Douglas County funds court diversion program may be last
The Douglas County Commission agreed to fund Headquarters court diversion for another year with 4 374 dollars, matching 55 percent of a total 8 000 grant from GCCA, while warning future funding depends on increasing referrals. Director DOUG MCENERY aims to expand beyond juveniles and justice referrals.
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Douglas County Commission
Douglas County District Court
Kansas Governor’s Committee On Criminal Administration
GCCA
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County Atty
Mike Malone
Doug McEnery
McEnery
District Court
Commission
Peter Whitenight
Beverly Bradley
United Fund
Kansas University Student Senate
Preliminary hearing set for stabbing case Bruce S Stellwagen
A preliminary court hearing is scheduled for next Tuesday for Bruce S Stellwagen 26 on charges of entering a Lawrence apartment and knifing a woman and her child last Friday morn. The examination of evidence hearing was set during his Monday appearance in Douglas County District Court. He is jailed in lieu of $60 000.
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Bruce S. Stellwagen
Lawrence
Stellwagen
Douglas County
David P. Beckerdite
N.J
Beckerdite
Douglas County District Court
Indira Gandhi freed after court rejection of detention
Indira Gandhi was brought to court on corruption charges in New Delhi but Magistrate R Dayal ordered her release for lack of grounds for detention. The government said evidence gathering would continue and a trial would occur, with no date set. Demonstrators outside the courthouse clashed with police as chants filled the room. A separate Kansas case reports a suspect charged with felony battery and burglary, with a lawyer appointed after unable to pay. In Topeka, Kansas wheat planting neared 60 percent by late last week, well above last year and ahead of the 10-year average.
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New Delhi
India
Indira Gandhi
R. Dayal
Morarji Desai
Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Tuesay
State rights study paints dim civil rights picture
A Kansas Advisory Committee report says the states civil rights situation is not celebratory. It notes minimal progress since 1975 minor ity and women hiring orders and limited desegregation gains mainly in Wichita. It cites one way busing plans in Kansas City and a legal defense by Shawnee Mission in a regional suit.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
U.S. Commission On Civil Rights
Robert Bennett
Wichita
Constance L. Menninger
Johnson County
Shawneee Mission
Kansas City
Soviet anti-satellite capability disclosed by Brown
Defense Secretary Harold Brown said the Russians now have an operational anti-satellite capability that could attack some satellites, notably reconnaissance ones in low Earth orbit. He declined details on vulnerable satellites, calling the development somewhat troubling.
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Washington
Defense
Harold Brown
Brown
Soviet Union
Thas
Russia
U.S
Spencer Museum of Art Receives $90000 NEH Grant
The National Endowment for the Humanities awards a $90,000 grant to Kansas University’s Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art for a program called Musing in Museums aimed at adults. Dale Brooking leads museum education with nine two month sessions beginning March 1978 after the January opening.
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National Endowment For the Humanities
Helen Foresman Spencer
U N leader warns of arms race peril in Belgrade
At the Belgrade conference on East West relations, U N Secretary General Kurt Waldheim warned that the rapidly spreading arms race jeopardizes detente. Yugoslav leaders urged action while noting major powers have yet to reduce arsenals. The meeting includes 35 nations examining NATO and Warsaw Pact arms programs.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
U.N
Kurt Waldheim
Helsinki
NATO
Tito
Planning staff to study rural zoning change
Lawrence Douglas County Planning Department will study revisions to rural zoning and subdivision rules after officials resolved a conflict between rezoning efforts and residents' concerns. A new rural residential classification or changes to existing categories were discussed to allow farming and horse keeping while preventing nonconforming restrictions.
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Lawrence- Douglas County
Roger Hedrick
Planning Commission
Hedrick
Carter Holds Two Mideast Talks With Egypt and Israel
In New York President Carter meets Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy and later Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan to press a settlement recognizing Palestinian rights. Cairo seeks PLO representation at Geneva with equal status, while Jerusalem opposes such peers and urges no PLO leaders.
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United Nations, N.Y
Carter
Egypt
Israel
Ismail Fahmy
Anwar Sadat
Moshe Dayan
United States
Civil Defense Drill Tests Local Sirens Across County
A two day statewide civil defense exercise near Colorado Springs prompted a local siren test for law enforcement and radio dispatchers. Sirens sounded at 10 10 am replacing the usual tone with an attack warning as agencies conducted internal communications drills with no malfunctions reported.
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Civil Defense National Warning Center
Colorado Springs
Colo
National Civil Defense Center
Fire starts in wall duct damages apartment on Tenn street
Investigators say a fire at 1414 Tenn. spread from an arug spread in a floor furnace duct around 9 p.m. Monday. The Lawrence Fire Department extinguished the blaze. Damage is estimated at $200 to the apartment house owned by Charles Himmelberg of 507 Pioneer.
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Tenn
Lawrence
Charles Himmelberg
Pioneer
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