School Board Balks At Pay Proposal
The Board of Education rejected the administrators pay proposal on Monday night. It objected to including the salaries of two retiring principals in the overall calculation, jeopardizing retention of several administrators.
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Board of Education
New York
Clifford Irving
Manhattan
Howard Hughes
Irving
Los Angeles
San Fernando Valley
California Institute of Technology
Seismological Laboratory
Approval Voiced For New Coach
Board of Education approves Jerry Bainum as head high school football coach after administrators defend the selection. Directors discuss the appointment's finances with raises for administrators and funds for elementary librarians, planning a reconsideration at the next meeting.
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Jerry Bainum
Board of Education
District 413 approves salary hikes and hires new staff
The District 413 board accepted salary proposals across all employee groups with about a 5.5 percent overall increase. Teachers gain about 46,600 total with raises from 102 to 532 yearly. custodians and bus drivers receive 10 cent hourly raises plus extra vacation. food service workers 7 to 15 cents more per hour. secretaries 10 cents, higher at the high and junior high. The board also hired Jerry Bainum as Senior High football coach, rejected the administrators’ 4.4 percent administrative raise proposal, and approved several new hires and salary adjustments for the coming year.
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Food Service
Buford Fisher
Bill Carl
June Kiddoo
Food Service Fund
Pat McMurtrey
Hith
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Highlights Coach Plan
Intercepted note discusses a coach whose game plan needs to translate from securing the job to on field success. The fragment hints at optimism about strategy working in play.
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Cha
Kansas House size eyed for reduction to 80
Kansas lawmakers told the Senate Reapportionment Committee that the 125 member House should be cut to 80 to increase efficiency. Reps. Jerry Harper and Shelly Smith of Wichita argued smaller size would speed debate and tighten committees while Senate plans keep 40 single member districts for the Senate.
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Topeka, Kan
Kansas House
Senate
House
Robinson
Cuss
Sedgwick
Johnson
Wyandotte
Shawnee
Jerry Harper
Shelby Smith
Senate Committee
Harper
Smith
Federal District Court
Docking Reply Awaited On Sales Tax Question
Rep. Shelby Smith seeks Gov Docking stance on maintaining exemptions for feed fertilizer and insecticides while considering eliminating consumables from the Kansas sales tax. Smith postponed a House committee meeting until a direct reply is received from the governor. The issue hinges on keeping vital agricultural exemptions as part of a larger tax reform to raise about 26 million dollars. The city also ruled former street employee George Brieger’s firing justified after a hearing, citing offensive language and disobedience.
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Shelby Smith
Wichita
House
Assessment and
Robert Docking
Smith
Docking
Kansas
George Brieger
Brieger
Jobslisted for Neosho County workers and claims data
As of January 1, Neosho County has 419 job seekers via the Kansas Employment Service about two percent of residents. By January 7 total unemployment insurance claimants reached 175 with 135 paid. Employment director Harley Knapp notes some are seeking better jobs rather than currently out of work and that others may not have filed. In the first week of January 23 were first claims while 85 people filed initial claims in December.
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Neosho County
Kansas Employment Service
Harley Knapp
Rescued 90-year-old recluse rejects aid after flood
Police forced entry to Walter L Baeser’s icebound St Louis apartment after pipes burst flooding his unit. The 90 year old refused hospital care and said he was fine insisting he could handle cleanup. He lives alone with no relatives. The incident followed by a London emergency move amid a coal strike.
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ST. Louis
Walter L. Baeser
Oldster
Baeser
Kansas Gas and Electric hearing on $7.2 million rate rise
The Kansas Corporation Commission resumed the largest utility rate increase case in state history as Kansas Gas and Electric Co of Wichita seeks a 7.2 million dollar annual rate hike. Officials projected the hearing could extend through Thursday.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas Corporation Commission
Kansas Gas and Electric Co
Wichita
Downscaled Fire Damage Hits Wakefield Industry Center
Damage estimates from a fire that destroyed Wakefield Massachusetts industrial center were revised downward. State officials said 250 people lost jobs, far fewer than initial reports of 1000. Insurers reported buildings insured for over 1 million and equipment between 1.5 and 2 million.
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Wakefield
Mass
State Division of Employment Security
John L. O'Connor
Massachusetts Information Institute
Chicago 7 appeal hearing before 7th Circuit opens
Attorneys for the Chicago 7 return to Chicago to appeal two year old sentences from the 1968 Democratic National Convention unrest. Lead lawyers William Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass joined more than a dozen counsel before a three judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Defendants did not appear.
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Chicago
Chicago 7
William Kunstler
Leonard I. Weinglass
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Nixon proposes new environmental measures including sulfur emission tax
President Nixon sent Congress a special environmental message proposing half a dozen new legislative steps. The package includes a tax on air-polluting sulfur emissions and aims to curb pollution while guiding federal policy on environmental protections.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
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