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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1973
Page
13
Kansas City AP notes mixed commodity figures with wheat at 4.61 corn 2.21 soybeans 5.50 oats 1.40 and mile 3.79. Cattle receipts insufficient for price test, hogs 1500 with barrows and gilts 50 to 75 higher. total receipts about 400 short of estimate.
Market notes show 200-260 lb hogs 43.50 to 44.00, sows under 500 lb down 25 to 50, over 500 lb down 1.00. 350-500 lb cattle 390 to 400.25, 500-600 lb cattle 38.50 to 39.00. sheep 25. Earlier week cow feeds and prime spring lambs 29.00 to 31.00. Monday estimates: cattle 1,700 hogs 3,500 sheep 400. In New York stock trading, the Dow rose 6.77 to 927.30 with gains led by advancing issues. NYSE up .25 to 57.69 and the American index up .38 to 102.67 after the Fed bought 150 million in Treasuries.
Kansas City AP reports wholesale eggs unchanged with large 80 percent A grades priced 59 to 69 cents per dozen and medium 80 percent A grades at 52 to 63 cents per dozen.
The article notes that turnover appears small and not migration to other departments. It cites starting salaries and resignation counts in Norman Oklahoma Columbia Missouri Topeka Kansas City Kansas and Kansas City Missouri, with percentages ranging from 3.7 to 9.4. It also mentions training costs about 1000 per recruit and 88 applications for six open slots.
Advisers and federal officials met at the Crown Center Hotel in Kansas City to discuss public forums on mental retardation. Governors from four states attended with city officials and university personnel as the committee plans funding, deinstitutionalization, and program evaluation.
The Manhattan city commission approved closing sections of Aggieville on game nights near Kansas State University. Barricades will shut Morro Street at four locations and North Manhattan Street at one spot, starting with a 6 p.m. to midnight closure this Saturday when KSU hosts Tulsa. The measure follows recent disturbances in the area.
About 550 maintenance and service employees at Kansas University will vote October 17 to designate a bargaining representative. Polls run from noon to 7 30 p.m. in Carruth O Leary Hall Room 8 with a ballot listing Kansas Association of Public Employees Public Service Employees Local 1132 AFL CIO and nobody.
Kansas University's Parking Board changes color codes for M 1 Zone south area at 1600 block Illinois from red to yellow and redesignates 1120 W. 11th driveway as A 1 Zone a brown lot. Changes take effect immediately and govern parking permissions in the zones.
Kansas University will stage Band Day on September 29 with 91 bands from Kansas and Missouri. More than 6 103 musicians will perform on the field at halftime of the Minnesota game, along with 11 drum majors and over 1,000 majorettes and flag twirlers. Russell Wiley, founder and KU professor of music, retires after 40 years and will conduct the finale piece The Battle Hymn of the Republic, with a new KU tribute Kansas Can and Kansas Will composed by Mack Wolfson and Bernie Taylor and arranged by James Barnes.
Lawrence High School sophomore elections narrow to two candidates per office. Presidential contenders Evie Lazzarino and Kim Murphree. vice president Kimberly Riley and Ann Seymour. secretary Kristin Hermes and Suzi Williams. treasurer Jane Dalton and Scott Shmalberg. Class representatives Carla Amerine and Mary Whitaker.
A second jury trial was scheduled for December 5 for Leonard Rayton after jurors failed to reach a verdict and were discharged. The incident occurred in January at The Shire Club, 806 Mass., where a television set was allegedly stolen. Rayton, 25, of 801 Walnut, remains free on bond in Douglas County Division II District Court.
Skylab sensors were activated over Kansas as scientists at Kansas University collected water quality data in southeast Kansas. The experiment, postponed earlier in summer, completed on the final opportunity of Skylab's second manned mission. Data will be compared with an EU group effort to evaluate space remote sensing for water quality measurement.
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