Chanute Listed Among Public TV Station Plans
Kansas Public Television Commission seeks 225000 in 1976 legislative session to launch a 12.8 million network serving 700000 Kansans. Plan includes Beloit Chanute Goodland stations by 1985 and a mobile studio, with Garden City station to begin by 1978 if approvals secure.
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Topeka, Kan
UPI
Kansas Public Television Commission
Kgld-Tv
Garden City
Beloit
Chanute
Goodland
North Central
Southeast
Kansas
Commission
Ktwu-Tv
Topeka
Kpts-Tv
Hutchinson-Wichita
Kansas City, Mo
PTV
Elizabeth Young
Young
Federal Communications Commission
Southwestern Bell to file for rate hike rehearing
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. will file today for an immediate rehearing of its $21.8 million rate hike request with the Kansas Corporation Commission. The KCC has 10 days to decide. The commission granted $5.04 million of the request and denied about $16.8 million, while allowing some increases in service charges.
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Topeka, Kan
UPI
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Kansas Corporation Commission
KCC
Bell
Commission
Stanley H. Clow
Kansas
Clow
Crow
ECC
New Year Earthquakes Hit Southern California and Greece
Series of quakes on New Year's Day shakes southern California Greece and the South Pacific. In California a 4.2 quake centered near West Covina rattled homes and disrupted Rose Parade spectators. Greece reports 103 homes destroyed 300 damaged with a child killed. A 6.8 tremor was recorded in the South Pacific near the New Hebrides.
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UPI
California
Greece
South Pacific
Kastraki
Famila
Carlos Schiebeck
Buena Park
Orange County
Los Angeles County
San Bernardino
Riverside
Caltech Seismological Laboratory
West Covina
Pasadena
University of California Seismological Laboratory
Berkeley
New Hebrides Islands
Hawaii
Honolulu Observatory
Kermadec Islands
New Hebrides
Western aid plea in Angolan civil war
Pro Western forces in Angola urged the United States to resume military aid after the Senate cut off covert assistance. leaders from UNITA and FNLA urged reversal during a New Year review citing unreliable Western support and fear of a Vietnam like conflict in Africa.
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Jorge Sangumba
Union For the Total Independence of
Angola
Winter storm paralyzes wide regions across nation
A major winter storm pounded southeastern Wyoming with record snows, moved through western Nebraska and the Upper Midwest. Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport faced dense fog, while states from Wyoming to Minnesota reported heavy snowfall, strong winds and blowing snow.
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Chadron
Neb
Dakotas
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Upper Peninsula
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Duluth
Redwood Falls
Minn
Huron
S.D
National Weather Service
Iowa
Illinois
Wisconsin
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Southern California doctors protest malpractices halt services
In Los Angeles and surrounding valleys doctors slow or halt nonemergency work to protest malpractice insurance costs, with premiums rising as high as 36000 yearly. Hospitals screen nonemergency cases while talks with Gov. Brown continue and public facilities remain largely operational.
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Los Angeles
UPI
San Fernando Valley
Brotman Memorial Hospital
Ex servicemen recruited as CIA covert army for Angola
The Christian Science Monitor reports ex U.S. miltary personnel and South Vietnamese being recruited by the CIA for covert operations in Angola. The White House and State Department deny the story, calling it without foundation. The article cites mercenary officers claiming about 300 Americans are in Angola and a second group trained at Ft. Benning.
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Boston
UPI
CIA
Angola
Christian Science Monitor
Washington
White House
State Department
David Anable
United States
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
Africa
Zaire
U.S
Ft. Benning
Industrial horizon could be cloudy in 1976
UPI reports Industry Week forecasts a mixed 1976 for U S industry with higher demand and steady prices but risk of tight steel availability in 1977. Steel shipments rise from 80 to 95 million tons in 1976 while raw steel production climbs from 117 to 140 million tons, amid a larger U S trade balance decline and uncertain consumer demand.
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Cleveland
UPI
U.S
Industry Week
For Managers
Lebanese airliner crashes in desert killing 82
Middle East Airlines Boeing 720 crashes 100 miles west of Kuwait in the neutral zone. 82 dead, 67 passengers and 15 crew. 27 bodies trapped in tail. rescue teams from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait recover 55 by nightfall. flight originated Beirut to Dubai and Muscat after delays due to a mechanical issue.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
Middle East Airlines
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
Iraq
Persian Gulf
Dubai
Muscat
MEA
Six presidential candidates receive first subsidy checks
A Treasury Department ceremony saw aides for six presidential candidates collect their government subsidies, marking the first allocation of direct taxpayer funds to contenders. Treasury reported about 1.88 million dollars total for 11 candidates, under a new law matching private donations to campaign groups.
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Washington
UPI
Treasury Department
Treasury
Ford
Jim Neeley
Olson Supermarkets under new management changes announced
Olson's three store chain founded in Savonburg in 1907 will be operated as Olson's Thriftway under new owners Bill and Fred Reust. Bill will be general manager and plans to reside in Parsons. no staff changes expected. Stores remain in Chanute Erie Parsons with Savonburg closed seven years ago.
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Olson
Kennth R. Olson
Olson Merchantile Co
Bill Reust
Kansas City
Fred Reust
Topeka
Parsons
Olson’s Thriftway
Savonburg
Chanute
Erie
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