Neosho County accelerates bridge program and funding plan
Neosho County moves to accelerate bridge work with one under construction and three soon starting plus a planning project. A 21-bridge survey on the federal secondary system totals over 1.145 million dollars in needed repairs or replacements. The program includes county and state cost sharing, proposed levies, and earmarked federal gasoline tax funds to support a two year bridge repair schedule.
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Dwight Wallingford
ERIE
Neosho County
Hickory Creek
Crawford County
Neosho-Labette County
Beachner Construction Co
Four Mile Creek
Pittsburg
Highway Department
Chanute
Little Turkey Creek
Leachner Construction Co
St. Paul
Kenneth Casper
Crawford-Neosho County
Neosho
Rock Creek
See-Kan Resources, Conservation and Development
2 Lake
Neosho Manor
Weather Outlook Mostly Cloudy and Cold Into Tuesday
Area forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies with sharp cooling tonight and Tuesday. Winds ease to 10 to 20 mph with lows 25 to 30 and highs in the mid to upper 40s. precipitation chances remain around 10 percent.
No Hiding Place Found Prisoner Hidden in Tunnel
Harold Dean Jones a 27 year old state prisoner previously listed as an escapee was discovered hiding under boards in an old steam tunnel on the Lansing prison grounds early today Warden R J Gaffney announced Jones who had been sought since Friday afternoon was found around 3 am Officials did not reveal how the tunnel was located Jones arrived here June 21 1968 from Sherman County to serve 10 to 21 years for first degree robbery.
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Lansing
Kan
R. J. Gaffney
Harold Dean Jones
Jones
Sherman County
Oklahoma Beer Age Sparks Legislature Debate
In Oklahoma City the beer age question becomes a focal point as the legislature debates a bill. It would extend rights to 18 to 21 year old voters while excluding liquor purchases. Current law already allows girls to buy beer at 18 but limits boys to 21.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Muskie Maintains Lead in Gallup Poll for 1972 Race
In Princeton, Maine Senator Muskie holds 29 percent of Democratic voters nationwide, six points ahead of Hubert Humphrey who gains to 23 percent. Edward Kennedy remains at 24 percent as the field in the 1972 Democratic presidential contest narrows.
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Princeton
N.J
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Gallup
Muskie
Sen
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Humphrey
Nixon Holds Talks With Mao And Chou In China
President Nixon met with Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai in Peking and urged starting a long march toward peace with the United States. He said not in lockstep but on different roads toward the same goal as both sides seek peaceful relations.
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Peking
Nixon
China
Mao Tse-tung
Chou En-lai
United States
America
Tien An Men
Heavenly Peace
Chou
Washington
Shorter hospital stays seen at Neosho Memorial
Neosho Memorial Hospital reports fewer admissions and shorter patient stays since 1969 with 1969 census at 67 patients and 7.6 days, 1971 census at 53 and 66 days, and late 1971 census down to 46.7. Outpatient care rises and profitability remains fragile as utilization reviews limit stay length and doctors' loads tighten. Dormois expects some future physician additions and possible live-in outpatients care.
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Neosho Memorial Hospital
Glen Dormois
Dormois
Glen Ashley
Utilization review shifts push on admissions and care
Chief of medical staff Dr Reuben Burkman cites utilization reviews as driving fewer hospital admissions and more selective patient care. He notes doctors resist the system yet acknowledge external pressures from socio economic factors, built hospital capacity, and a shift to specialist referrals. Both Baker Burkman and Dick and the Ashley Clinic report expanding staff and accepting new patients in Chanute.
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Medicare
Reuben Burkman
Burkman
Baker
Ashley
Chanute
Glen Ashley
Bill Helton
Intercepted Letter Questions Tricks and Egg Foo Yung
A terse intercepted letter to Cha comments on Tricks and asks if he has “egg foo ying” on his face yet. The brief note ends with a closing Yours.
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Tricks
KU Strike Shakes University of Kansas Civil Service Staff
About 100 civil service workers at the University of Kansas walked off the job seeking higher wages and more staff. Local 1132 head Blanche Nitz says pay lags 15 percent behind other state agencies and calls for safer conditions. Details on current scales and requested raises were not yet released.
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Lawrence, Kan
University of Kansas
Blanche Nitz
Laborers International Union of North America
Walter Winchell Dies at 74 in Los Angeles
Walter Winchell, famed fast talking columnist and radio news anchor, died Sunday in Los Angeles at age 74. His slangy show business oriented column ran from 1929 to 1969 and his evening newscast drew millions from 1932 into the early 1960s.
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Los Angeles
Walter Winchell
Winchell
South Vietnamese Rangers hit NVA base. losses claimed
South Vietnamese Rangers launched a lightning strike on a North Vietnamese base camp 100 miles south of Da Nang, claiming 62 enemy dead with two Rangers wounded. In the Central Highlands, helicopters ferried troops for a spoiling attack near Fire Base 5 as Nixon arrived in Asia, while Communist attacks killed two Americans and damaged several helicopters and a tank.
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Saigon
da Nang
Highlands
Nixon
Asia
U.S
Nationalists reelect Chiang Kai-shek amid Nixon trip clash
National Assembly in Taipei opens to reelect Chiang Kai-shek as president and blasts President Nixon’s trip to Peking. Delegates condemn the visit as harming Chinese rights. In Saigon, Nguyen Van Thieu downplays outcomes as a mere communique. Indira Gandhi warns of a new power bloc forming in Asia.
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China
Chiang Kai-shek
Nixon
Peking
Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
Indira Gandhi
Asia
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