Demos weigh oil price plan fueling calls for controls
Washington AP reports Democrats in Congress debate ending price controls briefly to spark a public push for renewed limits. Ford opposes but faces House Senate negotiations on a 60 day extension while arguments over impact on jobs and recession intensify.
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Lawrence enrollment edges up district wide this year
An unofficial head count in Lawrence District 497 shows 7,670 students, up 16 from last year, with 3,951 in elementary, 1,894 in junior high, and 1,825 at Lawrence High. Full time equivalent enrollment around 7,370, affecting budget figures but not spending limits. Trustees of Lawrence Memorial Hospital will review the expansion progress and approve soil and concrete testing at a 9:30 a.m. meeting.
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Lawrence
Robert Taylor
Taylor
Lawrence High
Kenneth Fisher
Fisher
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Journal-World
Lawrence Journal-World
Kansas University
Woman in The Three Faces of Eve reveals cure after 21 personalities
Fairfax City AP report notes Chris Sizemore says she has recovered after 23 years of multiple personalities. Diagnosed in 1952, she described 21 distinct personas and said her present doctor believes she is cured following traumatic family events and therapy.
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Fairfax City
Eve
Chris Sizemore
Tony Tsitos
Annandale
Busing keeps officials alert in Boston and Louisville
After a weekend of protests a court ordered desegregation plan remains under Guard and police watch in Boston and Louisville. In Louisville antibusing groups urged parents to keep children home as roughly 1,000 National Guardsmen and state police stay on standby to secure a peaceful school entry.
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Boston
Louisville
William Kellerman
Citizens Against Busing
Ford sees 20 percent September sales drop in first 10 days
Ford Motor Co reports a 20.7 percent fall in early September U.S. sales versus 1974. Eight selling days yielded 40,883 cars at an average 5,110 daily, down from 6,448 in 1974. Analysts expect overall domestic car sales to fall about 14 percent from last year amid price hikes and model year closeouts.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
U.S
Ford
July Sales Boost Pushes Back Inventories
Commerce Department reports total business sales rose 2.2 percent in July to 169.4 billion, the strongest monthly gain since April and marking the fourth rise in a row. Inventories on hand fell 0.2 percent to 263.9 billion, the sixth straight decline, signaling easing liquidation though overall retail stocks rose for the month.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Escape and Theft Charges Loom for Spillman in Douglas County
Gary Spillman 17, an inmate, faces escape and auto theft charges in Douglas County Court after fleeing custody Friday. Police say he visited two bars, stole two cars in a hit and run, then was captured and returned to jail by Eudora City Marshal Bill Long.
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Eudora
Bill Long
Arthur L. Tarpy
Howard M. Humphrey
Edgerton
N.H
Humphrey
George E. Barnes
Linwood
Locust
Barnes
Douglas County
Assault charge follows incident near Wagon Wheel Cafe
Lawrence police arrested Jerry Thornton, 32, Wichita, on assault, battery and resisting arrest charges after a disturbance behind the Wagon Wheel Cafe. The incident began with an attack on Steven J. Kepler at 1419 Ohio, with Thornton and another man allegedly jumping a car and climbing the apartment stairs to strike Kepler. Thornton was charged and released on a notice to appear.
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Wichita
Steven J. Kepler
Ohio
Thornton
Judy Fagelman
Kepler
Hippo Nickname Origin as River Horse
The hippopotamus earned the nickname river horse due to its swimming posture. When in water it exposes about half its head, creating a horselike silhouette.
Revenue bond requests top Lawrence commission agenda
The Lawrence City Commission will discuss two major revenue bond requests at 7 p.m. Tuesday in city hall. TRW Inc. seeks 10 million dollars for expansion and the Lawrence Housing Authority plans a 100 unit elderly housing project with FHA subsidy. The meeting will review four houses ordered repaired or demolished last month and various related items.
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N.H
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New Hampshire
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Kentucky
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Rockledge Road
East Lawrence
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Bob Miller
Janell’s
Capitol Hill Grudge Bout Ends In Draw Between Parties
In a charity karate night the Democrats and Republicans tied in a team event with Burdick and Stevens drawing the featured match. Walter Fauntroy and Floyd Spence won their congressional bouts as the event supported the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
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Quentin Burdick
D-N.d
Ted Stevens
Alaska
Capitol Hill
Burdick
Stevens
Walter Fauntroy
District of Columbia
Willis Gradison
Gunman slain during hijack attempt at San Jose airport
A gunman holding a doctor and four others hostage was shot dead by a police sharpshooter as he emerged from a Continental Airlines 727 with a hostage. The doctor Frank L. Wiesels, a radiologist, was critically wounded but survived. Police described a sequence starting with a hospital kidnapping and a nearby store robbery after a stabbing incident.
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San Jose
Calif
Continental Airlines
Michael van Dyke
Continental
van Dyke
Frank L. Wiesels
Fighting Hammers Lebanon as 20 Die in Roving Clashes
In Beirut and the north, gun battles kill at least 20 with the tally near 150 dead and many wounded since Sept. 3. Palestinian mediation averted a leftist strike, while Premier Karami and Kamal Jumblatt discuss national reconciliation. Saiqa guerrillas warned shopkeepers to open or face reprisals.
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Lebanon
Tripoli
Rashid Karami
Yasir Arafat
Karami
Socialist Bloc
Kamal Jumblatt
Jumblatt
Saiqa
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