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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1973
Page
14
The forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies through Friday. Lows tonight in the upper 40s to low 60s with highs Friday in the upper 70s to low 80s. Winds are southerly at 5 to 15 mph.
Presidents of nine area colleges met in Kansas City to consider a new intercollegiate conference. If formal approval is secured, competition could start in 1974-75 with sports across basketball, golf, track, tennis, baseball, wrestling, volleyball and non athletic activities such as drama and music. Members include Johnson County, Jakol, Longview, Maple Woods, Penn Valley, State Fair, Trenton, Highland, and Kansas City Kan. Community Junior Colleges.
Service notes report Army Second Lieutenant Anthony P. Gauthier 25 son of Mr and Mrs Paul Gauthier Corning Town completed a nine week infantry officer basic course at the Army Infantry School Fort Benning Ga His wife Sharon 906 Avalon Lawrence Kan resides there.
Gary Mann, 34, of Kansas City Missouri, remained in critical condition at KU Medical Center after a Tuesday fall from a warehouse under construction at Cooperative Farm Chemicals Assailant Rt. 2 east of Lawrence. Mann, an Acme Sheet Metal Works employee, suffered head injuries and multiple fractures.
Kansas University voters cast ballots in ongoing student elections. Shawnee Mission junior and Elections Committee chairman John Ziegelmeyer noted turnout not too bad as polls remained open at the Kansas Union Strong Hall and Summerfield Hall until 5 p.m. Registration cards were required to elect freshman officers holdover senators and Graduate School Council representatives. Tabulation of results would begin at 5 p.m. with possible announcements as early as 8 p.m in the Trail Room of the Kansas Union.
AP reports Walt Kelly the creator of Pogo died in Los Angeles at age sixty from diabetes complications. He wrote and drew the Okeefenokee Swamp strip for nearly a quarter century and collapsed on a business trip.
Cuban radio reports the Belgian ambassador to Cuba Jean Somershausen was rescued unharmed during an assault on the French Embassy in Havana. A Cuban kidnapper was fatally wounded, and the fate of French Ambassador Pierre Anthonioz remained unclear. The gunman died during surgery at Havana’s Cardiovascular Institute.
The Dead Sea in Death Valley California is documented as the lowest land surface at 1 299 feet below sea level while Death Valley itself sits at 282 feet below sea level marking extreme terrestrial depressions.
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