City plans may route water lines through Safari golf greens
City plans to widen roads and install water lines at Safari Industrial Park could require moving greens and tees at Safari golf course. City Manager Kenneth Sanborn says no drawings exist yet. operator Pat Conn worries fences and line placement may force changes. No communication has occurred between Sanborn and Conn. Area forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies and mild temperatures tonight and Wednesday with little precipitation.
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Safari Industrial Park
Safari
Kenneth Sanborn
Pat Conn
Sanborn
Conn
Chanute
Teachers Pay Left To Local Boards
Kansas state education officials say that teachers under master or system wide salary schedules adopted before August 15 1971 are not frozen by the federal wage price order but local boards must decide if their districts fall under the schedule. They expect most Kansas teachers to be exempt from the freeze.
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Topeka
Kan
Office of Emergency Preparedness
United States
Melvin Neely
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Kansas
KSB
State Education Department
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California high court voids local property tax school funding
The California Supreme Court ruled 6-1 that the public school finance system tied to local property taxes is unconstitutional. It holds wealthier districts provide better education, potentially prompting state action and possible U.S. Supreme Court appeal.
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Sacramento
Calif
California
Supreme Court
Sanford Gruskin
U.S. Supreme Court
Enrollment Dip Across District 413 Schools
District 413 reports 2,374 students in grades 1 12 this year, 86 fewer than last year. Kindergarten incomplete. special education rose from 22 to 34. Male students outnumber females by 22, with 1 075 in grades 1 6, 653 in Junior High, 646 in Senior High. Superintendent Buford Fisher offered no explanation.
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Buford Fisher
Enrollment rises by 42 at Neosho County Juco
Neosho County Community Junior College reports total regular day enrollment of 426 this fall, up from 384 last year. Night students enroll through Wednesday. regular students through Friday. Dorms are full for males with a waiting list while 12 places remain for female students.
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Neosho County Community Junior College
Judges stumble into Reno jail hoax for justice seminar
A group of five judges and one more official spent about 30 minutes in a Reno jail drunk tank as a staged scenario for a National College of the State Judiciary seminar. The next day they faced a brief trial, pleaded innocent, and were acquitted. The episode highlighted gaps between prisoners and police and called for clearer communication and better facilities.
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Schultz
Reno
National College of the State Judiciary
Frye
Dean
Wausau
Wis
Bev Miller
Reid
McIntyre
Nixon to Outline Post-Freeze Economic Plan
Washington AP reports the first outline of President Nixon's post-freeze economic program will be sketched by the end of September, with final form possibly weeks later.
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Washington
Nixon
Buses Blown Up as Tension in Pontiac Escalates
FBI and Pontiac police hunt those responsible after 10 empty school buses are destroyed and two more damaged ahead of court-ordered integration. No injuries reported as investigators probe wiring and detonators in a fenced lot near downtown.
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Pontiac, Mich
FBI
Police
Pontiac
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha A Casual Exchange
A brief intercepted letter shows a casual exchange between correspondents. The note suggests a lighthearted tone about a possible city plan or activity, ending with a friendly sign-off.
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Cha
Closed Inquest in Gun Death at Garnett
A coroner's jury in Garnett Kansas began a closed inquest into the shooting death of Pamela Lou Yulich 19 of Kansas City Kan whose body was found in a farm home Sunday District Coroner Dr Paul Adams said the inquest will remain closed under law while possible criminal charges are considered and a full explanation will follow after it ends
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Adams
Mystery of 74 year old flyer spans Atlantic with grandson
Air officials in Amsterdam probe the case of 74 year old Sarah Krasnoff who has completed 160 Atlantic crossings with her 14 year old grandson Howard Gelfand in five months. They traveled nearly daily spending about 140000 dollars. Grandson offers evasive answers saying Grandma likes flying or he wants to be a pilot. यात्राएं typically began in Amsterdam then returned to New York Kennedy.
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Amsterdam
Sarah Krasnoff
Howard Gelfand
Cleveland
Ohio
KLM
Royal Dutch Airline
New York
Kennedy International Airport
Panel backs FDA in rejecting Laetrile testing in humans
A five member cancer panel concluded the McNaughton Foundation failed to prove Laetrile cures cancer in animals or helps human patients abroad. The drug made from apricot pits has seen use in Mexico and Germany, with some Americans treated at a Mexican border clinic prompting pressure to permit use in the United States.
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McNaughton Foundation
California
Mexico
Germany
FDA
Pipe Suit Alleges Multimillion Price Fixing
An asbestos cement pipe sales rep, Merle McCollum, filed a state wide price fixing suit against eight cast iron pipe manufacturers. Attorney General Sen. Gene Stipe represents him. The suit claims agencies paid inflated prices since 1945 due to a conspiracy. Damages could reach about 100 million dollars or more.
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Oklahoma City
Merle McCollum
Gene Stipe
Oklahoma
Stipe
Mine Meeting in Girard on Strip Mining Rules
Rep. Joe Skubitz of Kansas meets with the Kansas committee on strip mined land reclamation in Girard to assess the effectiveness of state law and discuss hearings in September on possible federal strip mining regulation.
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Girard
Joe Skubitz
R-Kan
House Committee On Mines and Mining
Kansas
United States
Skubitz
Protests Reach Southern Schools as Term Opens
The Associated Press reports few protests as Florida elementary pupils boycott and North Carolina whites vow anti busing actions at the state Capitol. More schools open under orders to end segregation while most demonstrations remain orderly and centered on pupil busing.
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Associated Press
Florida
North Carolina
Crime Up 11 Percent in 1970 Nationwide
FBI statistics show nationwide crime rose 11 percent in 1970 amid a decade of surging offenses. Attorney General John N. Mitchell notes the increase slowed in 1970 and 1969 after large jumps in prior years. The report covers offenses reported to law enforcement agencies nationwide.
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Washington
FBI
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Mitchell
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