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KANSAS CITY, Dec. 8.—(AP)—
The University of Kansas Jay-
hawks squeaked past Wichita’s
Wheatshockers, 56-55, Wednesday
night to keep the Big Seven con-
ference basketball victory streak

rolling at six games. —

Earlier this week Missouri,
Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and
, Kansas State each won over ma-

jor opponents.

Thursday night’s eard offers
Iowa State against Texas Tech at
Ames, Iowa, and Oklahoma
against Rice at Houston. Texas|’
Tech has lost. by big scores to
Missouri and Kansas State this
week,

Kansas, which opened iis. sea-
son in a 91-70 victory over
Northwestern on Monday, had
to turn on the heat in the sec-
ond half to edge Wichita which
was dedicating its new field
house before a capacity crowd
of 10,000.

Wichita, which got a 14-point
shooting performance from For-|¢
ward Don Woodworth, raced to a
28-23 halftime lead, but wilted
early in the second half to allow
Kansas to pull ahead 36-31. ;
Forward Bill Brainard and Cen-
ter Lou Johnson each scored 15

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