City approves Wilson Engineering water project contract
The city commission unanimously approved a contract with Wilson Engineering of Salina to guide water system improvements and assist in obtaining federal grants. First pipe laying could begin in 10 to 12 weeks, with four phases including pipe cleaning, a south town water tower, and plant upgrades. Revenue bonds of 1.3 million are planned, with 1.1 million needed, plus a 200 thousand safety margin. Hoblick outlines a five phase gas distribution plan, auditing safety standards, maps, inspections, leaks surveys, corrosion control, and future demand survey.
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Wilson Engineering of
Salina
Wilson
Robert Crawford
Crawford
Robert Pennington
Pennington
Hoblick
Ambulance Service Change Heads Toward Curtain Call
City Manager Sanborn proposes contract talks with City and County attorneys for Jack Reddick to run both city and county ambulance services. Two county ambulances are operated by police. a third is owned by Harry Robison of Thayer. County Attorney Radford says county commission had not approved the plan.
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Kenneth Sanborn
Jack Reddick
S. Lafayette
Reddick
Police Department
Harry Robison
Thayer
Raymond Radford
County
Sanborn
Osage Hills Recreation Project Nears 1972 Opening
Osage Hills Inc a private membership recreation project two miles east and south of St Paul Kansas advances with an 80 acre site. Nine hole golf course roads and a dam completed concrete pours for clubhouse change house and septic tank underway. Members pay ten percent of costs with 90 percent financed by the farm credit system. Memberships limited to residents within 25 miles of St Paul.
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ST. Paul
Jim Gaskell
See-Kan
Chanute
Osage Hills, Inc
Farmers Home Administration
See-Kan Rcid
United States Department of
Sen Herd backs tax lid during price freeze in Kansas
Senator Harold Herd of Coldwater says federal price and wage freezes justify keeping the tax lid temporarily to aid government economy. He urges immediate state action to replace the lid with a comprehensive local levy limit statute that prevents excessive spending while allowing local flexibility.
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Coldwater
Kan
Harold Herd
D-Coldwater
Kansas
Herd
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Confession Amid Dry Weather
An intercepted note to Cha comments on drought hardships and jokes about Okies struggling with cleanliness, reflecting rural wartime humor and social stereotypes. The fragment hints at regional tensions and humor common in letters of the era.
Accidental Death of Erie Farmer Yarnell on Farm
Melvin Eugene Yarnell 36 of Erie died after an ensilage cutter accident on his farm two and a half miles north and one half mile east of Erie. He slipped while atop the cutter and was fatally injured, driving a tractor before collapsing. He was survived by his wife Bonnie and three children, with services planned at Erie Federated Church and burial in East Hill Cemetery.
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Erie
Melvin Eugene Yarnell
Yarnell
Neosho County
David Kern
Kern
Bonnie Morris
Paul
Phillip
Angela Brooks
Pittsburg
Howard Yarnell
Donnie
Martha
Erie Nazarene Church
Erie Federated Church
J. B. George
Don Daniels
East Hill Cemetery
Pierce Funeral Home
Nixon economic plan eyes self funding but leaves deficit
President Nixon expects his new economic strategy to pay for itself and save about 500 million more than it costs yet aides say fiscal 1972 still faces around a 20 billion dollar deficit. Public confusion remains over wage price rent freeze rules despite Nixon's voluntary compliance outlook. The report also notes Connally signals continued controls after the wage price freeze and the San Quentin escape plot is linked to broader breakout efforts. King Hussein warns that another Arab Israeli war could bring disaster and further territory loss for the Arabs.
