KU Professor Leads Radar Moo study in potato fields
Fawwaz Ulaby of Kansas University heads a project using a 65 foot tall mobile radar unit to measure soil moisture in North Lawrence potato fields. With 24 KU engineering students and two co investigators, the team hopes radar readings will correlate with moisture content, aiding farmers and flood forecasters.
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Lawrence
Kansas Turnike
Over Pine
Seventh Street
Fawwaz Ulaby
Kansas University
KU Engineering
Ulaby
Ubaby
Herschel Stiles
North Lawrence
Antitrust Action Targets Dual Bank and Insurance Directors
The Justice Department filed antitrust suits in San Francisco and Kansas alleging directors sit on two or more competing boards. Named defendants include E Hornsby Wasson and Paul A Groman linked to Bank of America Prudential Bankers Trust and Crocker National. The suits seek removal from dual boards and barring such directorships.
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Washington
Justice Department
Bank of America
BankAmerica Corp
Prudential Insurance Co. of America
Bankers Trust New York Corp
San Francisco
E. Hornsby Wasson
Bank America Corp
Prudential
Paul A. Groman
Bankers Trust
Crocker National Bank
Crocker National Corp
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Equitable Life Assurance Society
United States
Mutual Life Insurance Co. of
New York
Emmett G. Solomon
Otto N. Miller
Thomas R. Wilcox
Solomon
Metropolitan
Life Insurance
Miller
Crocker Bank
Equitable
Wilcox
Crocker
Mutual of New York
KC fire fighters strike ends amid arson probe cooperation
Kansas City officials pledged to reinstate 59 dismissed firefighters and the union agreed to cooperate with law enforcement on arson cases after a four day strike. Mayor Wheeler and city leaders alleged some blazes were set by Local 42 members, a charge denied by the union. Firefighters returned to duty as 800 National Guardsmen and police patrolled the city. talks with a federal mediator were to resume.
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Kansas City
Charles B. Wheeler Jr
The
International Association of Firefighters
Union
Wheeler
National Guardsmen
Robert Kipp
Jackson County
Charles Shafer
Jury screens prospective jurors in Topeka kickback case
Attorneys questioned jurors in groups of 12 to weed out those tainted by pretrial publicity in the 1972 Burgess Latimer and Miller conspiracy case over a $500000 design contract at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Sixteen passed for cause on publicity, with six remaining. The sixteen of eighteen defendants and associates indicted in January 1974 face five more trials, including the Oct 27 trial of Richard L Malloy, and jury selection may take the week.
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Topeka, Kan
Michael Barbara
Kansas City Mechanical Engineering Firm
Burgess, Latimer and Miller
University of Kansas Medical Center
Robert B. Docking
Richard L. Malloy
Robert D. Hecht
Topeka
Mark Bennett Jr
Shawnee County
Gene Olander
Coleman to oversee county $225,000 development grant
Ernest Coleman, Douglas County's federal funds consultant, will administer the county's $225,000 community development grant. Commissioners chose Coleman over Ochsner and Associates, citing local ties and broader community involvement, and planned to draft a contract while noting no conflict of interest with his current consulting.
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Ernest Coleman
Douglas County
Coleman
Ochsner
I.J. Stoneback
Commission
Arthur Heck
Heck
Geary County School District wins Headstart grant
Geary County Unified School District 475 received a Headstart grant totaling $40,630 from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Rep. Martha Keys of Kansas announced the award on Monday.
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Topeka, Kan
Geary County Unified School Dist
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Martha Keys
D-Kan
State backs opponents of Spring Creek bridge plan
A Kan sas highway official supports Lecompton area residents opposing Douglas County plans to replace a bridge over Spring Creek and connect a road east over a hill to a north south route. The county will proceed with the original bridge plan.
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Lecompton Area
Douglas County
Lecompton
Merrell
Pete Whitenight
Lecompton Township
Douglas County may revise use of federal job funds
County officials may delay hiring Ernest Coleman as agent for the extension service amid questions about creating other jobs with federal emergency funds. Transfers of unused funds to counties with ready vacancies are possible. Three positions remain unsettled including a Bert Nash social worker and sheriff’s office matron clerk-dispatcher. Lecompton seeks a marshal maintenance man with Baldwin funds left unused. Coleman notes funds could cover December hiring if extension waits.
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County Extension Service
Ernest Coleman
Federal Funds
Bert Nash Mental Health Center
Sheriff’s Office
Lecompton
Baldwin
Coleman
Real estate beats stocks in small investor study
The New York Stock Exchange studied the small investor defined by income, portfolio size, or securities transactions and found real estate more promising than stocks. Gill Agency offers real estate help at 901 Tenn. Phone: 843-1011.
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New York Stock Exchange
Gill Agency
Tenn
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