Market rebounds after early Mideast war scare
New York stocks opened sharply lower on fears of Middle East war but rebounded as the Dow edged up 3.61 to 974.86 by 2 p.m. Oil issues with Middle East links fell while decliners held a slim edge over advances. Gulf Oil led the slide in Big Board volume.
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Mideast
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Admiral Last
Curtiss
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Marcorpha
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Avco Corp
Timken
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Upjohn Peter
Cities Soc
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Union Betes
Homestake
Pan Am Air Tenes
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Adley Halackes
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Woolworth
Ame
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Cattle and hog markets mix of gains and losses in Kansas City report
Market data shows cattle at 1,000 head with steers uneven and prices down 1.00 on average. hogs 3,400 head with barrows and gilts steady to 25 lower and sows 25 to 50 higher. sheep 350 head with wooled lambs 50 to 1.00 higher and ewes steady. Estimates for Tuesday call cattle 800, hogs 3,000, sheep 300.
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Kansas City
Foreign students eyed to fill empty college seats
Washington AP reports American colleges faced thousands of unused classroom seats after a 1960s construction boom. Georgetown University plans a pilot sending about 500 German students to 25 U.S. schools in five regions including Washington DC. Finances and enrollment trends show projections slashed by hundreds of thousands of students nationally.
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Georgetown University
Washington, D.C
Michigan
Missouri
Texas
Washington State
Ryan
Best Ever Car Show Draws 15000 at Lawrence Dealers Event
Lawrence residents packed the Montgomery Ward lot to view over 100 new 1974 cars and trucks. Debbie Duff, Miss Ford Country, showcased Ford models as organizers praised the turnout and weather as favorable despite a rainy start. Sponsoring groups included Douglas County State Bank, First National Bank, Lawrence National Bank and Trust Co, and University State Bank.
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Lawrence New Car Dealers
Montgomery Ward and Co
Ousdahl
Lyman Wiley
Wiley
Debbie Duff
Montgomery Ward
Douglas County State Bank
First National Bank
Lawrence National Bank and Trust Co
University State Bank
University delays groundbreaking fete for $3.75 million Learned Hall expansion
Kansas University postpones the ground breaking ceremony for a $3.75 million addition to Learned Hall home of the School of Engineering. The two story addition and five story wing will add classrooms labs and offices for chemical and petroleum engineering environmental engineering civil engineering and the dean's office pending chancellor approval.
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Kansas University
School of Engineering
Stanley Learned
William Smith
Chemical and Petroleum: Engineering
Civil Engineering
Complaints Reported Gunshots and Weekend Disturbances
Police received multiple gunfire reports around 1 30 a m near 10th and New York but could not locate the source. Through the weekend there were numerous noise and disturbance complaints but no serious incidents were found.
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10Th
New York
Drive sales near goal at Jaycees peanut butter drive
Lawrence Jaycees raised 1300 jars of peanut butter over two days for the Kansas Jaycees Cerebral Palsy Ranch in Augusta. Drive chairman John Novatka expects the final tally to reach about 1800 jars as more reports come in.
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Lawrence Jaycees
Kansas Jaycees
Augusta
John Novatka
Drive
Administrative Aide Named at KPL Office
Arthur L. Malle, previously administrative assistant in Topeka for Kansas Power and Light, is now administrative assistant for KPL in Lawrence. Malle began Oct 1 and rose from Topeka division manager’s aide in 1972. He is a Pittsburg native and Army veteran with a B S in business from Kansas State College of Pittsburg.
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KPL
Arthur L. Malle
Kansas Power and Light Co
Topeka
Lawrence
Austin W. Stedham
Malle
Pittsburg
Kan
Kansas State College of
Deere and Co
Moline
Illinois
John Deere Harvester
Four Die in Shootings at Texas Whitetail Ranch
Four people were killed at a Western Montana dude ranch near Ovando as police hunted for a former Illinois mental patient, Roger Caryl alias Tex McCord, seen leaving the scene with rifles and shotguns. John Ross Miller, 24, and Ruby Judd, 62, were identified among the victims in the main ranch house.
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Ovando, Mont
Montana
Decatur, Ill
Powell County
David J. Collings
Whitetail Ranch
Tex McCord
Collings
Roger Caryl
Tex
Escondido
Calif
Caryl
John Ross Miller
California
Ruby Judd
Youth Caught in Stolen Car Near Fourth and Locust
A 14 year old boy was detained about 6 40 p m Sunday near Fourth and Locust and referred to Douglas County Juvenile Court for car theft after police stopped a car reported stolen two hours earlier from Ricky Poolaw. The youth was driving it. another boy fled. Theft reports include two other vehicles, one abandoned in Ohio at 1 15 p m Saturday, and a Yamaha motorcycle stolen Friday night from Ronald Guy remains missing.
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Douglas County Juvenile Court
Ricky Poolaw
Poolaw
Jane E. Merriken
Ousdahl
Ohio
Douglas County Sheriff's Department
Ronald E. Guy
Rt. 4
Yamaha
Union Pacific Plans Equipment Purchases
Union Pacific Railroad will spend more than 100 million dollars in 1974 to acquire 3,030 freight cars and 100 locomotives. The car order includes 1,525 boxcars 400 open top hopper cars 105 flatcars and 1,000 high capacity hopper cars to strengthen the grain car fleet.
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Omaha, Neb
John C. Kenefick
Union Pacific Railroad
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Langhofer Real Estate
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