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Washington
Nixon
America
Associated Press
U.S. Bombers Hit North Vietnam and My Lai Court Martial
American fighter bombers hit an antiaircraft site in North Vietnam triggering many secondary explosions. B52s dropped nearly 600 tons along the DMZ. At Fort Meade the My Lai assault story returns in Col. Henderson's court martial with radio transmission recordings.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
U.S. Command
Demilitarized Zone
FT. Meade, Md
Charlie Company
My Lai
Oran K. Henderson
Area Forecast: Partly Cloudy, Cooler Tonight and Wednesday
Partly cloudy with winds turning northerly 10 20 mph and cooler tonight with a chance of showers or thunderstorms. Partly cloudy and a little cooler Wednesday with a low tonight 65 70 and a high near 90. Probability of measurable precipitation 20 percent tonight and 5 percent Wednesday.
Ku Klux Klan to Hold Rally Near Alderson Oklahoma
The Ku Klux Klan plans a rally near Alderson two miles north of McAlester on Saturday night. Robert Shelton states Oklahoma has 18 months of activity and aims to show the group in a true perspective. Law enforcement meets to keep the peace amid local criticism and public outreach.
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Mcalester
Okla
Ku Klux Klan
Oklahoma
Alderson
Shelton
Houston
Pittsburg
James Knight
Benny Durant
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Guy Parks
Don Roberts
Bill Beasley
FBI
Oklahoma fed rainmakers deploy high capacity aircraft
Federal rainmaking efforts in Oklahoma used an Altus based aircraft capable of releasing 1,009 gallons per hour of ammonium nitrate urea into clouds over Rush Springs Sterling Marlow Lindsay Purcell Goldsby and Norman. Rain intensified and hail was reported in Norman amid operations. Two smaller planes worked south of Shawnee and north of Duncan producing rain where none existed then heavy rain southeast of Wenoka. moderate rains followed in Woodward.
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Rush Springs
Sterling
Marlow
Lindsay
Purcell
Goldsby
Norman
Shawnee
Duncan
Wenoka
Fire destroys two AP buildings in Independence Missouri
Fire leveled two of the American Plastic Company's three structures at Independence early today. Firemen and company officials have not yet estimated the loss but the buildings and equipment are valued in the several hundred thousand dollars range.
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Independence, Mo
American Plastic Company
Independence
Common Cause wins ruling to reveal party campaign finances
A U.S. District Court ruling could force major parties to reveal campaign finance details. Judge Barrington Parker refused to dismiss Common Cause's suit, potentially allowing depositions of party officials and a trial on limits of $5,000 per contribution and $13 million annual spending.
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Washington
Common Cause
Citizens’ Lobby
U.S. District Court
Barrington D. Parker
Fuller Brush to Open $9 Million Plant in Great Bend
Ground breaking is set for Thursday for Fuller Brush Company's new plant in Great Bend. The facility will consolidate all manufacturing, span about 425 000 square feet, and hire about 650 workers by late next summer.
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Great Bend
Kan
Fuller Brush Company
Fuller Brush
OEP chief to brief governors on wage price freeze
Francis X. Tobin regional director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness said he soon will meet separately with the governors of Missouri Kansas Iowa and Nebraska to brief them on the presidential wage and price freeze program.
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Kansas City
Nixon
Missouri
Kansas
Iowa
Nebraska
Francis X. Tobin
Office of Emergency Preparedness
Drownings at Perry Lake Highlight KC District Fun Times
Lake tolls rise as five of eight drownings this summer in the Corps of Engineers Kansas City district occur at Perry Lake northwest of Lawrence. Perry Lake reports over 1.85 million visitors this year, nearly doubling last year. The district operates 10 lakes with nearly eight million visitors so far, up from about six million last year between June 8 and August 15.
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Kansas City
Corps of Engineers
Perry Lake
Lawrence
Kan
R. L. Anderson Jr
Anderson
Chinese News Agency Attacks Nixon Dollar Policy
The official Xinhua News Agency in China denounces President Nixon’s new dollar policy as an unpopular act of U S imperialism and says it triggers the gravest postwar monetary crisis in the capitalist world. It claims Nixon aims to fleece American workers and shift U S financial and economic crises to other nations.
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Tokyo
Red
China
Nixon
U.S
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