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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1976
Page
9
Topeka officials announce an emergency release policy at the state Youth Center amid crowding. Superintendent Lawrence Penny says one youth will be released for each new commitment, excluding violent cases, as judges are urged to use community resources where possible. The facility held 205 youths of 198 capacity on December 1 as staff cut average lengths of stay.
Kansas Board of Regents adopts a Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act compliant policy to let students inspect records and requests for amendment. They seek a rise in Educational Building Fund levy from 1.0 to 1.5 mills to fund construction statewide, with Fort Hays dormitory rate increases tentatively approved for fall 1977.
City records show Chanute issued 18 permits in November for construction and repair projects totaling about 235 thousand dollars. Notable items include Young's Welding Co. new facility at 4115 Johnson Road and a 36 thousand dollar home at 1018 S. Denman by Midco Inc. Other jobs range from roofs and additions to signs and a 24 thousand dollar parking garage at 1310 N. Santa Fe.
President Carter praised Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for not joining the 15 percent price increase other major exporters approved. Press Secretary Jody Powell said Carter appreciates their defiance and noted cabinet selections may be announced over the weekend as the process moves quickly.
Obituaries report Dorothy Rookstool 67 of Lancaster Calif died after illness with survivors including two daughters and four grandchildren. Funeral set at Frisco Church Webb City with burial in Carterville Mo. Also noted are obituaries for Laurence A Woolley Osborn and Clarence L O'Brien Topeka with cremation or burial details.
The Southeast Kansas RC&D board will meet at 8 p.m. Monday in the Neosho County courthouse Erie to hear progress and convention reports from Paul Hunter Ralph Reed Roscoe Barrow and Jim Gaskell on rural development water resources Altamont Reservoir Labette County Mill Creek Watershed Bourbon Moran and Allen County projects. Kenneth Harts will appoint a nominating committee to select officers for 1977.
The Chanute VICA club and Neosho Memorial Hospital seek Chanute residents to donate codes from package labels to support a Fredonia man needing a kidney machine. Companies using coded packages will reimburse VICA. Send codes to the industrial education center by Wednesday or call 431-2560 to arrange collection.
A UPI report summarizes a HEW study showing rural North Carolina and Iowa families on a $125 monthly income subsidy maintained work incentives. The 809 families, including farmers and small-business operators, saw higher school performance and nutrition, and increased purchases of durable goods and homes, with only modest labor supply decline.
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