Auto sales boom in Lawrence despite trend toward smaller cars
Lawrence dealers report a strong year in auto sales with demand still high for small cars though buyers are shifting back to larger models. Chrysler and Dodge big cars remain popular, Honda Civic and Toyota Toyotas sell well, and imports face supply and price pressures as 1974 line changes loom.
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Lawrence
The
Journal-World
Lymon Wiley
General Manger
Jim Clark Motors
Ter
Wiley
Jack Ellena
Buick
Olds
GMC, Inc
Dean Brumbaugh
Jim Clark
Chrysler
Dodge
Haddock
Senator Opposes Steel Price Hike in Public Hearing
Sen. William Proxmire urged the Cost of Living Council to reject proposed steel price increases averaging 4.8 percent for auto and home use steel. He cited inflation impact on real wages and urged the council to disapprove despite potential justification by higher costs. An official of U.S. Steel warned further sacrifices could impair meeting rising steel demand.
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Washington (Ap
William Proxmire
Cost of Living Council
Wisconsin Democrat
Proxmire
Joint Economic Committee
U.S. Steel Co
Lawrence School Board weighs plan to integrate special students
Lawrence District 497 Board of Education will consider a federally funded plan to place 11 educable mentally retarded students and 27 Pinckney pupils with mild to moderate disabilities into regular classrooms at Pinckney. A certified MR teacher would assist. $9,900 in Title IV funds sought for one year. Also on the agenda are milk policy changes, athletic budget report, enrollment update, bids on canned goods, and policy revisions.
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Lawrence
Board of Education
Pinckney
Darrell Falen
Lawrence High
College Business Idea Exchange at KU in October
The Kansas Association of Commerce and Industry will hold its 1973 College-Business Idea Exchange at Kansas University during the week of October 15. Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and KU affairs chair Martin Dickinson announced the event aims to connect businessmen and students to discuss the free enterprise system with about 800 participants. The session centers on How and Why Get a Job and additional programs will be in Hays and Wichita.
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Kansas Association of Commerce and Industry
Kansas University
Martin Dickinson
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Dickenson
KU Law School
Lawrence
Nancy Archer
Topeka
Hays
Wichita
Decision Needed On Reward Offer
The Douglas County Reward Fund Steering Committee will meet Tuesday or Wednesday to consider a third extension of the current reward offer. On April 10, the committee announced $1,000 cash for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the March murders of Mrs. Hazel Avery and her son Steven, and his friend Gary Longfellow. Ten letters have been received at the reward fund mailing address in Lawrence Kansas.
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Douglas County
Reward Fund
March
Hazel Avery
Lawrence
Steven
Iola
Gary Longfellow
Kan
Woman Released After Detention Order Cancelled
A 26 year old Magnolia Arkansas woman was released Friday from the Douglas County jail after Magnolia police canceled a detention order. She had been arrested August 25 when a deputy found two of four occupants in a car at a roadside park east of Baldwin were wanted by other states. Meanwhile Lester Gilbert Burns, 32, Camden Arkansas, was taken by Iyongview Texas police on a felony warrant and returned to Texas. the two other occupants were not held.
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Magnolia
Ark
Douglas County
Baldwin
Iyongview
Tex
Lester Gilbert Burns
Camden
Texas
AIM Leader Russell Means Freed on Bond in Custer
Russell Means 33 of Porcupine South Dakota was released on 4500 bond after arrest amid a grand jury probe of a February 6 disturbance in Custer South Dakota. He faced charges of assault with a deadly weapon conspiracy and riot participation. Clyde Bellecourt remained jailed on conspiracy charges.
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Custer
S.D
AIM
Clyde Bellecourt
Russell Means
Porcupine
Grand Jury
S.C
Means
Vernon Bellecourt
Denver
Colo
Bellecourt
Clyde
Winner
Carter Camp
Ponca City
Oka
Rapid City
McGovern condemns AIM as lawbreakers at state fair
Senator George S. McGovern said on a radio interview at the South Dakota State Fair that he regards the American Indian Movement as ripoff artists and violent lawbreakers exploiting Indian problems for selfish ends. He said AIM claims to follow Martin Luther King while using automatic rifles.
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Dr. King
McGovern
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