November through December, with specific dates and regions including Ethiopia, Iran, Israel, Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
A reader asks when age makes mortgage lending impossible. The column argues age alone should not block home buying if equity and repayment ability exist, evaluated case by case. The Gill Agency at 901 Tenn offers help.
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