KU coed crowned Miss Leavenworth
A first semester freshman at the University of Kansas, Elizabeth (Libby) Laming of Tonganoxie, was named Miss Leavenworth in the 1970 Miss Leavenworth contest Saturday night. Miss Laming was crowned by her predecessor, Nancy Dix, and will represent Leavenworth in the Miss Kansas pageant later this year.
The small staff of doctors and nurses labored into the night to save the lives of the injured children, many of them huddled two to a bed in cramped hospital quarters.
Gas explosion rocks Japanese city
Five hours after the fiery eruptions, Osaka police said they expected the toll of dead and injured to reach 300.
OSAKA, Japan (UPI) — A thunderous explosion at the site of a leaking gas main, followed by a series of lesser blasts, killed or injured more than 200 persons in a crowded Japanese residential and shopping district Wednesday and touched off a number of fires.
Physicians amputated limbs
The explosions occurred just after 5 p.m., during the evening rush hour in Oyodo in the eastern section of Osaka, Japan's major industrial city, far from the site of Expo '70 at Senri Hills about 11 miles north of Osaka.
Many of the victims were in a crowd of curious bystanders who had gathered at a subway construction site to watch a repair crew of the Osaka Gas Co. trying to fix a leak in a 20-inch pipe. They were felled in the first blast.
The initial explosion triggered a series of lesser blasts and touched off fires in an area of about 21,400 square feet that gutted at least 30 buildings, most of them houses and small shops. Firemen battled for more than three hours to bring the fires under control.
Injured children at the school were rushed to a hospital in Husseina, 16 miles west of Bahr El Bakar. Ten villagers nearby were also cut by shrapnel and hospitalized.
KSTA group will discuss school needs
hicle with a loudspeaker drove through the area warning residents to leave their homes because of a gas leak. When he ran
The State Representative Assembly of the Kansas State Teachers Association will meet in a special session in Topeka Saturday to discuss the financial condition of public schools in the wake of the 1970 legislature.
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Police patrol cars and taxicabs were mobilized to transport the injured to 18 hospitals in the city.
Junji Matsushita, 34, a liquor store owner, said that shortly after 5 p.m. a gas company ve-
Two of the recommendations to be made are the possibility of asking the National Education Association to investigate the Kansas school situation, and urging each KSTA member to ign a 1970-71 contract for a 6 per cent cost-of-living salary increase.
The KSTA Board of Directors will meet Friday night to discuss recommendations to be made to the assembly.
About 350 delegates will attend the meeting.
Thirty youngsters between the ages of 8 and 10 were either crushed to death by stone debris or fatally slashed by flying shrapnel, some of it two feet long, the witnesses said. A 30-year-old teacher also was killed
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outside, he saw flames coming from the subway construction site.
But witnesses said five bombs and two rockets fell from the American-made warplanes, three of the bombs smashing into the school building and grounds.
"Then I saw the gas company car go ablaze," he said. "More than 10 minutes later, there were several explosions with enormous sound. The ground shook as if it were attacked by earthquake."
Egyptian youngsters killed in bombing raid
HUSSEINA, Egypt (UPI) — Eighty children, none more than 18 years old were playing in the dusty schoolyard near here Wednesday when two Israeli warplanes swooped low across fields toward them, witnesses said.
The children dashed in panic from their games of tag and soccer. They sought refuge in their six-room, single story stone schoolhouse in the tiny village of Bahr El Bakar, 81 miles northeast of Cairo.
from at least three children. Many suffered severe fractures and burns and were listed as very serious.
Some witnesses identified the planes as U.S.-made Phantoms, as did an official Egyptian statement.
US State Department deplores Israeli attack
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The United States State Department Wednesday said it deplored an Israeli air attack on Egypt in which school children were reported killed.
"We have seen press reports of shocking loss of life to a number of children in Al Sharkiyyah Province in the United Arab Republic as a result of an Israeli air attack," said Robert J. McCloskey, State Department spokesman.
"If these reports are confirmed this tragic incident would be another deplorable and saddening consequence of the continuing disregard for the U.S. Security Council cease fire resolutions," he said.
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