Cease fire holds in south Lebanon despite border clashes
In Beirut the U S mediated truce held at 10 am Monday with Palestinian guerrillas and Israeli forces maintaining positions near the border. The plan calls for Israeli withdrawal and a Lebanese army buffer as 1 470 troops move in, while factions split on compliance with the accord.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Khiam
Yasir Arafat
Palestine Liberation Organization
Associated Press
Alex Efty
Efty
Marjayoun
U.S
Radical
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Arafat
al Fatah
Soviet union offers to join test ban on underground blasts
In New York Andrei Gromyko proposed the USSR join a moratorium on underground nuclear tests alongside the United States and Britain. He noted a three power ban already covers air space and underwater tests and suggested suspending underground tests even before all powers sign a full treaty. The announcement followed a Las Vegas test blast at the Nevada Test Site with an estimated yield up to 150 kilotons.
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United Nations
N.Y
Andrei A. Gromyko
United States
Britain
U.N. General Assembly
Soviet Union
Great Britain
France
China
Gromyko
S An
Geneva
U.S. Energy and Research Administration
Las Vegas
Nev
Car wash and elderly housing plans stalled for study in Lawrence
Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission will study a car wash at the Westridge Sixth and Kasold site as part of a broader review of the final development plan for the project. The session also considers two elderly housing proposals including Vermont Towers at 11th and Kentucky and Prairie Ridge Place at 24th Terrace and Melrose, both HUD preapproved for rent subsidies.
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Westridge
Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission
Planning Commission
First National Bank
Sixth
Kasold
Lawrence
Vermont Towers
11Th
Kentucky
Albertson Architects and Planners of
Wichita
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Roger Hedrick
Douglas County Commission
SCRIP fuel aid leaves funds unused in Topeka Lawrence
Kansas SRS reports more than a quarter of SCRIP funds for elderly and disabled in Topeka and Lawrence were unused when the program ended. About $1,500 will be redirected to home weatherization. In Topeka-Lawrence district $117,000 was allocated and $86,364 used for 9,577 households, mostly in Topeka.
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Lawrence
Topeka
Cora Catt
Topeka-Lawrence
Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
SRS
Kansas Office of Economic Opportunity
Kansas
Miss Catt
Douglas County
Lawrence Area
Tonganoxie to seek federal flood aid for road repairs
The city council will apply for federal disaster assistance to fund road repairs after recent flooding along Tonganoxie Creek. Cost estimates include rock on bridge approaches and other city roads, with aid amounts awaiting federal determination. Residents raised drainage concerns at Church and Grace streets. issue to be referred to county officials. A beer license for Linda Schiltz was approved and Polson Road renamed Village Street. Parking lot hours were amended to curb nighttime congregation of students and cars.
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Tonganoxie
Tonganoxie Creek
Harriet Hughes
Church
Grace Streets
Linda Schiltz
Polson Road
Village Street
Hughes
73 year old man indicted in 1963 church bombing
Robert Edward Chambliss of Birmingham was indicted for first degree murder in the 1963 church bombing that killed four black youngsters. He was held without bond after the Jefferson County grand jury handed up the indictments. The church had served as a meeting place for civil rights demonstrators.
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Birmingham
Ala
Robert Edward Chambliss
Jefferson County
Experts urge safety in numbers for proper house numbering
Lawrence emergency officials urge readable address numbers on homes to speed aid. Police fire ambulance crews warn delays can be dangerous even if incidents are rare. Officials cite map study and enforcement gaps, noting a city ordinance requires numbering that is often unenforced.
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Lawrence
Police and Fire Departments
Douglas County Ambulance Service
Earl Harris
Police Department
Ted McFarlane
Spence
Lawrence school board hires psychologist amid LEA dispute
The Lawrence School District 497 board selected Donald Jantz as school psychologist starting Oct 17 at a salary $1,500 above the negotiated scale amid ongoing LEA dispute. The board justifies the raise as an emergency provision under a December 1974 policy, while LEA and K-NEA plan potential appeals after July district victory in court.
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Lawrence School District 497
Martha Masinton
Bill Bradley
Lawrence Education Assn
LEA
Donald Jantz
Carl Knox
District Eying Portable Classrooms for Schwegler
The school board approved a federal grant plan for gifted education and recommended portable classrooms for Schwegler Elementary to relieve enrollment pressure. They will study options with the Lawrence Area Schools Council and consider before after school care and preschool services as well.
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Bob Davis
East Heights
Knox
Kennedy
Centennial
Bill Bradley
Schwegler
Lawrence Area Schools Council
Lawrence Area Council of
Ptas
Roger Pine
State Department of Education
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Frank Gray
Ward Martin
Crane
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Claussen
Hamilton
Barry
Gray
Darrell Ward
K-Nea
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Kansas National Education Assn
Dave Johnson
Johnson
Iowa
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Science Research Associates
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Hillcrest
Bill Hopkins
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Benton
TAREX
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